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	Saturday, October 09, 2010 Outpatient Clinic October 9, 2010 http://outpatientclinic.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-just-shot-video-today-using-shows.html?zx=d2186701572859fa [with video] I just shot a video today using shoes that were donated for an art installation I am hoping to show at some point in the future. My goal was and still is to collect 1000 shoes making each shoe represent 1200 victims of clergy sexual abuse. That's right, that means there are around 1,200,000 victims of clergy sexual abuse worldwide. How did I arrive at that number? Bishops Accountability has concluded that there are roughly 50,000 victims in the United States. The US represents 6% of the world's Catholic population so that would figure over 3/4 of a million victims worldwide. Father Andrew Greeley estimated that there were 100,000 victims in the US. That would make it a whopping 1,650,000 worldwide. I averaged the two and came out to 1,200,000. So far I have collected 180 shoes. I seriously thought it was a lot more but this was what I had to work with today. Which was kind of creepy once I did the math. Each shoe represents 6,666 victims worldwide. Hmmmm. The name of the short video and future art installation is "Putting On Its Shoes," named after the Mark Twain Quote - "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes." What's the lie? That the abuse is something new. It has been going on for a long time. The song in the video is Ave Maria sung by Alessandro Moreschi, the last famous castrito who sang in the choir at the bascillica in Rome. He was castrated when he was a little boy so he could sing like that for the Pope. The song was recorded in 1904 when he was 46 years old. I'm going to say that castrating a kid as late as the in the 1860's or 70's is abuse. Come to think of it, it always was abuse! Speaking of 1870, Mother Mary MacKillop was excommunicated from the church for reporting Fr Keating for sexually abusing children. Now she is about to become the patron Saint for the sexually abused. Did I mention this was all in 1870? And they are still shocked and saddened by the abuse they have been covering up for centuries. Yep, the lie. It is time to put on our shoes.
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