{"id":4445,"date":"2010-04-01T18:11:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T16:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blog\/arkiv\/2282"},"modified":"2010-04-01T18:11:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T16:11:32","slug":"amerikanske-biskoper-reagerer-sv%c3%a6rt-sterkt-pa-hvordan-den-katolske-kirke-na-omtales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2010\/04\/amerikanske-biskoper-reagerer-sv%c3%a6rt-sterkt-pa-hvordan-den-katolske-kirke-na-omtales\/","title":{"rendered":"Amerikanske biskoper reagerer sv\u00e6rt sterkt p\u00e5 hvordan Den katolske Kirke n\u00e5 omtales"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bakgrunnen for reaksjonene er at Kirken i USA siden 2002 har hatt strengere regler for hvordan man skal behandle (mulige) seksuelle overgripere enn noen andre institusjoner i hele verden – og at kardinal Ratzinger var med p\u00e5 \u00e5 f\u00e5 de strenge reglene p\u00e5 plass. P\u00e5 en slik bakgrunn opplever de medias hardkj\u00f8r i det siste som sv\u00e6rt tendensi\u00f8st og urettferdig.<\/p>\n

Jeg skal her nevne tre reaksjoner. F\u00f8rst fra George Weigel, som jeg skriver mer om her<\/a> (og jeg har allerede nevnt New Yorks erkebiskop Dolans reaksjon her<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Dernest er Brooklyns biskop Nicholas DiMarzio referert slik<\/a>: … he called upon the priests and people of the Diocese of Brooklyn to stand up with him and \u201cbesiege The New York Times. Send a message loud and clear that the Pope, our Church, and bishops and our priests will no longer be the personal punching bag of The New York Times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bishop DiMarzio\u2019s spirited defense of the Holy Father was based on the decision of The New York Times editors to, \u201cOmit significant facts,\u201d and ignore the reality that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which Cardinal Ratzinger headed up, did not have competency over Canonical Trials in 1996. Moreover, Bishop DiMarzio continued \u201c\u2026the priest in question, Father Murphy was in the midst of a Canonical Trial. He died before a verdict was rendered.\u201d<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n

Til sist vil jeg nevne kardinal William Levada<\/strong>, tidligere erkebiskop i San Francisco, n\u00e5 kardinal Ratzingers etterf\u00f8lger som leder av Troskongregasjonen. Han sparer heller ikke p\u00e5 kruttet<\/a>:<\/p>\n

… today\u2019s Times presents both a lengthy article by Laurie Goodstein, a senior columnist, headlined \u201cWarned About Abuse, Vatican Failed to Defrock Priest,\u201d and an accompanying editorial entitled \u201cThe Pope and the Pedophilia Scandal,\u201d in which the editors call the Goodstein article a disturbing report (emphasis in original) as a basis for their own charges against the Pope. Both the article and the editorial are deficient by any reasonable standards of fairness that Americans have every right and expectation to find in their major media reporting<\/strong>. <\/font><\/i> <\/p>\n

In her lead paragraph, Goodstein relies on what she describes as \u201cnewly unearthed files\u201d to point out what the Vatican (i.e. then Cardinal Ratzinger and his Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) did not do \u2013 \u201cdefrock Fr. Murphy.\u201d Breaking news, apparently. Only after eight paragraphs of purple prose does Goodstein reveal that Fr. Murphy, who criminally abused as many as 200 deaf children while working at a school in the Milwaukee Archdiocese from 1950 to 1974, \u201cnot only was never tried or disciplined by the church\u2019s own justice system, but also got a pass from the police and prosecutors who ignored reports from his victims, according to the documents and interviews with victims.\u201d<\/p>\n

But in paragraph 13, commenting on a statement of Fr. Lombardi (the Vatican spokesman) that Church law does not prohibit anyone from reporting cases of abuse to civil authorities, Goodstein writes, \u201cHe did not address why that had never happened in this case.\u201d Did she forget, or did her editors not read, what she wrote in paragraph nine about Murphy getting \u201ca pass from the police and prosecutors\u201d? By her own account it seems clear that criminal authorities had been notified, most probably by the victims and their families.<\/p>\n

Goodstein\u2019s account bounces back and forth as if there were not some 20 plus years intervening between reports in the 1960 and 70\u2019s to the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and local police, and Archbishop Weakland\u2019s appeal for help to the Vatican in 1996. Why? …<\/p>\n

… Goodstein also refers to what she calls \u201cother accusations\u201d about the reassignment of a priest who had previously abused a child\/children in another diocese by the Archdiocese of Munich. But the Archdiocese has repeatedly explained that the responsible Vicar General, Mons. Gruber, admitted his mistake in making that assignment. It is anachronistic for Goodstein and the Times to imply that the knowledge about sexual abuse that we have in 2010 should have somehow been intuited by those in authority in 1980. It is not difficult for me to think that Professor Ratzinger, appointed as Archbishop of Munich in 1977, would have done as most new bishops do: allow those already in place in an administration of 400 or 500 people to do the jobs assigned to them.<\/p>\n

As I look back on my own personal history as a priest and bishop, I can say that in 1980 I had never heard of any accusation of such sexual abuse by a priest. It was only in 1985, as an Auxiliary Bishop attending a meeting of our U.S. Bishops\u2019 Conference where data on this matter was presented, that I became aware of some of the issues. In 1986, when I was appointed Archbishop in Portland, I began to deal personally with accusations of the crime of sexual abuse, and although my \u201clearning curve\u201d was rapid, it was also limited by the particular cases called to my attention. …<\/p>\n

…. As a full-time member of the Roman Curia, the governing structure that carries out the Holy See\u2019s tasks, I do not have time to deal with the Times\u2019s subsequent almost daily articles by Rachel Donadio and others, much less with Maureen Dowd\u2019s silly parroting of Goodstein\u2019s \u201cdisturbing report.\u201d But about a man with and for whom I have the privilege of working, as his \u201csuccessor\u201d Prefect, a pope whose encyclicals on love and hope and economic virtue have both surprised us and made us think, whose weekly catecheses and Holy Week homilies inspire us, and yes, whose pro-active work to help the Church deal effectively with the sexual abuse of minors continues to enable us today, I ask the Times to reconsider its attack mode about Pope Benedict XVI and give the world a more balanced view of a leader it can and should count on. (END.)<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bakgrunnen for reaksjonene er at Kirken i USA siden 2002 har hatt strengere regler for hvordan man skal behandle (mulige) seksuelle overgripere enn noen andre institusjoner i hele verden – og at kardinal Ratzinger var med p\u00e5 \u00e5 f\u00e5 de strenge reglene p\u00e5 plass. P\u00e5 en slik bakgrunn opplever de medias hardkj\u00f8r i det siste […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generelt","category-katolsk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}