Charity in Truth
Pope Benedict has issued an encyclical on the global economy. He deplores the manner in which government regulation of national economies has failed so miserably, leaving the world's poor in the lurch. Not to mention the diminished financial straits visited upon ordinary people in the developed world. He feels that a "world political authority" should be established to set guidelines that would be observed internationally.
Time to leave the free enterprise system to failed history, and embark on a new kind of global partnership for a system of recognized responsible world finances.
He has no doubt given much thought to this grave subject. And hopes to not only impress on the world's 1.1-billion Catholics their responsibility in this matter, but to go beyond his flock, and reach out to the world community. This is as much a social, moral issue as an economic one, given the grave fall-out of the misadventure the world is reeling under, through the collapse of the U.S. financial system, impacting so deleteriously on an inter-related global financial system, based on that of the U.S.
Perhaps some good may come of it. Perhaps, on the other hand, he is indulging himself in an area where he may of course venture, but should he? Something like Christ in the Temple, thrashing about in righteous wrath at the presence of the money-lenders, besmirching the Almighty's edifice with their greed. Yet perhaps there are other issues that the good Shepherd of God should be attending to, equally pressing, morally repugnant, that his own shepherds are indulging in.
One need go no further than the Ottawa Valley, as a microcosm of the priestly cesspool of maladaption to the Church's teaching. In the Archdiocese of Pembroke 52 priests are on the clerical directory, four with the honorary title of monsignor; one retired, one serving a jail sentence, one recently charged with sexual assault. The OPP is currently investigating a fresh complaint of gross indecency, indecent assault and breach of trust levied against Msgr. Robert Borne.
Once parish priest at St.James Church in Eganville, pastor for a mission church - Nativity of Mary in Golden Lake - and parish priest in Cormac. Now 60, Msgr. Borne served as a bishop's assistant and with the Pembroke chancery office during his priestly career. There is also Msgr. Bernard Prince now 73, also attached to the Pembroke diocese, sentenced to four years in prison in 2008, convicted of molesting 13 young boys over a 20-year period. Msgr. Prince had important contacts in the Vatican.
In Ottawa, the Reverend James A. Jordan, a Catholic missionary aged 63, was arrested after a week-long police investigation on Monday, accused of possessing pictures of child pornography. Released on bond, he continues to reside at the Oblates residence. He has been ordered to surrender his passport, not to use the Internet or possess any material that could store digital media. The Oblates of Mary Immaculate Lacombe Canada sends him to their mission in Kenya.
Might the Good Father deign to address these troubling, ongoing events of collapsed morals leading inevitably to the public's disdain for his Church's insistence on priestly celibacy?
Time to leave the free enterprise system to failed history, and embark on a new kind of global partnership for a system of recognized responsible world finances.
He has no doubt given much thought to this grave subject. And hopes to not only impress on the world's 1.1-billion Catholics their responsibility in this matter, but to go beyond his flock, and reach out to the world community. This is as much a social, moral issue as an economic one, given the grave fall-out of the misadventure the world is reeling under, through the collapse of the U.S. financial system, impacting so deleteriously on an inter-related global financial system, based on that of the U.S.
Perhaps some good may come of it. Perhaps, on the other hand, he is indulging himself in an area where he may of course venture, but should he? Something like Christ in the Temple, thrashing about in righteous wrath at the presence of the money-lenders, besmirching the Almighty's edifice with their greed. Yet perhaps there are other issues that the good Shepherd of God should be attending to, equally pressing, morally repugnant, that his own shepherds are indulging in.
One need go no further than the Ottawa Valley, as a microcosm of the priestly cesspool of maladaption to the Church's teaching. In the Archdiocese of Pembroke 52 priests are on the clerical directory, four with the honorary title of monsignor; one retired, one serving a jail sentence, one recently charged with sexual assault. The OPP is currently investigating a fresh complaint of gross indecency, indecent assault and breach of trust levied against Msgr. Robert Borne.
Once parish priest at St.James Church in Eganville, pastor for a mission church - Nativity of Mary in Golden Lake - and parish priest in Cormac. Now 60, Msgr. Borne served as a bishop's assistant and with the Pembroke chancery office during his priestly career. There is also Msgr. Bernard Prince now 73, also attached to the Pembroke diocese, sentenced to four years in prison in 2008, convicted of molesting 13 young boys over a 20-year period. Msgr. Prince had important contacts in the Vatican.
In Ottawa, the Reverend James A. Jordan, a Catholic missionary aged 63, was arrested after a week-long police investigation on Monday, accused of possessing pictures of child pornography. Released on bond, he continues to reside at the Oblates residence. He has been ordered to surrender his passport, not to use the Internet or possess any material that could store digital media. The Oblates of Mary Immaculate Lacombe Canada sends him to their mission in Kenya.
Might the Good Father deign to address these troubling, ongoing events of collapsed morals leading inevitably to the public's disdain for his Church's insistence on priestly celibacy?
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