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Second Miss. priest eyed in abuse: Both clerics served while Law was vicar
Boston Herald (print edition)
| June 7, 2002
| Robin Washington
Posted on 06/07/2002 6:07:04 AM PDT by maryz
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posted on
06/07/2002 6:07:05 AM PDT
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maryz
To: Antoninus; Aquinasfan; Askel5; Cicero; Gophack; eastsider; saradippity; american colleen...
I seem to recall that in the last issue of First Things, Fr. Neuhaus says that, according to friends of Law, he is waiting for a moment to leave "gracefully."
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posted on
06/07/2002 6:10:53 AM PDT
by
maryz
To: maryz
If Law had been allowed to resign back in March and April and disappear a lot of these revelations about him wouldn't be coming to light. When you drive wrecklessly and cause an accident you don't just abandon the car and walk away from the scene. I hope his fellow bishops are paying attention to what happens when arrogance and indifference consume a person. Hopefully there will be many more depositions for Bernard in the future.
To: SMEDLEYBUTLER
There's an article on the Boston Globe that doesn't reflect well on him, either. I'll go post it if no one else has by the time I get there.
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posted on
06/07/2002 6:53:36 AM PDT
by
maryz
To: maryz
For the good of the victims and for the faithful, Law should resign. Every day new revelations show him complicit to these crimes. His lack of action or explicit cover-ups are despicable for a man who is a successor to the Apostles. What did Jesus say about a milestone?
To: ThomasMore
What makes Cardinal Law any different than most of the Cardinals? It is just a matter of degree, IMO. There have been more accused priests here in Massachusetts, I believe - were/is there just more priests per capita or is it because we live in the "bastion of liberals"?
Cardinal Law was supposedly one of the most conservative Cardinals in the USA. I guess it "depends on what the meaning of conservative is..." CYA has no ideology, it appears.
To: ThomasMore
His lack of action or explicit cover-ups are despicable for a man who is a successor to the Apostles. "But, Ma, everyone else is doing it!"
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posted on
06/07/2002 8:05:15 AM PDT
by
maryz
To: SMEDLEYBUTLER
I hope his fellow bishops are paying attention to what happens when arrogance and indifference consume a person. I used to think that Cardinal Law was corrupted by the "pomp and circumstance" of being a Cardinal. Nice surroundings, fancy dinners, a suck-up entourage, etc., etc. But, it appears that Cardinal Law was guilty of the cover-up crime way before he came to Boston.
To: american colleen
Law's resume supposedly brags about how active he was in the civil rights movement in the 60's and 70s.
Fight for the civil rights of one group, and blatantly allow the civil rights of another group to be grossly violated.
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posted on
06/07/2002 8:15:01 AM PDT
by
sinkspur
To: sinkspur
Fight for the civil rights of one group, and blatantly allow the civil rights of another group to be grossly violated. Isn't that what civil rights are these days? ;-)
To: sinkspur
Fight for the civil rights of one group, and blatantly allow the civil rights of another group to be grossly violated. I noticed some time back that none of the predators had ever been assigned to predominantly black or Hispanic parishes. Coincidence?
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posted on
06/07/2002 8:28:23 AM PDT
by
maryz
To: maryz
Well, the black priest from Baltimore who was shot a couple of weeks back by his abuser is a notable exception.
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posted on
06/07/2002 8:35:24 AM PDT
by
sinkspur
To: american colleen
In another context on another thread, someone gave the following link
The Symbiotic Relationship Between Liberals and Conservatives, which includes the following on Cardinal Law:
The same situation [as Bush looks very conservative next to Bill/Hillary/Al] exists to an even greater extent in the Catholic church. Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, he who has occupied so many headlines recently, is often called a "conservative" bishop. I lived in Boston, and I can tell you that, even leaving aside the current scandals, he is nothing of the sort. For example, after a shooting at an abortion clinic (by a delusional psychotic gunman), he prohibited public pro-life displays in the diocese. He doesnt want to be "confrontational," any more than he wants to be confrontational with the Kennedys when its photo-op time at a funeral. The same Cardinal Law who last month led all the American cardinals to Rome for a face-saving PR opportunity had previously led the same group over to Rome a few years back in an (unsuccessful) attempt to pressure Rome into approving the "inclusive-language" Bible readings that he was responsible for producing. Cardinal Law is considered a conservative only because liberals like Archbishop Weakland are even worse. Without the cover provided by bishops like Weakland in Milwaukee and Mahoney in Los Angeles, Law would have been exposed as a modernist years ago.
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posted on
06/07/2002 8:35:54 AM PDT
by
maryz
To: sinkspur
Well, the black priest from Baltimore who was shot a couple of weeks back by his abuser is a notable exception.
Sorry - I should have specified that I meant in Boston.
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posted on
06/07/2002 8:37:38 AM PDT
by
maryz
To: american colleen
What makes Cardinal Law any different than most of the Cardinals?Good question!
To: maryz; american colleen; sinkspur; all
The overall problem here is CYA homosexuality. It is rampant in the priesthood. I believe if they laicized all actively homosexual priests we'd lose 50%. Is Law or has Law ever been actively homosexual? With so much of this crap being uncovered, and with his cover-up track record, who knows. This is not gossip. I'd just like to know how extensive the damage is. How deep does this iceburg go? Will we see a solution to this in our lifetime?
To: ThomasMore
Is Law or has Law ever been actively homosexual? With so much of this crap being uncovered, and with his cover-up track record, who knows. Your guess is as good as mine. The article, however, seems to be inserting a little innuendo, whether it has any basis in truth or not:
Records from the Josephinium seminary in Columbus, Ohio, where Law and Broussard were ordained, show they were classmates from the late 1950s until 1961, according to a seminary spokesman. Both sought assignment to the Natchez Diocese after ordination. And according to a classmate of both men, Bill Riley of Newton, the two were very close friends at the seminary.
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posted on
06/07/2002 9:46:52 AM PDT
by
maryz
To: maryz
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posted on
06/07/2002 10:42:56 AM PDT
by
NYer
To: NYer
Thanks for the link!
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posted on
06/07/2002 10:56:33 AM PDT
by
maryz
To: NYer;maryz;;americancolleen;antoninus;howlinglymindbendingabsurdity;BlackElk;CatholicGuy;redhead...
That link is terrific,there are several blurbs that make incredible sense. One in particular by the someone in the Peoria Diocese that rings so true.
There is also a link to a letter from an anonymous sex abuser(one-time)priest that every single person who is angrily demanding "one time and you're out" should read.It explains a whole lot,not only about what the circumstances of the "abuse" were but especially about why some bishops may appear to cover for them.
From the beginning of this whole mess,I have tried to convey my thought that we who love the Church and see the teachings of Christ as the only hope for mankind,must be especially careful not to step into a nice big grave that the "enemy",temporal and spiritual, have dug out for just this purpose;that is,to bury us.
Sometimes,it seems to me,that only when I pray to the Holy Spirit for the grace to think with the mind of the Church,do I see things clearly and understand.
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