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Telling Vatican 'Secrets.'
Grant Gallicho March 1, 2014 - 6:08pm
Did you catch this week's episode of Frontline, "Secrets of the Vatican" (you can watch online right here)? Probably not the best title, given that the subjects it covers have been pretty well reported: Benedict's resignation, curial dysfunction, sexual abuse, Maciel's crimes, a gay clerical subculture in Rome, the Vatileaks scandal, corruption at the Vatican Bank. If you've been keeping up with those stories, you probably won't learn a lot viewing this film.
The first time I watched "Secrets of the Vatican," I found it slightly annoying.
The music: Is there some law requiring documentarians who cover the Catholic Church to score their work with spooky chant or cheese-ball action-movie music? It's distracting, especially when played behind the film's powerful interviews with victims of sexual abuse--including Maciel's son Raul Gonzales. (N.B.: When the film turns to Pope Francis's election and his focus on the poor, the music takes an appropriately humbler turn, replacing pipe organs with pan flutes. Cue Carson Zamfir joke.)
The reenactments: In the segment on the Vatican Bank scandals, the narrator describes the Italian authorites' surveillance operation, just as the camera pans across a roomful of official-looking men intently staring at computers, holding on a young man wearing headphones, leaning in toward the screen as though the thing was about to whisper the location of Jimmy Hoffa's body.
The narration: The film includes an interview with a Roman who left the priesthood to pursue a relationship with a woman. Frontline voice Will Lyman intones, "But the hypocrisy he saw around him disturbed Simone, and after a time of prayer and contemplation, he decided he wanted to live a normal life and go where his heart took him." Ciao, celibate weirdos! (And did the director have to I.D. the guy as "Fr. Simone Alfieri" in his first appearance on film, when he knew that the man had already been laicized? Surprise.)
The sporadic imprecision: "The Benedict doctrine on homosexuality," the narrator tells viewers, "was deeply hurtful to those in the Vatican who were trying to lead celibate lives." He's trying to describe the former pope's decree barring men with "deep-seated homosexual tendencies" from seminaries and ordination.
The confusing voicover: In one scene, the filmmaker interviews an anonymous priest about the pain he experienced following the Vatican's decree on gay seminarians. He's filmed in silhouette, shot from the side, and his voice is altered. He speaks. A man with an Italian accent translates. But you can still sort of make out what the priest is saying, even if he sounds like Darth Vader. And he is clearly speaking English. Was the director trying to further obscure the priest's identity? It's strange.
But then I watched "Secrets of the Vatican" again yesterday. Its pecadillos continued to bug me a bit. I wish the film had more to say about the Vatican's (and the U.S. bishops') recent attempts to address the scandal. I wish it offered a counterweight to some of victims' attorney Jeff Anderson's opinions. I wish it had tried to do less. But none of those shortcomings overwhelm the movie's greatest strength: the interviews. With victims--including Maciel's son, another one of Maciel's victims, Juan Vaca, and Monica Barrett (who tells her story of being raped in church by a Milwaukee priest); with journalists; with Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, who heads Francis's kitchen cabinet. Nearly all of the interviews offer real insights--not something I've found in many recent documentaries about the church.
What did you think?
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I agree with Grant's analysis. The Frontline program was too contrived. The interview with the priest who left the priesthood and girlfriend (Discalimer: who blew my mind), was juvenile and did not do justice to the struggle of the priests I know who have requested laicization and the good will of their wives. It made me very angry.
Jeff Anderson does more harm than good in any presentation of the sex abuse scandal but Mary Bennett's story and Maciel's description of his "father's " perversions with him and his concern for his brother were more than enough, in my opeinion, to influence any sensible person that we have and have had a major problem in our Church.
That is my two cents. Don't get me started.
If I may be so bold, Grant Gallicho, to suggest what is really unnerving and unsettling about the Frontline documentary Secrets of the Vatican is not the background music, the title of the piece, the narrator's solemn tones, confusing voiceovers, imprecisions in language and attributions, or the lack of interviewers to "balance" the renditions. I'm sorry you're "annoyed."
What is troubling, or should be for all Catholics, is that we have supported and indeed financially underwritten the serial rape and sodomy of children, and a priesthood that requires men to lie about their own personal truth and integrity. Our complicity is what really troubles us.
The financial fraud and money-laundering that goes on in the Vatican is only the icing on the cake. It's shocking to see with our own eyes that the men we ascribe the title shepherds are indeed as Papa Francesco has labelled them, "the leporsy of the church."
Frontline does a pretty good job of getting the message out to the widest of possible audiences sitting in their living rooms across the country. Not perfect, but pretty good for media. Certainly better than what passes for Catholic media outlets on this story.
BTW, did everyone notice that Cardinal Timothy Dolan was sitting right next to Richard Sklba when the survivors in Milwaukee were confronting the bishops who had failed to act to protect them from predator priests, indeed had aided and abetted, when they were children, and subsequently attacked the survivors when they sought redress of grievances in the courts? Dolan looked like he was having a hard time keeping down on his stomach one of those hot dogs he so famously favors.
Jeff Anderson is not perfect by any means. But he is a great friend and tireless advocate for survivors - something we can't say for even ONE American prelate.
That's absurd.
"Mary Bennett's story and Maciel's description of his "father's " perversions with him and his concern for his brother were more than enough, in my opeinion, to influence any sensible person that we have and have had a major problem in our Church."
The above observation by Helen is what makes the film so powerful and necessary. The video is not for necessarily for those who are convinced of the problem. Rather the unconvinced. The interviews are so compelling, so clear that the ordinary person can understand it. This explains the political axiom of corrupt leaders: "Never do something wrong that the ordinary person can understand." With something as crystal clear as this (and Christie's action on the GW) no spin can distract from the truth. Even among the educated there has been a reluctance to believe such things about church leaders. A magna cum laude friend of mine wrote: "And thank you for reporting most of these abuses over the years. Nothing in these reports was new, though the visual presentation was startling." It was like until this show I was not credible.
Such a program lifts the unwillingness to accept what happened. The ordinary person undersands.
Finally, as Grant concluded:"Nearly all of the interviews offer real insights--not something I've found in many recent documentaries about the church."
I talked to many men on the Frontline story that spoke about of their part on the issue. e.g. Fr Doyle Berry, Anerson etc. They were credible then and are credible now.. Family members, not familiar as CW readers asked me " what do you think about THAT'.... I said 'it's a sad story that we have witnessed'
I never mentioned the music.
I thought the interviews were very good. I especially liked learning more about Fr. Tom Doyle, and the interview with Maciel's son gives an idea of how devestating sexual abuse can be. Also I thought some of the images were interesting ... Francis putting his hand on that book at the conclave before he was pope, the historical stuff about Maciel, B16 peering through that peephole, Francis at Assisi, etc. The PBS page also has some interview posted with The Tablet's Robert Mickens, Fr. Tom Doyle, and Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga here ... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/secrets-of-the-vatican/ ... and some articles by guys like John Thavis, former Rome bureau chief for the Catholic News Service, and Thomas Fox, editor of NCR, are posted here ... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/religion/secrets-of-the-vatican/... ... I thought it was worth watching.
Sorry - that first link should be this ... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/secrets-of-the-vatican/
I am making my first comment here because of Grant Gallico. He criticized so many aspects of the Frontline program on the Vatican. When someone wrote in to counter that attitude, he pounced on one overstatement rather than speak to the truth in the bulk of the comment. It IS the secular media which puts the most light and heat on the heinous crimes against children and adolescents by the clerical leadership of the Catholic Church, clerical leaders who protected the clerical physical perpetrators. We SHOULd think about how we are partiipating in the continued injustice to these dear damaged ones by the various ways in which we support that leadership. Where is our compassion for those who have suffered, often for decades? What do WE owe them? It deserves our prayerful consideration. I found your reaction to the Frontline program to be cold to the essence of its content, Grant. Please consider the good it did in helping more people feel for the victims and become aware of some of the unpleasant truths about the clericalism and monarchical power of our institution of religion. My husband, who has not been exposed to the truth as much as Commonweal readers, learned because of the Frontline program.
This is a compelling documentary because of the interviews as Grant mentions; the rest is beside the point.
I specifically mention:
Jason Berry, a co-producer and incomparable person of integrity, who interviewed Maciel's son, and stood with Juan Vaca et al through decades of vicious opposition and neglect,
Tom Doyle (of course, of course),
Jeff Anderson (love the guy because he just digs and digs and digs and gets results, like access to untold numbers of documents we wouild never know about otherwise. He genuinely cares about survivors, takes no crap, and to hell with the money, except as it allows him after years of near bankruptcy to do things like go to Mexico to get at perpetrators and enablers there --- while putting his life at risk; having to be rescued by police, who drive him to the airport to get away from anonymous highly armed men about to highjack him).
Robert Mickens, the most astute, skilled, straight-talking journalist at the Vatican, who has the courage of his convictions. Please do read his unparallelled interview on a Frontline page. It's very long but eminently worthwhile. I can't speak highly enough of him.
Bill Mazzzella and Ed Gleason are right; it takes getting to the ordinary person to have an impact on the corruption and what is at stake.
Thank you, Frontline.
The shocking thing about the Frontline documentary is to realize that I gave my allegiance, loyalty, mind, and time (I was once a seminarian in a prominent diocese) to this organization.
Of course I knew of the abuse cases; who didn't after 2002, especially? But rarely, if ever, has an American television interview with victims of priest rape been so shocking. It was more-or-less told to me, as a seminarian, that lawyers are after money and want to argue the widest scope to get to the deepest pockets. Nowadays, I say sell off the cathedrals if you have to. The idea that any assets still exist because they were protected by lawsuits is sickening. Of course, I knew the story of Dolan's "cemetary fund" but it didn't hit me like it did when I saw the victims walk through those actual cemetaries.
The most demoralizing thing is realizing that all of it has certainly been going on for centuries. That eight year old girl who was abused has centuries of fellow victims behind her. It's astonishing and mind blowing.
Random, unimportant observations:
The story about the priest who fell in love and was scorned by trying to leave the priesthood in Rome felt like a bit of shoe-horned levity, relatively. But then the narrator mentioned that young Roman woman is now single...? ; )
I didn't quite understand Frontline's take on the butler case. Was it the butler? Or was it someone who gave files to the butler? Is there an old Curia hand who's ultimately reponsible for Benedict's resignation and the subsequent Francis cleanup attempt? Maybe I'll have to watch it again.
Most infuriating was watching John Paul consistently embrace that hideous freak, Macial. Whether or not Francis's cleanup effort succeeds, I'll never again regard the papacy like I once did (I was admittedly naive.)
And the Italian mafia killing Francis? Please. You can't do banking in Europe anymore like you did before. It's either VatiBank reform or no bank. Hopefully, they're smart enough to realize that.
I see my link above to MIckens' interview on the Frontline web page does not work. Maybe this one will:
Thank you, Brian, for your comments. It means so much when people's eyes are opened. The visual is indeed powerful.
Any shortcomings notwithstanding, I found the program most interesting and informative. After its airing, I asked my ex-wife (Episcopalian) what she thought of the documentary. She replied, "I knew there were problems in the Vatican, but I didn't know they were *that* bad!!!" For folks who don't keep up with stuff coming out of Rome, I think this PBS program gave them plenty to consider, especially if they are churchgoing Catholics who still toss their shekels into the weekly collection plate. Any bishop who saw this program should be able to say, "I saw the enemy, and it is us!"
That second link did not work either.
When you get the message page not found, check the URL and delete the second forward slash after the last word "francis" at the end and it should work. I don't understand.
In case, here's the interview section about the butler:
What happened next?
… I was at the man's trial. … Nobody that I have spoken to and that I continue to speak to in the Vatican really believes that the butler did it. He was a scapegoat. He was a scapegoat, and he was probably pressured either by blackmail, that they held something over his head, or convinced him, paid him something.
But he took the fall for other people. He may have helped, but he certainly was not working alone, if he was involved at all. He was certainly not working alone. It's impossible. There were documents that were leaked, that he supposedly leaked, that were written in languages that he does not speak. How would he even know that they were important? …
Mickens' comments on Benedict and Maciel:
He knew about the [Marcial] Maciel case. It was going across his desk before he became pope, and he stalled. What was going on?
