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Defenders of the Church love to point to stories like this and say, \u201cSee! \u00a0Public schools do this stuff too!\u201d \u00a0The thing is public schools do not claim to be the sacramental presence of Jesus Christ, the light of the world, and the means by which all men, women and children are to be saved. \u00a0The Church does.<\/p>\n

It is a beautiful thing that God has chosen to mediate his salvation to us through ordinary human things like water, bread, wine, oil, and flesh and blood human beings. \u00a0I love that the Church is, among other things, a thoroughly human thing made of thoroughly human beings. \u00a0But it is a great tragedy that the Church allows herself to behave as nothing more than human when she is called by Christ to be a communion of saints.<\/p>\n

The world, at some level, feels the scandal of this, which is why it\u00a0expects more of\u2013and metes out much harsher condemnation to\u2013the Church than to the LA school district. \u00a0Catholics can complain all they like about the double standard, but at the end of the day the ordinary person\u00a0is right here: Those to whom much is given, much will be required. \u00a0The Church cannot respond to sin in its midst\u2013especially sin this horrendous\u2013with butt-covering indistinct from how every other human institution responds. \u00a0It has to do better.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"