Tuesday, June 10, 2003

Children of Southwest Ohio Still in Danger

The priests of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio, just went through a "workshop" on their revised "Decree on Child Protection." This was reported in the June 6 archdiocesan newspaper, 'The Catholic Telegraph,' under the ominous title of:

"Up to 30,000 to be Fingerprinted: Priests Prepare to Implement Revised Child Protection Decree."

Rome continues to protect its child-molesting priests. What a better way could there be to protect the clergy than to have the 'priests' "implement" the latest Catholic "Protection Decree." One has to ask, "Will priests...OR...children be better protected?" It still looks like the fox is in charge of the henhouse!

A careful reading of Catholic materials always reveals its real intentions, and this article is no exception:

1. One Catholic response to the child abuse scandal has been to spread the idea that anyone can be a child abuser - thus taking the spotlight off the Roman priesthood. In Cincinnati, this will be taken to new extremes. The article says, "The archdiocese anticipates that as many as 30,000 people (Catholic volunteers and employees) may need to be fingerprinted." By doing police background checks on everyone under the sun, Cincinnati archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk hopes to hide his priests by sheer weight of numbers, and to fool the "faithful" into thinking the "Church" is doing something about child abuse.

2. The article proudly boasts that at the end of the "workshop," Pilarczyk and his auxiliary bishop, Carl Moeddel, stepped forward and had themselves fingerprinted. But - NO MENTION is made of ANY OTHER priests stepping up to be fingerprinted!! A glaring omission!!

I continue to beg bible-believing Christians to pray daily that Christ protect children from - the Roman Catholic priesthood.