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Some excerpts:
By Phil Lawler | December 02, 2009 5:31 PM
What would happen, do you think, if one American bishop had challenged his brothers to admit their culpability for the sex-abuse scandal? Would the sky have fallen in, if one determined bishop had stood up at that June 2002 meeting in Dallas, and said in public that some of his colleagues were morally obligated to resign?
It didn’t happen. It still hasn’t happened. To this day, we haven’t seen any American bishop say, for the record, that some of his colleagues betrayed their responsibilities so thoroughly that they can no longer be considered fit to act as successors to the Apostles.
It hasn’t happened in the US. But something along those lines is happening right now in Ireland. Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is saying—in public, for attribution, repeatedly—that bishops who participated in a cover-up of sexual abuse should acknowledge their wrongdoing. “Everybody has to stand up and accept the responsibility for what they did,” he said. Amen to that.
Some excerpts:
By Phil Lawler | December 02, 2009 5:31 PM
What would happen, do you think, if one American bishop had challenged his brothers to admit their culpability for the sex-abuse scandal? Would the sky have fallen in, if one determined bishop had stood up at that June 2002 meeting in Dallas, and said in public that some of his colleagues were morally obligated to resign?
It didn’t happen. It still hasn’t happened. To this day, we haven’t seen any American bishop say, for the record, that some of his colleagues betrayed their responsibilities so thoroughly that they can no longer be considered fit to act as successors to the Apostles.
It hasn’t happened in the US. But something along those lines is happening right now in Ireland. Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is saying—in public, for attribution, repeatedly—that bishops who participated in a cover-up of sexual abuse should acknowledge their wrongdoing. “Everybody has to stand up and accept the responsibility for what they did,” he said. Amen to that.