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{"id":2573,"date":"2012-06-02T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/06\/uh-oh-2.html"},"modified":"2012-06-02T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T11:21:00","slug":"uh-oh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/06\/uh-oh-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Uh oh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So it looks like Cardinal Dolan paid abusive priests a few grand so they would get out of town<\/a>.\u00a0 According to the NYT, and picked up on rather gleefully by such notable sources as the ~~radically anti-Catholic <\/strike>Huffington Post<\/a>, this occurred while he served the Archdiocese in Milwaukee. <\/p>\n~~

First impression?\u00a0 It stinks to high heaven.\u00a0 It sounds like a golden parachute for kiddie rapists.\u00a0 Now, that doesn\u2019t mean it was.\u00a0 I would need to know more, and hopefully Cardinal Dolan and the Church will comply.\u00a0 I think the quicker the response, the better the outcome. Even if it turns out to be something truly deplorable, as so many in the media no doubt hope<\/strike> suspect, being open and transparent would ease the guilt of the Church as a whole.\u00a0 If there was guilt, and the Church once more appears to be more concerned with covering its own arse than looking out for what is right, then we might as well hang up our crucifixes for a while, at least in terms of influencing our society.<\/p>\n

FWIW, I\u2019m not one who tries to make the Church appear blameless throughout history.\u00a0 At an RCIA class, I heard a couple seminarians suggest that the Reformation was all part of some big misunderstanding, that there was nobody\u00a0really selling indulgences for profit.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 It was just a big mix up, exploited by Luther.\u00a0 Well, that\u2019s not how the historic tea leaves line up as I read them.\u00a0 Nor does the Church emerge from the age of later Roman Imperialism, the Middle Ages, the Age of Exploration, or even the modern age unscathed, again, at least as I read the history.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean anything about the truth of its message, of course.\u00a0 If every American owned slaves, we don\u2019t suddenly conclude that therefore all men aren\u2019t created equal.\u00a0 We conclude that equality is true, and Americans sucked at living up to their own lofty ideals.\u00a0 Even when we disregard any good that Americans did in the slavery issue, we still insist that the ideal that we are created equal is true. <\/p>\n

So even if the Catholic Church once again descends into its own dark night of the scandals,\u00a0it doesn\u2019t mean that the Faith proclaimed to the world is wrong.\u00a0 It just means that the Church, peopled by people, can be warped and twisted by those people like anything else.\u00a0 Hence the need for a redeemer.\u00a0 Oh, and it\u2019s also why I tend to be somewhat forgiving by non-Church entities that try to do the right thing and still fail.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"