More devastating Scandal stories coming?

Bettnet.com ^ | June 16, 2004 | Domenico Bettenelli, Jr.

[Rutles4Ever]

Bettinelli reports:

I just got this message from Rod Dreher:

"On Sunday, The Dallas Morning News will begin publishing the results of a major yearlong investigation into a largely uncovered aspect of the Catholic sex abuse scandal. The series of stories are international in scope, and will make headlines nationally and overseas. I’m not at liberty to disclose details yet, but I’ve seen advanced copies of the articles, and they are devastating. I believe at this point, more details will be available on Friday morning, when one of the reporters on the series does an interview on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition.” The stories will be available on the dallasnews.com website starting either late Saturday night or early Sunday morning.

I expect these stories to dominate conversation among concerned American Catholics next week, and into the early summer (because there will be much more to come; next week’s series only reveals part of what our reporters have uncovered and documented). These findings give lie to the claim from Church officialdom that this scandal is over. The cover-up continues."

Rod Dreher confirms:

"Not only stories, but photographs. I’ve seen the planned cover of Sunday’s DMN. The picture they’re going to run is a jaw-dropper...I hate to tell you this, but the bishops already know. They have known. They hoped you and I wouldn’t find out. That’s part of the story... Also, our people are now talking to national media about this. Starting Friday night, you might be seeing stuff about this. I’ll let Dom and others know if any early media appearances are scheduled."

[Alberta's Child]

Oh, these photos will be terrible. And graphic.

And terrible, too.

[kas2591]

I heard on the radio this morning that the Archbishop of Tucson announced that it looked like the dioscese would have to file for bankruptcy( first in the nation) over the lawsuits involved. Perhaps that's under discussion in Denver as well.

[Salvation]

Search around for an Anglican use church in your area and you can have the best of both worlds. Also look for a Traditional Latin Mass.

[Alberta's Child]

Yeah -- I meant to say "the Hierarchy of the Catholic Church," at least in the U.S. I think Dreher's comment hints that it's more than just Americans, though.

Maybe it's something along the lines of what happened in California back in the 1970s with some members of the crew that had been filming the movie "Apocalypse Now" in the Philippines.

[Salvation]

Very well said.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Just that Catholics have a larger problem for a reason."

According to the author of "Good Bye, Good Men," the reason is that gays and lesbians, and/or their sympathizers, gained key posts in diocesan agencies responsible for screening of applicants to the priesthood. Applicants with traditional Catholic values were deliberately screened out, and only extreme liberals - including many homosexuals - were allowed to proceed towards ordination. Very few people were involved in the process, so it was easily manipulated towards their ends, and there was little if any oversight by people who might have put a stop to it.

[JohnnyZ]

I have not changed my story with the exception that, without going back to look, I said that Father John said "we" could not receive the sacrament anymore. That is the generic we of an 7 year old who was too young to attend church alone without a parent accompanying her.

"The priest came the following week to tell my mother none of us could receive the sacrament."

Sounds like your mother could still take you to church, where you could receive Holy Communion. But that's not as dramatic, and you want the Church to look bad, ~~keeping 7-year-olds from the eucharist, keeping Iraqis under Saddam, encouraging priests to abuse children~~ it's a load of ****.

Your accusations are a disgrace and have made me more upset than I've ever been on Free Republic.

You tell a sketchy sob story and attack the Church, and you're appalled someone would call you out -- well, welcome to reality.

[GOP Soccer Mom]

*sigh* I honestly don't understand why you would stay with the Episcopal Church (allowing abortion, supporting gay marriage, ordaining a bishop who left his family and lives in a sinful lifestyle with another man, etc.), knowing what you know about the Catholic Church, esp. if you are so bothered by these things. Are they easier to live with than the cruelty of one man when you were seven years old?

Bitterness will not help you in life, directed at anyone. I know it seems like a lot, but I think you have got to forgive that priest and stop being so angry with the Church. He was a man, who can and did sin, just as everyone else in the world can and does. He is not the Church, the people as a whole are.

If you really miss the Mother Church, why not come home to Her? Why not forgive that priest and consider it? It pains me to see people leave the Church because of other people.

[Salvation]

**You gotta know SOMEBODY.**

My thoughts, exactly. LOL!

[cibco]

"My father walked out the door when on the day JFK was killed."

Could you elaborate? I can't see a connection.

[fooman]

it is troubling to christians attacking each other, rather than the homos.

[ninenot]

True, the lefties hate us RC's.

Also true that certain Churchmen have only themselves to blame.

That's the reason the TTGC (see my tagline) exists. We will have a great deal of work to do. If Dreher is right, we will also need international memberships.

[Ghengis]

That's a strawman argument. No argument with God. Just the spokespeople within the church who think they have the moral authority to comment on the war. They can't even get their own house in order.

The New Testament warns us to not be like the Sadducees and Pharisees of their day. Essentially spending every day dispensing moral judgements while not having their own lives and houses in order.

[Petronski]

Precisely. But there are many here on FR, professed-Christians, who want that too. A few of them are posting to this thread.

[JohnnyZ]

That's what they claim. How many altarboys do you have to diddle to lose that claim?

How many millions of poor do you have to feed, billions of prayers do you have to pray, souls do you have to save, to get back that claim?

It's patently ridiculous to expect the Church on earth to be perfect. We are sinners, of course, but it's still God's truth we proclaim, which is perfect. And that's where the authority comes from.

[conservonator]

That they have let priests sexually abuse children? Nope. THat isn't a lie. It came out in their hearings that they KNOWLINGLY moved "problem" priests. Moved them so they could abuse sexually more unsuspecting children.

You want to defend that? Go right ahead.

Peach, can you point to any post by any freeper that actually defends the abuse of children by anyone, be they priest, bishop or other? Theres a difference between defending the divine institution that is the Church and defending those who serve as her administrators. Don't let your emotions cloud your ability to see clearly.

[Polycarp IV]

So you know what it's about? Can you tell now?

No, please disregard my last post, I just double-checked my source. I was incorrect, wrong story/newspaper.

[GOP Soccer Mom]

Things were different before Vatican II. I think that's been well-covered on this thread.

[B Knotts]

But similar, no?

[Salvation]

Realaity bump!