Sex crimes come with a tinge of holy terror when clergymen prey on the
laity. An institutional response can’t be different from a Christian
one. Why then does India’s Catholic Church not walk its pious talk?
We hear these children and their cries of pain; we also hear the cry
of the Church our Mother, who weeps not only for the pain caused to her
youngest sons and daughters, but also because she recognizes the sins
of some of her members: the sufferings, the experiences and the pain of
minors who were abused sexually by priests. It is a sin that shames us.
Persons responsible for the protection of those children destroyed their
dignity.