You know, you almost have to wonder what the Archbishop and the Church could possibly have been thinking. They had to know that their role in this would get out. They had to know how it would look. One can only assume (1) that they don't care about prosecuting child sex abuse if it means that their priesthood would actually be responsible for reporting it, and (2) there are probably more priests out there that they know about and don't want to have to deal with.
I must admit, I do wonder how someone with the sort of cloud that Egan had hanging over him managed to get appointed Archbishop of one of the larger and more powerful archdioceses in the country. You'd think that the Church would say, "You know ... perhaps we want someone with a reputation for cooperating with people. Perhaps we want someone with a reputation for being forthcoming. Perhaps we want someone with a reputation for caring for something besides the Church itself." Apparently not.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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