An urgent place to start is a Christian understanding of forgiveness. In Chichester, a faulty doctrine of forgiveness was used by abusers to salve their consciences, by church officials to move on without dealing with the problem, and by parishioners and clergy to marginalise "unchristian" victims and whistleblowers.
...The former Archdeacon of Hastings the Ven. Philip Jones pinpointed the problem when he told the Inquiry that Canon Gordon Rideout, sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for 36 separate sex offences against 16 different children, "took the view that he had been forgiven by God, his slate was therefore wiped clean . . . as if the abuse hadn't happened."
Mercy and forgiveness without justice for the victim.
sounds like the GD pope's idea of mercy for the sinner, and shaming the ordinary folks who follow the rules,
sounds like the GD pope's idea of mercy for the sinner, and shaming the ordinary folks who follow the rules,
When I was in Altoona, I was told by a patient about a neighbor's boy who was pressured by the diocese not to report molestation because it would "harm" the nice priest.
In other words, if he reported it, he and his family were evil.
(to make things worse, the next year, the bishop bragged there were no accusations of abuse under his watch).
sigh.
WWJD? Millstone, anyone?
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related item; Austin Bay on weaponizing the news to cover up truth.
Bay is talking about military and political propaganda, but in the case of church abuse, it works both ways: to get rid of whistleblowers and later to get rid of the bishops who dare to try to clean up the mess and maybe expose them.
there is a rumor that Cardinal Pell was indicted in Australia for ignoring abuse cases at a very convenient time because he was finding a lot of the monetary shennanigans in the Vatican Bank... and a lot of conspiracy theories that Pope Benedict's resignation was done because of similar black mail.
place conspiracy theory here.
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Nor is this just a churchy thing: Charles Ortel seems to be the only one interested in investigating irregularities in the Clinton Foundation.
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Trump wasn't given a wall, so the activists started a mass migration procession to the US, showing all those innocent women and children.
So he is sending the National Guard there instead.
that seems to have slowed them down. Heh.
Excuse me for being cynical: we saw similar propaganda about a poor boy drowned attempting to get to Europe after fleeing Syria (uh, except his father already had a job and home in Turkey, but wanted a better one).
So the Germans opened the border, and in rushed in a lot of "refugees" who weren't families fleeing the Syrian war, but young men from all over the place looking for a better life, but without language or technical skills to work.
I'm old enough to remember when Elian Gonzales was taken from his relatives by Bill Clinton to send to his father (who didn't bother to marry his mother) because Castro threatened another Mariel type innundation, where Castro opened his prisons to mix criminals with the families fleeing his utopian socialist state to punish the USA.
Clinton also stopped giving asylum to Haitians after a couple hundred were drowned in rickety boats. That stopped the problem.
Racism? No, Clinton was a Democrat and he couldn't be racist you know.
I'd say let them in: but if you don't regulate stuff, there are problems.
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By the way, did you hear that Duterte offered to take in a lot of the Rohingye refugees?
He calls it a genocide, and blames the international community for looking the other way: They get hysterical when some drug dealers are killed but not about the abuse against the Rohingye by the military in Burma that has resulted in 400 thousand refugees.
the Rohingye are being chased out because they were not allowed to become citizens, and some of their young folks got radicalized and started to become terrorists, something the press often leaves out of the reporting.
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UN: lots of refugees all over the place. one estimate is 63 million, but depends on your definition.
Sigh.
and that doesn't include people who claim asylum but actually are economic refugees, i.e. who want a better life in a country where they can work, which is the real reason for most of the legal and illegal immigrants in the USA>
Trumpie boy's mom and two of his three wives fit into this category, albeit they did it legally.
sigh.
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due to corruption here, it is almost impossible to convict the big shots for their crimes.
Hence "EJK" and killing of suspects who resist arrest.
but the press tends to find a couple of "innocents" who were murdered by dirty cops, and voila, lots of publicity. Yup. Lots of dirty cops here. But some of the killings are more "dirty Harry" stuff, knowing they can bribe the judge or kill the witnesses and get off. And some are "Deathwish" revenge by private citizens who figure they want justice and can't get it in the court.
But you don't hear about the victims of druggies who need money and kill in home invasions or by kidnapping, nor do you hear about witnesses who disappear or are found dead, especially if the witness could testify against an important politician.
given a choice between anarchy and safety, guess what people will chose?
But of course, the anarchy that is causing the Mexican and Central American refugees is drug related too. They now blame the US for sending back gang members who terrorize locals, and fail to mention that the gang members were already gang members when they entered the US illegally.
but the real problem? That there is no public shaming of drug use in the USA.
we need a ""#me too" for families who suffer from druggies.
