Reports of Priests’ Abuse Enrage Boston Catholics. ‘As the number of implicated clergy members soared to 80, the crisis grew so deep that nearly half the Roman Catholics polled said Cardinal Bernard Law should resign. The turmoil over what church officials knew, when they knew it and what they did or did not do to protect themselves and their parishioners has rocked a region that is more than 50% Catholic.’ LA Times Certainly, to use Malcolm Gladwell’s phrase, we seem to have reached a tipping point in public sentiment, although this emerging evidence of a longstanding Catholic Church coverup should have surprised no one…