Posted on 11/23/2014 1:39:01 PM PST by BlatherNaut
The Jesuit tapped by Pope Francis to serve as the Vatican’s top clergy sex abuse prosecutor failed to remove an abusive priest from ministry even after learning about that priest’s long record, The Boston Globe reported today.
As the second-highest official with the Chicago Jesuits in the 1990s, the Rev. Robert J. Geisinger, SJ, was privy to documents chronicling the abuse of Rev. Donald J. McGuire, SJ, whom the Globe describes as “a globe-trotting priest with many influential supporters, including Mother Teresa of Calcutta.”
A review of Church records by the Globe’s Michael Rezendes shows that Geisinger had knowledge of McGuire’s abuse as early as 1995, and was still making internal recommendations as late as 2002.
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If Eric Holder worked for the Vatican....
Francis has really picking some winners to “mature” his “church”.
Fr. John Hardon SJ was told by a close friend of mine about McGuire’s abuse, and did nothing.
Up to a certain time in history, it seems never to have dawned on ANYBODY simply to call the police. One reads of hundreds of outraged, distraught parents, who complained again and again to chancellors and bishops—but never once picked up the phone to call the police themselves.
Fortunately, the government schools and Protestant churches have been free of problems of this kind.
It is stomach-turning (well, actually, O’Malley himself is stomach-turning) for O’Malley to be going after Finn. O’Malley, who just can’t get enough of snuggling with Joe Biden, John Kerry, and other pro-aborts.
O’Malley, Dolan, and Wuerl will one day be revealed for the scheming, conniving, SOB’s they really are.
Good point - an administrative complaint is for something like parking in your reserved spot.
When the offense is child abuse, it’s definitely time for the police.
Who are you to judge? ;-)
They thought they were shielding the Church from "scandal". That really worked out well.
Yes, he's one of the democrat-commies' favorite media props. He's popped up on the news again, right on cue, handing out turkeys and gushing over Obama's illegal executive action. Seems too slick to be merely a "useful idiot".
I’m so surprised........
Another thing that sickens me is the number of laity who sincerely believed that it was ALWAYS sinful to say anything negative about a priest, and that a priest could “send you to hell.”
The “old Church” was not perfect! I hope those two beliefs HAVE been sent to hell.
Amen! :)
Fr. John Hardon SJ was told by a close friend of mine about McGuire’s abuse, and did nothing. Up to a certain time in history, it seems never to have dawned on ANYBODY simply to call the police. One reads of hundreds of outraged, distraught parents, who complained again and again to chancellors and bishops—but never once picked up the phone to call the police themselves.
Interesting.
For the most part, yes...
Birds of a feather flock together...
They were in that case for quite some time...And no doubt they are still shielding scandal...
I wonder who ultimately turned this creep into the police...
But the so-called “old Church” didn’t officially teach the laity to believe this, did it?
No. But it was something that priests ought to have been at pains to correct, and instead they encouraged it. The stories are legion about parents who punished their children when the children reported sexual abuse. Not for nothing did so many abusers tell children: Nobody will believe you.
Shortly after my ordination, a friend gave me an article, which must have come from the early 20th Century. It seemed to be from a middle-borw Catholic journal. It was about “reverence for priests,” and it was stomach-turning. It made the point, over and over, that it is sinful to criticize priests, and anytime anyone says something critical about a priest, one should volunteer some explanation that exculpates the priest, etc.
I DID learn very quickly, on the other hand, that many, many people bash priests as a way of excusing themselves from basic obligations, like Sunday Mass, obeying the Church’s marriage law, etc.
I remember Fr. Rutler talking, very drily, about a priest he knew many years ago, whose favorite topic in the pulpit was “reverence for the priesthood.”
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