[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.

[Loyalist]

The answers to the Church's problems lie in a vigorous re-affirmation of the Church's opposition to the philosophies of the secular world, as set out in Ven. Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors.