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The truth must prevail
Our Priest has just been removed from Priestly ministry because of abuse accusations, which had gone to Rome. Rome returned them to the diocese because there were inconsistencies in the one accuser & his cousins’ claims on what had happened 10 years ago on a CYO trip. Rome said it was up to the Archbishop to decide. This accuser filed no criminal charges & no one else has ever come forward. This priest has never had any thing negative on his record. Almost a year later the decision came down Saturday night at Mass. Our Priest who was removed from us abruptly almost a year ago is now not allowed to return to any ministry. What exactly does it mean that he "will not have his priestly faculties restored” & “Father _____ will not be able to continue in any active priestly ministry” We are all so upset about this decision as no one here or at any of his prior parishes believe he did anything wrong. False accusations & wrong decision in these cases are bringing irreparable damage to the Catholic Church & the world. The shortage of Priest will become the extinction of the Priesthood. We cannot let this happen. I pray that our Priest decides to appeal this unjust & wrong decision. I pray for the Archbishop whose final decision was made to placate the media & the local sexual abuse organizations & not to stand up for an innocent man. God bless all those falsely accused.
Yet another consequence of these false accusations is that no adult wants to have any contact with children for fear it will be later taken as abuse. This is very sad because some children & adults just need that caring hug. There are a lot of evil people out there that are lured by the almighty (in their estimation) dollar. They would turn an honest caring comforting touch into a sordid abusive sick action & destroy that person’s life along with many others. I am not naive enough that I think that there are not priests that do these horrible things but to assume that every accusation is true & be afraid to stand up for the innocent makes me sick & sad. It is easier to get rid of one priest that has been accused then to stand by the truth & say this person is innocent. The fear of more criticism of the Catholic Church is coloring the Churches decision in some of the cases. This fear is having devastating effects on our Church. I know the Church has looked the other way in the past in a lot of instances & had transferred many priest around to other parishes just to hide or maybe avoid the fact that we have molesters in the ranks but to sacrifice innocent people to try to make up for the hurt we have caused in the past is WRONG. Not that my two cents will make any difference to anyone but fear can’t replace truth and innocents
Our Priest has just been removed from Priestly ministry because of abuse accusations, which had gone to Rome. Rome returned them to the diocese because there were inconsistencies in the one accuser & his cousins’ claims on what had happened 10 years ago on a CYO trip. Rome said it was up to the Archbishop to decide. This accuser filed no criminal charges & no one else has ever come forward. This priest has never had any thing negative on his record. Almost a year later the decision came down Saturday night at Mass. Our Priest who was removed from us abruptly almost a year ago is now not allowed to return to any ministry. What exactly does it mean that he "will not have his priestly faculties restored” & “Father _____ will not be able to continue in any active priestly ministry” We are all so upset about this decision as no one here or at any of his prior parishes believe he did anything wrong. False accusations & wrong decision in these cases are bringing irreparable damage to the Catholic Church & the world. The shortage of Priest will become the extinction of the Priesthood. We cannot let this happen. I pray that our Priest decides to appeal this unjust & wrong decision. I pray for the Archbishop whose final decision was made to placate the media & the local sexual abuse organizations & not to stand up for an innocent man. God bless all those falsely accused.
Yet another consequence of these false accusations is that no adult wants to have any contact with children for fear it will be later taken as abuse. This is very sad because some children & adults just need that caring hug. There are a lot of evil people out there that are lured by the almighty (in their estimation) dollar. They would turn an honest caring comforting touch into a sordid abusive sick action & destroy that person’s life along with many others. I am not naive enough that I think that there are not priests that do these horrible things but to assume that every accusation is true & be afraid to stand up for the innocent makes me sick & sad. It is easier to get rid of one priest that has been accused then to stand by the truth & say this person is innocent. The fear of more criticism of the Catholic Church is coloring the Churches decision in some of the cases. This fear is having devastating effects on our Church. I know the Church has looked the other way in the past in a lot of instances & had transferred many priest around to other parishes just to hide or maybe avoid the fact that we have molesters in the ranks but to sacrifice innocent people to try to make up for the hurt we have caused in the past is WRONG. Not that my two cents will make any difference to anyone but fear can’t replace truth and innocents