Andrew Tichbon extrapolates,
from what may well be a public relations exercise, a faux backstory of “denial,
secrecy, internal management of abuse” etc in the Catholic Church “for
centuries”.
The fact of the matter is, all that is noblest and best in our
Western civilisation springs from those same centuries of what was rightly
called ‘Christendom’.
The Catholic Church isn’t
supposed to be popular. Christ said to his disciples, “the world will hate you”
(Jn 15:18). So if the world loves the Church, the Church should be worried.
The
Catholic Church should have no truck with PR.
Notice that Tichbon doesn’t
implicate Pope Francis in this “ attempt at a more survivable PR stance”. The
world loves Pope Francis, and given the vagaries of this papacy, Tichbon’s could
be a credible explanation for "the latest Papal ruling on sex abuse".
However, there have been bad
popes before and there may be bad popes again, but there will always be a Church
and a pope so Tichbon may as well get used to it.
I apologise for the poor lay-out of this letter but my machine is grumpy. To comment please open your gmail account or if you have my email address, feel free to use it.
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