From Catholic Exchange: The Suiciding of the Church

The Suiciding of the Church
05/06/06

"This is an ancient, rigid, secretive, top-down, all-male monarchy. It always has been. It always will be. The answer is not to reform them, but to go around them and to contain them."

So thundered David Clohessy, National Director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, to a throng of agitated members of Voice of the Faithful, another group that once claimed the mantle of reform.

Whatever constructive role these groups once played in the national “dialogue” about the abuses perpetrated by predatory, largely homosexual priests, it has long since past. In fact, they don’t seek dialogue at all. Clohessy now counsels against dialogue with bishops and instead urges Catholics to lobby state legislatures to exempt dioceses from statutes of limitation that prevent an endless stream of aging, often dubious, claims.

Clohessy and friends are intent on one thing - the destruction of the Church...They know they are becoming more and more irrelevant as time goes on and perhaps, the loss of media exposure is too painful to bear...