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VOTF
Actions Now
Your VOTF Convocation Implementation Team (CIT) has
been busy as always finding new ways to foster and
evaluate the Child Protection and Financial Accountability
Campaigns over the past two years.
The two most recent initiatives have been:
1. To encourage VOTF members to make their grave
concern about Cardinal George becoming President
of the USCCB
known to their local bishop(s). The reason for
our vote of no confidence is his weak implementation
of the Charter for Children and Youth in his own
archdiocese especially regarding the Rev. Daniel
McCormack sexual abuse case. We trust that you
have
written a note to your own local bishop expressing
your own serious reservation about this. (Your
regional rep should have sent you background information
on
this.)
[To emphasize that our goal is church reform, news
of the letter writing campaign was not initially sent
to the media. We wanted to give bishops a chance to
deliberate on the impact of electing Cardinal George
without outside media pressure. Public release is planned
before the end of September.]
2. An even larger initiative involves
local affiliates surveying their own diocese to determine
compliance
with Child Protection, Financial, and Church
Governance Accountability. These three surveys can
be obtained
on the home page of the VOTF website under
CONSCIENCE + COURAGE = DISCIPLESHIP. The deadline
for completing the on-line survey is Sept. 15,
2007. As of Sept. 10, we
had results
from 25 dioceses. If your affiliate has not yet
responded, please encourage members to do it right
away. Results
from all the participating dioceses will be distributed
at the Providence Convention on Oct. 19 and then
posted for the public.
Convocation Implementation Committee
Janet Hauter, Hugh O’Regan, Susan Vogt, Mary
Pat Fox, and Donna Doucette
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