Reprinted with permission of the author.
By Thomas McAdam
August 8, 2015 - iLocalNews
If one researches the terms “Louisville,” “pedophile,” and “priest” on Google, one gets more than 38 thousand hits. The enormity of this scandal and the terrible damage done to its victims—and the Catholic church as well—truly staggers the imagination. And there has certainly been a multitude of stories about this tragedy in the local press.
We have all read and watched as the disgusting details of the depredations of Louisville’s defrocked priests Daniel C. Clark and Louis Miller, and followed the multimillion dollar lawsuits on the six-o’clock news. By 2009, U.S. dioceses have paid more than 2.6 billion US dollars in abuse-related costs since 1950 to victims and their lawyers. One local lawyer even tried to sue the Vatican; a sovereign nation.
