The Catholic Church Belongs in Criminal Court

Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' gets done and where you can't win with a losing mind. We begin in Maryland, where the road goes on forever, and the party never ends. From NBC News: State Attorney General Anthony Brown chronicled the abuse in a 463-page report that named several priests and described what they are alleged to have done."Time and again, members of the Church’s hierarchy resolutely refused to acknowledge allegations of child sexual abuse for as long as possible," according to the report. I, for one, am shocked. The abuse—and that is a mild term for it—detailed in the report goes back to the 1940s. The Maryland legislature has responded to the report by sending to Governor Wes Moore a bill that will make it easier for individual victims to sue the institutional church, and that's a good thing, but a lot of this belongs in criminal court. This is an ongoing conspiracy to obstruct justice on a massive scale. [View in Browser]( [Esquire]( [SHOP]( EXCLUSIVE [SUBSCRIBE]( [The Catholic Church Belongs In Criminal Court]( [The Catholic Church Belongs In Criminal Court]( Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' gets done and where you can't win with a losing mind. We begin in Maryland, where the road goes on forever, and the party never ends. From NBC News: State Attorney General Anthony Brown chronicled the abuse in a 463-page report that named several priests and described what they are alleged to have done."Time and again, members of the Church’s hierarchy resolutely refused to acknowledge allegations of child sexual abuse for as long as possible," according to the report. I, for one, am shocked. The abuse—and that is a mild term for it—detailed in the report goes back to the 1940s. 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