Perhaps it's just me, and I should just get over it, but I really can't shake the words of Archbishop Dolan on Palm Sunday, who compared the pope to Jesus, saying he was now suffering some of the same unjust accusations, shouts of the mob, and scourging at the pillar, and being daily crowned with thorns by groundless innuendo. Dolan got a standing ovation.Jesus stood with and for the outsiders, the vulnerable, the oppressed. He was not merely mocked, but physically brutalized, beaten nearly to death, and abandoned by many of those closest to him. He took on the power structures that would do them deadly harm, and was himself murdered by people acting in the name of those same structures of violence. The Pope is accused of being complicit in the abuse by a power structure of the vulnerable, abuses which we know were widespread and worldwide. He is accused of being an enabler in the cadre of leaders who tried to silence and shame the victims, and who freed the abusers to find new victims in new places. His aides and those to whom he has granted positions of power are standing with him, defending him by, among other things, defaming others and blaming victims.There is much yet to be learned about the Pope's role in all this, and it is possible that he really didn't know that his office was part of the problem. (Though that possibility has problems of its own. If important and savage decisions were made in his archdiocese without his knowledge, what's being done now without his awareness? It seems to leave him with a choice between being seen as indifferent to abuse, or clueless. Neither option is appealing.) But in no way can these accusations be paralleled to what happened to Jesus, or how his betrayal and death played out. If anything, it is the victims and the advocates of the victims of sex abuse who play the part of Jesus in this passion play. Am I the only person who continues to find Dolan's comparison profoundly offensive?