Pope Francis has responded to new reports of clerical sexual abuse and the ecclesial cover-up of abuse. In an impassioned letter addressed to the whole People of God, he calls on the Church to be close to victims in solidarity, and to join in acts of prayer and fasting in penance for those “atrocities.”
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Really? They have to be told? These are the teachers and the representatives of God Himself on Earth and they have to be singled out and told what’s not Godly? That preaching to a dog about how to be a dog. Isn’t it sort of implied in their “training” they shouldn’t abuse children? I think Jesus has something to say about that. Oh well, business as usual for the Cult of the Red Beanie.
An excerpt:
I make my own the words of the then Cardinal Ratzinger when, during the Way of the Cross composed for Good Friday 2005, he identified with the cry of pain of so many victims and exclaimed: “How much filth there is in the Church, and even among those who, in the priesthood, ought to belong entirely to [Christ]! How much pride, how much self-complacency! Christ’s betrayal by his disciples, their unworthy reception of his body and blood, is certainly the greatest suffering endured by the Redeemer; it pierces his heart. We can only call to him from the depths of our hearts: Kyrie eleison – Lord, save us! (cf. Mt 8:25)” (Ninth Station).