The John Jay College of Criminal Justice recently released its report, commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, on the clerical sex scandals that came to light over the past decade. Some have alleged that the study is a
"whitewash" of the issue of clerical homosexuality, since the report denies that a man engaging in sexual acts with a post-pubescent teen male should be called a "homosexual" if he doesn't think of himself as a homosexual.
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Surprising that a bunch of lawyers would come up with that, eh?
/sarcasm
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and of humanity and truth?
Pope Blessed John 23 formalised the Church's rejection of Ecclesiastical Discipline (without which all is chaos) in his opening speech to the Second Vatican Council and so we Christian laymen have become inured to such things as this report which is a pathetic product.
I wonder if we have to wait until the election of, Peter Romanus, before the Church abandons the path set-out on by the V2 Church?
In any event, isn't it curious that we laymen never Holy Mother Church reference the Psychiatric Profession when it comes to the evil of Clerical Sex Crimes against adolescent males?
The Catholic Church, rashly, invited the Psych Profession to establish screening criteria for admittance to Seminaries; H.M. Church sent her pervert priests to psychologists/psychiatrists for "treatment" and then accepted their professional advice that Fr Fanny Fanatic was perfectly fine to return to Ministry.
I mean, who in their right mind (other than the average heterosexual man ) could have predicted that the Psych Profession would not have the best interest of Holy Mother Church at heart?
I mean, come on, Shrinks and Social Workers LOVE Holy Mother Church and her pellucid Doctrine about morals; especially sexual morals.
Modern Popes have often apologised for the past putative sins of long-dead Christians but I am not holding my breath waiting for them to apologise for abandoning Ecclesiastical Discipline or for trusting the Psych Profession
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto" (I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me), declared Terentius.
But not everything human or true is good and beautiful. Addiction and various other pathologies are human, and it is true that individuals fall prey to them.
So what's you're point.
"...a man engaging in sexual acts with a post-pubescent teen male should [not] be called a 'homosexual' if he doesn't think of himself as a homosexual" and is a Catholic priest.
Gee, if *this* is the pervading wisdom in parishes and dioceses, do we think anyone has much of a hold on day-to-day physical realities, much less spiritual things?
Anonymous Bosch, see http://www.crisismagazine.com/2011/concupiscence-is-not-a-sin
NY POST: “The Brooklyn DA arrested an astounding 89 Orthodox men on charges of child sex abuse — forcing open a community that sometimes covers up such crimes
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/breaking_the_si_ence_fowlLEBaFdRumDAfT2gc0J
Where are the headlines? Where is the outrage?”
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