Bishops investigating US nuns have poor records on sex abuse cases | National Catholic Reporter

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith monitors compliance with Roman Catholic moral teaching and matters of dogma for the oldest church in Christendom

congregation accelerates a disciplinary action against the main leadership group of American nuns, many sisters and priests are reacting to a climate of fear fostered by bishops and cardinals who have never been investigated for their role in the greatest moral crisis of modern Catholicism: the clergy sex abuse crisis.

A small but resonant chorus of critics is raising an issue of a hypocrisy that has grown too blatant to ignore. The same hierarchy that brought shame upon the Vatican for recycling clergy child molesters, a scandal that rocked the church in many countries, has assumed a moral high ground in punishing the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, a group whose members have put their lives on the line in taking the social justice agenda of the Second Vatican Council to some of the poorest areas in the world.

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Crap Of The Week: Cardinal Francis George « CBS Chicago

 

….Let’s turn back the clock to the summer of 2008.  At that time, Cardinal George released the transcript of his deposition taken in the litigation surrounding the Archdiocese’s sexual abuse scandal.

In that deposition, it became clear that Cardinal George:

1. Worked to reduce the 20-year prison sentence of a convicted child molester, Norbert Maday;
2. Repeatedly refused to follow recommendations and promptly remove abusive Chicago priests from ministry;
3. Appeared deeply conflicted between his concern for children and his duty to defend accused priests;
4. Believed that at the time of his ascension to becoming Chicago’s archbishop in 1997 that sexual abuse by clergy was mostly a thing of the past;
5. That when Daniel McCormack was arrested in January 2006, said: “We thought this was done, or at least contained” an;
6. Had knowledge that the vicar for priests, Rev. Edward D. Grace, and Auxiliary Bishop George J. Rassas withheld information about abuse allegations.

So, Cardinal George, let me get this straight.

The systemic rape and abuse of children and the destruction of dozens (or even hundreds) of childhoods that is ignored, hidden, and perpetuated by the Church is somehow acceptable.

But, legally recognizing the desire of two loving, committed people to join together as spouses is acting against the common good of society and will require us to pretend to accept something that is contrary to the common sense of the human race.  Got it…..

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Illinois Catholic cardinal fights gay marriage tide

 

University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey R. Stone wrote in The Huffington Post: "The plain and simple fact is that reasoning about what is 'natural' is deeply vulnerable to distortion by one's own personal values and preferences. ... Cardinal George insists that same-sex marriage is incompatible with 'nature.' One might just as easily say the same about celibacy. There is such a thing as right and wrong, but invocations of what 'nature' commands is no way to get there."

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Vatican Is 'Cash Only' As Bank Of Italy Blocks Electronic Payments Over Money Laundering Concerns

 

Deutsche Bank Italia, which for some 15 years had provided the Vatican with electronic payment services, said Thursday that the Bank of Italy had pulled its authorization after Dec. 31….

Italian central bank took the action because the Holy See has not yet fully complied with European Union safeguards against money laundering. That means Italian banks are not authorized to operate within the Vatican, which is in the process of improving its mechanisms to combat laundering.

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Cardinal George misrepresents church history - Chicago Sun-Times Letter to Editor

 

church canonized St. Sergius and his husband St. Bacchus in the fourth century. It doesn’t get much gayer than one man marrying another. And Prior Jacques Goar (1601-1653) had several rites for gay marriage in his prayer book “Euchologion Sive Rituale Graecorum Complectens Ritus Et Ordines Divinae Liturgiae.” …

In fact it really wasn’t until the 1700s that his church changed its stance on gay marriage. So please stop with the “millennia of tradition” or “nature’s laws” arguments. …

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Cardinal George: Gay marriages go against natural law : Chicago Phoenix

 

Despite the anti-gay marriage sentiments coming from the top of the local Catholic Church, a majority of Illinois Catholics support same-sex unions, according to a poll conducted by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University released in late September.

Eighty-one percent of Catholics surveyed support either full marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples or the right to a civil union. Specifically, 39.9 percent said they support marriage rights and 40.1 percent said their position is for same-sex couples to have civil unions. Only 15.7 percent said there should be no legal recognition of same-sex relationships, according to the poll.

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