Like the popular press, Keating choose to ignore the real problem, gay priests. Here is an exchange between a wired detective and a now convicted abusive priest:
Burkhart and McBride dined on crab cakes and chatted lightly. After dinner, McBride turned the conversation to the recent Catholic Church scandal. He hoped that, when it was all over, the church would recognize that priests are sexual beings too -- and that some are gay.
"Back in the 1960s, would you have ever come to a place like this?" Burkhart asked. "I mean, in this town, where you were working?"
"Probably not, no," McBride said. "Realistically, in 1960, no."
"And in certain places it looks like the seminary on Saturday night now," Burkhart joked.
"Yeah, that really is how it is," McBride said.
They compared notes on seeing clergy in gay bars. Then Burkhart stammered as he asked McBride a personal question: "So, whenever you had sex . . . were you bound to go to confession and confess it before you said Mass, or . . .?"
"Well, you were supposed to, yes," McBride said.
"Do you think all these priests do?"
"No," McBride said. "I think they changed their minds and decided it's not a sin."
I posted the article here this morning:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/992919/posts Like the popular press, Keating choose to ignore the real problem, gay priests.How do you know? He was only heading this thing up for less than a year.
The primary problem was bishops covering up criminal activity and not coming clean on which priests in their dioceses were abusers.
Besides, the commission was not hired to give moral admonitions to the USCCB; its charter was to determine which bishops were adhering to guidelines the bishops themselves had agreed to.