Religion
It must be the season when the media, for lack fo shock-horror, have disclosed, not a new scandal but an old one clothed in all its new glory of Papal robes. The information concerning clerical child abuse has around for a long time, and kept simmering with accounts of court cases and muted references of priest being moved on to new parishes. Now the hierarchy has been pushed onto the front pages and the opinion pages and the letter-pages.
But let’s face it, the Roman Catholic Church would not be the only religious institution beset with this guilt, forced on the inniocent as necessary for adherence to any particular faith.