WHAT the devil is going on in the Roman Catholic Church in America? This week’s revelations about the child-sex and drugs binges arranged by priests in the Boston archdiocese have confirmed everyone’s worst fears about the sordid goings-on behind vestry doors.
The wretched Cardinal Bernard Law has become a focus for the wrath of the millions of American Catholics who look to him, and perhaps to his resignation, to bring an end to the waves of dreadful news.
Once a predominantly Protestant nation, America is gradually evolving as a Catholic one, built upon the faith of immigrants from Italy, Ireland, Mexico, Central and Southern America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean islands. They all look on Boston and despair.The scale of the child-sex scandal has shaken.
