Letter: Don’t normalize priests’ sexual abuse

The spokesperson for the Salt Lake City Roman Catholic Diocese asserted her hope that, in the wake of the grand jury report in Pennsylvania regarding criminal behavior perpetrated and covered up by members of the clergy and hierarchy, as well as allegations of such crimes closer to home, people would remember that the “church is made up of flawed human beings, just like every other institution.”Such a statement attempts to normalize criminal offenses against children and youth, and p