The priest at the parish down the street might have known as little about what was going on as his non-Catholic neighbors, and just as little power to do anything about it. This is important, because I remember as a Catholic going through the first years of the outbreak of the Catholic scandal, which exploded in early 2002, in the wake of the Geoghan trial in Boston, how the justified rage of all people came down unfairly on many priests who had nothing to do with it. It is hard for me as an outsider to get a handle on who, precisely, is to blame for what. I don’t understand the degree of responsibility that the SBC’s leaders have, compared to the Catholic system. Each congregation has far more autonomy than Catholic congregations. I don’t know nearly as much about the Southern Baptists, aside from the fact that it is far less systematically organized than Catholicism. I understand it less than I did the same thing in the Catholic Church, in part because I was once Catholic, and grasped how the system worked within Catholic ecclesiology. ![]() I have been wondering what to say about the catastrophe that has overtaken the Southern Baptist Convention, regarding the tolerance of key leaders of a culture of sexual abuse, and cover up.
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