Catholic magazine, Commonweal, attempts to get at the the truth.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan assailed The New York Times this week for its reporting on payments provided to priests who were known sex abusers so that they could be laicized as quickly as possible. The Archdiocese of Milwaukee refers to these payments, made while Dolan was archbishop there, as “funds for transition.” Advocates for victims call them a “payoff.”
Whatever term one uses, it is clear that, despite what the cardinal says, the church has paid money with the aim of getting known offenders to leave the priesthood. But at the same time, The Times hasn’t provided the context needed to understand what Dolan said about one specific payment in 2006, which gives the impression that he lied at the time.
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