Frank Walker

They knew, they knew...

They knew.

They said this psychological evaluation in the 1990s indicated that this priest, Father Doherty, should not have any access to children.

And yet he was.

As you said...

As you said, he allowed, he encouraged kids to come and play in the playground of the parish, where he picked this guy, John Doe No.

8, and repeatedly raped him, this 16-year-old boy, in the mid-90s.

Because how can you love a boy to the bone, right, or whatever the expression was that Father Milani used, unless you then basically...

Commit pedoasty on him, sodomy on him, on a boy, right?

So this guy here, Father Doherty, he says, the Archdiocese of Miami knew as early as 1958 that he was unsafe to be around children.

1958.

So that was the year I plugged out at the beginning when we were talking about Don Milani in Italy, right?

That was 1959, that letter that we cited in the first half of the show.

That's like...

Florida and Italy, this is right across the world, right?

And you'll say, well, okay, after the crisis, the scandal, blew out into full international attention in 2002, things have changed.

Well, what has changed is the rhetoric from our bishops and our cardinals.

And the Pope's.

The rhetoric has changed.

But as, Frank, we've been covering on this show over recent months, the reality apparently hasn't really changed that much.