Joe, in one of those reports Budzinski and another witness described Cousins yelling in the presence of Murphy. In the other, Budzinski told people at a meeting that Cousins yelled at him when there was seemingly no other victim present. Even if Budzinski was lying through his teeth both times, your comment about Sullivan would still be out of order.

Your recent comments, and your reference to the (slightly catchpenny but entirely justified) headline on Sullivan's article, more than ever convince me that you have no grasp of the damage that has been done, and is being done, to Ratzinger's "one true church" beyond your own local community and your own immediate experiences; damage that emanates not from the behaviour of individual errant priests but from attitudes and policies which Ratzinger had a direct role in entrenching.