The continuing reports surfacing about the failure of Catholic church officials to stop priests who abused children sexually boggle the mind. Today's NYT has a major article on one particular case in Wisconsin, which implicates the current pope himself.
The failure of the Catholic church to come clean on this issue is a major indictment of everything they stand for. I can think of few things more evil than molesting children. This kind of moral perversion at the heart of the church requires nothing short of church-wide, sustained repentance. Failure to do so brings into question their right to call anyone else to repentance, which is at the heart of their mission.
Jesus himself said, "But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." Matthew 18:6.
I would say they are in DEEP TROUBLE, if the gospel is true. But true or not, to hell with these child molesters.
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