Updated March 4, 2014

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17^th century Roman law ruled against 21^st century American California victims’ fate!

How illogical, unreasonable, absurd, preposterous, meaningless, obstinate and unjust that Jerry Brown, a 21^st century governor of California would invoke an archaic Roman law in 1623 - in the 17^th Century - to decide what is justice in the 21^st century and the fate of victims of 20^th century pedophiles (priests) committed in California, the most populace state of the United States of America that came into existence only in the 19^th Century? California became part of the USA only in 1850, in the 19^th century. The US Constitution went into effect only in 1789 towards the end of the 18^th century. The Bills Of Rights were ratified in 1891. And here is (ex-Jesuit) Governor Jerry Brown invoking an archaic 17^th century Roman law… to decide the fate of Americans… victims in the 21^st century??

Hello!! Governor Jerry Brown not only has lost his hair but has also lost his head as to which century he is living in, he is lost in geography (he should consult Google Map at least), lost in time, lost in American law and inhuman in rendering such injustice to victims of pedophiles (priests) in California. Because Brown vetoed SB 131 victims of pedophiles of the Roman Catholic Church will never see justice, read more below why it should be truthfully called in the 21^st century as the “Vatican Catholic Church”.

No one can get more outlandish, incongruous, irrational and ludicrous than Governor Jerry Brown a 21^st century governor of the USA who invoked a 17^th century law from far away Rome to impose (in)justice on Americans victims of 20^th century JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army named aptly after the longest reigned white Pope in Rome who said nothing and did nothing to protect children from thousands of pedophile priests, the largest number who are in California? Children in California and in the USA must never pray to false “saint” John Paul II in deference to all his victims in the USA and in the world because he is the true Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts and Rapists Priests, read here the prayer composed by Mexicans http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2011/04/john-paul-ii-saint-of-pedophiles-and.html. Californians must stop believing in the sorcery of the instant cloning of Christ’s flesh in the now OC Catholic Crystal Cathedral, read more here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/oc-diocese-buys-crystal-cathedral-as.html

We hope that this is the last term of Governor Jerry Brown and that he will disappear forever from politics because California does not deserve such an archaic governor based on Roman law in the 17^th century.

Goliath-bully Bill Donohue was quick to take credit for Governor Brown’s act by pointing out that the veto contained part of his personal letter: “I personally wrote to Governor Brown citing the sexual abuse of students at Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles… I am delighted that Governor Brown saw fit to mention Miramonte in his statement.” (See news updates below). The literary style of the unusual 3 pages veto letter of Governor Brown is identical to that of Donohue which proves they co-wrote it together. Donohue reiterated that “The Catholic League contacted over 1,000 parishes in California, all the lawmakers, and every one of our members in the state asking them to demand justice. But the real heroes are the bishops of California, led by Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez.” These are the same Bishops who covered-up and aided and abetted thousands of pedophile priests and Archbishop Gomez is of course an Opus Dei (Mafia) member who is a living proof of the hidden evil power of Opus Dei among American politicians, see more of them here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/goliath-bill-donohue-catholic-league.html

Gov. Brown vetoed SB131 on October 12, eve of the feast of Our Lady of Fatima on October13

It is not a surprise (was highly predicted) that ex-Jesuit seminarian Governor Jerry Brown of California vetoed SB 131 in secret collaboration with the Jesuit Pope Francis and he had the gall to cite an ancient Roman law in allusion to the Roman Catholic Church. Brown invoked a medieval Roman law that “Statutes of limitations reach back to Roman law and were specifically enshrined in the English common law by the Limitations Act of 1623”. (St. Ignatius Loyola was canonized a year before that in 1622). Governor Jerry Brown indeed proved himself archaic and very Jesuitical in following a medieval law to support the Medieval Vatican Bank (so it won’t pay again to victims) and reiterate its obsolete Middle Ages Canon Laws. Ex-Jesuit Brown chose to suppress the victims of the 20^th Century JP2 Army from having their day in court and he chose to support the wealthy Catholic White Mafia of White Pope Francis. "It was unfair to all private and nonprofit organizations," said the Rev. Gerald Wilkerson, president of the California Catholic Bishops Conference because the church has paid $1.2 billion to settle more than 1,000 cases. So as he vetoed SB131, Brown prevented another possible 1,000 cases and another $1.2 billion in settlement by the Roman Catholic Church. Judas sold Christ for 33 pieces of silver but Governor Brown sold His least brethrens (for millions that won't be paid to them) this time to the Opus Dei Pharisees.

