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I have nothing but respect for Catholic Charities. For 100 years, they’ve gone where no one else would go, and done the work no one else would do and performed the work that could only be describe with the most altruistic meaning of “charity”. And now the bishops have forced them to give up the work they were founded to do. Pathetic.
And then to hear yesterday, O’Malley’s spokesman say with a straight face, that they must look out for the welfare of children as they have always done. That’s a pretty curious definition of “always”. I can only assume “always” doesn’t include the thousands of little kids they’ve abused, or the compounding of that abuse by covering it up, or even further compounding it by engaging in some of the most despicable court tactics in memory.
The schizophrenia in this archdiocese is astounding. On the one hand, a beloved priest in Newton is castigated and relieve of duty for supporting gay rights. The ostensible reason he was removed was because he accepted a stipend and car from his parish. Both were approved by the lay finance committee (or whatever it’s called). On the other hand, another church is being closed because it’s in financial difficulty. It’s in financial difficulty, it turns out, because the priest has been siphoning off money from that church to pay the bills of another (where he’s based) to the tune of between 1/4 to 1/2 million dollars. What happened to this priest? Nothing. “It was a mistake.” The church is still closing, though. What’s the difference between the two priests? One supported non-discrimination, one towed the party line.
It just amazes me that anyone can have anything bug contempt for these people. Men of God. Bah!
March 11th, 2006 at 9:11 am
This boggles my mind.
I have nothing but respect for Catholic Charities. For 100 years, they’ve gone where no one else would go, and done the work no one else would do and performed the work that could only be describe with the most altruistic meaning of “charity”. And now the bishops have forced them to give up the work they were founded to do. Pathetic.
And then to hear yesterday, O’Malley’s spokesman say with a straight face, that they must look out for the welfare of children as they have always done. That’s a pretty curious definition of “always”. I can only assume “always” doesn’t include the thousands of little kids they’ve abused, or the compounding of that abuse by covering it up, or even further compounding it by engaging in some of the most despicable court tactics in memory.
The schizophrenia in this archdiocese is astounding. On the one hand, a beloved priest in Newton is castigated and relieve of duty for supporting gay rights. The ostensible reason he was removed was because he accepted a stipend and car from his parish. Both were approved by the lay finance committee (or whatever it’s called). On the other hand, another church is being closed because it’s in financial difficulty. It’s in financial difficulty, it turns out, because the priest has been siphoning off money from that church to pay the bills of another (where he’s based) to the tune of between 1/4 to 1/2 million dollars. What happened to this priest? Nothing. “It was a mistake.” The church is still closing, though. What’s the difference between the two priests? One supported non-discrimination, one towed the party line.
It just amazes me that anyone can have anything bug contempt for these people. Men of God. Bah!