Article: Church Pedophiles Unmonitored

CARDINAL: No it was not. Not it was not. This is very painful.

AND: Was this letter sent to the office of the Archdiocese of Chicago?

CARD: No it was not.

AND: Had you received this letter what would you have done?

CARD: Had I known that DCFS was investigating that would have been reason to remove father McCormack from ministry. Had I received this, that would have been the samae as the Review Baoard and he would have been out, And that's why I find it very painful to know that we were not surprised of that information.

(Over soap opera music) If I had only seen this.

Isn’t he in charge of the archdiocese?
Not seeing letters is no excuse.)

ANDERSON: Why is that? Why do you find it painful.

CARD: Because children were abused after this date when DCFS knew --

(ME: What? All of a sudden you care about children? A little too little too late, if you ask this Chicago survivor. No matter how many tears of pain are cried by how high a hierarch in this meaningless hierarchy. )

It continues:

ANDERSON: But you knew they had arrested McCormack, didn't you? You knew that didn't you?

CARD: No I did not.

AND: You didn't know they had arrested him?

CARD: No.

AND: What do you call what they did with McCormack?

CARD: They released him. That was - they had terminated their investigation I thought.

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