Sunday, April 11, 2010

Catholics disappointed with Vatican's handling of sexual-abuse scandals – by Charley Honey | The Grand Rapids Press


Catholics want a pastor for a pope, not a politician.

That’s the sense I am getting from watching the latest wave of the sexual-abuse scandal flood the church and lap right up to the feet of Pope Benedict XVI.

Amid the stunning revelations of new abuse accusations and alleged cover-ups by Benedict and other prelates, the pope seems hidden from view behind Vatican bureaucrats circling the wagons.

Cardinal Angelo Sodano’s dismissal of the allegations as “petty gossip” during the Easter Mass at St. Peter’s Square, while Benedict listened wearily, most strikingly showed the Vatican trying to put PR spin on a crisis that calls for humble pastoral candor from the pope.

Vatican looks defensive

The more Vatican officials try to paint this as an anti-Catholic smear campaign orchestrated by a hostile media, the more it looks like they are trying to divert attention from the core issues. The media may not be getting everything right in its coverage, as seasoned Vatican reporter John Allen has pointed out. But blaming reporters is a well-worn page from the political playbook unworthy of the world’s largest church. Read more - by Charley Honey | The Grand Rapids Press

“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.” Erik Erikson

Kids Are Being Hurt!!!

…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6

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Martha Mitchell Effect -> “Martha's hysteria then was overt, but despite a certain amount of public skepticism, it turned out that her cries about official skulduggery had a solid basis in fact.” May 21, 1973 – TIME – read more

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The Vatican's travails - When walls are too high - The Economis – read more 


Why Fallen Catholics Like Me Must Insist On Reforming The Catholic Church – by Cindy Rodriguez – The Huffington Post – read more

Pope Benedict hit by new Church child abuse allegations – BBC News  read more

The Vatican's Watergate: Follow The Money – by Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Dish – The Atlantic – read more

'Churchgate': The Scandal That Won't Go Away – by Dan Schorr – NPR – read more

“…for the Catholic Church to complain that they are being victimized is just laughable.” Pope Benedict's Gang -- Too Big to Fail? – by Rick Ayers – The Huffington Post – read more

Rescue Catholicism from Vatican – by JAMES CARROLL - The Boston Globe – read more

"It's really going from bad to worse…” Catholic Church Remains Defensive in Abuse Cases – CBSNEWS – read more

Has Pope Benedict led effectively amid the sex scandal? - By On Leadership – The Washington Post – read more 

RC hierarchy child sexual abuse “cover-ups” ordered by Benedict XVI to avoid public outrage & criminal charges - falsely accused gay priests WATERGATE? – read more

Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation – read more

Galileo & Benedict XVI & Homosexuality & Natural Law – read more

Kids Are Being Hurt!!!



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