NEW YORK (NY)
Patheos (blog)
November 16, 2018
By Deacon Greg Kandra
If bishops want a sense of where things stand these days, consider this:
Last weekend, a parishioner shared with me a story that offers a snapshot of what the world now thinks of the Catholic Church.
He works for a private, secular day camp on Long Island and was giving a tour to a family. The mother kept peppering him with questions about how the children were supervised. Where did they change? What sort of access did adults have? My friend politely answered the questions and concerns, and at the end of the tour the mother explained. “I’m sorry if I asked so many questions,” she said, “but with what’s happening with the Catholic Church now, you can’t be too careful…”
Mind you: she was not Catholic. The camp was not Catholic. But the festering boil that is the sex scandals of the Church has now broken wide open, and no bandage can contain it. This is how the public now perceives us.
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