Priests molesting priests

The Washington Post has this unusual story that began in the Boston area, where seminarian James Moran was molested by a priest but then went on to become a priest himself. The Catholic Church didn't exactly stumble over its own feet investigating. The truth came out years later:

In 2002, he told then-Boston Archbishop Bernard Law about the 1970 incident and received an offer of financial support for counseling and later a $90,000 settlement from the archdiocese, but not what he wanted. "There was no validation of me as a good person," he said of his meeting with Law, who resigned later that year.

Since then, the Catholic Church has tried to make right, doing its best to honor a long-serving good priest while acknowledging there is no way to make up for the 1970 horror.

Just kidding. The church stripped away his priesthood six weeks before his retirement.

Moran feels he is being punished for speaking out: "My gut feeling is that I have been raped again."

It's funny, how in any dealings vaguely involving the Boston Archdiocese, the Catholic Church always seems to miss the core message of Christianity. Take a look over at 1 John:

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.

Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.

In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another.

Does the Catholic Church love James Moran, a man who served the church for 35 years?