Kristina Keneally on The New Pope: What Australians Want said, re sexual abuse crisis (24min), “if the church hierarchy had included women … included parents, the response would have been different.”
Very good, but … hang on. Haven’t there been, always, women who are very close to the hierarchy, one way or another? Nuns, teachers, nurses, parents, sisters. What did women on the payroll have to say while institutionalised buggery was going on?
Who is more guilty?
Listen to what Sheridan says, too. A leader who is “vigorous, tough-minded, relatively young, clear & [has] a bit of a sense of humour”? Stalin, or Yehoshua ben Yosef the revolutionary agitator?
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