Audit comment draws large readership

It's interesting how the readership of this blog soared in the days immediately after the publication of the church audit, which included the Irish Dominican Province.

An environment of 'unusual secrecy' which seems to have been part of the oxygen that allowed so much wrongdoing and pain to take place within the church, seems to be still evident today.

There seems to be an ingrained 'belief' that if one is 'secret' about something, he is not letting the side down. It's akin to a sophisticated version of the 'Kerry cute hoor'.

And mixed with that is all the sneering and jeering that goes on. That 'clerical gossip' that is alomst impossible to avoid.

So, in many ways nothing at all is changing within the hierarchical church. The question might well be; how long will it be till another scandal 'breaks'. It my have nothing at all to do with child sex abuse.

Of course there is a place for and need of secrecy but surely there must be something wrong with the attitude towards 'secrecy' that can be so easily felt and sensed in the church.