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	NSAC Says Irish Bishops Christmas Resignations Small but Necessary Stirrings of Taking of Responsibility Voice from the Desert December 25, 2009 http://reform-network.net/?p=2463 The following message is from NSAC chair Kristine Ward. Thanks, Kris. * * * National Survivor Advocates Coalition Says Irish Bishops Christmas Resignations Small but Necessary Stirrings of Taking of Responsibility Asks Michigan Catholics to Re-Examine Philadelphia Grand Report Regarding Bishop Cistone Notes Pope Ducks Mention of Continuing Crisis in Christmas Messages For Immediate Release - December 25, 2009 The Christmas resignations of two additional bishops in Ireland, both auxiliaries in Dublin, brings to four the total number of resignations of bishops named in the Murphy Report. The National Survivor Advocates Coalition called it a small stirring of a needed and neccessary taking of responsibility. While calling on the fifth Irish bishop named in the Murphy Report to report to also resign, the National Survivor Advocates Coalition pointedly notes that the current number does outdo the number of US bishops who resigned by 300%. US bishops, while unveiled as protectors of priests who sexually abused childrens in grand jury reports, their own depositions and the testimony of victims, hide behind generic general apologies and statues of limitations. With the Irish bishops as an example, the coalition called upon Catholics in Saignaw Michigan to re-examine the Philadelphia Grand Jury Report in regard to Bishop Cistone, current bishop of Sagninaw, and a former auxiliary bishop in Phiadelphia. Will it take the full weight and force of a country’s government, as it did in Ireland, before there are the first stirrings of actual personal taking of responsibility by bishops in this country or could their actually be Christmas miraontacles where words match actions, the coalition asked. The coalition expressed its deep disppointment that neither Pope Benedict’s Christmas homily or his Urbi et Orbi Christmas message to the City of Rome and to the world made any direct mention of the crisis in Ireland and in fact the crisis that affects the entire Church. It is the only issue over which the Pope has direct control of all the issues, tragedies and circumstances mentioned in his two Christmas addresses and yet he remained silent. Contact 937-272-0309
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