April 26, 2010
Clark Hoyt, the public editor of the New York Times, had a piece in yesterday's newspaper that sought to defend the paper against Catholics unhappy with recent coverage of the pope. In particular, he defended Laurie Goodstein's story on Fr. Lawrence Murphy, the Wisconsin priest who molested deaf boys extending back to the 1950s.
Hoyt writes, "In 1996, more than 20 years after Murphy moved away, the archbishop of Milwaukee, Rembert Weakland, wrote to Ratzinger [now the pope], saying he had just learned that the priest had solicited sex in the confessional while at the school, a particularly grievous offense, and asked how he should proceed." (My italics.) Weakland became Milwaukee archbishop in 1977.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue isn't persuaded:
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