Sins of the Church
July 20th, 2010 | News, Sin Bin, Sound Off! |From Maureen Dowd’s Op-Ed column Rome Fiddles, We Burn published in the New York Times on July 16, 2010:
“In The New Republic, Garry Wills wrote about his struggle to come to terms with the sins of his church: Jesus “is the one who said, ‘Whatever you did to any of my brothers, even the lowliest, you did to me.’ That means that the priests abusing the vulnerable young were doing that to Jesus, raping Jesus. Any clerical functionary who shows more sympathy for the predator priests than for their victims instantly disqualified himself as a follower of Jesus. The cardinals said they must care for their own, going to jail if necessary to protect a priest. We say the same thing, but the ‘our own’ we care for are the victimized, the poor, the violated. They are Jesus.”
I wonder if the shock value of seeing Jesus as a holy innocent being sodomized–with a bishop standing by and doing nothing to stop it–would shake even the most hardened apologist into action against the church structure that allowed this to happen.
