A Brit's Eye View

Originally published February 20, 2019. While the news media is slamming the Catholic Church once again, this time provoked by the disgrace and defrocking of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, and the Pope's call to purge the church of the evils now laid bare to public view, we should remember that there is a yet more sensitive issue than the molestation of children by priests, and the illicit fornication that has long taken place between ordained priests and nuns. This is all atrocious enough, and we have no need to excavate the details of the thousands of sex scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church in the last twenty years. But journalists are not usually theologians. They leave religion well alone and address the moral and criminal failures of the Roman hierarchy. Pope orders summit on sexual abuse Few commentators have tackled the sheer scam of sanctity. The claim to be the  holy  Roman Catholic Church, with a leader revered as a  holy  father and church ceremonies cloake