NC Register: No Half Measures in Responding to Clerical Crisis

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I brought the petrol ⛽

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Thus, my gif of people adding fuel to the fire. Lock the **** thing!
 
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@Cruciferi you’re always calling for threads to get locked. Why should this one be? This is a serious issue. Maybe try adding to the discussion instead of just posting memes/GIFs (all the time, everywhere).
 
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Threads such as this end in clergy bashing and inappropriate remarks. I don’t have faith that people can behave respectfully or mature.
 
Well until the clergy bashing starts, which it has not, maybe let’s keep it open and have a discussion that needs to be had?
 
It’s not up to me. The Moderators will have several Threads to consider.
 
Did you see the link to the other thread,

And the comment from th op, the bashing has already started.

Maybe you haven’t yet experienced running a media or hostile gauntlet when you try to get into your church to attend Mass. but I am sure you will eventually.
 
I’m the OP…

And I did not bash anyone.

And yes the NCRegister is orthodox and yes it is a media outlet.
 
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NC Register: No Half Measures in Responding to Clerical Crisis Apologetics
The Church is full of people who are imperfect and capable of Great Good and Great Evil. I don’t put anyone else on a pedestal except Jesus Christ and the Blessed Mother.
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It is not putting them on a pedestal to expect our Bishops and Cardinals to be accountable. Protecting the career of a serial sexual abuser for several decades is beyond the pale, totally unacceptable behavior, and those that knew should resign, as a start.
 
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It is not putting them on a pedestal to expect our Bishops and Cardinals to be accountable. Protecting the career of a serial sexual abuser for several decades is beyond the pale, totally unacceptable behavior, and those that knew should resign, as a start.
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Every bishop who covered up for a crime was either telling an outright lie or, at best, concealing the truth, though of course they never expected that they were going to be found out.

It’s possible—up to a point—to make an excuse for the guilty priests themselves, that they were suffering from an illness of some kind and were unable to control their obsession or compulsion. But there was never any excuse at all for what the bishops did.
 
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Wasn’t there some mention of a “gay lobby” within the vatican itself that Pope Francis was going to try to root out after his election as Pope…has anyone heard about this…does this sort of behavior…pedofile priests…homosexual priests…reach to the highest echelons of the Catholic church…personally it doesn’t shake my faith as a Catholic…but it probably does to some…maybe even many…which those clerics are going to have to answer to God if they have caused some to lose their faith through their actions…if true it’s possible this may have been going on for hundreds of years…which will make it extremely hard for any Pope to try root out
 
Just to get us back on track here, I think the following suggestions made in the editorial on how to improve accountability going forward are a good start:

“here appears to be general agreement among U.S. bishops and the faithful on the need for a mechanism that will allow seminarians and priests to report allegations against their superiors without fear of reprisals.”

“other lay authorities on clergy-abuse issues are lobbying for a more radical national response, such as mandated annual reporting of settlements involving bishops and priests.”

" Philip Lawler, the author of The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture has pressed for a comprehensive investigation of the Church leaders who knew about McCarrick’s behavior. Any such effort, said Lawler, should be led by Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, the former prosecutor of clergy-abuse crimes for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, whom Pope Francis dispatched to address Chile’s widening abuse scandal."
 
What the article is describing seems to me to be textbook “half measures.” Creating comittees and blaming gay priests. Ordaining married men would be a real step.
 
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