Actions speak louder than words

Record Eagle
January 6, 2019

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The Catholic Church and its practice of protecting pedophile priests are again in the public forefront. The pope announced that all pedophile priests are to turn themselves in. Why has it taken the pope so long to order this? The church officials know the identities of all the pedophile priests.

The pope’s proclamation is part of a public relations effort to try and reestablish the church’s credibility. The church continues to cover up the conduct of pedophile priests and ignore the suffering of victims.

The church is using the playbook used by officials of the Trump organization — now that the church has been caught, it will cooperate to mitigate the punishment for its conduct. The church is attempting to say it is accepting its moral and legal responsibility for the cover-up of pedophile priests. In yet another form of hypocrisy, the pope “thanks” the victims for coming forward. The church knows who the victims are and is unwilling to extend anything to them resembling sympathy.

The Boston Globe disclosed priest sexual abuse in 2002. Since then, the church has tried to “dodge the bullet” for its cover-up of these crimes. The church’s house of cards is crumbling at light speed.

Gregory Guggemos

Kewadin