Washington D.C., Aug 1, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Pennsylvania’s Senator Rick Santorum blasted Massachusetts Senators Edward Kennedy and John Kerry Sunday for “doing nothing” about the priestly sexual abuse scandal which centered around Boston in 2002.
In an interview on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopolous Sunday, Santorum said that during the scandal, the height of which seemed to hit Boston around 2002, ''The senators from Massachusetts did nothing. They spoke nothing. They sat by and let this happen."
A front page headline from the May 6th, 2002 issue of the Boston Globe read, The Boston Globe on May 6, 2002, said that ''the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church has generated a startlingly unusual reaction: dead silence."
Santorum’s comments come in the wake of a recent article he wrote decrying the senators--both professed Catholics--and the negative political and cultural atmosphere which he says pervades Boston.