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Had Enough of Unaccountable Bishops? So Have We!

November 16th is the 1st Withholding Sunday  (il primo giorno di sciopero delle donazioni da parte dei cattolici americani e' Domenica 16 novembre. In Italia i Vescovi non hanno problemi  perche' contano sull'otto per mille di stato.)

"Send the Bishops a Message" is a group of reform-minded Roman Catholics who are disappointed, saddened, and exasperated enough with unaccountable and secretive Catholic bishops to take targeted action.


The group plans to get its message across by advocating that all Catholics withhold financial donations (cash, check, and credit card) on designated "Withholding Sundays."

The ongoing failure of Catholic Church officials to protect our children from dangerous clerical predators and to provide acceptable levels of stewardship for our hard-earned donations compels us to take this action. These officials have adamantly refused to accept responsibility for their grave moral failures in the clergy sex abuse crisis. They repeatedly "apologize," but neither admit to covering up sex crimes against children nor accept their part in the horrendous scandal brought down upon Catholics everywhere.

More than 6 years after the Dallas Charter of 2002, we are still witnessing high-level Church officials protecting both clerical sexual predators and those who shield these predators. Boston’s Cardinal Bernard Law enjoys a high-profile, comfortable job in Rome even though he habitually transferred serial pedophile priests from parish to parish without notifying parents their children were at risk. Los Angeles’s Cardinal Roger Mahony approved a $660 million settlement with clergy sex abuse victims, yet still uses every legal maneuver at his disposal to maintain the secrecy of Church files he agreed to hand over to victims’ attorneys as part of the settlement. Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George, the current head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB),  refused to follow his own sex abuse review board’s recommendation that he, George, suspend a priest who had been arrested for sexual abuse of a minor. Three months after Cardinal George’s refusal to act against the priest, the priest molested at least three more boys in Chicago’s inner city. One of the children, prosecutors say, had been assaulted “on an almost daily” basis.

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