Supertradmum
explores our tendency to protect an institution's existence. She calls it "institution think" wherein the survival and continuance of the institution is of utmost important. She can't.
I would surmise that many of those bishops who failed to respond effectively to the sexual abuses of priests were thinking of what it will do to the church if it be found. They thought by ignoring it or moving the offender to another location will put an end to it. In governments, offices, organizations, and clans would also have an "institution think" wherein the image of the institution is protected at all cost even at the expense of truth and justice.
It is not just about loyalty to an institution but there is also that
kinship that develops in our circles of affiliation. One person's sin becomes the sin of the whole. That is what sin is, it stains everything it touches.
So we ask, am I the institution's keeper? Am I my brother's keeper? And in our human frailty, what we often thought as the best for the institution or another person can turn out to be the opposite. Thus, we go back again to the alpha and omega of everything - the Truth, Jesus Christ. It is only in and through God's grace and guiding will that we can truly love and care and truly be a proper keeper of all that there is.
explores our tendency to protect an institution's existence. She calls it "institution think" wherein the survival and continuance of the institution is of utmost important. She can't.
I would surmise that many of those bishops who failed to respond effectively to the sexual abuses of priests were thinking of what it will do to the church if it be found. They thought by ignoring it or moving the offender to another location will put an end to it. In governments, offices, organizations, and clans would also have an "institution think" wherein the image of the institution is protected at all cost even at the expense of truth and justice.
It is not just about loyalty to an institution but there is also that
kinship that develops in our circles of affiliation. One person's sin becomes the sin of the whole. That is what sin is, it stains everything it touches.
So we ask, am I the institution's keeper? Am I my brother's keeper? And in our human frailty, what we often thought as the best for the institution or another person can turn out to be the opposite. Thus, we go back again to the alpha and omega of everything - the Truth, Jesus Christ. It is only in and through God's grace and guiding will that we can truly love and care and truly be a proper keeper of all that there is.
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