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Archbishop Chaput on the Belgian Raid
Cathleen Kaveny August 27, 2010 - 11:49am
In a recent talk in Eastern Europe, Archbishop Charles Chaput criticized increasing ant-Christian sentiment in the West. He gave as an example the police raid of the Cardinal's residence, which he characterized as being conducted without due process.It seems to me the only question to be asked is whether the Belgian police followed the established procedures they would have followed if investigating any other suspects of child pornography and child abuse. (Belgian due process applies--not American.) And that question, it seems to me, should be asked. The procedures seem very rough. But I don't know the answer--maybe they are always very rough. I've only seen FBI raids on television.If this is the way the police proceed in every case, then it seems to me there is no question of discrimination against Christians--though there may or may not be separate reasons to call into question police procedures. Law enforcement officials should proceed the same way when investigating bishops, priests, rabbis, imams, and lay people of all stripes. We are all equal under the law. No one is above the law. There is no "benefit of clergy," so to speak. (There also should be no "benefit of celebrity, "---but that's a separate blog post.)Surely, Archbishop Chaput cannot be saying that members of the hierarchy deserve preferential treatment at the hands of secular law in the matter of investigating child abuse? Can he?UPDATE: The search was ruled illegal--but it's not clear why.
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I doubt Archbishop Chaput wants to protect pedophile and/or law-breaking priests. But I have little doubt that he believes clergy deserve special treatment. That he believes this is inherent in the way that he inserts his voice into every discussion. He believes he has a special right to be heard by everybody. I detect little humility in his public statements. He believes he is special. - TL
"A comprehensive attack on religious freedom, and specifically upon Christianity, the archbishop explained, has already begun. "And who exactly are these people in power who have planned this attack and are implementing it? Are the seven Catholic justices of SCoTUS perhaps front guys for Profs. Dawkins and Dennett? Hmm. Just who are these godless power-mad people? Have they infected the political parties? Which ones? Which offices do they hold? Do they operate underground like the French Maquis? The Archbishop's Cold War rhetoric would have been appropriate when the USSR government and its allies were explicitly committed to destroy relligion. But now? This is paranoia.And the sadest part is that the Archbishop still doesn't understand that policemen world-wide now have reason not to assume what they assumed in the past -- that Catholic bishops will 1) protest children from molesters, and 2) co-operate with police when the police have a duty to demand co-operation. Maybe the Belgian police are anti-clerical. (I really do find it impossible to believe that Cardinal Sunens would countenance molesting children.) Maybe their methods were too extreme. But it's certainly premature to postulate a culture-wide anti-Catholic conspiracy comparable to 20th century Communism largely on the basis of some extreme discovery methods in tiny Belgium. Perhaps those actions were outside Belgian law. But surely the legal processes used by, say, the attorney-general in Massachusetts to obtain evidence from certain obstreperous bishops were careful, public, and legal, and they were processes which in the end proved eminently warranted.
Have always wondered if Chaput had a box of old Charlie Coughlin tapes and watches these nightly. This is embarrassing.
Abp. Chaput's talk can be found at: http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1344432?eng=yHere is the pertinent paragraph:"Earlier this summer we witnessed the kind of vindictive thuggery not seen on this continent since the days of Nazi and Soviet police methods: the Archbishops palace in Brussels raided by agents; bishops detained and interrogated for nine hours without due process; their private computers, cell phones, and files seized. Even the graves of the Churchs dead were violated in the raid. For most Americans, this sort of calculated, public humiliation of religious leaders would be an outrage and an abuse of state power. And this is not because of the virtues or the sins of any specific religious leaders involved, since we all have a duty to obey just laws. Rather, its an outrage because the civil authority, by its harshness, shows contempt for the beliefs and the believers whom the leaders represent."
It was ruled illegal, wasn't it? I read that all the evidence seized has to be returned and can't be used for prosecution. Only the Tighty-Righty (Jimmy Mac's phrase) Catholic sites mentioned it, though. Could be inaccurate.@Ann. I'm sure they didn't think Cardinal Suenens had voluntarily covered up pedophilia. I think the suspicion was that incriminating documents had been secreted in his tomb without his permission.
And as a bonus, a Godwin's law violation!
Thanks Joe. Felapton--that's the question. Where did you see this?He's claiming that a) the purpose --the goal-- of the raid was to humiliate the leaders. That's a strong claim. The police don't call you up and say, "We're going to raid you in a half hour." They don't want you to destroy the evidence. In the U.S., there'd have to be a warrant--a judge would have to sign off on it.I think Ann is right on the assumptions--the assumption that bishops will not cover up for child molesters has been falsified, so is no longer applicable in assessing probable cause, if it ever was."It is an outrage because the civil authority, by its harshness, showed contempt for the beliefs and believers whom the leaders represent." Uh, no. The leaders don't represent us when they do bad things. They do it all on their own.
Wow.. a rant by A/B Chaput ..a country with a Catholic king and most likely Catholic police.. Nazi/Soviet?? 'and raided by agents'? interesting word use.. The US Federal grand jury in LA has been investigating Cardinal Mahony for a year. that seems like due process with immunity given to two clerics... no rush to judgement there. Of course lying to FBI AGENTS has tripped up others. e.g. Martha. Stewart, Scooter Libby, Gov. Blago.
Regarding the update, the story says the ruling is going to be appealed, so apparently the matter isn't settled.
"We face an aggressively secular political vision and a consumerist economic model that result in practice, if not in explicit intent in a new kind of state-encouraged atheism."Examples that come to my mind immediately: in France - stores used to be closed on Sundays, now the laws are changing (providing more and more exceptions) and more and more employees must work Sundays. - Sports practices and events for children are often scheduled on Sunday mornings, conflicting with church. - Catechism classes traditionally take advantage of school-free Wednesdays and happen on Wednesday morning, but there is the recurring threat of having school on Wednesday mornings, which would jeopardize Catechism classes in their current organization. - The time devoted by public TV to broadcasting Mass and Catholic shows on Sunday mornings has recently been reduced. - Conferences in my field usually start early on Sunday morning, with travels on Saturday, making Mass attendance a challenge. - Then, there is the outlawing of burqas on the street, the rampant discrimination against Moslems and Jews, etc ...But here are the examples cited by Abp Chaput in addition to the Belgian raid. They show his obsession with homosexuality and abortion. "In the United States, a nation that is still 80 percent Christian with a high degree of religious practice, government agencies now increasingly seek to dictate how Church ministries should operate, and to force them into practices that would destroy their Catholic identity. Efforts have been made to discourage or criminalize the expression of certain Catholic beliefs as hate speech. Our courts and legislatures now routinely take actions that undermine marriage and family life, and seek to scrub our public life of Christian symbolism and signs of influence.In Europe, we see similar trends, although marked by a more open contempt for Christianity. Church leaders have been reviled in the media and even in the courts for simply expressing Catholic teaching. Some years ago, as many of you may recall, one of the leading Catholic politicians of our generation, Rocco Buttiglione, was denied a leadership post in the European Union because of his Catholic beliefs."
Maybe the Belgian police are working with "The Illuminati"Sorry, I just watched the Tom Hanks flick "Angels and Demons" :)
"Surely, Archbishop Chaput cannot be saying that members of the hierarchy deserve preferential treatment at the hands of secular law in the matter of investigating child abuse? Can he?"Was that a SERIOUS question? Does the pope wear red shoes? Of COURSE Chaput expects special treatment for ecclesiastics. It comes with the fancy duds and general Catholic population obsequiesness.Europe is long past the days when Catholic Christianity was favored as a matter of course. The population in general seems to be becoming substantially secular in attitude and beliefs. To expect Catholic Christianity to be granted certain priviliges, particularly when its views on marriage, abortion and homosexuality (among others) are counter to the prevailing sentiments, is naive at best.In this day and age, Catholic Christianity has to re-earn whatever actual respect it had in Europe. The threat of excommunication no longer holds the slightest weight anywhere, particularly there.
