UNITED STATES
Bilgrimage
William D. Lindsey
Pell says he’s the victim of a witch hunt.
It’s always about them, for these fellows, isn’t it? It’s never about those who come forward courageously with painful reports about their abuse.
It’s always the leaders of the Catholic church who are the victims. It’s always the white Christians who run things in many cultures who are being persecuted, oppressed, marginalized.
The defensive I-am-the-victim response is ingrained in their DNA, as is the ravenous need to cast some hapless victims as the enemies of the church and of Christianity, enemies to be stigmatized, squelched, eradicated so that the church can demonstrate its muscle and feel better about itself.
Such muscle-flexing has been part and parcel of Pell’s entire career as an ecclesiastic, it seems.
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