Sep 8, 2020
"Deviant sexual assault has
accomplished what liturgical abuse never could: it has generated
secular media pressure and secular legal constraints so
overwhelming that the apparat was forced to make its files
public."
Fr. Paul Mankowski was a Jesuit of the Midwest province and a
former contributor to CatholicCulture.org. For years, he
spearheaded CatholicCulture.org’s old "Off the Record" column,
writing under the pseudonym of Diogenes.
A brilliant priest who worked
tirelessly for Catholic renewal, Fr. Mankowski was unfortunately
stymied by his superiors.
"What Went Wrong?",
a 2003 address to the Confraternity
of Catholic Clergy, first appeared in written form on
CatholicCulture.org; in it, Fr. Mankowski traces an excellent
analysis of how the Catholic clerical sexual abuse crisis came
about.
Notes
Full text at CatholicCulture.org: https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=5915
Phil Lawler Tribute to Fr. Mankowski: https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/farewell-uncle-di-father-paul-mankowski-rip/
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