While We Panic about Sharks, the Bees Keep Stinging Away

In the early days of the unwinding of the Catholic clerical-sexual-abuse scandal, the newspapers and the airwaves were filled with discussions of celibacy, of all things. The Catholic practice of clerical celibacy shocks and scandalizes our current sexual sensibilities, leaving nonplussed critics — some of whom should have known better — assuming that this exotic sexual practice must somehow be linked to sexual abuse among the clergy.

Of course, that never was the case, as sensible people have understood all along.