Crime has a face sometimes. Otherwise, it’s colorless, as in Oak Park police reports.
Crystal Lake too. Now we’re talkin’.
Day: February 17, 2011
Losing black residents
This Chicago Census Roundup: Why Is Chicago Shrinking? probably does justice to the housing-stock issue but like other analyses treats the black-loss matter in terms solely of migration. But what about the black abortion rate?
Blacks . . . have much higher rates of abortions than whites or other minority groups. In 2000, while blacks made up 17 percent of live births, they made up more than twice that share of abortions (36 percent). . . . . The comparison with whites and other minorities is striking. Whites made up 78 percent of live births, but only 57 percent of abortions. Non-black minorities had 7 percent of live births and 5 percent of abortions.
In other words, there are fewer blacks in general, especially in big cities:
. . . black flight isn’t solely a Chicago phenomenon. New York’s black population declined as well, while the black populations of major Southern metropolises grew.
Unreasonable?
Fighting Irish sexual assault #2
Would you want your daughter to enter a Notre Dame dorm?
Trust a Domer when under influence?
Trust one when not under influence?
Knotty qq raised by this Chi Trib story about Case #2 of the Missing or Delayed Investigation.
Another St. Mary’s girl learning about the New Notre Dame the hard way.
- Jenkins of Notre Dame (president)
Criminalizing clergy cover-up
“Unprecedented” and possibly with “national implications” is the indictment in Philadelphia of an archdiocesan official who did not remove sexually abusive priests from work with minors, says CNN senior Vatican analyst and veteran National Catholic Reporter writer John Allen.
Monsignor William Lynn, who served as the secretary for clergy [vicar for priests] . . . under then-Philadelphia Archbishop Anthony Bevilacqua, was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child in connection with . . . alleged assaults, Williams said.
From 1992 until 2004, Lynn was responsible for investigating reports that priests had sexually abused children, the district attorney’s office said.
The grand jury found that Lynn, 60, endangered children, including the alleged victims of those charged last week, by knowingly allowing dangerous priests to continue in the ministry in roles in which they had access to kids.
Allen explains:
“This is apparently the first time that a Catholic leader has been charged criminally for the cover-up as opposed to the abuse itself,” he said. “It sends a shot across the bow for bishops and other diocesan officials in other parts of the country, who have to wonder now if they’ve got criminal exposure, too.”
It’s a “quis custodiet custodes?” moment, the answer being apparently the law’s long arm.
Blithe Spirit 