The Reckoning

A guilty plea brought the criminal case to an end, but it did not answer every question.

Robert Morris has now admitted in court what carefully chosen language concealed for decades. Cindy Clemishire was twelve. What happened was not an affair, an indiscretion or simply a moral failure. It was the sexual abuse of a child.

But this final chapter is about more than one man. It is about the leaders who knew, those who failed to ask, and the systems that protected a platform while a survivor carried the truth.

Justice has spoken. Now the Church must decide whether it is willing to change.

The series began with one question: Who knew?
It ends with another: Now that we know, what will we change?