The Buttiglione situation is kind of interesting. He was nominated for a position in which he would have much say over minority rights, and as a devout Catholic, has stated that homosexuality is sinful, and has said that "The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them"He said to the commission that he would not allow his personal beliefs to cloud his judgement in these areas. His leadership was refused, but I wonder whether, if it had been accepted, Chaput would have been denying him communion if he had made any decision outside of church teaching. At least now he will not have a section of the Catholic blogosphere suggesting he should not have a catholic funeral when he eventually dies.(Or maybe he would not have acted in a manner considered appropriate in European political circles)
"Surely, Archbishop Chaput cannot be saying that members of the hierarchy deserve preferential treatment at the hands of secular law in the matter of investigating child abuse?"I don't know if that's what he's saying but actually, I don't have a problem with it, within limits. I imagine there's a fair amount of leeway afforded to authorities in terms of their approach and tactics. Unless there's a good reason not to, I believe clergy (as well as certain others) deserve "preferential" treatment. If we expect clergy to be held to a higher standard, aren't we obligated to accord them a higher standard? At least until the individuals have given us reason not to, I would say.
Mark, does that apply to imams and rabbis as well? In particular regarding doing raids of their offices when foul play is suspected - whether it concerns child abuse or, say, terrorism?
I'd like to present a couple of other snippets from Archbishop Chaput's talk - which I urge everyone to read in its entirety (the link is provided above by Fr. Komonchak) while holding any contempt in suspense."Tertullian once famously said that the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church. And Slovakia is the perfect place for us to revisit his words today. Here, and throughout central and eastern Europe, Catholics suffered through 50 years of Nazi and Communist murder regimes. So they know the real cost of Christian witness from bitter experience -- and also, unfortunately, the cost of cowardice, collaboration and self-delusion in the face of evil.""The Enlightenment-derived worldview that gave rise to the great murder ideologies of the last century remains very much alive. Its language is softer, its intentions seem kinder, and its face is friendlier. But its underlying impulse hasn't changed -- i.e., the dream of building a society apart from God; a world where men and women might live wholly sufficient unto themselves, satisfying their needs and desires through their own ingenuity."This is a startling and thought-provoking thesis: that the Enlightenment which we've learned to lionize in our primary school training is the direct precursor to the 20th Century "murder regimes"; that the malice toward Christianity and religion in general continues, albeit masked in a fairer face now; that Christians are called to resist it; and that we can draw upon the experience and resources of the first Christian martyrs to frame and sustain our resistance.If this thesis is true, it will take a lot of persuading to get folks to accept it. I don't know that many Catholics in the US instinctively look to the martyrs. Of course, if the thesis is true, the difficulty in teaching it shouldn't dissuade us.
MArkDeference was what happened in N Ireland, deference allowed murder to take place and go unpunished. Deference allows terrorism as long as it is Catholic terrorism. Maybe we shouldn't have deference any more, until the Church shows it will not abuse it.
JP: This is a startling and thought-provoking thesis: that the Enlightenment which weve learned to lionize in our primary school training is the direct precursor to the 20th Century murder regimes; that the malice toward Christianity and religion in general continues, albeit masked in a fairer face now; that Christians are called to resist it; and that we can draw upon the experience and resources of the first Christian martyrs to frame and sustain our resistance." It certainly is startling! But Jim I have heard you own archbishop link this cause and effect as well as one that holds Descartes responsibile for the waywardness of modernity. Are hierachs so steeped in theology and philosophy that they've never had time to read real history?
"It certainly is startling! But Jim I have heard you own archbishop link this cause and effect as well as one that holds Descartes responsibile for the waywardness of modernity. Are hierachs so steeped in theology and philosophy that theyve never had time to read real history?"Margaret, I assume from your question that you have not yet embraced the thesis :-)I've read my archbishop talk about the Enlightenment, at a Commonweal forum, a number of years ago now. It seems that it is not unique to Archbishop Chaput.History is amenable to a variety of interpretations. The experience of the French Revolution was one of crisis for the church, much more so than would have been the case for the (non-French) rest of the world. Since then, the church seems to have viewed the Enlightenment with a skeptical eye.
I dont know if thats what hes saying but actually, I dont have a problem with it, within limits. Mark Proska:I hope you are sitting down. I'm going to pretty much agree with you here. Where you have separation of church and state, it seems to me the state must approach the church with caution and sensitivity. This does not mean the state should let church officials get away with breaking the law. Likewise, because we have freedom of the press, the state must approach the press with caution and sensitivity.
Regarding the Enlightenment, check out Vox Nova. Many of the official contributors there feel it's where the West took a wrong turn. It's kind of the Second Fall of Mankind.
Jim and Margaret - the dear archbishop's grasp on history can best be described as "cafetaria catholic".....see this link to what actually happened in Slovakia which was perpetuated by the Franciscan and catholic hierarchy. Not a pretty picture as my daughter says. This is a brief synopsis of the Ustasha and the catholic regime in the Slovakia region during WWII.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-gorin/mass-grave-of-history-the_b_47...'s pontificating (if I may borrow from a recent Imbelli reply) has little to do with facts and much to do with his own opinions and myths.Enlightenment or Science or Technology - brought new ways of thinking, organizing thought, etc. How this was used or manipulated or abused depends on the folks who used these advances. His sweeping generalizations and his attempt to blame only reveal his lack of historical knowledge.
Bill - that article appears to be about Croatia, not Slovakia.
Hmm. Consider this (from an article referenced recently in the "Pets and People" conversation below)."Postscript: After writing this article, I was curious to know what some of my friends and colleagues would consider to be the world's most dangerous idea at present. When I asked them, a large majority answered, without hesitation, "religion." Margaret Somerville is director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, and author of The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit."Not irrelevant; not anachronistic or outmoded; but dangerous. This would seem to be rather powerful evidence that important parts of Chaput's thesis are in fact true: that the secularist Left is widespread among cultural elites (as university professors), and that they are hostile to religion. Their opinion about religion is preposterous, but at least in this particular academic environment, it seems to be the norm.
From the NCR Online account: "Lawyers representing the victims of sexual abuse, as well as some members of the now disbanded Interdiocesan Commission on Sexual Abuse are outraged. The commission disbanded after police confiscated their files"I don't understand this. Are the victims outraged at the police, at the interdiocesan commission, or at the court for saying the documents must be returned? Or what? Have the victims themselves been heard from? And what evidence if any are the police claiming to have which prompted their action?Sounds to be that the Belgian media are having a very hard time getting background on this story. Sounds like there are lots of sealed lips all around.
That story, as Jim Paulwels points out, is perhaps about Slovenia, not Slovakia. I know that western Europeans have trouble distinguishing among all those Slavs, but please do try. Not that the Slovak puppet Republic of WW II is anything to be proud of. I was once asked, by a fine historian, no less, "Well, after all, what is the difference between Czechs and Slovaks?" "If Slavs," I said, "were to make a similar remark about the Irish and the English," would you object? Of course, I did have the advantage of having had a saintly grandmother who, when asked if her husband had been a Czech or a Slovak, spat on the floor and said: "Think I'd marry a Czech!"
