The mantra

I’m going to call it a day 🙂   Check New to the Site (“NEW” on the menu) for a number of  articles or new postings of interest from today.  A few quick comments on

(1) Father Konstanty Przybylski

Please take the time to read the media articles.

Note the following:

Lauriault told the judge that Przybylski had encouraged him to join the priesthood and personally inducted him into the Knights of Columbus fraternal organization when he was 18.

Why do you suppose so many clerical molesters encourage their victims to become priests?

And why would  Przybylski  be encouraging a victim to join the Knights of Columbus?

And, of course, the other two very obvious questions:  (1)  Why did Przybylski leave Poland for Chicago? and (2) why did Przybylski leave Chicago for the Diocese of London?

Then there’s the other question which niggles the brain:  Where is Przybylski  now?  I have sent an email to the diocese asking if he has been laicized/defrocked, and, if not, is he out of the country?  As yet, no response.

(2) 08 October 2011:  Petition asking the Archdiocese to withdraw its request for the the Ottawa Police Service investigation re Father Joe Leclair and the finances at Blessed Sacrament

This just goes beyond the pall.  The diocese was essentially putting Father Joe LeClair in an occasion of sin  by allowing him to to sign cheques without a co-signer??!!! That’s the implication here.

And the mantra:

Le us not judge

Let us all learn

Let us forgive and let the healing begin.

Is it any wonder we have trouble rooting out clerical molesters?  And, before anyone jumps down  my throat accusing me of saying that Father LeClair is a molester, that’s not at all what I am saying.  All I am saying is look at the mantra.  Who would ever say an unkind or accusatory word about a clerical sexual predator with that mantra?  Who would ever encourage a victim to come forward with that mantra? The only thing missing is ‘innocent until proven guilty’ – but no need of that is there if we are to forgive and not judge?

This is really really pathetic.

A whole lot of the blame game, and a whole lot of huggy-bear-kissy-face-let’s bury-our-collective- heads-in-the-sand game.

(3) 21 October 2011: BISHOP FINN DESERVES BETTER

More circling the wagons, this time it’s across the border from Bill Donohue from the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

I am most interested in hearing what Donohoe has to say after he’s read the  Graves Report.  In as much as the Finn-commissioned- report tries to excuse Finn et al and/or make light of the gaffs I am hard-pressed to believe that anyone could read it without throwing up their hands in complete disgust at the whole lot of them.

Let’s see where Donohue goes next with this

Enough for now,

Sylvia