I watched open-mouthed last night as Vincent Brown replayed on his TV3 programme last night, yesterdays press conference which took place after the Bishops Spring conference/meeting.
They seem to be thoroughly fed-up with the spot light and blame which is being put upon them in the wake of the Murphy Report which detailed the cover-up of extensive sexual abuse cases and the - as Vincent called it - complicity of the Bishops in not stopping and even allowing those abuses to continue.
Perhaps, with no escape, no one accepting their side, no-one caring how much this catharsis is hurting (some of) them and nowhere to hide the Bishops will finally get some tiny little inkling of how those children felt when the church failed to stop their abusers when they, as small, innocent children, in the care of (or at the mercy of) the 'Church' had nowhere to hide from their abusers and no-one would stop it or even listen to them.
Still no atonement obvious from the Church. Indeed they seem to be going backwards. Some of them just don't seem to get it at all. It's all about them. It's a terrible terrible shame - and those Bishops yesterday should be ashamed of themselves.
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