LA archdiocese pays for pedophile settlement -- by evicting elderly nuns!

[KamaAina]

You just can't make this stuff up...

http://www.slate.com/id/2175299

In no dark corner of my heart, however, can I understand why the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has decided to begin raising the millions it owes to the victims of predatory priests by kicking some elderly nuns who work with poor people out of their Santa Barbara convent....

The three sisters live in the two-bedroom home owned by the archdiocese and have maintained it mostly on Escalera's SSI disability income. They are supposed to vacate by Dec. 31, though an earlier departure "would be acceptable as well," said the eviction notice, which was signed by Monsignor Royale Vadakin, vicar general for the archdiocese.

Before she was banned from speaking with journalists, Escalera said, "What hurts most is what the money will be used for, to help pay for the pedophile priests. We have to sacrifice our home for that?"

As pure of a clue as the driven Snow, Cardinal Roger Mahony's spokesman, Tod Tamberg, responded by assuring reporters that "the pain is being spread around. We're losing our headquarters here" on Wilshire Boulevard, "and none of the employees got a pay raise this year."

No pay raises? Oh, the humanity! :sarcasm:

Who's the archbishop down there, anyway? C. Montgomery Burns?! :grr:

[Spinzonner]

1. Obviously, these nuns don't know their place

in the autocratic, misogynistic, scandal-ridden hierarchy of the Catholic church

:sarcasm: