The leap in logic is stunning, but not surprising when you consider who's making it, and who has a particular interest in perpetuating the myth of the pedophile priest.
The bandwagon is now groaning under the weight of people who will use this sad chapter in the church's history to try to destroy it, either from within or without. You could barely miss the over-the-top outrage of the editorialists calling for "accountability":
"The damage illuminated in the sickening details of the grand jury report was inflicted not just on the children who were victims of these crimes, some of whom turned to drugs and even suicide to escape the pain. It also damages every member who seeks solace from the church, and who counts on it as a source of truth."
To which I respond: Don't presume to speak for me.
Every Catholic I know hates what has been alleged to have been done by some men who never should've been ordained in the first place. But we refuse to be railroaded by the media into attacking the church indiscriminately.
Of course, it's not just the journalists looking for their Outrage Awards who are on that train.
There are the victims groups that, while making legitimate claims about cover-ups, take it a step further to demand their pound of flesh in the form of payouts that seem to be as much an attack on the church as a form of solace for the victims.
Of course, some of the same folks are the first to cry foul when a diocesan school closes because - surprise! - there's no money to keep it running.
Then you have the people who were disappointed in the church of their youth because of their own private grievances, and are thrilled to see her battered and bleeding. People like the (dwindling) members Catholics for Choice, who have some strange notion that killing the unborn is consistent with Jesus' teaching to love thy neighbor as thyself.
