Monday, April 5, 2010
Truth hurts
Roland Martin has a hard hitting column at the following link. The press is pushing back, rightly, to challenge the nonsense that reporting on, and even attacking, those who aid and abet child abuse is somehow prejudice or "mere gossip." Does Cardinal Sodano realize that his paen of praise for the pope is at least partly responsible for eliciting reactions such as these? http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/05/martin.church.sex.abuse/index.html?hpt=C2
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This is an excellent article by Roland Martin. What I find disturbing is how some many Church leaders go on about how the Pope is suffring, wearing a crown of thorns, being scourged, etc. They have so much compassion for the Pope but are dismissive of the victims of physical and sexual abuse. When they talked about being scourged I didn't think of the Pope but of the poor kids at those schools in Ireland.
They live in a clerical bubble, so it isn't surprising that they focus on what they see daily. There is, unfortunately, no Vatican equivalent of bringing in people from outside the beltway with a new administration.
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