text: Yes, the whole situation in Boston was terrible. \n\nThe bottom line of it was:  Cardinal Law acted like a business manager, or a lawyer, or someone else whose primary goal was nothing but damage control.\n\nHe didn't act like an apostle.  \n\nThat's why he listened to psychotherapists who pronounced Geoghan and other abusive priests "cured" when they definitely were not "cured" and never would be.\n\nIt's why he listened to lawyers and insurance providers who advised him to make secret financial settlements while shuffling abusive priests from parish to parish.\n\nIt's why he capitulated to society's politically correct view of homosexuality -- and allowed known gay priests to continue to sexually prey NOT on young kids, but older boys past the age of puberty.\n\nPlenty of blame can be passed around here -- on the psychotherapists, lawyers, insurance guys, apathetic laity, and on a politically correct culture that sees nothing wrong with the homosexuality that was displayed by the vast majority of priests guilty in this scandal.\n\nBut at the end of the day, the archdiocese of Boston was run by Law.   He handled this situation very poorly.   \n\nI have no doubt that the Church has learned a very hard lesson, and will not let the errors of the past be repeated -- by returning to its orthodox roots.