Is there any accountability in the Catholic Church? Rape a kid? No problem. Rape a whole bunch of kids? Whatevs. Cover up the raping of kids? Pish-posh. And now you can steal $500,000 from struggling schoolchildren and not face criminal charges.

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The story goes like this: A recent audit shows that over the course of a decade, Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper and Sister Lana Chang embezzled a cool half-million dollars from St. James Catholic School in Torrance, California.

Kreuper was the K-8’s school’s principal, Chang was a teacher, both retired last year.

Apparently, the two “best friends,” used the money for lavish vacations that included gambling sprees at various Las Vegas casinos. To cover up their crimes, the nuns deposited monies donated to the school in a “long forgotten” bank account and lied to everyone who asked about a rich relative funding their travel.

According to the Press-Telegram, both women have confessed, but the archdiocese is refusing to press charges, because — get this — they have expressed remorse and their order, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, imposed “severe sanctions” on them and agreed to pay the money back.

“Sister Mary Margaret and Sister Lana have expressed to me and asked that I convey to you, the deep remorse they each feel for their actions and ask for your forgiveness and prayers,” Monsignor Michael Meyers said in a letter sent to parents, reports Fox 6. “They and their order pray that you have not lost trust or faith in the educators and administrators of the school.”

• Dec 17, 2018 National News Nuns steal $500K from their Catholic school, Spent on casinos and trips. Nuns embezzle funds from their own school.
• The Nuns Used a Forgotten Bank Account to Perpetrate the Fraud The misappropriated funds were largely school fees, tuition and donations made out to the school. According to Meyers, the $500,000 stolen funds were discovered from bank records run by Kreuper and Chang within a six-year period – and that total does not include cash transactions.

Let me stop right there…

Two nuns in California have admitted to embezzling roughly $500,000 from St. James Catholic School. The “substantial” amount of money was stolen over the course of 10 years and spent on trips.

Don’t tell me that the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet will pay it back. This order took a vow of poverty, which means any monies they raise would go to the Church anyway, so “paying it back” is just moving the money from one part of the Church to another.

There is no “paying it back.”

While gambling/embezzling nuns might sound like something out of a “cool” HBO movie, the reality is a little different. Like most Catholic schools, St. James is struggling, and these two women diverted tuition payments and donations from a struggling school into their own secret gambling account. What’s more, even if St. James was not struggling, the money could have helped any number of Catholic schools struggling in the Los Angeles area.

Here is another line of BS from the Church:

“No student or program at St. James has suffered any loss of educational resources, opportunities, or innovations,” Meyers claims.

Please.

Do you have any idea how hard some parents work to keep their kids out of failing public schools and in these private Catholic schools? If they cannot afford the tuition, or if there is not enough scholarship money — You know, because Sister Roulette and Sister Blackjack want to see Wayne Newton again — these parents work extra jobs, donate countless hours at the Church, or both. School donations are meant to help these parents and children, and these women stole $500,000 from those same funds.

So how in the world can the Church justify not pressing charges?

I’m not calling for Sister Gluttony and Sister Avarice to be ex-communicated, which, if you are Catholic, is worse than prison. Everyone deserves a second chance, everyone deserves forgiveness. But there must first be punishment, accountability. A debt must be paid to society, a message must be sent to others in the Church that this will not be tolerated.

The message the Church sends by refusing to press charges is not one of forgiveness, but of an inexcusable lack accountability.

Who is going to donate money to an organization that allows such a thing to happen? This tells every parishioner that if you donate and someone steals it, as long as that someone is in The Club, there will be no consequences.

And if someone in The Club doesn’t steal your donation for a Vegas, Baby weekend, your donation will probably be used to buy the silence of Church’s latest under-age rape victim.

We got a pope more concerned with trees than souls running a Church that looks the other way at the worst crimes imaginable.

Maybe I’ll become a Baptist.

Oh, wait…

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Nuns Stole 500k

Two nuns have admitted to embezzling money from the school they worked at.Source:istock

Now that’s a bad habit!

Two nuns who formerly worked at St James Catholic School in Torrance, California, confessed to embezzling at least $US500,000 ($A692,000) from the school so that they could gamble it away at Las Vegas casinos, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles said at a meeting with parents and alumni on Monday, the New York Post reported.

Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper, who worked as the school principal for 28 years, and Sister Lana Chang, a teacher at the school for 20 years, reportedly siphoned the funds over a period of at least a decade, the Press-Telegram reported.

The nuns, described as best friends, admitted to stealing the money over the course of around 10 years.Source:istock

The sisters, described as best friends, both retired earlier this year.

Officials made the discovery in June after performing a routine audit following the principal’s retirement. The Rev Michael Meyers, the church’s monsignor, said Sister Mary Margaret was “very nervous and anxious” during the audit and she reportedly asked staff members to change school records. Rev Meyers reported it to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, who hired another auditor.

The auditor found that tuition cheques, fees and donations were being deposited into a bank account not used by the school. The sisters later confessed to using the funds for themselves.

“We do know that they had a pattern of going on trips. We do know they had a pattern of going to casinos, and the reality is, they used the account as their personal account,” a lawyer told parents and alumni at Monday’s meeting.

What happens in Vegas … doesn’t necessarily stay in Vegas.Source:istock

Church officials said they did not wish to press charges against the sisters, who both expressed remorse. Police will still present the case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, NBC reported.

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“Sister Mary Margaret and Sister Lana have expressed to me and asked that I convey to you, the deep remorse they each feel for their actions and ask for your forgiveness and prayers,” Meyers wrote in a letter to parents on November 28.

“They and their Order pray that you have not lost trust or faith in the educators and administrators of the school. Let us pray for our school families and for Sister Mary Margaret and Sister Lana,” the letter added.

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This article originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission