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Waiting for Godot to Leave
Kevin O’Brien
The Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, “Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly. (Luke 22:61-62)
Pope Francis has given a stunning homily after meeting with victims of sexual abuse in the Church.
He begins by recalling the quotation above, how when Jesus looks at Peter, Peter, filled with remorse at having denied Him, goes out and weeps bitterly.
Francis, sitting in the Chair of Peter, explains why he (Peter) now weeps (my emphasis) …
… some priests and bishops, by sexually abusing minors, violated their innocence and their own priestly vocation. It is something more than despicable actions. It is like a sacrilegious cult, because these boys and girls had been entrusted to the priestly charism in order to be brought to God. And those people sacrificed them to the idol of their own concupiscence. They profane the very image of God in whose likeness we were created.
The abuse of children by priests is not just sinful, it is sacrilegious, it is a desecration, a profanation. It is demonic.
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