A BIT TOO MUCH!

I came across the following report, just last evening.

The NBC affiliate in Chicago (Channel 5) carried an interview with Cardinal Cupich.

In the course of the interview, His Eminence said the following: “The Pope has a bigger agenda than the sexual abuse scandal.  The environment.  Immigration.”

Frankly, I did not trust what I thought I had heard and so I replayed that statement a number of times.

I still find it hard to conceive that the Cardinal could be that obtuse and that insensitive to the suffering and pain of so many who personally or who have vicariously suffered from the horrific tales of violation and assault perpetrated upon the most innocent by Catholic Clergy.

His remarks are not only ridiculous but hurtful to the extreme.

But, he continued:  “The Church is not going to go down the “rabbit hole" on this abuse scandal."

Of course, His Eminence is alluding to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.  In so doing, the Cardinal is telling his listeners that the Church is not about to enter into a situation or begin a process or journey that is particularly strange, problematic, difficult, complex, or chaotic, especially one that becomes increasingly so as it develops or unfolds. 

Is that what the abuse scandal is to Cardinal Cupich?  Just a strange problem so complex that it is not worth the effort to resolve it?

I must be living in a parallel universe where nothing makes sense, where the irrational is rational, where wrong is right, where lies are truth, where cunning is honorable and where evasion is accountability.

It’s all a bit much.

And when things get to be too much, I head for the pool!

Guess where I will be for the rest of the afternoon?