Father James Valladares has just published a guest post over on TheseStoneWalls entitled May Truth and Justice Prevail! It’s a great read. Father is a great writer. You’ll be more impressed than ever with the book he’s just published that has constant reference to our great friend, Father Gordon MacRae (About). I first mentioned that book here some weeks ago as I think I got the very first copy hot off the presses. Father MacRae had given me a head’s up! I’ll have to busy myself to write a review on the Amazon page for the book:
ISBN 978-1-46207-241-5 328 pages Size 6 x 9 Soft Cover US$22.95 (US Amazon: $17.21) ; Hard Cover US$32.95 (US Amazon: $25.04)
Further details are available on http://jamesvalladares.com/
Father James repeats this exclamation throughout his article on TheseStoneWalls:
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
And he’s right.
But let’s take that one step further:
If you merely say that you are sad and upset about hypothetically possible miscarriages of justice, remaining aloof from commenting on concrete cases that cry to heaven for vengeance, know, then, that you also have chosen the side of the oppressor.
An example: Ryan MacDonald sent me some emails yesterday. In one of them he was complaining that he had sent the following to very many Catholic journals/web-sites, but he was not graced even with a rejection, just… nothing:
As a Catholic writer, I am very concerned about the case of a priest whom I believe – to a moral certainty – has been wrongly imprisoned on false charges of sexual abuse for 18 years. I have researched this case extensively, as has Dorothy Rabinowitz, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The Wall Street Journal. We both drew the same conclusion: This case was a fraud. Now, a veteran Special Agent for the FBI has completed a three year investigation after which he concluded: “I find no evidence that Fr. Gordon MacRae has committed the crimes for which he is incarcerated, or any other crimes.”
Most recently, a new appeal has been filed in this case, but for the most part both the secular and Catholic news media have been silent about it. This concerns me very greatly. Here are four links to new information in the case of Fr. MacRae that I want to bring to your attention.
These Stone Walls – about page
“Special Report: New Appeal Filed in Case of Fr. Gordon MacRae” by Ryan A. MacDonald
“Exclusive Report: Alarming New Evidence May Exonerate Imprisoned Priest” by David F. Pierre, Jr.
“Why Do SNAP and VOTF Fear the Case of Fr. Gordon MacRae?” by Ryan A. MacDonald
I would add another rather important link to that list, a post I put up the other day demonstrating the reason why innocent priests will have a hard time getting their ministry back again:
Mark my words: Injustice to one will bring injustice to another. That’s guaranteed. If you want sexual misconduct covered up, just continue injustice to innocent priests. How’s that? The same attitude by which there is a coverup is the same attitude by which innocent priests are persecuted.
Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 
Thanks be to God for such defenders of our fasley accused priests in these acts and words of mercy.
We need a concerted effort in prayer on their behalf ,the prayer of mercy.The battle belongs to the Lord an our first line of defense is prayer,the holy sacrifice of the mass and intercession. I call on those like me who have not been given the gift of eloquence or writing ,to rise up on behalf of our priests in prayer. Through the intercession of the Mother of God, Mother of priests and St Joseph ,God will help our beloved priests and especially at this time Fr.MacRea.
Those who read this please……help them by all the means we have available.
The Lord told St Faustina not to excuse ourselves from works of mercy and demanded mercy in three ways, the act of mercy, the word of mercy and the prayer of mercy.
Down here below, injustice to one will bring injustice to another is the rule.
Some do not even bother to seek out the truth. The moment an accusation surfaces, they dealt with it, but often without the accused priests knowing it until they find themselves under the bus, or homeless, or living in destitute circumstances.
We all know Jesus cares for them even if authorities fail them miserably by not acting as loving fathers to everyone without exception.
THE TABLE WILL TURNED IN THE NEXT LIFE! This is our hope, to see justice done for our suffering martyrs.
The story of Lazarus and the rich man comes to mind.
So, let no priest lose heart, for our Heavenly Father knows each one of us and our good or evil actions follow us to the judgement!