Pope skips Boston - gee, I wonder why.

white after labor day - the list of wrongs just grows!

According to a statement by the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), Benedict is missing a “golden opportunity” to confront the crisis head-on. Victims’ activist Anne Barrett Doyle told the Agence France Presse that the Pope is avoiding Boston for fear of protests. She added that his three days in New York is a sign of papal support for the city’s Archbishop, Cardinal Edward Egan, who has refused to release documents about accused priests, in contrast to the Boston archdiocese’s belated disclosure of similar documents. “So the pope is sending the signal that he is honoring the cardinal who may be his most successful keeper of secrets,” Doyle said.

I’m from Boston - you don’t have to tell me:

Boston was where the first spiral of revelations from victims of abusive clerics began to emerge, and where the head of the Archdiocese, Cardinal Bernard Law, was eventually forced to resign after admitting that he’d protected a priest whom he knew had sexually abused young members of his church.

Cardinal Law. I know. Where is he now? At the Vatican, of course.

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Just when you thought it was over, look at this:

Nun, 79, declines to fight sex case

St. Patrick said he had sexual contact with the nun more than 100 times, beginning when he was in 7th grade, often after she removed him from class and took him to a bathroom in her office, the complaint alleged. St. Patrick told authorities that “her actions caused him to be confused because he had been taught that nuns were married to Jesus,” the complaint said.

According to the complaint, Giannini admitted to an archdiocesan review board in 1996 that she had sex with the two boys. In Kobs’ case, she said the abuse occurred after school during music lessons in the convent and in the school office. Giannini said St. Patrick was a paperboy who delivered newspapers to the convent on his route.

She said she never forced sex on the boys, though both were below the age of consent, according to the complaint. “I thought I was in love with both of them,” she told the panel. She also claimed that she never engaged in sex with children after she moved to the Chicago area. “I never intended to hurt a child,” the complaint quoted her as telling the panel.

Oh - the Pope won’t be stopping in Chicago, either.

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