Protection From - "Unbridled, Unjust, and Terribly Unreasonable Assault"

This is how Bishop Salvatore Matano of Burlington, Vermont in a May 8 letter described his reasons for placing each of the 128 parishes in his diocese under a separate "Charitable Trust."

Catholic dioceses are scrambling to protect their assets in light of all the sex crime lawsuits. The central authority of a bishop has been a legal weak point in Rome's struggle with sex abuse victims, so some dioceses are trying to spread the risk by making it look like each parish is legally more "independent," thus making it harder to sue the entire diocese.

In Burlington, each parish will be under a "Charitable Trust," with the bishop as "Trustee," the local priest as "Trust Administrator," and the parish finance council as "Trust Advisors."

Comment – Legally these churches look more "independent," but we all know the bishop will STILL be calling the shots!

His Excellency is doing this because:

"In such litigious times, it would be a gross act of mismanagement if I did not do everything possible to protect our parishes and the interests of the faithful from unbridled, unjust, and terribly unreasonable assault."

Comment – The letter makes NO MENTION of the thousands of children attacked by priests, nor of the bishops who covered up these crimes. Catholic bishops are more interested in protecting money, rather than children, "from unbridled, unjust, and terribly unreasonable assault!"

The bishop's farewell in the letter was – "Devotedly yours in Christ."

This is wrong!! If Bishop Matano was honest, he should have written it – "Devotedly yours in antichrist."

Please pray that God continues to protect children from the Catholic priesthood, as well as bishops more concerned about "parish assets" than people.