Friday, September 02, 2005
EMAIL FROM LEE PENN
The coverup and half-apology is not just an RCC tactic for the abuse scandal. They do the same on other occasions. Here's a link to an article on the Galileo affair and its aftermath, by Sandro Magister - an Italian Catholic journalist.
www.chiesa
http://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/printDettaglio.jsp?id=6969&eng=y
Key quotes, with emphasis added by me:
"In their [ the Jesuits'] judgment, the Galileo case has not been resolved at all. And this is because both John Paul II and the man he assigned to the matter, the French cardinal Paul Poupard, when they wanted to close this question, went as far as covering up the role of the Vatican officials of the time, in particular the popes Paul V and Urban VIII, by placing all the blame on a group of theologians - whom Amato is now exculpating by going after the Aristotelian philosophers of Pisa - and by blaming Galileo again for the "tragic mutual misunderstanding."
Do these tactics seem familiar?
and this
"There has been a sort of admission of error, Fantoli concedes, but it was "rather guarded, and unsatisfying in many aspects."
Fr. Coyne, in his presentation, emphasizes that this is all because there prevails in the present leadership of the Church "the concern for saving one´s good name and for keeping one´s own accountabilities hidden, or acknowledging them only in a veiled manner."
The Church Administrators ... bringing us political maneuvers and corporate shenanigans for hundreds of years.
Lee
