Just a few things:

* The teacher and nun who died in “The Keepers” was working in the Baltimore City Schools at the time she died. Yet documentary ignores this detail and wants to make it seem like this is just some Roman Catholic thing. It isn’t. There’s plenty of abuse in the rest of society and to focus on cases in the church lets these parts off the hook.

The reality is that the government can’t begin to confront the abuse in its own ranks because the cost of any settlement would be many orders higher in size. The school system could not function.

* The reality is that the current system of bankruptcy isn’t working. The moneys won’t be paid by the guilty. They’ll be paid by the average folks who see their institutions destroyed.

Well said! Doesn’t the Archdiocese of Baltimore declaration of bankruptcy have something to do with all the church’s being closed? Maybe I missed that in this article. The Archdiocese of Baltimore is not broke, they are circling their wagons and preparing for a siege by people who were sexually abused at Catholic Churches and Schools that are under the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s oversight.
Baltimore is the home of Roman Catholicism in America and for the Archdiocese of Baltimore to declare bankruptcy is profound.
But rather than admitting there is a terrible evil that needs to be purged from the Roman Catholic Church the Archdiocese of Baltimore has come up with a clever slogan for those worshippers who are not fully aware of what is behind the bankruptcy. The slogan is “Seek The City”
It’s little vague but fits right in with a whole lot of the vagueness in Catholic doctrine that allows a lot of leeway and side stepping when something like large scale sexual abuse and a then a coverup by the Catholic Church is exposed.
A good place to start on the strange and scary story of why the Archdiocese of Baltimore had to declare bankruptcy is by watching “The Keepers” on Netflix.