{"id":6520,"date":"2005-07-01T05:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doxaweb.com\/blog\/?p=6520"},"modified":"2021-07-20T05:42:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T10:42:30","slug":"children-of-an-addict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doxaweb.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/01\/children-of-an-addict\/","title":{"rendered":"children of an addict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the second time this week, the LA cathedral has become an anti-sacrament, a symbol of <a href=\"http:\/\/onelacatholic.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/students-threatened-with-arrest-at-la.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>alienation, dissension, and violence<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/doxaweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cardinalmahony.jpg?resize=340%2C227&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6522\" width=\"340\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/doxaweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cardinalmahony.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/doxaweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cardinalmahony.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel profoundly saddened and ashamed. I don&#8217;t know why. Is this what it feels like to be the child of an alcoholic father?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I work with a bunch of non-Catholics. I was trying to imagine how I would explain my sadness to them, because for them doctrine and the liturgy are not treasures that they value. I finally realized that it isn&#8217;t about doctrine or liturgy. Liberals and conservatives alike have no fondness for the Cardinal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best way I can describe the situation is this: being a Catholic in the archdiocese of Los Angeles is like being a child of an addict. There are a number of correspondences between the family of an addict and the archdiocese of Los Angeles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>the addict is an opportunist who engages in a systematic campaign of denial and cover-up<\/li><li>the addict is a law unto himself<\/li><li>the addict forms alliances outside of the family in order to sustain the toxic fiction of well-being<\/li><li>when confronted with the fallout of his toxic behavior, he asks for forgiveness without being thoroughly contrite (ready to make amends); he is unable or unwilling to make a sustained, thorough-going apology for what he has done and for the consequences of his behavior on family life<\/li><li>he surrounds himself with enablers and peacemakers (e.g. Todd Tamberg and Mike Nelson)<\/li><li>he scapegoats his victims<\/li><li>his children suffer from a particularly intense form of neglect, a neglect that would be less severe if he were <em>physically absent<\/em>; as it is, his presence continually makes present the reality, &#8220;you are not loved for your own sake&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It is particularly telling that there was an editorial by Mike Nelson in this week&#8217;s <em>Tidings<\/em>, scapegoating the victim of sexual abuse who chained himself to the presider&#8217;s chair last Sunday during Mahony&#8217;s homily. <em>Scapegoating a victim of abuse!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Tidings<\/em> went to print before today&#8217;s unrest at the Cathedral. During an interfaith prayer service being held there, members of the LAPD had to intervene to prevent Cathedral staff from having some pro-life Catholics arrested. The LAPD, the organization that brought us the Rodney King debacle, acted in a notably more altruistic manner than the staff at the Cathedral. There is a reason the Cathedral looks like a fortress. It has become a symbol of a man whose primary apostolate is to protect himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not saying that the Cardinal is necessarily an alcoholic. I don&#8217;t know the man personally. But the patterns of addiction are there for all to see. At the very least, I think it safe to say that he exhibits some form of addiction to the cult of his own personality. How else do you explain the narcissistic behaviors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The consequences of such toxic behavior are far-reaching: there is some intense spiritual as well as psychological fallout. Essentially, the wound experienced by the child of an alcoholic father is this: I have a father who is not concerned with my welfare. That&#8217;s a very sobering, even spiritually crippling, thing to think about. It&#8217;s a return to the wound into which the serpent insinuated Eve in the Garden: you do not have a loving Father, but one that only seeks what is best for Himself. In the case of Eve, it was a lie. In the case of the archdiocese of Los Angeles, the sting of pain is especially sharp because, by all accounts, it is true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I was poring over the testimony given by the Cardinal in hearings last winter, I lost interest in the question of whether the Cardinal actually knew or did this, that or the other thing. I realized that, regardless of what he has done or not done, I am still unhappy with him. I am dissatisfied simply because of who he has failed to be: a shepherd. He has failed to provide the pastoral love that we, his spiritual children, are longing for. We long to look into the face of a priest and see there a reflection of the Father&#8217;s love\u2026 a presence that dispells the lie that we do not have a Father who looks at us with love and attentively seeks out the lost. As it is, we are given reason to doubt the parable of the prodigal son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s first Friday, a fitting day for prayer and reparation. In the family of an addict, every one is a victim, including the addict himself. So maybe that gives us a way to pray, even for the Cardinal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And to pray that someone will perform an intervention before things get much worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADDENDUM (March 2019)<\/strong>: I wish the Cardinal would watch the film <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/heartofmanmovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Heart of Man<\/a><\/strong>. 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