Fra en artikel, som jeg fandt i The Tablet (10 april), af Michael Sean Winters:"Will it ever end? There is no doubt that the legal battles will continue to unearth documents that are depressing and scandalous. But, in Boston, which was the centre of the scandal in 2002, the situation for the Church has begun to turn around.
Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who took over the troubled archdiocese in 2003, sold his own house to help pay the court settlements. He met with hundreds of victims of clergy sex abuse.
In his public statements, he always begins with a renewed apology to the victims. O'Malley also meets regularly with the vast majority of priests who were not accused of misconduct, but whose corporate sense of shame led them to be embarrassed to walk down the street wearing their clerical collars.
“The priests have revived their excitement about their own vocations under his leadership,” says Mgr. Lorenzo Albacete, who often leads retreats for priests in Boston and elsewhere. Vocations are up. Donations to the annual archdiocesan appeal, a sure indicator of support from the people in the pews, have returned to their pre-crises levels.
There is light at the end of the tunnel, if other bishops follow O’Malley’s lead. But it is a long tunnel.”
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