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1. It seems never ending; the abuse crisis having such a seismic effect on the Catholic Church internationally.
   The effect of damaging the innocence of children is actually much worse than having a millstone around your neck; Matthew’s gospel (18:6)
   The church has this millstone around its neck; not the Christifideles, but the teaching church, the people who were the leaders and who we would have respected and looked up to precisely because we would have believed they would have operated a moral consciousness that we could sign up to and be proud of.
   We have learned to our cost and to the dreadful detriment and damage of so many children and adults that that was not the case.
   The fact that there was a pattern to how different dioceses and national churches covered up abuse is a remarkable thing. It is a great mystery that bishops - never having discussed this among themselves, never having discussed it internationally, never having discussed it with the Curia in Rome or with the pope - all seemed to do the same thing.
   They all came to the same conclusion, did the same things, had the same cover-up. This is a remarkable phenomenon that requires some degree of explanation. How could that possibly happen? How long the millstone or the thing that is worse than the millstone is going to be around the neck remains to be seen, because in the gospel it doesn’t say there is a way out of it.
   

   Posted By: Tony Friel

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