Phil lawler biography

          Background.

        1. Background.
        2. Phil Lawler is the director of Born and raised in the Boston area, he attended Harvard College, graduating with honors in Government in.
        3. Biography.
        4. Born and raised in the Boston area, Philip Lawler attended Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury, MA, where he won the state's debating championship.
        5. Born and raised in the Boston area, Phil attended Harvard College and did graduate work in political philosophy at the University of Chicago before entering a.

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          The $5 billion cost of ecclesiastical corruption

          By Phil Lawler ( bio - articles - email ) | Jan 16, 2025

          Five billion dollars.

          $5,000,000.000.00

          Catholic dioceses and religious orders in the United States have spent a bit more than that in the past 20 years to settle the financial costs of the sex-abuse scandal. That figure does not include the settlements paid out before the scandal emerged in the headlines: settlements that routinely involved non-disclosure agreements.

          With those five billion dollars, the American Church might have paid all the costs of training 20,000 men for the priesthood, or completely funded 10,000 parishes for a year, or established several new first-rate universities or hospitals, or provided pre-natal care for more than a million mothers.

          And of course the monetary costs of the scandal—while easier to calculate—pale in comparison with the human costs: the suffering endured by victims of