Full Stop ?

National Survivor Advocates Coalition
October 29, 2012

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The Pope’s butler has begun serving an 18 month sentence which will consist of being in a small cell in the Vatican police headquarters “during the day.” No mention of where he’ll be at night.

The Vatican statement about the verdict said, “it puts a full stop to the end of a sad affair which has had very painful consequences.”

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Interesting phrase the Vatican Secretariat of State chose for the statement – “full stop”.

When is the Vatican scheduling a “full stop” on the sexual predators among its clergy and nuns and the bishops, diocesan job holders, cardinals, curial officials, and popes who covered up the abuse?

The roadmap to that full stop should begin in Kansas City, Missouri where the criminally convicted Bishop Robert Finn remains in office – and then continue on a world wide arc to Australia where the truth is being uncovered by a government inquiry, then careen back to Ireland, Belgium, and Canada before circling the United States again as victims have to battle and re-battle their way through the bankruptcy settlement in Milwaukee.

The consequences of the loss of papers from any Pope’s desk cannot in any way rise to the magnitude of what survivors, their families and the families of those who committed suicide live with day in and day out as the result of the gut wrenching horrors of the stealing of normal childhoods and the savage ripping at the ability to live normal, regular or extraordinary lives.

In the Vatileaks case, the full stop is really more of a slamming the lid on Vatican intrigue where the battling factions had to have agreed that it got a bit too public and pulled back – but not before throwing the butler to the lions to appease the crowd.

The full stop day for the largest crisis in the Church in 500 years will only come when the Vatican is inclined to put its muscle, its trials, its verdicts, its removals, and its imprisonments where its Scriptures are.

So far, it appears to be trying on the name WeaklingCity.

— Kristine Ward, Chair, NSAC, KristineWard@hotmail.com