More Thoughts on Roman Polanski
Father Gregory Jensen from Koinonia has posted some excellent writing on his blog on the Roman Polanski saga, first in L’affaire Polanski and today in his post entitled, More Important Than Anger.
I appreciate his thoughts on the sexualization of our culture and how that is increasing leading society to less boundaries with regards to sex. Father Gregory argues that the power of money has given those who want to promote a more sexual culture the ability to do so and that those in power are always prone to prey upon those who are vulnerable, children being among them.
This is what made the whole abuse scandal in the Catholic Church so sinister. The members of the Catholic clergy have been given a great deal of power that is supposed to be used to protect the vulnerable and to fight for the needs of those who cannot fight for themselves. The tragedy of the recent abuse scandals was that those in power, both priests and bishops did not use their power for what it was intended.
There have since been many policies put into place in reaction to the public backlash and I do believe they are policies, though long overdue, that will help prevent abuse in the future. What is still necessary and will be needed for some time is more repentance on the part of the Church for the great harm that was done by the mishandling of so many cases of abuse involving children.
The question that Father Gregory poses in his most recent blogpost is the same one that I will post here:
Where is the Church in all of this? What should be our response as Christians?
Your comments, as always, are welcome.
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