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Article: THE HAMMER DROPS
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- New Oxford Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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Leon J. Podles, in his new book Sacrilege: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church (2008, Grassland Press, www.CrosslandFoundation.org), hammers the point home that most Catholic bishops "hate confrontation." This goes a long way toward explaining their reluctance to discipline predatory priests. It also goes a long way toward explaining the sorry state of the Church today. Fortitude, one of the four cardinal virtues, is sorely lacking among the current leaders of the U.S. Church.
This cowardly attitude also explains why several U.S. bishops shrugged off the recent and numerous invalid attempts at priestly "ordination" of women by the rogue Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement As we wrote in ...