What somebody else wrote at the Wall Street Journal about Catholic scum.

I am neither a Catholic nor an attorney, but having read the RICO statutes (Racketeer Influenced Crime Organization) from start to finish, I cannot for the life of me understand why that law has not been applied to the hierarchy of the Church in this country for its long perpetrated and well-documented conspiracy to protect priests who routinely abused innocent children. Perhaps it is because the powers that be find it politically inconvenient and inopportune to do so.

I am not for a minute suggesting that the majority of Catholic priests are guilty of such crimes, let alone bad people, because I suspect most are decent, caring and moral individuals. Nonetheless, when a tax-exempt organization itself becomes complicit in systematically attempting to hide such horrific behavior and shirk its responsibility to protect its most vulnerable members, it should be treated like the criminal enterprise that it has become, no matter how inconvenient that might be.