Apparently Not All the News is Fit to Print

A Minneapolis law professor makes a few salient points about the current child molestation "scandal" in the Catholic Church--even though he was writing seven years ago. But then, the current pogrom against the Church has been going on, by my count, for twenty-one years: since the Mount Cashel affair.

“I have also challenged reporters to cite another instance in the history of American journalism in which the press gave front-page coverage-not for a day or two, but for months on end-to a story that had been thoroughly covered a decade earlier. Again, no reporter has been able to do so.”

“To my knowledge, this is the first time in history in which punitive damages are routinely being inflicted upon the victims - or at least those completely innocent - of wrongful conduct.”

“something rather important was usually left out of these stories: In most cases in which a bishop decided to permit a priest accused of abuse to remain in ministry, the bishop was relying on the advice of a psychologist. ... the media have consistently blamed bishops for following bad advice, rather than the experts for giving the bad advice.”

With a hat tip to Eugene Campbell for the links.