1.0Religion & Public Life With Mark Silkhttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/religionandpubliclifeMark Silkhttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/religionandpubliclife/author/msilkThe Scandal of Scandal - Religion & Public Life With Mark Silkrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="9V7ddWGeG2"><a href="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/religionandpubliclife/2011/03/the-scandal-of-scandal.html">The Scandal of Scandal</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/religionandpubliclife/2011/03/the-scandal-of-scandal.html/embed#?secret=9V7ddWGeG2" width="600" height="338" title="“The Scandal of Scandal” — Religion & Public Life With Mark Silk" data-secret="9V7ddWGeG2" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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Last week, Jeff Anderson, the preeminent plaintiffs lawyer in Catholic sex abuse cases, released a letter from then Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan to then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger asking that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) do everything necessary to laicize an incorrigible pedophile priest named Franklyn W. Becker. In the letter, Dolan…