UNITED STATES
The American Conservative
By ROD DREHER • May 11, 2013
I have several links that Catholic readers have sent me in recent days. I’m going to be traveling on Saturday, and won’t be able to post. Maybe this’ll hold you. Here we go…
1. Phil Lawler wants to know why Msgr. Stephen Rossetti, despite a catastrophic record of failure in advising Catholic bishops on how to handle pederast priests, remains one of the bishops’ top advisers on the issue. Excerpt:
“Just as the banishment of lepers was fueled by medieval myths, the hysteria surrounding child sexual abusers is exacerbated by myths about those who suffer from sexual deviancies. Child molesters incarnate our deepest childhood fears… Our myths about child molesters come more from the projections of what lies within our own inner psyches than from the truth about who these men are.”
Does that quotation suggest that the author is motivated primarily by a desire to protect children from sexual abuse? Would it surprise you to learn that the author was–and to this day remains–one of the most influential voices advising Catholic Church leaders on the handling of sex-abuse cases?
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