"The Hand of God"

PBS has shown a "clergy sex abuse" documentary recently in some markets entitled "Hand of God." David L. Alexander did a review ("Biting the Hand," Man with black hat, January 17, 2007), which, he says, not only elicited a response from the director, Joe Cultrera, but got him pretty steamed. "He helps to prove a point I was making," writes Alexander. "What a good sport!"

The bottom line of his critique? "It is completely arbitrary to assign blame to a system of belief that, in its essential nature, is being ignored in a given situation by its own agents." Amen to that.