tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561726959150987222.post1230383641744579015..comments2023-06-06T06:33:55.098-05:00Comments on Whallah!: There's Enough Blame For EveryoneOther Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06475658453374184885noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561726959150987222.post-74926187546741999702008-02-06T13:29:00.000-06:002008-02-06T13:29:00.000-06:00Becker should have been turned over to the authori...Becker should have been turned over to the authorities, not allowed to view children from his bedroom window.Other Sidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06475658453374184885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561726959150987222.post-5257297412905266172008-02-06T01:35:00.000-06:002008-02-06T01:35:00.000-06:00I don't think Dolan INTENDED to sweep the case und...I don't think Dolan INTENDED to sweep the case under the rug. <BR/><BR/>One might disagree with how he handled it and complain about specific things he did or didn't do, but I don't believe that Dolan made an attempt to conceal anything. <BR/><BR/>In the past, there was an orchestrated, shameful effort to conceal the crimes committed by members of the clergy. <BR/><BR/>No more. That disgraceful era of secrecy is over.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09149784619342993569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561726959150987222.post-63120331995422742112008-02-05T22:44:00.000-06:002008-02-05T22:44:00.000-06:00Mary-You could be right on the Sheriff dropping th...Mary-<BR/><BR/>You could be right on the Sheriff dropping the ball on his responsibility. However, given the long history of the case, Dolan's previous statements (see the link to Brawler's second post on Dolan), and the Church's overall mission, I think Dolan did try to sweep this one under the rug.capperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08751967312821403092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561726959150987222.post-53810661740059207072008-02-05T12:38:00.000-06:002008-02-05T12:38:00.000-06:00[Dolan] informed the sheriff but not the neighborh...<I>[Dolan] informed the sheriff but not the neighborhoods or the community. And he didn't provide for counseling.<BR/><BR/>And now, per Peter Isely, the Midwest director of the Surivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), Becker is living in an apartment with a view overlooking a playground?</I><BR/><BR/>Do you really expect Archbishop Dolan to personally inform neighborhoods?<BR/><BR/>He DID inform the community when he notified the sheriff. The onus is on the sheriff, not the Milwaukee Archdiocese.<BR/><BR/>Criticism of Dolan on this count is misplaced. <BR/><BR/>Is it Dolan's responsibility to monitor Becker for the rest of his life?<BR/><BR/>Was it the responsibility of Jeffrey Dahmer's past employers to monitor his acitivities and his places of residence?<BR/><BR/>Gee, I wonder if Taco Bell is keeping track of me...Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09149784619342993569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561726959150987222.post-82857634821666094362008-02-04T19:03:00.000-06:002008-02-04T19:03:00.000-06:00Great point, John. For those who make suggestions...Great point, John. For those who make suggestions such as that, one can only say that ugliness is easily dispensed at a distance.Other Sidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06475658453374184885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561726959150987222.post-37921198987832915532008-02-04T14:39:00.000-06:002008-02-04T14:39:00.000-06:00I arch my eyebrow and sigh at those squawking comm...I arch my eyebrow and sigh at those squawking commenters who suggest that the proper punishment for these abusers would be to send them to jail because there they can be serially raped. Such compassion! Rape is more funnier when it's in prison, I guess.Display Namehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15842340986220388709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561726959150987222.post-78881017074563606482008-02-04T14:15:00.000-06:002008-02-04T14:15:00.000-06:00I hope someone checks the Toad McIlheran's Catholi...I hope someone checks the Toad McIlheran's Catholic bonafides, because on this point, as on so many others, he directly contravenes the ageless teachings of the Church of Rome. How else can it be that he ignores the necessity, deriving from the virtue of penance, of making reparation?<BR/><BR/>Just when the offense occurred does not matter on a continuum where movement is infinite: the bad acts in question offended God, offended His Church and it offended His Children. <BR/><BR/>The requirement of making satisfaction for the sins is necessarily so for a number of reasons, not least of which is for the education of men (and women). This notion of education is at the heart of the legal system that seeks to prevent bad acts by allowing juries to award damages for bad acts. Lawyers are one mechanism toward this required justice, no matter that they may not wear the same spotless garments of someone like, say, the Toad McIhheran, a full throat for war.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, his making a utilitarian argument that the good works of the Church will suffer by making the reparations is a willful rebuke of the penitent virtue that's required here, to say nothing of how it objectifies the Truth that flows from Gospel and from Church.<BR/><BR/>I don't like the consequences of making good, so I'm not going to make good. I choose that truth over the other.<BR/><BR/>But seriously engaging the Toad McIlheran is fruitliess because everything he writes is all bunk to begin with. In fact, there's absolutely nothing consistent about this character except his meanness, his denseness, his hypcrisy and his prissy petulance. In essense, if you had to ascribe a theology to him, it would have to be done so negatively, for the Toad McIlheran is more secular than anything. Unless Dumb or Movement Right-Winger are religions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561726959150987222.post-30792253409264883402008-02-04T05:25:00.000-06:002008-02-04T05:25:00.000-06:00Waiting for McIlheran to grow a sense of shame cou...Waiting for McIlheran to grow a sense of shame could be a long-term project. It'd be more likely that Sykes could develop a sense of fidelity. At least Sykes believes he can be faithful until the next woman comes along.grumpshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641174443445494464noreply@blogger.com