Saturday, October 25, 2008

A plateful of forgiveness . . . and not a pinch of truth

Officials and clergy of the diocese of Knoxville must be smiling! The cafeteria catholics of Knoxville have dished up a plateful of mercy and forgiveness without even so much as asking them for a side dish of truth and transparency.

Our children and youth are all the more in danger for it.

Whoever made this casserole of forgiveness that masquerades as sufficient nutrition for an ailing church, surely made it tasty. After all, it is easier to the palate if you don't add the really healthy foods that would make us stronger. Foods like the full truth about the abuse by Anthony O'Connell and the cover-up and corruption that surrounds it. Foods like asking for the other victims of Anthony O'Connell to come forward and get help.

Watch your diet, Knoxville catholics, You are seriously undernourished . . . and don't even know it.

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