Bill Donohue is arguing against all the hysteria. Any thoughts? I respect Bill as a common sense New Yorker. He was up in arms during the 90s.
Bill should take a long walk off a short pier.
He’s covering for the homoclergy demonocracy.
I think the time for hysteria is way past, and there’s got to be some action: the sacking of a number of Cardinals and bishops, and the resignation of the Enabler in Chief, aka Francis, aka Jorge Bergoglio. He was hated in Argentina for his corruption and hasn’t returned to his “native land” since his election. He’s entirely of upper middle-class Italian immigrant parentage, and didn’t speak Spanish until he entered school at the age of 5 or 6 and has always despised Spanish speakers unless they were useful to him.
As for Bill Donohue, I think he (like JPII) is trying to ignore the corruption in order to protect the institution because he thinks it does more good than harm. That is probably true, but faith in the institution has been so seriously undermined that it’s only by stepping outside and demanding a total re-do that the institution will revive. BXVI, who laicized 800 priests and quietly removed something like 50 bishops, tried to challenge the model but he wasn’t strong enough and was under total assault from all sides and was driven out. Not encouraging and maybe Bill Donohue, like BXVI, is just too old to be able to pick up his sword and shield and go back to fight the dragon.
I am in charge of a non-profit associated with an historic site under the local cathedral in a majority Protestant or, actually, atheist town, and frankly, I’m not even sure how we’ll fundraise or exist anymore. The Church is such an object of ridicule here that I don’t even want to connect our group with it.
In this diocese we had fairly limited public scandals. That’s because some of them may not yet be known except to insiders but probably will be known soon, since the state AG is starting investigations.
I know that our (archdiocesan) seminary was considered a “pink palace” and good candidates were kicked out or their ordination was delayed as much as possible. The only thing that may protect us is that this happened under liberal (that is, arm-chair lefty) bishops and nobody in the press wants them to look bad. But I know the storm is heading our way.