People say that the case of Maciel was really stalled in Cardinal Ratzinger's office because his hands were tied, that other forces within the Vatican — the secretary of state [Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone], Cardinal [Angelo] Sodano and others who were friendly and in the pay of Maciel and the Legionaries of Christ, his order — blocked any kind of action from the office that Cardinal Ratzinger was in charge of.
But once he becomes pope, he finds a kind of middle solution to deal with Maciel. In 2005, after he was elected pope, at this point he has got enough evidence. Look, there were former Legionaries who were writing to him way back in the 1990s about this. He cannot claim that he didn't know. He didn't choose to believe.
Once he did believe and once he's pope, then the question becomes, how do you deal with this man? He did not banish him. He did not kick him out of the priesthood as other priests were kicked out. What he did was he ordered him — "invited him" was the language that was used in the Vatican communiqué — invited him to spend the rest of his life in prayer and penance. Didn't give any reason why, but it was clear that they believed the accusations against him, which had been piling up since the 1950s and '60s, [involving] not just child abuse but drug abuse as well, financial abuse.
Why didn't he just banish him? Why? Because the Legionaries of Christ is a large and very wealthy order and puts lots of money in the Vatican's coffers. I think Benedict XVI thought that he could save the order by getting rid of Maciel.
When Maciel dies in 2008, they open up an investigation, and they thought that this would lead to a renewal and a reform of the order, preserving the order. But how you can you preserve an order that was founded on the cult of personality of a psychopath? It doesn't make sense. … If the Legionaries of Christ were a small, kind of poor order with few people, that's exactly what they would have done. …
The church is meant to be the highest moral authority in the world. This speaks of shocking hypocrisy. The guy was a monster, and he was sent off to some holiday resort to think about it. What were they thinking?
"The Maciel case is probably one of the darkest chapters in the history of the contemporary church, without a doubt, without a doubt. I still cannot get my head around this idea that his order can somehow be salvaged and reformed.
The people that were formed in that order, in secrecy they took a vow — fortunately, Pope Benedict made them rescind this vow — but for decades they took a special vow to never speak ill of the founder. … There were still members of the order who go to his tomb in Mexico and celebrate Mass and celebrate him. They were supposed to have taken down all photos of him in their houses in the 22 countries around the world where they're present, and there are still houses that reportedly have been slow to take down these photos of Maciel. …
What should have happened was the order should have been disbanded; the members of that order should have been given psychological, spiritual help to discern whether or not they wanted to continue to be priests and find places that could accommodate them, either in dioceses to become diocesan priests or other religious orders. Why this has not been done — the only way I can explain it is it's too wealthy, it has too much money, it runs a lot of schools, and they're just afraid to shut this thing down."
I'm just amazed that there were still people who didn't know how bad things have been. Why didn't they know? Don't they read newspapers or watch the news on TV?
John Allen's text about Maciel:
"Benedict XVI became a Catholic Elliot Ness... Benedict XVI's... next move, with Maciel, got the attention of the wider world. In May 2006, NCR broke the news that Benedict had barred Maciel from public ministry, instructing him to live a life of prayer and penance. Due to his advanced age, no formal canonical trial would be held, but the verdict nevertheless seemed clear: Guilty. (Benedict "invited" Maciel)
Though Maciel died in January 2008, revelations of various scandals surrounding him continue to emerge -- including fathering a child out of wedlock, and plagiarizing some of his best-known spiritual writings. Benedict eventually ordered an apostolic investigation of the Legionaries, which is now reportedly complete, though it will be some time before conclusions are forwarded to the pope for whatever action he might take.
Given Maciel's high international profile, and his reputation for friends in high places, Benedict's move was widely taken as proof positive of a new dispensation in the Catholic church: If you're credibly accused of abuse, no power on heaven or earth will protect you from paying the price."
Jim Jenkins talks about "the serial rape and sodomy of children" as if Monica Barrett's infernal rapist were typical of the RC clergy. Yet Catholic apologists claims that only 68 US priests have been accused of the actual physical rape or buggery of minors. Can anyone tell me if this is the correct number?
Monica Barrett's allegations against William Effinger were never proven in court (statute of limitations). Effinger was convicted, and did not contest his conviction, of molesting boys -- http://www.archmil.org/reorg/bardate/ClergyOffenders/Effinger.htm
Carolyn is too lavish in praise of the interviews (other than those with victims), which to me were the weakest part of the "show". I found Robert Mickens tired and routine. Tom Doyle went on about the abortion of his ecclesiastical career and in the same breath about how he never wears clerical dress -- his interview was more about Doyle than anything else. The program offered no new info and above all no analysis, so the effect was rather one of indoctrination and propaganda, reinforcing perceptions already established in the media.
The person most damaged by the program was John Paul II -- himself the object of a mindless cult of personality (to which the majority of Catholics contributed) he loved his successful fellow cult-object -- a guy who got out the youth and excited crowds just as the pope himself did. There was a touch of the rogue about John Paul II -- and not just a "loveable rogue".
I found that the total impact of the program tended to a "blame the gays" line, It segued to gay seminarians and gay priests as if this were something equally wicked with the preceding harrowing accounts of child rape. It had a few willfully ignorant anticlerical jabs, as in the pseudodoctrine that ordination "changes your character"? The producers are happy to milk confusion from the phrase "sacramental character". The lay Catholic hatred and destruction of the male-female couple (ex-priest and girlfriend), recounted in the film, is of a piece with the holy horror of sexually active gay priests. Is it so horrible that a tour guide would have sex with a chorister in the Vatican choir? Must it be classed with child rape? Anglican and Orthodox priests have their gay lifestyles etc too, but we don't link that with child rape. The interview with the North American College students was striking -- the lofty idealism of the young men is based on tuning out the full dimensions of their human affectivity, ready to explode after a few years in the ministry -- then addio il celibato, addio lo stato clericale! I believe the attrition rate is high.
