When All Else Fails: Kill the Attorneys
The Catholic Church in the United States is mounting a new but not so subtle PR campaign. The new target: lawyers. Mark Chopko, general counsel to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has actually gone so far as to encourage sex abuse victims to approach the church without attorney representation. "The group that stands to gain the most from this is the plaintiffs' bar," Chopko said. What Chopko fails to mention is that lawyers wouldn't be involved in the first place if priests had kept their paws off the children and the Church hadn't decided to cover up for these monsters.