"Thus his own pastor presents the hierarchy as victims with his antisemitism analogy (an analogy he now seems to have drawn by accident). And the dean of the cardinals' college dismisses serious allegations as "idle chatter."

Joe showed just how trite the defensive mindset can get with his ludicrous question: "How does a deaf person know that Milwaukee Archbishop Cousins "yelled at him" in 1974?" The stupid boy obviously didn't realise that the archbishop was only miming."

Aye, Peter.

As an aside what concerns me is that some here appear to be assuming that all the posters concerned by the Church's cover-ups are anti Cstholic & anti Christian. I'm not. I considered being Baptised a few years ago. But found another path. I've ever found beauty and wonder in the Christian mystical writings. On my Catholic Grandmother's grave, I'm profoundly glad I never bound myself to such a filthy and rotten institution.