How would YOU address the SA crisis?

[cknick]

I wonder how often the efficacy of corrective justice is weighed when determining how to respond to the abuse crisis? I believe the media would like to lead the public into thinking that the church has turned a blind eye to suffering. I believe a lot has been done to overcome the difficulties in avoiding, recognizing, and responding to the injustices…particularly in the Diocese of Orange County, CA. However, appropriate solutions need to be established to provide corrective justice and healing for these individual perpetrators.

Where is the justice of going to a priest, who has said, “I absolve you of your sins” countless numbers of times, only to to say back to him in need “Get out, I don’t forgive you?” Obviously, Justice would be absent.

Just because Christ fell, carrying his cross, did that mean that he was so changed in our eyes because of his weakened state that we chose not to accept him as our savior?
NO…of course not. We realized that by our sinful state, we caused him to enter into his weakened state. We scourged him, we made him fall.

We should then realize that the weakened state of the perpetrators soul needs our mercy and compassion, as well as our ability to help them turn back to God, who is their only savior.

What we do for the least of our brothers we also do for Christ. We don’t give up on our priests, when they haven’t given up on us!

We help doctors when they are sick, right? We should help priests when they are spiritually sick.

Mother Theresa didn’t believe that any human being was a lost cause, and I don’t think that we should either.

God gives us free will. If these perpetrators want salvation and want to remain with Christ, they deserve spiritual guidance, and rehabilitation with strict 24/7 monitoring and supervision. They deserve our support to receive this.

 

[vz71]

Were I to rob a bank, then go to confession, would I be forgiven?

Perhaps, perhaps not. But in either case when I walk out of the confessional the authorities are there to take me into custody and punish me to the fullest extent.

The church will not stand in the way. The punishment is the consequence of my actions wether or not I am forgiven.

Likewise SA.
Those found to be guilty should be turned over to the civil authorities.
It does not matter if they have confessed, been forgiven, are a priest or not.

There are consequences for these choices.

 

[cknick]

Priests are under the jurisdiction of the Vatican. The Vatican has the option/responsibility of bringing them back to Rome for correction, rehabilitation and monitoring, don’t they? If a doctor contracted a deadly virus from a patient in the hospital, then with all due respect, it should be the hospital that pulls that doctor back in. If these perpetrators were required to go back to the Vatican, trust me, they would receive correction with monitoring, AND possibly save their souls. It is a win-win situation, based upon their free will to undergo treatment. Then if they refuse, turn them over to the civil authorities for correction. Most of these people need spiritual care for their spiritual sickness. They will receive very little in any public prison system. If you say, “Well the Vatican has had their chance to respond with strict and corrective justice with rehabilitation”, my answer to that is that the Vatican is trying, and learning, very quickly. Give the Vatican the opportunity to bring about civil and spiritual justice correctly. It is about Faith. Knowing that above all, our Holy Father will carry out any necessary corrections that are called for, with God our Heavenly Fathers help.

 

[GhostOfReason]

I can’t help but think of the way Church separated the Cathars from the Catholics in the Albigensian Crusade.

“Kill them all, the LORD will know his own” --Arnaud Amalric