Foley Better Hope The Pope Goes Further!
There are a couple of linked stories today that involve Catholic dogma.
Pope Ratzinger, Benedict XVI, is expected today to reject the concept of limbo, and Mark Foley is being challenged to name the Catholic clergyman who molested him when he was a young teen.
“He should absolutely report the perpetrator, living or dead,” said David Clohessy, national director of the 7,000-member Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. “He should do it now, not when his civil lawyer says it is convenient. Every day that a molester walks free is a day when he can hurt other kids.”
Foley better hope that Pope Ratzinger, Benedict XVI, finds that there’s no Hell also - he’s going to go there if what people imply about him proves to be true.
Alexis Walkenstein, a spokeswoman for the Palm Beach diocese, said Foley has not reported the abuse to local Catholic Church officials. “If Mr. Foley was abused within the Catholic Church, we would encourage him to report it to law enforcement,” she said.
William J. Brooks, a Palm Beach Town Council member who is a former Catholic priest and a friend of Foley’s, said it was “outrageous” that Roth pinpointed the years of the abuse without naming the abuser. In 1969 and 1970, Foley attended Cardinal Newman High School, a parochial school where Brooks was on the faculty. “Get the name out there and let the legal process unfold. And clear the names of the other clergy people back in the early 1970s,” Brooks said.
Theresa LePore, the former Palm Beach County elections supervisor who designed the “butterfly ballot” that stirred national controversy in the 2000 presidential election, is now director of development at Cardinal Newman High. She was also a classmate of Foley’s. She said she does not remember him and never heard of any molestation cases when she was a student at the school, which at the time was run by a religious order, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
Considering the history of this last schoolmate, maybe Foley doesn’t stand a chance of escaping his destiny.
Foley: Gehenna! Ratzman