Another Day, Another Catholic Priest Sex Scandal (And Coverup)

by tristero

And this one’s horrible in a completely different way than the others we’ve been hearing about recently: a Catholic priest broke into a woman’s house, and assaulted her. Then she ran out of her house in terror and is now living Ireland, where she can be sure she won’t encounter any more perverted priests.

Oh, and the priest? He’s still a priest but they’ve “begun” working on removing him from the priesthood.

Look, people. These things take time. The last thing the Church wants to be is unfair to a priest. After all, the assault happened a mere 5 1/2 years ago, and he pled guilty to the charges a scant 3 years back (you’ll be relieved to know the priest only got probation). The Church needed to be absolutely sure of all the facts before it felt comfortable to begin to move against him.

And there most certainly are extenuating factors in this case. For one thing, the priest didn’t have any long history of sexual history abuse. Complaints about him only go back around 12 years or so.

Nothing to see here. Ho hum.