Anyone who has followed the mainstream media’s coverage of the Catholic Church over the past decade or so knows that the biggest story out there ”” for perfectly valid reasons, let me stress ”” has been the latest wave of evidence that some members of the church hierarchy have hidden the sins and crimes of many clergy who have abused thousands of teens and children. These scandals have been drawing waves of coverage since the 1980s, although there are reporters out there who seem to think that this hellish pot of sin, sacrilege and clericism didn’t boil over until the revelations in Boston about a decade ago.
Let me stress, as your GetReligionistas have noted on numerous occasions, that this has been a scandal that has touched both the Catholic left and the right. To be perfectly blunt, quite a few Catholics on both sides of the theological spectrum have been hiding skeletons in their closets…..[so] Why did the accusations against [Bishop Walter ] Sullivan, in this crucial matter, get pushed all the way down to the bottom of this rather long wire-service report?
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Terry Mattingly–How to bury a link to the Roman Catholic scandal of this age
Anyone who has followed the mainstream media’s coverage of the Catholic Church over the past decade or so knows that the biggest story out there ”” for perfectly valid reasons, let me stress ”” has been the latest wave of evidence that some members of the church hierarchy have hidden the sins and crimes of many clergy who have abused thousands of teens and children. These scandals have been drawing waves of coverage since the 1980s, although there are reporters out there who seem to think that this hellish pot of sin, sacrilege and clericism didn’t boil over until the revelations in Boston about a decade ago.
Let me stress, as your GetReligionistas have noted on numerous occasions, that this has been a scandal that has touched both the Catholic left and the right. To be perfectly blunt, quite a few Catholics on both sides of the theological spectrum have been hiding skeletons in their closets…..[so] Why did the accusations against [Bishop Walter ] Sullivan, in this crucial matter, get pushed all the way down to the bottom of this rather long wire-service report?
Read it all.