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Scandalon
Last week, Wallace+ devoted his Word
from Grace Street to the scandal (scandalon) facing the
Roman Catholic Church. "A scandal made all the more a scandal as a
result of
the
Vatican's approach to the situation over the course of Holy Week, namely
avoidance and defensiveness," he wrote.
In that message, in seriousness and with no hint of disrespect to His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, Wallace+ offered his thoughts on how different Holy Week might have been had the Vatican taken a different approach to the situation. If, instead of avoidance and defensiveness, the Pope had embodied repentance:
Some have suggested that Pope Benedict should step down; something, of course, that has never happened before; and something that is not going to happen now. Given the nature and magnitude of the scandal; the obstacle now laid bare before the whole world; something more courageous, something more radical, is called for. Imagine if the Pope were to go about embodying, in his own person, the repentance that is, in truth, the only appropriate response to the scandal.
Imagine the message that would have been sent if the Pope had done public penance in St. Peter's Square every day throughout all of Lent, saying prayers of repentance for the Church, and prayers for the victims of abuse. And imagine if, on Easter, the Pope had spoken right to the crisis, making appropriate commitments to change and speaking about healing and hope for the victims, for the Church, and for the world.
Click here to read the full message by Wallace+.
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