HARRISBURG (PA)
Esquire

August 15, 2018

By Charles P. Pierce

Nothing will define his papacy like how he responds to the systemic sexual abuse of children.

oly mother of god.

There is no longer any doubt that the institutional Roman Catholic Church in the United States existed in part—and likely still exists—as a vast conspiracy to obstruct justice in the crime of sexual assault by members of its clergy. If you ever wondered why the Church fought so hard to keep the civil criminal justice system at bay in regards to the criminals and deviants in its ranks, the report of the grand jury in Pennsylvania ought to clear that up for you.

If we’d had something like this in Boston, the late Bernard Cardinal Law would have ended his days at the MCI-Somewhere, instead of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Clean Getaway in…