Posted on 05/21/2010 10:11:42 AM PDT by NYer
The Church's sexual abuse scandal is the "blame Bush" of Catholicism. Anything that goes wrong anywhere that has even the remotest connection to Catholicism can be explained by or blamed on the sex abuse scandal.
It's reflexive now. Liberal Catholics can't say anything about the Church without bringing up the sex abuse scandal. Whether it's a conversation about altar rails, mass times, abortion, vestments, or gay marriage liberal Catholics will instinctively raise the specter of the abuse scandal as if the very existence of sin in the Church is evidence that they're right.
A priest who's made quite a name for himself by attacking the Church every chance he gets is now attacking the Church for the excommunication of Sister Margaret McBride who approved of an abortion being performed on a woman whose life was in danger. The media is, of course, making this the most famous excommunication since Theodosius'. The Rev. Thomas Doyle is joining in the bashfest on National Public Radio by calling out Bishop Thomas Olmsted.
He said Sister McBride shouldn't be excommunicated because of...(wait for it) the sex abuse scandal.
NPR reports:
Doyle, a canon lawyer, said the bishop "clearly had other alternatives than to declare her excommunicated." Doyle says Olmsted could have looked at the situation, realized that the nun faced an agonizing choice and shown her some mercy. He adds that this case highlights a "gross inequity" in how the church chooses to handle scandal.Now, how does he know Bishop Olmsted didn't know the facts of the case? Well, that's because he doesn't agree with Fr. Doyle, of course.
"In the case of priests who are credibly accused and known to be guilty of sexually abusing children, they are in a sense let off the hook," Doyle says.
Doyle says no pedophile priests have been excommunicated. When priests have been caught, he says, their bishops have protected them, and it has taken years or decades to defrock them, if ever.
"Yet in this instance we have a sister who was trying to save the life of a woman, and what happens to her? The bishop swoops down [and] declares her excommunicated before he even looks at all the facts of the case," Doyle says.
NPR: Catholic Church is hard on abortion, soft on pedophilia (You Tube Video)
Ahhh .. the media. They are simply itching to take down the Catholic Church.
Liberal Catholics are the worst. I’ll leave it at that.
the media. They are simply itching to take down the Catholic Church
“They are simply itching to take down the Catholic Church.”
Lol! They certainly are. The poor dears....they will be eternally frustrated. ;-/
Yeah and you’re helping
“The poor dears....they will be eternally frustrated. “
Ahh, the old fear mongering of eternal frustration rears it ugly head.
I can believe a loving God might employ eternal consternation, or even eternal flummoxing, but not eternal frustration.
:)
will wallace
In what way?
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2272.htm
Nuff said.
That the Bishop pronounced the excommunication was an act of charity for Sr. McBride, because otherwise she wouldn’t have cared.
Bishop Olmstead is NOT one of the bishops who showed inappropriate compassion towards the predatory fag priests. He is one of the bishops who have been brought in to clean out the filth, and for this priest to paint him with the Bernardin/Mahoney brush is calumny.
Thank you for identifying them properly.
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