I am a huge fan of These Stone Walls. Fr. Gordon Macrae has an entirely unique point of view in the blogosphere -- a priest sent to jail, probably for life, for crimes of sexual abuse he did not commit. His voice is consistently one of justice, mercy, and compassion. He deserves your attention and prayers.
In this post (go read it first. Go read it now.), he takes Raymond Arroyo and Laura Ingraham to task for their expressed desire that soon-to-be nonogenarian Theodore McCarrick be sent to jail for his crimes. They argue that because McCarrick has not repented, he deserves no mercy.
Perhaps he doesn't, Fr. G will admit. But he is eighty-nine years old. The elderly and frail are treated very badly in prison by the young and thuggish who make up the majority of its population. Justice perhaps need not offer mercy to the unrepentant, but compassion says we should not put a man who will soon be ninety into a population that greets those like McCarrick with chants of 'Kill the priest! Kill the priest! Kill the priest!' And if we are not going to kill McCarrick ourselves, then it is unjust to put him among those whom we can reasonably foresee will do so without our sanction.
Read the comments too, where compassion is likewise extended to Arroyo and Ingraham.
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