God's Black Sheep

God's Black Sheep

Below this headline a situation prevailing in the Catholic Church in Carinthia is outlined which confirms the nefarious goings-on everywhere in this “pious” organization.

It seems that whenever you read about the Catholic Church, you read about scandal after scandal.

Let me tell you a little of what happened here:

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He was a young and respected Priest for three small church congregations in Carinthia.

She was a faithful member of the Diocese Council.

After a meeting, he asked her to “go to bed” with him. Since she was an unmarried woman, he suggested that she was “easy pickings” and that the whole idea of the Celibacy rule anyway was a lot of "phony nonsense."

The young lady declined, but after having experienced further pressure, she reported the case to the then Bishop Schwarz, thinking that this surely would be the end of it.

But nothing happened. In fact, the Bishop merely suggested that he had “covered for this priest for a long time” but now, he would act quickly.

It's a good thing that the lady did not hold her breath waiting for something to happen because nothing did.

Finally, the Bishop was transferred to an other area. Why?

Then it was discovered that the young Priest was visiting sites on his computer, which were dedicated to Child Pornography.

Were there any financial questionable dealings in this Diocese?

You bet there were.

Was he “defrocked”?

Don't hope for anybody in this Catholic environment to do what is moral and right.

This “Apple” is rotten to the core

Why, pray tell, did the Bishop do nothing about this allegation?

Because it seems to be an open secret that he has a dalliance with 2 ( two) ladies in his immediate environment, one of whom is referred to by staff as “Mrs Bishop”.

Maybe that's why Bishop Schwarz was not interested in dealing with the Priest accused of Sexual Molestation, and Child Pornography.

The Priest is a rogue clergyman.

The Bishop does nothing, because he himself is tainted,

The Cardinal does nothing.. why?

The Nuncio knows but remains silent.

The Pope had better jump into this fray and end his silence.

Bertstravel

is getting tired writing about this moral morass

called the Catholic Church.

David Hume said:

"Generally speaking, the errors in philosophy
are ridiculous, those in Religion are dangerous."

somebody else said:
Going to Church does not make you a Christian, any more than going to a garage makes you a car.

Fox and a Squirrel

Red Fox in the Morning Sun

Squirrel meets the Fox

Trbonje on the River Drau

Drau shoreline near Trbonje, Slovenia

Fisherman.

The Railroad Station at Trbonje.

Is there anything left?

Late Harvest!

A bee trying its luck on a thistle

Are you due for a change ?

If you are tired of my complaining about certain things and you are just about due for a change, try and have a gander at my pictures on photo.net.

Follow these simple instructions: Go to Google and type in:

Bert Reitter@photo.net

I hope you like some of the pictures there.

Bertstravels

When will it end ?

Pope Franciscus accepted the resignation of the Archbishop Donald Cardinal Wuerl who stands accused of, while he was Bishop of Pittsburgh, having  transferred Priests in his jurisdiction, of whom he knew that they were sexual predators, to other Dioceses without even informing the leadership of this new Diocese.
And this misdeed, this crime, was performed by Mr. Wuerl not only once or twice, but over 200 times.  Over 200 times he protected criminals from prosecution, and allowed the predators to repeat their crimes on new victims.  Not once, it seems, did Mr. Wuerl ask himself which agony, which despair he engendered in young boys and/or girls who were victimized by these low-down perverse hoodlums.
Is it possible that Wuerl in his own comparatively small group encountered over 200 criminals, but  never wondered what is happening in other Dioceses? Did it never occur to him that similar criminal activities are likely to happen other places, where Catholic Priests had influence and authority?
Now, standing accused of "aiding and abetting"  in this series of crimes, he comes up with the lamest of excuses imaginable: 
He had, so he told the Pope, in each case consulted renowned Psychiatrists to ascertain if there existed a likelihood of the offenders to reoffend in their new locations.
Obviously these "Renowned Psychiatrists" assured him that there was no danger of them repeating their crimes. This must be the absolutely lamest, unbelievable excuse he could have offered.

These Sex Scandals, which are now being revealed and reported from all over the world are, so critics maintain, the "Greatest Crisis" in the Roman Catholic Church since the Reformation  (500 years ago).
The mistrust harboured by the Congregation, by the individual members of this Organisation, extends not only to the ordinary Priest, but to the Bishops and Cardinals. and, unless Pope Francis cleans his house with an iron broom, this mistrust will engulf him too.

When a defender suggested that the Good which the RCC creates in this world surely outweighs these problems, a wise philosopher, whose name escapes me for the moment, replied that when you place into the scales along with the sexual crimes the anxieties, fears and despair created by the teachings of the RC Church, all the Good disappears into insignificance.

The promoting of two high ranking R.C. officials to Sainthood (now I understand there are four of those lucky people) provides a good, but temporary diversion from this Super Scandal.
Did Pope Francis know of the threatening bursting of this scandal and therefore rushed into this Sainthood "Punch and Judy show" to divert the praying population's attention from this serious crisis?

Bertstravels
just wonders
about so many things.