The three-day fitness trial of Father Linus Bastien’s was scheduled to begin today (24 May 2016) :
24 -26May 2016: 10 am, fitness hearing set for three days, Windsor Superior Court of Justice (245 Windsor Avenue)
According to EHV there is talk that Bastien suffered a heart attack. I pray that that is not the case.
Please keep the complainants in your prayers.
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There’s one more article from last week which I wanted to make brief comment on:
18 May 2016: Lawyer’s career dominated by clergy abuse scandal
Rob has done great work representing victims of clerical sexual abuse, but I don’t agree with him on this:
[Rob Talach] believes the Catholic Church, by requiring a celibate priesthood, made sexuality a forbidden subject among priests and the bishops responsible for managing them. It meant, he said, that even sex abuse was not discussed.
My thoughts:
(1) Those priests who are ‘interested’ in having sexual relations with a woman manage to find one, just as those married men who are ‘interested’ in having sexual relations with a child manage to find one;
(2) Marriage is no ‘cure’ for paedophiles, haebophiles or pederasts;
(4) There has been no lack of priests over the past 50 years who have talked and/or written ad nauseam about sex;
(5) I am inclined to believe that sex abuse has been discussed, in depth, and often, behind closed doors.
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Today a good friend came to give me a welcome hand getting on top of some much needed research. A very productive day! We accomplished in one day what would have taken me two or more 🙂
Enough for now,
Sylvia