Intercessors: local news

I distrust the official releases from the two sides

so what's in the local paper?

Omaha World Herald - Intercessors gave haven to fugitive - 10.20.10

If you read the article, it not a usual criminal, but a wife who fled with her child after the father had been given custody. She feared he would take the child out of the country (A real fear...I've had patients with similar fear from Mexican, Arab, or Iranian husbands).

Indeed, anyone who has worked with abused women knows of women who fled abuse (and lost custody because they "abandoned" their children) or who were denied because of psychiatric or drug use (i.e. treating depression with medicine or street drugs, but not a usual addict, since the depression was situational).

There is actually an underground of feminists that help such women.

So if the bishop disbanned them for this "crime, I wonder why a certain big order of nuns wasn't disbanded in the 1970's when they were hiding one of their ex nuns after she vandalized a draft office...that was a real felony, not a fake one.

Omaha World Herald - Hermits put Faith in Future - 10.19.10

fluff piece. Not much dirt, but they do say things have gone down hill in the last two years (again I ask: Is Sister Nadine going senile? Paranoia, delusions, and poor judgement are often signs of early Alzheimers).

But what is most interesting is that the Sh.. really hit the fan in the last two weeks (after Mother Nadine resigned, but when the bishop started putting his foot down with the board who is in charge of all that property).

Omaha World Herald - Intercessors' neighbors relieved - 10.17.10

This goes into the "We are afraid of the...." and are happy they aren't here any more.

(put religion into the blank...Muslim mosque near ground zero...Muslim mosque in Tennesee...Baptist church...Orthodox monastery...Carmelite monastery in wyoming)...

“About time,” said Shawn McCartney, who grew up in the secluded Ponca Hills area and still lives there. “A cult is what I called it.”...

but again, there is a hint to the real problems:

Archbishop George J. Lucas hired a canon law professor in May to examine the group. The professor questioned the Intercessors' financial practices, found dissatisfaction with its leaders and discovered intimidation tactics.

McNeil said there were no findings of physical or sexual abuse.

Omaha World Herald - Intercessors of the Lamb closed - 10.16.10