[Griff]

I don't take anything Garry Wills has to say on any subject seriously.

That said, any clergy who helped sweep this under the rug need to be prosecuted. If it was one of my kids, you'd have a dead priest (teacher, coach, local loon), period. I've known a few fine priests but damn few decent bureaucrats and that is the basis of the problem, not conservative fantasies about a post Vatican II homosexual priesthood or even Wills' little leftist fantasy about infantalized priests. Its bad enough that this has and is going on without people using it to to serve their agendas. The bureaucrats mindset is to go along to get along, protect insiders, and keep problems quiet, those attributes are antithetical to a priestly life. As always, just one drunks opinion.