"How does a deaf person know that Milwaukee Archbishop Cousins "yelled at him" in 1974?"
How did a deaf child know he was being shouted at? Oh, come on - many ways, as has been pointed out.
It seems very sad to me that someone should question the word of a child - not of a journalist - in defence of the indefensible - the systematic rape of children and the persistant collusion by fellow clergymen and the hierarchy in order to not only allow the perpetratory escape justice, but to continue his offences.
For me , the most relevant part of the article was this:
"He will not quit, of course. And he will not personally repent for these personal failings in public. This is all "petty gossip" fomented by enemies of the church. It's old news. He has reformed things. He has, in the words of the Vatican, "nonresponsibility". Others will take the fall for those crimes of the past. And the broken souls and bodies that remain out there — the scarred victims of this abuse of power — where are they this Easter? What place do they have on this, our holiest day?"
And the Catholic church will continue to be led by somebody who has directly colluded in the rape of children.
Jim Carroll