Posted on 04/03/2010 2:32:42 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has lost all credibility because of its mishandling of abuse by priests, the leader of the Anglican church said in remarks released Saturday. A leading Catholic archbishop said he was "stunned" by the comments.
The remarks released Saturday marked the first time Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has spoken publicly on the crisis engulfing the Catholic Church. The comments come ahead of a planned visit to England and Scotland by Pope Benedict XVI later this year.
"I was speaking to an Irish friend recently who was saying that it's quite difficult in some parts of Ireland to go down the street wearing a clerical collar now," Williams told the BBC. "And an institution so deeply bound into the life of a society, suddenly becoming, suddenly losing all credibility — that's not just a problem for the church, it is a problem for everybody in Ireland, I think."
The interview with Williams, recorded March 26, is to be aired Monday on the BBC's "Start the Week" program as part of a general discussion of religion to mark Easter. But its publication ahead of the interview caught Catholic leaders off guard.
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Retaliating against the rebuff from Rome recently. Not that anyone takes Rowan seriously to begin with.
Yep, retaliation. Rowan is also likely a bit upset that his stewardship has resulted in such a destruction that many are leaving for the Catholic Church.
Oh my. Of course what what this silly man really means is they have lost credibility for not allowing gay marriage and women priestesses. He’s a lunatic.
Oh, I'm sure the Muslims do.
The MSM is trying to find something other than Obama's falling approval ratings and the health care backlash to put in the news. They think they can replace the Obama mess with the Catholic church problem.
America is not that stupid to not forget Obama in November.
Abp. Williams, while we're on the subject of credibility: To be credible, does a national church need to have folks who actually attend its services? Just wondering.
I wonder what is meant by the reference to those working for renewal in the Irish Catholic Church. Anyone know what kind of renewal?
Without belaboring all the details, etc., it looks like this Irish "church" thing has its counterpart in the earlier American "judge" thing. What happens is you get a pedophile, or pedophile enabler, in a high level job, say Chief Judge of some court, and next thing you know those guys don't go to jail anymore, or if they do, it's for a short time. The pedophiles gravitate to that district and this goes on as long as that judge is on the bench.
I have no idea how big the various divisions of the RC church are in Ireland, but if the top guy on the Island is into protecting pedophiles (probably under the notion that he's gotta' protect all the sexual deviates to keep enough priests and nuns on hand to "do stuff"), that simply means it's time to remove him ~ and his funny little friends.
Now, how to get the top guy to talk ~ I would encourage the authorities in Rome to try waterboarding.
It works!
From the sexual abuse scandal.
I think this is a pot calling the lightbulb black moment.
The Catholic church needs to oust those who covered up sexual abuse for decades, and it needs to find the victims and make things right even if that means selling every building and every chalice it posesses, but they are still mostly Christians (except those resting their hopes on Mary instead of Jesus).
Rowan Williams, on the other hand is a pagan.
To the "newsies" it looks like a race to the bottom and they're struggling mightily to stay in business with just one more story about fallen priests before all are swallowed up in the immensity of nothingness, chief editors, network anchors, bishops and all.
I don't think the MSM point of view is correct. The Internet is dislodging them. It may well enable the RC church, and others for that matter, to achieve a tad more uniformity in presentation of the core message.
Trust me on this. Fidelity is not just a trait we admire in humanity, it's a purveyor of retirement funds for the religious of all persuasions.
So he’s referring to efforts to stop the abuse? I wonder what these efforts are. Or is it possibly some other kind of renewal?
Well, so much for that merger thing. . .
>>except those resting their hopes on Mary instead of Jesus<<
Well then they aren’t Catholic are they?
Cause the Catholic Church sure doesn’t teach that!
There are many paths to satori Grasshopper.
No, that's it. It will require a huge effort. There will be purging the seminaries, getting all the perps out of positions of contact with parishoners, working with law enforcement when necessary, tort issues, and, above all, trying to regain some trust on the part of the Catholics of Ireland.
This stuff happening in Ireland is a disaster and it's bad for the rest of the Church.
Not as a whole. But I have been in diocese where that tradition was believed.
Come to thin of it, I was in a church in Lafayette where much of the membership went to Mass on Sunday, and voodoo crap on wednesday.
The difference is that the Catholic Church in Ireland did it by inadvertance and carelessness, but Rowan Williams did it on purpose.
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