An Open Letter to Catholic Clergy

By Jay Nelson
Renegade Catholic
September 26, 2014

http://www.renegadecatholic.com/blog/2014/09/open-letter-catholic-clergy/

The Survivors Movement has stalled. Whether it’s because Pope Francis is putting on such a good show, victim organizations like SNAP are not cutting it, all of us who came forward getting senile or whatever, the situation is the same. As false as that perception may be, most Catholics seem to feel that the problem’s been solved,

It hasn’t – not by a long shot. My theory as to why the sheeple feel that way, why it is impossible to get them to understand the sheer depth of evil involved is that the cover-up is too good. The walls of pontifical secrecy are too strong to be broken from the outside. Clergy abuse activists have gotten as far as we can without inside help. The only thing that can break the rotten fruit open is someone with inside knowledge and a willingness to share it with the world regardless of cost.

Many of us thought that Fr. Tom Doyle could be such a person, and some of us still think he is. But no. Sadly, for what good he has done for individual victims and his criticism of the Vatican, he’s obviously not the one. There are reasons to wonder if he could a Vatican agent, for victims will talk to him who would flee from any other priest. Moreover, it seems that every bit of inside knowledge the good padre has come out with he has been reluctant to disclose. Often it’s been forced out due to circumstances, from the revelation of The Manual onwards. For instance, it was a long time after I discovered the Inquisition’s role in the cover-up dating back to the mid-sixteenth century that he ever admitted they had anything to do with it, and has never, as far as I know, acknowledged it went so far back.

Yet it seems ironic, to say the least, that no really inside leaker has come forward. Where are the saints? Those who love God and his children more than their careers? Do spy agencies have more men of conscience than the Vatican? It seems so.

The price of course is high. For a priest to admit he was victimized can be toxic to a career, as Fr. Gary Hayes and Bishop Thomas Gumbleton can testify. I know of no cleric moved by conscience and not under duress or tricked to dare admit any wrongdoing. For one even to admit he knew of a predator would put himself in danger as it will surely bite him on the ass. So perhaps it’s unimaginable to even think that anyone could do a Vatileaks operation about clergy abuse, steal documents, name names, leak information. It would take a real hero or heroes.

Don’t do it for us grumpy old survivors. We don’t need the validation. We already know and they all call us mad or out to defraud the Church. Do it for the children, the little ones whom Christ told his disciples to let them come unto him (Matt. 19:4). Show the balls the pope says you must have to do your job for once, damn it.

For if you Catholic clergy cannot do this, if there are no saints among you, doesn’t it prove that your church has nothing to do with Christ but the Devil?