Monday, August 20, 2018
Length: 00:15:36
Lionel has two very good ideas that he shares:
1. Time to go after the Vatican for their constant coverups of child molesters.
2. Time to go after HRC for all the money laundering that happened under the Clinton Foundation.
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Showing posts with label scandal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scandal. Show all posts
Sunday, August 19, 2018
Friday, August 17, 2018
RELIGION: World Over - 2018-08-16 – Cardinal Raymond Burke on the Abuse Crisis
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Length: 00:29:38
Cardinal Burke comments on the latest abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.
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Length: 00:29:38
Cardinal Burke comments on the latest abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.
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RELIGION: 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury REPORT 1
Friday, August 17, 2018
The biggest story of 2018 so far: the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church:
We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this. We know some of you have heard some of it before. There have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church. But never on this scale. For many of us, those earlier stories happened someplace else, someplace away. Now we know the truth: it happened everywhere.
We were given the job of investigating child sex abuse in six dioceses - every diocese in the state except Philadelphia and Altoona -Johnstown, which were the subject of previous grand juries. These six dioceses account for 54 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties. We heard the testimony of dozens of witnesses concerning clergy sex abuse. We subpoenaed, and reviewed, half a million pages of internal diocesan documents. They contained credible allegations against over three hundred predator priests. Over one thousand child victims were identifiable, from the church's own records. We believe that the real number - of children whose records were lost, or who were afraid ever to come forward - is in the thousands.
Most of the victims were boys; but there were girls too. Some were teens; many were prepubescent. Some were manipulated with alcohol or pornography. Some were made to masturbate their assailants, or were groped by them. Some were raped orally, some vaginally, some anally. But all of them were brushed aside, in every part of the state, by church leaders who preferred to protect the abusers and their institution above all.
Read the full report: 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury REPORT 1
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The biggest story of 2018 so far: the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church:
We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this. We know some of you have heard some of it before. There have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church. But never on this scale. For many of us, those earlier stories happened someplace else, someplace away. Now we know the truth: it happened everywhere.
We were given the job of investigating child sex abuse in six dioceses - every diocese in the state except Philadelphia and Altoona -Johnstown, which were the subject of previous grand juries. These six dioceses account for 54 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties. We heard the testimony of dozens of witnesses concerning clergy sex abuse. We subpoenaed, and reviewed, half a million pages of internal diocesan documents. They contained credible allegations against over three hundred predator priests. Over one thousand child victims were identifiable, from the church's own records. We believe that the real number - of children whose records were lost, or who were afraid ever to come forward - is in the thousands.
Most of the victims were boys; but there were girls too. Some were teens; many were prepubescent. Some were manipulated with alcohol or pornography. Some were made to masturbate their assailants, or were groped by them. Some were raped orally, some vaginally, some anally. But all of them were brushed aside, in every part of the state, by church leaders who preferred to protect the abusers and their institution above all.
Read the full report: 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury REPORT 1
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RELIGION: The abuse crisis casts doubt on the whole post-Vatican II settlement
Friday, August 17, 2018
No surprise: the decline and fall of the Catholic church began in 1968:
From the Catholic Herald:
Since 1968, Church leaders have tried to preserve a fragile truce. But repeated compromises have fostered a culture of deceit.
Too many Catholic leaders have treated Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s alleged crimes as an isolated issue. Cardinal Donald Wuerl told an interviewer: “I don’t think this is some massive, massive crisis.”
Bishop Robert Barron has said that any suggestion of widespread corruption is “deeply unjust”. Such claims miss the point. Men at the highest levels of the Church knew what McCarrick had done and took no action. As a result, the exposure of his crimes has gravely damaged the credibility of the whole hierarchy. If bishops expect to be taken seriously as witnesses to Christ, the crisis is massive indeed.
Bishop Barron not only downplayed the extent of the crisis, but also cautioned against what he called an “ideological” response. According to the bishop, anyone who raises concerns about Humanae Vitae, priestly celibacy, or “rampant homosexuality in the Church” is riding a “hobby horse”.
No one cares for the endless Catholic culture wars, but we should be wary of attempts to shut down frank discussion of how we got here. Bishop Barron’s list of taboo topics suggests that he – like most bishops – is keen to preserve the settlement of 1968.
