The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, along with the other 11 dioceses in California, will be subpoenaed for additional records as the state attorney general continues to investigate whether dioceses complied with mandatory reporting requirements.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced in May he would investigate all of California’s Roman Catholic dioceses to ensure that church officials followed state law and reported sexual misconduct allegations to law enforcement.
The announcement of that investigation came after Becerra’s office began requesting that victims of clergy sex abuse submit complaints to his office last year.
The Sacramento diocese, along with five other dioceses, began voluntarily turning over records to the state agency in May, according to Bishop Jaime Soto in a statement Friday.
“We share the attorney general’s desire to conduct a thorough examination of the practices and procedures that seek to protect the children entrusted to our schools, churches and programs,” Soto stated.
Last week, the attorney general’s office told the Sacramento diocese that it would issue subpoenas for additional records, according to Soto….
The above comes from a Dec. 10 story in the Sacramento Bee.
Will Becerra follow the example of the May, 2019 raid on the Dallas chancery by cops in masks and SWAT gear?
These AG’s mean business. They and the people they serve have had enough. If the Bishops had meant business 20-30 years ago, we’d be on the way toward a better, more Christ centered Church that parents would feel safe sending their kids to, and the pews would be filling up instead of emptying out.
If Pope Benedict XVI directive prohibiting homosexuals in the Priesthood (2005?) had been implemented from the beginning, perhaps this abomination might not have been as widespread as it is.
Hardly. The abuse happenned, for the most part, well before Benedict was even Pope. A lot of it, however, happenned while he was head of CDF. Besides which, we are talking about what measures the Church took about the abuse. Which under both JPII, Benedict, and even now, is hardly commensurate with the problem.
Read my comments again: If the policy had been implemented before 2005 the extent of the homosexual abuse of teenage boys and young men might not have been that severe.
The liberal Bishops who allowed this by moving these abusers and sometimes like McCarrick are responsible.
In my opinion, an outside check that the Bishops are, in fact, complying with the Church’s clergy abuse reporting requirements is a great step in the correct direction. The sex abuse scandal cost the Bishops dearly in terms of general public credibility. Another similar scandal would likely only increase the number of ‘former Catholics’.
Maybe every Protestant church and School District should be investigated, also.
And, any Catholic who leaves the Church because of scandals does not have a deep faith and love of Jesus Christ. There have been scandals since the time Christ walked the earth and His Church is still here, 2000+ years later.