How pedophile priest got by
The CBC’s Leah Hendry has a moderately long read Monday about how Catholic church leaders ignored warnings about pedophile priest Brian Boucher, now doing time for molesting boys. It’s a version of the story that’s been told over and over again in so many places, and some people cited here are given aliases because they still don’t want to be on record as criticizing their church.
Reported here without comment is that the archdiocese has asked a retired judge to examine how it responded to the Boucher affair. Should this kind of thing be investigated from within by someone chosen by the organization itself? Are the civil authorities here still unwilling to bring the full might of justice to bear on the Catholic church?
walkerp 10:15 on 2019-12-09 Permalink
Great reporting, but it is just infuriating to read. The archdiocese needs to be raided and everyone working there investigated, especially the scumbags at the top. I bet you will also find a lot of financial shenanigans as well. It is rotten at every level. It’s crazy how powerful the Catholic Church still is after all the revelations have come out about its behaviour.
Uatu 11:43 on 2019-12-09 Permalink
Yes. Financial shenanigans probably happened since abusive behavior is an indicator of fraud as this article suggests https://qz.com/1043588/the-al-capone-theory-of-sexual-harassment-can-help-silicon-valley-stop-hiring-horrible-people/
Jack 12:19 on 2019-12-09 Permalink
This story has been written a thousand times. The Roman Catholic Church has been complicit in covering up physical and sexual abuse forever. Like most Montrealers I was born into this institution , was an alter boy, attended a clerical boys school, had many Priests and Nuns in the family. etc.etc.
But at what point do you look into the mirror and say I can not be a part of this. If you are a member of that institution do you condone this behaviour by attending and tossing money in the basket ? If you are, check out this documentary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliver_Us_from_Evil_(2006_film)