Life,

Thanks for the link, and yikes!  

As high my hopes were for Francis, it's looking more and more like has the same blindness towards the effects of abuse, as did his predecessors.  I can find no excuse for this in the church: none.  The simple fact that even today, there are, or COULD BE cardinals who would pull the kinds of stuff they've pulled with "Don Mercedes," and a pope who couldn't or wouldn't stop it, says about all I need to know about the institution of the church today.

This isn't trivial stuff.  Francis seems to want to call the church to live and act with a focus on the small things, bringing mercy to everyday life, to seek justice in all we do, etc.   On SO many levels, stuff like what that article describes suggests that all of the words of Francis bespeak a double standard, and that the institutional church is as much a cult as it is what leadership wants us to think it is.  Worse, this is simply wrong on every level.