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Crisis Magazine: "[F]rom the time of Gregory XVI in 1842, popes increasingly made the handling of sexual crimes committed by clergy more secretive...Pius XI’s instruction Crimen Sollicitationis (1922) made the entire process a secret one from start to finish. Gone were public 'degradations' of offenders, in which clerics were stripped of their status & handed over to the state for punishment"

This is partly the subject of Kieran Tapsell’s essay, “Canon Law on Child Abuse Through the Ages.” Tapsell argues that from the time of Gregory XVI in 1842, popes increasingly made the handling of sexual crimes committed by clergy more secretive. The 1917 code dispensed with the requirement to notify and hand over the accused to secular authorities, and Pius XI’s instruction Crimen Sollicitationis (1922) made the entire process a secret one from start to finish. Gone were public “degradations” of offenders, in which clerics were stripped of their status and handed over to the state for punishment. - Crisis Magazine [ https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/examining-the-deep-roots-of-the-abuse-crisis ] Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia and  for the restoration of the Church. Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three ...
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Larson: "[A]nalytical science...is intrinsically superficial simply because quantitative analysis can never touch or understand the nature of any substance created by God out of nothing...[it] has generated superficiality, confusion, & despair...read John Horgan’s best-selling book The End of Science"

  https://www.thefredmartinezreport.com/2024/06/larson-atomism-engulfing-westbruno_13.html Reductive science is the most destructive heresy of our times. But it is more than a heresy. It is, as I have already pointed out, an ambience, a poisoned atmosphere, which modern man takes in with virtually every breath. This poison convinces modern man not only that material realities are reducible to accidental and quantifiable being, but it also creates that intellectual ambience which convinces him that he himself is reducible to accidental properties – that his love is reducible to hormonal reactions; his aspirations for truth reducible to conditioned responses; his belief in God a neurological reaction to fear and uncertainty.   But its most destructive effect is that it eliminates that fundamental mysteriousness about life and creation which leads a person to think about and hunger after God. This is why there is now so much indifference towards God. And this is also why, de...