Why promote leaders who paid parents not to prosecute?

The Editor, AD2000 Catholic newspaper, Melbourne. Oct 14, 2003
   Has anyone thought, "What might have been" in relation to Michael Charles Glennon, 59, Australia's "sex monster" who around October 10 to 13 was being attacked in the Victorian and some other States' news media?
   Are we still promoting the monsignors and bishops who were telling parents of his victims in Victoria not to tell the police or anybody else, and who were offering them $20,000 to $50,000 compensation, which included a silence clause? One name, publicised last year on television, springs immediately to my mind. Do readers have other names to share? . . .
   But, "what if," when the bishops first learnt that he was sexually-abusing children, they had tried hard to break through the Vatican "red tape" and dismiss him from the priesthood?
   And "what if" the decent 90% of clergy from high to low had encouraged the victims and their parents to go to the police, so that he would be prosecuted and gaoled, thus being removed from the areas of temptation for a time? Isn't it possible Glennon might not have wasted years (not to mention public funds), in and out of courts and prisons? He has been let down by those supposed to lead him. . . .
   Even if your news media aren't telling you, the Church is suffering from sex-abuse scandals in the Philippines, Ireland, and Malta, as well as new kinds of new offences in the United States, including tempting via the Internet. It is fashionable in Rome to say the mass media makes too much of the "sex-abuse problem in America" -- but with Internet news services anyone really interested can learn that the publicity is tarnishing our image in Poland, Austria, and Africa (a homosexual priests' chat room!), to name just a few more. The Frames section below suits most Browsers, being in Rich Text Format (RTF)

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