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…