tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post6552563551897792567..comments2023-08-21T03:51:17.425-06:00Comments on Enlightened Catholicism: Two WaPo Articles With Very Different Messages.colkochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-67313307871661641292010-04-02T22:09:32.515-06:002010-04-02T22:09:32.515-06:00Anon, I remember very vividly going over the detai...Anon, I remember very vividly going over the details of the situation with mental health hospitals in NY/NJ when researching a therapeutic model which came out of that mess. It was truly revolting research from a professional/ethical standpoint. Not to mention a personal/human standpoint. <br /><br />The therapeutic model which rose out of those ashes--client generated-- was and is very good. That's another story, but it does have a hopeful resonance for the current mess in Catholicism.<br /><br />Google Gheel Belgium for the other side of the Catholic story on residential treatment. I believe I've written about Gheel but giving it more exposure is still pure bliss.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-39246012122928602542010-04-02T19:58:26.721-06:002010-04-02T19:58:26.721-06:00Excellent article - thoughtful words from this Jes...Excellent article - thoughtful words from this Jesuit!<br /><br />During Holy Week, rather then public repentence & reform, Ratzinger has ordered his bulldogs (Opus Dei bishops & layfolk, etc.) to go on the offensive. Equating any critique of the Pope as an attack on Christ himself. While Ratz himself has been mum on the issue. <br /><br />Do they think the tide of allegations have ceased?<br /><br />What will they do when the victims of abuse in US Catholic schools come forward? The orphanages here?<br />Do they think the boys' school for the deaf in WI is the ONLY abuse case?<br /><br />Those of us who have long memories know of the sexual abuse of boys in Catholic orphanages, mental health institutions, homes for the handicapped, reform schools/halfway houses run in the NY/NJ region. Both within living memory - and dating back to the early 1900s. <br /><br />Search on the New York Times archives, as I have. You will be...disgusted. Much has been swept under the rug. The most recently publicized cases were in the 70s & 80s involving the mental health institutions. All conveniently forgotten...like the deaf boys in Milwaukee. And many times worse then that scene. Much worse. <br /><br />You may thank Cardinal Spellman for that.....there is a hint there. A BIG one. And his former secretary & successor Cardinal Cooke, for neatly covering it all up. And the postulator of his 'cause'. <br /><br />Put 2+ 2 together....<br /><br />Anon Y. MouseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-91364765019720541112010-03-31T23:44:13.095-06:002010-03-31T23:44:13.095-06:00Yes, Anonymous! They have cast the net and closed...Yes, Anonymous! They have cast the net and closed it - thus proving they are in control of the whole shebang! Talk about painting yourself into a corner... <br /><br />Let them eat cake - indeed!TheraPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17684120043427738135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-4418072721986972272010-03-31T22:53:07.822-06:002010-03-31T22:53:07.822-06:00I have been out with some painful illness while th...I have been out with some painful illness while the evidence presented here of vast church hemorrhage is apparent. It comes down to a<br />Benedict and many others in the curia that do not have the depth of Character to fix this mess. Even if I am misjudging Benedict and he sincerely tries to truthfully face this leadership crisis, he likely would be no more successful than a John Paul I when he announced that he would clean up the Vatican Bank. May the People of God gain grace by not fearing truth and not fearing to act truthfully. We can continue to inform ourselves, and act from our consciences while attempting to center on where the Spirit leads!rdp46https://www.blogger.com/profile/04427786268228285222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-3941080446354827442010-03-31T22:45:13.184-06:002010-03-31T22:45:13.184-06:00More avoidance from the USA Bishops' Conferenc...More avoidance from the USA Bishops' Conference via their spokesperson.<br /><br />Does she think we buy this disingenuous claptrap?<br /><br />The suffering has been caused by clergy and religious who raped and abused children, and she wants us to theologise it! Get real sister and think about genuine sorrow, reparations and commitment to ensuring it can't happen again.RomanRenegadenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-91022399525465769692010-03-31T20:53:31.823-06:002010-03-31T20:53:31.823-06:00TheraP-
Interesting NCR article.
