That’s the grand jury report in Pennsylvania on the sexual abuse of children by hundreds of priests and the Catholic Church’s subsequent cover-up. I’ve been reading these sorts of stories for nearly 20 years and we never seem to reach the bottom. Gail Collins: I come to the subject with some bias, since I went to a Catholic girls’ high school back in the day. They called an emergency schoolwide meeting in the auditorium when one of the nuns saw a girl kissing her boyfriend. All these terrible problems stem from the fact that it’s run entirely by men who’ve taken vows of celibacy.

Source: New York Times August 21, 2018 09:56 UTC