Ann: I suspect the NCR article may have copied and pasted a sentence or two from the June article, rendering the writeup confusing. Here is my understanding. Back when the raid happened: the victims had entrusted the Interdiocesan Commission on Sexual Abuse with their witness accounts, with the understanding that those would be confidential. After the police confiscated the files, there was no clarity about the extent to which the contents might be public. The victims, outraged, felt their trust had been betrayed and didn't want to talk to the commission any more; the commission felt it was impossible to work any more and disbanded.Now: the court have decided that evidence unearthed by the police raid cannot be used in the investigation; in fact, it sounds as though, because of this raid, the court will stop all investigation of cases that had "come to light" before the raid. The victims' lawyer is furious.
Thanks, Jim and Fr. K. Realize the difference between Slovakia and Slovenia. Sorry for the apparent confusion. My point (poorly made) and why I chose the link - Chaput references that his talk in Slovakia was a good place to talk about Catholic who suffered throughout central/eastern Europe - "Here, and throughout central and eastern Europe, Catholics suffered through 50 years of Nazi and Communist murder regimes. So they know the real cost of Christian witness from bitter experience and also, unfortunately, the cost of cowardice, collaboration and self-delusion in the face of evil.In fact, the actual history as evidenced by the article about Slovenia is much different than the black and white picture referenced by Chaput. That is all I was trying to say.
Broadsides against "the Enlightenment" such as those apparently made by Archbishop Chaput and Cardinal George are not only unwarranted, but border on intellectual huckterism. As Margaret's post suggests, anyone who took the trouble to pay attention to history would find such broad generalizations intellectually irresponsible. First, the Enlightenment was not all of a piece, nor were its effects. Rousseau is not Voltaire and neither of them is Diderot. There was a German Enlightenment ( e.g., Kant) that is distinguishable from the French Enlightenment. And there's more nuance to all this for anyone willing to work to see it.The broadside against Descartes is similarly mindless. I'm no Cartesian, for what I take to be good reasons. But whether one likes it or not, he made very important contributions to the sciences. His "Discourse on Method" alone would earn him an honored place in Western intellectual life.And then, do Chaput and George and their followers notice that post-modernists such as Foucault are strong critics of much that is called Enlightenment thought? Chaput and George do nothing to establish the seriousness of the Catholic intellectual tradition when they make intellectually irresponsible remarks such as these.Finally, note the vacuousness of talk about "history taking a wrong turn." In retrospect we can find watershed moments. But again, the trajectory of history is not ever seamless and talk about it as though it were a unitary trajectory is always tendentious at best.
Doesn't anyone wonder what they found?
Clare--Rabbis? Yes. Imams? Not sure. Don't know enough about what it takes to become an imam, what their responsibilities are, how laudable their efforts are, as a group. The few I do hear about do not inspire confidence, but that's a woefully small sample.Michael--Thanks, deference rather than preferential better captures what I was trying to affirm. No doubt it has been overdone in the past, with deplorable repercussions. But I want to live in a world where certain professions, the clergy among them, are accorded greater deference by society. If we lose all hierarchy, we step back from the angels, without even knowing. And if we have too much of a "wait and see" attitude, we're partly to blame for what we end up with.David--Mirabile dictu, good thing I was sitting down. Now, about your penchant for addressing me so formally
May I also add to this black and white picture:- credible evidence that hundreds of priests in Poland cooperated with the Communist regime- that during WWII, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian Catholics participated in the slaughter of Jewish people- from western Europe, French Catholics including the hierarchy collaborated with the NazisQuote from Martin Luther King that seems applicable to folks such as Chaput who paint with such a black and white brush:"I have begun to realize how hard it is for a lot of people to think of living without someone to look down upon, really look down upon. It is not just that they will feel cheated out of someone to hate; it is that they will be compelled to look more closely at themselves, at what they don't like in themselves. My heart goes out to people I hear called rednecks; they have little, if anything, and hate is a possession they can still call upon reliably, and it works for them. I have less charity in my heart for well-to-do and well-educated people - for their snide comments, cleverly rationalized ones, for the way they mobilize their political and even moral justifications to suit their own purposes. No one calls them to account. The Klan is their whipping boy. Someday all of us will see that when we start going after a race or a religion, a type, a region, a section of the Lord's humanity - then we're cutting into His heart, and we're bleeding badly ourselves. But then, I guess there's lots of masochism around!"- Spoken in the course of a personal interview, January 10, 1963, in Atlanta, Georgia
Claire --Thanks for the interpretation. It makes sense. Poor victims.What AB Chaput's speech indicates to me is that he is just now discovering what has been known not just for years but for centuries: that the Enlightenment included thinkers highly inimical to the Christian Churches, thinkers whose influence is still felt today in some quarters. But he seems to have no awareness of the good that the Enlightenment brought, nor does he realize that many Westerners have had reason to despise many Churchmen. That such latter-day fear gives rise to conspiracy thinking is itself scary..
"Chaput and George do nothing to establish the seriousness of the Catholic intellectual tradition when they make intellectually irresponsible remarks such as these."As I see it, between the 17th and 20th centuries the Church suspended its intellectual tradition. and ABs Chaput and George are continuing that non-tradition. There were in fact great men of science (Galileo, Newton and Leibniz leap to mind) who were believers. So what did the Church do? Close its mind and put Galileo under house arrest.. Oh, well, I guess putting up a statue of Galileo 450 years after he died is better than nothing.. Barely.
Oops -- make that 350 years after his death.
Archbishop Chaput should have checked with the Pope before trashing the Enlightenment ...Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, July 29, 2005From the beginning, Christianity has understood itself as the religion of the Logos, as the religion according to reason...It has always defined men, all men without distinction, as creatures and images of God, proclaiming for them...the same dignity. In this connection, the Enlightenment is of Christian origin and it is no accident that it was born precisely and exclusively in the realm of the Christian faith....It was and is the merit of the Enlightenment to have again proposed these original values of Christianity and of having given back to reason its own voice... Today, this should be precisely [Christianity's] philosophical strength, in so far as the problem is whether the world comes from the irrational, and reason is not other than a 'sub-product,' on occasion even harmful of its development-or whether the world comes from reason, and is, as a consequence, its criterion and goal...In the so necessary dialogue between secularists and Catholics, we Christians must be very careful to remain faithful to this fundamental line: to live a faith that comes from the Logos, from creative reason, and that, because of this, is also open to all that is truly rational.http://www.zenit.org/article-13705?l=english
". . . surrendering as its primary warrant any intrinsically religious experience or evidence."JAK --Yes, a separation of philosophy and theology developed that wasn't present in the medieval period. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. When philosophy is hamstrung by theologians the effects can be disastrous too. The self-satisfied theologians Lonergan mentions,; t;he ones who "had all the answers" no doubt alienated not only the scientists but potential philosophers as well. There was no room for real originality or dispute. To me the official Church's biggest problem is that it doesn't realize just how ignorant it is of the intellectual developments of the last 600 years. Yes, back to the late Middle Ages. . As I see it, the Church's downgrading of modern ideas didn't begin with the Enlightenment, it went all the way back to the late middle ages with its excommunication of Ockham. The great irony is that Ockham was criticizinng the Pope's theology of property rights while Ockham defended the Franciscan theology of poverty! I'm sure his theory of separation of church and state didn't help either The Vatican still loves to blame him for being a the inventor of the modern over-emphasis on personal autonomy. There were also some late Spaniards who did significant work on human rights, but you don't hear much about them either. Descartes, of course, has fared as badly. You'd think that the later theologians would have caught on that given the hegemony of science over explorations of the material world that the theologians needed to explore and explain the spiritual/mystical level of our reality. Rahner, of course, did get into this somewhat. He saw the need for mystical/contemplative experience, but I don't know that he saw that a philosophy/theology of such experience is necessary if there is to be dialogue with the seculars.. Did he call for that? There is still a tremendous amount of work to do, I think. We need a whole new philosophy of man, including especially understandings of soul and consciousness, plus a metaphysics of the body that incorporates contemporary physics, chemistry and biology. Not to mention a philosophy of purported religious experience. Yes, philosophy can look at such evidence,thereby rejoning philosophy and theology.Where is that new Aquinas!
