"In the Name of the Father"

This is from my Good Tidings Blog: Our Day Will Come www.blog.myspace.com/good_tidings

Catholic News Service ran a very short piece about Father Dagoberto Valle Arriaga, a Mexican priest convicted of killing his 8 year old son. It was a run-of-the-mill news article, nothing more. Much as one might read the cost of gas has gone up again, and maybe have the idea that both the writer and reader are getting used to such rotten news.

My dear God, in heaven! I can't help but feel really disgusted, revolted over the lack of outrage in the news article! I can't help but feel such anger myself, not only at the priest who would do such an unthinkable thing to his own child, but anger at the Church that would create a culture of fear in so many ethnic Catholic people, and outrage at the media for not being more outraged than I because I hear about priest-fathers hurting their children all the time. Not killing them physically, but doing their best to destroy any hope for a loving father in this life.

What in the Name of our Good God has happened to this Church? What has happened to the people of this world that a priest killing his son to protect his own worthless arse doesn't strike horror in the mind and heart of everyone?

Are there so few good priests left that this is just another news article about another priest doing evil to a child--the ultimate evil? Where are the good priests? Why, if they are out there are they not screaming about all this? Why don't they care? Do they all have something to hide, to protect? Where is their treasure? In the security of the priestly life, so that they will not speak up loudly in defense of the children of priests...the women of priests, the faithful who pay their salaries, expecting holy priests? I can't hear anyone? The silence is deafening.

Oh...look gas prices went down a few cents in our area...