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Hallo again to all. When Anglicans Online began its weekly publication, there was no such thing as a 'news search engine' and even the term 'search engine' was unusual. People found things on the internet with Lycos or Alta Vista and most everything was still offline.
Today we were shocked when our routine submissions to news search engines turned up almost nothing beyond these alphabetized headlines:
Child sex abuse and mistreatment of women are not at all the same crime, of course, but they are often discussed in the same paragraphs and brandished for the same political ends. Yet here we are in the third quarter of 2012 and there is We stopped years ago reporting as Anglican news any of the skirmishes in the women-bishops or same-sex couples wars, partly because the secular press was doing a fine job of reporting it and partly because the stories never changed. We nevertheless applaud the political workers who are still in the trenches fighting for justice. With respect to child molesters in the church, we'll report it as news when the church establishment does the right thing quickly, bringing down the hammer on the perpetrators and their protectors, but we don't think our little voice has helped that happen. National publicity, quick prosecution, and appropriate sentences and quick remedial action are helping to solve that problem. This makes us feel good about our continuing focus on what is right with the Anglican world and not on what is wrong with it. If you went to church this week, you were reminded of many of the things that are right about it. We really do think it is helpful to focus on those, just so long as the police are dealing properly with the child abusers and those who enabled them. Gender inequality is a more insidious thing, because fewer people are repulsed by it, but we are optimistic that progress is being made there, too, in much of the civilized world. See you next week. |
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