Necessary Church Suffering?

"My soul, church people get so hacked off when I post things like this. The unpardonable sin is to confess a reality. Speak of it, even just a few times, you are labelled divisive, or bad attitude, or have lack of vision, or........ The only accepted response is to sit down, shut-up, and listen to what our leaders tell us, and jump through the program hoops they put before us. When you do confess that what we do hurts people, in many varies ways,  they deny it. They have to.

We are not so different than the the people who buried and hid the truth in church sex and child abuse. How so you ask? Well the absolute desire to protect the image (false one) that we are not like that here at THIS church We would rather perpetuate a false illusion, even a lie, than live and deal with some of our baggage we struggle with. It is there, always will be to, all we have to do is keep working it through. The beauty of the church is lost when we can't' talk about it, move on and grow. Great truth in the following words.

"I must start with my birth relationship with Catholic Christianity (I presume you know that I have been a priest for forty years, and a Franciscan for almost fifty), because in many ways it has been the church that has taught me—in ways that it did not plan—the message of necessary suffering. It taught me by itself being a bearer of the verbal message, then a holding tank, and finally a living crucible of necessary (and sometimes unnecessary!) suffering."

(Richard Four. Falling Upward.)