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To: Mike Fieschko
Your analysis captured the conclusion of the 'summit' - feeble, gratuitously arrogant and obtuse.

Evil will continue - will not be eliminated - unless it has been proven to be notorious [intentionally ambiguous - rape at high-noon in a downtown intersection] serial [twice, three times, ten times - who picks the threshold], predatory, sexual abuse of minors [looks like young men and women, seminarians or novices are still open season].

Business as usual, until the lawsuits dry up the wealth of the Church. I was wrong. I thought the loss of wealth would be THE motivator to burn out the nest of evil in our Church.

And parishioners should do penance for the sins of their priests? To think I had it backasswards all this time. I always thought it was the priests who had a vocation to do penance for the sins of their parishioners. Can't do one while enjoying the other.

Finally, my take on the "....reprimand individuals who spread dissent and groups which advance ambiguous approaches to pastoral care..." conclusion is to establish an offensive to gag public outrage at the evil in the Church, and a campaign to eliminate religious practices attempting to protect and continue pre-Second Vatican Council traditions.

93 posted on 04/26/2002 9:44:45 AM PDT by Robert Drobot
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To: Robert Drobot
And parishioners should do penance for the sins of their priests?

Vicarious atonement (doing penance for another's sins) goes back in the New Testament, to St Paul. Colossians 1:24; II Corinthians 12:15; II Timothy 4:6

In the Old, we find it in Exodus 32:31-32 and Job 1:5.
94 posted on 04/26/2002 10:05:33 AM PDT by Mike Fieschko
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