Former Priest Found Guilty of Child Rape: "A jury Monday found defrocked priest Paul Shanley guilty of repeatedly raping a young boy at a Boston-area church during the 1980s.
Many of the charges were validated in previously secret documents maintained by the archdiocese that showed church officials knew of sexual abuse complaints against the priests. Rather than reassigning the priests to jobs where they would not work with children, church officials moved the accused from parish to parish."
Reminds us of the old story of Cardinal Bevilacqua who all but blamed gay priests for the scandal in 2002 (rather than the bishops who reassigned known child -molesters). Now why would he do that? Perhaps, because, as Wikipedia notes, Cardinal Bevilacqua has been accused of being one of the Red-hatted Racketeers who moved the molestors all over the country.
The thoughts of a citizen in a small town in central Maine about American politics and culture.
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
But The Cardinals And Bishops Are Going To Walk