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	A Report on the Cloyne Report: Tommorow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow-Ongoing Cover-Up in the Catholic Church By William D. Lindsey The Bilgrimage July 18, 2011 http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AbuseTracker/A%20Report%20on%20the%20Cloyne%20Report:%20Tommorow%20and%20Tomorrow%20and%20Tomorrow--Ongoing%20Cover-Up%20in%20the%20Catholic%20Church I have now read the Cloyne report. At one level, I feel ambivalence in writing about it. The ambivalence stems from the strong sense of déja vu anyone who has followed the abuse crisis for some years now will undoubtedly feel in reading the report. The same elements—seemingly perennial and intractable ones that appear in each new breaking story about the ongoing abuse crisis in the Catholic church and its cover-up—are there. This is Philadelphia is Kansas City is Boston is Belgium is Munich, etc., ad nauseam. Hence my ambivalence about telling the story again, mustering moral outrage all over again: nothing seems to be happening to change the situation. Nothing substantial is happening. And lay Catholics continue putting up with the situation, shrugging their shoulders and carrying on, even, in many cases, defending the leaders of the church and accusing anyone who calls for continued scrutiny of the situation of attacking the church and seeking to tear it apart. People tire of hearing stories of this sort over and over, when those with the power to make the stories stop happening seem either oblivious or unconcerned. People tire of mustering moral outrage all over again. People begin to suffer compassion fatigue, particularly when those with the power to make a difference—and that power lies exclusively in the hands of lay Catholics, when the hierarchal leaders of the church are determined to do nothing but lie, obfuscate, and protect their own power—appear either too stupid or too vicious to lift a finger and do something to change the situation producing the repeated expressions of moral outrage.
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