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Timothy Dolan, when he was the Archbishop of Milwaukee a while back, approved a number of $20,000 settlements to rid the Church of abusive priests in a more time-efficient and expeditious manner - without long, drawn-out canonical or civil proceedings. The problem the story poses for Dolan is not that he did such a thing, however, but that he didn't tell the truth about it back in the day.

But that recognition does not let me off the hook.  Imperfect human beings have every bit as much of a moral obligation to holler as saints do.  This recognition does not excuse me from making my moral views and conscientious judgments known when historical circumstances require me to speak out--or to find myself complicit in evil I ought to be resisting.  To repeat: as the top leader of my church in the U.S., Timothy Cardinal Dolan, is representing me at the GOP convention

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York recently told The Wall Street Journal that only "a tiny minority" of priests were tainted by the sex abuse scandal. But it's a global shame spiral. The church leadership never recoiled in horror from pedophilia, yet it recoils in horror from outspoken nuns