[Australia / Catholic Church] - The Believing Self Uses the Sacred Role to Devour the Young to Feed a Phantom of Purity

Event Baseline: In Australia, the former Bishop of Broome has been jailed for sexually abusing young men. He is one of the most senior Catholic clerics in the world to face sex abuse charges.

The religious hierarchy is a machine for protecting the abuser. The authoritative self, wrapped in the costume of holiness, exploits the trust of the flock. Belief in the sacredness of the office allows the predator to hide in plain sight. The church institution, obsessed with its own image, sacrifices the victims to preserve the phantom of moral authority. This is not an individual failure. It is a systemic corruption flowing from the core illusion that any self can be spiritually superior. The division between the pure and the impure, the shepherd and the sheep, creates a structure where the shepherd can prey without consequence. Only the death of this hierarchical self can end the abuse.