AUSTRALIA
Border Mail
By MICK McGLONE July 23, 2013
IT’S not easy being a Catholic, even for those of us who don’t involve themselves in the strict rituals of the church, such as attending Mass on Saturday or Sunday or on holy days of obligation.
It has become fashionable in recent times for the Catholic Church to be the target of all sorts of vicious and often ignorant comments, many of them of a sneering, vitriolic nature.
Quite often weaknesses or flaws of the whole Christian movement are sheeted home solely to the Catholic Church because it suits the motivations of many of its critics.
But Catholics must share the shame of the evil of child sexual abuse that has been perpetrated by some of its clergy over many years.
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