This is just painful. I've been trying for two weeks to think of something else to say... but it's just bloody painful. I'm trying to figure out why the church just doesn't seem to get it. It literally seems to me as if they don't understand what's actually happening themselves, or why it won't go away.
The only reason Most of the church hierarchy is best described as... well... old enough to remember when Pontius was a pilot, with many of them having entered the clergy when Latin Rite was still the only Rite. Most of them are in their positions until death, and have been there for decades. That is a massive inertia of thought and opinion...
The character of this was a different in Ireland however.... for one thing, the government colluded with the church to keep it hidden, and a lot of people just turned their back on what rumours and information did leak out. A child comes home to their parents and says a priest did a bad thing, chances are their parents just beat the crap out of them for telling unholy lies about the fine upstanding parish priest, At least in the Irish case, it's wrong to just blame the church... easy for most people here... but wrong.
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The only reason Most of the church hierarchy is best described as... well... old enough to remember when Pontius was a pilot, with many of them having entered the clergy when Latin Rite was still the only Rite. Most of them are in their positions until death, and have been there for decades. That is a massive inertia of thought and opinion...
The character of this was a different in Ireland however.... for one thing, the government colluded with the church to keep it hidden, and a lot of people just turned their back on what rumours and information did leak out. A child comes home to their parents and says a priest did a bad thing, chances are their parents just beat the crap out of them for telling unholy lies about the fine upstanding parish priest, At least in the Irish case, it's wrong to just blame the church... easy for most people here... but wrong.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?