What Would Philip Berrigan Do?

I have just finished reading Phil Berrigan's wonderful autobiographical work, Fighting the Lamb's War. His was an uncompromising Catholicism. He loved the Church but was never afraid to take it on. Reading the Irish Times' report on the decades long cover-up of abuse in Ireland I longed for a voice like his to lend some moral clarity to this.

Andrew Sullivan, whose love of the Church is palpable, has this to say

If the Catholic church were a secular institution in Ireland and had been found guilty of child abuse to the massive extent the Church has, it would be forced to close. Its top officials would not be issuing statements of apology and regret, but serving sentences in jail. The name of John Paul II would not be a revered mantra; it would be synonymous with the head of an international organization that had to be dragged kicking and screaming to acknowledge its own long-running, institutional brutalization of generations of defenseless children.

Unto the least of these.