Over at Acatholica – a place of increasing weirdness – Fr Daniel Donovan has a “commentary” on the Irish PM's response to the Cloyne abuse scandal.
At least it starts out being about clerical sexual abuse, but then without so much as a line break or new paragraph he moves from the appalling Irish affair to “the power of the various Movements which have sprung up in predominantly the Latino cultures of Spain and Mexico during the fascist regimes of Europe between the 1930's and the 1960's with dubious relevance to the world Church.” Really, “non-sequitur” is hardly strong enough to encompass his conceptual agility, leaping from one idea to the next.
Oddly, in the present commentary he accuses these lay movements of being too “secular” in their financial affairs. Huh?
At least it starts out being about clerical sexual abuse, but then without so much as a line break or new paragraph he moves from the appalling Irish affair to “the power of the various Movements which have sprung up in predominantly the Latino cultures of Spain and Mexico during the fascist regimes of Europe between the 1930's and the 1960's with dubious relevance to the world Church.” Really, “non-sequitur” is hardly strong enough to encompass his conceptual agility, leaping from one idea to the next.
Oddly, in the present commentary he accuses these lay movements of being too “secular” in their financial affairs. Huh?
I think Fr D has read the DaVinci Code once too often. Recently in an Acatholica commentary he seemed to attribute the increase in Catholic cremations to Opus Dei.
He thinks the “Cadaver Synod” of 897ad was an idea worth emulating: in this commentary Fr D exhumes the idea – decently buried by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches many centuries ago – that bishops should not ever be moved from the care of one diocese to another.
Justice should be done and where necessary procedures should be reformed. But these weird ideas of Fr Donovan need to be consigned to the crematory, along with Mr Coyne's "sense".
