Showing posts with label pastoral abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pastoral abuse. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

More Commentary on Situation in French Catholic Church: "Structural 'Implosion" and Pope Francis's Mixed Record

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More commentary on the eye-popping revelation in the French Catholic church that 11 former bishops, some still sitting and others retired, ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Diocese of Charlotte and Fr. George Berthold, Hired to Teach Theology at Belmont Abbey in 1997: A Case Study in Hierarchical Duplicity and Cover-Up

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Bishop Accountability , archiving 18 May 2002 Charlotte Observer article In response to my last posting, " Now This in Diocese ...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Now This in Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina: "Advocate Wants Former Belmont Abbey Priest Named as Child Sexual Abuser"

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In an article entitled, "Advocate wants former Belmont Abbey priest named as child sexual abuser," Nathan Morabito writes ,  ...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Ruth Krall, Moral Corruption in the Religious Commons (2)

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Theodore Rombouts, (1597-1617), " Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple " The essay below is the second installm...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Ruth Krall, Religious Leader Sexual Abuse: A Pan-Denominational Approach (Part 2)

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Transferring an Ebola Patient for Transport to a Care Facility   Religious Leader Sexual Abuse: A Pan-Denominational Approach Rut...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Ruth Krall, Religious Leader Sexual Abuse: A Pan-Denominational Approach

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Transferring an Ebola Patient for Transport to a Care Facility   I recently had the privilege of publishing an essay by Ruth Krall ...
Friday, October 19, 2018

Married Gay Catholic Minister Hounded Out of Ministerial Job with Acts of Hate from Organized Catholic Hate Groups

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I wish so much that this story had not flashed across my computer screen on the very same day in which I posted Rolando's testimony...

"I Am Excommunicated from This 'Redemptive Institution' Because 3 Years Ago, John and I Formalized our 49-Years of Living, Loving and Ministering Together by Registering Our Civil Union"

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The following is testimony that Rolando shared at Bilgrimage several days ago. This testimony deserves a wider hearing than it will re...
Monday, September 10, 2018

The "Why I'm Leaving" and "Why I'm Staying" Statements After Pennsylvania Report: My Theological Take on Them

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There was an interesting discussion thread here several days back about the spate of articles after the Pennsylvania grand jury repor...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Refusal of Catholic Hierarchy to Get Abuse Situation Parallels Refusal to Get LGBTQ People: World Meeting of Families Reminds Us, It's Not Going to Get Better

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Massive media turnout for lgbtq choir singing “Something Inside So Strong,” an Anti-Apartheid song, outside the walls of the World Meetin...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Marie Collins on False Claim That Abuse Ended in 2002 in Catholic Church, and on Whose Interests Blaming Abuse on Gay Priests Serves

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I wish those who are intent on defending the indefensible would please stop claiming clerical abuse stopped in 2002 and that it’s all abou...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

As Papal Visit to Ireland Nears, More Commentary on Abuse Crimes in Church: Cover-Up Directed from "Central Command and Control, Which Is the Vatican"

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This is powerful! : Names of 796 Tuam Babies written on white sheets and brought to Galway church #Stand4Truth (via @thejournal_ie ) http...
Friday, August 17, 2018

USCCB, Delete Your Account: Lay Catholics Respond to Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report

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USCCB, delete your account. https://t.co/dkvQTJPfiO — 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) August 16, 2018

More Commentary on Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, as Vatican Sends Thoughts and Prayers

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Elizabeth Bruenig, " Evil walked the earth in Pennsylvania ": That there should be mass defrockings is obvious. That t...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

Remembering Kathy Shaw, Unsung Hero of Abuse Crisis in U.S. Catholic Church

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During my silent weeks recently, a very important figure in American Catholic journalism died, and I want to remember her here. I'm s...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

As #ChurchToo Movement Blossoms, More Light Cast on Abuse and Its Cover-Up in Churches: A Gathering of Recent News (Including Latest on Pope Francis)

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There's a plethora of stories about sexual of abuse of minors in church contexts — and the cover-up of such abuse — in the news l...
Friday, January 26, 2018

David Martin, "#MeToo in the Pew Next to You," with Preface by Cameron Altaras

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It's my privilege today to be able to offer you a valuable statement by Rev. David Martin, Executive Minister of the Mennonite Ch...
Sunday, January 7, 2018

Ruth E. Krall, "January 6, 2018: Early Morning Reverie" — "Institutional Abuse Magnifies the Criminality of the Original Abuse"

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This powerful essay came to my email from Ruth Krall yesterday on the traditional date for the Christian feast of the Epiphany. As with e...
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

More from Michael Boyle on Elevated Theology of Priesthood: "'Theory' and 'Intellectual Integrity' Are Really Place Holders for the Unfettered Discretion of the Priest'"

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At his Sound of Sheer Silence blog, Michael Boyle has responded to my posting commenting on his own reflections about how the cent...
Friday, October 27, 2017

The Catholic Clerical Sexual Abuse Crisis, Clericalism, and Pope Francis: Michael Boyle's Take — "The Problem Is an Elevated Theology of Who Priests Are"

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In February this year, I recommended to you the four-part series by Michael Boyle on his A Sound of Sheer Silence blog site entitled...