The scandal of abuse at St. Michael's College continues. As reported previously, a student at the prominent and costly "Catholic" private school in Toronto was sodomised with a broomstick and a video of the crime was posted online. Six students have been charged by Toronto Police; eight in total have been expelled from the $20,000 per year tuition school. The President and Principal have resigned, they failed to report the crime to Toronto Police, it was known by the public through media and the police came calling and the Board remains intact. The Board of priests and two laity, one, a lawyer with Fogler Rubinoff, Nina Perfetto, represented Thomas Rosica on pro-bono basis in his attempt to sue this writer. The other, Toronto businessman Nick Di Donato bragged about hosting the largest same-sexed, so-called "wedding" in one of his operating facilities.
These are today's Catholic "leaders" of Toronto.
Yet, there is one more. Thomas J. Rosica, in an interview with Michael Swan of The Catholic Register, Rosica has literally lifted from this blog, the problem at St. Michael's College School. Rosica states that “The deeper question is what has our influence done or not done with these students?... If we have been unaware of this for a long time, how is that? How can that be?”
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“Without that pursuit of truth, we would not know it. Some of the journalists — excellent journalists in Toronto and the editors and the hosts on television — have done a superb job,” A complete and utter failure of the Basilians and school leadership is admitted by Rosica, it took Toronto media and this blog and Toronto Catholic Witness to ensure that the Basilians "know it." At least he admits total and utter failure of duty!
Rosica continues that “Our Basilian motto — ‘Teach me goodness, discipline and knowledge’ — is not something we emblazon on walls or wear on t-shirts and on mugs because it’s cute. But if we take that seriously we have to look at this crisis and say, ‘Where was the goodness’ Where was the discipline? Where was the knowledge? If they were absent, then we have to make sure we inculcate those values into the students.”
Indeed Father Rosica, where was it? How is it possible that only now these abuses came to the knowledge of Tom? He knows well what this writer endured fifty years ago. Oh yes, he knew it, he knew the Basilians provided a settlement with no admission of guilt and then he turned around and abused this writer by a vexatious and frivolous attempt at a lawsuit.
How is it possible that only now, Tom Rosica and the rest of this Congregation of priests have come to the realisation that their motto is a fraud? Rosica admits that the clericalism has created a "culture of prestige, entitlement" but then includes the "clericalism of the laity" which is non-sensical. Where is "clericalism of the laity" in all of this? The laity can be blamed for being badly behaving Catholics for forgetting Jesus or for giving undue deference to the school, but I see no clericalism of the laity that has caused this problem.
Rosica asks if "we modelled our system on a system of the world? And how have we failed to incorporate the vision of Jesus in this? The answer is a resounding yes!
In the posts this blogger has written, I emphatically repeated that the problem at St. Michael's College School starts at the top, that the crisis of abuse is historic, endemic and part of a deep-seated Basilian culture. I have written that they have sold out for the riches of the world and long ago left behind their motto.
It seems that Tom still reads this blog. He seems to be finally learning.
http://voxcantor.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-abuse-at-st-michaels-college-school.html
http://voxcantor.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-shame-of-torontos-basilian-st.html
These are today's Catholic "leaders" of Toronto.
Yet, there is one more. Thomas J. Rosica, in an interview with Michael Swan of The Catholic Register, Rosica has literally lifted from this blog, the problem at St. Michael's College School. Rosica states that “The deeper question is what has our influence done or not done with these students?... If we have been unaware of this for a long time, how is that? How can that be?”
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
“Without that pursuit of truth, we would not know it. Some of the journalists — excellent journalists in Toronto and the editors and the hosts on television — have done a superb job,” A complete and utter failure of the Basilians and school leadership is admitted by Rosica, it took Toronto media and this blog and Toronto Catholic Witness to ensure that the Basilians "know it." At least he admits total and utter failure of duty!
Rosica continues that “Our Basilian motto — ‘Teach me goodness, discipline and knowledge’ — is not something we emblazon on walls or wear on t-shirts and on mugs because it’s cute. But if we take that seriously we have to look at this crisis and say, ‘Where was the goodness’ Where was the discipline? Where was the knowledge? If they were absent, then we have to make sure we inculcate those values into the students.”
Indeed Father Rosica, where was it? How is it possible that only now these abuses came to the knowledge of Tom? He knows well what this writer endured fifty years ago. Oh yes, he knew it, he knew the Basilians provided a settlement with no admission of guilt and then he turned around and abused this writer by a vexatious and frivolous attempt at a lawsuit.
How is it possible that only now, Tom Rosica and the rest of this Congregation of priests have come to the realisation that their motto is a fraud? Rosica admits that the clericalism has created a "culture of prestige, entitlement" but then includes the "clericalism of the laity" which is non-sensical. Where is "clericalism of the laity" in all of this? The laity can be blamed for being badly behaving Catholics for forgetting Jesus or for giving undue deference to the school, but I see no clericalism of the laity that has caused this problem.
Rosica asks if "we modelled our system on a system of the world? And how have we failed to incorporate the vision of Jesus in this? The answer is a resounding yes!
In the posts this blogger has written, I emphatically repeated that the problem at St. Michael's College School starts at the top, that the crisis of abuse is historic, endemic and part of a deep-seated Basilian culture. I have written that they have sold out for the riches of the world and long ago left behind their motto.
It seems that Tom still reads this blog. He seems to be finally learning.
http://voxcantor.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-abuse-at-st-michaels-college-school.html
http://voxcantor.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-shame-of-torontos-basilian-st.html
