Rev. Thomas J. Gumbleton, Titular Bishop of Ululi

Everyone’s favorite Titular/Auxiliary Bishop is in the news.
(a little sarcasm there)

Gumbleton told the Post in an interview published Wednesday that he was abused in 1945 when he was a ninth grader at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit.

"As often happens in these cases," he said, the priest would invite him and another boy to a weekend cabin. "At some point, he would start wrestling with one of us. Then he would be putting his hands into your pants."

He declined to identify the priest, but he said the man has been dead for more than 10 years. "I don't have any animosity for him. I hope he's praying for me in heaven," he said.

This is all part of an attempt in Ohio to temporarily increase the statute of limitations in sexual abuse cases to 35 years.

The written remarks were prepared for a news conference near the Ohio Statehouse in support of a bill pending in the Ohio House that would open a one-year window for sex abuse victims to sue the church for alleged abuse that occurred up to 35 years ago.

This is the man who claims that homosexuals “make love more humanely, largely because they are better able empathetically to feel what their partner is feeling.” Here is more on his views on Church teaching on Homosexuality. He is also an advocate of ordination of women.

Of course, increasing the statute of limitations is not anything terribly wrong, but I feel that it can bring up cases that have long since been resolved by members of the clergy who have through years and years of prayer and devotion to the Lord have healed themselves of whatever provoked them to abuse children. Opening an old wound up may be counter-productive in that regard. I don’t precisely recommend “forgive and forget,” but some of these crimes do not need to be resuscitated.

I think this, as well as his attempts in other states to do the same, may be part of his greater agenda of his Call to Action group to change the hierarchy of the Church. This hierarchy is what he proposes is the cause of the abuse. I tend to disagree. We need careful monitoring in our seminaries. We need full personal and spiritual development of seminarians.
I found a nice article here about the craziness that is Call To Action.

We must pray for the Church, Her Leaders, and all those who oppose Her.

-Andrew