A moral reckoning on the subject of sexual misconduct

https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/moral-reckoning-subject-sexual-misconduct
MGB:_It is perhaps one of those glorious accidents that last night’s news informed us of the death of Cardinal Law, whose strict moral tone was crushed when it was revealed that he covered upand probably abetted a different kind of moral misconduct, that of children at the hands of clergy. One of the most misunderstood passages in the Bible applies here. ”It is better if one leads one of of these little ones astray to be thrown into the sea with a milstone tied around his neck.” To apply this to heresy is bad proof texting. It is clearly about pederasty in both the modern and early Church. It is also about the casting couch. While perpetrators might claim no memory of their history of rape, their deniability likely comes from alcohol and drug use. An alcoholic blackout, howver, does not explain the systems they had for both procuring their victims and covering up their crimes. Feminism got its start in the Temperance movement, of which my great-grandmother, Margaret Esther Allen was a leader. She stands with the battered women, Hollywwood victims and clerical abuse survivors who all clamor for justice for victims and condemnation for the perpetrators in this world and the next.