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President Obama Lectures Wall Street. My Lecture on Symbolic Expression.
President Obama’s statements at a press conference yesterday lecturing Wall Street does not help the economic crisis. By chastising bank executives for their billions of dollars in bonuses they paid themselves only months after the federal bailout, however, Obama points out to America how out of touch Wall Street is with the rest of the [...]
Lawsuit Against the Vatican. Child Abuse Cover UP and Vows of Silence.
A couple of months ago, a United States appeals court ruled that the Vatican can be sued for the sexual abuse committed by priests in the United States.
Trying to block the class action lawsuit, the Vatican argued that it was protected by laws granting sovereign states immunity from almost all US civil proceedings. The [...]
The Vatican and Homosexuality: an Idiotic Report on Clergy Abuse in the Catholic Church
In response to the clergy abuse scandal, a Vatican office that evaluated U.S. Roman Catholic seminaries concluded today that school administrators have been effective in stopping “homosexual behavior.” But the agency claimed that the “problem” still exists.
Giving special attention to teachings on chastity and celibacy, The Congregation for Catholic Education broadly reviewed how schools [...]
CLERGY ABUSE VICTIMS, CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT:Denying Big Dirty Realities.
So, after over twenty years of putting virtually nothing down on paper about my ten years of abuse at the hands of a pedophile priest, I have composed several short blogs concerning the experience. I have spent nearly everyday of my life dedicated to writing, and it has taken a blog site for me to [...]
Ringing in the New Year with Bugs Bunny
Instead of waking up this morning to the opening score to Sponge Bob Square Pants, I suddenly had a flashback to the Saturday mornings of my childhood in the 1970s, sitting in front of a big furniture style color TV on a shag carpet as I heard the forever familiar opening score of Warner Brothers [...]
CLERGY ABUSE AND CHRISTMAS PART III
I apologize. For the past couple days since my last post, I’ve had a bug, so I haven’t had the opportunity to stay on top of all the comments I have received.
Before posting the first piece on clergy abuse victims and Christmas, I felt a great deal of trepidation. But now I am glad that [...]
CLERGY ABUSE AND CHRISTMAS Part Two: The Humiliation of Silence
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CLERGY ABUSE VICTIMS AND CHRISTMAS EVE: The Loneliest Time of the Year.
I will post a Merry Christmas blog later. But for a Merry Christmas Eve post, I feel compelled to write a reminder that there are tens of thousands of individuals out there today who suffered at the hands of clergy abuse in not just the Catholic Church, but also in many other churches in the [...]
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