More Catholic shenanigans: O’Malley post cites ‘good of the child’

[unhappycamper]

Cardinal backs Hingham Catholic school decision, offers to help gay couple


O’Malley post cites ‘good of the child’
By Lisa Wangsness
Globe Staff / May 20, 2010

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, commenting for the first time on a Hingham Catholic school’s decision to revoke admission of the 8-year-old son of a lesbian couple, said yesterday that “the good of the child’’ must be the church’s primary concern and recalled that he once invited the daughter of a brothel manager to attend a Catholic school.

“Catholic schools exist for the good of the children, and our admission policies must reflect that,’’ he wrote in a post on his blog. “We have never had categories of people who were excluded.’’

O’Malley’s aides have offered to help find the lesbian couple another local Catholic school in which to enroll their son, and the Catholic Schools Foundation, which O’Malley chairs, has said it will not financially support Catholic schools that “promote an exclusionary admissions policy or practice.’’

But O’Malley’s post on his blog praised the Rev. James Rafferty, the pastor of St. Paul’s Church, saying his decision to exclude the boy was made “based on his pastoral concern for the child.’’

O’Malley also pointed out that the Archdiocese of Denver has questioned admitting children of gay couples to Catholic schools, and said that “their positions and rationale must be seriously considered’’ by the Archdiocese of Boston as it seeks to develop a policy to address this issue.



unhappycamper comment: Somehow the terms “the good of the child’’ and "daughter of a brothel manager" don't seem correct in the same sentence.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. He's saving the youngsters from a life of sin

And he'll save one for you for a Love Offering of $100 or greater.

--d!

[hobbit709]

2. The church that has more or less condoned pedophilic priests needs to STFU.

about “the good of the child’’

[Darth_Kitten]

3. More Catholic bashing? Yawn.......

n/t

[BakedAtAMileHigh]

6. they seem to be doing a fine job of "bashing' themselves, really

No need to help, just let keep protecting child molesters, influencing politics and issuing empty moral proclamations. That should do just fine, thanks.

[olegramps]

4. The Archdiocese of Denver is headed by Chaput.

Chaput urged Catholics in Denver and nationwide to not vote for Kerry and Obama because although they didn't approve of abortion, they would not restrict another citizen's rights. It must be noted that he is a avid supporter of Opus Dei and is head of the Legions of Christ's seminary program in the United States. This program recruits young kids in junior and senior high to train in their seminaries. The founder of the Legions of Christ was a notorious sexual abuser of both young boys and girls.

He was a close confident of Pope John Paul II who totally ignored the hundreds of complaints of sexual abuse that were lodged against him. When Ratizinger was elected pope, his reputation as an abuser of young boys in his seminaries was such a scandal, that he removed Marcel as head of the order and forbid him from preforming any public ministry.

Several bishops have banned the Legions of Christ from operating in their dioceses. The Vatican has been urged to totally disband the order due to its notorious reputation of abuse in their seminaries. They also regard their programs as little more than brainwashing of young boys who are often drawn from poverty with the promise of a free education. Some bishops fear that this is a breeding ground for producing future sexual abusers since this is the type of culture that produced so many pedophiles who demonstrated an arrested state of psycho-sexual development.

[monmouth]

5. Cardinal O'Malley was one of our priests here in West Palm at

St. Ann. One of the saddest days for our parish was when he was called to go to Boston. One of the greats in the priesthood, wonderful Irish sense of humor and in general, a good man. This does not surprise me at all coming from him. This is what he truly is like.

[Scuba]

7. Why do they want their son in the hands of pedophiles anyway?