How The Catholic Church Shielded Billions From Its Bankruptcies

Name: How The Catholic Church Shielded Billions From Its Bankruptcies
Uploaded: 2021-01-01
Duration: 19 min 45 s
Channel: Bloomberg Originals
Description: For most of the 20th century, the Catholic Church in the U.S. minimized the damage wrought by pedophile priests by covering up the abuse. Cover-ups worked when victims and their families could be intimidated or shamed into silence. But in the 1980s and ’90s, victims started filing civil lawsuits...

For most of the 20th century, the Catholic Church in the U.S. minimized the damage wrought by pedophile priests by covering up the abuse. Cover-ups worked when victims and their families could be intimidated or shamed into silence. But in the 1980s and ’90s, victims started filing civil lawsuits...

20 min - Money & Business - Bloomberg Originals

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