This current discussion brought to light by the Boston Globe addresses a reality intentionally kept hidden by bishops and religious superiors. It dies not take away from the topic of children born out of wedlock. It does, however, address the SPECIFIC REALITY of children of priests--which is not a new issue but one haunting the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church since the imposition of universal clerical celibacy (again only on the Latin Rite).

Not knowing about these facts of clerical life does not make them less true.