So what is to be done about gay priests? Well, what is done about them in Anglican and Orthodox circles? I suggest that they should be embraced, allowed to marry if they wish, and that when this is done, the church should make an effort to recruit from other categories as well, such as straight men, married if they wish, and of course -- women. Francis and his friend Maradiaga are doing a good job on the pastoral front but they have not given any sign of thinking in these directions. They are still oiling the homosocial Tridentine clerical apparatus, imagining that nothing more is wrong with it than creaky joints. If the Synod of 1971 had accepted Paul VI's proposal to ordain married men as priests the necessary process of change would by now have been well underway and we might even have women bishops. Instead we have has four decades of increasingly obvious and unnerving dysfunctionality.
Joseph, thank you for comments, however:
I think that might be innacurate about the 1971 Synod. Paul issued Sacerdotalis Caellibatus in 1967 reffirming clerical celibacy. The Synod of 1971 supported this postion; opposing views were in the minority.
I came across that item about the 1971 Synod in Schillebeeckx's book on Ministry and also read about it in The Tablet (Peter Hebblethwaite). Paul VI put it to the Synod that the pope should have the right to ordain married men in cases of pastoral necessity and when it was turned down he remarked "why did they reject it?". I see Francis has now ordained a married man of the Maronite rite.
Also, the Harvard psychiatrist interviewed, Dr. Martin Kafka, explicited stated that:
The number of Catholic clergy who are accused and prosecuted for child and adolescent sex abuse vastly outnumber the number of Protestant clergy. One of those factors is this issue of suppresing sexuality in order to serve God. The data that we have suggests that men who abuse children are equally likely to be heterosexual or homosexual in their adult orientation. But people who abuse adolescents, post-pubescent children, are more like to reflect their own adult sexuality in those whom they victimize.
Is this anti-gay? Or a reflection of the facts of sex abuse (a universal phenomenon, sadly) in the priesthood as it is currently practiced and defined?
The hidden camera video gave the gay priest and tour guide bit the feeling of scandal-mongering; I've never heard of anyone secretly filming a priest and his girlfriend. But isn't this because Rome has been so anti-gay, doctrinally and rhetorically? In fact, there's the well known, century's old Catholic rationalization that prostitution (female) is at least "in accordance with Nature" and even socially necessary at times(!) whereas homosexuality is always, always wrong - maybe even worse than heterosexual rape. Any organization that promotes such an ideology ought to be ready for hidden camera journalism focusing on gay life within it.
Helen Parish, Clerical Celibacy in the West, p. 226, says that in response to pressures from bishops in the build-up to the 1971 Synod Paul VI "conceded that in areas in which there was a significant shortange there might be reasons to consider the ordination of mature married men", referring to Acta Apostolicae Sedis 62 (1970):98ff. Half the bishops at the Synod were in favor of this idea but when a vote was held on it on the penultimate day of the Synod it was defeated.
Francis's ordination fhe Maronite married deacon continues a piecemeal erosion of celibacy, which is just what the bishops in 1971 did not want to see.
Thank you for the clarification of the 1971 Synod. It's good to see Francis chip away at mandatory celibacy. I wonder if he really has a master plan or if this is just more of "Francis being Francis".
"In May 2006, NCR broke the news that Benedict had barred Maciel from public ministry, instructing him to live a life of prayer and penance."
Prayer and Penance - hogwash.
He lived his last days in a gated community in Ponte Vedra, plush area in the Diocese of St. Augustine, probably subsidized by a member of Regnum Christi. I doubt that it had the approval of the bishop of the diocese, since I heard (Disclaimer: Hearsay, not proven by me) that the bishop would not allow Legionnaire priests in the diocese.(At the time I lived in Jacksonville.)
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Didn't seem to me as if the documentary misrepresented the present dysfunctional situation? Not much news to me, subscribed to Commonweal, NCR and America. But the interviews, some alongside shots of the monster Maciel in John Paul II's embrace, were sobering. If the hierarchy is having such a hard time opening the windows to let the fresh air in, let the secular media open them from the outside to let the filthy air out. Nobody owes any loyalty or respect to bad managers.
One wife and one daughter were there, according to Jason Berry.
Re: "barred from public ministry," Maciel had already resigned from his position as superior. No consequences there either.
And not a word from Benedict for Juan Vaca and the other victims; as though they did not exist. Surreal.
Grant - to your last question......trying to be balanced but most of this Frontline piece contained information I had already known, read about, or experienced. So, my initial reaction was more one of disappointment. (there was no groundbreaking information, data, etc.)
Other commenters have already mentioned some weaknesses (whether trying to include too much; touching on a subject or topic without providing adequate background, current information, or relating to one point of view) e.g. why insert the priest who left and his girlfriend? the gay scenes in the Rome apartment?
Sorry, don't really pay much attention to secondary stuff - music,voiceovers, narration gaps, etc.
What struck me most was that the subject *secrets in the Vatican* was probably too broad of a subject and thus the program covered too many topics; didn't have time to actually show documented issues, etc.; and came across as disjointed and unconnected. e.g. some have mentioned how a viewer could have walked away with confusion in terms of the treatment of homosexuality (the psychiatrist made excellent, documented, and researched points vs. the baseless stuff that JOL constantly posts - i.e. only 68 actual perps (using his very narrow and biased definitions and dismissing Ms. Barret's lifestory).
Would disagree, Grant, with your view of J. Anderson'a opinions - historians will eventually see his role of service to his church as opposed to the cover-ups, collusion, denials, etc. of most of the episcopal ranks.
To be honest - would have rather seen specials for each topic that involved more research; more careful efforts to show the history and current questions, and balanced spokespersons.
All in all this is a smashing video. Perhaps one has to look at the nuances to glean what may come. The Vatican bank is a big issue here. That bank has never been cleaned the way it is being cleaned now. If Francis can do that the Curia will be much easier. They will know they have met their match. John XXIII took the blows for Francis clearing the way. Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez is one of the appointees to reform the Curia. He is a tireless worker who has fought for the poor all over the world. One can see his determination to change things.
The timing is here. The right people are in place. Their are those looking to trap Francis abroad and in this country. Francis has stayed with the unassailable mandate of Christ. The poor and the disenfranchised. The others things will follow.
