Timothy Michael Dolan. Above all, there is Vice President Mike Pence (who, presiding
The archdiocese noted that the "unassignable priests" were still receiving full salaries and would continue to do so until they were formally laicized;[19] and that the payouts were a "motivation" so that the priests would not contest being defrocked. The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests sent a formal protest asking, "In what other occupation, especially one working with families and operating schools and youth programs, is an employee given a cash bonus for raping and sexually assaulting children?"[19] Dolan had previously responded to accusations that he had given "payoffs" to accused priests as "false, preposterous and unjust".[19]
In 2011, Dolan thanked Bill Donohue for a press release, reproduced on the Archdiocese of New York website, in which Donohue referred to the non-profit support group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests as a "phony victims' group".[75]
