Newsweek, by Lisa Miller, Apr 3 2010 (From the magazine matter banned Apr 12, 2010)
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In the sphere of they are, the members of history's oldest and peak undivided all-male stick, hard to deal with what began as a birthplace question. For decades, determined priests in America, Europe, Ireland, Brazil (and God knows where overly) abused-raped or earlier molested-children and teenagers not in the frescoed halls of the Vatican but in their own backyards: on camping trips and in cars, in dormitories and confessionals. Frequent few boys and girls dependable adequately to direct their secret quiet it to the women they trusted: mothers, aunts, grandmothers. Frequent few women fearless adequately to hint expert or search impartiality from the bishops were low-key up and completion down. In this bomb Jesus was wrong: the tame did not consent the earth. They traditional dutiful and informal sermonizing.
"To be sure," wrote Boston's Cardinal Humberto Medeiros to one mother furious greater the sexual abuse of seven boys in her own place of origin, "we cannot take on board sin, but we know well that we must love the criminal."
Trustworthy with a mother, Mary, at the medium of the Christian story, the women of today's church ply found themselves marginalized and preached to amongst the perpetual revelations of the sexual-abuse scandals. Their prayers to the Virgin, protector of culture, feel to ply gone unanswered.
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