The Catholic University of America decided to give the final guest speaker spot in its commendable series of four programs examining the priest sex abuse crisis to George Weigel. That was unfortunate, because his long-discredited narrative about the causes of the scandal and his illusory ideas about how to deal with it do a great disservice to the Catholic faithful in this moment when so much of the church is finally squaring up to the awful truth.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/editorial-george-weigel-wrong-then-wrong-now
https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/editorial-george-weigel-wrong-then-wrong-now
