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| "inside confessional" by two stout monks is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. |
One of the ways that the Church sets apart the vessels and spaces used for the worship of God and the dispensing of the sacraments is to forbid their use for common or sinful things. The Church views as desecrated and in need of reconsecration those things if they are misused and considers their desecration a grave sin. One of the most effective ways to communicate the sacredness of a thing is to treat its misuse as a serious affair. This is why the military and the Boy Scouts have such strict rules about how one is to treat the flag.
Yet Church leaders do not seem to hold sacraments in this sort of high regard when they are desecrated by the stain of sexual abuse by the Church’s prelates.
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