The Court of Appeals, NY’s highest court, will hear arguments today for the very first time in priest abuse cases seeking to allow old claims against the church to proceed. The two cases before the court date back to the 1960’s and have been barred by the state statute of limitations. The victims will argue that church officials in the Brooklyn and Syracuse dioceses covered up the abuse and effectively prevented the victims from seeking justice in the courts before the statute of limitations expired. Of course, we now know that dioceses around the world were instructed in 1962 and again in 2001 to keep secret these abuse cases. The latest instruction came from then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who is now Pope Benedict XVI.