The usual idiots decided that legalizing marijuana would solve the problem, so the drug cartels are now pushing Chinese fentayl instead.
sigh.
sigh.
WWJD? Millstone, anyone?
-------------------------
related item; Austin Bay on weaponizing the news to cover up truth.
Unfortunately, the truth can be hidden, ignored, obscured or -- in the 21st century -- inundated. Narrative warfare embraces more than PR and propaganda campaigns.
Narrative warfare employs "weaponized narratives" spun from "highly selective truth," outright lies, false accusations, distorted and altered quotations, emotional appeals, sensational outrage, fear mongering, blame-shifting, intimidating threats, victim posturing, virtue signaling and fabricated imagery.
Indeed, these disruptive and often destructive techniques -- with the possible exception of fabricated imagery -- have been in the human political and psychological warfare tool kit since the human species arose.
Bay is talking about military and political propaganda, but in the case of church abuse, it works both ways: to get rid of whistleblowers and later to get rid of the bishops who dare to try to clean up the mess and maybe expose them.
there is a rumor that Cardinal Pell was indicted in Australia for ignoring abuse cases at a very convenient time because he was finding a lot of the monetary shennanigans in the Vatican Bank... and a lot of conspiracy theories that Pope Benedict's resignation was done because of similar black mail.
place conspiracy theory here.
------------------------
Nor is this just a churchy thing: Charles Ortel seems to be the only one interested in investigating irregularities in the Clinton Foundation.
-------------------------
Trump wasn't given a wall, so the activists started a mass migration procession to the US, showing all those innocent women and children.
So he is sending the National Guard there instead.
that seems to have slowed them down. Heh.
Excuse me for being cynical: we saw similar propaganda about a poor boy drowned attempting to get to Europe after fleeing Syria (uh, except his father already had a job and home in Turkey, but wanted a better one).
So the Germans opened the border, and in rushed in a lot of "refugees" who weren't families fleeing the Syrian war, but young men from all over the place looking for a better life, but without language or technical skills to work.
I'm old enough to remember when Elian Gonzales was taken from his relatives by Bill Clinton to send to his father (who didn't bother to marry his mother) because Castro threatened another Mariel type innundation, where Castro opened his prisons to mix criminals with the families fleeing his utopian socialist state to punish the USA.
Clinton also stopped giving asylum to Haitians after a couple hundred were drowned in rickety boats. That stopped the problem.
Racism? No, Clinton was a Democrat and he couldn't be racist you know.
I'd say let them in: but if you don't regulate stuff, there are problems.
---------------------
By the way, did you hear that Duterte offered to take in a lot of the Rohingye refugees?
He calls it a genocide, and blames the international community for looking the other way: They get hysterical when some drug dealers are killed but not about the abuse against the Rohingye by the military in Burma that has resulted in 400 thousand refugees.
the Rohingye are being chased out because they were not allowed to become citizens, and some of their young folks got radicalized and started to become terrorists, something the press often leaves out of the reporting.
------------
UN: lots of refugees all over the place. one estimate is 63 million, but depends on your definition.
Sigh.
and that doesn't include people who claim asylum but actually are economic refugees, i.e. who want a better life in a country where they can work, which is the real reason for most of the legal and illegal immigrants in the USA>
Trumpie boy's mom and two of his three wives fit into this category, albeit they did it legally.
sigh.
---------------------------
due to corruption here, it is almost impossible to convict the big shots for their crimes.
Hence "EJK" and killing of suspects who resist arrest.
but the press tends to find a couple of "innocents" who were murdered by dirty cops, and voila, lots of publicity. Yup. Lots of dirty cops here. But some of the killings are more "dirty Harry" stuff, knowing they can bribe the judge or kill the witnesses and get off. And some are "Deathwish" revenge by private citizens who figure they want justice and can't get it in the court.
But you don't hear about the victims of druggies who need money and kill in home invasions or by kidnapping, nor do you hear about witnesses who disappear or are found dead, especially if the witness could testify against an important politician.
given a choice between anarchy and safety, guess what people will chose?
But of course, the anarchy that is causing the Mexican and Central American refugees is drug related too. They now blame the US for sending back gang members who terrorize locals, and fail to mention that the gang members were already gang members when they entered the US illegally.
but the real problem? That there is no public shaming of drug use in the USA.
we need a ""#me too" for families who suffer from druggies.
The usual idiots decided that legalizing marijuana would solve the problem, so the drug cartels are now pushing Chinese fentayl instead.
sigh.
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