Dear Parishioners,
I feel a need to write to the people of the Steubenville Diocese, I was a
convert in the Catholic Church and I must say I followed the teachings of the
church, not that I felt they were all right according to the Bible that I grew
up with, however for more than 40 some years I have been a member and so I do
know first hand of some of the things that have been going on and are still
going on. This letter is my own words and how I feel about the Catholic Church
now.
Three years ago my Son broke down and told me and his father that he had been
sexually abused at the hands of two Brothers of the Catholic Clergy when he was
around 9 nine years old.
Well needless to say our world came to an end but so did a lot of unanswered
questions also came into play. With all the problems we had over the years and
the endless doctors we took our son to and never got an answer, we came to
understand why. Well thanks to the SNAP organization which I am now a member
of, we have been able to get through some of the problems we have encountered
and get the help for our son that he so desperately needed. He has been in
therapy now for two and half years (no thanks to the Bishop of Steubenville).
The therapist who Bishop Conlon sent him to be evaluated, suggested that he be
sent to a in-house
Did we get him help? YES! Is our son ok now? Well, he is
better, but will he ever get over this? NO!
Will we as his family ever get over what we have been through? NO!
Will things change in the Catholic Church of sexual abuse of our children? I
don't think so because our Law makers in
But Bishop Conlon apparently never told them he is planning to build an
expensive new Cathedral in
So I ask what is more important then getting help for our children? Or
getting rid of the Sexual Abusers in the Catholic Church? Or holding
those Bishops accountable who have covered up the Sexual Abuse for years?
Well my brothers and sisters who know the Lord Jesus as your savior,
"what do you think is more important?"
These Abuser are going to have to answer to Jesus the same as every one of us.
Just because they are standing up in the front of the church and saying mass
and we are believing they change the bread and wine into the body and blood of
Christ , makes me sick after I know what they did just before mass or right
after mass raping a innocence child and then making people think and
believe they are able to do what they want sexually as Priests, and still are
worthy to even claim to be a man of God. I could vomit. Are we still
members of the Roman Catholic Church? NO
Do we think we will go to Heaven? YOU BETTER BELEIVE IT.. .
WHY? BECAUSE JESUS MADE IT PLAIN IN: JOHN 14:6.. HE SAID NO ONE COMES TO
THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME. HE WAS SPEAKING OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. NOT THE
ONE WHO CALLS HIMSELF A PRIEST.
Thank you for letting me share my hurt, anger, disgust, and disappointment with
the
How in the world can anyone say that this Bishop and his officials care
anything about children's safety? Past, Present or Future.
Please watch protect your children.
Thank you from a Mother,
In Christ our savior, Jim and Helen
Marietta