https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/opinion/couples-therapy-catholic-church.html?rref=collection/timestopic/Brooks,%20Arthur%20C A betrayal by the clergy is much like that of an adulterous spouse.
https://www.osv.com/OSVNewsweekly/ByIssue/Article/TabId/735/ArtMID/13636/ArticleID/26546/Everything-is-brought-into-the-light.aspx
http://franciscanfriars.com/wp-content/uploads/September.2018.CFR_.letter.to_.US_.Nuncio.pdf
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/08/31/something-more-than-a-crisis/ Yet it is so divided, and the “hot” civil war that has now started was preceded by decades of “cold.” The failure of successive “conservative” popes to enforce their own rulings led finally to the (I think, unintended) revolution at the last papal conclave.
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/benjamin-wiker/from-a-moral-historical-perspective-this-crisis-is-worse-than-you-realize There is nothing, nothing, that undermines the authority of the Church more quickly and thoroughly than this devilish marriage of scandal and hypocrisy.
