A Jesuit priest told Bold TV that in the wake of a “Catholic #MeToo,” the Catholic Church can’t put possible financial exposure as a top worry in the wake of new controversies around alleged sexual abuse by priests. “There’s going to be a tremendous amount of financial exposure for the Church, and that cannot be our priority, ever,” said Fr. Sam Sawyer, executive editor of America Magazine and a Jesuit priest, who visited Bold TV after the New York attorney general’s office issued subpoenas to every Catholic diocese in the state and a new grand jury report alleged that Catholic priests abused an estimated 1,000 Children in Pennsylvania. “I think that there are going to be real changes,” Sawyer told Bold TV. “The Church betrayed people it was supposed to protect and failed people for years and decades.” Sawyer said the majority of cases in the Pennsylvania grand jury report were before 2002, suggesting that policies implemented since then have largely worked–a “silver lining” he said, if there was one to be had. With regard to accountability, Sawyer said “it’s going to be slower than we want it to happen, but it’s going to happen …there’s also a need for reform with how we deal…
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