(CNN) — A Catholic priest was beaten while praying at his church in Merrillville, Indiana, and authorities are investigating the attack as a hate crime.
Fourteen years ago in Providence, while leaving a store a block or so from my parish, a young mother who was about ten feet away from me on the sidewalk grabbed her child and pulled him behind her to safety. I had just concluded the burial rite and was wearing a black suit and clerical collar.
Relax, lady. I'm Episcopal.
Again, that was fourteen years ago. The Church of Rome has had that long, and longer, to deal with this and has chosen not to. Sowing wind and reaping whirlwind doesn't sound so abstract, does it, fellas?