But non-Catholics no longer tremble at the political power of mitered criminals, and Spellman's excesses have a lot to do with that. No bishop has gone to prison yet for running the vast child-rape ring that the church is. But, as Cooney wrote, "As much as any other man, Spellman shook Catholics' implicit respect for their hierarchy." In 1984, when John Cooney's outstanding biography of the corrupt prelate Francis Spellman was published, the dead, censorious hand of the bishop was still able to reach out of the crypt and terrorize the publisher into suppressing part of his story.
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