{"id":14430,"date":"2012-06-17T15:32:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T21:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=14430"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:06:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:06:43","slug":"pope-on-irish-abuse-crisis-it-remains-a-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2012\/06\/pope-on-irish-abuse-crisis-it-remains-a-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope on Irish abuse crisis: “It remains a mystery”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\u201cYou are the heirs to a Church that has been a mighty force for good in the world, and which has given a profound and enduring love of Christ and his blessed Mother to many, many others. Your forebears in the Church in Ireland knew how to strive for holiness and constancy in their personal lives, how to preach the joy that comes from the Gospel, how to promote the importance of belonging to the universal Church in communion with the See of Peter, and how to pass on a love of the faith and Christian virtue to other generations. Our Catholic faith, imbued with a radical sense of God\u2019s presence, caught up in the beauty of his creation all around us, and purified through personal penance and awareness of God\u2019s forgiveness, is a legacy that is surely perfected and nourished when regularly placed on the Lord\u2019s altar at the sacrifice of the Mass.<\/p>\n

Thankfulness and joy at such a great history of faith and love have recently been shaken in an appalling way by the revelation of sins committed by priests and consecrated persons against people entrusted to their care.Instead of showing them the path towards Christ, towards God, instead of bearing witness to his goodness, they abused people and undermined the credibility of the Church\u2019s message. How are we to explain the fact that people who regularly received the Lord\u2019s body and confessed their sins in the sacrament of Penance have offended in this way? It remains a mystery. Yet evidently, their Christianity was no longer nourished by joyful encounter with Jesus Christ: it had become merely a matter of habit. The work of the Council was really meant to overcome this form of Christianity and to rediscover the faith as a deep personal friendship with the goodness of Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 from Pope Benedict\u2019s message to Ireland at the Eucharistic Congress<\/p>\n

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