If you have any illusions that the culture of self-protection, clerical privilege and contempt for the victims of rape have finally disappeared from the Catholic hierarchy, I'm afraid you have to let go of them. The Los Angeles Archdiocese fought for years to prevent full access to their own documents that prove complicity of many in the hierarchy in the rape of hundreds of children.
The names of the people who knowingly transferred these priests are important because they are accessories to the crime. Even if the statute of limitations has passed, they ought to be named and shamed.
This article is from Andrew Sullivan's Dish. Because the new site makes it easy to reblog items to Wordpress, you'll probably be seeing more entries based on articles from this site.
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