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Cardinal Law's Aide Told Victim: "Sex Acts by Priest Are Expressions of Affection"
Boston Globe ^ | 4/12/02 | Sacha Pfeiffer

Posted on 04/12/2002 7:00:37 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

In 1988, several weeks after Pollard reported his alleged sexual abuse by the Rev. George Rosenkranz to the Archdiocese of Boston, the church official who handled abuse complaints said he found nothing to justify removing the priest from ministry.

The Rev. John B. McCormack, now bishop of Manchester, N.H., said Rosenkranz merely had ''sexual issues,'' adding that what Pollard viewed as abuse - acts that included Rosenkranz's request that he masturbate in front of him - may simply have been expressions of affection, according to Pollard.


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To: another cricket
Alert to sex offenders: TOUCH MY CHILD AND I WILL KILL YOU!
21 posted on 04/12/2002 8:02:20 AM PDT by RAT Patrol
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To: drstevej
This is a clarion call for massive spiritual reform in the RC church.

The good Lord above is allowing this thinning of His ranks to have a more purified priesthood.
It is extremely painful especially for the victims and the truly dedicated priests.

Thank you, Cardinal Bernadin, wherever you are.
(/sarcasm)

22 posted on 04/12/2002 8:08:01 AM PDT by Slyfox
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To: Dr. Scarpetta;*SASU; JMJ333; Tourist Guy; EODGUY; abandon; Khepera; Dakmar; RichInOC; RebelDawg...
Homosexuals and other perverts are no danger to society. The kids should just sit back and enjoy it while they can. The parents should be happy their children have had the opportunity to be exposed to sex in a loving way by the church officials involved. < /sarcasm>

When is America going to wake up?

23 posted on 04/12/2002 8:14:13 AM PDT by Khepera
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To: ArrogantBustard
I know, I overreacted to "take a hike" by a few magnitudes and apologise to those I offended.

I have no problem with the RC Church and agree it is an attempt to subvert the true church. I think your members have been on the right side of this all along, you have to admit that your leadership has been lacking tho.

24 posted on 04/12/2002 8:14:41 AM PDT by steve50
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
Cardinal Law's Aide Told Victim: "Sex Acts by Priest Are Expressions of Affection"

Okay. As long as that blackjacking I give good father in return is considered a friendly pat on the head.

25 posted on 04/12/2002 8:15:51 AM PDT by Gumlegs
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To: Psalm 73
The best service people can perform in this crisis is to not allow the media to misuse the term pedophile. I have made that mistake myself, but the real truth is that pedophiles are very rare (thankfully!), they abuse pre-pubescent children, and are profoundly mentally ill.

The RC church has a problem with homosexuals, not pedophiles.

26 posted on 04/12/2002 8:17:31 AM PDT by eno_
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To: RAT Patrol
Alert to sex offenders: TOUCH MY CHILD AND I WILL KILL YOU!

And let the congregation say "Amen!"

I have nothing against Catholics or their church. I don't believe in holding grudges for 500 years but like most bureaucracies they have an "old boy network" and a disinclination to police their own. It is not just in this area either.

a. cricket

27 posted on 04/12/2002 8:19:25 AM PDT by another cricket
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To: steve50
This is a trying time to be a Catholic, brother.

you have to admit that your leadership has been lacking tho
Woefully so. I welcome any constructive suggestions.
28 posted on 04/12/2002 8:20:25 AM PDT by eastsider
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
"McCormack, Shanley, and Birmingham were seminary classmates"

The Church is like the canary in the coal mine. The deadly odor has been detected and all society should be warned. The homosexual plague has been visited upon the world and spread by religious groups, the media and the entertainment industry.

The real axis of evil that will destroy America is drugs, abortion and homosexuality. The wage of sin is death.

29 posted on 04/12/2002 8:22:42 AM PDT by ex-snook
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
The arrogance of these people is beyond belief even today.

But then with the BSA under fire and the homosexual agenda being shoved at us nightly on TV shows the movies and in public schools businesses jumping on the pro homosexual bandwagon, homosexual adoptions, marriages etc etc . Why not be arrogant , THEY ARE WINNING

Voters still send the Barney Franks and Garry Studs back to congress and Bush appoints openly homosexual people in this administration and it is characterized as Reaching Out

IT'S OVER FOLKS
Bad enough when the public schools are infiltrated and businesses are cowed and government officials seek to curry favor with the homosexual crowd but when the religious institutions are havens for them and the supposedly saintly Pope is mute from either being powerless or because his head is in the sand THERE AIN'T NO HOPE
30 posted on 04/12/2002 8:27:10 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: another cricket
like most bureaucracies they have an "old boy network" and a disinclination to police their own. It is not just in this area either.