Bill de Haas, I fear it is your own remarks that are baseless -- never, never, never did I say there were only 68 actual clerical perpetrators; nor did I dismiss Monica Barrett's story (note the correct spelling of her name).
Bill de Haas, I fear it is your own remarks that are baseless -- never, never, never did I say there were only 68 actual clerical perpetrators; nor did I dismiss Monica Barrett's story (note the correct spelling of her name).
I think Grant will be interested in this one: http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/02/24/catholic-church/mother-of-wehmey...
I asked in all humility whether it is true that only 68 priests have been accused of actual physical penetrative rape (not for a moment do I suggest the many other kinds of sexual abuse are not monstrously wicked). Reply from Mr De Haas: "Baseless!" Does anyone know the answer?
Mary Gail Frawley O'Dea writes on Facebook: A new article in Pastoral Psychology by Kappler, Hancock & Plante studied 156 priests -- 67% identified as gay; 27% as hetero and 6% as bi. Overall age was 60, ranging from 27-86. They were 45% religious; 55% diocesan. They entered the seminary on average at 21. Comparing hetero and gay priests, researchers found -- contrary to hypotheses -- that the two groups did not differ significantly on measures of psychological well-being or depression. However, within the gay group, internal homophobia WAS correlated with increase depression and less psychological wellbeing. In turn, higher levels of internal homophobia were correlated with a less integrated sense of sexual identity, a result that support John Jay's finding that sexual abuse was NOT correlated with the sexual orientation of the abuser but rather with his level of "integrated psychosexual maturity." So -- my extrapolation is that the more the Church accepts homosexuality as a naturally occurring, sacred orientation on a par with heterosexuality, the greater likelihood that its priests, especially its large population of gay priests, will achieve an integrated sexual identity. The full article is: Kappler, Hancock, Plante. (2013). Roman catholic gay priests: internalized homophobia, sexual identity and psychological well-being. Pastoral Psychology, 62:805-826.
Those readers of Commonweal and commentors in these blogs joined with those reading other mainline Catholic publications represent what percentage of American Catholics? 1%-2%?
How many would have heard of Marciel?
That is why Frontline is necessary- even with its faults.
And Father Tom Doyle, with whatever idiosyncracies, is a gift to the Church.
Anyone else in these blogs have taken the risks and energy that he and others - even Jeff Anderson- have?
I agree with Bill DeHaas's assessment of the production values of the Frontline program. It is unfortunate it had that slightly tacky title, lacked clear editorial focus, and tried to do too much. It probably reached a somewhat mixed audience, including some who had followed the issues treated in it closely, many who knew little except what they had seen in the headlines, and, no doubt, a ew diehard PBS viewers who could not resist Judy Woodruff's earnest appeal to watch it, at the close of the Newshour that night. It would not be surprisng to find the program getting a mixed reception.
But it did put on the record the vivid testimony of those victims of abuse who bravely appeared in the first part. And though the second part tried to cover a complicated subject in too short a time, it did show how many important stories are out there, worth covering in greater depth. One, certainly, is the story of Maciel and the Legion of Christ , and their links to prominent figures at the Vatican. If Frontline did nothing more than juxtapose Juan Vaca's story with that unforgettable shot of John Paul II embracing Maciel, it would have been a worthwhile project.
The tragedy and personal horror of Maciel ( and how DOES the Legion survive???) will forever blemish John Paul II. How he could have been seduced does not speak well of some other personal judgments as we know- perhaps his treatment of Oscar Romero being among the most egregious.. Yet we will celebrate his canonization soon and wil hear of his great and and deservedly praised "triumphs" with the Communist bloc. Yet this is why we continue to need muckrakers like "Frontline" and others with whatever foibles, warts, poor editing, and even exaggerations that we would never see otherwise.
As Jos. O'Leary tries to minimize the extent of Catholic clerical abuse , by mentioning "what about Protestant and Orthodox clerics abuse' I will offer my prospective that I give when asked by Catholic abuse deniers questioning me.
I worked 30 years in the Bell System, and worked with thousands of men who had un-supervised access to children in front and back yards , bedrooms, basements, schools and offices. I never heard of one child abuse case [surely there were some in 50 states but I worked in Ca. the largest state] and in a gossipy work culture. And The Bell System had deeper, deeper pockets then the Vatican could even imagine. I then worked in an Archdiocese for ten years and worked with 25 creditably accused priests. These priests knew me by sight and name and and I knew them.
Just personal evidence I guess.... but compelling to me. .
I, too did not learn anything new from "Secrets of the Vatican." I learned almost everything that it presented in my long and unsuccessful struggle to help save Our Lady of Vilnius on Broome Street in Manhattan. In the 7 years since the locking of the church I have been bringing the issues presented by the Frontline show to friends, acquaintances and anyone else who would listen, no matter how reluctantly. In real time I was met with outright denial, skepticism and a "Say it isn't so" avoidance. The Frontline presentation gave credence to what I had been telling them and made them more willing to take a second look. From sexual assaults to church closings what has really been abused is power. Most lamentable is abuse of the power of being Christ's vicar on earth. I agree with Grant about the shortcomings of this production, but I think that it was, overall, beneficial. Now if they would only produce an ongoing series callled "Secrets of the Archdiocese."
I like that title..maybe it'll apear with re-runs of the much panned "Nothing Sacred" taht I still really enjoyed for the issues it brought forth...
The cameo of Cardinal Dolan and that $57 million ot the cemetery fund never really made sense, yet it looks like he skated by that one....
Maybe your series will review it!
Most of what Frontline documented in this video, Jason Berry has reported in even more detail. A picture/video is better than millions of words. Hopefully someone can do it better. But for now this video has to rate at the top. We heard about Bertone as a scoundrel. But the graphics get him. He appears to be a modern day Robespiere. Franis "damns Bertone with faint praise as he leaves: "I would like to thank you for the courage and the patience with which you have lived through all the adversities you have faced. And they are many." Here are Jason Berry's three articles if you want facts and thorough reserarch. http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/ratzinger-altered-canon-law-soften-mac...
