Jim Martin and John Paul’s Legacy:
I agree that John Paul II was far from perfect but I disagree with some of the reasons Fr. Jim lists as evidence of that. One of them jumped off the page at me. Fr. Jim wrote the following:
“John Paul, though a prayerful man of unshakeable faith, was not perfect either…he appointed most of the bishops responsible for the sexual abuse crisis in this country…”
With respect to Fr. Jim I’m afraid that simply isn’t true. It’s easy to think that it must be because John Paul II served as pope for so many years. This means that he certainly must have appointed bishops who were responsible, either in a small or a large way, for at least part of the sexual abuse crisis in the United States. But it is simply wrong to say that John Paul II appointed “most” of them. The results of the John Jay Study on sexual abuse by clergy tells a different story.
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Interesting.
(via - got the chart from there, too)