text: MSW lovingly recounts the memories of fellow hierarchs for John Quinn that they shared at his recent funeral.  I never personally met Quinn, but I know a lot of him since I chaired the SF review board and investigated his record as archbishop dealing with the sexual abuse and exploitation of children by his priests.  It is not an edifying narrative.
  
  I never got to interview Quinn in retirement - his successor, William Levada blocked any independent inquiry.  Yet, many of Quinn's closest associates and inner circle of friends and advisers were credibly accused of assaults on children.  
  
  Sadly, we will never know the full truth because Quinn has taken the truth of his role in this criminal scandal to his grave fulfilling Shakespeare's grim prophecy: 
  "The evil men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."