CULTURE SHOCK ALERT: IT RUNS DEEP AND SOMEDAY IT WILL BE A HUGE STORY -
cultureshock Sat, Mar 2, 2002 at 14:29:53
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CRISIS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Today on MSNBC, Rick Sanchez, "what is going on here" ... begging for an answer, it seems that all we get are questions.
In the Jim Avila report we're told that the archdiocese in Boston have settled with some seventy victims in the past 10 years ... I600 priests have been accused in the past 15 years, 31/2 percent of the 45,000 priests.
"Why so high" ... Sanchez asked, and they turn to psychologist, Eugene Kennedy, a former priest. Now I'm not going to get into his answer, which is hardly getting to the truth. But, it seems that once a psychologist has spoken, and one who has been a priest, there is no need to go any further. But his remarks were stunning in that he spoke to the sexual immaturity and why the priests move on young boys.
Truth is that we have the answer here at Culture Shock News but no one wants to hear the news CSN bears. It is a history of what Psychology has wrought on the Catholic Church and the Protestant Church as well. And, it all began, that's right ... in California.
From Defending the Faith ... An excerpt ... In the following interview with Dr. William Marra, Dr. William Coulson, andThe Story of a Repentant Psychologist, discusses his role in the destruction of Catholic religious orders, and his subsequent change of mind.
Coulson: The proof of authenticity on the humanistic psychology model is to go against what you were trained to be, to call all of that phoniness, and to say what is deepest within you. What's deepest within you, however, are certain unrequited longings. We provoked an epidemic of sexual misconduct among clergy and therapists -
Coulson has expressed that "this is all coming home to roost now." We have come this far in our walk and embrace with psychology, that it has taken the power and respect away from the church. Just a side bar here, that it has done the same to the courts (Yates trial) and the public schools (Therapeutic teaching) at the expense of academics. We are in a constant mode of operation in asking questions, but no one is looking at psychology the "Sacred Cow," the new religious order of the day, as the problem. Where we go now for the answers, the "experts".
But, we all know that the answer for them is, within each of us. And that is why most of us do untoward, nasty things to each other. They keep telling us that inside man is good and we keep finding out that what the church had been saying for 2000 years is that we are not. That we need to seek help from above and apply self-control and responsibility within.
This is what is happening in Boston and across the nation too. It is wide spread, and this is not meant to be a footnote, not only for Catholics but for the Protestant as well. These same wizards of the mind stepped in as they were asked to, by the Presbyterian Church in Lajolla, California, to help them counsel the leaders of the church. That's when they saw the pastor begin to lead the congregation to psychologists for counsel ... these men saw the leadership of the church being diminished. Their power and respect gets dimmer as we watch in horror these men fall from grace.
Finally William R. Coulson on Carl Rogers:
I'm going to quote him in a tape that he and I made in '76: "I left there feeling, Well, I started this damned thing, and look where it's taking us; I don't even know where it's taking me. I don't have any idea what's going to happen next. And I woke up the next morning feeling so depressed, that I could hardly stand it. And I realized what was wrong. Yes, I started this thing, and now look where it's carrying us. Where is it going to carry us? And did I start something that is in some fundamental way mistaken, and will lead us off into paths that we will regret?"
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