Just how disconnected from reality is the Catholic Church?

If this blog post written by the archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York is any indication, they’re living on another planet.  The whole post should be read to really get a glimpse into the pathology of the Church. It’s rare to see such a spectacular display of narcissism and self-pity.  That it comes from such an important and supposedly holy figure is amazing.  The archbishop twists the truth to defend the Church’s conduct and tries to lay the blame for the rampant sexual abuse by a particular priest on everyone but the Church.  But that’s not even the worst part.

What causes us Catholics to bristle is not only the latest revelations of sickening sexual abuse by priests, and blindness on the part of some who wrongly reassigned them — such stories, unending though they appear to be, are fair enough, — but also that the sexual abuse of minors is presented as a tragedy unique to the Church alone.

That’s right, the archbishop of the New York Diocese used the “we weren’t the only ones molesting children!” excuse. And apparently the worst part of the entire ordeal according to the archbishop isn’t that so many children were molested by priests, or the criminal efforts to conceal the rampant abuse, but that people are using this issue to denigrate the Church.  CLEARLY that’s the real problem here.

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