MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press

By Ruben Rosario
rrosario@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 01/29/2014

But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6.

I made a New Year’s resolution not to write too often this year about the church — my church — that has forgotten Jesus and his admonition when it comes to protecting and doing right by child sex-abuse victims over the years.

It almost at times feels like piling on, so much has been and continues to be documented about clergy sex abuse and impropriety scandals. I’m sick already of this stuff, for it continues to stain the great majority of the good people of faith.

But like my supposed diet, I’m breaking it right here and…