¶ If we learned nothing else from William Doyle’s magisterial history of the French Revolution, we did grasp this: the Roman Catholic Church (as a pernicious secular organization) will die only from within. Efforts to kill it will only make it stronger. So we’re very pleased that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has fallen for the “Woodstock defense” as an explanation for priestly predations on pubertals. This amounts to blaming two sets of victims. Bravo!

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 at 8:00 pm.