Posted on 03/09/2011 6:16:29 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced Tuesday that it had suspended 21 priests from active ministry in connection with accusations that involved sexual abuse or otherwise inappropriate behavior with minors.
The mass suspension was the single-most sweeping in the history of the sexual-abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, said Terence McKiernan, president of BishopAccountability.org, which archives documents from the abuse scandal in dioceses across the country.
The archdiocese’s action follows a damning grand jury report issued Feb. 10 that accused the archdiocese of a widespread cover-up of predatory priests, stretching over decades, and said that as many as 37 priests remained active in the ministry despite credible accusations against them.
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We all need to forgive those who have repented - but we can forgive them while they sit in jail just as easily as forgiving them while they play golf...
Amen!
I’m sorry but this is a really odd thing to say. “Clergy dominated by men with a lot of baggage”. You do realize that over 90% of Catholic priests are NOT deviants, right? They are incredibly holy men devoted to their calling.
The story three times, the identical news article only twice.
Well, twice so far anyway.
You must have a Ph.D in psychology. That was absolutely brilliant psychoanalysis on the typical Catholic seminarian.
The story would have been front page news.
Twenty-one RC pastors suspended in one city! Rome outdoes itself.
Well, I guess the goal here is to make sure than everyone in the world knows about it because there are never any jokes or snide comments about priests and little boys. I’m sure there is still someone out there that is unaware of the very small percentages of deviant priests.
‘Tis true, in the USA anyway. They are all very spoiled and privileged boys who never grew up.
In the ‘forties, they hid out in the seminaries to avoid the draft. While real Catholic men were fighting and dying for their country.
Yep. Never miss a chance.
Many thanks! I’ll have to bookmark that for a later read.
How many have been falsely accused? (There is $$$$ in it, and plenty of it.) We’ll never know. Remember the ‘recovered memory’ mania? This is the same.
I will stand with you, I do not revel and exult when I see a Christian fall and there are many more standing silently with you. It is one thing to express shock and sadness, it is another to relish rubbing salt into the wounds. Even if this turns out to be larger, there are saintly directives in what we need to do.
“What then should a Catholic do if some part of the Church were to separate itself from communion with the universal Faith? What other choice can he make but to prefer to the gangrenous and corrupted member the whole of the body that is sound. And if some new contagion were to try to poison no longer a small part of the Church, but all of the Church at the same time, then he will take the greatest care to attach himself to antiquity which, obviously, can no longer be seduced by any lying novelty.” (Commonitorium)
ST. VINCENT OF LERINS (400-450 AD) CONFESSOR OF THE CHURCH
MSM lies? Well, not when it fits our agenda, right?
Let us say, hypothetically, that 25 priests have been accused. And let us say that among the accusers have been 50 false accusers. (This is, by the way, nothing hypothetical, the false accusers in all cases outnumber the accused priests.) What is then the moral scandal? You choose yours (the one that MSM chooses for you), I choose mine.
One woman named Bella Dodd who had been the co-chairman of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) testified before a house or senate committee in the late 40's that she had placed many men in the seminaries from the 20's on,they were to infiltrate the seminaries and consequently through the years,the Church. I believe the thought and intent was that by the 60's the Church would be destroyed from within.
She left the party and became Catholic.She wrote a book that is hard,but possible,to find,it was called "The Edge Of Darkness".
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