Ex-Jesuit Jerry Brown said institutions (especially the Catholic Church) should “feel secure” that "past acts are indeed in the past and not subject to further lawsuits." The underlying message here is that the Roman Catholic Church is “above the law” and it can commit the most heinous crimes but that is a “thing of the past so forget about it and get over it”. Brown demonstrated that the Roman Catholic Church can also afford to buy the souls of politicians after all its wealth is beyond measure all over the world and it promises a prime real estate in the Kingdom of Heaven, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/07/rupert-murdoch-supporter-of-paedophilia.html

Brown had also the gall to mention Penn State, but the fact is NCAA & Penn State are more moral than Vatican. Sports is more moral than John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html

We have always warned SNAP that they will be treated as Governor Brown said, "past acts are indeed in the past, just like “Dust in the wind”, something not worth mentioning in Catholic history books in the archives of the Catholic Church. That is why we are always speaking about having a secular SNAP monument and SNAP Memorial Days in May 1 and September 11 annually. Read http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/may-1-september-11-anniversaries-for.html and see below the update of September 11. Two weeks ago, one of the biggest proof of SNAP as dust in history was Pope Francis who met with his hypocritical copycat G-8 and he did not mention one word about clergy sex abuse (see news updates below). As the Jesuit Mask of Vatican Deceits, Pope Francis is treating pedophile priests phenomenon as “a thing of the past” and as if it “never existed” and so Catholics now can simply party in the canonization of John Paul II and John XXIII who never performed a miracle and chant the robotic Rosary that are like broken records reminders of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army – and the JP2 Deceitful Dark Mysteries entrenched in the Luminous Mysteries.

“The past is past” has always been the Modus Operandi of the Catholic Church and the Popes and priests do it well especially in the unjust Sacrament of Confession where priests are so powerful as to simply eradicate sins/crimes with a one Hail Mary penitential robot prayer and criminals simply go scot-free and never have to do any restitution on their victims. That "past acts are indeed in the past and not subject to further lawsuits." is Jerry Brown’s most give-away statement that collaborate with Vatican Deceits that the Catholic Church is a “pure church” - as the Bride of Christ is a “Pure Virgin” - no matter what Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils are committed centuries after centuries. That is why John Paul II will be canonized a saint despite his evil Achilles Heels of Fr. Marcial Maciel and Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, read more here “Heil SatanasJP2! Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children" http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html

Like his confreres, Brown too is an Opus Dei Jesuit Janitor who has to cover-up the most heinous crimes against children under the 27 years Opus Dei papacy of John Paul II who’ll be canonized soon and ex-Jesuit seminarian Governor Jerry Brown is guaranteed a front row seat in St. Peter’s Square, a photo-op with Jesuit Pope Francis, and front row seat in the new Catholic OC Crystal Cathedral where he’ll partake in the sorcery of the instant cloning of the flesh of Christ, see images below of Dolly the Sheep and 9-months pregnancy of Mary the Mother of Christ. When will stupid Catholics ever wake up and see that erratic popes and gay homosexual priests cannot clone the flesh of Christ just like they cannot clone Dolly the Sheep or cats and dogs.

Cardinal Mahony and his thousands of pedophile priests of the JP2 Army, the largest in the USA and in the world

Medieval Jesuits and the Roman law Limitations Act of 1623

Medieval St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits was born on 1491, founded Society of Jesus in 1534, canonized on March 12, 1622. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_of_Loyola St. Ignatius never performed any miracle – just like Pope John XXIII who’ll be canonized did not perform a miracle either.

Read our related article: Middle Ages Vatican condemns New Age American Nuns: The Celestine Prophecy come true! Sisters in Crisis book mocks LCWR Sisters in Christ http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/middle-ages-vatican-condemns-new-age.html

Brown took his first Jesuit vows when he was a Jesuit seminarian and it is ingrained in him to obey the pope no matter how evil the pope is because the pope is the “spouse of Christ”. St. Ignatius 4^th vow to the pope is brainwashed and entrenched in every Jesuit and as a former Jesuit, Jerry Brown has that Ignatian swear deeply-rooted in him. Notice the Vatican Pied Pipers were careful to only mention that he is a “Catholic “seminarian, thus cunningly removing the word that he was a former “Jesuit seminarian” to prevent people from reading and seeing the Jesuit connection of Governor Brown to the Jesuit Pope.

