UNITED STATES
National Review
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
February 22, 2013
This week, before his departure for Rome for the last day of the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI and the subsequent conclave, New York’s Timothy Cardinal Dolan spoke under oath about his previous assignment in Milwaukee.
While the media has been a blessing in the shameful story of abuse in the Church in the United States in the 20th century, the coverage of the deposition this week has been disappointing.
Cardinal Dolan, who began met with victims of abuse immediately after his appointment to Milwaukee, doesn’t deserve to be lumped in with anyone who has made excuses for sins and crimes of the past. And yet the narrative this week insinuates that the current president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is “dogged” by questions about his concern for children, suggesting implication in hundreds of cases, which is simply not so.
In fact, though the testimony is under seal, lawyer Jeffrey Anderson preemptively announced to the New York Times that “the deposition of Cardinal Dolan is necessary to show that there’s been a longstanding pattern and practice to keep secrets and keep the survivors from knowing that there had been a fraud committed.”
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