Yes, the Church should address children’s abuse

Writing a weekly column is both an honour and a challenge; it gives pleasure and pain in almost equal measure. The truth may well set us free but first it makes us miserable, sad and sometimes mad. To speak truth to power is a duty and a privilege but what do you say or do when it is your own home and institution that has abused power, been corrupted and covered up its own crimes? That issue confronts me today when I feel the pain of the latest revelation of child abuse in the Catholic Church. 

Like many other folk, the latest revelations coming from the American Church make me angry, sick and very sad. A lot of words have been spoken and written on the matter but to remain silent here would be a huge injustice to the victims and survivors of this abuse. The rot can only be dealt with by speaking, talking and acting. Any more silence is just another injustice.