The Roman Catholic Church is a medieval name but in the 21^st century it should be rightly called the Vatican Catholic Church because this is the truth and the truth shall set the world free. Rome is a secular city and the Pope has no power in Rome even if he is the head of state of the Vatican “country”, read more USA ambassador to Vatican - for what exactly? “Pray” with the pope in one office, in one basilica that equals “one country”? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/usa-ambassador-to-vatican-for-what.html.

The Vatican Deceits have been perpetuated by the Jesuits longer than the Opus Dei. At least the Jesuits have some organizations that help the poor while the Opus Dei are pure upper echelon Pharisees who rattle on their robotic Angelus and Rosary prayers which few Jesuits pray. The irony is, while some Jesuits help the poor they are really a band aid solution and a cover-up to perpetuate the Pope’s autocracy and Vatican Global Wealth, read here the assets of the Catholic Church http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html

JP2 Army is the 8^th Sword on Mary’s heart

Our Lady of Fatima inspires us to tell the world that She now has an 8^th sword that pierces her heart and that is the JP2 Army sword of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army - and the robotic Rosary chatters by those Opus Dei matrix clones and Catholics pray as they chant “saint JP2, we love you” are like broken records sound that press that sword deeper into her heart because Governor Jerry Brown vetoed SB131 is now rubbing salt and vinegar to the wounds of the victims of the JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests army in California, the greatest numbers in the world. One of the seven last words of Christ on the Cross was “I thirst” and a Roman soldier gave vinegar to Christ to quench his thirst and likewise as victims of the JP2 Army “we thirst for justice”, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed SB 131 as vinegar in their final thirst and hope… and expiration of justice in California. Remember, it was the first Jesuit Cardinal Bellarmine who wrote and delivered the condemnation of the Pope on Galileo that imprisoned him while the (false) infallible Pope preached to the world that the sun revolved around the earth, read more here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/vatican-terrorism-on-galileo-women-and.html. So it is not a surprise that the ex-Jesuit seminarian vetoed SB 131 and also similarly (like Galileo) condemns the victims of the JP2 Army to a lifetime of prison and to never see justice in their lifetime in California and from the Roman Catholic Church, the White Mafia of the White Pope.

Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows invite any artist out to add an 8th sword in this image of Our Lady (it's in Public Domain) The 8th sword represents the JP2 Army - John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army of 27 years in the 20th Century that surpass the Army of Herod.

Our Lady of Fatima is like Rachel weeping for her children abused by the JP2 Army - John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in California who'll never see justice in their lifetime because of Governor Jerry Brown http://stella0maris.blogspot.ca/2011/01/john-paul-ii-versus-our-lady-of.html

As the Jesuit Pope Francis gasp for air in the Vatican Titanic sinking deeper in moral bankruptcy, God is indeed revealing the Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils out there all over the world at an alarming rate. Whatever the Opus Dei is trying to buy the souls of secular leaders, God is at the same time revealing the intrinsic evils of the Vatican worldwide . In the Dominican Republic Pope’s Francis Vatican Ambassador and Polish priest who help him pimp young boys are wanted for secular justice. In Germany, the Bishop’s 42 million dollars house renovation is suddenly revealed. In Rome, the Vatican Bank Bishop and Accountant sits in jail awaiting trial for smuggling 20 million Euros from a Vatican Swiss Bank to Rome…in cash, see news updates and links below. If Catholics continue to be stupid as to believe that these mortal sinful priests can clone the flesh of the immortal god, they will deserve the total annihilation of the Vatican as the Third Secret of Fatima revealed in 1917. It took how many years or decades before the prophecy of Christ came true for the Temple of Solomon? Soon it will be the 100^th anniversary of the miracles of Our Lady of Fatima…and an8th sword now pierces her heart as John Paul II will be canonized, Catholics too will soon be going to the Vatican only to wail at the Vatican Temple of the Saint John Paul II .

