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Vatican Doubles Down on Inaction
Yesterday I wrote a post on how furious I am because the sex abuse crisis in the Church has hit very close to home with me and my family. And today we get this [fill in the blank].
What word is there to describe anger greater than fury?
President of U.S. Bishops’ Conference Issues Statement Following Meeting with Pope Francis
September 13, 2018
VATICAN CITY—Following a private audience with Pope Francis this morning in Vatican City, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston and President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued the following statement regarding the recent moral crisis in the American Catholic Church.“We are grateful to the Holy Father for receiving us in audience. We shared with Pope Francis our situation in the United States — how the Body of Christ is lacerated by the evil of sexual abuse. He listened very deeply from the heart. It was a lengthy, fruitful, and good exchange.
As we departed the audience, we prayed the Angelus together for God’s mercy and strength as we work to heal the wounds. We look forward to actively continuing our discernment together identifying the most effective next steps.” (emphasis mine)
Unbelievable.
It requires discernment together to identify the most effective next steps?
You have got to be kidding me.
Let me help you boys out. How about looking at all the files Vigano mentioned. That would be a good first step. That is where the answers lay.
These men are pathetic.
Wrap your head around this fact: the *Vatican press office* chose THIS photo to capture the moment the head of the US bishops and the pope's point person on sexual abuse were supposedly discussing thousands of crimes against children and a rehabilitated sexual monster cardinal… pic.twitter.com/rr0aZ3IFyj
— Thomas Peters (@AmericanPapist) September 13, 2018
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Published in Religion & Philosophy
I will try to find the story in which the pope was quoted as saying he would not be distracted by the abuse scandal because he had “bigger issues” to address, including the environment and immigration.
Wrath comes to mind…which is what these men will experience when they are finished on this mortal coil.
The photo reminded me of when we went to tour some parish schools in our area. One of them is the largest elementary school in the Archdiocese. The principal had a statue of Mary on her desk. That is about as Catholic as it got.
I don’t think they want to look at what Vigano referenced because they already know what is in it.
That was Cupich from Chicago in an interview with the local NBC affiliate.
“…actively continuing our discernment…”
What the heck does that even mean? I’m reminded of the “Endeavor to persevere” scene in The Outlaw Josey Wales.
I read it at this link: https://pjmedia.com/trending/cardinal-defends-pope-he-has-a-bigger-agenda-the-environment-protecting-migrants/
These people are disgusting.
Words escape me.
What in the wide wide world of sports are these “men” smiling, joking, and laughing about?
I have just typed, then deleted, about a dozen sentences…best not dwell on what they were…
The picture is bad PR. But that they didn’t immediately come out of the meeting with a directive is neither surprising nor remarkable.
The problems are decades in the making. The solutions can be carefully considered for a few weeks. We don’t know yet what action or inaction will result.
With this pathetic statement, this incredibly tin-eared related photo op and now the story at OnePeterFive on Cardinal DiNardo, I remove all personal benefit of the doubt for these so-called leaders to do the right thing and cleanse Christ’s Church of its filth. I hope and pray that everyone in that picture eventually resigns their clerical posts and is relegated to a quiet life of prayer in penance for what they have allowed to be perpetrated in His Church, without launching the required cleansing themselves before now.
And I also know that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. The Catholic Church will survive this in spite of its flawed human shepherds.
Happy Feast Day!
This article at National Review on the Catholic Crisis makes many good observations about the ‘civil war’ within the Church. “Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI v Pope Francis. However you want to define the “teams”, it is between those who want to cleanse the temple of this secular, non-spiritually based politically correct worldview filth (homosexuality is most certainly the problem, duh), and those who want to talk, discern, listen deeply, make meaningless statements and try to run out the clock on leaving the status quo as is.
That was Cupich, Cardinal Archbishop of
SodomChicago.And another one doubles down on stupid.
For crying out loud guys – think before you speak. This is just mind-boggling that he would say this. But I guess it is good to know where he stands. He also needs to go – obviously.
“Reform.” You keep using that word, Cardinal. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I think this is a new liturgical response to this news: Holy Crap:
The motto of the Lavender Mafia: The Theology of Tenderness
All Roads Lead to Washington D.C.
This is quite an interesting summary of where we stand to date re this scandal.
There’s a well established process of who gets selected for promotions – you’ll notice the Pontifical North American College in Rome is on Cardinal Dolan’s resume. These fellows aren’t chosen for their smarts.
Where are our Chrysostoms? Where are our Augustines? A half dozen of these guys could clean the mess in Rome. Maybe just one, in the right place.
Chrysostom was not successful in his own day. He kept running afoul of the emperor and died on the way to his final exile.
Augustine was watching the Vandals ransack and take over Carthage.
Sometimes the best and brightest are there to illumine the darkness.
Need a place to stay for your
vacationvocation ?Yes, Yesterday was the memorial feast of Chrysostom in the Catholic Church and a portion of his farewell homily was the second reading for the Hour of Readings. His enemies included the emperor’s wife and other bishops, but he refused to stop preaching against the abuses of the wealthy. He walked the walk all the way to his death. I don’t know how else you define success in Christianity.
I have not been a fan of Cardinal Dolan since he casually dismissed opposition to illegal immigration as xenophobia. It showed a surprising lack of charity.
I hope this is not true.
And this is the same man who says he hopes Wuerl stays in his job in DC because he is a great reformer.
This goes from one stupid, tone-deaf comment, to another.
Maybe the Pope was right – just shut your mouths boys and take action.
No more interviews or statements or policies or procedures.
ACTION.
Please.
Except that with men this bone-headed does one really have any hope that they would take appropriate action? It’s sorta like how I hope every tainted bishop will retire; except that Francis is the one appointing the replacements. Seems like a lose-lose to me.
Eye of the Tiber (the Catholic Onion) perhaps is starting to report real news:
Pope Francis Leads Summit On How To Pretend The Church Is Doing Something About The Abuse Scandal
Meanwhile…
Never been more glad to be an Anglican.
There is something strange about that report – we have it, we have the names, but we won’t report them? Who are they threatening. I am sick of all these games – if they have it they should publish the whole darn thing. Get it into the open. If Farrell is on it (doesn’t surprise anyone), fine. Whoever is on it, left, right or center, fire them all. Replace them with a bunch of recent seminary graduates. Hard to see how they could do any worse.