Defending the Holy Father from my father

[Angelic_Rose]

Seems that the Vatican is putting the policies from the USA and UK in place in other countries. Our Bishops are the model with what is already here and working.

romereports.com/palio/modules.php?t=The-Vatican-prepares-new-measures-to-combat-sex-abuse&name=News&file=article&newlang=english&sid=1914

Yes, this is what I was talking about.

 

[mark_a]

The Catholic League is the best source I’ve seen. Bill Donahue gets the facts and tells it like it is.

God bless Bill Donahue!!!

 

[kage_ar]

Cooldude -

Fr Z’s blog has a great list of points:

wdtprs.com/blog/2010/04/of-bulletpoints-and-wolves/

Of bulletpoints and wolves

CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULA — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 2:13 pm

Some bullet points about the California case with which APs and others continue to try to smear Pope Benedict.

1. 
   *]At the time, the CDF did not have competence in the cases of clerical pedophilia.
   *]The case before the CDF concerned a request by a priest for a dispensation from the obligations of the clerical state.
   *]It was not a punitive case or an appeal about a sanction.
   *]The request was submitted by the priest and not the priest’s diocese of Oakland.
   *]The CDF didn’t not grant immediate dispensations to men who were not at least 40 years old.
   *]Once the CDF studied the case and the priest reached 40 years of age, the dispensation was granted.
   There was no cover up.
   *]If the Diocese of Oakland was pressing the Holy See to dispense this man so quickly, why did that same Diocese of Oakland permit the suspended priest to work as a volunteer with young people? The Holy See had nothing to do with that.
   *]The AP and now all other MSM outlets who without hesitation or verification pick up the AP’s sloppy work, never bother to do background and ask basic questions about procedures and timing. They fail in the basics of curiosity, much less journalistic professionalism.
   
   Why are they trying to smear Pope Benedict?
   
   To shut him up or to cast into doubt what he has said and what he will say concerning moral issues.

 

[momor]

Cooldude -

Fr Z’s blog has a great list of points:

wdtprs.com/blog/2010/04/of-bulletpoints-and-wolves/

Of bulletpoints and wolves

CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULA — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 2:13 pm

Some bullet points about the California case with which APs and others continue to try to smear Pope Benedict.

1. 
   *]At the time, the CDF did not have competence in the cases of clerical pedophilia.
   *]The case before the CDF concerned a request by a priest for a dispensation from the obligations of the clerical state.
   *]It was not a punitive case or an appeal about a sanction.
   *]The request was submitted by the priest and not the priest’s diocese of Oakland.
   *]The CDF didn’t not grant immediate dispensations to men who were not at least 40 years old.
   *]Once the CDF studied the case and the priest reached 40 years of age, the dispensation was granted.
   There was no cover up.
   *]If the Diocese of Oakland was pressing the Holy See to dispense this man so quickly, why did that same Diocese of Oakland permit the suspended priest to work as a volunteer with young people? The Holy See had nothing to do with that.
   *]The AP and now all other MSM outlets who without hesitation or verification pick up the AP’s sloppy work, never bother to do background and ask basic questions about procedures and timing. They fail in the basics of curiosity, much less journalistic professionalism.
   
   Why are they trying to smear Pope Benedict?
   
   To shut him up or to cast into doubt what he has said and what he will say concerning moral issues.

1. 
   Trying to defend the pope by pointing fingers at US dioceses is a strategy doomed to backfire. All it says is that Rome is clueless about what it’s bishops are doing or that it is uninvolved and unconcerned in diocesan matters.
   
   As a lay person I get potluck dependant on where I happen to live? Sure makes me feel better about the hierarchy!

 

[joandarc2008]

I know in the Virtus Training there is one case where one of the girls that was victimized was victimized by her Priest. I give the whole family a lot of credit for coming out to help other Catholic Parishes prevent this happening in their own by sharing their story the way they did. They also talked about how when it came to light many of the Parish members came to the parents and told them they had suspected and others refused to believe. The parents, one of which had worked in the offce, had their Faith shaken and it took them a year before they could start attending their Parish on a routine basis again. It was incredibly sad. I think there is a fine line between anonymity of the victims and being overprotective of the perpretrator. I can see how easily this line could be crossed either way in this type of situation.