Please don't forget the priests

[Texas_Kathy]

We have all heard of the billions of dollars paid out by the Church in the recent “scandals.” What we don’t hear much about, are the hundreds or even thousands of good, innocent priests, falsely accused, who were judged guilty and ejected from their vocations.

Last September, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, in his magazine “First Things” wrote an editorial entitled “A Kafkaesque Tale.” It was about a priest, falsely accused and imprisoned fourteen years earlier. The Wall Street Journal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dorothy Rabinowitz published a two part report on the miscarriage of justice in April, 2005.

This September, Father Gordon MacRae will begin his sixteenth year in a prison that makes Gitmo look like a country club. His story can be found on www.GordonMacRae.net.

With the death of Fr. Neuhaus and Avery Cardinal Dulles, Father Gordon has lost his most powerful advocates. Please go on his web site; read his story; write to him. We must not forget him, or all of the other innocent good men.

God bless you,
Kathy Maxwell

 

[Holly3278]

Thank you for this information Texas Kathy. I intend to write to Fr. Gordon McRae. Hopefully some mail will make him feel better. It is incredibly sad that he was falsely accused and imprisoned. Lord, have mercy.

 

[centurionguard]

I will certainly pray for this priest and in today’s Sunday morning Mass intentions.

 

[FickleFreckled]

After the scandals had begun to quiet down in our diocese, our pastor noted during a homily that there had been molestation accusations about less than 4% of priests nationwide, and that a good portion of those acusations were groundless. He encouraged us to pray especially for the good, faithful priests who, because of the media attention, were suffering right along with the guilty parties. The media so overplayed the scandals that it seems there are many more guilty priests than there really are. There are so many faithful ones; they need all the support we can give them!

Thanks for posting this link, Texas Kathy. I’ll go look at it right now.

 

[CapIV]

A priest in my parish was accused a few years back and was promptly removed. About a year after the accusations, the accuser admitted that she had only made the accusations to try and cash in on the scandal.