Real quick like: Celebrity perverts in the news.

Blaming the victims.

Sandusky gets 30 to 60 years - proclaiming his innocence, and pretty much blaming the victims:

In a recorded statement posted on the Penn State ComRadio News website yesterday, Sandusky blamed his conviction on a“well-orchestrated effort” by the media, investigators, “the system,” Penn State, his accusers, civil attorneys and psychologists. The “attention, financial gain and prestige”they won will “all be temporary,” Sandusky said. He said his lawyers didn’t have time to prepare for a trial. - Bloomberg

Archbishop Weakland suggested the victims were at times seducers as well.

Sounds like Fr. Groeschel, huh?  Fr. Benedict really did not mis-speak - like I've said before - that is how these things were handled - or swept under the rug.  There was always sympathy and protection for homosexual religious and priests, but not for kids.

"In the early years of the sex abuse scandal in Milwaukee, retired Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland says in his soon-to-be released memoir, he did not comprehend the potential harm to victims or understand that what the priests had done constituted a crime.

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"We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature," Weakland says in the book, "A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church," due out in June.

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Weakland said he initially "accepted naively the common view that it was not necessary to worry about the effects on the youngsters: either they would not remember or they would 'grow out of it.'" - Source
 

Lynn Seibel as naked professor

on "Big Bang Theory"

- talk about type-casting.

Locally a new case has emerged involving a celebrity-teacher whose school did little to nothing about the complaints and warning signs which emerged.

A former drama teacher at Shattuck-St. Mary's School is accused of sexually assaulting at least six former students during his decade-long tenure at the prestigious private college preparatory school in Faribault, Minn. 

On Monday, Oct. 8, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension outlined 17 counts of criminal sexual conduct against Lynn Seibel, 70, involving six former male students, who are now 28 to 30 years old.

The allegations, which came to light in June when a former student disclosed them to authorities, detail incidents taking place from 1999 to 2003, when most of the students were ages 16 to 18.  - Pioneer Press

Prosperity and celebrity... motives for protecting reputations of institutions and perpetrators instead of protecting young people and children.

Today's prayer for the feast of St. Denis ought to be prayed with the greatest fervor:

Grant, we pray, that we may imitate St. Denis and his companions in disdaining prosperity in this world and in being undaunted by any trial...
 

 Art: Evasion, Jared French