Attack on Girl Scouts shows current law isn’t working

Various institutions within the American church have been of concern to the US bishops over the past few years — and  now it is the turn of the Girl Scouts.

In a recent article, Joan Chittister writes that the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Catholic Charities in the US, Caritas, and now the Girl Scouts, have ‘been curtailed, “investigated” or put in some kind of canonical receivership because of their reputed lack of orthodoxy on sexual issues or because of association with other groups that, according to the bishops, have the same problem. And all of that in the face of the sex abuse debacle of the church itself, still to be resolved, never monitored, and totally closed to outside investigation.’

 

 

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