Observations on Wikipedia editing on Maciel's page from
Catholic Culture
The last few days a little editing war has been going on on Maciel's wikipedia page. A paragraph was added early on the morning of the Jan. 28, by an IP address from Hartford, CT. It was removed by someone using a registered account (so you can't trace where he's from), then restored by an IP address from the law firm of Wilmer Hale in Washington DC. As of right now, it's been removed again.
Here is the page
Wikipedia: Marcial Maciel
My Comment
As someone with 3400 edits on Wikipedia, let me explain what goes on on articles in the news such as 9/11, Terri Schiavo, and Sarah Palin. The editing becomes tendentious because it becomes impossible to have an objective distance from the material and, of course, advocates have the greatest interest in their contributions remaining in the article. The winners typically are the ones with the most idle time on their hands rather than the most objective point of view.
Labels: catholic, clegy abuse, wikipedia
posted by
Patrick Sweeney at 8:42 PM
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Mental Eval Ordered for Hostage Suspect (AP)
In his 2002 lawsuit in Suffolk County Superior Court, Eisenberg sued former Archbishop Bernard Law, alleging that a priest at St. Catherine Church in Westford, Massachusetts, molested him in the early 1980s. The priest denied abusing Eisenberg, who claimed the abuse when he was about 21.
Leeland Eisenberg with a fake bomb threatened to blow up the a New Hampshire campaign office of Hillary Clinton and took hostages demanding to speak to Mrs. Clinton.
Of course, Cardinal Law is not a former Archbishop, he is the former "Archbishop of Boston", he is currently assigned as Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
I don't know whether this allegation is credible or incredible -- but I suspect many people have found another reason to hate the Catholic Church -- for they infer was the cause of Eisenberg's problems later in life.
Labels: clegy abuse, clinton
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Patrick Sweeney at 8:54 PM
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