Client Notre Dame Magazine
“Above all, the Church must understand, pinned as it is in the glare of the scandal, that it can effectively and credibly convey this welcome only if it practices the kind of radical humility, transparency and accountability that the crisis demands. The poison root was the hierarchy’s desire to hide abuse out of a misguided — or self-interested — belief that revealing such sins would undermine the faith. The opposite happened; secrecy is what scandalized.”