Talking about the "things that matter most" on Sept. 30
4:00 – Fr. Thomas Dubay: RIP
Father Thomas Edward Dubay, S.M. died Sunday, September 26, 2010 at the age of 88 years at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, MD. He had been admitted to Holy Cross the previous day from the nursing care facility, Springbrook Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, where he had been living for less than a month. He was a well-known retreat master, author of more than 20 books, host of a number of EWTN television series, and one of the greatest experts on the spiritual life in the Catholic Church today. We pay tribute to him by listening to a piece of one of his appearances on “Kresta in the Afternoon.”
4:20 – Parenting with Grace: The Catholic Parents' Guide to Raising almost Perfect Kids 2nd Edition
Family therapist and parent, Gregory Popcak, and his wife, Lisa, are back with their second edition of Parenting with Grace: The Catholic Parents' Guide to Raising almost Perfect Kids. This latest updated version continues to guide parents through each stage of child development from infancy to adolescence, offering additional age-specific advice on parenting with grace. Filled with honesty, practical examples, and thought-provoking quizzes, the book helps parents discover their own God-given instructional manual for creating a highly individualized, completely Catholic parenting plan for raising their children.
5:00 - CNN: “What the Pope Knew”
This weekend CNN aired a special entitled “What the Pope Knew” – focusing on the worldwide clerical sex abuse scandal. According to CNN promo material “CNN national correspondent Gary Tuchman reports for What the Pope Knew, investigating some of the most notorious pedophile priest cases in the United States and finds that the pope, as Cardinal Ratzinger, had direct responsibility for how they were handled. CNN’s investigation reveals that Ratzinger opposed or slowed down the defrocking of some priests, including convicted child molesters.” Matthew Bunson is here to respond.
5:40 – Fr. Thomas Dubay: RIP
Father Thomas Edward Dubay, S.M. died Sunday, September 26, 2010 at the age of 88 years at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, MD. He had been admitted to Holy Cross the previous day from the nursing care facility, Springbrook Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, where he had been living for less than a month. He was a well-known retreat master, author of more than 20 books, host of a number of EWTN television series, and one of the greatest experts on the spiritual life in the Catholic Church today. We pay tribute to him by listening to a piece of one of his appearances on “Kresta in the Afternoon.”
Mr. Kresta, I'm sure many would love to hear an investigative expose on Catholic media and its reporting of the scandal. The willingness to repeat conveniently exculpatory lies and pseudo-scientific disinformation, the wishful thinking, the abject refusal to do any homework which might make a Bishop, at least any named Bishop, look bad would, IMO, definitely qualify as "bad reporting."
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I found the CNN report frustrating as well, particularly the seeming inability of the report to recognize two realities:
1) Laicization takes a loooong time, and;
2) Laicization bears no resemblance to justice in either punishment or recompense.
It is disappointing when the media, secular or Catholic, accepts one person's framing of an issue and simply regurgitates it. This was particularly egregious in the case of the sexual abuse crisis in which Catholic media for years attempted to pretend that what was reality, wasn't really reality. Although I do recognize that when noted Catholic publicity-whore, Bill Donahue called Irish victims "gold-diggers" virtually no one on Ave Maria radio followed suit. Kudos to you all.
This is why I find it so very puzzling that when speaking of the initial investigation of Maciel, we keep hearing the cowardly meme that the investigation "lay dormant."
This inaccurate, if not downright dishonest, spin is now being repeated by Michael J. Miller at Catholic World Report in his interview of George Weigel. But, no big surprise there: we have one JPII fanboy interviewing another JPII fanboy.
The investigation, launched by Cardinal Ratzinger, wasn't "dormant" in any way, shape or form. In a cynical expression of cronyism at the expense of others, it had been cancelled at the expressed order of JPII.