It is quite a coincidence or God-incidence that ex-Jesuit Jerry Brown vetoed SB131 on the eve of the feast of Our Lady of Fatima on October13 because he finally confirmed the Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests army- and the canonization of John Paul II shall hasten the fulfillment of the Third Secret of Fatima which the Vatican has refused to reveal. The one that Bertone released was a doctored document, read here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/04/cardinal-ratzinger-and-cardinal-bertone.html.

Ex-Jesuit Jerry Brown fits well in the Vatican Catholic Church the city that “lie for a living”, read our related article, “Argo &“saint” John Paul II are make-believe legends of Hollywood and the Vatican, the twin cities that “lie for a living” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/argo-john-paul-ii-are-make-believe_11.html

Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

Pearl Harbor - 3,000 victims - 170 planes - Admiral Yamamoto

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

Priest pedophilia - 15,736 victims - 6,100 pedophile priests covered-up by Cardinals, Bishops, vicars, and the Vatican Trinity: John Paul II, Cardinal Ratzinger-Pope Benedict XVI, Opus Dei, and now Governor Jerry Brown as he vetoed SB 131

Reasons why Opus Dei covered-up the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army for decades: Words of Opus Dei Joaquin Navarro-Valls http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2010/04/reasons-why-opus-dei-covered-up-john.html

Opus Dei female symbol for John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2010/04/opus-dei-female-symbol-for-john-paul-ii.html

The Vatican and Rome are no longer synonymous.

The Vatican Catholics, not Roman Catholics.

The Vatican and Rome are no longer synonymous.

The Pope has no authority in Rome.

The Pope is not Roman. Catholics are not Roman.

The Pope has no power in Rome.

The Vatican is not part of Rome.

The Pope is not a citizen of Rome.

The allegiance of Catholics is to the Pope and the Vatican or the Magisterium… The allegiance of Catholics is NOT to Rome; therefore, it is fallacious to call them “Roman Catholics”.

Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI and Pope Francis has no papal authority over Rome; therefore, Catholics are not Roman.

The Vatican must start paying taxes for its staggering business properties in Rome starting in 2013. To keep calling them as “Roman Catholics” is to keep feeding the voracious Vatican Mammon, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html. .

The Pope and the Vatican have no political authority and no influence in Rome or in Italian Parliament.

The false (old) statement is, Catholics are “Roman Catholics” of the “Roman Catholic Church”.

The true (new) statement is, Catholics are “Vatican Catholics” of the “Vatican Catholic Church”.But the Vatican cling-on to Rome and use its Roman Coliseum to latch-on to the fame of the gladiators and the Hail Caesars as the Pope copy-cat the powers of Caesars which Forbes described Benedict XVI as the 5th Most Powerful Person in the world, read here Forbes delusion of Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI powers http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/forbes-delusion-of-vatican-last-tsar.html.
The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html

John Allen will come out as foremost Vatican Pied Piper at his best list of possible pope candidates, read more about him here John L. Allen Jr. Pied Piper of John Paul II deceives Catholics with his essay Fast-Track Saint in Newsweek -- with Vatican lunacy & Satanic timeline http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/05/john-lallen-jrthe-pied-piper-of-john.html and here John L. Allen Jr the Devil's twin the 21st century deceiving Catholics and the world
http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/03/john-l-allen-jr-devils-twin-21st.html

Updated October 12, 2013

Long suffering victims of pedophile priests in California are joined together in anxious waiting for October 13 to see whether Governor Jerry Brown will sign or not sign...If he does nothing California bill SB 131 will become law effective January 1, 2014, and justice will prevail once more in California for children.

We are praying that Governor Jerry Brown will sign California bill SB 131, but we do not pray the robotic Rosary or the Divine Mercy. Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe inspires us that she cannot stand these Catholic robotic prayers that remind Her so much of John Paul II who spent years on the fabrication of the new Luminous Mysteries but at the same time he covered-up 27 years of heinous crimes of his JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army – the largest numbers who are in California.

