Column: They vary greatly, but making public financial information can short-circuit tragedies like the sex abuse scandal, activist group says.
Plaintiff Esther Miller, 48, an alleged victim of clergy abuse, cries as she comments on the settlement outside Los Angeles Superior Court in 2007 in downtown Los Angeles.
“If Catholics had known and had demanded change decades ago, and if the bishops had implemented it, many children could have been spared the devastation that comes in the wake of such abuse,” Voice of the Faithful said in its report. “Some cases of abuse would still have occurred, but the abuse would have been reported, not covered up, and abusers would have been called to account for their crimes. Victims of serial abusers would have been protected.
Does its Annual Appeal for donations — which provide roughly half of the diocese’s operating revenue — clearly identify what the money will pay for?Is contact info for finance/accounting staff posted on the website? Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose, got zero here. Fresno, Los Angeles and San Bernardino just got two. Monterey, Orange and Santa Rosa got six, so procedures can clearly be tightened on how cash is handled up and down the state.Some websites were in the middle of upgrading and/or redesign when the analysis was done, diocese officials said, so documents weren’t where they’d normally be.
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