My DA Office investigated the Philadelphia Archdiocese of the Catholic Church.  The report is online.  It made me want to vomit when I read it.  Let me make it abundantly clear – this isn’t a Catholic problem.  It occurs everywhere.  It also isn’t just about sexual abuse but all types.  I saw it happen in many places – my own church and even the NYPD.

The real problem, however, I feel is the lack of courage and initiative to not only confront and prevent such behaviors.  There are better minds and more eloquent writers out there who discuss victim shaming, blaming, and such that I’ll leave that part alone.

I’m not sure what this one is about exactly but it has something to do with guilt.  Like grace, maybe it always finds you.  I often wondered who will be more accountable at the end of it all – the perpetrators or those who looked the other way and even swept under the rug.  Only God knows I suppose.

This one also isn’t about vengeance but justice.  And that often is about shining a light and exposing evil.  Many times, that’s all you can do.  

She holds the hand that holds her down 

She will rise above 

Finally the shades are raised