{"id":1473,"date":"2005-10-07T08:31:03","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T08:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/make-me.html"},"modified":"2005-10-07T08:31:03","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T08:31:03","slug":"make-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/make-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Make Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill also links to a letter from Oregon’s Bishop Vasa, telling USCCB Child Protection that it’s crossed a line:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The next topic is one that I bring up only with great reluctance for I do not want to give any appearance whatsoever of being soft on my desire to assure the complete safety and protection of children. The Charter for the Protection of Children has been interpreted to include mandatory \u201csafe-environment training\u201d for all children of or connected with the Church. In the diocese, we have indicated that such training must be made available to all children under our supervision in our Catholic schools but have not taken on the nearly impossible task of assuming responsibility for every child in the diocese. <\/p>\n

As a result of this discrepancy between a new interpretation of the charter and our diocesan policy, the annual charter audit will undoubtedly find the Diocese of Baker, and me as bishop, \u201cNot in Compliance\u201d and will issue a \u201cRequired Action,\u201d which I am prepared, at this point, to ignore. I say this not because I resist efforts to protect children, but rather precisely the opposite. There are a series of questions that I believe need to be answered before I could mandate such a diocesan-wide program of \u201csafe-environment training.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Related: Dom Bettinelli’s posts about this memo, here<\/a> and here<\/a> (Second link has full text)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill also links to a letter from Oregon’s Bishop Vasa, telling USCCB Child Protection that it’s crossed a line: The next topic is one that I bring up only with great reluctance for I do not want to give any appearance whatsoever of being soft on my desire to assure the complete safety and protection…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nMake Me - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/make-me.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Make Me - 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