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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Power

One of many distressing things about the church and its internals is the use and abuse of power.

It's be easy to look at priests' abuse of children, and see those as mere aberrations - or things isolated from "our church," which is surely an excellent place with no such abuses.

But this view, an example of an external locus of control, is not always accurate.