{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F6372dbe1-75af-4ad2-acb3-9b57e7a12ed2","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Episode 192 \u2013 Catholics, Human Rights, Evolution and Ita\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/6372dbe1-75af-4ad2-acb3-9b57e7a12ed2\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 192 \u2013 Catholics, Human Rights, Evolution and Ita","description":"The Catholic Church and the Morrison Government compete to produce more scandals than we can handle.<br />\n2:28 Voluntary Assisted Dying<br />\nFrom DWDQ:<br />\nJust two Labor MPs decided against supporting the abortion decriminalisation bill in the end with one choosing to abstain.<br />\nIt meant Labor did not need the LNP to pass its bill. This could be very different should the debate turn to VAD. Several Government MPs who supported abortion decriminalisation do not feel as comfortable supporting euthanasia so the full support of the Labor caucus for such laws is not guaranteed.<br />\nLabor could also find it harder to convince Liberal National Party MPs to back the laws, given the brutal political fallout within the conservative party over the abortion debate.<br />\nWhat are the numbers in the Qld Parliament?<br />\nA total of 93 made up of Labor 48, LNP 38, Others 7<br />\n5:03 George Pell<br />\nQuestion: What does this mean for Catholicism in Australia?<br />\nAnswer: Nothing. Individuals come and go but the Institution will live on as strong as ever (unfortunately). Like a professional football team when a star player has been caught with his pants down Pell will be suspended or sacked but replaced with a younger version and in a week everyone will forget about Pell. His replacement will appear on Q and A and will lobby politicians for more school funding and will probably get a seat on a Religious Freedom Review Panel which will be convened again in 10 years. Nothing will change until the people who oppose religious privilege get together and co-operate on some long term goals.<br />\nThe Royal Commission was far more damning as it condemned the Institution, not just one man and yet nothing of any consequence happened to the Church. In fact, fees paid to Catholic Schools increased.<br />\nFrom Guy Rundle in Crikey:<br />\nWe\u2019ve decided, in our era, that someone can be tried for alleged events that occurred twenty years ago, and with a single witness, who is also the alleged victim. At an earlier time, the notion that a verdict beyond reasonable doubt could be established from that would have been dismissed out of hand.<br />\nKristina Keneally <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/03/archbishop-says-dont-be-too-quick-to-judge-pell-but-parishioners-struggle-with-faith?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Pages_Manager&amp;fbclid=IwAR2v7yPBl39kwOcP0_9fL9igaNZgj9MBZkEhZa7e0LXSusk_vyIZeO5aiQY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is agonising again</a>:<br />\nWell-known Labor senator and previous NSW Premier, Kristina Keneally, is doubting her Catholic faith following Cardinal Pell trial: &#8220;I am really struggling with this, and I find keeping my faith in God sometimes [is] a day by day proposition.<br />\nHow am I supposed to trust that an institution that has so grotesquely failed to protect children, that has so grotesquely failed to do as Jesus commanded, you know, love the little children and bring them in and care for them, where is God in all of this?<br />\nWhere is God&#8217;s mercy, where is God&#8217;s love? And where is the church responding to this crisis, as God would ask us to \u2013 with mercy, with humility, begging forgiveness, and with real contrition and a resolution to change?&#8221;<br />\n16:40 Howard, Abbott and others gave character references. No problem with that.<br />\n18:14 Frank Brennan<br />\nHe has questioned the verdict and supports the seal of the confessional.<br />\n18:23 Evidence that the seal of the confessional actually enables the continuation of the sex abuse of children<br />\nHowever, the role of the confessional in regard to disclosures by perpetrators may be even more significant. This aspect has been analysed by Dr Marie Keenan, an Irish academic whose book\u00a0Child Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: Gender, Power and Organisational Culture\u00a0is probably the most comprehensive study of the subject ever published. Keenan has spent decades interviewing clerical sex offenders and tryin...","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/085762e2-797c-4ef4-9b10-434ecde61c07/logo2018v2.jpg"}