PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
Monica Yant Kinney, Inquirer Columnist
One conviction is better than none. Don’t forget that.
It’s easy to focus on totals and percentages when tallying victory and defeat. Everyone loves a rout; a one-run shutout is still a big win.
Before last week, no high-ranking Catholic official anywhere had been held accountable for the sexual abuse of children by anointed representatives of God.
As of Friday, one has. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Msgr. William J. Lynn has a new title: third-degree felon guilty of endangering the welfare of a minor.
Thursday night, Lynn rested comfortably at home. Friday, the once-powerful church leader who speculated that a boy had “seduced” a priest left the Criminal Justice Center with a sheriff’s deputy escort to county jail.
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