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A reporter and a source talk in a car about the Church's grip on Boston: an abuse case was sealed, and "the Church has a lot of friends." The source won't name names - he only says the man "is not part of the solution" - then ends with the proverb twisted into an indictment.
❝ Monólogo · 7 frases It Takes a Village to Abuse One
In a parked car, a reporter questions a source about the Church and the Geoghan case. The source says victims filed a criminal complaint but the judge sealed the records because the Church has friends in high places. He refuses to name the man he distrusts, and warns that taming this city will take outsiders.
The scene is a lesson in how power looks from the outside. The source's complaint is not about one priest but about a network: records get sealed, and "the Church has a lot of friends." He talks in code - "Let's just say he's not part of the solution" - because naming names would cost him, and the reporter lets him. What builds through the small talk about Armenians, Italians, and East Boston is a theory of belonging: the insiders protect each other, and "they're no better than us." The final proverb lands because he borrows a warm saying about raising a child and turns it into an accusation: if a whole village raises a child, then a whole village must be complicit in abusing one.
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“And the Church has a lot of friends.”
A throwaway line that explains the sealed records: the Church simply has friends everywhere.
Neutral
“Let's just say he's not part of the solution.”
A cautious, cutting way to place someone on the wrong side without naming the charge.
Informal
“it takes a village to abuse one.”
The old proverb, turned inside out with one word, indicts an entire community.
literary
“But they're no better than us.”
A defiant equalizer: the people who look down on us are no better than we are.
Informal
“What I do is too important.”
A self-justification that sounds like pride and reads like loneliness.
Neutral
This city, these people, making the rest of us feel like we don't belong. But they're no better than us. Look at how they treat their children. Mark my words, Mr. Rezendes, if it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.
Siguiente · 10Good GermansLa escena: Sipe's Six Percent EstimateThe source says a judge sealed them after friends of the Church complained, which is his way of showing how much influence the Church has.
He hints that the man is not part of the solution but refuses to identify him, because speaking plainly could cost him.
He takes the saying that it takes a village to raise a child and twists it, arguing that abusing a child also takes a whole complicit community.
That the case is bigger than one priest, that the Church protects its own, and that outsiders may be needed to break the story.
