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Posted on 06/12/2002 7:54:05 AM PDT by oline
I notice yours was on the list also. Since you have spoken about how clean your diocese is,does the information support what you know?
I think that if the list was refined to reflect legitimate immoral,unethical or illegal activity and the cover up of same,the actual number "problem bishops" would be reduced to about 40 or 50 at most.And in half of those the situation is probably equal to or worse than the Boston situation.
Your thoughts?
When he found out about both, the priests were dispatched. In fact, it was Delaney's dispatching that caused the press to take notice. Magaldi went to the Fort Worth Star Telegram to complain, and the paper started digging into his background.
And, in both cases, the priests were not homegrown; they were shipped in from the Northeast.
I don't think I understand what you're saying here.
When we were kids, my mother would often say, in forbidding or correcting, "Because I'm your mother, and when I die, I am going to have to answer to God for your sins as well as my own!" My mother had only a high school education -- and went to public school. How did she realize what the bishops apparently don't -- that those with teaching authority (whether by nature or by being appointed) -- are responsible for the spiritual welfare of those under their guidance?
(Do you suppose any of these bishops actually believe in hell? One of the Boston miscreants -- I forget which, just too many to keep straight -- actually wept to the boy he had just done and begged him not to tell because the molester could "be fired or excommunicated.")
I hadn't even thought of this one. (I did realize the effect on the abortion fight when I heard a guy say, "No wonder the church is against abortion -- how else are they going to have a steady stream of kids to diddle?")
And whose fault will it be?
Did the nihilists drug priests and make them pedophiles?
Perhaps they used their mind destroying rays on the bishops to force them into complicity?
The Catholic Church can not effectively speak on pedophilia because their heirarchy has become indistinguishable from NAMBLA.
Every Bishop who has condoned or covered up for priests must go before the Church can hope to regain any moral authority.
So9
I read all of the study and felt that some bishops were included wrongly.The incidents or complaints were without any merit,and many were simply lacking information necessary to detetermine anything,some were understandable by virtue of the need for establishing facts,some were very questionable with regards to who knew what and when did they know it and a couple could have been attributable to an unwillingness to believe something so horrific about someone they may have found to be an excellent priest.Those are the kinds of errors,mistakes,misinterpretations and misunderstandings that each and every human being will make.They are not mortal sins or crimes.
Since the consequences of highly exaggerated numbers are grave,I think we need to start looking at the actual number of culpable bishops and focus on getting them to resign or having them removed.Good orthodox Catholics across the country need to work together to clean up our own diocese and then focus on getting all the disreputable,sinful bishops who have lost their morals and their faith out.If we are going to use our resources and take a scatter gun approach to this we will knock out some very good men as well as the Catholic Church in America. Thats why its the time to get a realistic number of real offenders. I am taking a stab at it by saying there are probably 25,whose actions have been so opprobrious that should be defrocked and in some cases turned over to the legal system and another 20 or so that need to be scrutinized very carefully.I threw that number out to quash an over alarmist reaction while recognizing that we do have a grave problem that must be dealt with almost immediately.
Homosexual pedophilia has reached the proportions it has because it was covered up to prevent a scandal from being created in the church. Once these priests found that the church would turn a blind eye to their transgressions, there very likely became an "underground railroad" recruiting new members. Remember also that the Catholic Church is in many third world countries where there is no cultural taboo against homosexual pedophilia. In this event, if a child molestor could get into the church, all he had to do was not slurp too loudly and he had a ticket to ride.
Had the original perpetrators been dealt with appropriately, the church would have received a black eye with the revelation, but the other possible perps would have probably left the church to avoid the same penalty. Now, the church may be dying from a thousand cuts.
Pray to St. Peter Damian for reform.
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