Pope Francis
orders investigation of the years of corruption inside the Vatican’s
administrative staff – the Roman Curia – but NOT by an outside independent investigation
source? Looking for truth or another systematic cover-up?
Is Benedict XVI’s
30 years - to be included in this investigation of corruption, if not why not?
Related links:
Vatican accused of sex scandal cover-up – – March
5, 2013 - Cardinal Keith O’Brien - 4/10/13
Cardinal
Bernard Law - A HISTORY OF SECRECY, COVERUPS IN BOSTON ARCHDIOCESE - The Boston
Globe – 2002
http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/extras/coverups_archive.htm
Pope [Benedict XVI]
'obstructed' sex abuse inquiry – April 24, 2005
Confidential letter reveals
Ratzinger ordered bishops to keep allegations secret
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/apr/24/children.childprotection
Sex Crimes Cover-Up By
Vatican? – February 11, 2009
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/06/eveningnews/main566978.shtml
UN Human Rights Council
calls Vatican to account - covering up child abuse and allowing it to continue –
9/22/09
http://www.iheu.org/iheu-calls-vatican-recognize-its-responsibilities-children-and-under-un-convention
Vatican condemned at United
Nations for child abuse - 3/16/10
http://www.iheu.org/vatican-condemned-un-child-abuse
Worldwide system of
covering up cases of sexual crimes engineered by Benedict XVI - Hans Küng – 4/18/10
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2010/04/hans_kung_points_finger_at_the.html
Pope
Francis Appoints Advisors For Curia Reform – 4/14/13
In response to suggestions during talks leading
up to the papal conclave, Pope Francis has appointed advisors for governing the
Church and reforming the Curia, the Vatican said…
Pope
Francis says hypocrisy undermines Church's credibility – 4/14/13
Pope
Francis tasks cardinals with studying reform of Catholic Church – 4/13/13
…The group…will examine ways to revise the
Vatican constitution, Pastor Bonus, which sets the rules for running the Roman
Curia, or church hierarchy…
Pope Francis - DON’T CALL IT LOVE! – Unless - Acts
decisively on - SYSTEMIC COVERUPS - Child Sexual Abuse Cases - by Vatican’s
CURIA & CARDINALS & BISHOPS – “LOVE does not rejoice in WRONGDOING, but
rejoices in the TRUTH” – 4/6/13
Gay Catholic Priest Charged by the Vatican for “Coming
Out” March 1997 - For the Protection of Children – 15 years later – 2/10/13
How Pope
Francis can reform the Vatican Curia – March 25, 2013
…the papacy is operating like the absolute
monarchies of the 17th century where the monarch held the legislative,
executive and judicial powers. Modern governments recognize the need for a separation
of powers. Agencies like the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith should
not make the rules, and then act as police, prosecutor, judge, jury and
executor in dealing with theologians. This is not due process in the modern
sense.
The role
of the synod of bishops also needs to be strengthened in providing input on
policy and supervision of the Curia. No political theory today would leave
everything to the executive without a role for a legislature…
Read
more:
Conflict in the Catholic Hierarchy:
A Study of Coping Strategies in the Hunthausen Affair,
with Preferential Attention to Discursive Strategies
by
Timothy Peter Schilling - 2003
Abstract:
Conflicts within the Roman Catholic hierarchy
poses risks to the organizational effectiveness of the Church, but the
hierarchy's approach to conflict handling has rarely been subjected to
systematic, empirically grounded study. This research addresses that deficit by
means of case study, wherein a six-year-long conflict is examined in the light
of theoretical expectations generated through a literature survey, and with the
help of critical discourse analysis and conflict theory. The research
identifies organizational and societal pressures on bishops' conflict handling
and various strategies that bishops employ in center-periphery conflicts: that
is, in conflicts between the Vatican and bishop leaders of local churches.
The theoretical literature conceptually places
center-periphery conflict in the context of the Church organization and in the
broader context of the modern world. On the basis of the theoretical
literature, expectations about the strategies bishops are likely to adopt in
center-periphery conflict situations are specified. These expectations are then
tested against the empirical example of the Rome-Hunthausen case (1983-89),
which involved the papacy of John Paul II, Archbishop Raymond of Seattle and
the American Bishops' Conference. Documents produced by multiple bishop
participants in the conflict serve as an embedded unit of analysis in the case
study. These are subjected to critical discourse analysis (following the
approach of Norman Fairclough, Lancaster University), conflict analysis and validation
techniques with control documents.
