http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20110514_Head_of_Philly_priest_sex-abuse_review_panel_criticizes_her_church_leaders.html
"A nurse who has served eight years on the archdiocesan review board, Catanzaro was elaborating on a sharply critical article she wrote for the current issue of the Catholic biweekly Commonweal.
Only after a Philadelphia grand jury report in February excoriated both the board and hierarchy for shielding accused priests, she said, did the panel members discover that most cases had been kept from them."
Bridget Mary's Reflection:
How can the Philadelphia Archdiocese justify withholding cases from its own Review Board? This action makes a mockery of the Charter to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse that the U.S. bishops adopted after their historic meeting in Dallas. How can a pro-life church not be pro-child? Catholics in Philadelphia should be outraged, hold their church leaders accountable and withhold financial contributions from the Archdiocese until there is genuine reform and transparency. It is time for a renewed priestly ministry including married priests and women priests in a people-empowered Catholic Church if the institutional church wants to move forward with genuine reforms.
Bridget Mary Meehan, RCWP
www.associationofromancatholicwomenpriests.org
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"Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believed in me, it were better for him that millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." Matthew 18:6
ReplyDeleteJesus was very specific about the treatment of children. I don't see the Millstone Manufacturing Company working overtime to provide clerical collars for over 5000 American priests who abused children.
-Joe Baltrukonis