{"id":8170,"date":"2004-01-14T09:16:43","date_gmt":"2004-01-14T09:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/the_audit_1.html"},"modified":"2004-01-14T09:16:43","modified_gmt":"2004-01-14T09:16:43","slug":"the_audit_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/the_audit_1.html","title":{"rendered":"The Audit"},"content":{"rendered":"

An NCR(eporter) article on the audit<\/a><\/p>\n

There is no intention to give the impression,\u201d Gregory told CNN\u2019s Wolf Blitzer following the report\u2019s release, that the bishops have \u201csolved the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in their dioceses, however, that was just the impression some were giving. After two years on the defensive, church public relations professionals finally had something with which to work — a document, one that had the imprimatur of \u201cindependence,\u201d that generally lauded the bishops\u2019 efforts.<\/p>\n

Two examples from many: \u201cIndependent Audit Finds Diocese of Bridgeport in \u2018Total Compliance\u2019 with Dallas Charter\u201d is how that Connecticut diocese headlined the findings, though the word \u201ctotal\u201d is absent from the report. Atlanta church officials, meanwhile, heralded \u201cFull Compliance and Commendation Result from Gavin Group Audit,\u201d though the archdiocese also received a less flattering \u201crecommendation\u201d from the auditors and the adjective \u201cfull\u201d was not a modifier employed by the auditors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think that someday in the future, when the history of this is written with some sort of perspective, people are going to look back at a problem that was, in essence, a protection racket – abusing priests (and bishops) being protected by their fellow priests and bishops with absolutely no structural or moral accountability,and, as I said a few days ago, no sense of being accountable to God, and they’re going to look at these “solutions”, which mainly involve putting more burdens on lay people and children, and they’re going to think, “Oh, so that’s how it’s done?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An NCR(eporter) article on the audit There is no intention to give the impression,\u201d Gregory told CNN\u2019s Wolf Blitzer following the report\u2019s release, that the bishops have \u201csolved the problem.\u201d Back in their dioceses, however, that was just the impression some were giving. 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