Absolutely. Or read the Book of Job, as excerpted for today’s first reading:

Reading 1 Job 19:21-27
Job said [blaming God]:

Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,
for the hand of God has struck me!
Why do you hound me as though you were divine,
and insatiably prey upon me?

But recovering with the great lesson which he introduces as something always to remember:

Oh, would that my words were written down!
Would that they were inscribed in a record:
That with an iron chisel and with lead
they were cut in the rock forever!

That said, his act of faith:

But as for me, I know that my Vindicator lives,
and that he will at last stand forth upon the dust;
Whom I myself shall see:
my own eyes, not another’s, shall behold him,
And from my flesh I shall see God;
my inmost being is consumed with longing.

Now there’s a close, “consumed with longing,” looking ahead to the great vindication and seeing God as he is.

via Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi

Ask not for whom or which diocese the subpoena bell tolls, oh bishops and archbishops. The day of judgment is on its way.

DETROIT (AP) — Roman Catholic dioceses across Michigan have turned over documents in a state investigation of sexual abuse by priests.

Investigators with search warrants collected records Wednesday, about two weeks after Attorney General Bill Schuette said his office was leading a probe.

The new emphasis comes after a Pennsylvania grand jury said more than 1,000 children have been molested there since the 1940s

However else will the bitter truth come out? Or how better, anyhow.

via macombdaily.com

Yes!

via McClatchy Washington Bureau

Hey, at the polling place, anyone can be the famous former AG.

I have to wonder about this regular-as-rain reference to clericalism as the root of evil, as if to steer us away from the very idea of a gay church network as contributing to the current crisis, even hijacking the “perversion” word.

“Clericalism is a perversion and is the root of many evils in the church,” Pope Francis said Oct. 3 at the synod’s first working session.

Without naming one of the evils either. And supplying what becomes a bromide in the present context.

It’s not a perversion, anyhow, but as old as the apostles fighting with each other and keeping the children away from the Master — human nature asserting itself.

He offers what in the present circumstances is a bromide — again unspecified. Forgiveness for what? Asked by whom? The kids in attendance?

“We must humbly ask forgiveness for this [?] and above all create the conditions so that it [what?] is not repeated.

So much to be inferred, guessed at, only imagined. But can he get specific?

via Pope asks bishops, young people to drop their prejudices as synod begins