The 5 new Mysteries of Light written by John Paul II proved the “JP2 Mysteries of Darkness” during his 27 years papacy wherein he said nothing and did nothing to protect children and to stop thousands of pedophile priests. John Paul II is the most traveled pope but it was all for his narcissistic self glory as John Paul II “the Great” and now we are seeing that the JP2 Army tsunami really infested the whole world as far as Australia. And now the Polish Papal Nuncio in the Dominican Republic was quietly sacked after families discover he has been pimping young prebucent boys, see news below.

Read our related article, Rosary could not defeat JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the 20th Century ... unlike the Battle of Lepanto in the 16th Century

October 7, 2013, feast of the Rosary

John Paul II the ugliest pope to be canonized on Divine Mercy Sunday, another robotic Catholic prayer

In July 2002, John Paul II went for his last World Youth Day in Toronto only an hour flight from Boston where the epicenter of priest pedophilia has erupted in January. But amidst the chant of “JP2, we love you” of Opus Dei robots Catholics, John Paul II refused to mention or meet with one of the thousands of victims of 80 pedophile priests whom Cardinal Bernard Law confessed that he aided and abetted. Later in October 2002, John Paul II issued his Apostolic Letter wherein he added the Fourth Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary. In October he also canonized Opus Dei Spanish fascist founder Josemaria Escriva. Read the full aticle here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/10/rosary-could-not-defeat-jp2-army-john_06.html

Updated October 1, 2013

Dear Governor Jerry Brown,

Please sign SB 131 because you are our only hope and our last hope for justice as victims of pedophiles (priests). October 13 is the last day you’re supposed to sign SB 131 and it happens to coincide with the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. In all her apparitions, she always had a unique message and purpose, but in Fatima it was the most unique because on the Third Secret of Fatima she revealed the thousands of pedophile priests she saw burning in the fires of Hell – which is why the Popes and the Vatican have refused to release it, read here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/04/cardinal-ratzinger-and-cardinal-bertone.html. Your state of California holds the most number of pedophile priests which she saw in Fatima in 1917. California is one of the biggest proofs of the Third Secret of Fatima so please sign SB 131 to reveal the entire scope and scale of pedophile priests which Nuestra Madre de Guadalupe is anxiously waiting for you to do.

You must not hamper and stop the flow of justice for if you veto SB 131 you would be continuing to cover-up the crimes of these pedophiles (priests) which Cardinal Mahony and so many Bishops skillfully accomplished. Please do not sell your soul to Opus Dei Archbishop Gomez and to the corrupt billions of dollars of the Vatican wealth, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html .

Pope John Paul II in his longest papacy personally covered-up and promoted the serial pedophile priest Fr. Marcial Maciel - they went to their favorite pilgrimage in Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexico five times, read here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/01/beloved-companions-john-paul-ii-and-fr.html and see more images below. As a Catholic and a believer of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, it is now your duty to release the rest of the truth which she as Our Lady of Fatima revealed in 1917... but which John Paul II hid in his evil Achilles Heel for the sake of his narcissistic glory as “John Paul II ‘the Great’” , read more herehttp://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/07/irish-pm-blasts-narcissism-of-vatican.html.

The people of California elected their Representatives and Senators and they already voted for SB 131 with their consciences and with ample debate and agreement. Please listen and affirm the California House of Assembly and sign SB 131 thereby confirming the peoples’ voices in their Representatives and Senators with you as their righteous Governor.

May God give you the courage to do the right thing and so finally sign Senate Bill 131.

The JP2 Army victims

http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/

See news updates and images below

Updated September 20, 2013

Dear Governor Jerry Brown,

Tomorrow there will be a RALLY IN SUPPORT OF SB 131 at the State Capitol. Please do not count the numbers of people who will attend this rally because victims of pedophiles (priests) do not go door to door to explain the heinous crimes they have suffered as children under the hands of holy sacred priests. They do not go to TV talk shows to explain how they were sodomized by sacred priests of the confessionals or rectories of the Roman Catholic Church because the clout of the Vatican and the Pope especially John Paul II were overpowering. In fact, this is probably the most “solitary suffering” of a “living Hell” among all the crimes in the world - that it takes decades into their adulthood - before they can acknowledge and accept that they were unjustly sexually abused by “Representatives and Voices of God” because they are sacred priests who can clone God’s flesh. Read our related article, “Sacrament of Confession protects criminals and persecutes their victims” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html

Please do not count the number of people in the rally tomorrow but rather talk and listen to votes of the Representatives and Senators of the People of California who have already voted and debated and approved this Senate Bill 131 in the Houses of Representatives and Senate Assembly – they represent the people of California and therefore you must approve this bill SB 131 they already have amply debated and voted upon. Please read this entire post dedicated to you.

