tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248478318892426116.post835850315814953228..comments2024-02-20T17:48:55.571-05:00Comments on Freedom Through Truth: The Cost of DiscipleshipMichael Brandonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557797099650457723noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248478318892426116.post-46793029268132975292010-10-20T20:46:22.900-04:002010-10-20T20:46:22.900-04:00Michael:
I have been traveling for over a month a...Michael:<br /><br />I have been traveling for over a month and missed this pertinent comment. <br />Can I republish your article with attribution here?<br /><br />Thank you for your thoughtful comments.Michael Brandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17557797099650457723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248478318892426116.post-24391973782740766042010-09-25T21:51:43.302-04:002010-09-25T21:51:43.302-04:00I wrote about Saint Vincent College, the regime of...I wrote about Saint Vincent College, the regime of former president James Towey, and the deplorable treatment of Father Mark<br />at http://www.counterpunch.org/yates12252009.html<br /><br />I attended the college, and what has happened to Father Mark makes me ashamed that I did. I am no longer a Catholic or even a believer, but this hasn't mattered to Father Mark, who sent me a most kind letter thanking me for supporting him. I think we should all thank him because his kindness and fortitude in the face of a most awful persecution is an inspiration to everyone. And his fight to clear his name is a fight for all of us, because when he wins vindication, we all win a victory too, as those who would do what the abbot and others have done might then think twice. <br /><br />michael yates, c'67 SVCmichael d yateshttp://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248478318892426116.post-61831948517158174282010-09-08T09:22:48.333-04:002010-09-08T09:22:48.333-04:00Thank you both for your comments. In reading abou...Thank you both for your comments. In reading about your support of Father Gruber, some thoughts and questions came to my mind, and I wrote about them here.<br /><br />http://freethroughtruth.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-is-father-to-do.html<br /><br />God Bless You<br /><br />Michael BrandonMichael Brandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17557797099650457723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248478318892426116.post-35945334467069781902010-09-07T23:16:06.328-04:002010-09-07T23:16:06.328-04:00Reviewing the case shows that the police from the ...Reviewing the case shows that the police from the beginning had strongly asserted that no crime had been committed on the computer and that no one person, yet alone Fr Mark, could be definitively connected to any of its browsing history. The defamation lies in the fact that with exactly the same data, the college administration alleged criminal pornographic activity as only the work of Fr Mark. While the state police alone had the expertise and authority to ferret out true criminal offenders, the college administration had only an agenda without appropriate skills or forensic authority to destroy the life of someone they deemed their enemy.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01615623139472937444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248478318892426116.post-53652685824197764742010-09-06T20:43:15.774-04:002010-09-06T20:43:15.774-04:00Charis:
If you have more information that I can p...Charis:<br /><br />If you have more information that I can post, please provide it to me.<br /><br />There is no doubt that people should be protected from abusive priests and others who would do them harm.<br /><br />It certainly appears to me that it is safer for children in the Roman Catholic Church than it is for priests.<br /><br />God Bless You and Father Mark<br /><br />Michael BrandonMichael Brandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17557797099650457723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248478318892426116.post-53075429302142086542010-09-06T19:40:50.368-04:002010-09-06T19:40:50.368-04:00Thank you so much for this wonderful post in suppo...Thank you so much for this wonderful post in support of my good friend and spiritual father. It is a shame that the Dallas Charter, which has been used to quickly bring pedophile priests to justice, is also being used to deprive good, persecuted priests of due process. The American legal system, based as it is (at the moment anyway) on Judeo-Christian principles, is actually more just in the case of the defamation of priests than is the current practice of the Catholic Church in our country. As you have pointed out, Father Mark is not the only victim of this new kind of clerical abuse. A great reform of the higher clergy needs to take place, and I hope that Father's case and his intense suffering over this past year and for however long this will take, will be instrumental in this very reform.Charis Aquillanoreply@blogger.com