Philadelphia Cardinal tells Catholics: Don't read abuse/cover-up report.

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http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/12717577.htm

Don't Read Report, Rigali Says
By David O'Reilly
Inquirer Staff Writer

Cardinal Justin Rigali said yesterday that Catholics should avoid reading the district attorney's grand jury report, which accuses past leaders of the Philadelphia Archdiocese of covering up years of sexual abuse by priests.

Its "prolonged explanations of the abuse" are "very graphic," the Roman Catholic archbishop said in an interview at his Center City office yesterday.

The 418-page report, released Wednesday by District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham, also "gives a very slanted view" of how the archdiocese now handles sex-abuse cases, he said.

"I don't think it's of value to families," Rigali said.

The report blasted former leaders of the archdiocese for allowing dozens of priests to abuse hundreds of children during the last 35 years.

It harshly rebuked Rigali's predecessors, Cardinals Anthony J. Bevilacqua and John Krol, for allegedly "burying" abuse reports, concealing crimes, and reassigning abuser priests to parishes where their sexual appetites were unknown. The report listed 63 known abusers who served in the archdiocese.

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Article has links to the report and to related stories.

Yesterday Rigali said that this very damning report from the grand jury amounted to "cage-rattling." Seems like a strange image for him to use. I wonder what cage is he thinking of, and what animals.

[Coexist]

1. I know nuuuu-think

from "How to be a Good Catholic"

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. ignorant sheep donate $$$ as before.

better read former parishioners run away from a corrupt organization.

[Tace]

2. Another Example That The Church Is Spiritually Corrupt

[Southpaw Bookworm]

4. Holy crap.

:wow:

Rigali says the report is of no value to families. I think families are exactly who need to be reading it, so they'll know how their children will be treated if they're raped by a man of the cloth.

[Nikki Stone 1]

5. Maybe Rigali will bring back the Index

The old Index of forbidden works that Catholics were not supposed to read, under threat of mortal sin.

If the report is graphic, how much more horrible were the actions themselves!

[Demit]

6. That's one way to get a lot of Catholics to read it. Dumbass.

The Cardinal's recommendation reminds me of how in the 50s and 60s the Church would declare certain movies "condemned" and make you take a pledge not to go see them. Idiots then and idiots now. With this head-in-the-sand mentality, they continue to be the agents of their own irrelevance.

[SpiralHawk]

8. Do NOT -- I repeat -- do NOT read this report

How to call attention to the church's total corruption -- the eternal lure of the FORBIDDEN.

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10. That phrase "very graphic" should bring in quite a few readers.

[mattclearing]

7. Cage rattling his parishioners.

Wouldn't want the animals breaking loose from their mental bonds.

[JHB]

9. Rigali: "I've learned nothing!"

"Rank and file Catholics are angry at the heirarchy for covering up these crimes and allowing the perpetrators to continue doing the same thing somewhere else, so what should I do about this report? Why, try to cover it up, of course. Why do you ask?"

[truebrit71]

11. Hey Cardinal, "I don't think it's of value to families" to screw kids...

...either, so FUCK YOU AND THE FUCKERS THAT COVERED FOR THE CHILD RAPISTS!!!!

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