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"The child molester was also a brilliant, generous, talented man ? the only person who ever read me a bedtime story."

"I will love him forever, for that, even when I wake up gasping and afraid."

A startling passage ? in an essay by Elizabeth Scalia ? AKA The Anchoress ? that tries to explain ? on this Good Friday ? how she can be a Catholic after so many revelations about priests who sexually abuse children and the kindly protection they have received within the power structure of the Church.


It occurs to me that these priests ? and Scalia's family pedophile ? are the opposite of Boo Radley. Boo Radley ? a character in "To Kill a Mockingbird" ? was the reclusive neighbor who, failing to make a conventional show of friendliness, scared the children. But when the children are endangered, he saves them.

A Tom Toles cartoon:

Full post as published by Althouse on April 02, 2010 (boomark / email).