By now news of the child sex scandal at Penn State has made the front pages across the country. Add this grim news to the still boiling scandals in the Philadelphia area Catholic church and you might wonder if Pa is a pervert friendly environment.
This fiddling with and fondling of children is not a new problem. In the Church is has been going on for centuries. Penn State’s problems are part of the football program that is at least 11 years in the making.
Very Rev. James Thomas by Wm. B. Nally 2011
Father Mike by Wm. B. Nally 2011
(Mike is out on bail, awaiting trial)
The remedy for the Catholics is simple and could yield almost instant results. My advise to the faithful is to go to mass…..go to confession…..say your prayers and put empty envelopes in the plate when offerings are gathered. Trust me, even the Pope will notice. Within weeks you will have the Pope’s attention and he will be asking the faithful what to do.
The remedy for Penn State is complicated by the politics of big time college football. Football in the Keystone state is even more powerful than the Catholic church. The remedy however is simple. First off…..Joe Paterno gets fired…..today. Then cancel the rest of the football season, forfeit the remaining games and fire all the coaches, trainers and the athletic director. Honor the scholarships and get down to the biz of education. The players can stay or transfer to a school with a football program. We will all be better off without the burden of training future NFL players. Alabama is a much better place to train big guys how to play football. The weather is better down there…..and Football is one of the few things that people in Alabama have been able to figure out.
