{"id":8026,"date":"2004-01-29T23:29:18","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T23:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/nro_on_burke.html"},"modified":"2004-01-29T23:29:18","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T23:29:18","slug":"nro_on_burke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/nro_on_burke.html","title":{"rendered":"NRO on Burke"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my new internet-ascetic mode (and hey, be quiet. I wrote 2000 words today. It’s nighttime. I’m allowed), I missed this piece from NRO on Archbishop Burke<\/a> earlier.<\/p>\n

Scandal occurs in religious communities in the same way, and has the same effect. When Catholic Church officials did nothing about priests who abused children, those who knew the facts had to wonder: Do church authorities not really mean it when they say these acts are immoral? Are such acts really wrong, if nothing happens to those known to perform them? If they are wrong, wouldn’t the bishops act decisively against those who commit them?<\/p>\n

The same concern underlies the discussion of what Church leaders did and failed to do during the Holocaust. No serious person suggests that the German bishops or Vatican officials actively supported the Nazis’ murderous policies. The suggestion, rather, is that by their (alleged) failure to denounce those policies and to excommunicate those Nazi leaders who had Catholic backgrounds, Church officials signaled that Catholics could legitimately support Nazi policies without peril to their souls or to their standing in the Church. Critics of those Church leaders suppose precisely what Bishop Burke supposes: If the Church is to be in solidarity with victims of injustice, bishops must not permit those Catholics who commit or abet the injustices to pretend to be Catholics in good standing with the Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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