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	Initial thoughts on the response of the Holy See to the Cloyne Report Colm O'Gorman September 3, 2011 http://colmogorman.com/?p=730 I was always taught that a vital element of being a decent and moral human being was to be prepared to unequivocally take responsibility for ones failures and wrong doing, be they by commission or omission. That is that I should have the moral courage, insight, maturity and enough compassion for myself and others to face the truth of my actions or inactions and take responsibility for their impact upon the lives of others. This remains an important principle to me, and one that helped me face my own troubled past believing that I could work through and past all that shamed, frightened and continued to wound me and which I had ignored or ignorantly defended for years. It allowed me to see that with courage, love, honesty and compassion there was little that could not be faced and that by facing that which I most feared I could grow as a human being and live a richer and more meaningful life. Why then can the Vatican not do likewise? Reading the twenty six page Response of the Holy See to the Government of Ireland regarding the Report of the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, what strikes me most is the totally disingenuous portrayal by the Vatican of its role in the child sexual abuse scandals which have engulfed the Roman Catholic Church globally.
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