Majority of Catholics are ignorant about these heinous crimes of the half of the 20th Century overseen and presided by John Paul II the Great. Catholics believe that the “Magic” of the Eucharist and the Rosary can simply be prayed and “heal instantly” the lifetime sufferings these victims of pedophiles (priests) are suffering. But crimes and sufferings cannot be deleted with Magic or Sorcery – no matter how long these traditions of the sorcery of the Eucharist has lasted for centuries – like The Borgias crimes and centuries of Pope crimes and Vatican Evils cannot be erased by prayers, read our related article

OC Diocese buys Crystal Cathedral as flesh-factory of Christ... for wealthy God-flesh-eating Catholics http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/oc-diocese-buys-crystal-cathedral-as.html

Please sign SB 131 now for the sake of Our Lady of Guadalupe and her children who were abused by pedophiles (priests), the largest number in the history of the USA and the world, because your signature alone will bring final justice to them - and to Her - as she mourns her children abused by men who have usurped the persona of HER SON to commit the most heinous crimes against her children.

Governor Jerry Brown,

You are our final hope for the whole truth and TRUE JUSTICE…and May the Almighty God help you and give you the courage to do the right thing.

Please read our New Year’s Plea to Judge Elias here as we also make the same plea for you to approve and SIGN Senate BILL 131. http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/judge-elias-please-release-all.html .

SB 131 Needs Your Voice NOW!

CALIFORNIA
The Worthy Adversary

Posted by Joelle Casteix on September 19, 2013

It’s Thursday night and you are probably thinking, “I’m watching Thursday Night Football. There is nothing possible I can do to help convince California Governor Jerry Brown to sign SB 131, the California Child Victims’ Act.”

Fortunately, you are WRONG! You can help RIGHT NOW. And we need you.

Here is what you can do:

1. Write Governor Brown using the web form here. Tell him that you support SB 131. Here are some reasons why:

SB 131 exposes predators who may still be abusing kids RIGHT NOW,
SB 131 holds wrong-doers accountable for enabling and covering up child sex abuse,
SB 131 helps victims heal from traumatic injury and takes the burden of their care off of social services and taxpayers,
SB 131 can help provide valuable evidence of criminal activity that law enforcement can use to put predators behind bars, where they belong.

There are many more.

If you do tell your own story, keep it short – no more than two-three sentences.

2. Plan to attend tomorrow’s RALLY IN SUPPORT OF SB 131 at the State Capitol. The rally, organized by concerned citizens in support of SB 131, will be on the lawn to the left of the Capitol steps – 1315 10th Street, between L and N Streets. Attendees will be wearing bright colors. Bring a sign showing your support. If you are a victim, bring a photo of yourself at the age you were abused

Organizers will be meeting at 12:45. The rally starts at 1 pm

Whatever you do tonight, do SOMETHING to help victims who have been denied justice. It’s easy, it’s priceless, and you can do it during the Eagles/Chiefs game.

- See more at: http://theworthyadversary.com/2237-sb-131-needs-your-voice-now#sthash.YEr3TmHe.dpuf

Fr William Marks: PEDOPHILE

This page is dedicated to those that have died from the injuries and soul murder inflicted by Marks. Shame on the people, organizations, and institutions that repeatedly put him in locations without warnings to families and children. http://mnsnap.wordpress.com/william-joseph-marks-abusive-priest/

Updated September 15, 2013

Dear Governor Jerry Brown,

You are our final hope for the whole truth and true justice…and May the Almighty God help you and give you the courage to do the right thing.

