Roman Catholic Church and Pope Francis

escape clause: But one fact is crystal clear: There is nothing moral or ethical about breaking a promise to vulnerable and innocent people who have already suffered a terrible injustice, according to Globe and Mail. There is no compassion in allowing some kind of legal loophole to be an ethical escape clause. Why then is his management style, his tone from the top, taking so long to reach into the inner sanctum of the corporation that is the Roman Catholic Church, the largest Christian church in the world, with more than 1.25 billion members Why is it that more than two years after Pope Francis was installed – time enough to understand his thinking – a lawyer, representing the 50 Catholic entities who were supposed to pay into a landmark settlement to Canadian victims of Catholic residential school abuse, was allowed to renege on the settlement Details are still forthcoming, but how did two lawyers miscommunicate such a monumentally important negotiation Were the original discussions carried out in good faith Was the promise by the Church to try to solicit donations and contributions set up to fail If so, why was it allowed to continue The answers to these questions must be disclosed in order for there to be any type of public understanding. Traditionally, ethical misbehaviour was publicly confined to the political and sometimes the corporate world. At a time when Canada is feeling both pain and shame for its indigenous people, this further blow can only result in a dangerous lack of trust, not only in the church, but in our justice system for not upholding what appeared to be a settlement, and in our government for allowing a legal misunderstanding to turn into a legal decision, which invalidated the arrangements. But in recent years, churches, like many other institutions, have had the harsh glare of sunlight invading their own dark sanctuaries. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.