Read the full article here: The abuse crisis casts doubt on the whole post-Vatican II settlement
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No surprise: the decline and fall of the Catholic church began in 1968:
From the Catholic Herald:
Since 1968, Church leaders have tried to preserve a fragile truce. But repeated compromises have fostered a culture of deceit.
Too many Catholic leaders have treated Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s alleged crimes as an isolated issue. Cardinal Donald Wuerl told an interviewer: “I don’t think this is some massive, massive crisis.”
Bishop Robert Barron has said that any suggestion of widespread corruption is “deeply unjust”. Such claims miss the point. Men at the highest levels of the Church knew what McCarrick had done and took no action. As a result, the exposure of his crimes has gravely damaged the credibility of the whole hierarchy. If bishops expect to be taken seriously as witnesses to Christ, the crisis is massive indeed.
Bishop Barron not only downplayed the extent of the crisis, but also cautioned against what he called an “ideological” response. According to the bishop, anyone who raises concerns about Humanae Vitae, priestly celibacy, or “rampant homosexuality in the Church” is riding a “hobby horse”.
No one cares for the endless Catholic culture wars, but we should be wary of attempts to shut down frank discussion of how we got here. Bishop Barron’s list of taboo topics suggests that he – like most bishops – is keen to preserve the settlement of 1968.
Read the full article here: The abuse crisis casts doubt on the whole post-Vatican II settlement
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RELIGION: THE TRUCE OF 2005?
Friday, August 17, 2018
The Jesuits have been in the vanguard of the movement to openly promote homosexuality in the priesthood:
Father John Coleman, S.J., is acclaimed by some as one of the leading intellectual lights among contemporary Jesuits. He teaches at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and is a frequent contributor to America and Theological Studies, a Jesuit quarterly. He recently addressed the annual meeting of the National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries. “I am, simultaneously, a gay man, a professional sociologist, and an ordained priest of the Roman Catholic Church,” he said. “Not surprisingly, these different, even conflicting, roles and their expectations sometimes cause me to experience intense cognitive dissonance.”
The dissonance, he said, results from “the universal love and outreach of Jesus to all, even sinners, versus a sense that homosexuality, if practiced, is against the teaching of Christianity.” When people succeed in integrating their identities, Fr. Coleman said, it “will lead to something new, and for some, an oxymoron: a GLBT practicing Christian and practicing homosexual.” That gives rise to the questions, he said, “Can you ordain them? Can you have holy union ceremonies?” The Jesuit policy, he said, is not don’t ask, don’t tell, but, rather, do ask and do tell. “You’re not going to have integrated, mature sexuality unless you process it—and therefore yes, ask; yes, tell; yes, process.”
Read the full article here: THE TRUCE OF 2005?
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The Jesuits have been in the vanguard of the movement to openly promote homosexuality in the priesthood:
Father John Coleman, S.J., is acclaimed by some as one of the leading intellectual lights among contemporary Jesuits. He teaches at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and is a frequent contributor to America and Theological Studies, a Jesuit quarterly. He recently addressed the annual meeting of the National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries. “I am, simultaneously, a gay man, a professional sociologist, and an ordained priest of the Roman Catholic Church,” he said. “Not surprisingly, these different, even conflicting, roles and their expectations sometimes cause me to experience intense cognitive dissonance.”
The dissonance, he said, results from “the universal love and outreach of Jesus to all, even sinners, versus a sense that homosexuality, if practiced, is against the teaching of Christianity.” When people succeed in integrating their identities, Fr. Coleman said, it “will lead to something new, and for some, an oxymoron: a GLBT practicing Christian and practicing homosexual.” That gives rise to the questions, he said, “Can you ordain them? Can you have holy union ceremonies?” The Jesuit policy, he said, is not don’t ask, don’t tell, but, rather, do ask and do tell. “You’re not going to have integrated, mature sexuality unless you process it—and therefore yes, ask; yes, tell; yes, process.”
Read the full article here: THE TRUCE OF 2005?