Jeanne --No doubt all Ratinger says is true. But he does not seem to realize that the severe problems with aspects of the Christian mysteries (e.g., the problem of evil, the Trinity, God becoming man, etc.) lead many secularists to *rationally* reject religious faith. There's the rub. To listen to Ratzinger you'd think that all is well in philosophy and theology. It isn't.
Ann: You wrote: "As I see it, between the 17th and 20th centuries the Church suspended its intellectual tradition. and ABs Chaput and George are continuing that non-tradition. There were in fact great men of science (Galileo, Newton and Leibniz leap to mind) who were believers. So what did the Church do? Close its mind and put Galileo under house arrest.. "I quite agree that the Catholic intellectual tradition was suspended particularly in the long eighteenth century when, as Paul Hazard pointed out long ago, the scientific revolution and the ideas of the Enlightenment transformed the culture of the West. One historian of theology referred to this time as an Epigonezeit, a time of second-rate imitators. Apart from some great scholars of history, there is hardly a single Cathlic philosopher or theologian whose name is still remembered. In fact, from Pascal and Descartes to the nineteenth century, how many Catholic intellectuals would have to be mentioned in a history of western thought? Theologians retreated to what Lonergan called their "dogmatic corner," where they could remind one another how much they were certain of. Othere have used metaphors of exile and marginalization as seminaries replaced universities as the places where theology gets done. Karl Rahner remarked that you could compare a textbook in theology from 1741 and another on the same topic from 1941 and, apart perhaps from the addition of a few new "opponents," not be able to tell which had been written in the eighteenth and which in the twentieth century, even though greater cultural transformations had taken place during this period than the ones that took place between Augustine and Aquinas.So there was a great failure. Henri de Lubac blamed it on a faulty theological anthropology that in principle accepted that the sceinces were capable of fully understanding the "natural" while theology would confine itself to the "supernatural." Michael Buckley's At the Origins of Modern Atheism makes a related point. Here is how Yale University Press summarizes his argument: In this book, Michael J. Buckley investigates the origins and development of modern atheism and argues convincingly that its impetus lies paradoxically in the very attempts to counter it. Although modern atheism finds its initial exponents in Denis Diderot and Paul dHolbach in the eighteenth century, their works bring to completion a dialectical process that reaches back to the theologians and philosophers of an earlier period. During the seventeenth century, theologians such as Leonard Lessius and Marin Mersenne determined that in order to defend the existence of God, religious apologetics must become philosophy, surrendering as its primary warrant any intrinsically religious experience or evidence. The most influential philosophers of the period, Ren Descartes and Isaac Newton, and the theologians who followed them accepted this settlement, and the new sciences were enlisted to provide the foundation for religion.Church leaders no doubt had a role to play in this failure, and perhaps it is they whom you intend in speaking of "the Church's" having "suspended its intellectual tradition," but the philosophers and theologians shouldnt be held blameless for the marginalization of Catholic thought in the modern era. For many of them the exile was voluntary.
The sciences now require so much prior technical study that it seems all but impossible to simultaneously acquire a knowledge of science sufficient that scientists will respect your opinion of it, and a knowledge of theology sufficient to be a theologian. What about other faiths? Do you think that others have better succeeded in incorporating scientific progress in their thought?
Claire --Take heart. Towering geniuses can do great things Consider the philosopher Leibniz, one of the smartest people ever and a believer. He was known even in his own day as a great scientist/mathematician. He invented calculus, and he build the first arithmetic maching, so good that the British made him a member of the Royal Society. He made important, even foundational contributions to logic, philosophy of math, metaphysics, physics, ethics, ethics, theology, library science, social studies, and philology. HE did all that in his spare time -- he was by profession a librarian, historian, a diplomat, and counsellor to political powers-that-be. Much of his work wasn't appreciated for 200 years. It's still being mined. My point is that towering geniuses can do amazing things. So keep on the look-out for that new Aquinas.Oh -- I forgot -- he was also one of the first ecumenists and thought up the foundations of computer science.
Ann: You wrote; "To me the official Churchs biggest problem is that it doesnt realize just how ignorant it is of the intellectual developments of the last 600 years. Yes, back to the late Middle Ages."I don't know what to make of this sentence because there is no such thing as "the official Church" capable of being ignorant or knowing. I suspect you may be referring to the hierarchy, and in particular to pope and bishops. Wouldn't it be more precise to speak of them, and then we might be in a position to seek to know how many of them are "ignorant of the intellectual developments of the last 600 years." You also wrote: "Youd think that the later theologians would have caught on that given the hegemony of science over explorations of the material world that the theologians needed to explore and explain the spiritual/mystical level of our reality."This dichotomy is precisely what de Lubac and Buckley regret in modern theologians and Catholic philosophers. It implies that there is a "natural" world to which the "supernatural" has no relevance. The dichotomy they deplore led to theologians being content with trying to understand the world of the "supernatural," which ever increasingly appeared to be marginal and irrelevant to the new worlds under construction in the last four hundred years. De Lubac was accused of "naturalism" when he proposed that theology be conceived not only as an understanding of the faith but as an understanding of all things by means of of the faith. This would apply in particular to the spheres that the human sciences, the Geisteswissenschaften, claim hegemony over. This was also one of the points Newman made in his Idea of a University.
JAK --P. S. I can't blame the modern Catholic philosophers and theologians. In the first place as you point out, they have largely been trained in seminaries where the Index of Forbidden Books had a strangle-hold on the minds of the students. I don't think you can over-estimate the evil that that book did. Further the Vatican wielded -- and continues to wield -- the power to destroy careers and excommunicate with barely a hearing. No, you don't get burnt at the stake anymore, but Rome still has the ability to freeze out new thinking. And it does.By the way, I once did a fast check of a number of leading 20th century Catholic intellectuals. The number of converts is huge. But what I think is most significant is that those converts mostly did not go to Catholic universities. In other words, it was easier to find Christ in the market-place of ideas than in the Church's monasteries.
