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Article: Need for a deeper search.(Letter to the Editor)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- September 6, 2002
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* Fr. Bryan Hehir hits the nail on the head with his assessment of the effect of Sept. 11 as vulnerability and the church's sex scandal as a loss of trust (NCR, Aug. 16). In his position, these are most appropriate terms and he does well to use them. We all need to enter into compassionate support for him.
At the same time, perhaps his terms do not take it far enough. The most striking comment I heard from the church concerning Sept. 11 was that it is time to do some deep soul-searching. After a bit the terms "violent, militant and triumphant" started to appear. But as we soul-searched we found our church's history to be often filled with behavior that is ...