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Boston College Associate Professor, "A Particular Version, of a Particular Kind of 'Morality,' Will No Longer Be Tolerat GOOD JESUIT, BAD JESUIT - May 21, 2013 ... child sex abuse and confirmed the Catholic hierarchy's failure to report such abuse to the civic authorities. The Bishop in question observed the dictates of the Vatican rather than the law of the land. But Cloyne was of a different order too. It detailed how the Vatican deliberately organized to frustrate an Irish State-commissioned inquiry into clerical child sex abuse as recently as 2009. In an ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ZlcTj/~3/Rjx3GBaYqxM/boston-college-associate-professor.html
A Cardinal Boycotts Boston College — Anne Hendershott PAYING ATTENTION TO THE SKY - May 20, 2013 http://payingattentiontothesky.com/2013/05/21/a-cardinal-boycotts-boston-college-anne-hendershott/
It Is About Time ! No, It Is Past Time ! The Penal Code of the Code of Canon Law Is Being Revised ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP - May 20, 2013 ... this Blog more times than I care to remember concerning the sad, no, the scandalous situation in the Church since the Second Vatican Council regarding the lack of respect for the Church's Code of Canon Law on the part of cardinals, bishops, priests and laity. It is not just a question of the failure on the part of so many bishops (yes, and even cardinals) to observe the requirements of Canon 915 which regulate the admission to Holy Communion of heterodox persons who give ...http://abyssum.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/it-is-about-time-no-it-is-past-time-the-penal-code-of-the-code-of-canon-law-is-being-revised/
Belgian Church Reveals 300 New Child Sex Abuse Complaints CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 20, 2013 The Belgian Roman Catholic Church said Wednesday it had received more than 300 complaints of sexual abuse of minors in 2012. Three quarters of the 307 dossiers opened were in northern Flanders, the staunchly Catholic Dutch-speaking and larger half of Belgium. The great majority of complainants were mature adults, having waited before coming forward after the Church fell into scandal over recent years and with compensation now an issue. Forty-six of the cases raised last ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/belgian-church-reveals-300-new-child.html
New: "Pope Francis: His Life in His Own Words" INSIGHT SCOOP THE IGNATIUS PRESS BLOG - May 20, 2013 http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2013/05/new-pope-francis-his-life-in-his-own-words.html
Draft of a Letter to Professor John Crown RATIONABILE OBSEQUIUM - May 19, 2013 ... representative's choice between the 'Tá' and Níl' lobby can be controlled by the Supreme Court has no basis in our Constitution or our laws. Legislators who hold that there is a grave injustice and faulty reasoning at the heart of the X-Case decision are perfectly entitled under the Constitution to propose and lobby for legislation – even though it does not seem to accord with the X Case – with the hope and expectation that the Supreme Court might re-visit its own ...http://rationabileobsequium.blogspot.com/2013/05/draft-of-letter-to-professor-john-crown.html
Belgian Church Reveals 300 New Child Sex Abuse Complaints CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 16, 2013 The Belgian Roman Catholic Church said Wednesday it had received more than 300 complaints of sexual abuse of minors in 2012. Three quarters of the 307 dossiers opened were in northern Flanders, the staunchly Catholic Dutch-speaking and larger half of Belgium. The great majority of complainants were mature adults, having waited before coming forward after the Church fell into scandal over recent years and with compensation now an issue. Forty-six of the cases raised last ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/belgian-church-reveals-300-new-child_16.html
Mortal Sins - Review LEON J. PODLES :: DIALOGUE - May 16, 2013 ... which the extent of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church was revealed over the past generation. He organizes his material by focusing on key agents, especially Richard Sipe, Tom Doyle, and Jeff Anderson (all of whom I know). Tom Doyle and Jeff Anderson are both recovering alcoholics, which they have made public. In Doyle's case, I think I was the despair he felt at the hierarchy's attitude that led him to a drinking habit. Anderson had deeper problems, including cocaine use and ...http://www.podles.org/dialogue/mortal-sins-review-628.htm
Governance Involves Catholics Learning to Speak and Listen (Opinion) CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 15, 2013 ... curial reform, the Vatican bank, and the handling of sexual abuse allegations by bishops. Commentators were not concerned with the ethics of what were already acknowledged as moral failures in the church; it was the lapses of governance that allowed things to get so out of hand, becoming crises both for the faith of Catholics and the church's credibility. "Jesus with a MBA" became a catch phrase for the near-impossible challenges the new pope would face. This ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/governance-involves-catholics-learning.html
Pope Francis: A Leader for Believers and Atheists Alike (Contribution) CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 13, 2013 ... with ancient texts and more concerned with improving the present, especially for the world's marginalized peoples. I want a pope who gets things done, when no one else can, for people no one else helps. I want Pope Batman. "Let us never forget that authentic power is service," Francis said in his inaugural mass, urging action for "the poorest, the weakest, the least important". How refreshing. Too often, religious devotion is measured by obedience to doctrine – is foregoing a burger ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/pope-francis-leader-for-believers-and.html
Proposals Abound for a 'Franciscan Reform' of the Vatican CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 13, 2013 More than a month into the Francis era, it's still easier to talk about the much-ballyhooed reform of the Vatican expected under this outsider pontiff in aspirational terms than at the level of concrete developments. In broad strokes, most observers believe Francis wants to accomplish at least three things: Greater coordination among the Vatican's departments, which notoriously can operate like independent fiefdoms and occasionally work at ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/proposals-abound-for-franciscan-reform.html
