EGAN'S EDICT TOUGH ON PERVS

NY POST ^ | 3/24/02 | ANDY GELLER and ZACH HABERMAN

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Edward Cardinal Egan confronted the growing scandal of sexual abuse by priests head-on last night, issuing a three-point plan that includes removing sexual predators from their parishes.

"Should any priest sexually abuse a child, he will be removed from pastoral ministry," the spiritual leader of the Archdiocese of New York's 2.4 million Catholics said in his Palm Sunday message.

[Hillary's Folly]

Cardinal Law Proposes North American Priest/Boy Love Association

[Podkayne]

Too bad the east coast is so behind the curve - this has been business as usual in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Jo for years...

[chatham]

hEgan still has not said He will turn over these vile Homosexual priests to the Authorities,Our church should lead the way to cleaning up this evil.

Egan still maintains he will not turn over Homosexual predator priests from the past,He continues to maintain secrets from the authorities.

I never thought I would see the day when I agree with the Mayor of New York over the "Cardinal" of New York.

Go to WWW.rcf.org for a clear insight to the evil within our church their comments are about dioceses in Illinois and are frighteningly alarming.

[Rustynailww]

http://www.rcf.org/

[Cable225]

I see the good Cardinal is still afraid to call this what it is, homosexuality in the clergy.

Unfortunatley, until the leadership takes it head out of the sand, this problem is not going away anytime soon.

[Vladiator]

"If the alleged claim appears substantiated . . . the alleged perpetrator shall be removed from any function, responsibility or ministry until the matter is resolved," he said.

How about this: Send the criminal to jail.

This whole thing is a disaster of generational scope. The pews are slowly emptying, and the priests and bishops have squandered their moral authority. Their idea to get it back? Send a letter to parishoners saying they will re-assign child molestors. Nice.

If someone were to write a novel with all the facts relelased in the past few weeks, they would be ex-communicated. Yet the truth is more disgusting than any fiction.

[Steve0113]

the priests and bishops have squandered their moral authority. Their idea to get it back? Send a letter to parishoners saying they will re-assign child molestors.

"Should any priest sexually abuse a child, he will be removed from pastoral ministry..."

...the archdiocese will report allegations of sexual abuse to the authorities if there is "reasonable cause to suspect abuse" and the victim doesn't oppose the reporting.

Sounds like more than "reassigning".

[Steve0113]

By the way, "removed from pastoral ministry" means canned, defrocked, out of a job.

[Slyfox]

Cardinal Law Proposes North American Priest/Boy Love Association

Why do you add a joke article on to this serious discussion?

[HamiltonJay]

It is a shame that the leadership of the church in the US and abroad has refused to address this issue for so long... it is shameful and saddening that some Bishops knowing continue to expose children to these predators instead of turning them over to authorities. As far as I am concerned, on this matter, the Bishops who did this, are just as legally and morally culpable for every case of abuse that occurred after the Bishop knew. They should be pulled from their posts as well and be subject to criminal prosecution.

[Steve0113]

Why do you add a joke article on to this serious discussion?

It's not even funny. BSNN has come up with much better ones than that.