Inappropriate
How can it come about?
How can it happen yet again?
These allegations and accusations
Made recently against you?
For are you not supposed to be a shepherd
Set in Holy Roman authority
Over the sheep within your flock?
Are you not supposed to lead them
On the paths of righteousness
Rather than into temptation
Created by the weaknesses
Of your personal failings?
Are you not a consecrated priest?
Entrusted with the sacraments
And the care of willing souls?
A reverend cardinal indeed?
Not fiddling with the altar-boys
Or inappropriate touching
But a role-model for all believers?
A ministry of care for others
Lived in unnatural celibacy
In a position of respect
Where others dare not challenge you?
And is it not bad enough
That you ask of others
What you cannot do yourself?
That you should abuse such trust
By your dubious behaviour
Without you making victims into liars?
And compound your unclean crimes
By pretending that you are pure
And hiding behind your church
Which conceals your crimes
And helps to cover up the scandal?
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