There seems a move afoot to rehabilitate the Church image, as time buries memories of scandal.

Any such attempts should be met with demands that the entire Roman Catholic Church, in all its manifestations, accept culpability for the decades of preferring the courtesies of office and privilege over the basic human rights of orphaned youngsters.

The current litigation impasse over Mount Cashel, where the Church laity of Vancouver fights up to the Supreme Court of Canada to keep Christian Brothers’ schools away from the pool of compensation for Mount Cashel victims, exemplifies the hypocrisy of the Church establishment in the face of the gales of obscenity howling against it.

Powerful force

Public knowledge of the currency of Church avoidance of responsibility is a powerful force against the continued perpetuation of “might makes right economics.”

Cathy Finn’s commentary does just that.

Barry Stagg