From Aideen Gonlag, St Michael’s-on-Sea, KZN:
Bravo, Southern Cross, for your excellent editorial “Only the truth will heal” (February 24 to March 2). It truly gets to the heart of the matter. How tragic that as yet the Vatican does not.
No wonder the Irish victims of clerical abuse are “close to despair because they believe the Church will not take full responsibility for covering up the abuse” (Southern Cross March 3-9).
Perhaps the latest revelations on television of abuse at a German Jesuit school and the unprecedented raiding of a monastery by the German police for the same crime will actually wake up “Herr Professor Doktor” Pope Benedict to the grave crisis of confidence in the Church, in the hierarchy, and in Rome in particular.
This is a crisis in confidence not equalled, I’ll warrant, since the days of Martin Luther. God forbid that we’ll need a second Reformation before Rome finally sees the light.
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