EXCERPT: So now the parishes of Antigonish are being told to pool their own cash to fund a $15 million suit settled by a bishop who has already resigned over a child pornography charge which reflects behavior going back more than twenty years!
"This will bring another element of pain into the situation," Rev. Paul Abbass, a spokesman for the Antigonish diocese said. "We want to find some hope in the midst of all of this, but right now it’s just so overwhelming."
When the Mount Cashel story originally broke in 1989, I was editing a Catholic newspaper, and we covered the story as a "Canadian" phenomenon with fingers crossed, hoping there would be no expansion into the US. Of course, that expansion came all too soon, first in Louisiana, then in Boston, then in dozens of US dioceses. The Vatican, crossing its own fingers, termed it an "American problem."
We have since learned that priestly sex abuse and episcopal malfeasance are not the monopoly of any country or hemisphere.
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