Words to live by…
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When past conditioning is released
and no fresh one produced,
the mind no longer seeks for future birth.
The seed consumed, cravings no more arise.
Such-minded wise ones cease like this lamp.
Sutta Nipāta 2.238
Daily Words of the Buddha for April 07, 2010
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Think not lightly of evil, saying, “It will not come to me.”
Drop by drop is the water pot filled.
Likewise, the fool, gathering it little by little,
fills oneself with evil.
Dhammapada 9.121
Daily Words of the Buddha for April 06, 2010
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Though one may conquer
a thousand times a thousand people in battle,
yet one indeed is the noblest victor
who conquers oneself.
Dhammapada 10.103
Living in a bubble… or the 12th Century?
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Satan behind media attacks on the Pope, asserts Italian exorcist (Catholic News Agency)
Speaking to News Mediaset in Italy, the 85-year-old exorcist noted that the devil is behind “the recent attacks on Pope Benedict XVI regarding some pedophilia cases.”
“There is no doubt about it. Because he is a marvelous Pope and worthy successor to John Paul II, it is clear that the devil wants to ‘grab hold’ of him.”
Father Amorth added that in instances of sexual abuse committed by some members of the clergy, the devil “uses” priests in order to cast blame upon the entire Church: “The devil wants the death of the Church because she is the mother of all the saints.”
Vatican Official Defends Pope’s Handling of Case (NY Times)
Cardinal William J. Levada, an American who heads the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, praised Pope Benedict for vigorously investigating and prosecuting sexual abuse cases. He said The Times’s coverage had been “deficient by any reasonable standards of fairness.”
Vatican: There’s An Anti-Catholic ‘Hate’ Campaign (Huff Po)
Vatican Radio broadcast comments by two senior cardinals explaining “the motive for these attacks” on the pope and the Vatican newspaper chipped in with spirited comments from another top cardinal.
“The pope defends life and the family, based on marriage between a man and a woman, in a world in which powerful lobbies would like to impose a completely different” agenda, Spanish Cardinal Julian Herranz, head of the disciplinary commission for Holy See officials, said on the radio….
“By now, it’s a cultural contrast,” Sodano told the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. “The pope embodies moral truths that aren’t accepted, and so, the shortcomings and errors of priests are used as weapons against the church.”
O.K., so you’re a bunch of lairs? completely sheltered and in denial? complicit and afraid of prosecution? clueless that child molestation is a sin?
More on Vatican complicity and sexual abuse by the clergy
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I’m catching up on the 50 or so stories that I’ve yet to read…
Vatican Cardinal Accused of Protecting Fugitive Priest: Priest Fled Minnesota to India as Police Prepared Rape Charges (ABC News)
Vatican officials warned church officials in India to monitor a Catholic priest charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Minnesota, but four years later, the Rev. Joseph Jeyapaul continues to work in his home diocese…
A Vatican spokesperson told the Associated Press that it suggested the priest be defrocked, stripped of his priestly powers, but that his bishop in India refused…
The case again raises question about the handling of the sex abuse scandal by Cardinal William J. Levada, the former archbishop of San Francisco, who is now in charge of investigating such matters for the Vatican.
Cardinal Levada was notified of the charges against the priest in three letters written by Bishop Victor Balke of Minnesota, beginning in Dec. 2005, according to documents filed in a lawsuit.
In the first letter, Bishop Balke warned that to ignore the case “would be a shameful act of betrayal towards the women and girls in India to whom Fr. Jeyapaul could at present pose a risk.”
In a response six months later, on behalf of Cardinal Levada, a deputy made no mention of disciplinary action against the accused priest but said he would “be monitored so that he does not constitute a risk to minors and does not create a scandal among the faithful.“ (emphasis mine)
O.K., Apologist-in-Cheif Donohue, how does this fit with your verbal diarrhea such as “and, yes, there’s a connection between homosexuality and sexual abuse of minors” (via Think Progress)
Shedding the light on more abuse claims against the Catholic Church…
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Let’s see how the serial apologists like Donohue respond to this one…
The “Pedophile’s Paradise” (The Stranger)
…”It was a pedophile’s paradise.” He described a chain of poor Native villages where priests—many of them serial sex offenders—reigned supreme. “We are going to shine some light on a dark and dirty corner of the Jesuit order.”
The suit…accuses several priests of being offenders and conspirators. Among the alleged conspirators is Father Stephen Sundborg… The suit alleges that while Sundborg was head of the Northwest Jesuits, he had access to the personnel files of several pedophile priests, including one named Father Henry Hargreaves, whom he allowed to remain in the ministry. “As a direct result of Father Sundborg’s decision,” the suit alleges, “Father Hargreaves was able to continue molesting children, including but not limited to James Doe 94, who was raped by Father Hargreaves in 1992, when James Doe was approximately 6 years old.”
Roosa and his associate Patrick Wall (a former Benedictine monk who once worked as a sex-abuse fixer for the Catholic Church) said they knew of 345 cases of molestation in Alaska by 28 perpetrators who came from at least four different countries…
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