Thank God for real journalism: the NYTimes blows the lid of Cardinal Dolan's secret payments to sexually abusive priests

The moral leadership of the Catholic Church becomes even more tattered by these allegations. From the NYTimes

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York authorized payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests as an incentive for them to agree to dismissal from the priesthood when he was the archbishop of Milwaukee. Questioned at the time about the news that one particularly notorious pedophile cleric had been given a “payoff” to leave the priesthood, Cardinal Dolan, then the archbishop, responded that such an inference was “false, preposterous and unjust.”