JAK --About "the offiicial Church". Well, if the bishops aren't the official Church (by reason of their teaching office) then who is? As to which ones have been ignorant of the intellectual ferment of the last 600 years, it seems to me that we just have to look around and ask: where ARE the knowledgeable ones? But you can't count or name people who aren't there. Or maybe the bishops were really reading books on the Index under their covers by flashlight and thinking up new theological thoughts to meet the challenges of the godless atheists, but I ask you: who were they???? (OK, so that was nasty. But they're maddening.) About uniting theology and philosophy, given the poor quality of the philosophy of man/human nature these days (and I'm speaking about *all* such philosophies, not just Catholic ones), I don't think the theologians have much to work with The scientific advances, both in the purely physical sciences and in psychology (which has or should have both body and mind/soul as object) have just been too huge for most philosophers to do much signivicant work. We simply need a towering genius. I think that philosophy of man needs to be developed better before the theologians have much to offer, with the exception that they can start to show the scientists that there is a lot of evidence that there are very probably unique sorts of experience which are called "religious" and "spiritual" and "mystical" and that these experiences are present across cultures and across times. Unless the theologians get that point across not only will the scientists remain ignorant, but so will many of the educated Catholic lower clergy and laity. But the bishops have to make it clear to the neuroscientists and others that what they're looking for is quite, quite varied even though surprisingly widespread. Right now the neuroscientists seem to think there is only one kind of "mystical" experience, and if Zaehner is right, it's the essentially schizophrenic kind that the psychiatrists (rightly) reject as noetically sound. Complexity, complexity. complexity, complexity . . . And, yes, I do blame the bishops for all these lacunae. They, being bishops, had access to books on the Index and whichever other books they thought needed reading. And, yes, they should have talked back to Rome if necessary to get their work done.\
I don't deny that Roman authorities often imposed a heavy shadow on the work of theologians, philosophers, and scholars, but I do blame some of the latter. There was an awful lot that might have been done that was never even attempted in the all-important eighteenth century. All that Catholic thinkers counterposed was a mediocre and eclectic mess. There was no vital intellectual life to pass on. Then the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era threw most of European society and culture into chaos for another forty years, and when it was over, the Church had lost several of its most important universities, and there was no living tradition to draw upon. The Church was living, Newman said, on the intellect of past ages. When some life began to show itself toward the end of the nineteenth century, the anti-Modernist crackdown smothered it, and it wasn't until the 1930's that theologians and scholars began to peek over the rim of the foxholes to see if it was safe to come out. It was then that there began the theological and pastoral movements that bore fruit in the Second Vatican Council. In his famous speech to the Roman Curia, 22 Dec 2005, leapt from Thomas Aquinas to the Council for examples of successful engagements with contemporary intellectual challenges.
What I find so frustrating about Archbishop Chaput's talk is that he does not seem to grapple with the fact that the positions he's advocating have already been considered and rejected by large swaths of people --for what they believe to be good reasons.There is an overwhelming consensus in this country, for example, that premarital sex is not always wrong, and that contraception is morally permissible. (Incidentally, those judgments do not necessarily imply relativism--they just imply moral disagreement.) That consensus is reflected in the law. Those social debates, so to speak, are closed--and his side lost. Society is moving on.Leave aside the merits of these cases. What Chaput seems to be suggesting, implicitly, is that the Church ought never be said decisively to lose a social or political argument, that it always ought to have a place at the table of social leaders, and that it ought not to bear the consequences of being judged to be on the wrong side of an argument.But structurally, that cannot be the case in a liberal democratic society. And so I see him, implicitly, suggesting that the problem is liberal democratic society, which does not systematically preserve a place for the church as a social authority and stake holder. This is a prediction: I would not be surprised if he began reading down "religious liberty" in the next ten years in a "heremeneutic of continuity" between pre-Vatican II views and Vatican II. Brian Harrison, I believe, wrote a book arguing this position.
Ann: You have misunderstood me. I think you should speak of bishops, and popes, rather than of "the official Church," and then discuss whether or not they are ignorant. I just don't like sweeping generalizations--except my own, of course! It's a sad story all around, and there's enough blame to go around. As for the sceince-theology debate, apart from the sheer difficulty of the people on either side in understanding the other, there is often outright opposition, also. Lonergan loved to quote Butterfield to the effect that the rise of modern science outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and the Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom. But few have made the effort to address the basic methodological challenges posed by the emergence of the modern natural and social sciences. Lonergan's "generalized empirical method" was his effort.
Cathy: Yes, there are people who are attempting to do that with "Dignitatis humanae"; you don't have to wait ten years for it. Bishop Williamson thinks it ludicrous.
Cathy --I agree with practically everything you say. I would like to add, however, that though AB Chaput is fighting already-decided battles, he at least seems to do some reading . However, he doesn't seem to realize that the Enlightenment is not only largely over, but also that the atheist Enlightenment has largely *lost* its intellectual battles. No more for them the hope that society without God can become a secular paradise, no more the hope of answering all scientific questions, little hope at the moment of a consisten physics, no more noble savage. Yes, relativism is still strong in the social sciences, but at the farthest edges of science a skepticism is starting to set in even about the possibility of science itself. As best I can see, atheism isn't so common among the highly educated -- agnosticism is, and people are starting to search for meaning again. (See, for instance, the Washington Post's blog, On Faith.) But the hierarchy has few answers for them because it doesn't seem to know what the people's questions are. Tragically, the hierarchy is almost completely unconnected to the young people except for the relatively few highly conservative ones.As to an ethical system that can ground the laws of a democratic society, I doubt that will be possible till the psychologists have a clearer picture of what human nature is., and, again, we need both better psychology and a better philosophy of human nature to do revise our public ethics. I am encouraged, however, by the very, very common use of the phrase "human nature" these days by the psychologists. Apparently some of them actually think there is such a thing. When Skinner was king I don't think they talked about human nature. So I have hopes that eventually psychology will develop a roughly accurate model of what it is to be a rational animal. No doubt it will satisfy neither the old psychologists nor the old bishops. But on, I say, (with the help of the Holy Spirit) to a revised ethics.
I thought the jumping off point of this thread was what happened in Belgium - on the front page of the website news headlines today is that Cardinal Daneels offered to cover up the abuse b ya Belgian Bishop until he retired a year later.It strikes me that most of the discussion here is whether key figures in the Church, who have juridical leverage, have the intellectual honesty to grapple with issues that are not consistent with what Rome holds or that sullies its image.IMO, the Chaputs, George, Rigali, Burke of this world live in the context of loyalty first of all and that can trump intellectual honesty if needed.It's not a matter of whether they believe it or not or ar ewell intentioned or not, but that cast that prohibits engaing significant questions say of sexuality or the role of women or the protection of children.To borrow a phrase, they are much about "refuting" their critics who are the ones to blame for any discord.Sad recent stories about the "terrorist" IRA pries or the "empty tomb" in Italy seve to show the shallowness of that approach, which, undoubtedly though, will continue.
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The 62 year old KidsPeace Auxiliary held its annual holiday dinner on December 16 to celebrate another year of fundraising for the children of KidsPeace. The Auxiliary made a donation of $6,000, its final payment on the organization's pledge to support the building fund for the Broadway Campus in Bethlehem, PA. Construction is moving ahead quickly on a new building that will provide housing for children in residential treatment and rooms for outpatient counseling for children in KidsPeace Community-Based Programs. The project also includes renovation of several buildings on the campus and improvement to traffic patterns that will ensure safety of all who visit the campus.
The 60 Auxiliary members and KidsPeace associates who attended the dinner were treated to holiday songs by several of the KidsPeace children. Auxiliary members presented each child with a holiday gift and were very touched by the gratitude expressed by the children. The Auxiliary has been supporting KidsPeace with its generous donations these many years and always provides holiday and birthday gifts for the children in residential treatment at the Pennsylvania campuses. "We are so blessed to have the support of this wonderful group of women who conduct fundraisers throughout the year on behalf of our children," said Director of Advancement Sharon McCarthy.
A parent of a former student
of the KidsPeace Academy recently had some positive feedback to offer our
staff. The young man, whom we shall call Richard, was enrolled at the KidsPeace
Academy for more than 8 months and made enormous strides in controlling his
aggressiveness, impulsivity and defiant behaviors. Richard's mother describes
her son as having difficulties since he was 18 months old and being on
medication and in psychotherapy from the time he was 4. As he grew older, the
family and therapists realized that it was not safe for Richard to be at home,
and, at age 12, he was admitted to a juvenile facility far from home that was
very strict and showed him how difficult and unfair life could be. His
continued defiance of authority made his life very unhappy at this facility as
he made no progress and could not earn any home visits. His parents missed him
so made the long trip to visit him every 6-8 weeks, which disrupted their
personal and professional lives.
