Grand Jury Excoriated Philadelphia Archdiocese

[JOHNYJ]

Mosher ;
You still haven’t explained why the bishops always run to Leviticus and Saint Paul when it comes to Gay,abortion,birth control, Yet for child molesting.They all of a sudden ignored scripture and ran to the laymen,strange
Also if the conference had asked the accused bishops to resign and they refused. The conference could have filled complaints against them with Rome ! They did nothing.

 

[Donna_Mc]

Thank you Malibu for your recommendation.

I and others I know have experienced anti-catholic bias over
the years. One time a friend and I were at a concert done by
a contemporary christian musician. Before the show started
we struck up a conversation with a young married couple sitting
next to us who were not catholic. The conversation went along
nicely until they realized that the church my friend sang at was
a catholic church. At that point the conversation came to an
abrupt end. During the show the singer was mentioning various denominations and people would cheer after
each one he mentioned, that is until he said catholic. At that
point, there were many boos. The singer was not happy with
this response and began to sing “They Will Know We Are
Christians By Our Love”.

My friend who is a nurse was wearing a cross necklace to
work where a co-worker commented on this and found out
my friend was a catholic. The lady then said “Oh so you
aren’t a Christian then”. My friend tried to explain that she
was a Catholic Christian. Another friend of mine regualry
gets told that she isn’t saved since she is a Catholic.

After the scandals were revealed in 2002 my Mother-In-Law
made a comment on the day of our son’s first Communion
as we were discussing keeping kids safe. She then had
to mention to me “You know, like what your priests do”.

I looked at the article and did not know any of the priests
mentioned.

 

[JOHNYJ]

RE : Donna Mc # 41
Next time some Fundamentalist protestant tries to bust your chops you tell them

1.The Catholic church is the only church founded by Jesus Christ himself
2. The line of Popes goes back 2,000 years
3.All protestant churches were founded by ,men.
4 no protestant church is older than 500 years
5.There is One Catholic church and at the llast count 27,000 diferent protestant churches

 

[Donna_Mc]

Thanks for your post Johny! Most of these things occured before
I listened to Catholic radio and watched EWTN. If this happened
now I would be much better prepared.

 

[SamCA]

mgy100:

In a town near mine a united methodist minister was suspended and dimissed for molestation.

It isn’t talked about, and it was recent. The local newspaper wouldn’t run anything on it, nor would the nearest city paper. Swept under the table… I know some parishoners that told me he was dimissed.
If this allegation was on a Catholic priest, even the BBC would have a live feed broadcast in front of this town’s church.

That may have something to do with the fact that if it was a Catholic priest, he may not have been suspended or dismissed.

 

[SamCA]

And by the way, people should realize the full scope of the Bishops’ cover-ups in this case. Here are some of the crimes documented by the Grand Jury in Philadelphia:

• A girl, 11 years old, was raped by her priest and became pregnant. The Father took her in for an abortion.

• A 5th-grader was molested by her priest inside the confessional booth.

• A teenage girl was groped by her priest while she lay immobilized in traction in a hospital bed. The priest stopped only when the girl was able to ring for a nurse.

• A boy was repeatedly molested in his own school auditorium, where his priest/teacher bent the boy over and rubbed his genitals against the boy until the priest ejaculated.

• A priest, no longer satisfied with mere pederasty, regularly began forcing sex on two boys at once in his bed.

• A boy woke up intoxicated in a priest’s bed to find the Father sucking on his penis while three other priests watched and masturbated themselves.

• A priest offered money to boys in exchange for sadomasochism – directing them to place him in bondage, to “break” him, to make him their “slave,” and to defecate so that he could lick excrement from them.

• A 12-year-old, who was raped and sodomized by his priest, tried to commit suicide, and remains institutionalized in a mental hospital as an adult.

• A priest told a 12-year-old boy that his mother knew of and had agreed to the priest’s repeated rape of her son.

• A boy who told his father about the abuse his younger brother was suffering was beaten to the point of unconsciousness. “Priests don’t do that,” said the father as he punished his son for what he thought was a vicious lie against the clergy.

Here are some incidents that exemplify the manner in which the Archdiocese responded to the sexual abuse of its most vulnerable parishioners:

• The Archdiocese official in charge of abuse investigations described one abusive priest as “one of the sickest people I ever knew.” Yet Cardinal Bevilacqua allowed him to continue in ministry, with full access to children – until the priest scandal broke in 2002.

• One abusive priest was transferred so many times that, according to the Archdiocese’s own records, they were running out of places to send him where he would not already be known.

• On at least one occasion Cardinal Bevilacqua agreed to harbor a known abuser from another diocese, giving him a cover story and a neighborhood parish here because the priest’s arrest for child abuse had aroused too much controversy there. Officials referred to this sort of practice as “bishops helping bishops.”

• A nun who complained about a priest who was still ministering to children – even after he was convicted of receiving child pornography – was fired from her position as director of religious education.

• A seminarian studying for the priesthood who revealed that he himself had been abused as an altar boy was accused of homosexuality – and was dismissed from the diocese. He was able to become a priest only by relocating to another area.

• When the Archdiocese did purport to seek psychological evaluation of a priest, the primary tool for diagnosis was “self reporting” – in other words, whether the abuser was willing to admit that he was a pedophile. Absent such a “diagnosis,” the Archdiocese declined to treat any priest as a pedophile, no matter how compelling the evidence.

• Even when admitted, the abuse was excused: an Archdiocese official comforted one sexually abusive priest by suggesting that the priest had been “seduced” by his 11-year-old victim.

• An Archdiocese official explained that the church could not discipline one especially egregious abuser because, as the official put it, he was not a “pure pedophile” – that is, he not only abused little boys; he also slept with women.

• When one priest showed signs of seeking penance from his victims, the church-run “treatment” facility urged Archdiocese officials to move him to another assignment away from the victims – in other words, transfer him before he apologizes again.

 

[Elzee]

HagiaSophia:

… And to the day I die, I will never forget the shouts of joy, the smiles and the tears of relief when those kids at the North American College heard the announcement of “The Ratz” as our new pope. They proudly proclaimed themselves as JPII priests in interview after interview. May God give them grace and courage for the days ahead. It was pure joy to see and hear them. A new morning is dawning for the church and in many unexpected ways.

I pray you are right. Things look so dark at times…