U.S. Bishops Quietly Reinstate Accused Priests

[Jen]

I buried this in the "Is Satan a Catholic" thread and realized it really needs its own thread headline.

U.S. Bishops Quietly Reinstate Accused Priests

<<While the Roman Catholic sexual abuse scandal unfolds in Europe, the Catholic Church in the U.S. is under renewed scrutiny.

In the wake of its own scandal almost a decade ago, the U.S. church says it has reformed its policies for handling sexual abuse allegations and will remove from ministry every priest who is credibly accused of abuse.

But some of those priests are now being quietly reinstated. >>

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...25&sc=fb&cc=fp

[Forest]

Yeah, like this is a big surprise.

[Aimee Weber]

Why not? The Catholic Church will do whatever church members will let them get away with ... and as far as I can tell that means anything.