Shanley Convicted of Child Rape

It couldn't happen to a more fitting man:

Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, the most notorious figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Archdiocese, was convicted Monday of raping and fondling a boy at his church during the 1980s.

The conviction on all four charges gives prosecutors a high-profile victory in their effort to bring pedophile priests to justice for decades of abuse at Roman Catholic parishes around the country.

The priest sex abuse scandals have been the nadir of Pope John Paul II's reign. It is a sad situation when a man so brave as to stand up to the Soviet Union fails utterly to stand up for the laity with his own clergy.

Meanwhile, the Catholic Church continues to bleed.