Ugliano… Didn’t they do that already?
What was shocking to me was not that it had happened, but that it has just happened. [Rev. Bruno Ugliano] had been transferred from my parish at a time when there was already widespread talk about his behavior when I was a young teenager more than 20 years ago! In fact, the first response I got when I mentioned this news to others who’d attended the parish at that time was “Didn’t they do that already?”
From Fr Ray Blake’s Blog
jgm said…
Mike and Norah, only part of the outrage about this subject has been about the actual percentages (and “but they do it too” as a response is hardly going to be reassuring to anyone). The other component of the outrage has been the *cover-up* of the abuse and the transfer of known abusive priests to other parishes where they continued to prey on children. Just last week I learned that a priest I knew from childhood, Fr. Bruno Ugliano, was removed from ministry for inappropriate behavior with children in 2009. What was shocking to me was not that it had happened, but that it has just happened. He had been transferred from my parish at a time when there was already widespread talk about his behavior when I was a young teenager more than 20 years ago! In fact, the first response I got when I mentioned this news to others who’d attended the parish at that time was “Didn’t they do that already?”
The saying regarding America’s president Richard Nixon who resigned from office is “It wasn’t the crime, it was the coverup” that did him in. What is unique about the Catholic church cases was the systematic coverup that occured at high levels that allowed this to go on for so long. There’s also the revelations that in Ireland the police allowed clergy to talk, alone, with child accusers before being interviewed by police and other legal abuses that also aided coverup. This is unique to the Catholic sex crimes and the percentages game doesn’t change this.
15/3/10 2:52 AM
Source: http://marymagdalen.blogspot.com/2010/03/it-would-be-better-for-him-if-millstone.html
