The truth does eventually come out. This is from the NYTimes today. Geoghan was my priest when I was a kid at St. Andrew’s in Jamaica Plain. Just a few weeks ago, they removed our local parish priest from St. Bernadette’s in Randolph. It’s affected so many hundreds, thousands of people, I cannot fathom how any organization can actively harass victims in the way that the church has done. I don’t hold the individual church leaders responsible, as many have done with Cardinal Law. I hold the organization of the Catholic Church itself responsible. It’s so mind-bogglingly huge that this issue could potentially topple the church. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing, or a bad one, but whatever it is, it’s of the church’s own making. Secrecy Over Abusive Priests Comes Back to Haunt Church“It’s not simply a case of an organization whose agents have erred,” he said. “It’s an organization that knew about the improprieties and actively concealed it.”
