to show the rest of the Church, and especially her leadership in Rome, the way to the future as that path was then being marked out in the United States.

If the idea of religion as an entirely private matter”no longer welcome in the public square except as it validates public policy”seems like a new development, Shaw illustrates that its seeds were planted long ago and nurtured by a desire for inclusion within the prevailing culture.

He writes:

Catholics of the United States have been preoccupied too long with the wrong question: What kind of Catholics should they be”American or Roman? But Catholicism itself is a given, open to only limited and rather well-defined variations without becoming something else.

A better question . . . would be this: What kind of AmericansOfficer involved in 1992 child porn arrest said five suitcases stuffed with letters suggested links to establishment and senior clergy

Terry Shutt says letters were found at Righton's Worcestershire property



Claims they pointed to a child abuse ring involving establishment figures

Shutt says senior members of the clergy and public officials were named



But former West Mercia police officer says the leads were not investigated

Righton was a founder member of the Paedophile Information Exchange

He was convicted of child porn offences in 1992 but died a free man in 2007

Righton was once considered to be a leading authority on child care



A former police officer involved in the 1992 arrest of notorious paedophile Peter Righton claims letters found at his home pointed to a child abuse network involving public officials and clergy.

Terry Shutt, a