Catholic church official face criminal charges

CBSNEWS.COM ^ | March 7, 2011 | Elaine Quijano

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Catholics do not 'harbor' pedophiles.

From the "Boston Globe"...

CARDINAL PROMOTED ALLEGED SEX ABUSER

Cardinal Bernard F. Law promoted a Quincy pastor to the position of area vicar with oversight of 19 parishes south of Boston in 1996, after the pastor had admitted to an allegation of sexual misconduct, according to the sworn testimony of a church official. In a deposition made public yesterday, the Rev. Charles J. Higgins acknowledged that the pastor, the Very Rev. Daniel M. Graham, had admitted to an allegation of sexual misconduct before he was given responsibility for parishes in Braintree, Milton, Quincy, and Randolph. Law also had promoted Graham to pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Quincy in 1990 despite the fact that the archdiocese had been informed of an allegation of sexual abuse against him, according to the alleged victim and his attorney who spoke with the Globe yesterday...

VATICAN ALLOWED PEDOPHILE TO REMAIN IN PRIESTHOOD

(Dec. 16, 2010) The Vatican prevented Dublin church leaders from dismissing a particularly dangerous pedophile priest and relented only after he raped a boy in a pub restroom, an investigation reported yesterday...

[WPaCon]

We’ll see if they let your thread up tonight.

Lat night, your thread broke caucus rules, but, normally, if a thread breaks caucus rules, the caucus designation is taken away, and the thread becomes open.

When the moderator shut it down, it showed his bias, because the proper action would be to leave it as an open thread.

If flamewar was justification for a thread being locked, then this one would be, too.

I have heard that, in the past, when anti-Catholic posters kept on posting articles like these, a Catholic poster decided to post articles of Protestant sex abuse scandals himself. However, since he was Catholic, that was not allowed, so he was no longer allowed to post.

[presently no screen name]

I did it to make a point

You deliberately broke rules to make a point? What point is that? That catholics break rules? We already know that.

Catholics can't talk about civility - when they have to be FORCED to obey. Even the DA knows that.

[Celtic Cross]

"LOL! How do you plan on catching them when they do it in private? Lots of toughness fails flat."

Oh, and what would YOU (ahh, the rules!) do? Rather than suggest that you'd walk away or worse, I'll say without a doubt that you would kick his sorry Petuny up through his shoulder blades and into the ceiling. As would anyone.

Your post is grasping at straws.

[Quix]

Another issue that ebbs and flows with regard to sensitivity and volitility is

whether or not the thread is

BY DESIGN/ SLANT/ TITLE/ CAST/ TONE/ use/ timing

a fairly transparent attempt to poke a hot poker in the heart and eyes of the other side as its primary goal.

[Celtic Cross]

Well, feel free to express your opinion when I post it.

[presently no screen name]

I don’t believe ALL harbor such.

They use ALL to say how they are united but drop it for individual incidents. Convenient (they think).

Either they are ONE HOLY catholic church or they are not! Not rocket science that it's not holy and now they admit they aren't 'One' either. Anything built on sand crumbles.

God's WORD always was and always will be - God's WORD IS The Final Authority.

[Celtic Cross]

We are ONE HOLY CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH. Are there bad people who are members of this Church? Obviously. Does that mean that we are not One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church? Of course not.

Your post incorrect.

[Quix]

NO.

Far more Proddy posts and threads get locked, trashed, pulled out of seeming mod bias.

HOWEVER, PRODDY AND RC THREADS ALSO get pulled NOT out of bias but because they break rules and/or

are transparent deliberate attempts to start a flame war in a most brazenly trouble-making sort of way.

[Quix]

INDEED.

[Celtic Cross]

"Far more Proddy posts and threads get locked, trashed, pulled out of seeming mod bias."

My, thats sad. Can you please provide links to protestant thread that were locked, trashed, etc, and then show that more proddy than Catholic threads were treated thus?

[presently no screen name]

Your post is grasping at straws.

Your post lacks substance. Catholics have DONE NOTHING for years. Empty promises of 'if I ever' is laughable.

I'm sure all of the victims are touched by that kind of 'if' compassion when the evil deeds have already been done - now the law has to step in because the 'if' crowd is waiting to witness it for themselves. The DA didn't have to 'witness' it to do something.

[JLLH]

“The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the Word of God abides forever.” Final and only authority indeed!

[presently no screen name]

AMEN!! and AMEN!!

[Quix]

NOPE.

Better things to do.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

In the natural i.e. in the flesh, it seems to be a criminal enterprise.

In the spiritual, it in no way represents YHvH nor His salvation.

Amen. For those with eyes to see and children to protect.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Was that it?

You were told "that was it" by the Admin Moderator.

[Gamecock]

Apples/Oranges.

Post a thread about teachers and I will decry them as well. Churches should set the example, be seperate from the world. Not jump in feet first and then blame their sin on everyone else is doing it.

Franlky that defense sounds more like a 16 year old: “Everyone else is doing it...”

[Celtic Cross]

If the only contention was the caucus, then there was no need to lock the thread after the caucus was removed.

In any event, I'm posting an updated version tonight.

[Lorica]

BY DESIGN/ SLANT/ TITLE/ CAST/ TONE/ use/ timing

whether or not the thread is

a fairly transparent attempt to poke a hot poker in the heart and eyes of the other side as its primary goal.

I agree - that's exactly what this thread is.