ON THE MOST explosive and morally subversive
challenge facing the Roman Catholic Church — clerical sexual abuse of
children, and the bishops who tolerate it — Pope Francis has said the right things but done too little. Even now, 15 years after the explosive revelations
of church complicity in enabling and covering up the predations of
American priests who damaged so many young lives, not a single bishop
has been explicitly held accountable and stripped of his title.
The pope’s sluggish, inadequate and compromised stance in the face of this outrage is the subject of a new book,
“Lust,” by a respected Italian journalist, Emiliano Fittipaldi. The
book, published last week, is an indictment not just of a papal policy
that has failed to live up to its ringing promises about “zero tolerance” for clerical sexual abuse, but of Francis’s papacy.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/still-waiting-on-the-popes-promises/2017/01/22/35975784-de95-11e6-918c-99ede3c8cafa_story.html?utm_term=.93c6d3a750bf