I understand the bitterness of the abused.
I prayed for a certain person’s repentance, and then his soul when he died. He died not long afterwards, that priest.
I forgive, yet when reminded by something it’s like a momentary blazing anger, a fire, “how dare he, how dare he”. how dare anyone abuse another person.
! I think that most survivors of abuse never receive address.
But those who cannot forgive, and whose fire of anger never really dies out … if they have captured the highest prize, innocent or not, but perceived guilty, they’d never willingly let him go. I’m not sure anyone would dare release him for the built up anger against the Church because of some of our beliefs, and the aeons of abuse by a percentage of clergy? . They may even fail to see or acknowledge the majority of good, sincere, faithful clergy of our times and of centuries past.
My daughter-in-law, a gentle person, teaching at a reasonable and pleasant school, with normally friendly and easygoing staff, were anything but that on the day Cardinal Pell’s appeal was rejected.
She heard the most vicious glee in what they said and how they said it.
She was too shocked to engage in the conversation.
Even with reasonable doubt, I don’t think people in general will countenance ‘reasonable doubt’ that is usually accorded at trials, regarding Cardinal Pell. Miracles aside. For the sake of the Church and the faithful , May God grant the miracle
