Pedophiles Don’t Steal
Jul 20th, 2004 at 8:47 am by Susan
If there is one thing that can make a person seriously unpopular in the Roman Catholic church, it is playing with the gate receipts.The pastor, Woolsey, isn’t in the papers and on television for more than a day or two when he was thrown out into the secular air. His archdiocese also called the Manhattan district attorney, who immediately talked of other money good and missing.
The church openly hates it when you touch the money. A priest in Forest Hills, in Our Lady Queen of Martyrs church, the Rev. Thomas Gradilone, was busting the place out for $2 million. He was publicized and hustled out of the place fast, and called to answer questions from the Queens district attorney.
But as many sex cases as possible were shuffled silently to another parish and the victims and families asked to keep secrets and thus prevent open scandal. Often years went by before anybody heard anything. In Forest Hills, priests who molested young boys were moved out of the parish without a sound. When it came to their money, the church authorities howled as if stabbed.
Obviously, it comes down to the fact that pedophiles don’t steal.
