Bishop Barron has just published the fatherly letter on the sexual abuse crisis I’ve been longing to read. He begins with an arresting image of the clerical abuse crisis as a “diabolical masterpiece,” a devilish strategy of seduction and temptation to win the cooperation of priests and bishops in a darkly designed plan to destroy Christ’s Church.
Letter to a Suffering Church is the kind of book-length letter I’d be happy to have my son, as well as my students, read. It’s also a letter I wish more priests and bishops could write because it provides a sort of pastoral key for defeating the smoke of Satan that’s engulfed so many entrusted with Christ’s Church and corrupted the very love that the Father gives to the Son for the salvation of the world.
