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Richard Sipe Tried to Warn Us – But No One Was Listening, by Kathy Schiffer (Aug. 16, 2018) – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Kathy Schiffer, National Catholic Register,

Kathy Schiffer is a Catholic writer whose work has appeared in the National Catholic Register, Catholic World Report, Crisis Magazine, Family Theater Productions, Evangelization and Culture, Aleteia, Zenit, the Michigan Catholic, Legatus Magazine, and other Catholic publications.  …

 

Clerical sex abuse expert Richard Sipe died Aug. 8 — and finally, his warnings are being heeded

“Truth alone will honor what I’ve been or done.” That reflection is drawn from the poignant poem “At My Gravesite,” which was published in “Courage at Three AM,” a book of poetry by noted psychotherapist Richard Sipe. There is an eerie truth to the poem: Sipe’s extensive research into the roots of clerical abuse, it seems, was not regarded seriously by the bishops and Vatican officials he tried to warn.

Sipe, a former Benedictine priest and a noted expert on the roots of the clergy sexual abuse crisis, died of multiple organ failure on Wednesday, Aug. 8, at his home in La Jolla, California. As the strains of Gregorian chant accompanied him on his journey into eternity, his wife Marianne, a former nun, kept vigil at his bedside. …