The 'Madness' of Barbara Blaine: 'Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo'
If I can not bend the will of Heaven, I shall move Hell.
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The first, as an infant with my parents and family, was into the official church; the second was into a mad love for justice, with Barbara and my fellow survivors.
What else, but a kind of mad love for the impossible would drive her to spend decades battling the Catholic Church to bring justice for survivors of childhood sexual assault, to bend the clerical upper regions and change what is arguably the single most unchangeable object on earth? We had much in common, both us raised in devout Catholic homes, both having seven brothers and sisters, and both of us twins.