July 30, 2018 – Trust And Mistrust In Churches
It is, for example, completely outrageous that 16 years after Boston, the Catholic Church in this country is faced with the McCarrick scandal and its implications. McCarrick’s predations were not exactly a secret among Catholic insiders. A group of American Catholics even flew to the Vatican on their own dime to warn Rome about him, but nothing was done. But the Machine takes care of its own, and depends on the unwillingness of most lay Catholics to confront it, and the powerlessness of priests within the system to raise their voices in protest of corrupt shepherds and the clerical wolves they protect.