When an institution measures time in centuries, change comes slowly.
Still, it is dismaying that it takes a religious institution decades to
finally find the moral high ground.
Last week a letter from Pope Francis to the world’s Catholic bishops was made public. He called for zero tolerance for child molesters within the clergy. “It is a sin that shames us,” the pope wrote. “Persons responsible for the protection of those children destroyed their dignity.”
http://www.bnd.com/opinion/editorials/article125013774.html
Last week a letter from Pope Francis to the world’s Catholic bishops was made public. He called for zero tolerance for child molesters within the clergy. “It is a sin that shames us,” the pope wrote. “Persons responsible for the protection of those children destroyed their dignity.”
http://www.bnd.com/opinion/editorials/article125013774.html