"Richard learned that life
could be ugly if you don't follow the rules," according to Richard's mother.
"He hated being there, but he needed a wake-up call to make him realize that
life can be unfair." After several months, the family contacted the KidsPeace
Academy about admission. Once the Academy had accepted Richard, his family
immediately brought him to Orefield, PA, which was closer to home and a much
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says Richard's mother. The campus and facilities are clean and beautiful, and
he felt safe and secure there thanks to the structure and staff." The KidsPeace
Academy has an entirely different approach to interacting with the students
enrolled there, Richard's mother explains. "The staff is warm and flexible and
everyone works hard at developing relationships with the children there."
Indeed, Richard was
happier at KidsPeace than anywhere else he had gone for treatment and
education. His mother was thrilled with the flexibility of the staff and
especially appreciative that they included Richard's private psychiatrist on the
treatment team, allowing her long-standing understanding of him to help them
adjust his medications and tailor his therapy. "KidsPeace also welcomed my
husband and me as part of Richard's treatment team and were in constant touch
with us. We visited weekly and were part of treatment planning sessions and
family therapy that was very helpful to all of us."
Richard and his mother
agree that staff members at the KidsPeace Academy are caring and truly fond of
the teens in their care. They build relationships and are so involved that the
students want to succeed in part for their counselors. "And the rules at the
KidsPeace Academy are strict, but they are based on reason and responsibility,
and they are clearly spelled out and communicated. The students must meet
certain goals to progress, and they understand that," Richard's mother
Richard's family was also
very pleasantly surprised that when Richard attained his goals and the parents
and private clinician felt that it was time for him to move on. The KidsPeace
Academy staff were just as accommodating in terms of arranging his discharge as
they were in getting him enrolled. "We were so impressed with the
professionalism and graciousness of all the KidsPeace Academy staff and how
they made Richard and his father and me feel. It was a positive experience all
the way around, and we are very grateful."
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Being a teenager is not easy, and the holiday season can cause a lot of stress and unhappiness for many young people who are unhappy or suffering from a loss. KidsPeace created TeenCentral.Net in 1998 to give teens a safe place to tell their stories, receive good advice from experienced counselors and learn about others who have had similar experiences. With more than 490,000 registered members, TeenCentral.Net has a tremendous following and offers new features all the time to keep the site fresh and interesting. There is also now a Facebook page for fans of TeenCentral.Net that contains frequent posts about what is occurring on the site.
For those who have never visited TeenCentral.Net, the site is visually appealing to teens and contains a large variety of subject matter to appeal to youth from around the country and around the world. The site is totally anonymous and constantly monitored to ensure that no identifying information is posted by any members. Teens write posts about what is bothering them or just what is on their minds and submit these posts for review by TeenCentral.Net volunteers and counselors. Each submission is answered with encouragement and advice for the member who wrote, and all posts and responses are reviewed by a Master's level counselor before being posted. Other teen members respond to posts with their own observations or advice, and these replies are also reviewed by Master's level counselors before being posted. The result is a community of teens from urban and rural areas, a variety of lifestyles but a common theme of trying to overcome the problems of growing up.
The Director of TeenCentral.Net from its inception, Dr. Julius Licata, observes that this time of year sees an increase of postings by teens who may not be anticipating the holidays. "There are teens who have lost parents or other loved ones, whose parents have divorced, who have moved, who are having peer relationship difficulties, are depressed, are in foster care, have eating disorders or substance abuse issues or are members of families facing hard economic times. The holiday season seems to intensify their negative feelings, and they write down how they feel and seek empathy and encouragement." According to Licata, TeenCentral.Net counselors are prepared to respond to as many postings as the site receives, sharing their precious holiday time with teens in need.
TeenCentral.Net also contains many features to keep teen visitors engaged, including celebrity stories about overcoming adversity to become successful later in life, a weight awareness section, recommendations of books that are aimed at the age group, helplines for emergencies, news that is relevant to teens and a page to help visitors stop smoking. All of this information is free to teens, and there is even a section for parents who are concerned about their children to seek advice. TeenCentral.Net is funded by contributions and grants, and Licata is hopeful that generous donors will remember this wonderful service to teens in their holiday giving.
The Raleigh, NC, foster
care office of KidsPeace was the proud host of the 2nd Real World
Event on Thursday, December 3, 2009. After putting together four successful
Independent Living Skills workshops, Jaime Mula (North Carolina State
University Master's of Social Work Intern) and Antonella Lazzaro (Meredith
College Bachelor's of Social Work Intern) were excited to host the Independent
Living Skills Real World Event. Participants had the opportunity to apply the
skills they had acquired and developed in the workshops in a nurturing,
interactive simulation of the real world and receive feedback on how well they
coped with unexpected events.
At the Real World Event,
teens were each given an occupation based on their interests and completed
assessments. The occupation information provided a monthly and annual salary.
Participants were challenged to use their salaries and develop budgets based on
everyday needs such as food, insurance, utilities, transportation and rent. A
"KidsPeace Real World Event" checkbook that included checks and a register was
also provided. The teens each received a "Life Happens!" card with an emotional
or accidental situation printed on it to make the event even more reflective of
life in the real world. Individuals were encouraged to handle all purchases and
costly situations within their salaries. Once participants finished "shopping,"
they visited the Auditor's booth. If they over spent or did not purchase a
required amenity, they were sent back to the exhibit area to renegotiate their
To conclude the event,
interns, participants and volunteers convened to reflect on the surprises and
struggles that participants faced while budgeting their costs. Everyone shared
whether or not they had been able to stay within their assigned budgets. All of
the teens said they had fun and enjoyed taking on the task of staying within a
budget. A special "Thank You" to Matt Leggett of CapTrust Financial for
volunteering to play the role of Auditor during this event. The KidsPeace
Raleigh foster care office looks forward to the next "Real World," which will
take place in Spring 2010.
The Broadway Campus of KidsPeace, located in Bethlehem, PA, has been undergoing many changes over the past few years thanks to donations by individuals and organizations and assistance from state legislators. A total of $5 million was raised to build a new residence that will be safe for our children in residential care and campus renovations that will also ensure that outpatient and ambulatory children receive services in a safer, more healing environment. The planning and fundraising began in 2005, and the project is now 70% complete. In fact, KidsPeace was able to rebid the project earlier this year and save significantly on construction costs.
In late November, KidsPeace invited a group of legislators to a gathering to thank them for their assistance and support for the project and to take them on a tour of the construction site. Each state legislator was presented with a plaque to express KidsPeace's gratitude and taken on a tour of the new building, which will serve as a temporary home for children receiving treatment for such issues as depression, attachment disorders, self injury, abuse, eating disorders, ADHD and a variety of other conditions that require residential treatment. The legislators were grateful for their plaques and impressed with the new building.
The attendees at this warm morning of appreciation included: Representative Karen Beyer, Representative Joseph Brennan, Representative Julie Harhart, Representative Jennifer Mann, Representative Doug Reichley, Representative Steve Samuelson, Senator Patrick Brown and Kurt Derr, District Chief of Staff Senator Lisa Boscola. On hand from KidsPeace were President and CEO Will Isemann, Executive Vice President for Marketing and Business Development Michael Slack, Executive Vice President and CFO Tim Richards, Operations Director Paul Tewes, Vice President of PA Residential and Hospital Programs Susan Mullen, Vice President of Programs Grace Fornicola, Director of HR Kevin Burgess and Interim Director of KidsPeace Hospital Bud Megargee.
