Originally published at The Catholic Thing
McCarrick should have been held accountable decades earlier, but the biggest barrier was the Church’s governing structure. While the nature of the priesthood was established by Jesus Christ himself and is unchanging, human hands have built a bureaucratic, inward-focused, reform-defying edifice that must be changed. To this day, there’s very little transparency, both at the diocesan levels and in the Vatican. Yet as the saying goes, sunshine is the best disinfectant, including when matters of morality are at stake.
