If you're worried about the present activity of the church being harmed by frivolous spending, shouldn't you be in favor of the statutes of limitations that keep them from being sued for things that happened before many of us on this sub were born, for which there was ample time to bring a claim, and for which the ability to weed out meritorious claims from false ones is substantially impaired by the passage of time?

I wanted to see Cardinal Law executed publicly and hung from the Cathedral to rot as a warning to the others for what he did. I felt rage over it that seriously rocked my faith. This isn't about what he did, though, it's about whether we take procedural safeguards in our courts seriously so that my vengeful impulses, and those of many others, I'm sure, are rightly tempered by the constraints of civil society.