UNITED STATES
National Survivor Advocates Coalition
EDITORIAL
MEN and WOMEN of the YEAR
TIME magazine named Pope Francis its Person of the Year for 2013.
We believe it’s important for the advocates who receive NSAC News to write to TIME magazine.
It’s impossible not to see the groundswell of good feeling for this pope – from believer and non-believer alike — and the attraction to simplicity and the projecting of the human desire that the Pope and the Church actually be as good as what Popes and Churchmen say in public pronouncements.
What worries us is the effect on the survivors and their families.
If it worries you, and if you are a subscriber to NSAC News we believe it ought to, we think you should write to Time magazine.
We thought about saying we urge you to write to Time magazine but we don’t think the people who subscribe to NSAC News need urging – you get it – children and minors shouldn’t be raped and sodomized by priests and nuns under a tent of cover-up by bishops, cardinals, popes, chancery and Curia officials – what you need is reminding.
It’s a busy time of year. Consider this your reminder.
When the talk at holiday parties, around Christmas cookie swaps, at church, in the concert ticket line, and the checkout line, and with the folks riding in a car with you, turns to how wonderful Pope Francis is and how all the Church’s troubles have been forgotten, God’s in His heaven and all is right with world – please consider this a reminder to say it is not.
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