What is wrong with Gerard Moloney, editor of Reality Magazine.  Of course it's legitimate to comment on the child abuse crisis, but it's his target I can't understand - promoters of the Latin Mass and anyone who supports renewal in the liturgy.  He writes:

"Something seems wrong when church leaders appear more interested in changing the language of the liturgy than trying to figure out why so many children have been harmed by clerics.  Huge effort has been put into preparing liturgical changes that scarcely anybody wants and that are completely unnecessary.

Something seems wrong when the Vatican conducts an apostolic visitation of religious sisters in the United States to make sure they are fully obedient to the Holy See - a process that is taking place right now -but conducts no visitation of dioceses worldwide to ensure children are safeguarded.

Something seems wrong when some church people appear more interested in silk robes and the Latin Mass and Eastfacing altars than in examining why our church has not been a safe environment for its most vulnerable members. Something seems wrong when trying to restore a Tridentine model of church is more important to a small but vociferous minority than building a church where all the baptised feel at home and loved and included and heard and protected. What the restorationists ignore, of course, is that most sex abusers and most bishops and church authorities grew up and were formed in the pre-Vatican II church - a model of church that had obvious systems failures (to say nothing of a theology that kept women and lay men firmly in their place)."

He's becoming a bit of an Aidan Troy in recent months, anything to get some personal publicity.

Speaking of which, a recent article by Kevin Myers, making the point that the media have not gone after Gerry Adams for covering up abuse in the same way they would have gone after a Catholic priest, mentions Aidan Troy's role in the affair:

"Of course, there's still a residual sense of Smith & Wesson and midnight burials about Sinn Fein/IRA, which is why our heroic media are not going after Gerry Adams as they would do a Catholic prelate in the same position.

This reluctance even casts its protective penumbra on associates of the Shinners. The former Ardoyne parish priest Fr Aidan Troy has confirmed that he contacted Ms Tyrell, at the rapist's initiative, "in an effort to find closure for her".

I'm not sure when 'closure' starts after a child has been raped, but it is probably after the lifetime closure of prison doors on the rapist. Certainly, any cleric who had acted similarly on behalf of a child-raping priest is unlikely to have been as untouched by media criticism as Fr Troy has been."