Child abuse: religious orders betrayed themselves
If they are betrayed it is by themselves and arises from their inability to accept responsibility and to do the right and indeed Christian thing, again and again.
Fr Tony Flannery expressed great dissatisfaction at certain senior Catholic bishops’ responses to the Ryan report. In particular he spoke of the members of congregations’ sense of “enormous anger” and “betrayal” at what they perceive as the bishops leading public criticism and making scapegoats of them.
