It’s got nothing whatever to do with the Catholic Church, except that they are the only ones that the media have been persistently attacking—although there are far worse problems in the public schools and in Protestant ministries, among others.
And I think I’d wait a bit to see whether firing Joe Paterno and the President are something the Church should take as an example. Because there are suspicions that the whole business was far more widespread than yet admitted. And Paterno immediately reported what happened to the Athletic director, and it went immediately to the law—where it died because the DA appears to have committed suicide by diving into a river. His computer hard drive was recovered from the river, an apparent effort to erase its contents.
I’m not saying that Paterno shouldn’t have done more when his report went nowhere. But there are others who are far more guilty than he is. It looks like scapegoating to me. And we may never know who the worst offenders are.
This is the first time I've heard of this. Do you have more information? It throws another light on the reports we've gotten so far.