19 Quotes by David Clohessy

There's no state in the union where the bishop has been as hard- nosed and vicious as in Colorado. None. I wouldn't even be able to name the second-worst.

These centers operate with no state oversight whatsoever. Church officials time and time again tell judges and prosecutors these facilities are secure, when they are not.

So much for their promises to be more transparent.

This is an ancient, rigid, secretive, top-down, all-male monarchy. It always has been. It always will be. The answer is not to reform them, but to go around them and to contain them.

It's easy to see the Vatican is wildly inconsistent.

It's not about Jenkins or Appleby or even Notre Dame. It's about church leaders who choose to make it even harder for victims to report criminals.

In all the years I've been doing victims' advocacy, I've never had a victim call me and say they were relieved and gratified that the man that sodomized them is supposed to pray more now.

Church officials will vehemently deny they still reassign these men. But the sad truth is that they do.

He's made such hurtful and misguided comments about the crisis. He's had ample opportunity to correct them, and hasn't.