Just got the news that the notorious priest-pedophile John Geoghan has been murdered in prison.I have such strong feelings about this clerical pederasty scandal, and I might have expected upon hearing such a report to have been … well, not happy, but at least relieved in some way. I’m not, not at all. I’m surprised, actually, by how very sad I feel. What a waste of a life. John Geoghan brought misery and destruction to so many, and in so doing was a violent man, in his way. There is, I suppose, a kind of justice in what has happened to him, but it’s not a justice I would have sought, or wanted for him. I hope he confessed his sins, was truly repentant, and reconciled himself to God before he died. The whole thing just makes me sick. “Man hands on misery to man…”