Church's Dirty Linen Will Never Lose Its Stench

Herald Sun
May 5, 2013

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LAST week, the Catholic Church came clean. Sort of.

A retired bishop admitted things the rest of us had known for years - that his church realised long ago it had serious criminals within its ranks and that these men raped children.

The church also admitted it had destroyed documents detailing incidents of paedophilia and that it had listened to lawyers and insurers at the expense of its devastated victims. So far so bad.

In any case, it was much too little, far too late, and lacking still was a sense the church understood the depths of its employees' depravity, and the extended tragedy of ruined lives, traumatised parents and countless suicides.

Finally, the Catholic Church aired much of its dirty linen, the pungent stench of which will forever occupy our nostrils.