"I fought the Law..."

This just in from UPI.

It has been suggested that at least two-thirds of the bishops of the USA have either committed acts of sexual abuse of minors, or have covered up the acts of those who did under their authority. The point is, why just Cardinal Law? To submit one's resignation from a position of authority after disgracing it, is a matter of honor in some cultures. (Japan comes to mind.) Such has been my position from the get-go, the question of whether they should all be accepted being another matter entirely.

Now, a father cannot just abandon his children simply because he does wrong. That point has already been raised at the coffee-and-donuts hour after Mass at St Blog's. On the other hand, when my son's mother left me while he was a toddler, I could not just walk away, then show up at his door on his eighteenth birthday and expect him to call me "Daddy."

To be called "Father" is not just a title to be lorded over one's charges. It is a foretaste of the care our Father in Heaven wants for us. It has not only fallen short in Boston. Try telling that to the top leadership of the Voice of the Faithful, who still thinks the whole world turns on what happens in a parish hall in Wellesley.

Now, if we moved the Nation's capital there, they might have a point (wink!).