Peggy Noonan in today's Wall Street Journal, "The Catholic Church's Catastrophe," says:
"The church shouldn't be saying j'accuse but thank you" to the press, which only in 2003 started to investigate child abuse in Boston after years of ignoring and shying away from the story.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303960604575158310656792820.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion
She says there are three groups of victims: the abused, the good priests and nuns, and the Catholics in the pews.
But Catholics should leave the pews and boycott the collection baskets until their leaders take decisive action, including instituting a canon law that abuse must be reported to local civil authorities.
The Pope and Cardinals must also rethink the 11th C. onward insistence on clerical celibacy and their even earlier ban on women priests. These make no sense in the context of widespread abuse under the celibate-men-only policy.
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