The story that’s breaking in The New York Times that the Vatican did not defrock the late Rev. Lawrence Murphy who molested deaf boys in a Wisconsin “special school” is the latest evidence that the Catholic Church needs to be prosecuted “country by country” for it’s only through prosecution that corrupt institutions develop civil rights policies and procedures to guarantee them.
The full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/world/europe/25vatican.html?ref=todayspaper
It should go without saying that it’s difficult to have a disability. And it’s harder to report abuse when you can’t speak. Perhaps the church can mollify the world by bringing back “Limbo”?
I don’t know. I can only say that reading the Times this morning I felt, (as I often did when reading about the administration of George W. Bush) that there seems to be no bottom to the malfeasance.
Maybe Pope Benedict can resign and go on a speaking tour with Karl Rove. The Rove & Ratzinger Tour. Everyone do your own logo.
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 