Madeleine Bunting in The Guardian has a penetrating article to the publication of the Ryan Report just published in the Republic of Ireland.
She confirms with approval the reaction of one Irish Jesuit edited blog:
“Why did so many Catholic institutions fail so appallingly? A hundred reasons can be suggested, but three come to mind: undue respect for authority (which was self-justifying and rarely self-critical); religious authoritarianism (government of communities by self-perpetuating cliques, who rarely saw the need for fresh thinking); and a rancid clericalism (product of a religious culture that increasingly turned in on itself).”
She writes that the matter causes her (and no doubt others) a very personal crisis.
Hopefully she and others will not turn from the Church as a result of this Report.
She confirms with approval the reaction of one Irish Jesuit edited blog:
“Why did so many Catholic institutions fail so appallingly? A hundred reasons can be suggested, but three come to mind: undue respect for authority (which was self-justifying and rarely self-critical); religious authoritarianism (government of communities by self-perpetuating cliques, who rarely saw the need for fresh thinking); and a rancid clericalism (product of a religious culture that increasingly turned in on itself).”
She writes that the matter causes her (and no doubt others) a very personal crisis.
Hopefully she and others will not turn from the Church as a result of this Report.
It seems God is getting a lot of bad press from the judge ryan report on"white collar crime"[priests,brothers,etc]George Bush and Rumsfield
ReplyDeletealso used God for their war in Iraq so from now on im going to follow Martin Luther Kings God that God seems to offer the world a better dream.