{"id":4339,"date":"2006-11-29T14:07:28","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T14:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/why-they-fight.html"},"modified":"2006-11-29T14:07:28","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T14:07:28","slug":"why-they-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/why-they-fight.html","title":{"rendered":"Why They Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

…to keep records sealed.<\/a><\/p>\n

Doc drop in Fort Worth diocese.<\/a> Summaries of the priests’ files are here.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Magaldi case gets the most space, and deservedly so.  You’ve seen it before – a lot of "inappropriate" behavior – some even witnessed by the bishop himself in the sacristy of the parish – lots of "warnings" and meaningless restrictions – as in "oh, you can’t be in charge of the altar boys anymore." and so on, until he’s finally removed, but…no parishioners anywhere are told why. <\/p>\n

We can only hope and pray that such days are behind us…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…to keep records sealed. Doc drop in Fort Worth diocese. Summaries of the priests’ files are here. The Magaldi case gets the most space, and deservedly so.  You’ve seen it before – a lot of "inappropriate" behavior – some even witnessed by the bishop himself in the sacristy of the parish – lots of "warnings"…<\/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-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy They Fight - 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\/2006\/11\/why-they-fight.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why They Fight - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"…to keep records sealed. 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