Penn State and Evil

It's hard to add anything meaningful to the commentary about the profound evil involving Penn State's former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and the conduct of those who turned a blind eye to the problem of child sex abuse in their midst. Ross Douthat's Sunday column in the New York Times is one of the most incisive statements I've come across. One person who seems to have displayed courage throughout in launching the investigation when he was Attorney General and then (in his ex officio capacity as a member of the Penn State Board of Trustees) seeing that justice was done to those who failed in their duties is Governor Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania, as recounted in this story from last week. As it happens (and was announced many weeks ago), Governor Corbett will receive the annual Saint Thomas More Award from the Saint Thomas More Society of Philadelphia this coming Wednesday evening following the 60th annual Red Mass in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.