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This story was sorted out days ago here in FreeRepublic. I don't know why the New York Post is guilty of misrepresenting it.

Once again: They are talking about a DEFROCKED PRIEST. He has been relieved of his duties--laicized, no longer authorized to perform his priestly functions.

This is NOT the same thing as transferring pedophile priests from one parish to another. Cardinal Law appears to have been guilty of doing that. This story does not show that the Pope assented to anything of the kind.

It's shoddy journalism of the worst sort.

Even if the purpose of the memo is to get the laicized priest out of town (and not necessarily to another parish), this is still aiding and abetting a felon. If you helped a rapist skip town, you'd be arrested even if you were confident that the rapist wasn't going to repeat his crime.

Massachussetts doesn't have a misprison of a felony law (which means that if you're aware of a felony and you don't report it, you yourself are guilty of a crime). However, it is a crime in every state to aid and abet a felon. Helping him escape justice (moving him out of town or for that, matter paying off victims in exchange for their silence) certainly qualifies.

It's shoddy journalism of the worst sort.

Catholics, especially practicing Catholics, understand that not only to we fight bias and misunderstanding among fellow Christians (and even fellow Catholics on occasion!) but ESPECIALLY in the press and liberal elite. The Catholic Church has been one of the few, and most certainly the largest, organizations (for lack of a better word) to steadfastly maintain solid moral teachings.

The teaching of the Catholic Church says that homosexuals are disordered; that if someone believes they are homosexual, chastity is their only option. The Church is solidly pro-life -- not some wishy-washy some babies are OK to kill philosophy, but solidly pro-life. While not all Catholics uphold this teaching, it has been a solid and steady teaching and belief for 2,000 years.

There are many other things the Catholic Church has stood firm on, and the liberal elite, particularly the media, hate us for it. The scandals in Boston and other places give them the "facts" they need in their attempt to tear down the largest defender of Biblical moral values and moral truths.

Some priests have sinned, and they are paying the price now. If the price isn't high enough in this life, it most certainly will be just in the next life. But one thing IS certain: the gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church established by Christ. In these dark times, we need more than ever the protection of the Holy Spirit, and I believe He is with us.