The Practice

Mr. Kelley continues his probe or others may call it an assualt on Catholicism. Being that I am hardly ever sympathetic to the hierarchy anymore, especially the Vatican and then Bishops, I am not repulsed by his criticism. I do find that it is not overly critical, it seems that he does have a clear agenda of Catholic lay rebellion, which is masked in a credible dialog. And even though this dialog is a "mask" it is nonetheless present and mutes his primary agenda.

Yesterday's program was about the firm having to defend a child molestor. Both Bobby and Jimmy are sickened by it but a resolved to do their jobs. Bobby's priest makes an appearance in court and confronts Bobby for hypocrisy because while he quit the Church because the Church "ennabling" child molestors, he is here defending a child molestor and "ennabling" him by working to secure his freedom. He challenged Bobby to walk out on criminal defense just as he walked out on the Church because, in Bobby's logic, both would be considered to be doing the same thing. Bobby does win the case and the child molestor goes free. The priest does retract his words and acknowledges appreciation for the necessity of the criminal defense lawyer in our system of justice, but questions how Bobby can remain a criminal defense attorney. They also had a side story about Santoria, which is something like the Cuban version of voodoo: traditional African slave elements mixed in with Cathjolicism. That's a whole other post.

Again, I think the one thing that emerges is the worship of the system, the law is God. The other thing is that, I think the priest was wrong in criticizes Bobby for being a hypocrite, because the Church is and should be held to the highest standards of morality, while the state tends to operate by the lowest common denominator. That the system allows for ennabling of criminal activity is a different thing than if the Church allows for it. But I think there are still a few more episodes to go on this issue and so I think I'll wait to see where David Kelley is goiing with all this. I wonder if ratings are up?