By Steven D. Greydanus, EWTN News - People say “The Church hurt children.” Those children are the Church. Theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Those who hurt them were Satan, whatever offices or titles they had… And it’s not just what was done by a small number of priests, but also what wasn’t done by a larger number of bishops. Bishops who “looked away,” as Cardinal Tobin put it on Friday — “blind shepherds who refused to respond justly.”.. What were they thinking, these bishops? They were thinking of scandal, of the reputation of the Church. They were thinking in a human way — man’s thoughts, not God’s thoughts. They were Satan.