Posted on 11/13/2018 6:37:24 PM PST by marshmallow
BALTIMORE - Following Monday’s shock announcement that the Vatican has requested the U.S. Catholic Bishops to delay voting on new standards for bishop accountability, survivors of sexual abuse and bishop accountability activists decried the move as “totally unacceptable.”
Terence McKiernan, co-director of BishopAccountability.org, called the move a “preemptive strike” by the Vatican against U.S. bishops as they seek to respond to the current crisis of sexual abuse and its cover-up “in a modest way.”
Peter Isley, a survivor of clerical sexual abuse who now works with the organization Ending Clergy Abuse, said the decision from the Vatican effectively means, “We care more about our organization and our princely titles and positions” than enacting measures of accountability.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is gathered in Baltimore this week for its General Assembly, in which they were expected to enact new standards of conduct and accountability for bishops engaged in sexual abuse or its cover-up. At the start of Monday’s meeting, however, USCCB president Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, announced that he had received a request on Sunday afternoon to postpone the vote until after a global summit on the crisis at the Vatican in February.
According to DiNardo, the request came from Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops.
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Guilty.
The foxes guarding the hen house are not going to expeditiously correct themselves, bear up under any meaningful accountability and issuing consequences is out of the question.
Why? Because old canon law and the Traditional Magisterium already addressed every factor and ENFORCED it.
The New Church has reconfigured all of that and all of Catholic identity that has been reflected since the time of the Apostles.
The old girl is gone. Mother Church is no longer in Rome, the facade is breached and strangers live there.
Let the new inhabitant strangers of a secular world keep the bricks and mortar and let the US Attorney Generals handle the USCCB. There is currently not quite enough motivation for the bishops to return to the faith. Smacked with RICO charges, fines and jail times they may be so inclined to leave or to live up to their own baptism and to their priestly charge just like the rest of us must.
I am so disappointed in the Catholic church. The Church has a profound responsibility to do what is right.
The Pope is destroying my church. He is not a Pope. He is a political activist and protector of a homosexual cabal in my church.
My simple question is why does he do this as it is destroying my church? What the hell is his agenda? It is common knowledge he is a socialist quasi Marxist. Why does he protect the homosexual corruption in my church.
I have not left my church, Rome under the present pope left me.
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Their are many many great and honorable priests. There is great corruption in the cardinals of Rome whom elected this Pope! This Pope is a reflection of the Cardinals. The corruption is deep in the church.
Least this corruption of the Cardinals is erased, my church will die.
I forgot to add this. This pope could easily cleanse my church and restore it to dignity by excommunicating any homosexual cardinal, bishop or priest and simply hand them over to civil authorities for prosecution for crimes they have done. Why does he protect them?
In my view he wants to change our Church from being a Christian faith into being some sort of a global left-wing political party.
He likely wants to lead whatever rump church is left, mobilizing it behind the agenda of George Soros & Co. Even if 1/4 the Church’s current size it would be a powerful force.
It is, plain and simple, a hijacking.
Does anyone really believe that things would change if they went ahead with the vote?
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