In her latest Star Tribune column, Katherine Kersten explains why the Catholic Church is getting a bum rap. It stands for universal, timeless values in an age of moral relativisim, and so the pope of modernism, also known as The New York Times, is obliged to discredit its mortal enemy with secular encyclicals masquerading as journalism. That is why, unless the perpetrator is a priest, you never read in the paper stories of sexual abuse of minors. She has it all figured out. Sometimes kids are molested by priests and sometimes by their uncles and stepdads. It's not like the church has a special problem.
In plain English, then, the Catholic Church is a moral beacon to our benighted age and its priests are no more likely to rape little Billy than is Uncle Joe. If Uncle Joe goes to jail instead of to a new parish, that is only because reports of his crimes are more apt to reach the ears of moral relativists.
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