Monsignor Lynn of Philadelphia fame is back in the news.  He made lists of priests suspected and/or accused of child sex abuse hoping that Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua would do something to address the problem.  But Bevilacqua ordered the list destroyed.  Lynn didn't destroy the list, he kept it hidden, but he also didn't do anything else.  Obedient son of the church left the abusive priests free to continue to abuse.

If we are ever to make the point that those who know about child sex abuse must bring what they know to officials in the criminal justice system, Lynn needs to be found guilty.  Because he was guilty of keeping his mouth shut, closing his eyes, being the silent accomplice, the obedient son of a bishop who betrayed the Jesus he pretended to teach about, to represent.  

Lynn was a party to a cover-up.  He is not innocent.