UNITED STATES
Renegade Catholic
Jay Nelson
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.
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