{"id":60825,"date":"2018-08-27T18:33:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=60825"},"modified":"2018-08-27T18:33:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:33:34","slug":"contexts-for-catholic-church-child-abuse-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=60825","title":{"rendered":"Contexts for Catholic Church child abuse & cover up"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — responding to E.J. Dionne Jr. and others in a similar plight ]
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You may consider this post a response to E.J. Dionne Jr.<\/strong>‘s Washngton Post op-ed, It\u2019s becoming harder to explain why I\u2019m still Catholic<\/a><\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

The Catholic Church<\/strong> is being hammered, nailed<\/strong> — there’s even a crucifixion echo there, but no, that won’t work here — for its extensive clerical — priests, yes, but nuns too<\/strong> — child abuse, long covered up and mushrooming under that cover<\/strong>.. <\/p>\n

The focus is on the Catholic <\/strong>Church, as though Catholicism itself were the problem. In its bureaucratic structure, it surely is — but the message in the second panel of this DoubleQuote<\/strong>, a quote from one of Billy Graham<\/strong>‘s grandsons, should remind us that the rot is found outside as well as inside the Catholic tent:<\/p>\n

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Worse!
\nAnd btw, they don’t have (repressed!) celibate clergy!<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

That’s to say, don’t keep the “conversation” focused on the Catholic tent, as though it’s all on Pope Francis<\/strong>, when it’s not. And this second one is to remind us of the very real spiritual implication<\/strong> of the abuse for those who commit, or by extension permit it, for instance by assigning a known pedophile priest to a new parish where he can continue his practice de novo<\/em> — as Dionne mentions in his opening salvo.<\/p>\n

Here in the second panel is Christ’s response to all such: <\/p>\n

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**<\/p>\n

If we bear in mind Christ’s personal and divine identification with the innocent<\/strong>, the victims, the gravity of the situation will not be lost. And if we can take Tullian Tchividjian’<\/strong>s word for the state of affairs in Protestant circles — he has a somewhat checkered past — then maybe we can escape the Catholic silo<\/strong> so prevalent in current news reports, and search more broadly for similar manifestations across faiths (and “none”) laterally, and vertically in terms of psychological drivers, generational descent, and so forth. <\/p>\n

This is no time for blame-calling within the box<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron — responding to E.J. Dionne Jr. and others in a similar plight ] . You may consider this post a response to E.J. Dionne Jr.‘s Washngton Post op-ed, It\u2019s becoming harder to explain why I\u2019m still Catholic ** The Catholic Church is being hammered, nailed — there’s even a crucifixion echo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,497,627,888,1399,139,533,1715,943,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-doublequotes","category-francis","category-fundamentalism-literalism","category-media","category-religion","category-scandal","category-sex","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60825"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60844,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60825\/revisions\/60844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}