If you could put a dollar figure on putting someone through absolute hell, it would probably be more than $87 million but that is the amount being paid out by the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
The Catholic diocese in San Francisco has settled roughly $87 million worth of sex abuse cases against priests and others associated with the church, mostly in the last 15 years, according to Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.
The archbishop divulged the eye-popping figure during a series of town hall meetings held to address the sexual abuse of minors in the local Catholic Church on the heels of a grand jury report in Pennsylvania that found hundreds of priest had molested at least 1,000 children in that region.
Meanwhile, Matthew Petrusek writes an article at The Federalist asking journalists to stop expecting Catholics to leave the Church over the sexual abuse.
[…][T]o say that the Catholic church has acted and is acting hypocritically does not and cannot, in and of itself, lead to the conclusion that any specific Catholic teaching is false.
In other words, the only thing that matters with regard to the epistemic status of anything the Catholic church (or any other institution) teaches is whether it is true or not—not whether any person actually acts in accordance with it.
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