One can't help but wonder what the world would be like if the catholic clergy sex abuse scandal had never happened. I've long been convinced that The Crisis took out many of the "best and brightest" in the US and around the world for generations. This fact devastates me for many reasons. Many reasons. I suspect the world might be, would be, further along the evolutionary chain by now, but maybe not. We were silenced. We were almost stillborn. Our hopes, dreams and potentials smothered, not at birth, but sometime further up the chain. I hope there is still hope for us, each and all, but often I doubt it. That's when I've learned to stop everything and start praying to some God who's actually paying attention. That and trying to talk about it here, among people I have never met!