Another View of Pope Francis' Correction of Women Religious FR. Z'S BLOG (OLIM: WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY?) - May 10, 2013 ... surprise how many people still don't know this part! Mark my word: most Jesuits choked on the news of the election of Bergoglio.] This is an open scandal, and one of the key questions surrounding the election of Pope Francis has been whether he would find a way to escalate the fight. To put the question clearly: Will he shift from words to discipline? We don't know yet, but it has not taken him long to respond to Sister Mary Lou or to go on the offensive verbally in a tone which sounds ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wdtprs/DhFa/~3/3vz_uEG27uY/
Catholics Suspend Priest for Blowing Whistle on Sex Abuse of Minors in Africa (Comment) CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 9, 2013 The Catholic Church reportedly suspended a Ugandan priest for blowing the whistle on child sex abuse in that country. The priest was told to apologize and help cover up the crimes, because, he was advised, that's what one is supposed to do. He refused, and got suspended. The priest is named Anthony Musaala. And the LA Times reports that he was suspended indefinitely by the archbishop of Kampala for blowing the whistle on child sex abuse, among other ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/catholics-suspend-priest-for-blowing.html
Cardinal Keith O'Brien Says He Couldn't Follow Church's Teachings on Homosexuality As He Prepares for Exile CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 9, 2013 ... "harmful to the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing" and compared equal marriage to slavery and child abuse. Now speaking to the Scottish Sun, Cardinal O'Brien, who is still technically the UK's highest ranking Catholic said: "I'm just trying to do my best to live a good Christian life myself now. Many people have been helping me to go back on the right path and that's what I have to do. "But I haven't always managed to live that in my own life." He added: "I have been ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/cardinal-keith-obrien-says-he-couldnt.html
Clericalism Is Always With Us ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP - May 8, 2013 ... and prize open discussion of the issues. And, admittedly, reputed conservatives, both lay and ordained, have done their part to sustain that template. One thinks, for instance, of the sensitive pastoral approach of the quite orthodox Archbishop Elden Curtiss to laypeople like Frank Ayers and Jeanne Bast, an 80-year-old mother of eleven and retired Catholic grade-school teacher from west Omaha, who wrote letters to the Omaha World-Herald regarding Curtiss's decision to assign a priest who had ...http://abyssum.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/clericalism-is-always-with-us/
Pope Uses Latin American Experience to Guide Confraternities CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 8, 2013 ... overcast sky that turned to rain just before Mass was about to start, leading the Pope to congratulate the pilgrims for their perseverance. "Dear brothers and sisters," he began his homily, "you were very courageous to come with this rain … May the Lord bless you very much!" The confraternities – which came from Italy, France, Ireland, Malta, Spain and Poland for the event – were welcomed by the Pope, who noted that they are "a traditional reality in the Church, which in ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/pope-uses-latin-american-experience-to.html
An Appeal to End Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church THE HOLY IRRITANT - May 8, 2013 ... of sexual abuse, full of participation and inclusiveness–, a Church where loving God, through Jesus Christ makes us proud and full of the Holy Spirit. This is the voice we want the Vatican to hear. . So if you are Catholic and believe that it's time for the Church to listen to its people; if you're a Catholic who wants to stamp out sexual abuse from ever occurring again please sign this petition. For some readers the image and promotion ...http://holyirritant.blogspot.com/2013/05/an-appeal-to-end-sexual-abuse-in.html
News and Other Stuff 5.7.13 IN SPIRITU ET VERITATE - May 7, 2013 ... together," Braz de Aviz told the then-CDF chief, American Cardinal William Levada. In an official interview given during the event, the cardinal said that "dialogue" between LCWR and the Vatican is "possible," noting that "it isn't just a matter of 'we are right, they are wrong,'" he said. Braz de Aviz also expressed his appreciation for the Rome gathering's decision to discuss issues of authority within the Catholic Church . "It is a problem I feel a lot too, not in order to ...http://inspirituetveritate.blogspot.com/2013/05/news-and-other-stuff-5713.html
The Super Archbishop of Dublin Needs a Steel Will (Opinion) CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 6, 2013 ... to the St. Vincent de Paul Society, which helps the poor, are now its clients. Ireland has changed and will never return to its past Catholic glory. But he is hopeful that a homegrown revival will save the Church and it won't come from conformism, which is the hallmark of the institutional Church. "Christian faith requires changing our way of thinking, of trusting in God's love rather than in the tangible securities of day-to-day life," said Martin, who entered the Vatican ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-super-archbishop-of-dublin-needs.html
New Jersey Catholics Have Anger, Disgust for Abuser Priest in Ministry CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 5, 2013 About 70 advocates for victims of childhood sexual abuse gathered Sunday on the lawn of St. Joseph Church in Mendham, N.J., for the rededication of a monument to sex abuse victims that was vandalized twice in the last 17 months. Almost as powerful as the sledgehammer that first destroyed the millstone monument in November 2011 was an article in the day's Newark Star-Ledger disclosing that a New Jersey priest -- Fr. Michael Fugee of the Newark archdiocese -- ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-jersey-catholics-have-anger-disgust.html
