re: "'Pray for your uncle,' a Predatory Priest Told His Victims" (The New York Times, July 15, 2020)
How many years, decades, centuries did the abuse unspeakable go on?
Thankfully the faithful today are no longer so blindly trusting as the church's dictatorial (the correct adjective) ideology (the correct noun) serving the men (women?) who made it up to serve the men who serve the ideology behind their veils of unquestioning silence dictated by tradition would have them be.
The miracle is that so many could have believed for so long that so few should be protected in their abuse by something so perfectly opposed to the plain example of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Gospels, but then, that was why the popes had holy inquisitions to torture those suspect of the faintest suspicion of heresy, such as those who said nasty things about priests, bishops or popes.
But then, how many of the Christian churches today (look at Trump's most zealous support!), with their obsessive concern to force others under pain of legal punishment by the state to follow the narrow path they dictate, remotely resemble the example of Jesus Christ, whom the law and order crowd of religious conservatives protecting traditional values had ... put to death by their strict law and order almost 2,000 years ago in Judea.
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The above comment was submitted by Felix Qui to the New York Times article.
It is published there at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/opinion/theodore-mccarrick-catholic-abuse.html#commentsContainer&permid=108141542:108141542
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