Posted on 10/02/2024 2:55:27 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A major turning point on Mary Sheppeard’s road to healing came two years ago when she attended Good Friday services for the first time in nearly 60 years.
The 74-year-old Albuquerque resident had struggled for years with the trauma she’d endured after being sexually abused by a priest in Holy Ghost Catholic Church when she was 17.
“I just made a decision: I was done letting that priest run my life,” said Sheppeard, who is now a parishioner at Holy Family Catholic Church in Albuquerque and a clinical social worker. “... I finally got healing.”
A new plaque outside the Pastoral Center at St. Pius X High School in Albuquerque is meant to serve as an acknowledgment and remembrance of all victims of clergy sexual abuse, both living and deceased, within the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
Santa Fe Archbishop John C. Wester speaks Monday at the dedication of a plaque dedicated to victims of clergy sexual abuse on the campus of St. Pius X High School in Albuquerque. “All of us in the archdiocese are keenly aware of the importance and the need to continue to be vigilant,” Wester said. “This is something we can never think, ‘Well, we’ve accomplished that.’ ... We have to constantly be looking at our policies.”
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Sorry....I don’t agree with this.
Please stop posting threads to me.
Neither can i.
I don’t care for this one bit
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I was born and raised a Roman Catholic by very devout Catholic parents. I haven’t been to a Catholic Mass or donated money to the church since the pedophile priest scandal came to light. I told myself I can’t be a part of this. A day late and a dollar short boys.
So what you a part of now? The "little church of kawhill"?
I attend a non-denominational church named “Church of Christ”. Works for me.
Honestly friend, I feel closer to the Creator when I wake up early on a Sunday morning, sit out on my front porch, watch the sun rise, drinking a cup of coffee, and hearing the bobwhite quail sing and watch a white tail deer eating apples and pears from my small orchard out here on my farm. Whatever blows your hair back, I guess.
I doubt it works for God. But that's your own choice.
This cowboy reckons we’re all going to find out sooner or later brother, ain’t we?
All someone has to do is read Revelation 2 & 3 to see how God feels about sin in the church.
My Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, is not you’re cowboy.
I’d wish you Happy Trails, but I doubt they’ll be that happy.
“I doubt it works for God”. How do know that? Because you’re a Catholic?
Meanwhile, ebb apparently attends a church of one since he’s the leading protester of Catholicism and the pope going on FR.
No other Catholic is Catholic enough for him, nor will he admit to who he believes the last legitimate pope is not ecumenical council.
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