Thank God. That’s all I can say about the news that the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus will be paying $166.1 million to hundreds of now-adults who were abused as children by various Jesuit priests. I can’t say “Thank the Jesuits,” because, like their diocesan colleagues before them, the Jebbies fought paying this settlement and fought admitting that anyone in their ranks had done the reprehensible. I don’t know what the problem is with clerics admitting fault, but we sure seem to have an institutional problem with that. I actually heard a Jesuit a few months ago say he was concerned about his provinces finances because “of the Oregon problem.” That “problem” would be the crime of sexual abuse of minors, but you know how it is with the English language -- so many words can stand for the same thing, right?
Link (here) to the frank editorial by Renée Schafer Horton at The National Catholic Reporter
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Not enough the souls murdered by Fr. McGuire SJ. Here comes Mr. Kevin Clarke at America Magzine to tell us that, see, the real story is about HOMOSEXUAL PRIESTS! THEY ARE BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST. Oh, now I get it!!!! Says Mr. Clarke:
"Discouraging vocations among gay men has become the preferred focus for "fixing" this problem of abuse, but chasing gay men away from or out of the priesthood won't do anything to correct the institutional failures and almost pathological nonchalance and indifference described here in the handling of a monster like Maguire and too many like him (oh, and good luck managing the church without its many gay priests).
Not by accident does the story of Fr. McGuire come our way.
Not enough the souls murdered by Fr. McGuire SJ. Here comes Mr. Kevin Clarke at America Magzine to tell us that, see, the real story is about HOMOSEXUAL PRIESTS! THEY ARE BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST. Oh, now I get it!!!! Says Mr. Clarke:
"Discouraging vocations among gay men has become the preferred focus for "fixing" this problem of abuse, but chasing gay men away from or out of the priesthood won't do anything to correct the institutional failures and almost pathological nonchalance and indifference described here in the handling of a monster like Maguire and too many like him (oh, and good luck managing the church without its many gay priests).
Not by accident does the story of Fr. McGuire SJ come our way in Lent.
I'm sure the lawyers would agree.
The lawyer would agree. One of the victims as his nephew.
The lawyer would agree. One of the victims was his nephew.
I love how the conservatives rally around the bishops on this issue but then change their tune when it involves the Jesuits.
Conservatives? You are confused. I am a Roman Catholic. There are no political parties in the Catholic Church to which I belong.
@Maria
Think of theological factions, which there most definitely are.
Would that you would start worrying about the Legionaries of Christ.
There are no "factions". There are those who are loyal to the Church of Jesus Christ and those who are Her enemies. I would place Maciel in the camp of the enemy.
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