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This Is Hysteria!: An Anti-Choice Fantasy - 0 views
Enlightened Catholicism: Bishop Morlino Threatens A Wisconsin Parish With Interdict - 0 views
Philadelphia Priest Abuse Trial Blog: The Cardinal Sin: Disobeying the Big Guy - 0 views
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Because in the archdiocese of Philadelphia, that's the one unpardonable sin for which there is zero tolerance.
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So what was Msgr. Picard's unpardonable sin? When he got the news that Cardinal Bevilacqua had just approved the transfer of Father Mills to St. Andrew's, Picard got on the phone with Msgr. Lynn and said no way
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Lynn became "very upset because the die was cast, the letter was written," Msgr. Picard told the jury
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If you're a priest in the archdiocese of Philadelphia, you can "act out sexually" all you want. You can get away with it for years, even decades at a time, while they transfer you from parish to parish, in between recuperative stays at St. John Vianney's, the friendly archdiocese clinic for sex abusers. Just make sure that you don't disobey an order from the archbishop. Because in the archdiocese of Philadelphia, that's the one unpardonable sin for which there is zero tolerance. To make that point Wednesday, the prosecution had Detective James Dougherty read into the record 34 formerly confidential documents regarding the case of Monsignor Michael C. Picard. And then, the prosecution brought the monsignor to the witness stand to tell his story.
The Progressive Catholic Voice: Here Comes Nobody - 0 views
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“The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman,” he said.
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I called Cuomo to see if, as his son Andrew weighs running for president, he felt the church had grown less tolerant.
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“If the church were my religion, I would have given it up a long time ago,” he said. “All the mad and crazy popes we’ve had through history, decapitating the husbands of women they’d taken. All the terrible things the church has done. Christ is my religion, the church is not.
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Bilgrimage: Shepherds, Sheep, Listening, Caring: More on the Santa Clara Conference on ... - 0 views
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About the serious damage they did to me, to Steve, to my mother. About my heart and soul. Bishop Curlin did not even respond to those repeated requests. Not until I sent him a letter telling him that I doubted he would treat a rich and powerful man as he was treating me. Then and only then, I received a communication from his young priest-secretary telling me I had been disrespectful to say such a thing to a bishop.
Bilgrimage: Richard Sipe on Sexual Abuse as Product of Clerical Culture - 0 views
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"The context of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic bishops and priests is the culture of the priesthood."
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clerical culture centers on the maintenance of a club whose boundaries are impermeable to non-ordained outsiders and are premised on the assertion that everything one does to keep those boundaries intact is done for God and the church--even when that "everything" comprises keeping noxious secrets, telling toxic lies, and maintaining absolute silence when faced with demands for transparency and accountability.
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Sipe writes: If a priest is apparently compliant with the demands of the culture he receives automatic status regardless of any individual merit. The culture provides an assurance of employment and continued material compensation for the duration of his life. The identification with the power system and subordination to it relives individuals of responsibility for the consequences of their individual actions. Truth telling is curtailed and subjected to the welfare of the organization (the good of the church). The prevailing rationale is that clerics’ first duty is to the higher law of God. Secrecy and loyalty are essential binding elements operative to the function of clerical cultural. Men within the clerical culture are labeled "special" since ordination confers an "ontological" superiority. Clerics thus incorporated into the culture often demonstrate qualities of dependency, entitlement, superiority/arrogance, variable degrees of psychosexual immaturity, but in many cases "they possess enormous powers of empathetic discernment—albeit for purposes of self-aggrandizement." And he concludes:
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Philadelphia Priest Abuse Trial Blog: Another Episode of the Bumbling Monsignor On the ... - 0 views
Philadelphia Priest Abuse Trial Blog: All The Cardinal's Men: Who Are These Guys? - 0 views
Bilgrimage: Chaput Cleaned up the Legionaries, but He Didn't Clean Them up? Please Expl... - 0 views
Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Scandal: Vatican Investigates 7 Legion Of Christ Priests F... - 0 views
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