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Antlers Police Department's Officer Stewart Stanfield responded to a call from the Garden Walk Apartments in Antlers after a neighbor reported hearing children crying, yelling and items being thrown in a neighboring apartment.
According to reports, Officer Stanfield arrived at the apartment complex just in time to see an adult female screaming for help while running with a baby carriage with a small child inside, and trying to hold onto two female children who were crying. The female was identified as Shelia Knox.
Knox told Stanfield that Annalynn Taylor (Alias) was highly intoxicated and was in her apartment. She also stated that Taylor, who did not live with her but was a guest, had had too much to drink. Knox went on to say that Taylor had assaulted her and one of the minor children and was destroying her apartment.
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Officer Stanfield went to Knox apartment and announced who he was three times. Upon the third, Taylor opened the door. Stanfield reported that he could smell a strong odor of alcohol coming from her person. Taylor was also unable to maintain her balance while talking to the officer she fell and pulled a bookshelf down with her.
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Todd McFarlane is one of the featured guests on this weekend's edition of VH1 Goes Inside. This episode is titled Primetime Cartoons and celebrates the most memorable moments and animated characters in television history. The show will feature clips, interviews with the actors who lent their voices and gave life to the characters, creators, writers, producers and other celebrities about their personal experiences and memories, and revealing insider stories.
Throughout the annals of cartoon history there have always been a few cartoons that shouldn't go on air until after the kiddies go to bed. Maybe it was the language, maybe it was the graphic nature of some of these cartoons, maybe they were just too much for kids to understand, so they went to primetime television. The show finds out secrets inside the primetime cartoon industry. You'll hear how shows began, the original concepts and original names. For example, do you know how South Park came to be? Or that Powerpuff Girls were not originally the Powerpuff Girls? Find out the answers to all these questions and more on VH1 Goes Inside: Primetime Cartoons!
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Willis H. Armstrong, 101, of Waitsfield, passed away at his home on December 20, 2006. Born in Moretown on August 3, 1905, he was the son of the late Lugene A. and Helen S. (Willis) Armstrong. On November 29, 1928, he married the former Dora M. Aldrich in Danielson, CT.
Willis attended school in Moretown until the age of 12 when he moved to Vergennes to complete high school. He later attended Pinetree Academy in Maine and attended Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, MA. In 1929, Willis returned to Waitsfield and began farming, did masonry and carpentry work. He also taught shop and drove A school bus for Waitsfield High School. He later worked at the Parkview Memorial Hospital in Brunswick, ME.
Willis was an elder in the Barre-Montpelier Seventh-Day Adventist Church and in his leisure time enjoyed reading.
He is survived by a daughter Cynthia Rogers of Cheney, WA; three sons, Gene L. Armstrong of Waitsfield, Norman B. Armstrong of Carterville, GA, and Clyde L. Armstrong of Sheldon, WA; 14 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by a son, Edward W. Armstrong, as well as a sister and four brothers.
A service of remembrance will be held from the Barre-Montpelier Seventh-Day Adventist Church on December 31, 2006, at 2 p.m. Later inurnment will take place in the Irasville Cemetery in Waitsfield. Memorial gifts would be appreciated to Central Vermont Home Health and Hospice, 600 Granger Road, Barre, VT 05641. Arrangements are in the care of the Perkins-Parker Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Waterbury. To send online condolences, please visit www.perkinsparker.com.


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A man convicted in connection with the deaths of two men on a Yadkin County farm more than 30 years ago was captured Thursday, four days after escaping from a prison farm.
James Ladd, 51, was captured not too far from the Tillery Correctional Center in Halifax County, state department of corrections officials said. No other information was released about his capture.
According to a press release, Ladd was working on the prison farm on Sept. 23. He was driving a tractor outside of the prison gates and was found to be missing at 10 a.m.
"Inmates that work in minimum security have earned that privilege," said Keith Acree, spokesperson for the North Carolina Division of Prisons. "This inmate had been in custody for 31 years. … He has been working for over seven years on the farm and has never had an incident or tried to escape until Sunday."
Yadkin county residents were disturbed by the fact that Ladd was being held in a minimum security prison and allowed outside the prison gates.
"That really upsets me because I can remember when [those murders] happened," said Carla Phillips, an East Bend resident. "How can you let someone who shot and killed two people for money go into a minimum security prison?"
Phillips said although she is appalled that Ladd was able to escape she is relieved to know that he is back in custody.
"I was afraid when I found out he escaped because that's someone who's evil," Phillips said. "I'm very g;ad to hear that he's been caught."
James Ladd, 51, was sentenced to three life sentences for the murders of Johnny Henderson and David Edwards.
"Johnny and David were getting ready to load cows at Johnny's farm, and they were going to take them down to Turnersburg," said John Foster, a former SBI agent who worked on the case. "This boy, Ladd, had worked for Johnny before and knew that when Johnny went to a sale he carried all of his money in his bib overalls and dealt only in cash. So he waited in the barn for them to load the cows and then he shot them both with a 30/30 rifle. He took the money out of Johnny's bib overalls and ran."
Foster said that Ladd had borrowed the rifle from someone, returned the rifle and headed to Statesville, where he spent a large portion of the money he had stolen. Foster said that he and other agents arrested Ladd at his home just past the Yadkin County line in Iredell less than 24 hours after the crime took place.
"They moved the trial from Yadkin to Surry County because of the publicity," Foster said. "He was tried in Surry and found guilty. He got a life sentence for each of the murders and a life sentence for the robbery."
Johnny Henderson was the brother of Jack Henderson, the Yadkin County Sheriff at the time of the crime.
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Barton Athletics to induct three into 2013 Sports Hall of FameJanuary 31, 2013
The Barton Community College Athletic department will induct Kurt Budke, Steve Johnson, and Larry Schugart to its Sports Hall of Fame this Saturday February 2. The Class of 2013 inductees will be recognized and honored at a 3:00 p.m. induction ceremony to be held in the Kirkman Activity Center located on the Barton Campus. Induction ceremony is free and open to the public. Public attendance also encouraged in honoring the inductees between the women's and men's basketball games versus Seward County Community College later that evening.
Johnson was a former baseball player for the Cougars while Schugart is being honored for his contributions to Cougar Athletics. Budke, a former men's basketball player, will be honored posthumously.
Schedule of Events
Saturday, February 2, 2013 at Barton Community College
3:00 p.m. – Induction Ceremony located on lower level of the Kirkman Activity Center on the Barton campus. Admission is free and public is encouraged to attend.
5:30 p.m. – Barton women's basketball versus Seward County Community College
*7:15 p.m. - *Approximate time. Inductees will be presented with Hall of Fame plaques between the women's and men's basketball game.
7:30 p.m. – Barton men's basketball versus Seward County Community College
Kurt Budke
Remembered as a winning coach and the man with the battle-cry "win the next five minutes", Budke guided each of his teams to high achievements earning him the utmost respect and honor by his colleagues within the sports industry.
In 1984 Budke began his coaching journey on the men's side as a graduate assistant at Washburn University before taking a men's assistant coaching position at Friends University. Moving to Kansas City to become an assistant men's coach at Kansas City Community College, Budke quickly moved into head coaching by a twist of fate. Stepping up to fill the head women's position when vacated prior to the team's first game, Budke credits his first team of six women at KCKCC in turning his passion towards the women's game and thus changed the course of Budke's coaching history.
Moving on to Allen County Community College in 1991, Budke guided the Red Devils for two seasons to a record of 47-15 while taking them to a No. 17 national ranking and earning the Jayhawk East Conference's coach of the year honor.
