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The Archbishop of Canterbury has now voiced regrets over having publicly opined about the Catholic Church squandering away its legitimacy in Ireland by hiding sexual abuse of minors by priests.

But regret likely wears on the mind of anyone touched by this scandal, and those abused children who have had to live with such regret for decades should be the first concern on the clergy‘s mind.

Do these religious leaders have any idea what it means to these abused people to have to live every day feeling like it is their fault? Like they should have, or could have, done something to stop it? The feral hatred, destitution and fury that can manifest within a person put to the vices of a sexually abusive adult who has been placed in, and entrusted with, such a position of ultimate authority often consumes the victim in such a way that they feel bound and gagged, frightened and unworthy in a dark and perilous world where all are enemies.

The depression and self-destruction that can ensue in this environment typically cripple the victims with obsessive behaviors, substance abuse and anxiety for most of their lives, and few of them ever truly emancipate themselves from the torturous memories and excruciating angst.

What honorable person could allow their self to be truly concerned that the leaders of this abusive environment may now be spurned by society? The level of discomfort the leaders of the church may be feeling is nothing whatever compared to the unimaginable magnitude of social destruction they have caused. And the ramifications follow a trajectory throughout society that is an exponentially occurring evolutionary cycle.

According to an interview with the Arch Bishop, it appears that church leaders are finding it difficult to be seen in public wearing the traditional dress of clergy. Being a representative of the church is likely unpleasant for many of them at the moment, and rightly so. However, this is what accountability looks and feels like, oh pious ones.

This is where the key of transparency, forged in the white-hot realms of moral debate, enters the lock of denial and opens the door of true progress. This is what real change looks like. Unfortunately, a change far removed from the dusty rhetoric, and racial bias coming out of the Obama White House. But I digress.

It is time to bite the bullet and begin the scrubbing of the wound, and the disinfection of the enflamed and painful gash that has so long festered in the dank and slimy recesses of sanctimonious papal secrecy.

This is where the healing begins. This is where true strength is born.

The hypocrisy of the Catholic Church has for centuries shielded its leaders from the authentic realms of ministry and service to the people. The church has for far too long sought divisive and balkanizing edicts as a means of forcing compliance to illogical and dysfunction ideals. And is now paying the price.

These unrealistic demands have stunted the growth of the doctrine, sedating the leadership with praises of desperate faith intent on existing in the melancholy recidivism of transgression and forgiveness.

These leaders have neglected the true parameters of the human species; a species bound to a Universe which indemnifies both positive and negative, light and darkness. And instead these leaders have acted with rebellious impunity, insisting on building a mono-structure of accolades which ignore the equation with unrelenting deference to anti-logic solutions.

The church -- and now much of the world, due to religious influence -- operates in a realm of punishment and reward, and actually intends to exist in an environment where these concepts are the precursors to behavioral choices or controls in the society.

It is time for all humanity to realize that punishment is not a deterrent, nor reward an incentive. These are failed and deluded concepts. Logic, accountability, and the example are the critical prerequisite to the education of the species that must ensue (but that is a long and arduous journey of analysis, and the core is deep…for other articles or the book)

It is time for the church to take stock of its position, and seek true reform of their doctrine, which at present does not truly minister to the human spirit, or the future will bring with it increasing repudiation from the majority of the species.

The exponentially evolutionary cyclic effects that will exude within the societies as the people begin to witness first hand the destructive and confusing exfoliations created by an intelligent social structure that ignores the critical duality of the Universe, will erode the presence of the Catholic Faith -- and most any monotheistic doctrine -- like sand castles in the surf.

Unfortunately, left to its current vices the inevitable cataclysmic course the church is on will darken much of the collective mind of the world’s societies for an intellectually-relative period of time concordant with human advancement.

But take heart one and all…this too shall pass.