Posted on 01/25/2017 9:32:55 AM PST by heterosupremacist
Bill Donohue comments on the resignation of David Clohessy, executive director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP):
He said he “voluntarily resigned” last month, but that is an incomplete, if not dishonest, account. Had it not been for a string of lawsuits and bad publicity, he would have stayed for years. He will now be remembered for running when the going got tough, leaving behind a shell of an organization that is broken both morally and financially.
Clohessy is a man who spent a good part of his adult life attacking the Catholic Church and lying about it. He worked with unseemly lawyers, manipulated the media, lied to reporters, and exploited the very people he claimed to help.
The latest lawsuit against Clohessy underscores what I have written about for years: SNAP is riddled with corruption. I will have much more to say about the latest lawsuit in coming days, showing how the accusations made by Gretchen Rachel Hammond are consistent with what I have said.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicleague.org ...
The people you trust to bring justice to rotten behavior by people you should trust, cannot be trusted.
Got it now.
They claim he quit before the lawsuit and the timing of the announcement is a coincidence.
He helped expose The Catholic Church and gave hundreds of victims a voice. That is a good thing.
taking kickbacks..eh..not so much
My first thought when I saw the headline:
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
This sounds more like the kind of thing Scientology posts about their critics. It’s too heavy-handed and not at all the language reflective of a merciful Savior.
No idea. Independent of SNAP, there is ample evidence that Catholic Priest were abusing boys. And the hierarchy was covering it up.
Boy, you don’t know Bill Donahue! Or tough New York Catholics, lol.
Darn, wrong SNAP. I was hoping the person who runs the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was leaving in disgrace so we could get someone to reign in the waste and fraud.
Me too! I thought the director had been FIRED!.......................
I agree.
Washington Post Lives in a Time Warp
Bill Donohue comments on an editorial in today’s Washington Post:
“On the most explosive and morally subversive challenge facing the Roman Catholic Church—clerical sexual abuse of children, and the bishops who tolerate it—Pope Francis has said the right things but done too little.”
This remarkable comment is the first sentence in an editorial in today’s Washington Post. The newspaper is living in a time warp. It cited not a single piece of new evidence, resting solely on a book by an Italian journalist that covers cases extending back over a half century ago. To make matters worse, Crux editor John Allen Jr. noted the author’s “sloppiness with facts,” about which the Washington Post is either unaware of or simply doesn’t care to mention.
NEWSFLASH: THE SCANDAL ENDED OVER 30 YEARS AGO
What’s the source of my comment? The Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Independently, they represent the most authoritative accounts of priestly sexual abuse.
The timeline of the abuse scandal is 1965-1985; it was during that period that the lion’s share of the problem occurred. Not to acknowledge this is to feed a vicious stereotype, one that suggests this issue is an on-going problem in the Church.
In fact, no institution has a better record on this issue today than the Catholic Church. The most recent data, collected between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015, shows there were seven substantiated allegations against clergy for the sexual abuse of minors made by current minors. Given that the data covered priests (35,987) and deacons (16,251), this means that.01 percent of the 52,238 members of the clergy had a substantiated allegation made against him.
Will the Washington Post admit that 99.99 percent of the clergy had no such accusation made against him? Not on your life.
The Washington Post also engages in fake news: there is no crisis now—nor was there ever one—involving the sexual abuse of children. That is a lie and a cover-up. The John Jay studies reveal that less than 5 percent of the victims were prepubescent. In fact, 78 percent of the males who were abused were postpubescent, and since all the victimizers were male, that means that homosexuality—not pedophilia—is at the root of the scandal.
The Washington Post needs to do its homework and stop advancing invidious stereotypes. Living in a time warp is bad enough, but when it affects innocent persons, it is pernicious.
Contact Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor: fred.hiatt@washpost.com
Me too.
Well said.
However, it is worse: Homoerotic priests were the primary source of the problem. If not, then why was it one case after another of priest with boy? Heterosexuals vastly outnumber homoerotics; if it were random carnal sin, then it should almost always have been priest with girl. it was not random: Period, end of that debate.
But instead of addressing the underlying spiritual condition of homoeroticism, both the leftist clergy and leftist press went after the entire priesthood - while continuing to treat homoerotics as if they are not only normal, but even somehow superior, human beings.
The original problem lay in allowing persons who admitted having such a gravely unnatural predisposition in a position of spiritual authority (including the ultimately intimate authority of the confession) over others - especially children - while being required to adopt a vow of celibacy.
I may feel obliged to show compassion and charity (love, not cash) toward a kleptomaniac, but I am not going to try to prove my sincerity by subjecting such a one to the gratuitous temptation afforded by a position of autonomous authority over a jewelry store on the basis of an honor system.
Discernment and wisdom in the church are largely passe; in the media they are nonexistent.
There should be no declared homoerotics in ecclesiastical ministry. They can serve the Lord some other way - that is, if serving, and not leading, is their real purpose. (If they repent and denounce it, that might - I say might - be another thing.)
“There should be no declared homoerotics in ecclesiastical ministry.”
Declared, or any other kind.
The problem was created deliberately by the KGB. I know, I know, no one wants to hear “the Russians did it” just now, but that is exactly what happened. They spent huge amounts of time and treasure infiltrating seminaries and corrupting them.
The original Soviet agents of influence are, Gott sei dank, dying out, but many of the sodomites they brought in after them are still alive.
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