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David Clohessy Quotes
«Tremendous secrecy is still the norm. Any external peek into how it works is very rare and very valuable.»
«Bishops have tried to hide this for years, so there is no reason to believe all of a sudden they would change their ways. The only prudent thing to do is to assume this is not the entire truth. This is a survey, not a report or investigation.»
«Thousands of victims haven't reported and dozens of bishops aren't telling all they know. They have no incentive to.»
«He's made such hurtful and misguided comments about the crisis. He's had ample opportunity to correct them, and hasn't.»
«I absolutely believe that church officials intentionally sent abusive priests to minor communities, transient communities, where kids may be less apt to tell and have less faith in the justice system.»
«It's easy to see the Vatican is wildly inconsistent.»
«The Catholic laity doesn't know what priests the Vatican is being asked to sanction. They don't know what the bishops are recommending. We don't know why some get no sanctions, some get minimal sanctions and some get removed from the priesthood. If sanctions are imposed, it is often months before it's announced. And there seems to be absolutely no monitoring of these prayer and penance guys.»
«Church officials will vehemently deny they still reassign these men. But the sad truth is that they do.»
«It's not about Jenkins or Appleby or even Notre Dame. It's about church leaders who choose to make it even harder for victims to report criminals.»
«At best, it's a distraction; at worst, it's damaging. It will feed the mistaken notion that [the abuse scandal] is about the behavior of priests and not the behavior of bishops. Gay seminarians didn't hire and transfer and cover for child-molesting priests. It was bishops who did that.»