Banned in Boston
Party Boy in Rome
VATICAN CITY — (As reported in the Boston Herald on 5 November 2011) Cardinal Bernard Law was treated to a lavish birthday party, the company of high ranking clerics and even the music of a mariachi band in a four-star Italian hotel. Bernard Law’s guests rolled up in Vatican Mercedes sedans and left singing the praises of the fallen prelate, promoted to his Vatican post after decades of covering up clergy sex abuse back home in Boston….
With a pair of guards in colorful threads standing sentry at the gate, Cardinal Law and his old boys’ club wined and dined at the Al Chiostro restaurant in the four-star Palazzo Rospigliosi hotel facing the Basilica of St. Mary Major, where Law serves as a humble archpriest.
Beyond the gate, a cobblestone path led to the airy courtyard, where two banquet tables offered dozens of bottles of vino and meat-stuffed pastry d’oeuvres. Inside, a mariachi band played and sang the well-known ranchero refrain, “Cielito Lindo,” as guests devoured a main course of lasagna and snacked on cheese, tomatoes, vegetables and fine prosciutto, piled in a pyramid and placed on a pedestal. The party drew high clergy and laymen alike; guests sat six to a table. Not exactly a re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party.
Nor of the Last Supper……
“The meal was spectacular,” said Cardinal Camillo Ruini, vicar general emeritus of the Archdiocese of Rome. He twirled his hand in the air, a common Italian gesture for satisfaction. He said Law appeared to enjoy the feast as well…. The resplendent reception that marked Cardinal Law’s 80th birthday sent shock waves an ocean away in Boston, where the mere mention of his name still sparks seething anger in clergy abuse victims whose attackers he protected during his years as archbishop.
Meanwhile back in the United States….
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, a retired auxiliary bishop of Detroit, has revealed for the first time yesterday details about his removal as a parish pastor in 2007. When he challenged his fellow bishops about their handling of sexual abuse, he was quickly removed as pastor of his parish by the Vatican. The Vatican told Gumbleton he had broken the “communio episcoporum”: the communion of bishops. In layperson’s terms: he dared to break free from the old boys’ club party line. “We’re all supposed to be together, think together, talk together, you know, one voice,” said Sumbleton. “You know, how can that be? You’re a church of human beings; you can’t be.”
Gumbleton knows first-hand what sexual abuse is about and how bishops have coverd it up for years. He was also a victim of sexual abuse.
The Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church (ARCC, founded 1980)
will present its 2011 Hans Küng Rights of Catholics in the Church Award to Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
at the BWI Best Western, Friday, November 11, 2011, at 7:30 P.M.
Best Western Hotel
6755 Dorsey Road, Elkridge Maryland
The infamous Bernie Law is the living symbol of the filth, corruption and hypocrisy that is rampant in the RCC. He stands as a living testimony to the global abuse of children and how the RCC condones it. The mere presence of Law as archpriest of the Bascilica of Mary Major (Jesus’ mom) is an blatant slap in the face to survivors and says to the world, We the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church don’t give a damn about the global raping, sodomization and molestation of children.
If it did, would they put the man who epitomizes it on display as a loyal servant of the church and Mary Mother of God? Hypocrisy doesn’t get richer than this!
He is also the unspoken symbol that perpetuates the evil within the RCC becuase his presence in his position is a reassurance to every cleric that loyalty to the Church regardless of what crimes or sins are committed is all that counts.
The Rich Man (“Break-the- Law) & Dives (Gumbleton)…
Tis sure that B16 did nothing to stop this lavish celebration — or is he waiting to read about it later on the Internet???
I feel so sad about Rome. Theresia Saers The Netherlands