The Roman Catholic Church has groaned from the gaping wound from the evil that a few sex-abusive priests caused. It has wounded the Catholic witness to the goodness of the Lord. This also opened the Church to those who sought monetary windfall from this vulnerability. It is one thing to seek restitution for the damage that the abused had caused to the child and the family. It is another thing to go for more money when settlement had been previously made on the offense committed. Below are cases wherein the complaint filed against the local church, even the Vatican itself, already betrays an obvious intent at taking advantage of such vulnerability. Father Daniel McCormack of Chicago, Illinois In 2008, Father McCormack pleaded guilty in court to molesting five boys in a Catholic school where he used to work, and the Archdiocese of Chicago paid a settlement of $1.6 million as a restitution. But on 11 May 2011, a mother of one of the five boys sued the Va...
In the Tradition of the Roman Catholic Church