Enough update - a healing letter

Halifax prelate 'heart-broken' by charges

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (UPI) -- Halifax, Canada, Archbishop Anthony Mancini says he's broken-hearted over child pornography charges against one of his bishops.

In a pastoral letter read at all Catholic parishes in the Nova Scotia city Sunday, Mancini said "my heart is broken, my mind is confused and my body hurts," and that he "silently screamed" after hearing that Bishop Raymond Lahey was arrested for the possession and importation of child pornography last week, the National Post reported.

"What I want to say is: Enough is enough! How much more can all of us take?" Mancini's letter read. "Like you, my heart is broken, my mind is confused, my body hurts and I have moved in and out of a variety of feelings especially shame and frustration, fear and disappointment, along with a sense of vulnerability, and a tremendous poverty of spirit."

Lahey, who was stopped Sept. 15 by the Canada Border Services Agency while returning on a flight from the United States, had earlier been lauded for showing compassion for abuse victims while negotiating a $15 million settlement with Halifax parishioners who had been sexually abused by clergy as children, the Post said.



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This news arrived on: 10/05/2009

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