"The best defense is a good offense." Except that for the pope - the self
proclaimed intermediary between Christ and mankind - and the alter leaders -
to use the vicious 'media' as their core defensive strategy is to expose their
vulnerability in their failed claims of moral authority. The Pope has a
responsibility to demonstrate consistency and integrity in judgment and action.
And when he and others are admittedly wrong he and they must do the right thing
and resign. That would be earth shaking for the church and the world - in a
positive way. To stonewall and try to shift the issue to the "media" is an
obvious and pathetic poor attempt to change the focus.
To claim ignorance of the facts - if one believes it - is to acknowledge being
asleep on the job. To rationalize poor judgment is to elevate the selfish needs
of a few men who supposedly knew or should have known better over the pain and
suffering of thousands of innocent children. What kind of moral superiority is
this.
I think that Montaigne says it aptly: "Supercelestial thoughts breed
subterranean conduct." In other words beware of the intensely pious as over and
over again they turn out to be the biggest hypocrits among us.
-----Original Message-----
From: frantheman <[email protected]>
To: "Minds Eye" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sat, Mar 27, 2010 10:18 am
Subject: [Mind's Eye] Re: Shanae O’Connor
I see this as a developing situation. Catholic bishops worldwide (with
few exceptions) right up to the top are just not getting it, they
eem to be inhabiting a world so far removed from contemporary reality
hat it's just not conceptually possible for them.
There are growing signs of nervousness, however. The information
irming up from the time when Ratzinger was bishop in Munich and in
harge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome shows
learly that he was - at least - extremely negligent in dealing with
hurch sex offenders, thereby leaving children at risk. Reporting
ases to the civil authorities wasn't even on his radar screen, at
east up to the turn of the millenium. Other bishops worldwide, most
otably Cardinal Law in Boston, have been forced to resign because of
imilar failings. The fact that church statements are increasingly
eferring to hostile media campaigns by elements hostile to the church
nderlines both the nervousness and the extent to which they've lost
he plot.
http://www.nrc.nl/international/opinion/article2512168.ece/The_net_is_closing_around_pope_Benedict_XVI
ttp://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,685712,00.html
Apart from the victims, who have gone through hell, I also feel sorry
or those honest priests, brothers, sisters and believers who are
till trying to carry on with their genuine caring, idealistic work -
ven if I don't share their beliefs. On St. Patrick's Day I had lunch
n Dublin in a Dominican monastery where I had lived for seven years
ack when I was a member of the Order in the 70s and 80s. Most of the
ld friends I met felt disgusted, abandoned and betrayed by the church
eadership.
Even now, the Catholic authorities have a chance. All they would need
o do is really allow themselves to perceive the horror and
onsequences of what has been going on. What's wrong with resigning?
hat about genuine, serious gestures of penitence? An open look at
tructures; accountability, celerical celibacy, local involvement in
hoosing bishops and church government in general? A Third Vatican
ouncil?
But all that presumes an attitude of humble, real listening - and that
eems for the church authorities in general to be a posture suitable
nly for the laity. They, on the other hand, still claim the titles
princes of the church," allow themselves to be addressed with "My
ord," and have people kiss their rings.
http://romancatholicblog.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/17/nancy_pelosi_with_pope_benedict_xvi.jpg
Francis
On 27 Mrz., 14:43, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote:
With Massive Attack, no less! Brilliant, Gabs, thank you for sharing.
To answer Slip's question about rationality, I disagree strongly that this
is a "Few bad apples". There is a disproportionately high (in relation to
the population) number of pedophiles, in position of power, with direct
access to and authority over, children. Additionally, the "management", all
the way to the executive level (Pope), have engaged in misdirection and
cover up. Worse, not one single one of these bastards has been arrested.
They are protected by the Holy See.
If even 1% of Store Managers across the country at Wal-Mart had been
molesting children, the executive board of Wal-Mart would have done a major
purge, permanently banning them from working for the organization, and
pushed for their incarceration. It's the normal line of PR for an
organization that doesn't support those actions, and wants to be dissociated
from them. The Vatican has been such a target not only for their lack of
disciplinary or legal action, but their subsequent cover up, and their utter
lack of dissociation from these events, in some cases, even blaming the
victims themselves. Why does the world's richest corporation get such a free
pass on this?
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 7:55 AM, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote:
> If only she had gotten more attention. I haven't forgotten the song
> though, which I also stored under "bigland":
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFuTEtBGEtk
> On 27 Mrz., 04:33, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Rational? Have you lost your senses? I think it sounds ridiculous.
> > Why throw away a bushel of apples on account of a few bad ones.
> > Should we dismantle the entire political system because some
> > politicians are butt holes? Should we stop humanitarian aide because
> > some officials skim money off the top?
> > I think she's an attention freak
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinead_O%27Connor
> > On Mar 26, 4:13 pm, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Interestingly enough, today I heard Shanae O’Connor say on the radio
> > > that there should be a criminal investigation of the Pope and the
> > > entire Vatican [most recent pedophilia scandal] that the entire lot
> > > should step down. Sounds rational, what do you think?
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