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Waiting for Godot to Leave
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Yesterday I posted a response to Rod Dreher’s American Conservative piece in which I struggled to join in his struggle in a struggling attempt to figure out (while struggling)
What the hell are we going to do now?
… which is to say, how are ordinary people, especially people of faith, supposed to react to sexual abuse in the Church aided and abetted and enabled by bishops – who are the successors to the apostles?
This becomes a pointed question on the heels of Bishop Finn’s conviction and Fr. Groeschel’s wrong-headed statements.
The only thing we can come up with is …
1. Don’t turn clerics or media celebrities into idols – “put not your faith in princes” – even princes of the Church
and
2. Priests and bishops need to shape up.
Now in my blog post I critiqued both of these suggestions. I was wrong in my critique of number two and only half-right in my critique of number one.
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