Meanwhile in these tragic circumstances it is not Pope Francis or the World Meeting of Families Congress to which troubled souls should turn, but to God Almighty.
How sincere was Pope Francis in responding to the grand jury report on clerical sexual abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses?
The cynical among us, of which there are many practicing Catholics, would say about as sincere as a wife-beating alcoholic husband who tells his wife after his last beating: "I'm sorry and will never do it again."