After refusing to acknowledge priests are abusing children…
After refusing to punish priests who abuse children…
After refusing to cooperate with legal authorities to bring those priests to justice…

… the Archbishop of Washington, DC has gone on the record saying that the Church has the right to push Catholic politicians to make laws banning contraception and divorce… because the Pope said so.

Hear him say it here.

God bless Terry Gross. When he tries to dodge the question, she doesn’t go on to the next one. She asks him again. And again. Until he answers the question.