BREAKING: Church uncovers [NEW!!!] file on Shanley NAMBLA activity

Boston Herald ^ | 4-25-2002 | Maggie Mulvihill and Robin Washington

[redhead]

"Where could one get a membership list for NAMBLA? Is there a central office anywhere?"

I would imagine that this would be an incredibly tightly-guarded secret. If one were a highly-placed, much-respected individual, one would NOT wish his name to be made public by any means. I would suspect that they do not even keep a mailing list, but simply repsond to their members on a piece-by-piece mail system: "You mail me this, I'll mail you that, and neither of us will know more than the mailing address of the other..."

[redhead]

" In fact, I believe the proposol called for simply closing down all the seminaries for a year and then re-opening them with all new staffs."

Great minds... Isn't this almost word for word what I said last week? This (in my estimation) is the only sure and speedy way to deal with the evil in the seminaries. Shut them down if there is any proof that even one of their graduates is an abuser or an enabler. Keep them closed for a year.

This is a relatively brief time, and will also give sufficient time for the seminarians to either run for cover if they are flits or to apply at a more obedient seminary if they have a genuine call.

After one year, reopen them one at a time, and staff them ONLY with graduates from reliable seminaries. NO WOMEN. NO SEXUAL INDETERMINATES. If a candidate cannot certify that he is not only heterosexual but CHASTE, he should not be accepted.

At the rate of one opening a year, the staffing of these revised seminaries will be a little more easily accomplished. If a shortage of parish priests is a result of this closure, request interim priests from third-world countries. Catholics have been limping along without genuine episcopal leadership in most dioceses for the last 20 or 30 years, anyway, so losing a bishop here and there will not cause any real problems in the pews. (I know... I understand these ideas are generalizations.)

[Bonaparte]

I'm sure Bernard Law has always been a charming and loyal friend to you. Ted Bundy was a charming and loyal friend to Anne Rule. She denied that he ever could have committed any of the crimes he was arrested for, and she was a cop. Illusions die hard, don't they? Do you suppose there is a reason why the Pope has not only removed Bernard Law from his post but from the United States -- and that he did all this after Law steadfastly refused to step down? I don't know how much you've studied the atrocities Geoghan perpetrated on his innocent charges. I've studied them in some depth and if Law knew even a tenth of what I know and had a conscience, he would have had the man arrested immediately.

End of transmission. You may now proceed to kill the messenger.

[SuziQ]

End of transmission. You may now proceed to kill the messenger.

I'm not gonna kill you, but last time I looked Cardinal Law is still in Boston, despite the screaming over the airwaves that he was going to try to skip town to avoid being deposed. Everyone assumes they KNOW what he's going to do; why don't they just wait and see what he does? If he were planning to skip town, would he have even COME BACK from Rome? I'm sure he would have loved to have stayed in Boston to continue the changes he had begun, but probably realized that doing so would only keep the Church in a negative spotlight. I'm sure the liberal Catholics are dancing in the streets; they've been trying to get rid of him for YEARS!

My brother in law told me a couple of weeks ago that this would probably happen, that Law would end up in Rome. But those who are thrilled that he's out of the way here may not be so happy later because he may be more trouble for them from there.

[Notwithstanding]

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[Bonaparte]

I, too, discounted the rumors about Law's contemplated "flight" from Boston. Afterall, he's hardly another Shanley, and no one, including myself, has ever accused him of being dumb. In fact, he's a very capable man, and I'm certain that the Vatican will find good use for his talents in an area that does not expose the See to further troubles.