"Back to ...TheraP-<br /><br />Interesting NCR article. <br /><br />"Back to the Future", "Forward to the Past".<br /><br />The irony is that re-centralizing all decision making power back to the Curia in the Vatican has(... love the irony...), also re-centralized all responsibility to the Curia in the Vatican.<br /><br />Which means, among many things that I'm sure will also be revealed, that the Curia/Vatican "owns" the pedophilia<br />scandal.<br /><br />The present Pope wanted his cake...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-69747810977722163552010-03-31T20:14:06.266-06:002010-03-31T20:14:06.266-06:00Father Boulud's letter is the most refreshing ...Father Boulud's letter is the most refreshing and truthful statement of facts of the christian church today. Although his letter is to the catholic church it is really to all christian churches. All churches, catholic and protestant need to heed his advice. The church (all denominations ) are out of step with the modern world. We all need a church that addresses the problems of today with the love and salvation of Jesus in the first centuryWilliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207510733754100979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-39136222852262309832010-03-31T15:01:10.355-06:002010-03-31T15:01:10.355-06:00Addendum also available here: (scroll down)
http:...Addendum also available here: (scroll down)<br /><br />http://tiny.cc/4ifxyCaptain Picardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07675995256310168056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-60577666414844784092010-03-31T14:56:57.274-06:002010-03-31T14:56:57.274-06:00Last link I'm offering today:
http://ncronlin...Last link I'm offering today:<br /><br />http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/unity-wins-out-over-diversity<br /><br />It gives an account of how the present and previous pope, aided by the Opus, have reversed Vatican II through shrewd rewriting of canon law. Which now spreads infallibility much wider than it did and makes any reform all that much harder to undo.<br /><br />Put that with the fact that Benedict is particularly elevating those well-versed in canon law (or history, as someone said a day or two ago). Rewriting history and canon law. To the detriment of the People of God.<br /><br />Join the Orthodox!!!<br /> (Or do as prompted by the Spirit.)TheraPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17684120043427738135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-8955676419884061232010-03-31T14:49:26.574-06:002010-03-31T14:49:26.574-06:00There's an addendum to the letter which is ver...There's an addendum to the letter which is very interesting in its proposal;<br /><br />http://www.pfingstvision.at/aktuelles/Brief%20von%20P.%20Henri%20Boulad/A%20Personal%20Letter%20to%20Pope%20Benedict%20XVI.docAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-54901884245848987782010-03-31T13:40:34.547-06:002010-03-31T13:40:34.547-06:00Bravo to Fr. Boulad for speaking the voice of trut...Bravo to Fr. Boulad for speaking the voice of truth in such a thicket of hypocrisy!! Thanks to him and others like Bill and you Colleen, we know the Truth lives!<br /> We have sent a check to help with "replacement money" to the homeless shelter here where "our" bishop has not only cut off Catholic Charities funding but demanded money already given back. Why? Because the parent organization of the shelter supported gay marriage in the last election. <br />Another brave priest who is not afraid to speak the truth said to me, "And he does this on the Sunday I have to preach, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone'."coolmomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-71051025314883290342010-03-31T12:09:24.229-06:002010-03-31T12:09:24.229-06:00Furthermore, the lie that the Pharisees in the Chu...Furthermore, the lie that the Pharisees in the Church are spreading and have been spreading for a long time is that "liberals" are responsible for the ills in society and in the Church. It is certainly a lie of convenience for those desiring power, glory and material riches for themselves.butterflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09684946870144030594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-71360848926404208362010-03-31T12:02:09.073-06:002010-03-31T12:02:09.073-06:00I agree with butterfly. What we are seeing is the...I agree with butterfly. What we are seeing is the Holy Spirit - independently moving many to speak out on behalf of the TRUE church, which the hierarchy seem to have abandoned. <br /><br />The Orthodox today recognize the woman who washed the feet of Jesus and anointed him - versus Judas who sold him. <br /><br />There is a powerful image of those of us who venerate him, versus those like Judas, who betray himTheraPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17684120043427738135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-53299120772998439552010-03-31T11:41:34.493-06:002010-03-31T11:41:34.493-06:00When reading Jesuit Father Henri Boulad's lett...When reading Jesuit Father Henri Boulad's letter I could hear the same views expressed right here in so many a blog. Time and again, here in this blog's message, in the messages that followers of this blog have received independently across the globe, the same voice speaks, which is not conspiracy, but the Holy Spirit speaking with the same voice and message for the Church for reform. It is the same message we have heard which serves the Lord, not Peter's denials and fears.