Topic: Father Merrin here. My statement on His Holiness The Pope's letter regarding child abuse by priests.
+Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U — 7.8 years ago #51,506
So, Pope Francis has addressed the distasteful matter of the aberrant sexual behaviour of a relatively small number of priests. In his letter he describes the "heart-wrenching pain of these victims" that were "long ignored, kept quiet or silenced". He goes on to say "With shame and repentance, we acknowledge as an ecclesial community that we were not where we should have been, that we did not act in a timely manner, realizing the magnitude and the gravity of the damage done to so many lives. We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them."
That last sentence is where I feel we in the Catholic Church must now begin to right the wrong. It is incumbent upon every Catholic priest to now reach out to what His Holiness calls "the little ones". As he says, we "abandoned" them. It is now time to go to them and gather them once more to us.
I call upon all Catholic priests to go out into the schools, the orphanages, the kindergartens and the broken homes and extend their helping hands to the children. Shower them with love and compassion. Let's start now to amend this terrible wrong that has been done by a tiny number of sinful priests.
May God bless you all.
That last sentence is where I feel we in the Catholic Church must now begin to right the wrong. It is incumbent upon every Catholic priest to now reach out to what His Holiness calls "the little ones". As he says, we "abandoned" them. It is now time to go to them and gather them once more to us.
I call upon all Catholic priests to go out into the schools, the orphanages, the kindergartens and the broken homes and extend their helping hands to the children. Shower them with love and compassion. Let's start now to amend this terrible wrong that has been done by a tiny number of sinful priests.
May God bless you all.
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