A
Facebook reminder from 2008 popped up in my husband’s newsfeed last
week. It was a photo from World Youth Day in Sydney. He sent me the link
with a note, “Hard to believe that this was just eight years ago.”
Just eight years ago, Australia’s Cardinal George Pell walked the streets of Sydney unencumbered, basking in the glow of World Youth Day and the adulation of its 250,000 young attendees. The royal commission into institutional responses to sexual abuse hadn’t taken place. The Irish government hadn’t yet released its official report into sexual abuse in the Catholic church in that country. No one had seen the movie Spotlight. Most people assumed the isolated reports of clerical sexual abuse of children were just that – isolated.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/03/how-long-can-the-cognitive-dissonance-between-my-faith-and-the-catholic-church-last
Just eight years ago, Australia’s Cardinal George Pell walked the streets of Sydney unencumbered, basking in the glow of World Youth Day and the adulation of its 250,000 young attendees. The royal commission into institutional responses to sexual abuse hadn’t taken place. The Irish government hadn’t yet released its official report into sexual abuse in the Catholic church in that country. No one had seen the movie Spotlight. Most people assumed the isolated reports of clerical sexual abuse of children were just that – isolated.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/03/how-long-can-the-cognitive-dissonance-between-my-faith-and-the-catholic-church-last
