ALLENTOWN (PA)
Morning Call
March 21, 2019
By Paul Muschick
The Catholic Church continues talking about how it must confront once-and-for-all the evil of priests sexually abusing children. The church’s actions continue to show those words are hollow.
I’m talking this time specifically about Pope Francis.
The pope declined Monday to accept the resignation of Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of France, who was convicted March 7 of failing to report a known pedophile priest to police.
Contrast that with what the pope said only a month ago at a worldwide summit he called to address the sex abuse scandal.
“No abuse should ever be covered up (as was often the case in the past) or not taken sufficiently seriously, since the covering up of abuses favors the spread of evil and adds a further level of scandal,” he said.
Pope Francis condemned concealing abuses. Yet he chose to retain someone who was convicted of concealing abuses.
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