ST. LOUIS (MO)
Berger’s Beat
SIDEWALK OUTSIDE THE CONFERENCE OF BISHOPS AT THE HYATT REGENCY
SNAP members chided Cleveland Bishop Richard Lennon because one of his priests argued to a judge that a convicted sex offender should get no jail time. And Carol Kuhnert hawked her new book, “No Longer on Pedestals.” She’s a south county grandmother who comforted victims of her brother, Fr. Norman Christian, who molested kids in Affton, Normandy, Woodson Terrace and the city. (Despite the accusations, lawsuits and settlements, the Archbishop Raymond Burke gave Christian a burial with full priestly honors.)
AND KUDOS TO THE GREY LADY
Only The New York Times pointed out that the church’s abuse scandal that erupted on the national scene 30 years ago (when a Louisiana pedophile priest garnered national headlines for assaulting dozens of kids) versus the more common but false narrative that “it all began in Boston in 2002.” And the Times noted that a spokesman yesterday at the conference was Vermont Bishop Christopher Coyne who spent years as a flak for Boston’s disgraced Cardinal Bernard Law.
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