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Catholic Church fights push to allow more abuse claims in NY
The Roman Catholic Church is opposing efforts in New York to allow sex abuse accusers to file lawsuits after the statute of limitations has expired, warning of dire financial consequences if the state allows plaintiffs to sue decades after the purported abuse occurred.
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Such a law in New York would cause the church “catastrophic financial harm,” according to a statement of opposition from The New York State Catholic Conference, which argues a one-year window would do nothing to stop new cases of abuse while “enriching trial lawyers” by allowing them to file suits relating to “stale lawsuits regarding long-ago charges.”
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“The victims aren’t dead. They’re alive, and suffering, and they want their day in court,” said Sally Butler, a Dominican sister from Brooklyn who says her foster son was abused by priests as a child. “The bishops say this is anti-Catholic. What it really is is a civil rights movement for children.”
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Such a law in New York would cause the church “catastrophic financial harm,” according to a statement of opposition from The New York State Catholic Conference, which argues a one-year window would do nothing to stop new cases of abuse while “enriching trial lawyers” by allowing them to file suits relating to “stale lawsuits regarding long-ago charges.”
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“The victims aren’t dead. They’re alive, and suffering, and they want their day in court,” said Sally Butler, a Dominican sister from Brooklyn who says her foster son was abused by priests as a child. “The bishops say this is anti-Catholic. What it really is is a civil rights movement for children.”
The richest institution on the planet, which constantly touts its alleged moral superiority, and attempts to force others to live by its fucked-up rules despite failing over and over to follow them itself, can't afford to compensate the real people harmed by its power structure? Gotta love the dig at "trial lawyers," too.
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"It is wrong to hold innocent people accountable today for the evil actions of long-dead individuals from a different generation," the statement reads.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says:
By his sin Adam, as the first man, lost the original holiness and justice he had received from God, not only for himself but for all humans.
Adam and Eve transmitted to their descendants human nature wounded by their own first sin and hence deprived of original holiness and justice; this deprivation is called "original sin".
As a result of original sin, human nature is weakened in its powers, subject to ignorance, suffering and the domination of death, and inclined to sin (this inclination is called "concupiscence"
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By his sin Adam, as the first man, lost the original holiness and justice he had received from God, not only for himself but for all humans.
Adam and Eve transmitted to their descendants human nature wounded by their own first sin and hence deprived of original holiness and justice; this deprivation is called "original sin".
As a result of original sin, human nature is weakened in its powers, subject to ignorance, suffering and the domination of death, and inclined to sin (this inclination is called "concupiscence"
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