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Friday April 23, 2010


News Briefs on Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse IV

Compiled by Steve Jalsevac

Pope replaces George Bush as the Man Some People Love to Hate – David Quinn, the Independent

Those circles include aggressive secularists, angry ex-Catholics and some within the Catholic Church itself who still suffer from the delusion that the purpose of the Second Vatican Council was to turn the church into another form of failed liberal Protestantism.

The paradox of relativism is that it claims to treat all points of view equally but in fact it damns and condemns those who deny relativism. In other words, relativists defend their point of view as trenchantly and aggressively as the worst fundamentalists and will brook no opposition.

The Pope calls this ultra-aggressiveness the ‘dictatorship of relativism’. The main reason these liberal fundamentalists spend so much of their time and energy attacking the Pope and the church is because they are the foremost defenders of objective truth and morality in the world today.

Destroy Benedict, damage or co-opt the church he leads, and you go a long way towards destroying opposition to liberal fundamentalism. This is a cataclysmic battle between those who believe in objective morality and those who think morality is relative. Joseph Ratzinger is smack bang in the middle of the hottest part of this battle.

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/david-quinn-pope-replaces-george-bush-as-the-man-some-people-love-to-hate-2149358.html

The Limits of the Papacy By George Weigel

…the image persists that the Catholic Church is a kind of global corporation, with the pope as CEO, the bishops as branch managers, and your parish priest as the local salesman. And according to that image, the pope not only knows what’s going on all the way down the line, he gives orders that are immediately obeyed all the way down the line.

The pope’s capacity for governance is also shaped by the quality of his closest associates, and by the accuracy and timeliness of the information he receives from the Roman Curia via the the nuncios and apostolic delegates who represent the Holy See and the pope around the world. Papal governance can also be undermined by inept subordinates.

…the fact remains that the overwhelming responsibility for turning the scandal of clerical sexual abuse into a full-blown Church-wide crisis lays at the feet of irresponsible local bishops, and unfortunately of bishops who bought the conventional wisdom about therapeutic “cures” for sexual predators. That underscores the imperative of getting episcopal appointments right and of removing bishops whose failures destroy their capacity to govern:

https://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.4123/pub_detail.asp

Abuse victim in Malta: Pope Benedict XVI is a ‘saint’

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/abuse_victim_in_malta_pope_benedict_xvi_is_a_saint/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catholicnewsagency%2Fdailynews+%28CNA+Daily+News%29

New Miami Bishop Wenski: Pedophile Priests are Old News

Basically they’re talking about a crisis that, at least in the church here and the United States, has been surmounted. …it’s a crisis that has been surmounted by the church.

https://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/features-the-religion-world/2010/04/22/bishop-wenski-speaks-to-pedophile-scandal/

Spanish Expert Agrees Pedophilia Linked to Homosexuality

The newspaper, El Diaro de Chile, published an article last week by Spanish psychologist Jose Maria Amenos Vidal titled, “Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone and the scientific evidence that supports the relationship between homosexuality and pedophilia.” The author asserts that the cardinal was correct in affirming such a link during his visit to Chile. …the “social environment is indeed (homosexuality’s) main trigger.”

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/expert_agrees_that_pedophilia_is_linked_to_homosexuality/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catholicnewsagency%2Fdailynews+%28CNA+Daily+News%29

First Europe, then the US – now abuse claims sweep Latin America

Reports of priests raping or abusing minors have now emerged in Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, Mexico and Chile causing growing anger in a continent that is home to nearly half the world’s Catholics

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/first-europe-then-the-us-ndash-now-abuse-claims-sweep-latin-america-1950716.html

Catholic Bishop Mixa Tenders His Resignation

German Bishop Walter Mixa has resigned amid charges that he physically abused teenagers at an orphanage. Mixa wrote to the pope after the head of German bishops’ conference called on him to take a leave of absence

https://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5491508,00.html

Pope accepts resignation of Irish Bishop following sex abuse report

https://www.romereports.com/palio/index.php

Did Priest Sex Scandal Lead Miami Archbishop to Resign Early?

in 2008, New Times writer Tom Francis offered one compelling portrait of why Favalora might be “unsuited”: He was involved in protecting the Rev. Neil Doherty, who has been charged criminally and in civil suits of drugging and molesting dozens of boys in Miami.

Favalora was also given a report by parishioners at St. Vincent’s in Margate, alleging Doherty had stolen from the till and hired a male prostitute with the cash. Favalora later drafted a letter saying he investigated the claims and found them “baseless.

https://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/04/did_priest_sex_scandal_lead_mi.php

Setting the Record Straight on National Catholic Register Defence of Fr. Maciel by Father Owen Kearns

Doing this thoroughly requires setting the record straight regarding previous Register coverage of the abuse scandal surrounding Father Marcial Maciel.

https://www.ncregister.com/site/article/setting_the_record_straight1/

Hans Kung’s Long Goodbye by Michael Brendan Dougherty

So long as boomers make decisions in the media, we’ll be stuck with documentaries extolling the 1960s counterculture. Similarly, we will stop hearing about “the spirit of Vatican II” (and probably most of the texts) once those boomer priests are falling into their graves, as they are starting to do.

https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8006&Itemid=48