Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Tuesday, June 02, 2009

And now

it's Ireland's turn...

Predators upon the flock

"Priestly abuse of minors, sexual or otherwise, inflicts a grievous wound on the Church, the entire body of the baptized. It grievously wounds the victims."
And in 1946:

Boys Town’s Father Flanagan called Ireland’s reform schools a ‘disgrace’

Of course, the North American Catholic Church considered themselves lily-white at this time...

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