Of 42 priest files released Monday by the Milwaukee Archdiocese and reviewed by the News Tribune, 22 contain references to child molestation on camping trips, a cross-state bicycle ride and at least one Caribbean cruise.
The abuse is often explicitly described. But the geographic details are less so, many noted vaguely as occurring “up north” — a generalization that sometimes refers to suburban Milwaukee, sometimes Wisconsin’s northern counties and more often left unidentified.
I live in Milwaukee. I am sure I now know more of the details than you.
It could be argued that this is indeed NOT news. It is instead salacious DECADES OLD material combined with legal jockeying to bankrupt the archdiocese. We know that abuses took place, there has been no dispute regarding that. Now we are delving into HISTORICAL detail and the “victims” are trying to get money in held in a trust for cemetery maintenance. Gotta get every nickel from those Catholics.
Is this about consoling victims or a big jackpot? Is it about news or national enquirer voyeurism?
As the Catholic League has abundantly documented, many institutions have the same level of sexual abuse of children. The Catholic Church made itself more of a target by its mishandling of the perpetrators but it also is a continuing lightning rod for secular leftists with axes to grind.
How much coverage was there really about Michael Jackson and his pedophilia? How about what really happened at Penn State? It won’t be long before we see similar stories about the new homosexual Boy Scouts or should I say the media will be hiding stories stories about the new homosexual Boy Scouts.