A City Of Refuge

22 Aug 2018132

Mexican Cardinal Sergio Obeso Rivera said abuse victims should be “ashamed”  to accuse “men of the Church.”

(''MEN OF THE ''CHURCH?" An evil cabal to be sure!)

 The newly-minted cardinal was speaking to a group of journalists on August 16, just days after the bombshell revelations out of Pennsylvania that some 300 members of the Church abused upwards of 1,000 children over the course of 70 years. This abuse was only possible, according the grand jury report, because of a Church-wide cover up that reached all the way to the Vatican.

“I’m here happy to talk about nice things, not about problematic things, it’s an accusation that is made, and in some cases it’s true,” Obeso River said. “But the evil of many is the consolation of fools, because sometimes those who accuse men of the Church should [be careful] because they have long tails that are easily stepped on.”
The comments could be interpreted as a threat, a threat of exposure if you accuse a priest with skeletons in your own closet.
The cardinal spoke to reporters in Spanish and one interpretation of his remarks reads, “those who accuse us should have a little pain.”
He did add that the allegations “make us feel bad and we want to improve.”
Obeso Rivera was appointed a cardinal by Pope Francis in late June.
The Church’s sex scandal also touched Obeso Rivera’s Mexico.
Father Marcial Maciel Dogollado was defrocked by Pope Benedict in 2006 after being found guilty by the Church of sexually abusing nine boys and young men. After he died, it was discovered he had fathered a child with one of his two mistresses and might have abused his own children. Dogollado died in Florida in 2008 at the age of 87.
**THE FOLOWING EXCERPT IS FROM CHARLES
CHINIQUY ''50 years in the Church of Rome" Ch.15 

 Oh! how the merciless priest of Rome then becomes eloquent in depicting celibacy as the only way to heaven, or in showing the eternal fires of hell ready to receive cowards and traitors who, after having put their hand to the plough of celibacy, look back! He speaks of the disappointment and sadness of so many dear friends, who expected better things of them. He points out to them their own shame when they will again be in a world which will have nothing for them but sneers for their want of perseverance and courage. He overwhelms them with a thousand pious lies about the miracles wrought by Christ in favour of his virgins and priests. He bewitches them by numerous texts of Scripture, which he brings as evident proof of the will of God in favour of their taking the vows of celibacy, though they have not the slightest reference to such vows.