Rocco reports and gives some context to Archbishop Rigali’s meeting with his priests yesterday

One pastor took to the microphone to say he was "greatly disappointed in the archdiocese’s weak and deplorable" defense of Cardinals John Krol and Anthony J. Bevilacqua.

The criticism was greeted with scattered applause, sources said.

Another priest – trained in moral theology – reportedly lectured the cardinal yesterday for defending Krol and Bevilacqua on grounds that they had never intended to hurt children.

"You seem to stress intention. You try to claim there was never a wrong intention," the priest reportedly told Rigali.

But from a Catholic moral perspective, he said, the "horrific" outcomes of Krol’s and Bevilacqua’s cover-up vastly outweigh their efforts to protect the archdiocese from scandal.

On another note, Rocco’s got a copy of the new translation of the Mass, and is posting bits of it. Intense conversations over there. No surprise – people get intense about liturgy on blogs, always have, always will.