Let us keep this in mind:

In 2002, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York was hired by the “full body of Catholic bishops of the United States” to “conduct research, summarize the collected data, and issue a summary report” on clergy abuse in the Catholic Church.

The report, titled “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010,” revealed that 81% of victims of Catholic priest abuse were male, and that 78% were pubescent or post-pubescent boys between the ages of 11-17 (51%  were between ages 11-14, 27% were between ages 15-17).

The remaining 22% were between 1-10.

Even as we look at it this way: perps were a minority of same-sex-attracted priests. So it’s a telling datum that you can cite without condemning or impugning the majority of them. 

Question, however: To what extent were they less likely than others to report the perps? Assuming reporting was at all common, which is surely the rub.

via Homosexuality in the Catholic Church

Gives wrong image of Muslim religion, says Ripon of Wisconsin.

via Did This Campus Acknowledges All Muslims are Terrorists?

Plain talk from the Anglican crossover, established 2012 by Benedict:

Bishop Steven Lopes, the ordinary of the US ordinariate, has said he doesn’t believe his fellow-bishops who profess ignorance of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s wrongdoing.

In a homily delivered on Sunday 19 August, Bishop Lopes said that one kind of response to the McCarrick revelations was “not good enough. It’s the parade of cardinals and bishops who have rushed to the television cameras, clutching their pectoral crosses, saying, ‘I knew nothing.’

“I don’t believe it, and I am one of them.”

One of the youngest, as it happens, of “the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter . . . equivalent to a diocese, created by the Vatican in 2012 for people nurtured in the Anglican tradition who wish to become Catholic.”

via CatholicHerald.co.uk

First thought on seeing this: B.S.

Second thought, reading this:

Cardinal Donald Wuerl has asked for forgiveness for his “errors in judgment” amid claims that he mishandled allegations of sexual abuse while a bishop.

If he thinks it’s errors or mishandling things, he still doesn’t get it.

Third thought: Lemme out o’ here!

Via CatholicHerald.co.uk

And thinks it’s time Sessions got a new job somewhere.

[Outspoken DC lawyer] Toensing said it would take “new leadership,” because Jeff Sessions is a nice man, but clearly not fit for the job.

“He’s a southern gentleman. He doesn’t know how to kill at all,” she explained.

After show host Lou Dobbs said Republicans are weak and helpless in the face of corruption.

Southern gentleman part fits.

via Victoria Toensing Slams John Huber’s ‘Sham,’ ‘Potemkin Investigation’

Wilton Gregory, once of Chicago, always the nice, harmless man, has apparently done a very dumb thing.

If his treasure lies in this direction, therein lies his heart also?

via LifeSite

He’s too busy with extracurricular activities to perform his assigned duties?

Say it isn’t so, your eminence. Do you approach your Chicago duties that way? Are you telling us Cook and Lake County residents about your own priorities?

Friend Blase can run but he can’t hide.

See? They find him from across the pond, hearing him speaking as one with back to wall.

As for the rabbit hole imagery, Cupich used it shortly after he had mouthed the currently acceptable generality about who, actually what, is to blame — the demon clericalism. 

The clericalist mindset, responsible for so much of the scandal, must be purged from church life. As Pope Francis has urged, we need to remember that it is our baptism that unites us. We as a church must reflect more deeply on what we share in common, rather than what distinguishes us.

The one detail he specifies and endorses is the call from Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, the U.S. bishops conference president, for “substantial leadership by laity” in any future invesigation.

Nothing about lay people who have resigned such positions out of frustration with churchmen they had to work with — or registered their disgust after working with them. Illinois Supreme Court justice Anne Burke being one of the latter.

Clericalism remains an approved catch-all for blame, unspecified as to who, what, when, where, not even in the wake of recent detailed reports by the Pennsylvania attorney general and Archbishop Vigano, to name just two.

Anything is preferred to citing a gay network that binds McCarrick, Wuerl, and others who benefit from their patronage. Among whom appears to be Cupich of rabbit-hole fame, captured in all his glory by NBC-Chicago veteran Mary Ann Ahern.

The worms turn.

via The New York Times