The Cover-Up is Worse than The Crime (Maybe).
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/02/13/pope-will-meet-with-irish-bishops-about-abuse-scandal/19357323/
There is a homeless woman in Washington, DC who was once a supermodel who appeared in European magazines like European Vogue and French Elle. You can tell that she was quite the looker in her day, while now her hair hasn't seen a hollywood stylist for at least a decade and is streaked grey. She wears sandals or fancy flip flops even in snowy weather showing her painted toes, and a black ankle length skirt. Everyone knows her by her first name, like "Madonna"- she doesn't need a second one. This woman sleeps on the front top step of the Cathedral in downtown Washington, DC, rain, snow or shine. I am not kidding. We were in a blizzard and she slept outside every night of it with an umbrella on her head in a thermal sleeping bag. One priest I asked regarding whether she found indoor shelter during the blizzard said "She does what she wants, it's her purification....she slept outside."
I wondered- who ever convinced her she was so dirty she needed 'purification' for a decade of sleeping on a stone step outside? Another priest said "She has been spoken to..."
There is a fine line between psychological abuse and freedom of conscience- or maybe it's a line the size of a four lane highway. Who told this woman she needed to do this kind of penance? Who told her she was so dirty and unforgiven she had to be so punished?
"Her purification." I had to think about that - and wonder- why do they all hate brilliant, attractive, smart women so much. Why do they hate so much?
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