Daily Archives: 2013/01/18

2013/01/18 · 09:22

update x4 – The little one and a seminarian

Firstly, news of little N.

[Today] N. will go back to Hopkins for another treatment. It will  require another spinal tap, Chemo treatment, IV flush and then if everything  looks ok he will go home. Then mom and dad will monitor him to be sure he  doesn’t get another fever and need to be rushed back to the ER. It is an  emotional roller coaster for them. The visiting nurse explained that  N. is much healthier than he was when this process began back in  June. GOOD! But recall that in June he was so sick the doctors  began the therapy without waiting for the test results – his condition was  that bad.

N. doing pretty good at this time.  Thank You Jesus. Everyday is a new chapter with lots of surprises.  No one  can take anything for granted.

Secondly, a seminarian, José. I met him last Summer in Lourdes. We have a common friend with PGJ. José has leukemia as well, induced by chemotherapy for face cancer. He’s in such a state that they can’t even transfer him to a different hospital. He’s bleeding out a bit since he basically has no white blood cells. He seems quite ready to go on to the next life. I wish I could say that.

Please include these intentions with your prayers along with all the other intentions of all the other readers. There are so many!

O.K. So. Add:

  • Please pray for transitional Deacon S.C., age 46, recently diagnosed with cancer.  He had it in the past and now it has returned. He has 5 tumors, one behind his heart– that can’t be operated on.  I was told he has opted for minimal treatment and is hoping to reach ordination in June. [He can be ordained any time, which would be great, as he can then offer Holy Mass and do a few priestly things...]
  • Six year old A., who is in such a frightful condition because of her returned cancer that only one other person has ever survived her situation.
  • Don’t forget we are praying for seminarian PGJ, who is doing well… miraculously so… impossibly so… Yikes!
  • I’ve added dozens more names from the ongoing novena for autistic kids and their families, which you can find at Mary Ann’s wonderful site.

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· 06:42

Pleading innocent, risking 20 years instead of 2 1/2: Reversing Philadelphia’s Kangaroo abuse court

monsignor lynn the media report

Here’s a snippet from my friend David F. Pierre Jr.’s The Media Report:

The conviction of Philadelphia’s Msgr. William J. Lynn last June was historic and widely trumpeted by an overheated media, as Lynn became the first member of the Catholic hierarchy to be found guilty in a criminal court for endangering children.

And the sole reason Lynn sits in jail today is because former priest Edward Avery had pleaded guilty to sexually violating a 10-year-old boy in the late 1990s. Prosecutors claimed that Lynn should not have placed Avery into a ministry assignment because the priest had a prior abuse accusation dating back to the 1970s. Had Lynn kept Avery out of public ministry, prosecutors charged, he would not have been able to abuse the 10-year-old.

But in a truly shocking development, Avery took the witness stand today in a Philadelphia courtroom and recanted under oath his guilty plea.

The reason he would have pled guilty is that such plea-bargains reduce any sentence. He got 2 1/2 years instead of twenty in a court that proved that it was acting with zero regard to justice. But now he pleads innocent. Grace and conscience at work here. He knows that he may well be treated horrifically for this innocence plea, and may well get the worst that injustice has to offer. Yikes!

This is important: Read the rest of the short article over at The Media Report, and leave a comment!

HERE

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