Eggspectations

Writing in the British "Spectator," Katie Grant, a lifelong British Roman Catholic and the member of a recusant family (whose members refused to attend the Church of England in earlier eras), doesn't object to the church's sins as much as its self-righteousness and whining:

What is neither understandable nor forgivable is the current collapse of the church into slithery, prickly victimhood. When, over child abuse, senior members bleat about the Church being unfairly singled out ‘although every institution has its rotten eggs, doesn’t it?’, I find myself shouting at the radio, ‘Do you understand nothing, you silly creature? If you claim to be conduits of God’s grace, you must expect a bit more stick than a judge or a policeman.’