Good write-up on the priest abuse scandal

George Weigel looks at the recent John Jay College study:

Priests, Abuse, and the Meltdown of a Culture

As he notes, the report contradicts the established narrative on may critical points.


This part of the history usually gets ignored or glossed over:

This, in turn, led to an overdependence on psychiatry and psychology in dealing with clerical perpetrators, in the false confidence that they could be “cured” and returned to active ministry — a pattern that again mirrored broader societal trends.