<br /><br />If it is true that Fr Henri Boulad's letter was not even read by the Pope, those who have not made this letter available to him are just digging a deeper hole in which the successor of Peter can hide in his bunker, a deeper hole that buries and denies the Holy Spirit.<br /><br /> Sister Mary Ann Walsh says " Holy Week is time when Catholics worldwide feel the pain of dying in Christ." Some are feeling the pain of the Truth and doing nothing about it.<br /><br />This year I feel the pain of Christ suffering, but not in the way Sister Mary Ann Walsh describes. <br /><br />Christ continues to suffer because the Pharisees have taken over the spirit of the Church, they deny Christ and create outcasts. Like Peter, the Pope denies Jesus when he has the opportunity to follow Jesus and obey His commands. He refuses to walk with Christ to the Resurrection, stops shorts and misses the point entirely of who and what caused Jesus' death on the cross. <br /><br />Sister Walsh says: "Society is finally seeing that sexual abuse of a child is a sin, a crime and often a sickness."<br /><br />Society has seen this long before the hierarchy in the Church. Parents and mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers saw it long before society and the Church.<br /><br />And it really does not matter which side of the political spectrum one is on to SEE that "sexual abuse of a child is a sin." My parents had a child in the 1960's with a rare birth defect and they heard about how children were abused in institutions that were supposedly created to help them. My parents opted to raise their child at home because they knew there was all kinds of abuse against these little ones and that sexual abuse occurred in many institutions, and that was in the 1960s and my parents were very conservative Catholics.<br /><br />The spin of the Sister is to weave this in such a way for the interests of the Bishops that excuses enablers of sexual abuse and abusers of all sorts, including that of abuse of conscience, abuse of the Lord and denial of His Holy Spirit.butterflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09684946870144030594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-29228580587929275172010-03-31T11:37:57.347-06:002010-03-31T11:37:57.347-06:00Next we have Maureen Dowd - on track for excommuni...Next we have Maureen Dowd - on track for excommunication, I'm guessing:<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/opinion/31dowd.html<br /><br />Thankfully she quotes Dolan saying, the church needs and wants criticism. Umm... that's news to me! But cover for her!TheraPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17684120043427738135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-33725039130300184992010-03-31T11:27:23.298-06:002010-03-31T11:27:23.298-06:00Here's is another "he said, she said"...Here's is another "he said, she said" - with the roles reversed, from the bbc this morning. "She" asserts from evidence. "He" simply asserts (ex cathedra, as it were).<br /><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8596364.stm<br /><br />Jesus did say he had come to cast fire on the earth, did he not? I do believe this is what's happening now.TheraPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17684120043427738135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-6416204889106804982010-03-31T11:17:35.158-06:002010-03-31T11:17:35.158-06:00Phil tomorrow I am going to steal a couple things ...Phil tomorrow I am going to steal a couple things off of your blog as I think they are totally appropriate for tomorrow.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-6415331795239916182010-03-31T10:56:07.561-06:002010-03-31T10:56:07.561-06:00The first article is mind blowing fresh air and at...The first article is mind blowing fresh air and at first I wondered if it was a spoof article.It is the first article I have read that says what I have been feeling for years and it manages to say it all in one go.<br />This priest is definitely my hero for Easter 2010. <br />I shall be putting this on my blog and I hope it goes viral. Can anyone get him to go on the BBC News ? I am from the UK!! Brilliant, just brilliant. (I confess I did not progress to the second article after I read your comments.)Blue Eyed Ennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06181985609681328032noreply@blogger.com