[Antoninus]

The Church has not paid nearly as much as it's going to pay. The Church will have learned its lesson when Benedict XVI invites some of these victims to the Vatican, meets with them, and publicly apologizes on behalf of the Church for, in many cases, ruining their lives.

Actually, such a thing wouldn't be nearly as appropriate as Cardinal Mahoney, Archbishop Weakland, Bishops Clark, Hubbard, and McCormick and many others of that ilk appearing in sack-cloth and ashes on national television, begging forgiveness for what they've done--and then stepping down.

[sinkspur]

Actually, such a thing wouldn't be nearly as appropriate as Cardinal Mahoney, Archbishop Weakland, Bishops Clark, Hubbard, and McCormick and many others of that ilk appearing in sack-cloth and ashes on national television, begging forgiveness for what they've done--and then stepping down.

That would be good, too, but the sore will fester as long as BXVI ignores it, or thinks it's a media conspiracy.