What the Church Hierarchy needs to do to be given absolution

The Church teaches us that your sins cannot be forgiven unless you are sorry, and you can’t be sorry unless you take accountability for your actions. If members of the hierarchy want absolution for their “grave moral evil” (this is the label the Church assigns to a checklist of sins— except, of course, to any of their own sins), then they have to take accountability for their actions. They would have to publicly state that the reason the “child rape crisis’ (not the “clergy misconduct crisis” which is their favorite euphemism— and sounds more like skimming bingo proceeds) grew exponentially is because of the hierarchy’s policy of covering up and moving the rapists from parish to parish like so many peas in a shell game. The hierarchy has never been willing to make this admission. The only position the hierarchy has on the matter is the conclusion of the million dollar plus study it commissioned which opined the “clergy misconduct” epidemic was caused by the promiscuous 1960’s. Until the hierarchy takes accountability and gets absolved of its grave moral evil, they have no moral or ethical standing to preach to the flock.

If they spent a little more time trying to deal morally and ethically with the crisis, and a little less time coming up with $5 words like “consubstantial” they wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place.

Conservative Catholic groups have attacked the Mea Maxima Culpa HBO documentary by stating it has a clear anti Catholic agenda. I guess the truth is pretty anti Catholic these days.



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