http://www.ncronline.org/news/global/pressure-dutch-church-after-report
"Two leading politicians in the Netherlands, both from conservative parties, have called for the resignations of Catholic bishops in the wake of a damning report on sexual abuse in the Dutch church.The country’s prime minister, Mark Rutte, also announced that his cabinet is considering lifting a statute of limitations to allow criminal prosecutions. A complaint has already been filed with the public prosecutor’s office against a former bishop of the Rotterdam diocese, Philippe Bär. An attorney representing alleged victims has charged Bär with covering up abuse during his tenure from 1983 to 1993..."Released on Dec. 16, the report found that somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 Dutch children suffered abuse by Catholic personnel, ranging from unwanted sexual advances to rape, during the period of 1945 to 2010. A commission sponsored by the Catholic bishops and religious orders of Holland produced the report. On Dec. 17, Holland’s deputy prime minister, Maxime Verhagen, himself a Catholic, said the church has been “profoundly damaged,” and bishops should consider resigning. Verhagen is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal Party, a center-right faction seen as friendly to the church."
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A 1/2/12 article in NCR on Albany Bishop Hubbard's analysis of the reasons Americans leave the Church, quotes him as saying that “clergy sexual abuse and its handling by the hierarchy are self-inflicted wounds [for the church] – born of clericalism, power and secrecy – that will take a long time to heal.”
ReplyDeleteHubbard is right. A hierarchy born of clericalism, power and secrecy, must heal itself first before hoping to heal the wounded children of the Church.
Hubbard, the master of clericalism and the homosexual agenda.
ReplyDeleteOnce he is coopted by the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine, he too will be qualified to write up nuns delving in feminist theological reiki.
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