I think it goes a bit beyond this. If it was just a relucance to police their own, why are they so punitive to heterosexual priests who leave the priesthood to marry?

These guys lose all of the money they put into their pension plan and are defrocked post haste.

And, as the article from two days ago proved, a nun who violated the dress code was fired because that was deemed a "breach of trust."

There was no problem with "policing their own" in those cases.

It is only in the case of oral and anal rape of boys that the Church fathers have a disinclination to police their own.

Makes you wonder why?

31 posted on 04/12/2002 8:31:34 AM PDT by 07055
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To: steve50
you have to admit that your leadership has been lacking tho.

Some of our bishops and priests have been and continue to be evildoers. Many have been negligent (at best), ignoring them. A few have been sterling examples of of what their vocation should be (Bruskewicz, for example).

AB

32 posted on 04/12/2002 8:32:57 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
I guess we should be thankful that there are official records that belie the coverup, lest these derelict bishops profane the sacrament of confession by hiding behind the seal of confession.
33 posted on 04/12/2002 8:35:04 AM PDT by eastsider
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To: eastsider
I welcome any constructive suggestions.

Remember that you asked for it. ;~)

I think, (I could be wrong) that the Church appoints Priests to a parish. What about letting the Parish elect the priest? They would have a chance to question the Parish where he was coming from and make at least a semi-informed decision on whether they want this man to lead them. I have noticed the churches, in general, who have the biggest problem with liberalism are those who appoint the church leaders.

There seems to be less of this in the churches that elect their pastors. The congregation serves as a check on the pastor to keep him from going too far off the rails and out of touch with the church body.

There is also swift justice available for wrong doing.

a. cricket

34 posted on 04/12/2002 8:37:56 AM PDT by another cricket
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To: eastsider
"I guess we should be thankful that there are official records that belie the coverup."

I am surprised those records still exist. I would be reluctant to put down on paper some of the stuff that has been turning up in press reports, and it would never have seen the inside of a file, paper or computer. These guys must simply have felt really safe for a long time.

35 posted on 04/12/2002 8:40:20 AM PDT by Irene Adler
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To: uncbob
"Voters still send the Barney Franks and Garry Studs back to congress..."

It's not just the homosexual immorality but also the heterosexual immorality that is accepted (Clinton, Condit, Gingrich, et al.). Perot was right on one thing... when he said, "If your wife can't trust you, why should we?"

Adultery and fornication surely aren't winked at in the Bible, how can a Protestant of Catholic lament only the vile sins of pedophilia and homosexuality?

The problem is larger than we are often willing to admit. America needs a heaven sent revival which begins (as true revivals do) with the household of faith first.

36 posted on 04/12/2002 8:40:56 AM PDT by drstevej
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To: eastsider
I was raised in the Protestant persuasion and we have had little luck in cleaning up or own act. I think organized religion on the whole has had some very serious problems the last couple of decades. Good luck
37 posted on 04/12/2002 8:41:52 AM PDT by steve50
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To: uncbob
the supposedly saintly Pope is mute from either being powerless or because his head is in the sand

I don't think he's either powerless or ignorant. I think he's letting the evildoers hoist themselves on their own petards. Wounds heal better when all the pus is allowed to drain, and all of the dead tissue identified and excised. Let's just get rid of the infection once and for all, and then healing can begin.

I think the Pope is very sick and tired of trying to talk sense into some members of the American hierarchy. He's been quoted, off the record, telling an aide, "They don't listen to me." He's at the point a parent reaches when, after telling a child again and again not to do something, he finally just gives up and lets nature teach the disobedient child a lesson.

38 posted on 04/12/2002 8:43:22 AM PDT by Campion
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
You remind me of former posters faith_j and viva la homeschool. You aren't really interested in seeing good catholics clean house--sweeping away the homosexual infiltrators. You have an agenda.

I have no problem with legitimaite criticism of the pedohilia, but you are gunning for the destruction of my faith. Too bad for you...that isn't going to happen.

39 posted on 04/12/2002 8:44:51 AM PDT by JMJ333
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To: 07055
I think it goes a bit beyond this.

Of course but much of the root is there.

If it was just a relucance to police their own, why are they so punitive to heterosexual priests who leave the priesthood to marry?

You overlooked a very important point, These priests left the priesthood. Once you are out then you are no longer under the shadow of the bureaucracy’s protection.

a. cricket

40 posted on 04/12/2002 8:45:42 AM PDT by another cricket
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