Benedict is guilty! guilty! guilty!

Catholic and Enjoying It ^ | April 5, 2010 | Mark Shea

[NYer]

...of laicizing two priests after lengthy canonical trials right in the middle of pushing to streamline a complex Vatican bureaucracy so as to facilitate more speedy outcomes. Per Fr. Z:

•Again, the abuse took place decades ago.
•He was suspended.
•There was a canonical trial.It was referred to Rome, the CDF, because it concerned a case of the confessional.
•It was determined that he should be dismissed from the clerical state.
•The priest appealed.
•The appeal process was drawn out for several years because the laws and canonical process of these clerical cases was being overhauled.
•Card. Ratzinger was the one who led the charge for the changes to streamline the process.
•When the new procedures went into effect, the Holy See moved swiftly to dismiss him from the clerical state.
•Once again this is a case of lawyers for victims who gave the documents (obviously incomplete) to the Associated Press.

Clearly, he should resign or be arrested and tried in Britain.

The frustrating thing for me about the press's recent vendetta against Benedict is that their insistence on battening on anything and everything as grounds for demanding his resignation and, if all goes well, his murder is that in defending Benedict against all the over-the-top hostility, it makes it very difficult to find the "middle ground" of common sense in the reforms that really do need to happen (including, if you ask me, a number of episcopal resignations). These MSM people seem to have no actual interest in the good of the Church or even in the good of victims who are not usefully Catholic. The only real focus appears to be self-congratulatory moralism and a thirst for Benedict's blood. So this week we are instructed that Benedict, who labored to fix a broken bureaucracy is guilty, guilty, guilty of... not being able to work miracles as he tried to laicize a couple of bad priests. Never mind that the priests were *not* reshuffled, nor that Benedict had no jurisdiction over them, nor that he never tried to hide their crimes, nor that he labored to laicize them in a crappy system he was trying to fix.

The net result of the press' vendetta against Benedict is going to be twofold. First, it will poison against him and the Church the great mass of know-nothings who get all their info from TV and water cooler talk. He will go down in history as that Pope Who was a Nazi Pervert or Something Like That among the sort of people who get all their information about the Church from E! and the Da Vinci Code. Meanwhile, it will harden Catholics who care about the Church from believing anything the MSM says--even when, like blind pigs, they find an actual truffle of news about a real pervert or real episcopal malfeasance.

Opposite evils, so far from balancing, aggravate each other. - C.S. Lewis

[MarkBsnr]

You wouldn’t happen to have a site address for this actual publication, would you? Looking through Google, I have only found reposts of this jpg. I have not found an actual text publication in a real magazine thus far. Could it be a fake?

[MarkBsnr]

If true, then hellfire itself is not good enough for them. Nor their protectors and enablers. In the first millennium, they had a saying that the floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops. This is as true now.

It does not render the Faith untrue. It did not then, and it does not now.

[MarkBsnr]

Let me go get my cowbell before the bishopaccountability blogcrew shows up.

Ah, but my friend, is it not well known that:

[Cardhu]

It really is unbelievable to what extent they will go to claim the church is the victim.

Of course they can be pretty sure they will not create a scandal among the faithful that is just about impossible. It is the rest of the world that is horrified by what is going on.

Here is a similar defense of the indefensible that echoes exactly what is going on here:

“Such suspicions are heightened by the report in the same article of the arrest of a Brazilian priest in early November, caught in a hotel room with four boys. Trying to defend his action, the 43-year-old priest Fr. Felix Carreiro stated, “I know 12 other priests who do the same thing” November 16, 2005)”

[mware]

Yes, St Anthony of Padua, Hammonton.NJ

Remember my priest is from Malta. Matter of fact my last two priests were from Malta.

They both loved to decorate the Church for Religious Holidays.

[terycarl]

I sincerely hope the Church fights back using every means at its disposal.
Oh I am sure they will - we are on number 8 of the Decalogue of Impunity, 2005

your posting of the “ decalogue” was about the most inane posting I’ve ever seen. You’re better silent letting people think you are stupid, than speaking and proving it

[terycarl]

It really is unbelievable to what extent they will go to claim the church is the victim.

oh please, you are obviously not able to handle being a Catholic...very difficult at times, but a person with even average intelligence does not condemn an entire organization for the actions of a few of her members.....Because many Americans abuse drugs, do we judge all Americans??????of course not. There are bad priests, there was a bad bishop in Milwaukee, but Catholocism is still the ONLY true christian church on earth.....there is no other....only Catholocism...you can’t make up exceptions...She’s the ONLY true church on earth

[RegulatorCountry]

Such fervor for your faith is admirable. It’s startling, in light of that fervor, that you can’t seem to spell the name of it correctly.

[terycarl]

Such fervor for your faith is admirable. It’s startling, in light of that fervor, that you can’t seem to spell the name of it correctly.

C A T H O L I C......looks good to me

[RegulatorCountry]

There are bad priests, there was a bad bishop in Milwaukee, but Catholocism is still the ONLY true christian church on earth.....there is no other....only Catholocism...

Please note the two words in bold.

[Religion Moderator]

Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.

[Running On Empty]

Why not just let it go.
The “i” and the “o” are next to each other on the keyboard.

Just think of it as a typo and move on.

Life is short
and will soon be past.
Only what’s done for Christ
will last.

[MarkBsnr]

You folks wouldn’t be able to post a proper link to this putative Decalogue, would you. I am still unable to find a proper link to a real print magazine anywhere. If we cannot establish a real magazine printing a real article from the real Church, then I would expect a retraction in as public a fashion as the accusation was made.

[terycarl]

There are bad priests, there was a bad bishop in Milwaukee, but Catholocism is still the ONLY true christian church on earth.....there is no other....only Catholocism...
Please note the two words in bold.

what about them, they are a reference to the CATHOLIC church, Catholocism is the practice of being a Catholic. I might have said that Catholocism is the only true practice of Christianity on earth......but you get the idea....either be a Catholic or be a pseudo christian....your choice

[Revolting cat!]

NYer is one of the best Catholics I know. She

She? If she were a she, she'd have been a 'NYerine', no?

[MarkBsnr]

She? If she were a she, she'd have been a 'NYerine', no?

You tell her that. I won't.

[RegulatorCountry]

As I mentioned before, your zeal is admirable, even if your spelling is not, and it’s surely odd that you persist in misspelling the name of the faith you profess so strongly.

[terycarl]

As I mentioned before, your zeal is admirable, even if your spelling is not, and it’s surely odd that you persist in misspelling the name of the faith you profess so strongly.

your lack of understanding the English language is laughable

[netmilsmom]

Are you talking about post 18?