Emotional reception for new film
Amy Berg's new clergy-abuse documentary film "Deliver Us," about Oliver O'Grady, the then-Stockton priest and, quoting the L.A. New Times, "a known, admitted molester" whom then-Bishop Roger Mahony promoted to pastor, made an impression at the Los Angeles Film Festival, reports the L.A. Times (click on this post's title).
"Sobs, groans and uncomfortable laughter punctuated the screening," says the Times, which adds, "Videotaped depositions by officials of the Roman Catholic Church, including Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles, drew the strongest response as derisive snickering rippled through the hall."
This sad report is one more indication, as if we didn't know it already, that our prayers and sacrifices are needed more than ever in the wake of the abuse and cover-up scandals.
Our Lady, Queen of the Angels, pray for us! St. Vibiana, pray for us! Padre Serra, pray for us!
"Sobs, groans and uncomfortable laughter punctuated the screening," says the Times, which adds, "Videotaped depositions by officials of the Roman Catholic Church, including Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles, drew the strongest response as derisive snickering rippled through the hall."
This sad report is one more indication, as if we didn't know it already, that our prayers and sacrifices are needed more than ever in the wake of the abuse and cover-up scandals.
Our Lady, Queen of the Angels, pray for us! St. Vibiana, pray for us! Padre Serra, pray for us!
posted by Quintero at 9:59 PM
11 Comments:
...a Stockton priest...
Ordained by Bp Mahony?
bvm,
What's your point?
Your links are incomplete.
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JOSEPH D'HIPPOLITO SAYS...
This sad report is one more indication, as if we didn't know it already, that our prayers and sacrifices are needed more than ever in the wake of the abuse and cover-up scandals.
Quintero, I respectfully disagree. What's really needed is a sense of outrage that manifests itself in a class-action canonical lawsuit brought against Mahony to Rome by the archdiocese's Catholics. If Mahony is guilty of nothing else, he is guilty of putting the faith into disrepute. If that's not episcopal malfeasance, and a legitimate reason for removal from office, then what is?
Dear Joseph,
Prayers and sacrifices and a sense of outrage or indignation are not at all mutually exclusive.
Naturally, prayers and sacrifices are not all that needs doing; but they are indispensable for any cause or for any project such as you suggest.
Dear Baron and Captain,
Blogger and commenter rules of the road exclude vituperation, so I've nixed a couple of your comments.
Dear Baron and Captain,
By "vituperation" I mean your insults toward each other.
As I've said before, we can all express ourselves without insults.
Dear Captain,
Thank you for your kind words, even though I ended up deleting your comment for other reasons.
Best wishes --
Dear Baron,
Is it really "incredible" to hope that every priest will celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in accord with the rubrics?
No one should ever, ever add to the burdens that our devoted and hard-working priests bear daily, by unfairly criticizing them. But shouldn't it be a priest's joy, not burden, to follow the rubrics?
As for laughing about this blog -- are you laughing at raising concerns about the Church doing little to stop the aborting of babies? Tell that to the babies; see if they laugh along with you.
Or are you laughing at raising concerns about the clergy abuse and the hierarchy coverups? Tell that to the victims and to all the people who have lost their Faith because of the scandals; see if they laugh along with you.
Dear Baron,
A Trappist once gave this good counsel: "Always presume the other fellow is holier than you." I try to follow that and not call names or judge anyone's state.
Before you laugh at that claim :-)
let me explain that saying the Church should tell pro-aborting-babies politicians to repent before receiving Holy Communion is no more "vituperation" or "reminding everyone of others' sins" than is saying the same thing about the Mafia.
We all need to got to Confession, preferably often, me especially.
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