Posted on 11/09/2018 6:26:58 PM PST by marshmallow
SOUTH BEND, Indiana - To say the least, Father John Jenkins, President of the University of Notre Dame, doesn’t seem in denial about the gravity of the clerical sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the Church in recent months.
After the Pennsylvania grand jury report was released in August, Jenkins said the revelations “are particularly searing to me and the other priests with me today, whose commitment can seem so tarnished, so soaked in filth, by those who so badly abused it.” He pledged the university “will do all we can to create a safe, nurturing environment everywhere.”
Yet befitting an Oxford-educated philosopher, Jenkins also sees complexity in the abuse crisis, including something few people want to say out loud right now: “There’s a tendency, and I don’t think it’s a helpful tendency in this kind of situation, to turn the perpetrators into monsters.”
Jenkins was speaking specifically about ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was forced to resign from the College of Cardinals in June following credible accusations of abuse.
“[The tendency is] just to imagine that they are thoroughly corrupt people, but the problem is that it’s not true. It’s a part of their lives that is deeply problematic, but another part that is not. And that’s why it’s so hard to identify the problem, and sometimes, that person doesn’t seem to see the problem,” he told Crux in an exclusive interview Nov. 5.
(Excerpt) Read more at cruxnow.com ...
maybe. I looked up ND and all I could find was the abortion ontoversy
What he did is absolutely NO DIFFERENT from what Les Moonves did at CBS and what Harvey Weinstein did in Hollywood.
Pressuring a number of young, entry-level employees into sex in exchange for not kneecapping their careers.
It can’t be wrong for them and right for him.
For the record, That was Fr Norm Weslin, wasn't it?
Quite right my dear. I blame my fat, fickle fingers — or maybe this dadblame new keyboard?? :o)
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