A Rant

Alright, when is it going to stop? In today's Post Disgrace, we have a guy suing a dead priest for alleged sexual abuse. The $uit claims "the church covered up sexual abuse by the priest in the early 1970s."

"The suit says the archdiocese turned a "blind eye" to reports of previous clergy sexual abuse and abuse by Cooper." OK, nothing new here, but the article also says, "It is the first time that Cooper has been sued or accused of abuse, according to SNAP."

So the Archdiocese turned a "blind eye" to something that never happened. Hmmm.

The sexual abuse crisis is a cancer in our Church. Legitimate victims deserve to be heard and to be healed as much as that's possible. But the crisis also makes it possible for opportunists to cash in on other people's misfortune. Assuming that there's a fixed amount of money available to settle all the claims, then the ones most hurt by false accusations, besides the men who are falsely accused, are the real victims whose settlements are being diluted by payouts to false victims.