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Alice Carey

Ah, Pope Francis you’ve struck another bad cord with me. It was condescending enough of you to say that atheists can go to heaven — myself included. But now, as it’s Holy Week, you’re doing your Jesus bit by donning a crown of thorns and taking the rap for your employees — priests who abused children. Dead ones as well, I presume.

In my last missive to you, “A Memo To Pope Francis,” I called you Frank, which I’ll continue to do because of Bob. Father Bob, precisely, my uncle the priest, long dead, and I presume in Heaven, with his other child-abusing cohorts.

What you need is a cue in from one who knows. What Father Bob (that’s what I called him, never Uncle Bob) did to me happened long ago. I don’t talk about it much. What’s done is done. What’s…