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RELIGION: A FAILING EPISCOPAL ESTABLISHMENT
Friday, August 17, 2018
R.R. Reno discusses the seriousness of the latest sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church:
Recent revelations about Theodore McCarrick prepared me for reading the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report. We’re still learning sordid facts about McCarrick’s sexual career, as well as his financial dealings. As has been the case with priestly abuse, the donations of the faithful may have ended up securing confidential settlements that protected McCarrick’s career and allowed his brother bishops to continue looking the other way.
However the mess is parsed, the larger truth is plain: The current culture of the American episcopacy makes even good men incapable of rooting out the corruption in their midst. One can’t help but cringe while reading the Grand Jury Report, the way one does in a car spinning slowly off the highway.
In memo after memo, bishops and their assistants downplay and cover up misdeeds, and evade doing the hard but right thing. I am increasingly certain that any number of further secrets are yet to be exposed: religious orders dominated by homosexual networks, seminaries rife with sexual exploitation, payouts and expenditures meant to forestall the day of reckoning, and financial corruption in various other forms.
Read the full article here: A FAILING EPISCOPAL ESTABLISHMENT
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R.R. Reno discusses the seriousness of the latest sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church:
Recent revelations about Theodore McCarrick prepared me for reading the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report. We’re still learning sordid facts about McCarrick’s sexual career, as well as his financial dealings. As has been the case with priestly abuse, the donations of the faithful may have ended up securing confidential settlements that protected McCarrick’s career and allowed his brother bishops to continue looking the other way.
However the mess is parsed, the larger truth is plain: The current culture of the American episcopacy makes even good men incapable of rooting out the corruption in their midst. One can’t help but cringe while reading the Grand Jury Report, the way one does in a car spinning slowly off the highway.
In memo after memo, bishops and their assistants downplay and cover up misdeeds, and evade doing the hard but right thing. I am increasingly certain that any number of further secrets are yet to be exposed: religious orders dominated by homosexual networks, seminaries rife with sexual exploitation, payouts and expenditures meant to forestall the day of reckoning, and financial corruption in various other forms.
Read the full article here: A FAILING EPISCOPAL ESTABLISHMENT
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RELIGION: Cardinal Burke: Pope must ‘take action’ to clean up ‘homosexual culture’ in Church
Friday, August 17, 2018
The never-ending Catholic child abuse scandal is never going away, and has recently gotten much worse. Here is one Cardinal's idea for dealing with the issue:
Cardinal Raymond Burke: It was clear after the studies following the 2002 sexual abuse crisis that most of the acts of abuse were in fact homosexual acts committed with adolescent young men. There was a studied attempt to either overlook or to deny this. Now it seems clear in light of these recent terrible scandals that indeed there is a homosexual culture, not only among the clergy but even within the hierarchy, which needs to be purified at the root. It is of course a tendency that is disordered.
I think it has been considerably aggravated by the anti-life culture in which we live, namely the contraceptive culture that separates the sexual act from the conjugal union. The sexual act has no meaning whatsoever except between a man and a woman in marriage since the conjugal act is by its very nature for procreation. I believe that there needs to be an open recognition that we have a very grave problem of a homosexual culture in the Church, especially among the clergy and the hierarchy, that needs to be addressed honestly and efficaciously.
Read the full article here: Cardinal Burke: Pope must ‘take action’ to clean up ‘homosexual culture’ in Church
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The never-ending Catholic child abuse scandal is never going away, and has recently gotten much worse. Here is one Cardinal's idea for dealing with the issue:
Cardinal Raymond Burke: It was clear after the studies following the 2002 sexual abuse crisis that most of the acts of abuse were in fact homosexual acts committed with adolescent young men. There was a studied attempt to either overlook or to deny this. Now it seems clear in light of these recent terrible scandals that indeed there is a homosexual culture, not only among the clergy but even within the hierarchy, which needs to be purified at the root. It is of course a tendency that is disordered.
I think it has been considerably aggravated by the anti-life culture in which we live, namely the contraceptive culture that separates the sexual act from the conjugal union. The sexual act has no meaning whatsoever except between a man and a woman in marriage since the conjugal act is by its very nature for procreation. I believe that there needs to be an open recognition that we have a very grave problem of a homosexual culture in the Church, especially among the clergy and the hierarchy, that needs to be addressed honestly and efficaciously.
Read the full article here: Cardinal Burke: Pope must ‘take action’ to clean up ‘homosexual culture’ in Church
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