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America Magazine: We can have both: Due process for accused priests and justice for sex abuse survivors
June 3 2023
Sean O'Conaill
In some cases false allegations of abuse can occur in cases of 'Munchausen by proxy' - i.e. the seeking of sympathetic attention by claiming illness in someone else, e.g. a child. It stands to reason that there could also be cases of false allegation from someone with a variant of Munchausen itself, the claiming of an illness or injury in oneself, for the very same reason of gaining attention - in that case not from medics but from the police. It's also called 'factitious disorder' - a tendency to invent circumstances that will evoke sympathy for and attention to oneself. See: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1029260/ Even in cases where false allegation occurs merely out of malice, or in an attempt to extort, the person suffering false allegation is in a position very close to that of Jesus himself and needs to remember this. To have suffered a medieval theology that does not interpret the crucifixion as an expression of solidarity with all true victims, but as due to the Father's 'dissatisfaction', must add to the torture, by making false allegation an utterly lonely and inexplicable experience. Everyone in ministry these days therefore needs to read James Cone's 'The Cross and the Lynching Tree' - an account of how African American theology came to see the cross as God's identification with those lynched on the basis of false allegation. The Creed badly needs to be recited from that perspective also - as a prayer for resilience - and not as a recital of 'six impossible things before breakfast'. Its essence was composed not by theological fundamentalists but by people in danger of being accused of treason for calling Jesus 'Lord' (instead of Caesar) and of cannibalism in a secret ritual known as the Eucharist.
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ACP Member recommends NCR article…
May 30 2023
Alan McGill
As an Irish national teaching Theology in the US, I have been the target of fundamentalist strands of Catholicism whose adherents arguably oppose the dialogical vision of the Second Vatican Council, the Church's teachings since 1943 on biblical interpretation, and a consistent application of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. Zealots of that ilk have sought to have me dismissed from employment and have questioned my Catholicism, and I would be the last to defend their integralist, literalist, selectively orthodox thinking. That said, I was disturbed by the Church's failure to speak prophetically in response to the stigmatization of unvaccinated people (I was vaccinated) and the erosion of personal freedoms and community life during the pandemic. As a strong supporter of Pope Francis, I was disheartened to hear him refer to the decision not to be vaccinated as "suicidal", a form of hyperbole that implied sinfulness. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/world/europe/pope-coronavirus-vaccinations.html) Less disturbing, the Pope's description of the decision to be vaccinated as an "act of love" reflected the received wisdom of the time that the vaccines would prevent transmission of the disease whereas it is now generally accepted that they decrease the likelihood of severe symptoms but do not prevent transmission. There seemed to be a lack of critical reflection and of solidarity with those whose consciences differed with the public health authorities. There is then the matter of telling people that they are obliged to attend Sunday Mass but suspending that "obligation" because the public health authorities said so. It made no sense to jump from a "divine obligation" stance on Sunday Mass to a position that accommodated the dictates of the civil authorities. None of this inspired trust in the Pope or hierarchy on the part of more conservative-minded Catholics and though it pains me a little to say it, in relation to these matters, I don't blame them.
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From National Museums Scotland: Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see one of the most important documents in Scottish history – the Declaration of Arbroath.
June 3 2023
Eddie Finnegan
We might be forgiven for thinking that the second of the Avignon Popes, John XXII (1316 - 1334) had enough on his plate without taking on the Earls and Barons of Scotland (1320 Declaration of Arbroath above) after his earlier enlightenment by Prince Domhnall Ó Neill of Tír Eoghain and the rest of the Irish princes and chieftains in their more complex letter to the new Pope in 1317: 'Remonstrance of the Irish Princes to Pope John XXII'. publish.ucc.ie/celt/document/T3100000-001 A remonstrance of 13 long paragraphs of detail beginning: "Lest the sharp-toothed and viperous calumny of the English and their untrue representations should to any degree excite your mind against us and the defenders of our right, which God forbid ............" Neither the Irish Remonstrance nor the Arbroath Declaration deterred John XXII from excommunicating all the enemies of the English King, Edward II, including Robert the Bruce and his brother Edward, though the Remonstrance may have resulted in a mild papal warning to Edward II that the grant of Ireland to Henry II by the English Pope Nicholas Breakspear (Adrian IV) might well be reviewed or revoked further down the road. But then, did either the Remonstrance or the Declaration ever get to Avignon;? Were the 1317 and 1320 documents the result of close consultation between Irish Chieftains and Scottish Earls? Or indeed could either or both letters be later fakes? I leave it to the historians among you.
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4 June 2023 – Sunday of the Most Holy Trinity
June 4 2023
Ikpogu Martin Chiwetalu
Most Holy Trinity (is) like a tripod stand that can hold a pot stabilized in an agreement to function effectively unto a common good for all.
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