“If priests are raping children, the civil courts can hold the bishop liable I don’t have any problem with that,” Justice Scott Kafker declared this morning - an unusually predictive statement for oral arguments where the justices are normally loath to declare positions on the merits so openly.Ĭourt records shield the name of the accuser in this case, John Doe, who says he was raped in the 1960s by Christopher Weldon, the once-beloved bishop of Springfield who built 11 churches as well as a convent and a hospital, started a Hispanic outreach program, and took part in the Second Vatican Council.ĭoe brought suit for the abuse itself and separately accused the church of having covered up for Weldon and delayed finding the bishop responsible in an internal proceeding starting in 2014. BOSTON (CN) - The Supreme Court of Massachusetts, the state at the epicenter of a sex abuse scandal that has engulfed the Catholic Church for the past two decades, seemed eager Monday to shred one diocese's immunity defense against claims from a former altar boy.
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