Why not tell whole truth about the Church - or is there some agenda?
I wonder if Ms Bacik really believes this, or is she just enjoying the use of the new buzz-word ‘deference.’
How concerned is she anyway about either the Ferns report or the betrayed children?
My own suspicion is that she now perceives the Catholic Church as a sort of dying pterodactyl, and that the ill wind of its final wing beats may help fill her political sails and waft her into Dáil Eireann.
Further, I would have thought that, as a practicing barrister, Ms Bacik would concern herself with the whole truth. Which would probably include the activities of Fr Shay Cullen, who risks his life to save poor Filipino children from falling victim to paedophiles - none of them priests.
But suppose that all Catholic clergy were as exemplary as Fr Cullen, among others would it be good? Would it be “good” for those who yearn to incorporate the rite of abortion into the secular credo of the New Ireland, and who might fear an unsullied Catholic voice as inimical to their ambition?
Well, these are tricky questions and as an unthinking person I had better beware lest I am given something to think about.
Before I go, however, I wonder what the esteemed Reid Professor of Criminal Law would have done about the solicitors who preyed so shamefully upon people who had already been preyed upon.
Would she have acted - or acted like one of the hapless bishops and kept it in the family?
Because at the celebrated ‘end of the day’ it’s much like incest. Fine, as long as it’s kept in the family.
Bill Hearne
Milltown
Co Kerry
