There will only be more revelations.
will entail this Sunday. Part of me wishes that these corrupt rapists will not deign to hurt the Mass in any way, and part of me hopes they spend it on their knees groveling for the congregation's forgiveness. I am guessing we will get a lecture on our own minuscule transgressions and a bunch of silence. "Not all priests"* or some other such malarky.
Will the church be packed or empty?
*To which we should respond: "All the Bishops."
a few years back our parish had a priest who would recycle homilies. Leafing through his notebook, most of his sermons dated from the 1980s.
I don't think it will be addressed there as it is probably not the right time nor audience, but I am curious how Notre Dame will handle this with its students on a go forward basis.
It will be his buddies instead.
Nothing will change, wash, rinse, repeat.
As Herb Stein, the late economist and the father of Ben Stein said, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
What we are in store for remains to be seen, but clearly we are approaching an end of something. What will follow may depend upon our reaction to what is happening now. If you’ll forgive the quote from The Lord of the Rings:
“ ‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo. 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'”