Hunthausen's conflict with the Vatican
(1983-1989) focused on Rome's effort to establish greater pastoral discipline
within the local church.
Hunthausen was popularly known as the progressive leader of a progressive
archdiocese and he gained much personal attention as an outspoken opponent of
the Reagan administration nuclear arms build-up. (He protested by refusing to
pay half of his income tax to the government.) To achieve its objectives in
Seattle, which ostensibly focused on liturgical, Church teaching and governance
and Church legal issues, Rome appointed an auxiliary bishop and forced
Hunthausen to hand key powers of archdiocesan leadership over to the auxiliary.
Hunthausen fought this redistribution of power and took his case to the
national bishops' conference. Remarkably, Hunthausen was able to make the
Vatican retreat and restore his power, but not without making concessions of
his own, which included acceptance of a coadjutor archbishop with right of succession.
Adding intrigue to the case was the suspicion that the Reagan administration
asked the Vatican to put pressure on Hunthausen in return for recognition of
the Vatican ambassador (which was granted by the US in 1984). This speculation
has never died, but evidence for this belief is, at the present time,
circumstantial at best.
The investigation concludes that Catholic
bishops show a strong tendency to protect the power and appearance of the
Church organization and of their own personal position in conflict situations.
Bishops place a high priority on legitimating their actions in ways in keeping
with the Church's normative character. The research highlights nine key
strategies that bishops employ to manage conflicts. These are
(1)
showing deference to the structural order and mindset of the Church,
(2)
associating one's own efforts with the best interest of the Church,
(3)
minimizing the appearance of conflict,
(4)
showing fraternity,
(5)
practicing courtesy,
(6)
employing secrecy,
(7)
recruiting allies,
(8)
using persuasive argumentation and
(9)
asserting personal identity. Other strategies used include: gamesmanship,
establishing procedural control, avoidance, revealing and threats.
For each strategy, specific tactics of application are identified, as
illustrated by concrete examples from the case.
Read
more:
Pope Francis wants Church to be poor, and for the
poor – March 16, 2013
(Reuters) - Pope
Francis, giving his clearest indication yet that he wants a more austere
Catholic Church, said on Saturday that it should be poor and remember that its
mission is to serve the poor.
Francis, speaking
mostly off-the-cuff and smiling often, made his comments in an audience for
journalists where he explained why he chose to take the name Francis, after St.
Francis of Assisi, a symbol of peace, austerity and poverty…
Read more:
Pope Francis includes women, Muslims for first time
in Holy Thursday rite – 3/29/13
Two young women were
among 12 people whose feet Pope Francis washed and kissed at a traditional
ceremony in a Rome youth prison on Holy Thursday, the first time a pontiff has
included females in the rite…
Pope
Francis Supports Crackdown on US Nuns – 4/15/13
The Vatican said Monday that Pope Francis
supports the Holy See's crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. nuns,
dimming hopes that a Jesuit pope whose emphasis on the poor mirrored the nuns'
own social outreach would take a different approach than his predecessor…
…The Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit author who has
been a staunch supporter of the U.S. sisters, cautioned against reading too
much into the Vatican statement.
He noted that Francis' first appointment to the
Vatican bureaucracy was that of the Rev. Jose Rodriguez Carballo as the No. 2
in the Vatican's congregation for religious orders. Rodriguez Carballo had been
superior of the Friars Minor branch of the Franciscan order that was founded by
the pope's namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, who devoted himself to helping the
poor.
Martin said it would have been unusual for
Francis to undo a process that has been years in the works and that as a Jesuit
he is "naturally going to be sympathetic" to the challenges faced by
members of religious orders, such as those represented by the nuns' conference…
Lightning Strikes St.
Peter's in Vatican City – The Weather Channel – 2/11/13
On day Pope Benedict
resigns, lightning strikes St Peter's – 2/12/13
More related links:
1 Corinthians 13
If
I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a
noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers,
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as
to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I
give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast,
but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not
envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on
its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not
rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all
things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies,
they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it
will come to an end. 9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy
only in part; 10 but when the complete comes, the partial will come
to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought
like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to
childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we
will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as
I have been fully known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide,
these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me
an instrument of your peace.
Where there is
hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is
injury, pardon.
Where there is
doubt, faith.
Where there is
despair, hope.
Where there is
darkness, light.
Where there is
sadness, joy.
O Divine
Master,
grant that I
may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
to be
understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as
to love.
For it is in
giving that we receive.
It is in
pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in
dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.
No comments:
Post a Comment