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HabemusFrancis
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People on this forum are likely familiar with Jeff Anderson, the attorney who specializes in Catholic sex abuse cases.
He is not a figure who inspires indifference. It seems he’s either thought of as a hero for helping abuse victims take on the “Evil Catholic Church” or he is a slimy, greedy con-man, exploiting a terrible crisis for his own selfish ends.
I tend to hear a lot of criticism from Catholics especially the more" traditional" or “conservative.”
What do my fellow Catholics believe?
I myself am conflicted… It could well be that he is anti-Catholic and “in it for the money”.
Yet at the same time, It is largely the Churche’s fault he and his trade even exist at all. From what I have read, often clergy abuse victims were treated coldly and dismissivly by priests and other hierarchs when they tried to meet with them.
Anderson apparently believed these victims when he first started out some odd 20 years ago, and he helped get them compensation for the therapy many needed, and the pain and suffering all of them endured
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He and his ilk, perhaps were instrumental in prompting the 2002 Dallas bishops meeting. There was just as great a need for such a meeting in 1982 and 1992, but it seems only with continuous litigation and negative press coverage could our leaders be prompted to tackle this issue head on.
He is from Minnesota, my home state, where there recently was a molestation scandal ( our bishop appointed a promiscuous homosexual priest as pastor of a church where he molested some kids in his trailer… last year…
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One would think that the market for this kind of thing would have dried up at least 5-6 years ago… but it hasn’t
In summary, I am unsure as to his motives or intentions, but he has perhaps unintentionally brought closure and a form of justice to some people, and forced much needed reform as well…
He is not a figure who inspires indifference. It seems he’s either thought of as a hero for helping abuse victims take on the “Evil Catholic Church” or he is a slimy, greedy con-man, exploiting a terrible crisis for his own selfish ends.
I tend to hear a lot of criticism from Catholics especially the more" traditional" or “conservative.”
What do my fellow Catholics believe?
I myself am conflicted… It could well be that he is anti-Catholic and “in it for the money”.
Yet at the same time, It is largely the Churche’s fault he and his trade even exist at all. From what I have read, often clergy abuse victims were treated coldly and dismissivly by priests and other hierarchs when they tried to meet with them.
Anderson apparently believed these victims when he first started out some odd 20 years ago, and he helped get them compensation for the therapy many needed, and the pain and suffering all of them endured
.He and his ilk, perhaps were instrumental in prompting the 2002 Dallas bishops meeting. There was just as great a need for such a meeting in 1982 and 1992, but it seems only with continuous litigation and negative press coverage could our leaders be prompted to tackle this issue head on.
He is from Minnesota, my home state, where there recently was a molestation scandal ( our bishop appointed a promiscuous homosexual priest as pastor of a church where he molested some kids in his trailer… last year…
!"One would think that the market for this kind of thing would have dried up at least 5-6 years ago… but it hasn’t
In summary, I am unsure as to his motives or intentions, but he has perhaps unintentionally brought closure and a form of justice to some people, and forced much needed reform as well…