Quote of the Day

“The naming of problems is not an attack against ‘the Church’ or the Pope or some bishop or the other personally. Thus, to react by being personally offended, as high officials have done on occasion, is rather unproductive. …What is really needed is a new discussion culture in the Church – the will to listen to one another and not to deny the good intentions of the other.”

– Iso Baumer, specialist in the Eastern churches in Freiburg, Switzerland, in an essay in today’s Neuen Zürcher Zeitung, “Structures of Cover-up in the Catholic Church.” Source: Kipa.

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  1. Karl Liam Saur

    +1.

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  2. Tony Ward

    Amen, Alleluia.

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  3. Halbert Weidner

    I became a Catholic in 1950 after being instructed in Baltimore Catechism no. 3. I have not wavered since then from the fundamentals. I certainly believe that we do not need any more Protestant churches. Liberal or conservative and that wherever Catholic reform and renewal goes, it will not be in that direction.
    My beef with our Catholic leadership has nothing to do with the democratization of the Church or feminism. I am instead scandalized by the gap between what is in the catechism and what actually happens in church administration.
    Since Baltimore Catechism days I have gone on to get a doctorate in theology from Oxford University taking as my speciality John Henry Newman’s third edition (the Via Media) of the Prophetical Office of the Church. The preface he wrote as a Catholic directly addresses the current question of abuses of the hierarchy in the Church. I have seen little of Newman’s contribution to the debate. Too bad.

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  4. Julia Smucker

    I agree with Baumer. Actually, the greatest frustration I personally have experienced since being a part of the Catholic Church is the split between those who seem to prefer to do nothing BUT catalogue what’s wrong with the Church, and those who take a polar opposite “Rome can do no wrong” sort of attitude. Listening to each other is sorely needed indeed, in all directions.

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  5. Philip Endean SJ

    The full text is now available on http://www.zh.kath.ch/aktuell/medienspiegel/2011/strukturen-der-vertuschung-in-der-katholischen-kirche-nzz/

    slightly disappointing. The last paragraph, quoted in the press release, is the strongest.

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