UNITED STATES
News-Times
Jim Mellett
Published 05:05 p.m., Monday, March 12, 2012
So Cardinal Egan has retracted his apology for his callous inaction regarding clerical abuse in the Diocese of Bridgeport. Let us never forget that sexual abuse of children is a felony in every state, and not a matter that can be referred for a clerical referral. Incidents such as these should be reported to the police as soon as possible.
Recently, I visited my grandchildren in Chicago and ran geology lectures in their respective schools.
As I looked out over this sea of eager, innocent faces, it dawned on me that hundreds of thousands of children like these were fondled, caressed, abused, raped, and sodomized by Catholic clergy. Their lives were destroyed and the guilty priests got away with their crimes.
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