Stony Ground

With typical lack of theological sophistication, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are seeking help with their inquiries from an alleged abuser of Inuit children. An elder who identified a friend of his as one of the victims even referred to the clergyman as a devil priest, for all the world as if there were something un-Christian about permitting derelictions unto the seventy-times-seventh recidivism, without regard for the feelings of past victims or the danger to potential ones. The Saviour Himself commanded that the faithful should adopt the same attitude of benign indifference to suffering as their Father in heaven; which makes it all the more bizarre that victims of Church abuses should call on God's appointed for mere worldly justice.