(Part one of two)   “the Lord is kind and merciful” Psalm 103:8a).  “`I must go over to look at this remarkable sight, and see why the bush is not burned’ . . . this shall be your proof that it is I who have sent you:  when you bring my people out of Egypt (the sex abuse scandal), you will worship God on this very mountain (at Mass)’” (Exodus 3:6, 12).  “The LORD secures justice and the rights of all the oppressed” (Psalm 103:6).  The need is prudence.  My questions to the Faithful about letting abusive priests continue in ministry, so long as their abusiveness is not covered up does not seem to have a safe harbor in this article by Brian Roewe.