More: If abuse won't cost your job in the Church, what will?
This morning The Irish Catholic reported that the reluctantly offered resignations of Irish Bishops Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field have been rejected by Pope Benedict XVI.
It's an astounding move - because it's completely unsupportable.
The facts have already been established: both Irish bishops presided over dioceses that covered up of decades of rampant child sex abuse allegations (Bishop Ryan was in the diocese of Ferns and Bishop Field was in Dublin).
But instead of accepting their resignations the Pope has decided that Bishops Ryan and Fields will instead remain as Auxillary Bishops and will be assigned 'revised responsibilities within the diocese.'
No need to dwell on the arrogance, it speaks for itself; what fascinates me is the astonishing indifference to any ordinary conception of morality or atonement.
Shit like that, and the fact that the Church is nothing like the post Vatican II Church that I grew up with in the '70s, is why I don't go to Mass anymore. Really disappoints my mother, but I just can't do it.
Man, I hate Stockton and Malone.
No, that's not related to anything here.
I also hate Microsoft Project.
CIO sent me a "Welcome to the team!" card. I doublechecked, and she is still spelling my name in all caps. I feel obliquely chastised.
she is still spelling my name in all caps.
Does she think you're an acronym?
What Kathy A said. I long ago decided not to be Catholic, but the Church as it is now composed is so very far from the hippyish post-Vatican II Church I grew up with as to be unrecognizable.
Does she think you're an acronym?
I hope she thinks I'm the right one. Continual total agreement would be useful.
The Utah Jazz players?
Yeah. I just had a moment. Not sure what came over me. Winningest team I never could like.
Only roller derby could make me order a pair of black, sequined hot pants from Hot Topic and wear them.
Pics or it didn't happen.
Admittedly, my parish was the most hippyish in town (we had a reputation--all the other churches' priests had to say in their homilies was "I went to St. Jude's for Reason X last week, and, well, you know St. Jude's..." to get a laugh of recognition from the congregation), and then I went to an all-girls Catholic high school which was very female dominated, so I grew up with a much more open-minded view of the Church, one in favor of strong women leaders speaking their minds, even in opposition to what was coming out of Rome.
It took my Theology 101 class at Marquette (taught by an Episcopalian) to learn that certain things I learned about the tenets of the Church were technically heresy.
