Now, as some have charged, it could be that the Church was more worried about its reputation than with the plight of victims of pedophilia. But, I suspect that at the core of it all is the Churchs inability to unflinchingly call a spade a spade. Jesus whose death on the cross we celebrate during the Holy Week had absolutely no qualms about dealing directly with issues that he knew were wrong. He could not stand the sight of cattle traders and money-changers desecrating the temple and, so, he sent them packing, and not too gently either.
Even when Jesus showed compassion as he did in the case of the prostitute who was about to be stoned to death, he was not afraid to acknowledge that the woman had sinned. If any of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her, he told the would-be killers.
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