Police Raid Tombs of Dead Bishops in Belgium
Video Update at the bottom of this post.
Police raided and disturbed the tombs and graves of Belgium’s bishops searching for sex abuse cover ups. While the police raided the tombs, they also shut down a bishops conference and held those bishops hostage for several hours. Cutting off phone lines and all other forms of communication during their nationwide harassment of bishops in Belgium.
What makes this situation worse is that they also confiscated all of the Belgium’s bishops commission on these sex abuse cover up where victims gave confidential statements expecting discretion.
This is nothing more than anti-Catholic activities sanctioned at the state level.
These raids coincided with the raid on Godfried Cardinal Danneels home searching for sexual child abuse evidence.
The tombs that were disturbed by Belgium police were the predecessors to Cardinal Danneels, Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens and Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey.
(Biretta tip: Michael Denton)
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Update I: Rome Reports has a quick overview of the police raids on Church property in Belgium.
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I hope the persecution results in a better Church.
She needs to understand that the abuse scandal is only one of her wrongs.
May her humiliation continue, so she looks inward to see how hurtfully she treats those who love her and actively supports those who do great harm within the Catholic Church.
The “teacher” needs to control the class. She cannot simply disseminate information while predatory classmates persecute, terribly, others among them, who continually ask the “teacher” for help and are ignored.
Sorry, but Catholicism is in trouble, deeply, and needs far more than a superficial “reform of the reform”.
Karl,
I agree with you on all points, except that the “Reform of the Reform” isn’t superficial.
Though what suggestions would you add in order to clean the Church of the Smoke of Satan?
Tito,
I have a tendency for the one-note symphony which I would rather not play here.
I would simply say that much reform is needed regarding marriage, both in canon law and in pastoral applications and how they interact.
Karl,
May I suggest tribunals staffed by lay people to put the spotlight on heretical priests, bishops, and other wayward Catholics in the public sphere.
In order to bring attention to our bishops and the Vatican who not to promote to be a bishop and who to bring to early retirement.
That presumes the integrity of laity over the integrity of the clergy. I trust neither, based upon personal experience.
The Holy Father already knows what is going on.
I wish the solution(s) were simple. They are not.
One thing I have learned in this journey is that, the most depraved and uncaring behavior is at the disposal of the holiest, most disciplined person with the confluence of the “right” circumstances.
Annulments, although, clearly justified, in theory, are a nightmare of complexities, canonically and pastorally.
Belgium’s police raids were perfectly legitimate. Everyone who is genuinely opposed to the rape of children supports them.
That must not include most liberal homosexuals.