From CBS News:
Calling the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal "hideous" and "nauseating," New York's Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan says the scandal "needs to haunt" the church for some time to come.
In the wide-ranging interview, Dolan also discusses his past role as the archbishop of Milwaukee, his current mission and the state of the church in America with "60 Minutes" correspondent Morley Safer. The profile of the leader of New York City's two-million-plus Roman Catholics will be broadcast Sunday, March 20 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Asked if he feared the impact of the scandal would go on forever, Dolan replies, "In some ways, I don't want it to be over, because...this was such a crisis in the Catholic Church that in a way, we don't want to get over it too easily," he tells Safer. "This needs to haunt us."
As Amy Welborn once wrote, a Catholic can't send a steak back to the kitchen without the waiter sniffing something about the scandal. Anyone who has visited the online comment boxes of a secular newspaper knows as much. We're haunted, whether we need to be or not.
Posted by: Rich Leonardi | Friday, March 18, 2011 at 03:53 AM
Half, at least, all of the comments made contra my views on the Cuomo-Communion controversy, talked about NOTHING but the abuse scandal.
Posted by: Ed Peters | Friday, March 18, 2011 at 12:46 PM
Dear Sir:
The Catholic Church Priest sex abuse scandal is FAR MORE serious than: "it needs to haunt us". Any rarional human being who knows anything concerning regeneration knows that it will DAMN those who are guilty...for eternity.
Redeemed sheep do not behave in such satanic manners...only wolves in sheeps' clothing are predators on young, unsuspecting, defenseless children. Is it the blind leading the blind?
Posted by: Joseph Smith | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Dear Folks:
Would some thinking person kindly tell me? In order to be a "good little Catholic", does one have to check his/her brain in at the door? Just swallow ALL the Church dogma....hook, line, &sinker. Whatever you do, don't think. Let him/her which thinketh be anathema! ! !
Posted by: Joseph Smith | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 12:55 PM
Dear Joseph Smith:
Such wit! Such devastating points! I'm left nearly speechless by your dazzling rhetorical deftness. But, seriously, in order to be a Catholic-bashing smart aleck who knows less about Catholicism than he does about good spelling and argumentation, do you have to check your brain at the door? Can you even find the door? If you have a specific point or question, put it forth. If you want to play arrogant blowhard, take your insults elsewhere.
Posted by: Carl E. Olson | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 01:03 PM
Gentlemen & or Ladies:
Of course, if you would be so presumptuous & foolhardy to think, & or question the dogma...you can read the proscribed penalty as set forth by Pius IX, in the 1854 Decree on the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary...last paragraph. But, God forbid. :-(
Posted by: Joseph Smith | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 01:08 PM