Posted on 12/19/2018 3:17:22 PM PST by NRx
The Catholic Church in Illinois withheld the names of at least 500 priests accused of sexual abuse of minors, the state’s attorney general said Wednesday in a scathing report that accused the church of failing victims by neglecting to investigate their allegations.
The preliminary report by Attorney General Lisa Madigan concludes that the Catholic dioceses in Illinois are incapable of investigating themselves and “will not resolve the clergy sexual abuse crisis on their own.”
Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, said in a statement, “I want to express again the profound regret of the whole church for our failures to address the scourge of clerical sexual abuse.
“It is the courage of victim-survivors that has shed purifying light on this dark chapter in church history.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I screwed up the link name. It should be NY Times, not WaPo. Could someone fix that? Thanks...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blase_J._Cupich
Cupich is at least responsible for withholding the names since 2014.
And he’s been a member of the College of Cardinals since 2016.
He’s a hypocrite who hopes he can wash his hands of culpability.
The corrupts state of Illinoise going after corruption in the Catholic Church.
I feel so much better now.
Chicago is the epicenter of the lavender plague. It’s Bernardin’s old haunt. It absolutely can not fix this problem.
They are shifting strategy - give up the dead abusers of children and underage men, while embracing (so to speak) sexually active adult homosexual clergy.
We are watching a slow motion train wreck. 500 unnamed plus roughly 200 already named in one state. Just rough numbers... There is about 50,000 (and dropping) Catholic priest in the US. Illinois is 4% of the US population. if this reflects the entire US, that means about 18,000 accused priest in the US. That is about 1 out of 3. Since this type of crime in generally under reported, it is just a guess what the real number is. How is the church going to function if it loses 1/3 to 1/2 of its priests? It is going to come down to this: do we want child molesters, or married and women priests. The wishful, “we’ll get more young priest” isn’t going to happen anytime soon. I personally would prefer to have a married or female priest than a unmarried molester.
I have been hearing ads on the radio for “if you or someone you know were abused by clergy you may get lots of money for your testimony” or something like that.
The AG ought to use RICO laws to bring down the horrible Lavender Mafia.
Why is this a caucus thread? I am Catholic but this is national news of interest to those who are not Catholic. It is not a discussion on theology or church teaching. Making it a caucus thread makes it appear as though we are trying shut out discussion on this very important issue.
Is one of those names Pfleger?
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I would assume it’s caucus to avoid haring off into “Whore of Babylon” territory....
The corrupts state of Illinoise going after corruption in the Catholic Church.
That was my thought. Cynical me.
It’s meant to keep disruptors off the thread with their attacks.
You’re welcome to repost the same article as an open thread.
Not “The” Whore of Babylon”!!! She is on my mind control receptor.
Ordaining women is not a possibility. A woman cannot be ordained. (Not "should not" but "can not.") Priesthood is a male charism, and it was set up that way by Jesus Christ, not by any earthy power.
I wonder, though, whether we may see more non-priest parish administrators, both women and men. I have no idea how that would turn out. It does not, shall we say, fill me with hope and inspiration.
Each to his or her own God, but the argument that only men can be priest boils down to “all the apostles were were men, so only men can be priest”. By this logic only men born in the mid-east to Jewish parents can be priest.
But is there a distinction between "ministry" and priesthood? That's what you have to look at.
A woman can do anything and everything as far as "ministry" goes -- much like ministers in Protestant churches --- including being
Every one of the popes agreed with this, and still agree, including the often-whackadoo Francis. You'd have to junk the entire Biblical example and rip out the entire mystical theology of the Church to change this. And if you did that, why would you bother having a church at all?
According to St. Paul, Christ is the Bridegroom in relation to the Church, and this is no small thing: Paul calls it the "mysterium magnum" (the Great Mystery.) And the priest is configured to Christ the Bridegroom. Christ never ordained a woman, not even the greatest human person who ever lived, the Blessed Virgin Mary.
It's not a question of job description, of "what she can do." It's a matter of what a man "is" and a woman "is." In this case, the priest is an embodied sign of Christ the Bridegroom, laying down His life for His Bride, the Church.
So the sticking point isn't "Middle-Eastern Jewish patriarchal culture." The sticking point is that a woman cannot embody a Bridegroom in the sacramental sense.
When the Church fully appreciates this, through the working of the Holy Spirit, the Church will have something to teach the World about the permanent significance of male and female.
If you can pardon Ann Barnhardt's colorful language here is a link to:
The One About WHY PRIESTS CAN ONLY EVER BE MEN
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Love that Ann Bernhardt, to the center of her nuptial soul.
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