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"How can it be that even today there are still people dying of hunger? Condemned to illiteracy? Lacking the most basic medical care? Without a roof over their heads? . . .
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Novo Millennio Ineunte, no. 50
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Blog submitted by WilliamSB on Thu 19 Aug 2004 - 18:55 h |
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In a blog post about Catholic League for Religious and Civil Liberties, I said, "Perhaps someone forgot to tell William Donohue that, in the Catholic Church, we consider it a sin to publicize, without just cause, information about someone that could be damaging to his/her reputation." That statement is still true.
In this case, however, we have every reason to publicize this scandal about Deal Hudson; and I applaud Joe Feuerherd at National Catholic Reporter for his excellent journalism. After all, Deal Hudson has made it his business, for some time now, to moralize to the entire Catholic community; and to presume to define for us what Catholicsm is supposed to be. In getting involved in politics the way he has, Hudson spread his venom further to America at-large. Had Hudson chosen different career paths, or had he acted more Catholic in his Catholic and public careers, it would have been wrong to expose Hudson to public scandal. After all, as Hudson himself said, the matter had been resolved. But someone should have warned Deal Hudson, "If you swim in mud, you're going to get dirty."
The Catholic community is going through some very difficult times these days. Even now, as we approach the Presidential election, we are facing virulently divisive battles over our public identity as Catholics engaging in civic life. A few, like Deal Hudson, William Donohue and some myopic bishops have chosen to lord it over the Catholic community and attempt to dictate our votes on election day.
Personally, I just cannot figure out how some of our bishops keep insisting on aligning with the wrong people. Instead of shepherding honest, faithful Catholics to deeper spiritual lives, they line up behind perverted priests, Deal Hudson and William Donohue. Then to cover up their misalignments when they become public, those same bishops direct blame and attention for their bad decisions to everyone but themselves by promulgating controversial public policy statements.
Nothing is more demonstrative of that than the way they chose to respond to the problem of child perverts among the clergy; perverts some of our bishops kept in the priesthood, working around children. To redirect people's anger and attention, they simply started a crusade against homosexuals. This is not true about all of our bishops. I do not believe it is even true about most of our bishops. But it is true about a very influential few.
But now, instead of our Catholic community focusing on things that really matter in this year's election, we are focused on things that do not impact us; like, whether gays and lesbians can enter into civil marriage. That's an excellent, and apparently effecive, PR move on the part of the few tainted bishops; and the others who went along with this plan. But they're messing up our chance, as a Catholic community, to be heard in this election just so they can cover their own arses.
What happens in the dark, though, will come to light; as is happening in this particular case. Hopefully, much more comes out into the light soon; before too much more damage can be done in our name.
I'm sure William Donohue will denounce me as anti-Catholic for this rant. But, these days, being denounced by the likes of William Donohue is a badge of honor. It seems to mean, automatically, you're striking very close to the truth.
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"To announce that there should be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American people."
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