Thank you to Steve Duin for his enlightening and disturbing essay exposing what’s under the mitres (ceremonial headcoverings) worn by U.S. Catholic bishops, (“Bankruptcy and the Catholic Church: Steve Duin column,” July 6).
Apparently, turning their backs on the victims of abusive Catholic clergy was the beginning of a pattern. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops also turned its back on victims of the opioid crisis, filing a brief in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement case in support of the Sackler family, which once owned the company, rather than the opioid victims.