UNITED STATES
National Survivor Advocates Coalition
EDITORIAL
“The Holy See gets it,” Msgr. Charles Scicluna, declared before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child at a meeting in Geneva, reports the Los Angeles Times.
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“Getting it” is not an accomplishment.
Getting rid of it is.
Not only is “getting it” not an accomplishment, it’s not an “ah hah” moment, it’s not even Christianity.
Getting the rape and sodomy of children is basic humanity.
Raping and sodomizing children is criminal.
Luring children into situations where you can rape and sodomized them is criminal.
This is not a complex theological argument.
Getting it is when Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City, MO packs a moving van after being removed from his office.
Getting it is extraditing a Polish archbishop to Poland to answer Polish authorities’ questions about being a sexually abusive priest/archbishop — one who is being investigated in the Dominican Republic and Poland. Getting it is not saying you will deal with the matter with your own courts.
Getting it is releasing the documents. They are the place where the truth lives.
Removing Finn, extraditing Weslowski, releasing the truth doesn’t take commissions, papal or otherwise.
They take a Pope.
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