Posted on 07/15/2007 4:28:25 PM PDT by Salvation
Over $1M to each accuser, whether or not the priest is guilty or innocent.
took archbishop maphony long enough to apologize.
Money makes it all better, I guess.
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**Money makes it all better**
I think not, what needs to happen on their part is forgiveness.
I caught a minute of the “apology” on the news earlier today. He was rambling about wishing that the lives of the victims were like VHS videotapes. He didn’t say what was supposed to be on the tapes, but with this guy, you have to wonder.
How this came to be can't be resolved by money. If money can solve the problem, it will happen again.
“I am disappointed,” Viscarra said. “And it’s making me re-evaluate my views of whether people in the ministry should be married. People do have needs.”
Fags seem to have a “need” to molest boys. How is combining Holy Orders with Matrimony going to solve that problem? I think the quicker route is to expel homo’s from the seminaries and parishes. Because that is not happening on any widespread or committed basis, I wonder how Mahony can promise the abuse “will never happen again”?
maphony’s an odd guy.
he got his start in the central valley with cezar chavez.
he’s a leftist.
but he likes money. in the mid-1980’s richard riordan, later a los angeles mayor, and his millionaire buddies bought
maphony his own helicopter. maphony was a licensed pilot.
In a way, though, it was a good analogy. He just strung it out too much. LOL!
I would not like sitting through one of his homilies if that is the way he makes a point, would you?
Insiders don’t call him “Roger the Dodger” for nothing, and I don’t think the reference is merely to the erstwhile Los Angeles baseball team.
Agree with you all the way on this one.
Thanks for making that point Salvation, and it’s very sad. Yes, of course the church officials must make amends and do right by the victims, but there are some priests also being victimized, and no one is coming to their defense.
I wouldn’t care to sit anywhere near him at all. I understand he paid this bundle of money (collected from the ever-forgiving faithful of his archdiocese) to avoid having to testify in public. Know anything about that?
He’s got a lot more to apologize for that this.
“He was rambling about wishing that the lives of the victims were like VHS videotapes. He didn’t say what was supposed to be on the tapes, but with this guy, you have to wonder.”
With this guy rest assured that the audio would be in espanol.
**I think the quicker route is to expel homo’s from the seminaries and parishes.**
I thought this (that those unfit for the priesthood and celebacy are being expelled) was happening in all seminaries right now. Am I mistaken?
Also heard this rumored. Have not seen it verified anywhere. But I do know he does not want reporters digging around the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Go figure — you get the picture, I’m sure.
I don’t know how to link, so will have to do it the dinosaur way: Albion Girl’s post #45 on the thread “Deliver Us From Evil”, 5-14-07, expresses my own thoughts regarding this grievous situation:
AG: “I always thought it was a mistake for those molested to seek their justice with money. It takes what should be a precious wound, one from which much love and good can spring and turn it into something for sale. It is much better to rely on God to sustain you in each and every way.”
Thanks, AG
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