AdvertisingIn the last year, the resonance of the #MeToo movement has been felt across the Catholic Church, too, as sexual abuse scandals involving priests broke out globally. For far too long, complaints against the imbalance and abuse of power within the Church have been hushed up in the name of institutional sanctity. A pointed finger or a raised voice is treated as a mark of insubordination, a rebellion to be quelled by omission or intimidation. Yet, to paraphrase J R R Tolkien from The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), the true test of faith is “when the road darkens”. That is when old beliefs need to be reexamined in the light of new truths and complicities recognised for accountability.

Source: Indian Express February 08, 2019 18:33 UTC