There are comparatively few allegations of child sexual abuse by ministers of religion in other churches. There are some, as there are in all other organizations involved in work with children and young people. With colleagues I have done a study of the prevalence of abuse in the Anglican Church across Australia. I have some knowledge also of what has happened in other churches. Reliable statistics are not available, but in my opinion, and based on the available data, there has been around six times as much child sexual abuse by clergy and religious in the Catholic Church as there is by ministers of religion in all the other churches in Australia combined - and I would regard that as a conservative figure.
- http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/11/15/3633611.htm
Well, well, well ... ["That's absurd"]! Really? We'll see who's being absurd ... To paraphrase Forrest Gump's mother: [Absurdity is as absurdity does.]
Mary Anne Thompson's reaction above is essentially the same one that I received today from the architect who owns the building where I have my consultation office here in Berkeley - not a churchy person by any means, but certainly morally aware.
BJ, the architect, is not really that informed of all the nitty-gritty of the issues roiling the Catholic Church in recent years - like most people he is focused on his very busy life and that of his family, doing other things. But, from our infrequent conversations over the years BJ was aware of my own limited role locally in these issues, and of my work and advocacy with survivors of sexual abuse and exploitation.
The Frontline piece was an eye-opener for BJ and his wife. BJ reported to me that he and his wife had no idea of how pervasive and endemic the corruption was among Catholic hierarchy - as depicted in the Frontline piece. Apparently the Frontline piece achieved in part its purpose of educating the public. BTW, BJ didn't say anything about the "atmospherics" of the program's production, such as the background music or narration.
I did learn something new professionally from the Frontline program: The research of Martin Kafka, MD of the Harvard Medical School regarding the constellation of factors underlying the choice/preference of victims by Catholic priest predators. I have spent most of this morning online reviewing the published writings of Kafka - very enlightening!
Kafka's research begins to decifer and decode why Catholic priests overwhelmingly choose post-pubescent boys to assault. Kafka's data suggests that men who abuse children are equally likely to be heterosexual or homosexual in their adult orientation. But people who abuse adolescents, post-pubescent children, are more like to reflect their own adult sexuality in those whom they victimize. I hope that Kafka and others continue this important line of inquiry - there is more research to be done.
Kafka also drops the hammer on the US bishops silly contention that they concocted from their dubious John Jay Study that celibacy IS NOT a factor in the abuse:
"The number of Catholic clergy who are accused and prosecuted for child and adolescent sex abuse vastly outnumber the number of Protestant clergy. One of those factors is this issue of suppresing sexuality in order to serve God."
The implications are huge - in this I'll go further than Kafka does: Until the Catholic Church acts in a determined and focused way to dismantle the all-male celibate clerical sub-culture of the priesthood, they are just whistling past the graveyard. No amount of apologies from hierarchs, even Papa Francesco, will stem the tide and judgement of history.
Jim J. --
Does Kafka's contend that straight priests choose adolescent boys *because* they're straight? If so, it makes no sense to me at all on the face of it. How would this work psychologically? Why wouldn't a straight male choose a female?
I still wonder just how much wore the RC Church is compared to other organizations oriented towards children. Do we really know how much molestation there is in the schools and other churches? I suspect there isi a lot more going on in them than meets the eye, though the opportunity to cover-up might not be so great in those organizations.
That great era of the 60's which was later panned by Catholic and other leaders because of a few abuses, brought so much good. Above all, Catholics realized that they could actually use reason and that they need not be bamboozled by a dogmatic hierarchy. There were big changes in the world at large. The civil rights era women's rights. Among others. Silence was no longer an option. The restorationists changed that and the prophets were persecuted while monarchy retook in the church.
Now with Francis silence is no longer an option. Princes have to take responsibility in the spirit. The "Sounds of Silence" by Paul Simon captured the change that needed to come.
"And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, 'The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence."
The entire song is here with all its beauty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fp91cqBhAE
Does Kafka's contend that straight priests choose adolescent boys *because* they're straight?
The other way around. Men who abuse children are equally likely to be hetero - or homo- sexual in their adult sexuality but those who abuse adolescents, post puberty are more likely to reflect their adult sexuality. So if it is adolescent boys, then most likely, they are homosexual in their orientation.
He suggests that reduction of risk should be more mature men ordained to priesthood and more explicity discussion of sexuality.
George D. =
I know that the John Jay report concluded that the perps were mainly straight priests who chose boys because 1) they were simpy more available than girls and because 2) they were "immatute", whatever that meant. So how does Kafka show that their motivation was actually simply homosexual inclination? Or does Kafka say it's a result of *immature* homosexual inclination? And how does he claim to establish this? (I missed the program and can't get the tape on my computer. Sigh.)
The program wasn't perfect. For non-insiders, it was pretty good. In depth reporting could produce a miniseries' worth of material. I would love to see what they dig up on the butler cover-up.
Maybe Grant and Commonweal could get into film production.
Veracity and accuracy are important not only because exaggerations, such as the propaganda that led a huge number in one polls to imagine 70% of priests are child abusers, or that recycles the meme "serial rapists and sodomists", which applies only to a small number of child abusers. and not only because a witch hunt is damaging to all, not least children, but also because veracity and accuracy are of value in themselves.
In the interest of veracity and accuracy, I would ask people to not that I never said "what about abuse in Anglican and Orthodox circles?" as someone claims above. As an opponent of Sinn Fein/IRA propaganda for the last 45 years, I am well aware of how despicable and meretricious whataboutery is.
I referred to campy clerics in Anglicanism and Orthodoxy (some of whom are my good friends) NOT as an example of abuse but as a jolly good thing that should be tolerated.
For the record, I believe that clerics sexual abuse of minors has been more common by far in the Roman Catholic Church than in the Anglican Communion. I suppose it would be useless to ask "ed gleason" for an apology?


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Token - 1 Penny, George Petty, Smithfield & Co, Butchers, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, circa 1855 Reg. No: NU 4237
- Summary:
- Copper one Penny Token, minted by W.J.Taylor of London, circa 1855. Issued by George Petty of Smithfield & Co, Butchers, Melbourne. Petty is said to have arrived as a boy in Melbourne, coming as a sailor on a ship that brought settlers to Port Phillip. The first trace of him in Melbourne is working in a butcher's shop on Elizabeth Street in 1853. By 1854 he was listed as the owner of a butchery in Elizabeth Street, possibly the one he had been working at. He ran butcher shop at various city locations over the next fifteen years and was known as one of the best butchers in Melbourne. He died on 19 November 1877, leaving a widow, two sons and three daughters.
