Did The Archdiocese Vacate Its Moral Authority? Does The Pope Wear A Funny Hat?
Imagine, if you can, that you are Cardinal Bevilacqua. You have inherited a grisly priests-raping-little-boys-in-the-ass scandal that’s at least 30 years old and still going on. The Christian thing to do is:
A. Voluntarily — not under threat of subpoena — turn over all relevant evidence to the District Attorney’s office, answer all their questions, completely clean house of anyone wearing a collar and accused by more than one minor of sexual abuse, get on your knees and pray to God for forgiveness that these abominations happened on your watch, and then shower the victims with heartfelt apologies, all the professional help they need and generous compensation because, well, what would Jesus do?
B. Blame the victims, berate them with lawyers, cover-up the truth and shuttle abusers to new posts stocked with fresh young meat. Label anyone that has a problem with it “anti-Catholic” bigots.
C. Buy a large screen TV for the office and fix up the shore house.
D. Send Brian Tierney to run interference against anyone trying to shine disenfecting sunlight on this whole sordid affair.
PW: What’s A Little Pederasty Among The Help?
(Hint: Sad to say, the only wrong answer is A.)
