Real Life Illustrations

by Zoe Pollock

This week BBC reported that, according to a new police-department probe, in 1972 "the police, the
Catholic Church and the state conspired to cover up a priest's suspected
role" in an IRA bombing that killed nine people, including an 8 year old girl. Connecting it to the continuing controversy over the Cordoba mosque, Commonweal's Mollie Wilson O'Reilly asks:

On one level, it's the same dynamic we've seen revealed in the sex-abuse scandal applied to a different crime. But it's...