Victims Of Clergy Abuse Call For October Summit In Rome

Two of the five sex abuse victims who met Pope Benedict XVI during his April 2008 visit to the United States, and who pledged at the time to "hold his feet to the fire," have announced plans to stage a "Day of Reformation" for the Catholic church in Rome on Oct. 31, amid a mushrooming crisis which threatens to engulf the pope himself.

Bernie McDaid and Olan Horne, who met Benedict XVI on April 17, 2008 -- the first-ever meeting between a pope and survivors of sexual abuse -- said today that they intend to gather thousands of victims, along with church reform activists and ordinary "people in the pews," in Rome on Oct. 31. They're asking that Benedict XVI participate, and that the event be simulcast to Catholic churches around the world.

They also called on priests "who know in their hearts that their church is in dire need of change" to join them.

That is why is the best and most powerful weapon, prayer. It is even sweeter then candy itself is prayer.

The Pope will need them!

What's important, Horne said, is not the name of the event, but the "fundamental and systemic change" he believes is required. McDaid said that he hopes the Vatican, and Pope Benedict XVI personally, grasp the magnitude of the crisis facing the Catholic church. "I told the pope when I met him that you have a cancer in your flock, and you need to do something about it," McDaid said. "It's been two years now, and little has been done."

The only "change" which is required is for the bishops and seminary rectors to once again start believing and following the Church's own teaching on these matters. No lavender boys should be ordained. Sexual abuse is not the same as influenza or a Salmonella infection; i.e. it won't be cured by a trip to a physician. It's demonic and some demons come out only through prayer and fasting. Satan has no fear of head shrinks and "counselors" so no more sending perps to "therapy" or other New Age nonsense.

Keep the homosexuals out of the seminaries and seek spiritual solutions to spiritual problems.

Grandstanding. These groups always pretend that sin is the sole province of the Catholic Church, rather than the universal condition of mankind. It’s not true, and pretending it is will not prevent any future sin, much less “un-happen” what happened to past victims of sexual abuse.

It is clear that certain people are exploiting and fanning the clerical sex abuse scandal to promote the Modernist agenda of getting rid of the hierarchy and creating a lay-run church. The Church does not need their brand of radical change, a change that would turn it into something like the mainline Protestant denominations, which are dying because they don’t stand for anything any more. Fortunately, the Pope and the bishops are not going to cave into calls for this kind of change. The Church will weather this storm as it has weathered many others.

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