I received a comment from another blogger about my post on the Irish Catholic Church abuse scandal. The person noted that people weren’t asking the right questions in order to find out why this happened and continues to happen.
Well, unfortunately, we can’t know the reasons until we get a look at the internal church documents. Until that time, we can only speculate about why this has occurred. Some blame celibacy, others the clerical culture. The truth is we really can’t do more than speculate unless we see what really happened. In order to do that, we need to look at the inner workings of the church. That’s what lawsuits can do. They can uncover the truth and expose it to the light of day. Hopefully, after such exposure, the evil of child abuse dies a quick death before victimizing anyone else!