96: Anger, Forgiveness, and the Sex Abuse Scandal—Rick Fitzgibbons, MD.

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🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons has 40 years’ experience as a psychiatrist. His expertise is in the clinical benefits of forgiveness and in the interpersonal dynamics of anger. The priestly abuse crisis provides plenty of anger, and plenty of opportunity for forgiveness, where appropriate. But is the crisis about “clericalism” as some have claimed?

Fitzgibbons believes that if anyone blames clericalism participates in the cover-up since the crisis is mainly about homosexual predators destroying young lives. Euphemisms and changing the subject are not a strategy for restoration.

In this episode you will learn:

The psychological roots of same-sex attraction
The difference between sinful anger and the morally neutral emotion of anger
Why forgiveness is a choice, not a feeling
The way in which clericalism has helped give cover to the perpetrators
Why the Catholic Church is still the unique repository of Christ’s truth

Resources recommended in this episode:

Forgiveness Therapy: An Empirical Guide for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope by Rick Fitzgibbons, MD, and Robert Enright, MD.
Dr. Fitzgibbons websites: maritalhealing.com and www.childhealing.com
John Jay Report, covering the facts about abuse (and allegations) by priests from 1950-2002

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How can righteous anger be a positive agent for change in the Church today?

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 96 of the Patrick Coffin Show.
0:04.0	I'm Dr. Jordan B Peterson. Clean up your damn room.
0:08.0	Stand up straight with your shoulders back and listen to the Patrick Coffin Shill.
0:13.0	Welcome to the show.
0:14.0	Now, not that it's a pleasant thing to go there and talk about the problems in Rome and the sex scandal,
0:19.0	but we have to because it's continually in the news and people keep telling the wrong story presenting false facts
0:25.0	or we're going to get to the truth, get to the bottom of not just the political and not just the
0:29.4	spiritual and emotional, but the psychiatric and the psychological
0:33.2	roots of this crisis.
0:34.8	Is it a pedophile priest problem?
0:36.4	Are we dealing with clericalism?
0:38.3	What's the nature of it?
0:40.2	A psychiatrist with 40 years experience is going to drill deep into the particulars on this episode of the Patrick Coffin Show.
0:46.4	Straight Ahead. My guest is Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons. He's a psychiatrist and the director of the Institute for
1:00.8	Marital Healing, outside Philadelphia.
1:03.4	He's written about anger and the clinical benefits of forgiveness,
1:07.0	taught at the John Paul II Institute for Studies
1:09.0	and Marriage in the Family at Catholic University,
1:11.4	and has served as a consultant to the Congregation for Clergy at
1:15.2	the Vatican.
1:16.2	He's also the co-author of helping clients forgive an empirical guide for resolving
1:21.0	anger and restoring hope.
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