“and our Church must take immediate, decisive and substantive action in light of the deep wound the scandal has caused.”
It did. It told you to shut up and sit down.
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Because the Catholic Church is now controlled by homosexuals and paedophiles?
I’m not so sure that’s gonna work this time.
"The Church" does not equal "The Vatican". "The Church" = "The people of God.".
"The Vatican", with that strange, shapeshifting Peronist at the top --- pause and take another breath --- is a clerical bureaucracy which is supposed to serve The Church. The Pope is supposed to be "servum servorum Dei" (the servant of the servants of God.)
"The Church" (in its plenary sense of "Body of Christ") has reason to be pretty wrathy, at the point, with some of those princelings who do not know they are supposed to be true shepherds, not hirelings, weasels or wolves.