Officials who delegate evidence upward show no curiosity about its outcome

Evidence

Cardinal Brady claimed that he was just a “note taker” in the internal church investigation and “felt betrayed” on learning, twenty years later, that his superiors ignored his report. Both Monsignor Lynn and Cardinal Brady showed an unusual lack of interest in the outcome of the evidence they submitted. When asked whether he checked on the outcome of his report, he restated his limited responsibility: “I don’t think it was my role to follow through” (Pogatchnik, 2012). One of the victims disputed Cardinal Brady’s exonerative self-portrayal by explaining that, as a holder of a doc-torate in church law, Brady was widely consulted as a highly skilled canon lawyer. He was instrumental, for example, in getting a child to sign a pledge of secrecy, in the absence of his parents, regarding sexual abuse by a priest. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 502