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- A round copper token (34 mm diameter) featuring the name, company name and address of the issues: Geo. Petty, Smithfield & Co., 157 Elizabeth Street Melbourne. The reverse features a female figure representing Justice standing facing left. She wears a blindfold and extends a balanced set of scales with her right hand. With her left she holds a short staff. She wears an ancient-style of flowing dress bound at the waist; around above, VICTORIA.
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- Transfer from National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), 1976
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|Themes this item is part of:
|George Petty, Butcher, Melbourne, Victoria (?-1877), Numismatics & Philately Collection, Working Life & Trades Collection, W.J.Taylor, Mint, London, United Kingdom
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|Australia - Victoria
|Tertiary Classification:
|working strikes
|Trade Tokens
|circa 1855 AD
|1 Penny
|Obverse Description:
|Legend in 5 lines: SMITHFIELD & Co. / GEO. PETTY / 157 / ELIZABETH ST / MELBOURNE
|Reverse Description:
|Justice blindfolded standing facing, holds balanced scales in right hand and rests short staff or wand on ground in left; above, VICTORIA; in tiny letters worn off ground to left and right of the figure, W.J.TAYLOR LONDON
|Edge Description:
|Obverse: SMITHFIELD & Co. GEO. PETTY 157 ELIZABETH ST MELBOURNE
Reverse: VICTORIA W.J.TAYLOR LONDON
|Issued By:
|George Petty, Smithfield & Co, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, circa 1855
|W.J.Taylor, Mint, London, England, Great Britain, circa 1855
|Previous Collection:
|National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Numismatics Collection, pre 1976
Note: Sharples has die images reversed and follows this error in concordance JNAA.7 p.55
Gardner, F., Trade tokens and the firms who issued them, The Australian Storekeepers and Traders Journal, 30 November 1911, p. 10 (photocopy)
Public Records Office of Victoria Index to Unassisted Immigrants to Victoria, 1852 - 1923, VPRS 7666.
Sharples, J., "Catalogue of Victorian Trade Tokens' in Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia, Vol. 7, December 1993, pp.54 - 55.
George Petty was a butcher who operated from a number of shops in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. On the tokens his company is called Smithfield & Co. a name only in use in 1855-56. The token manufacturer was W.J. Taylor in London, named on the reverse. The issue of the tokens was probably from late 1855. See Sharples JNAA.7, p.54-5 (note the images of the reverse dies are reversed).
There were two reverse die employed on the issue. The differences between the dies are in the relationship of the word VICTORIA to the position of the figure of Justice. On reverse 1 the end of the scale pan bar is 1 mm from the V and if extended would touch the base of the V, the head of Justice is almost fully below the O and the central support string of the scale pans is to the front of the pan. On reverse 2 the end of the scale pan bar is 0.6 mm from the V and if extended would pass just below the base of the V, the head of Justice is just to the left of the O and the central support string of the scale pans is to the back of the pan.
The Petty dies were employed for late strikes by Taylor, perhaps from as early as 1870, but certailny by 1880. The late strikes are on lighter copper blanks, about 15 g while the original tokens are between 16.5 and 18 g.
John Sharples November 2004.
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The loss was a major setback to the Wolves playoff hopes. The team, which sits in sixth place in the West Division, will now need wins in each of their last two games for the possibility of earning a crossover into the North Division.
Forwards Andre Deveaux (G, A) and Jason Krog (G, A) scored for Chicago (38-30-4-6), while left wing Fredrik Pettersson added two assists. Goaltender Peter Mannino (16-17-4) matched a season high with 37 saves in the loss.
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The Rivermen iced the win, 5-2, with an empty net tally with 1:44 left in the game.
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Chicago 2 0 0 -- 2
Peoria 0 2 3 -- 5
First Period---1, Chicago, Deveaux 22 (Pettersson, Krog), 1:55; 2, Chicago, Krog 19 (Pettersson, Deveaux), 19:50. Penalties---Della Rovere, Peoria (roughing), 5:16; Garbutt, Chicago (tripping), 8:47; Haydar, Chicago (slashing), 9:55; Redmond, Chicago (holding), 13:38; Shattock, Peoria (tripping), 13:38.
Second Period---3, Peoria, Della Rovere 8 (Peltier, Cracknell), 5:23; 4, Peoria, Aliu 9 (Nesbitt, Barriball), 18:07. Penalties---Della Rovere, Peoria (slashing), 8:52; Matheson, Chicago (roughing), 12:57; Aliu, Peoria (roughing), 12:57; Redmond, Chicago (tripping), 15:56; Ross, Chicago (hooking), 20:00.
Third Period---5, Peoria, Oystrick 15 (Hensick, Strachan), 0:42 pp; 6, Peoria, Nigro 9 (Nesbitt), 12:55; 7, Peoria, Drazenovic 22 (unassisted), 18:16 en. Penalties---Aliu, Peoria (interference), 1:00; Hensick, Peoria (high-sticking), 5:12.
Shots on goal---Chicago: 8-4-12--24. Peoria: 10-22-10--42. Power plays---Chicago: 0-4. Peoria: 1-4. Goalies--Chicago, Mannino (37-41). Peoria, Allen (22-24). A---6,179. Referee---Ghislain Hebert and Jarrod Ragusin. Linesmen---Brian Oliver and Mike Hamilton.


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Is Villa able to be a top scorer in Spain? He started well and Valencia seems to be a better team than last year.
But what about van Nistelrooy, Eto'o, Aguero and the rest?
For sure. I believe Villa is the best striker in La Liga at the moment. But Aguero looks very strong, e.g. in Champions League, and could end up as top scorer this season.
Maybee Real Madrid will get Aguero in January, and then he might score more goals.
Eto'o back to his best will also be able to score a lot of goals this season, if he does not suffer a new injury, that is.
What about players like Kanoute, Forlan, Fabiano, Rossi?
