Comments on: Tea and sympathi in the Aras http://ciaranparker.com/2009/06/29/tea-and-sympathi-in-the-aras/ A view of the world from an Irish hole Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:44:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: planetparker http://ciaranparker.com/2009/06/29/tea-and-sympathi-in-the-aras/#comment-779 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:30:02 +0000 http://ciaranparker.com/?p=888#comment-779 Hi Yusuf, I honestly don’t think the Catholic Church can divest itself of the legacies of child abuse and the attempts to cover up these shameful practices. It can’t change this because it is a powerful institution and it cares more for its hierarchies and its structures than it does for its religious messages. Having said this I know many many members of the Catholic priesthood who are decent people and who have no truck with child abuse or abusers, but the vast majority of these are still on the church’s lowest rungs and have no desire to be promoted. I think this in itself says a lot about what’s wrong with the church.

]]> By: yusuf http://ciaranparker.com/2009/06/29/tea-and-sympathi-in-the-aras/#comment-778 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:12:08 +0000 http://ciaranparker.com/?p=888#comment-778 ciaran,
I enjoyed reading your insightful perspective – LOL!! – thanx for this! I suppose the key issue now remaining is:

Can the Catholic church lay the ghost of past child-abuse to rest or not?

For sure, this is another damning indictment of an institution that categorically rejects ANY form of child-abuse.
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“I don’t know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits children to be destroyed.”– Daniel Berrigan, RC priest & veteran US peace & human rights campaigner

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