I watched the first hour of a re-run of Frontline’s Secrets of the Vatican last night. It’s very powerful.
There’s one part where a middle-aged woman describes in detail her rape by her priest when she was 8 years old, and it broke my heart. The detail isn’t physical, but behavioral – what he said, how he looked at her, his tone of voice, what he threatened her with, how he walked away and how he closed the door behind him. And then what she did after that, and how she felt.
And there are men who break your heart too. Several of them.
Milwaukee, we learn (not that it’s new…), was a standout for cold callous self-interested bullying and … Read the rest
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