“
In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth; from books come forth the laws of peace.
All things are corrupted and decay in time; Saturn ceases not to devour the children that he generates; all the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
” — Richard de Bury
“By the tender mercy of our God,
the dawn from on high will break upon us,
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
— Luke 1:78-79
In Milwaukee Post, Cardinal Authorized Paying Abusers -
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York authorized payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests as an incentive for them to agree to dismissal from the priesthood when he was the archbishop of Milwaukee.
Why hello, straw that broke the camel’s back.
I just can’t. I want to go to bed and cry for a year. This is horrible. What is MORE horrible, is that nothing surprises me anymore.
tbh, I’m not mad about this. I’m imagining like if I had a sister with an abusive boyfriend. I know that the legal system will take a long time for anything to get resolved (if it ever does, there might be no evidence) and in the mean time I just want him away from my sister and I have some money laying around. So I say, “here’s 20k if you never come near my sister again.”
Honestly, it doesn’t even seem like that much money to get an abusive man out of the priesthood. I couldn’t care less if he buys a convertible with that money, I just want him out of a position of power that has access to children.
What Natalie said.
Remember, this diocese went bankrupt. They didn’t actually have $20,000 lying around to pay off priests. And that’s what this is, a plain-as-day bribe.
And frankly I don’t care what the priestly protections are, to give them life-long insurance or a pension or any of the things mentioned in the article. If the only (quick) mechanism to actually get abusive priests out of the priesthood is to pay them off, that says something much worse about the Catholic Church.
In Milwaukee Post, Cardinal Authorized Paying Abusers -
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York authorized payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests as an incentive for them to agree to dismissal from the priesthood when he was the archbishop of Milwaukee.
Why hello, straw that broke the camel’s back.
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“Reading is one of the great human delights.” — Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
The Potential Gifts of a New Oxford Movement -
Solid response, Affcath. Anglo-Catholic Episcopalians are very different in mindset from our Roman brethren.
- A renewed focus on the disciplines of daily prayer for all believers.
- A focus on careful preparation to receive the Sacraments.
- A heightened awareness of Healing and Confession.
- An understanding of the Real Presence in our life together.
- A focus on the adoration of God.
- A focus on devotion to Our Lady and all the Saints.
- A view of the Church as extending through time and across boundaries.
- A commitment to forming young people in devotion to Christ.
- A commitment to justice work grounded in the Incarnation.
- A commitment to fostering a renewed sense of Anglican identity.
11. The high likelihood that they’ll all convert to Catholicism.
I find it highly unlikely that the products of a New Oxford Movement in the Episcopal Church would convert to Catholicism en masse, for the following reasons:
- theological issues such as Anglican orders, papal infallibility, the ordination of women, the divorce of the re-married, contraception, and homosexual relationships
- the uninspiring state of the liturgy in most Roman Catholic parishes
- the recent USCCB actions with regards to the LCWR, the HHS mandate, the Girl Scouts, etc.
- the fact that traditional Anglo-Catholics (e.g., the Anglican Diocese of Fort Worth) have yet to swim the Tiber en masse even after the creation of the Ordinariate
… You do realize I was joking, right? I would hope that most people on here would assume I’m not entirely stupid.
The Potential Gifts of a New Oxford Movement -
- A renewed focus on the disciplines of daily prayer for all believers.
- A focus on careful preparation to receive the Sacraments.
- A heightened awareness of Healing and Confession.
- An understanding of the Real Presence in our life together.
- A focus on the adoration of God.
- A focus on devotion to Our Lady and all the Saints.
- A view of the Church as extending through time and across boundaries.
- A commitment to forming young people in devotion to Christ.
- A commitment to justice work grounded in the Incarnation.
- A commitment to fostering a renewed sense of Anglican identity.
11. The high likelihood that they’ll all convert to Catholicism.
(via kormosendre)
“I sometimes think that the work of historical criticism, essential work for helping us read the Scripture faithfully, is a rage against the silences of Scripture. Why do not the Gospels tell us what Jesus is “thinking?” — Stanley Hauerwas, Working With Words
(Source: invisibleforeigner)
“Our grammar often betrays us. We say we have a body. That seems to suggest that I am something distinguishable from my body. In good capitalist fashion, the body becomes another possession I can use as I see fit. But Paul does not think there is an “I” that has a body. We are our bodies. And the body we are together is one that has been bought with a price. Our bodies are, therefore, not our own to do with as we please. Rather our bodies are a resting place for the Holy Spirit. Paul even seems to think that what our bodies do and do not do makes a difference for our ability to be a holy people.” — Stanley Hauerwas, Working With Words
(Source: invisibleforeigner, via invisibleforeigner)