Covering their assets

In this video, "Church Militant" tells the ongoing story of how the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Detroit is transferring all of its real assets to a holding company (held by the archbishop, coincidentally). Such a move is apparently legal, but it would have the unfortunate effect of denying any payments to potential sex abuse victims who might sue the diocese in the wake of the upcoming state and DOJ investigations into the sex abuse scandals. The archdiocese is apparently using donation money from the Roman Catholics in Detroit to pay for an expensive law firm to effect all of the transactions as quietly as possible.

To quote Keats, this is "all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" about how the Roman Catholic Church operates. This is the same kind of CYA that is evident in the actions and activities of the murderer pope Damasus in the 4th century. This is how Romans in power have always operated. This is how the Mafia operates. This is why the federal government created RICO laws.

This is also how the Roman Catholic Church effected its "development" of its various doctrines. A brief history of how "the infallibility of the pope" was coerced by Pius IX at Vatican I will reveal similar under-the-table wheeling and dealing and arm twisting, for example. This is, in a nutshell, why there is no way that anyone should trust the official Roman Catholic Church.



P.S. Isn't Dave Armstrong (Google Alert!) from Detroit?