credit where credit is due

By Diogenes ( articles ) | Feb 29, 2004

As indicated in the post below, the findings of the National Review Board included scathing criticism of the principal "treatment centers" to which priests with sexual problems are typically sent.

Leslie Payne deserves no small credit for having anticipated the National Review Board by seven years in her lucid and devastating exposé Salt for Their Wounds, published in the February 1997 Catholic World Report. Her essay deserves a careful re-reading. At the very least, it will put ample flesh on the bones of the Review Board's indictment