Community chimes in on Pat allegations

In a spirit of charity, my guess is that the Patrick Hall Johnnies probably thought that their “scoring” contest was funny, “cool” or “manly.”

Indeed, maybe you thought it was all these things. You probably didn’t “mean anything by it.” But here’s the unmistakable truth. Whenever you try to lift yourself up by demeaning others, you simply bring yourself down.

Make no mistake about it. Your contest was base and unworthy, and whatever you “meant” by it (perhaps “boys being boys”?), you shamefully demeaned your St. Ben’s classmates.

Let us hope that you can make genuine amends and strive to be bigger and better people moving forward.

Demeaning others doesn’t make you powerful; it just makes you small.