The Church of Rome Has Had a Couple of Decades to Clean this Up; What the Heck?

Read it all, of course, and come to your own conclusions about it. I personally wish he had addressed the systemic nature of what Pope Benedict XVI called the “filth” that has embedded itself in the church thanks some of the very bishops and leaders who have excused, or permitted, or enabled, or ignored or (God help us!) committed crimes against some and sins against many. Sins against all, if you consider that they are meant to be servants of the church. I am also troubled by this section: “In the past 30 or so years, scientific, psychological, and medical understandings of child sexual abuse evolved significantly, as did civil and church law.”

This is undeniably true. But regardless of the tardy civil reactions to child sexual abuse, regardless of how medical or psychological or scientific understandings “evolved”, had the bishops been faithful to the Gospel, the words of Christ Jesus and the teachings of the Church, what needed to happen, right from the beginning, was very clear....