How to get tough

By Phil Lawler ( bio - articles - email ) | Mar 15, 2004

Here's a must-read piece from the Washington Post.

If you believe that priests who molested children were shielded by a clerical network, and if you fear that network is still in place, Stephen Galebach points out that there is a way to break it up-- if prosecutors are ready to be aggressive. "Prosecutors and judges who have given a break to the Church through the years have done us greater harm than we or they ever imagined possible," he observes.

Bull's eye. Read it.