BILL DONOHUE, president of the Catholic League, has written a sharply-worded letter to state attorney generals who are seeking to emulate Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s sensationalistic, defamatory grand jury report on sex abuse in the Catholic Church.

Note: There has indeed been sexual abuse of children by clergy, particularly in the decades immediately after the 60s and the advent of the Sexual Revolution — and sex abuse of children is always, without exception, a heinous crime, worthy in this blogger’s opinion of the death penalty not psychological counseling. Nevertheless, Shapiro’s report is deceptive, unconstitutional, inflammatory and, unlike most grand jury reports, had almost nothing to do with bringing legal charges against wrongdoers, which is the normal purview of attorney generals. There is evidence of much more sex abuse in public schools  — and yet there is no call for similar grand jury investigations of public education. There are also many documented instances of sex abuse in Orthodox Jewish communities, even though these communities have been known to punish severely those who come forth with charges, and yet we see no comparable investigations there, or comparable media campaigns. Wonder why.

Though I don’t accept Donohue’s general position on the Vatican II Church, and believe the Vatican II revolution unleashed a plague of homosexuality among its clergy, I embrace Donohue’s mission to prevent more organized defamation.

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