Crisis of what, exactly, and for whom? In his general audience at the Vatican last week the pontiff also spoke of “this painful situation”. Is it still possible to hope that something important was lost in the translation of those miserable words?
One by one, even the defences of the well-meaning are being stripped away. The hopes of the remaining faithful, still attempting to live their lives in Christ, are being shattered. All those who have done no harm, who love their church, whose anger and horror are a match for any secular cynic, have less and less to offer.
What remains? The claim, as though in excuse, that there will always be an inescapable few who are tainted and twisted? It no longer holds. More...
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