[Jim Noble]

Paul Shanley was raping boys in the 1950s.

And he has made the accusation that he was raped by a predecessor (as Cardinal Archbishop) of O'Connor and Medeiros, meaning either Spellman (NY) or Cushing (Boston).

There is still much to learn.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Probably Cushing, if the accusation is true. Cushing was a Liberal.

[livius]

I don't recall his Shanley's 1950s track record, although I am certainly not an expert on his life. He may well have been a pervert who managed to get away with it for some time. But I doubt that he would have gotten away with the NAMBLA stuff or any of his flagrant, repeated and virtually public homosexual pederasty prior to VatII.

There have always been bad individuals in the Church, and there have always been people who covered up for them. But I don't think you could have had the wrong doing on that scale at the lower levels or the failure to act and actual cover-ups at the higher levels until Vatican II.