text: (Part one of two)  Among the primary reasons for her (Marie Collins of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors) despair, she listed "lack of resources, inadequate structures around support staff, slowness of forward movement and cultural resistance." Those first three are easily remedied: more money, more staff, pick up the pace.  The last one — "cultural resistance" — is the impenetrable—Tom Roberts  But cultural resistance is no excuse for neglecting the first three.
  
  the Catholic community, fully informed and hearing sincere requests for mercy . . . leads to a level of truth-telling that, in turn, places one starkly reliant on God's mercy.—Tom Roberts  After all, “His mercy endures forever” (Psalm 136:1).  On the other hand, “The Pharisees went out and took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.  When Jesus realized this, he withdrew from THAT place” (Mathew 12 14-15).