Posted on 06/11/2002 1:21:39 PM PDT by Timesink
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I'm sitting here, having a little trouble getting started. We have reported on this scandal several times so far. For the most part, the stories are fairly similar, the anguish of the victims, and their anger, and the response by the Church. But it is sort of like profiling each tree, one at a time, and not looking at the forest, to use an old metaphor. Just how widespread is this problem? If it were just one person here, and maybe another there, it might be easier to understand. But there has always been a feeling that this is a systemic problem, that underlying the individual stories that have come into the public eye, and those that have not, is some sort of widespread problem.
Some say the issue is celibacy. Others that the priesthood attracts those disposed towards children. Still others argue that the issue is homosexuality in the priesthood. And there are many other explanations. And they may all be partly true, and party false. But tonight we will address just how widespread this problem is. This week, the bishops are meeting in Dallas to debate a proposed policy to deal with priests who are accused of, or proven to be guilty of molestation. Many of the victims say the policy doesn't go far enough, that it is too lenient. But with the bishops and others beginning to arrive in Dallas today, our friends at the Dallas Morning News came to us with the results of an investigation they conducted. Their story will be in the paper tomorrow, and on their Web site tonight. They tried to track down every credible allegation. And the numbers they found are staggering.
Roughly two-thirds of the bishops have either been accused themselves, actually a relatively small number, or more commonly, are accused of covering up the actions of one of their priests. We'll be reporting on the details of what the Morning News found tonight, but clearly the numbers indicate that the problem is more than just the crimes of isolated individuals. So we'll have a report from ABC News correspondent Bill Blakemore from Dallas on the Morning News investigation, and a preview of what will happen later in the week. Ted will interview the bishop who headed the committee that wrote the proposed policy. But I think tonight's broadcast will make it clear that this is much more than a couple of isolated cases being given too much publicity. Something has gone terribly wrong.
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
Leroy Sievers and the Nightline Staff
Nightline Offices
Washington, D.C.
Like Gabriel's name for her, "kecharitomene."
The married Mennonite professor there also got into a scandal, but that was with women.It's shocking how much the present scandal has and seared our consciences and raised the bar as to what constitutes scandalous behavior. FRegards.
I WILL NOT BE MOVED.
I will stand my ground with Rosary in hand and Jesus alive in my heart.
It was Hesburgh's conference attendees who -- ignoring entirely nearly a century of concerted Catholic Action in the Public Square -- got up before Congress's panels and assured the State that Catholics had no intention of imposing their "personal morality" on others by making a stink over the State's plans for population control.
It would appear you are also unfamiliar with Hesburgh's "Land of Lakes" statement.
The Catholic University of America was intended, as were all other Catholic colleges and universities, to be towers and seats of Catholic wisdom and piety. And so they were until the Land of Lakes statement of 1967 which called for independence of Catholic colleges and universities from ecclesiastical oversight and a stress on academic freedom. Coupled with this statement was the theological dissent emanating from Catholic University of America as a result of Humanae Vitae and the efforts of Father Charles Curran, a professor of moral theology there, to lead a national campaign of dissent against it.
the Land of Lakes Document separated Catholic colleges and universities from the Roman Catholic Church. He described how Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, President of the University of Notre Dame and a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, invited the Population Council (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation) to hold secret meetings on how to undermine the moral teachings of the Catholic Church in regard to contraception."The Population Council realized that without contraception, we (the US) would become a Catholic country."
Hesburgh arranged a meeting between Pope Paul VI and Rockefeller at which Rockefeller had the audacity to offer to write the encyclical Humanae Vitae. His offer was rejected. Fr. Hesburgh later became chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation that supports population control and worldwide, unrestricted abortion.
When pigs fly is when NBC will run a story like that.
Dr. E. Michael Jones is extremely well researched and reliable. It's my recent read of his Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control that prompted me to respond re: Hesburgh and Notre Dame.
I thought I was reasonably knowledgeable but all of that was news to me a couple months ago and I'm still pretty steamed.
I'll remember to flag you to the excerpt on same I've been meaning to post.
P.S. I think it's important always to remember that love of money and a desire to be part of the Inner Ring will make the best of men do bad things.
Hesburgh is by no means the worst of the Catholics as far as cooperation with the State and assorted private eugenics and pop-control efforts are concerned. Monsignor (now Bishop, I believe) McHugh, Cardinal Spellman and a Bishop in Louisiana whose name escapes me at the moment have far more grotesque "hands-on" experience in that regard.
Additionally, there is the fact that abortion and population control are GOP policies. Legal abortion being the linchpin of NSSM-200 (written and signed by Kissinger for Nixon) and the extant NSDM-314 (signed by Scowcroft for Ford).
I doubt very seriously coercive US policies re: birth control (at home and abroad) would have succeeded had not the likes of "pro-lifer" George H. Bush worked so hard to "remove the sensationalism" and morph population control into a "healthcare mechanism".
In any case ... like I said, the "consciousness-raising" was critical for its ability to negate in advance any potential for Catholic interference in the State's plans (a/k/a "imposing of Catholic values") but it was Hesburgh's 1967 "Land of Lakes" statement that should have won him a spot on the CFR if he weren't there already ... =)
P.S. I think it's important always to remember that love of money and a desire to be part of the Inner Ring will make the best of men do bad things.
Hesburgh is by no means the worst of the Catholics as far as cooperation with the State and assorted private eugenics and pop-control efforts are concerned. Monsignor (now Bishop, I believe) McHugh, Cardinal Spellman and a Bishop in Louisiana whose name escapes me at the moment have far more grotesque "hands-on" experience in that regard.
Additionally, there is the fact that abortion and population control are GOP policies. Legal abortion being the linchpin of NSSM-200 (written and signed by Kissinger for Nixon) and the extant NSDM-314 (signed by Scowcroft for Ford).
I doubt very seriously coercive US policies re: birth control (at home and abroad) would have succeeded had not the likes of "pro-lifer" George H. Bush worked so hard to "remove the sensationalism" and morph population control into a "healthcare mechanism".
In any case ... like I said, the "consciousness-raising" was critical for its ability to negate in advance any potential for Catholic interference in the State's plans (a/k/a "imposing of Catholic values") but it was Hesburgh's 1967 "Land of Lakes" statement that should have won him a spot on the CFR if he weren't there already ... =)
Dangerous?
No faithful Catholic has any business making money working for the likes of Bill Clinton. This is a subject that's come up in my personal life and it's been an AWFUL and terrible argument. I stand firm, however, that no Catholic's education, smarts, industry, focus or creativity should be put to use on behalf of the pro-abort butcher of Waco who specifically unleashed the industry of fetal body parts as commodities.
It wouldn't exactly be prudent for him still to be on speaking terms with Clinton. That's something better left to the President and State Department who tap Clinton to represent us abroad from time to time as they deem is appropriate.
And why do you think the Federal Police Force's excesses at Waco are solely the stuff of paranoid black-helicopter freaks?
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