Rep. Thomas Caltagirone was disgusted. The
veteran Democrat from Reading had been one of the Catholic Church's
staunchest political allies for years, but by March he had hit a
breaking point.
A state grand jury had exposed clergy sex
abuse in the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese and a bishop who used an internal
payment chart to dole out money, correlating to the degree of the
victim's abuse. This, after Jerry Sandusky and two damning grand jury
reports in a decade about predator priests in Philadelphia.