UNITED STATES
National Survivor Advocates CoalitionI
Where are the priests in good standing who will stand in howling protest or gentle rebuke that they have been lumped in with the likes of Cardinal Roger Mahony and Archdiocese of Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Curry?
Where are all the “good priests” as Catholics are want to talk about when they seek to turn away from the criminal sordidness of this largest scandal in the Church in the past 500 years?
Where are the Catholics who will stand and call them to account?
News reports, columnists, editorial writers, and bloggers have commented on the remarkableness of a hierarch publicly rebuking another hierarch. Remarkable only for its rarity.
But that alone only points to how far the Church has strayed, how much wrong has been accepted as right, how much unwillingness there is to stand for righteousness – for the least of these.
Even in the back and forth between Gomez and Mahony Catholics should be ashamed. Two men, charged with moral and spiritual leadership chose not the face to face meeting and a public announcement standing side by side but the public blast – one by letter the other by blog. And the Cardinal, in his blog, turns churlish to tell the world that in the past two years since Gomez came to town he hadn’t brought the matter up.
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