Please file under: It's about damn time

By Richard K. Barry

The New York Times ran this story today:

Msgr. William J. Lynn, the first Roman Catholic official in the United States to be convicted of covering up sexual abuses by priests under his supervision, was sentenced to three to six years in prison Tuesday.

"You knew full well what was right, Monsignor Lynn, but you chose wrong," said Common Pleas Judge M. Teresa Sarmina as she imposed the sentence, which was just short of the maximum of three and a half to seven years.

Perhaps recent events at the Holy Church of College Football have helped clear the way for the courts to start doing the right thing with Catholic officials who fail to protect children in their charge.

Let's hope.

(Cross-posted at Lippmann's Ghost.)