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Christy Isinger's avatar

I want each and every one of these Vatican officials who apparently have never met a normal, practicing, faithful Catholic, to listen to approximately one of us and to hear the absolute fury we have for how these abusers are coddled, mollified, and enabled. This is all so absolutely disgusting it's hard to know where to begin, but for them to have the gumption to state things like this publicly is such a sign that not one single thing has changed in the hierarchy from the abuse crisis. There may not be earthly justice, but the millstones will be astronomically large for these men.

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James Fee's avatar

I think it's abundantly clear that over two decades after the revelation of "Spotlight," the Church does not take sexual abuse seriously and that lack of seriousness about the allegations rise to the very top. This whitewash of the Fr. Rupnik affair is galling and shockingly tone-deaf ... but, par for the course for what we've come to expect. And this latest leaves one with a truly uncomfortable choice, either +de Donatis went rogue here or he did so with the guidance of the Pope - I'm not sure which one is actually worse if true.

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