Funny how the church leadership hid child sexual abuse, sent abusive priest to alternate parishes to offend again. Then many of the priest who sexually abused these children began a season of repentance, confession, reconciliation and returned to full communion.
All the while, these children grew up to become adults were sent into a lifetime of spiritual dysfunction, relational dysfunction, self medicating with drugs and alcohol. God forbid...one of them experience a divorce. Then they become outcast.
So, basically the priest who abused the kid is forgiven, the kid abused by the priest is not. Okie dokie then.
We won't mention the banking scandals and all the cover ups throughout church history....we will just focus on keeping folks trapped in a dungeon.
So much for the gift of grace, so much for the gift of forgiveness, mercy.