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Lucky Man
Four years’ ago, he was forced out of his job as bishop of Ferns by the Vatican, not because of revelation of the child abuses but as a part of a PR campaign to silent the press.
Four months’ ago, the Ferns Report makes references to his failure to act in the case involving paedophile priest Father Sean Fortune.
He did not even have the moral courage to get near the victims’ family, let alone speaking to them.
It was a flagrant case of utter hypocrisy and a merciless act of cover-up but now he said, publicly, that he had found peace.
But if you are just like me, a normal human being and spiritually, a sinner, you may find it impossible to find peace whenever you think of the horrors and the helplessness experienced by the victims of the abuses. He was laughing because he is in Ireland and he is, sort of, beyond the laws. If he was in France, he would be finding his peace in jail together with the bishop of Evereux who was there for not reporting an abuse of a minor.
How I wish his appalling comment was made because it was just a case of old-habits-die-hard; a hypocritical mumble to conceal his guilt or, he would be stinking to high heaven.
Posted on April 19, 2006 11:36 AM
Categories: The Bad
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