tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post6400716323747187617..comments2024-02-14T03:56:12.027-08:00Comments on La Salette Journey: Father James Scahill, who has lost sight of the fullness of priesthood which Bishops enjoy, continues to be a source of divisionPaul Anthony Melansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-23516894600325380202010-04-17T13:37:44.037-07:002010-04-17T13:37:44.037-07:00The Catholic Action League issued this statement:
...The Catholic Action League issued this statement:<br /><br />"CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE CALLS FOR APOLOGY FROM PRIEST WHO SLANDERED POPE BENEDICT<br /><br /> <br />The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today called for an apology from the Reverend James J. Scahill, Pastor of St. Michael's Church in East Longmeadow, for suggesting Pope Benedict XVI has lied in the sexual abuse scandal and ought to resign. Scahill, a priest of the Diocese of Springfield, made the charge during his Sunday homily, and repeated it in numerous interviews with both local and national media. <br /> <br />The Catholic Action League called Scahill's remarks "a gross and defamatory injustice to the Holy Father," <br /> <br />Catholic Action League Executive Director C.J. Doyle stated: "It is a serious matter when a priest suggests that the Vicar of Christ is a liar. <br />Prudence and justice would demand that he had unassailable facts and irrefutable evidence to substantiate his charge. Sadly, James Scahill has neither."<br /> <br />"Media critics of the Pope have resorted to innuendo, distortions, reckless assertions, sweeping generalizations, and tendentious misinterpretions. Ignored in all of this is the leadership which the Pope has demonstrated in confronting the sexual abuse issue, which includes his removal of Father Maciel, head of one of the most powerful religious orders in the Church, the Legionaries of Christ."<br /> <br />"A Catholic priest ought to be cognizant of the Eighth Commandment: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. It requires no courage to join a lynch mob. Father Scahill ought to be ashamed of himself."<br /><br />I would go further. This heretical priest needs to be permanently removed of all his duties as soon as possible. He is a lightning-rod for controversy and is sowing divisiveness rather than unity. He is a disgrace to the Catholic priesthood. I want to know why he didn't report Richard Lavigne in the early 90s.Alexnoreply@blogger.com