Dowbrigade

”When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes
infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that
Boston, a seat of academic, political, and cultural liberalism in America,
lies at the center of the storm."

Rick Santorum’s words about the Caotholic Church sex abuse scandal in Boston, though written in
2002, weren’t highlighted until the last couple of weeks, when a Philadelphia
Daily News columnist, John Baer, raised them in print and prompted a
running political discourse in the blogosphere.

In
a column in the Boston Globe Brian McGrory gives a nod to the
‘Sphere