Oh ... that Bishop Dupre!

By Diogenes ( articles ) | Feb 20, 2005

It's history:

The resignation of the former bishop a year ago amid allegations of sexual abuse was conspicuously absent from the second straight positive annual audit of the Springfield Diocese's implementation of the U.S. bishops policy to prevent clergy sexual abuse.

A three-page report on the audit of the Springfield Diocese released yesterday made no mention of the Most Rev. Thomas L. Dupre, who 15 months earlier held a press conference to announce the positive results of the first audit.

Suppose a high-ranking officer in the British Secret Service (MI-6) reported in 1965 that he had performed background checks on MI-6 agents and found no serious problems with security. Suppose further that his predecessor -- one Harold "Kim" Philby -- had made precisely the same claim in 1963. When you ask for Philby's whereabouts you're told that he defected to the Soviet Union just before exposure as a KGB mole.

If the 1965 assessor had failed even to mention Philby, wouldn't it make you feel ... a little funny inside?