UNITED STATES
SimchaFisher.com (blog)
August 11, 2018
The Catholic sex abuse scandal has two parts. The first part is the abuse itself. The second part is the institutional efforts to cover it up.
And now we are in the process of slowly, painfully uncovering these decades and centuries of crime.
This process is not part of the scandal.
The uncovering is dreadful. It is agonizing. It is, to use one of Francis’ favored words, messy. It’s always horrifying to witness the uncovering of hidden sin. But the uncovering is not part of the scandal. It is the remedy for the scandal, if there can be a remedy.
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