Perhaps the most maddening thing about banning, censoring, making things secret, is that it is always about privilege: I can know, but you can’t. You can’t handle the truth. Adult to child version: this is for your own good. (You don’t need to know about sex.) The powerful, the elite, the wealthy, the educated, the military, and the underworld all say, “This is...

I want to offer another perspective on the escalating scandal within the Catholic Church, and to alert readers to a good recent essay on these sordid topics.[1]  In “The Pattern of Priestly Sex Abuse,” Harriet Fraad offers some important data many of us didn’t know. Figures from the John Jay School of Criminal Justice, for example, estimate that since 1950, about...