The Cover-Up Worse Than The Scandal

I would like to respond to the editorial cartoon of Glenn McCoy on April 10, 2010. This cartoon’s first panel shows a woman bearing a sign saying “Down with Gay Pedophiles” while another person with press written on them exclaims “You Can’t Say That!!” In the second panel that same person crosses out the “Gay Pedophiles” and replaces it with “The Catholic Church” and then he says “That’s better”.


The first error is that the first panel implies that there is a link between gayness and pedophilia. It has been proven for decades that sexual orientation alone plays no part in whether a person becomes a pedophile. If Mr. McCoy had done any research he would have found this out. It’s merely a cynical distraction from the larger issue; the scandal of priests sexually abusing children and the Church covering it up. Instead of directly addressing this scandal the Church scapegoats the media and homosexuals hoping this will pass without them really fixing the problem.

The second panel implies that the press has a pro-gay bias and is anti-Catholic. All the press did was report on the scandal and the systematic cover-up that had been going on for a century - maybe more. This was all the Church’s fault. They believed that their organization was more important than the people in it and are now paying the price for that conceit. If the Vatican learned anything from Watergate it is that the cover-up is worse than the crime