Forlan will miss a lot of matches now, due to an injury, so I do not believe he will have a chance of becoming La Liga top scorer.
Rossi have a good future and I believe he will be a great player, but not La Liga top scorer this season. I just wonder if Manchester United will one day make use of their clause in his transfer, that can see him return to Old Trafford. Do you believe they will one time in the future?
Kanoute and Fabiano are strong, good players, and outsiders for the La Liga top scorer title this season.
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An abundance of sweet summer fruit spilling out of crisp brown paper bags across my kitchen table; the heady fragrance weaving through the air reminding me of the summers of my childhood. I stand in wonder at the reds fading from garnet to ruby to rose, the purples royal, the oranges tinged with the evening sun and I understand the magic of the summer bounty of stone fruits.
Life's a feast. I often wonder how I fell upon this name for my blog and how it foreshadowed events, how my life and my writing converged, melting into one. Since the first day I sat down and began writing, I have experienced the sweet and the bitter, I have laughed out loud, savoring cinnamon and honey-scented sensations, candy-coated and sugar-dipped thrills, and I have tasted the salt of my tears heavy on my cheeks. My life has been a series of adventures, a wild ride, a world of discovery that, young girl, I never would have dreamed of living. I wake up each day not knowing what will arrive on my doorstep, unprepared for both the sweet and the bitter, facing each with a mixture of wide-eyed innocence and staunch determination to understand and conquer. I have indeed learned that Life is a Feast, offering up both the good and the bad, astonishing us with the unexpected, delighting us with accolades, bringing tears of both joy and sorrow. A chain of strange and unintentional events brought me to Europe and I fell into the arms of an astonishing man with a taste for adventure and the unusual. Together, with our sons, we traveled, tasting what we could, learning as much as possible, experiencing as much as time and our wallet could afford. We taught our sons that life is an adventure and the world is their oyster, excuse the mixed metaphors, and this, I hope, is all reflected in how I cook, how I write and how I live. Life is like the food that we place on the table before them: we encourage them to taste each dish, grab at each opportunity, for how else will they understand what it is or know if they like it or not?
Please hop over to LoveFeast Table to read the rest, share my thoughts on life, food and blogging and, of course, for the recipe for these tasty French Apricot Tartlets.
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- LoveFeast Table said...
Jamie, we are over the moon that you are serving up gorgeous Apricot Tartlets at our table today...and what a wonderful post your wrote. Every bite of it, releases different tastes! You are truly a sister we hope one day, to share a real table with.
Until then,
Kristin & Chris Ann
- July 26, 2011 at 5:14 AM
- thelittleloaf said...
What a wonderful and touching post - and a delicious recipe too! Loving this blog - keep them coming :-)
- July 26, 2011 at 5:23 AM
- Eggs on the Roof said...
A great tribute to life and living, Jamie - even when it serves up things we'd rather push to the side of our plates. And, as ever, what a divine recipe.
- July 26, 2011 at 5:34 AM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
I love their site! Those tartlets look marvelous. By the way, I have the same napkins... ;-P
- July 26, 2011 at 5:37 AM
- Mary said...
I am heading out to read the rest of your thoughts, Jamie. Your tartlets look delicious. Have a wonderful day. Blessings...Mary
- July 26, 2011 at 5:44 AM
- Junglefrog said...
I always thought that your blog title was a very appropriate one... Not that life is literally always a feast but it is - ultimately - what you make of it... I love the look of those apricot tartlets Jamie! Delicious!
- July 26, 2011 at 8:21 AM
- Maria said...
Gorgeous tartlets! Looking forward to your work with Joy!
- July 26, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- Rosaleda (Maria Begoña) said...
Saludos desde España
- July 27, 2011 at 8:06 AM
- asiangrrl said...
Jamie, I fall in love with your writing every time I come back to catch up. Truly a gift--as are these tartlets!
- July 28, 2011 at 10:34 AM
- 5 Star Foodie said...
Very pretty and scrumptious looking tartlets! Apricots are one of our favorite fruits, so yummy!
- July 29, 2011 at 2:03 PM
- A Canadian Foodie said...
I did go over and read the rest of your post. Could not resist. Apricots and a story? I have so many memories of my own involving summer in the kitchen with my mom and the boxes of BC apricots...
Your tart is STUNNING and the step by step tutorial so helpful in understanding how to achieve such a feat.
Thanks, yet again, Jamie... and now your new partnership. Congrats once again!
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New York Knicks center Tyson Chandler has been voted as the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year, according to a person with knowledge of the award results.
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At least the Mavs finally won something. Hopefully things get turned around tonight.Mavericks point guard Jason Kidd won the 2011-12 NBA Sportsmanship award, the league announced Thursday morning.
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Awesome that he patented a shot.
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Do want shoes.
I'd love to see Marion come out pissed off and balling over the outcome the DPOY award. I said it before the series started and i'll say it again, JET is the key to victory. As frustrating as he is to watch sometimes, if he goes off we're going to have a chance against anybody.
Win the next two or its over. I could handle if OKC just came out and beat us. It's what I would have expected. They were the 2 seed at home and we are the 7. But to have played so close and not excape with even one W hurts. It does not bode well. Tonight is just making up what should have already happened. We will still need a road win to take the series. Watching the Dirk highlights from last year are awesome, but it then hurts knowing this isn't the same team.
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$#@!ing slow ass eastern conference
I don't know why the Eastern Conference games are televised. Nobody really cares about those teams.
Blue shirts when the home jersey is white? That's stoopid!
Jesus what a terrible call right out of gate
Dirk with the bank shot. He's money even with Ibaka making more contact then the TSA.
Mark Davis is such a bitch. No wonder Rondo "tripped" into him. Dirk said two words and gets a tech? This is big boy ball Mark.
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If using a teleprompter is the best the REICH can do, they are sunk. First of all, in this modern age everyone on camera uses them. Lincoln might have used on at Gettysburg instead of glancing at his hand-scribbled notes, too.
I see today that both McCain and Miss Lindsey Graham are upset with Obama for promoting Donald Trump as the head of the Repbublican herd now (guess they don't believe in polls when it goes against them).
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