(The Independent) - Vatican sources said the Pope considers the jamboree with the priests in June an appropriate occasion for him to lead the whole church in a "Day of Request for Pardon" of the victims and their families for the wrong done by a small percentage of priests in abusing children and minors in many countries, and the wrong done by bishops in covering up that abuse or protecting the predators.THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: I think this is the right thing to do, along with a clear Vatican mandate on how to deal with this problem in the future. However, to be quite honest, I don't believe any act by this pope, no matter how sincere and reforming, will be enough to satisfy those blood thirsty Goebbels in the mainstream news media.
The meeting would be appropriate for a day of fasting as well as penance, they say. On the papal flight last week-end Benedict made a second allusion to the abuse scandal, and its devastating effect on the moral authority of the church and its pastors, describing the church as the body of Jesus Christ "wounded by our sins".
The respected Vatican watcher added: "It is clear that Benedict has been reflecting and seeking to understand the abuse scandal with the eyes of faith. He seems to be developing a theological and spiritual frame for reading and dealing with this shameful and humbling reality in the life of the church in the 21st century and discerning an exit strategy from it."
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
BREAKING: Pope To Apologize For Sex-Abuse Cover-Up Scandal
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Sir Knight, you're right about "those blood thirsty Goebbels" in the msn. I've just read this story, and most of the comments about it just oozed hatred for or Holy Father and the Church. They will never be satisfied by any right thing that the Pope or the Church does to resolve the problem. The want a lynching, not justice for the victims.
That's because they are motivated by hate not justice. They seek to do to the pope what the Sanhedrin and Pilate did to Christ. Thy seek to do to the Catholic Church what the Pharisees and Pagans did to the apostles. It's the same old sh*t - different century (Pardon the French). We can take comfort only in this. Those who persecute the pope and the Church now can take their seats alongside those who crucified Christ and persecuted his apostles. They are of the same ilk, and they are in good company, right next to the most infamous villans of history. The good news is this. They will be no more successful than those who went before them.
Mr Knight, I could not agree with you and scotju more! I predict that,say in 20 years, if Benedict is proposed for canonization, the same charges will be dredged up as they have been for Pius XII. Benedict's "legacay" as written by secular historians will not be his counter=revolution, restoring the old mass, and creacking down on dissidents, but the "sex scandals". Pete Frey
The "legacy" the media creates for Benedict will not survive the century. Try as they may the very BEST they could accomplish is to postpone his canonization for a generation or two. Believe me when I say this. By the year 2110, nobody is going to give a damn, and these neo-Marxists running the world today will be looked down upon as the petty little dictators of an age gone by.
If you want to talk about "legacy", I would say the sex abuse scandal is the legacy of Vatican II, the Novus Ordo, and modern translations of the Bible (RSV, NAB, Jerusalem Bible). It's all cause and effect. That's the real elephant in the living room, not celebacy.
Anonymous, I would agree with you that celibacy has absolutely NOTHING to do with the scandal unfolding in the Catholic Church. HOMOSEXUALITY is the cause - particularly homosexual predators. The discipline of celibacy wouldn't help these men anymore than a painted sign to "keep out" would stop a fox from getting into a chicken coop.
However, while I also lament the liturgical lunacy that has emerged since Vatican II, I do not believe Vatican II itself is the cause, nor the Novus Ordo mass in itself, even though I do not care for the Novus Ordo mass and wish it were never instituted.
The height of the sexual abuse scandal occurred in the 1970s, but was on the rise during the 1950s and 60s as well. Much of this time is pre-conciliar, and that is telling. The abuse began to rapidly drop off after the election of John Paul II and the installation of Cardinal Ratzinger in the CDF. It actually dropped back to pre-1950s levels even faster than it rose. Of course John Paul II was a big "Novus Ordo" pope, and Ratzinger tolerated it (and continues to tolerate it as pope) in public settings.
So the fact of the matter is this. Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is currently at pre-1950s levels, and yet we're still using the Novus Ordo (even with bad translations still in effect) as well as the NAB Bible, and Vatican II still remains in force.
The data has forced me to conclude the sexual abuse crisis rose independently of Vatican II both before and after the council. The liturgical goofiness of the post-conciliar era could not be the cause of this scandal. The data indicates otherwise. While it would be theoretically possible to say the liturgical goofiness is the result of the sexual abuse scandal, it would not be possible to say the scandal is the result of the liturgical goofiness. (Though I'm not sure that's much better either way.)
Personally, I think the attempt to link sexual-abuse with Vatican II, and the subsequent liturgical goofiness, in a "cause and effect" type of relationship, is to miss the point. I would argue that both sexual-abuse and goofy liturgical reform are merely the results of the same root cause - LIBERALISM.
Liberalism began to infect the Church early in the last century. It was railed against by Pope Pius X as "Modernism" and "Relativism." By the late 1950s (under the saintly Pope Pius XII) it was taking root at a viral pace. By the time of the council it was firmly entrenched. We can see it's influence on the council not only in the way some things were worded, but also in the council's failure to seize upon the opportunity to anathematize the greatest evil of the 20th century - communism. This is of course unfortunate, but it does not invalidate the council. That being said however, since the bishops refused to utilize the "note of infallibility" on any council document, Vatican II was relegated to a lower order pastoral council according to Pope Paul VI. It is still binding upon Catholics, at a pastoral level, but not at an infallible doctrinal level. That's important to remember, since Liberalism has led many Catholics to falsely believe Vatican II was the end-all be-all of Church councils. According to Pope Paul VI anyway, who concluded the council, Vatican I and Trent carry far more authority and relevance to the faith than Vatican II.
I would propose that Liberalism is the plague the Church was warned of by Our Lady at Fatima. It came independently of any Church council or sexual abuse, and it seemed to rise in parallel to the rise of communism. Goofy liturgical reform and sex-abuse scandal are the inevitable RESULT of Liberalism within the Church. One did not cause the other, rather they are related to each other, only insofar as they are caused by the same root source.
I stand corrected. The sex abuse scandal is the legacy of the liberal/progressive movement within the Catholic Church...the same movement which had great influence over Vatican II, the Novus Ordo, and the modern Bible translations.
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