[GCC Catholic]

As much as I am made uncomfortable by this article, it's really very worth being aware of it. If you go to the original site and look at the comments, you can see that they for the most part have quite a liberal and anti-Catholic bent. This is the type of rot that the media foists on an unsuspecting public, and liberal readers (including liberal Catholics) eat it right up, ready to regurgitate it later to attack the Church.

For quite awhile Catholics will need to be wise in debunking the claims that the Church still perpetuates child abuse while routing out the last of those that actually did allow it. Those who are angry about the abuse (and rightly so), will use that to attack the Church in other respects, as the article shows. However, we can't allow that single point to be used to deflate the Catholic Church nor of Christianity at large.

I don't see eye-to-eye with Alex on some things, but I think this isn't a bad find.

[maryz]

For quite awhile Catholics will need to be wise in debunking the claims that the Church still perpetuates child abuse while routing out the last of those that actually did allow it.

The weird thing about the abuse scandal is that, while the scandal broke in what? 2002, most of the actual abuse took place in the 60s and 70s, still high but going down in the 80s. Cardinal Law takes the brunt of the blame in Boston, though Medeiros was in during the worst of it. (I think he just couldn't cope with it; I understand he appealed to Rome for help in getting homosexuals out of the seminaries.) Law actually had brought the situation under control -- granted, too slowly, but there were no reported cases in Boston for a couple of years before the AG's report came out.

[tdewey10]

Agree with you. Don’t know anything about the OP. But I do like to be aware of some of anti-Catholic rhetoric that is out there.