The abuse crisis deepens. Chile is awash with revelations of the abuse of minors. Now Germany and the Netherlands have reports emerging of widespread abuse. Six more grand jury investigations are pending in the United States.
Meanwhile, some in authority continue to treat the revelation that a cardinal of the Holy Roman Church spent an episcopal lifetime sleeping with seminarians with a hubris that is the very acme of clericalism. Some cardinals and respected commentators, instead of calling for a full investigation into the McCarrick affair, prefer to attack their fellow Catholics. Others, instead of asking for Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s claims about Church corruption to be fully investigated, devote all their efforts to criticising the archbishop. I am sometimes reminded of Kind Hearts and Coronets and the morality of Louis D’Ascoyne Mazzini: “These things are only wrong if they are found out.”
