Comments on: Catholic League Reports on SNAP Deposition

By: JOHN M GRONDELSKI

JOHN M GRONDELSKI — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:40:46 +0000

I do not necessarily endorse SNAP, but the reason they have become as important as they did is that too many bishops had to be dragged kicking and screaming into court before they admitted they “might” have known something about pervert priests in their dioceses. Cardinal Dolan, the onus is on the Church to recover the credibility its American bishops wilfully BLEW because of their “shuffle off to Buffalo (or Gallup)” song and dance act in the 1970s and 1980s. One reason the Church is having the traction problems it has on sexually related moral issues (including the HHS mandate) is that the bishops’ credibility on matters sexual, in the American public forum, is–shall we say–”tarnished?”

By: Mary Lu Callahan

Mary Lu Callahan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:42:38 +0000

William Donohue is despicable in his words and his actions. Read his statements that are routinely slanderous, scurrilous and dripping with sarcasm on “The Catholic League”, I use that phrase loosely, website. The fact that Cardinal Dolan seems to support and encourage him is also despicable. What have we as a church sunk to?

By: Irene

Irene — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:11:54 +0000

Andy P: How dare you question my fidelity. Are you some kind of temple police taking it upon yourself to call out as a dissenter anyone who doesn’t agree with your idiosyncratic brand of Catholicism? Jesus came down much more strongly on child abusers than anyone here is doing, is He a dissenter as well?

Your nasty and uncharitable remarks are inappropriate for a Catholic website.

By: Mary Bailey

Mary Bailey — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:28:22 +0000

We all agree that ANY and ALL abuse of a child is a crime, a sin and an abomination. Consequences are required. With that said, I don’t believe that Snap adds one thing to the solution.

I strongly recommend that all go back and read the documents that led up to this debate. David Clohessy was subpoenaed for a simple reason: he was quoted in news accounts claiming knowledge of the facts of the case. For the record, Clohessy answered “NO” that he didn’t know the person bringing the civil lawsuit. Curious. How did he become the expert on what happened in this case? He’s working for an attorney whose goal is to make money. . .sad.

(http://www.themediareport.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/CLOHESSY-DEPOSITION-010212.pdf / p. 56)

By: Charles J Murphy

Charles J Murphy — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:31:44 +0000

In effect you are saying, Cardinal Dolan, that the Church is being persecuted for persecution sake, all abuse is trumped up, there should be no SNAP or plaintiffs lawyers.

I dare you to be the first one to call the police, not to be dragged kicking and screaming to the truth. Open your personnel files to the district attorney. Begin a process of truth and reconciliation.

To side with a savage bully and $500-per-hour attorneys will not end this…only escalate this.

As you said in Milwaukee upon your installation: “Be not afraid!” The truth, not hardball tactics, will set you free.

By: Patrick OMalley

Patrick OMalley — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:04:26 +0000

What a risky approach. You are publicly trying to galvanize Catholics against the victims of child sex in the Catholic church, when you know it was a problem that the Catholic church hid.

Just this month, they proved that Cardinal Bevilacqua shredded documentation of 35 known pedophile priests back in 1994. God kept a copy in a safe, and it surfaced last month. God also made Fr Avery admit this week that he’d been lying for 30 years, and that he did sexually abuse a 10 year old boy (in disgusting ways). Avery’s lawyers tried to intimidate the victim, but God gave the victim the strength to fight back for justice. That should have been your article.

If you are wrong, and SNAP is right, and they really do represent children that were sexually abused by priests in the Catholic church, and you persistently fight them, how can God be merciful to you or to anyone that follows you? The psycological trauma that they endured, believing that they were “raped by Christ on earth” at age 10, 11, 12 is horrifying.

If you are right, and they were never sexually abused, and are only looking for money, then God would be less judgmental.

However, I can’t even imagine how unforgiving God will be with you if you are wrong, and you are fighting legitimate victims of child sex and horror in God’s own church. If you lead people, and they become part of this mob, and you are wrong, they will be punished, but you will have been their leader.

I guess I’d ask What Would Jesus Do? What side is God on, and why did He give us this Internet proof, and the Philly cases, et cetera. It sure seems like He is on the side of the victims.

This is such a risky approach to your eternity.

By: Nancy Morgan

Nancy Morgan — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:03:16 +0000

A day is coming when there will be a full accounting of what has and is happening within the hierarchy of the Church. I dread the pain that we will certainly experience when everything comes to light; yet, I welcome The Light!

By: AndyP/Doria2

AndyP/Doria2 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:55:00 +0000

Notice how they come in bunches your Eminence. Irene and her dissident or former Catholic friends did the same thing when so called “homosexual marriage” was the issue.

They start their letter writing campaigns to try and show that they are the majority of Catholics when in fact the majority are with you.

Keep fighting these plagues Cardinal. Know the our Lord has furnished us with the victory almost 2,000 years ago. It is only up to us to choose where we stand, with Him and His Church or against Him and His Church.

Those that do not gather – scatter.

By: THERESA PADOVANO

THERESA PADOVANO — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:49:37 +0000

When I read the deposition, I hear echos of ,”by what right do you do these things?” Talk about straining the gnat and swallowing the camel!! Things never seem to change on these kinds of things.

By: Rosemary Huss

Rosemary Huss — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:33:13 +0000

To Andy P.

“The Catholic Church needs justifiable anger”. Lets all think about that for
a minute. Soo- It’s ok for the Church to have justifiable anger but it’s not
ok for a victim to have justifiable anger. It’s ok for the Church to say
“The victims are to angry, they must forgive”, and it’s ok for the Church to
be angry at the victims for suing them. Wow.