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.
"Supposedly, a Communist in the 1950s boasted that some 1,000 Communists (or fellow travelers) had been infiltrated into seminaries and religious orders. This may have been simple boasting, sort of like al Quaida's ravings, but even if the number wasn't 1,000, I'm sure they at least slipped in a few of them and left them in place for the future."
Yep, it's true in Philadelphia but it is not stupid. It is no different than corporations who rotate people through different types of responsibility. Actually it is a pretty good idea to prepare a pastor.
So, Nightline is gonna maybe out a cardinal? Last I heard, Rembert Weakland was a cardinal. Oh yeah, that's right he don't count because he is a liberal. I reckon it is more substantial to out someone who has always been known as a conservative.
Nope, Rembert isn't/wasn't a Cardinal..
They want this cloning of embryos and population control culture.
The second objective was to remove all teachings of God and morality from the schools.
The third is to destroy the Church. The Catholic Church being the largest and one of the staunchist against abortion, marxism and all the others has been the most time consuming to destroy. The first two only have taken about 50 years the last has taken a lot longer.
Among other things. But I am beginning to suspect that these men have all been PLACED.
On top of that, I am also beginning to suspect that they are either A. so blackmailable that they will do anything they are told to do by their handlers, or B. they are stupidly doing a bunch of very illegal and foolishly blackamailable things in spite of the fact that if they get caught, it will mean their collars and their reputations, not to mention jail time for some.
What ELSE would make a (presumably) sane man risk his entire religious life for the sake of a little underage stuff?
This is almost incomprehensible. Did these men believe they would NEVER be caught or held accountable? Did their lusts so powerfully override their Holy Orders that they risked everything for illicit SEX?? For SEX?? With boys? Is this perversion/addiction this overwhelmingly powerful? What am I missing here?
These guys either deliberately, knowingly, and maliciously molested these young men because they are utterly evil and UNFIT for the priesthood from the very beginning, or they are being used as tools to subvert and undermine the hierarchy in an organized move to take over the Church from the inside. Something isn't making any sense...
So all the priests will marry rich women with drug habits?
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