In 1993 Budke moved to Trinity Valley Community College where his teams would dominate the Texas East Conference and eventually make NJCAA history. In his seven years at TVCC, the Lady Cardinals were 96-2 in conference play and won seven straight conference titles. Overall the Lady Cardinals were 226-16 and set a NJCAA record reaching the championship game six straight seasons resulting in four NJCAA national championships and two national runner-up finishes.
Budke's junior college coaching resulted in an overall record of 273-31 and a NJCAA record winning percentage at .898. Named the NJCAA National Coach of the Year in both 1995 and 1998, Budke was also named the Texas Coaches Association Coach of the Year in 1994, 1996, 1997 and 1999. Additionally, Budke is the youngest coach to ever be inducted into the National Junior College Athletic Association Hall of Fame.
In 2000 Budke made the jump to the Division I level spending two seasons as associate head coach at Louisiana Tech University. Taking over the program in 2002, the Lady Techsters compiled an 80-16 record in his three seasons which included a stretch of 29 straight wins, three straight NCAA Tournament appearances, a No. 6 national ranking, two Western Athletic Conference titles, and being named the WAC Coach of the Year.
Leaving Louisiana Tech for Oklahoma State University in 2005, the Cowgirls endured a winless conference season in Budke's first year. However in one of the nation's deepest and most talented conferences, Budke transformed the OSU program to contend for the Big 12 conference title and reach the NCAA Sweet 16 in just his third year.
During his six seasons at OSU, the man seen wearing the orange blazer orchestrated one of the most remarkable turnarounds ever witnessed on the college basketball landscape. He not only resurrected the program, he elevated the Cowgirls to the national stage and provided a consistent postseason presence for the first time in more than a decade. With a OSU career record of 112-83 including 1-0 to begin the 2011 season, Budke's teams made post-season appearances in his last five seasons including three trips to the NCAA Tournament.
Tragically killed in a plane crash in Perry County, Arkansas, on November 17, 2011, Budke and one of his assistant coaches Miranda Serna, along with two others, left this earth too soon but left a lasting legacy honored by many on- and off-the-court.
In addition to scholarships established in his memory at Trinity Valley, the City of Salina named its Bicentennial Center court in honor of the Salina native. "Kurt Budke Court", the same court Budke won his national championships while coaching TVCC, was officially dedicated during the 2012 NJCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship that fittingly saw his former TVCC win the 2012 crown.
Married to the former Shelley Balthazor, Budke is survived by his wife and three children Sara, Alex, and Brett.
Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson has been successful throughout his playing and coaching career. As a member of the 1988-1990 teams at Barton, Johnson earned both All-Conference and All-Region 6 honors.
Moving on to the Division I level after Barton, Johnson played one year at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, where he was named MVP of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament in helping UAB make their first ever NCAA regional appearance in school history. Signing in 1992 for the St. Louis Cardinals organization, Johnson played within the Cardinals organization through 1995 reaching the Double-A level. In 1995 Johnson played for the independent league Tri-City Posse where he earned the Western Baseball League pitcher of the week twice. Playing his final season in 1996 for the Western Virginia Power of the South Atlantic League, Johnson again earned pitcher of the week twice.
Now in his third season as head coach of the Fort Hays State University baseball program, Johnson has established an impressive coaching history. In his first season as the Tiger skipper, Johnson led the Tigers to a fourth-place finish in the MIAA and an appearance at the MIAA Tournament then followed with reaching the championship game last season.
Spending eight years as an assistant at University of Louisiana-Monroe, Barton, and Fort Hays, Johnson helped his teams to a combined 262-190 record and coached ten different pitchers who went on to pitch in professional baseball.
Johnson began his head coaching experience at Butler Community College compiling a 235-155 record in seven seasons including a NJCAA World Series appearance in 2006. Guiding the Grizzlies to three conference co-championships, Johnson was also named the Jayhawk Western Division Coach of the Year twice (2005 and 2007), shared the honor in 2010, and was the 2006 NJCAA Central District and ABCA Regional Coach of the Year.
In addition to his Barton Hall of Fame induction, Johnson was also inducted in 2000 to the El Dorado Baseball Hall of Fame for his performance with the El Dorado Broncos summer collegiate team during the 1990 and 1991 campaigns.
Larry Schugart
One of the founding fathers of the Cougar Booster Club, Larry Schugart and his wife Kathy of fifty-three years, have been longtime residents of Great Bend and supporters of Cougar Athletics. His love and appreciation for sports took a big step forward when Barton County Community College opened in 1969. During the fall of '69 Larry set up a meeting at his office to discuss athletics at Barton. Seven men attended this meeting and the Barton County Community College Cougar Booster Club was born. Serving as the Club's second President following Archie Lindholm, Schugart and this group of men established a booster club that has long been the envy of the not only the Jayhawk Conference but well known throughout the state and country.
From 1969 and continuing through the years, Schugart has kept his commitment to Barton County CC, the Barton County Athletic department, and the Cougar Booster Club. Schugart and his wife Kathy's continued excitement and support of Cougar Athletics is again displayed by the recent generous donation for a new state of the art indoor/outdoor center practice floor in the Kirkman Center.
Outside of the athletic realm, for almost fifty years come this May, Schugart has also been a staple of Landmark Federal Savings Bank located in Great Bend serving as Director, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board. Additionally, he was the Director of Landmark Bancshares from 1993 until the company's merger in 2001. Often a man hidden from the public eye, Schugart has been president, served, and continues to serve on numerous civic and charitable organizations throughout the area.
In addition to his work around the area, Schugart was the former director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka where he served on the Finance and Executive Committees, a former member and chair of various committees throughout Kansas and Nebraska, and served as a member of the Governmental Affairs Committee of the America's Community Bankers. Schugart's prominence and extensive financial services experience throughout the Great Bend, Dodge City, and the region has earned him respect and honor throughout the financial industry.
More regarding Barton Athletics and the Cougar Booster Club can be found online at www.BartonSports.com


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The only contested School Board race went to Tad Barber, who won the District 8 seat vacated by Donna Moore Wesby.
Barber collected 51.4 percent of the vote, with 2,698 Aiken County residents voting in his favor. Wes Funderberg collected 23.4 percent and Bruce Wheelon collected 24.36 with two precincts left to be counted.
"I really just want to give thanks to the voters," said Barber, who was in Charleston on business Tuesday night. "I look forward to working with the school board and my constituents to improve the student success rate and the facilities in Aiken County. I look forward to the next four years on the school board."
Funderberg finished with 1,228 votes and Wheelon was just ahead of him with 1,278 votes.
"I'm disappointed, definitely," Funderberg said. "The main reason is I don't think people got that with Tad and his wife being a part of the school system, he will have to recuse himself from a lot of the votes … so that's really disappointing."
Funderberg said he tried to "lay low" at his home with his fiancee and avoid his phone as numbers began coming in.
"I told her and some other people that it was kind of like Christmas morning," Funderberg joked.
Although he fell in his run for the school board seat, Funderberg hasn't counted out running again in the future.
"I'm not going to say never," Funderberg said. "I can definitely tell you that I'm not going away. The whole school district needs help."
Wheelon waited until late in the evening to concede but said he had no problem with the results.
"I ran a good campaign, a good race and the voters let their choice be heard," Wheelon said. "I have no problem; Tad's a good man and I think he'll do a good job on the board. If he needs my help in any way I'll be glad to talk to him.
"He beat us both pretty soundly. The voters made it clear they wanted him."
Ronald West, Keith Liner and Richard Hazen all won their uncontested School Board seats in District 1, 4 and 9 respectively.
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