Posted on 11/18/2018 4:02:01 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
I'm addressing you-all, Al Kresta, Prof Janet Smith & Dr Greg Popcak, as a group because you three, prominent Catholic figures are involved in the effort to recover from institutional sexual abuse; you are mentioned in Rod Dreher's American Conservative" article "Where To Now, Bishops? And Laity? wrapping up the recent US Catholic Bishops' conference; and you are at least peripherally involved in the No More Victims support group.
This is to question, whether significant traction in the slippery, post-MacCarrick abuse situation can't be gained by resorting to abuse-handling standards routine in ordinary, secular professional regulatory bodies like state Attorney Bar organizations and state Medical Boards?
Faithful Catholics tend to reside in a small pond, talking to one another but without easy resort to secular remnants of the western civil tradition. But you should be easily able to apply this leverage against the intellectually sloppy excuses emanating from the current Vatican administration and its American proxies.
In a word, can't the US Bishops' administrative structure be forced to apply the same professional reporting standards routinely maintained by secular Attorney and Physician regulatory bodies?
Mandatory Reporter laws and regulations dominate professional and semi-professional life all over America, and presumably something similar prevails all over the first, western world.
Are the US Bishops going to be allowed to slide under the radar on the pretext that "only the Pope can judge Bishops"? That's only a limitation of jurisdiction, but regardless of which court holds jurisdiction, even a heavily private Papal court, we're supposed to be accountable to the broader professional reporting standards, including those in the Safe Environment sphere in the US Catholic Church.
If we fail to be alert to these issues, we will find ourselves at a severe disadvantage trying to resist the secular culture's destructive movements if we allow our house has to be cleaned up by government prosecutors instead of cleaning up our own Augean Stables.
Hilaire Belloc wrote about how negligence of ordinary procedures caused the Protestant Reformation to be supported by adverse historical trends in British history, without which the Reformation would have died on the vine.
At the time that the 3rd century celtic British king Vortigern invited mercenaries Hengist and Horsa to fight the Picts, and himself suffered invasion as these Anglo-Saxons overstayed their welcome, the established, native Blue-Face, celtic Briton Catholic Church hierarchy refused to evangelize the Anglo-Saxon cultural interlopers, setting up England for going with the Reformation. This in Belloc's book Europe and the Faith, free on Kindle.
My personal story relating how this issue came to my attention, is in this article's comment section.
He wasn't allowed to freely Pass the Trash from California to Colorado.
My daughter had Tourette's Syndrome. Her doctor was David Rosenthanl, MD. She stopped being seen by him by age 11, prior to puberty. She was never bothered by him.
But as reported in the news https://psychiatricfraud.org/tag/david-k-rosenthal/, Dr. Rosenthal went to jail for improper sexual contact with a sex-abuse patient he was seeing. He is a 3-time loser, having been disciplined by state Medical Boards a sufficient number of time to conclude that he should not be practicing medicine.
But the system worked. Why can't this ordinary discipline be applied to the Catholic Church?
My daughter's ticks were extreme. Tourette's ticks are widely misunderstood. They are categorized as verbal and motor. My daughter's were largely motor. She would jerk her head. "Nicky, why do you do that, you'll hurt your neck." "I know, but it feels good to do it." Russian Emperor Peter the Great displayed the same tick. The base motive of Tourette's Syndrome is really to suffer overwhelming urges to perform odd actions, not neurologically involuntary, repetitive actions.
Dr. Rosenthal treated Nicky with behavioral therapy and tried several pharmaceutical prescriptions. Their visits concluded before she went through puberty, and he never bothered her.
I needed to consult with Dr. Rosenthal about a medical matter. (I had worked out a treatment for bad handwriting, the most common Tourette's learning disability. I had discovered that the problem is really in auditory processing, called dysphasia.) I emailed Dr. Rosenthal about this at his current practice in Colorado, which you can easily find by searching for "david rosenthal adhd".
"How did you find me?", replied Dr. Rosenthal. Well, you're on the internet, and you have books on Amazon.
The regulatory bodies which disciplined Dr. Rosenthal hold the same standards as the secular majority, including the sexual radical policies which are taking over our whole society. It might be presumed that, when the current version of "After the Ball" has changed the whole framework of civil standards, so that sex with children is permitted on Humbert's "Lolita" pretext that "she seduced me", the boundary violations that got Dr. Rosenthal will still be in place, because patients, as much as seminarians, are vulnerable to exploitive compulsion by professional authority figures, whether they be therapists, attorneys, or Catholic Priests.
One of the articles at your kink is about a CO doctor suspected of 6 deaths in CO, and 36 in NM.
Are you quite sure these bodies are good enough?
Moreover, I rather suspect that some, like Weinstein, are allowed to get away with their depredations because they make money for their institution, HR boards aside.
I think only a linked but independent review board will suffice.
The Laveder Maria will first neutralize in Church secular review boards.
They are liars and murderers from the beginning, like their father.
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil ....
It’s pretty bad when that which calls itself a church has to look to the world for the right way to deal with moral issues in it.
In that case, it would seem that there is no solution.
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