Today is the feast of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Patroness of California and the Americas and She inspires us (again) to write you to please sign bill SB 131 for her sake because she is the true Lady of Justice as she prayed in her Magnificat. The Roman Catholic Church claims to be the sole interpreter of the Bible, and therefore, likewise, they should be fully included the new "Bible of Pedophiles" (priests) that can only become more complete with bill SB 131 in California. The historical unique chapter of California -- including the Archdiocese of Los Angeles that history in 2003 has proven to have the most numbers of pedophile priests -- must come forth again in bill SB 131. No justice of pedophile priests must be hidden or withheld from the children of Nuestra Madre of Guadalupe and it is your final hand and signature as Governor for bill SB 131 that she as a Mother is waiting for because she counts the numbers of her children abused by pedophile priests in California -- like Rachel, Our Lady of Guadalupe walks in the streets of Los Angeles and California seeking justice for each and every one and ALL of her children especially those abused by priests who have used Her Son as their persona. "Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying, 'In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted because they are not!" (Mt. 2:17-18; Jer. 31:15, KJV) Priests have used Our Lady's Rosary as their shield to sodomize little boys but -- the Rosary could not defeat JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the 20th Century ... unlike the Battle of Lepanto in the 16th Century, read more http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/

The number of victims of pedophile priests in California and USA outnumber five (5) times those of 9/11. Every year, in New York City, they read each name of these 3,000 victims and show portraits. Children should have the same honor and commemoration because they are the most vulnerable and voiceless members of our society. Please sign bill SB 131 so that justice can be rendered to victims of pedophiles (priests) and be recorded in the courts of justice in the Bible of Pedophiles of the 20^th Century and 21st Century – in the chapter of California of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army named aptly after the longest reigned Pope who said nothing and did nothing to protect children from pedophile priests as he traveled around the globe and turned his back towards children …like Cardinal Mahony, the Cardinal who covered-up the most numbers of pedophile priests in an Archdiocese in the Bible of Pedophile Priests of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Catholic Media Pied Pipers of the Catholic League and First Things and Catholic media outlets and million dollars lobbyists of the Catholic Archbishop and Bishops are trying to dissuade you from rendering true justice to children, please do not be fooled by them and their foul cry that public institutions are excluded and that this new bill would bankrupt the diocese. Another bill can easily be written for the public institutions. But SB 131 has been voted already by the House of Representatives and the Senate and therefore the people's representatives have voted unanimously and for the sake of the people of California, it is your moral duty as Governor to sign this bill SB 131 that has passed the test of time and has been amply debated and voted upon by the people's voices through their Representatives in the California Assembly and Senate Floor.

Like we wrote to Judge Emilie Elias in our New Year’s Plea this year,

You are our final hope for the whole truth and nothing but the truth…and May the Almighty God help you and give you the courage to do the right thing.

Governor Jerry Brown,

You are our final hope for the whole truth and nothing but the truth…and May the Almighty God help you and give you the courage to do the right thing.

please read the entire letter here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/judge-elias-please-release-all.html .

Our Lady who softens evil hearts, Russian icon, 19th century

Mary, surrounded by the Seven Sorrows

Our Lady like Rachel weeps for her children abused by the JP2 Army - John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://stella0maris.blogspot.ca/2011/01/john-paul-ii-versus-our-lady-of.html

John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army were (like the Nazis) born out of the Devil’s bowels as an inherently evil all-male hierarchy who thrived under secrecy and cover-up of the 27 years pedophile papacy of John Paul II the Great who said and DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO STOP this most heinous crime against children under his Holy See watch and infallible papal powers. IN LIFE, JOHN PAUL II DID NOTHING TO SAVE CHILDREN, LIKEWISE IN DEATH, HE CANNOT SAVE CHILDREN.. http://jp2army.blogspot.com/ (our sister weblogs)

Updated September 11, 2013

Anniversary of 9/11…and Anniversary of SNAP and hundreds of thousands of victims of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army of the 20^th Century – the most heinous crimes against children systemically covered-up by the Vatican and all Cardinals and Bishops in the USA, Europe, Australia and worldwide.

Dear Governor Jerry Brown,

Today is the anniversary of 9/11 in New York City and Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas, inspires us to write you (again) to ask you to immediately approve and sign bill SB 131 today because this would be the most significant day for all children, not only in California but throughout the USA and the whole world – as we have proposed that twice a year, September 11 (and May 1) should be the commemoration day to remember all victims of pedophiles (priests) and hence a day also to deter and stop pedophilia forever in the USA and in the world – read more here May 1 & September 11 anniversaries for SNAP and JP2 Army victims http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/may-1-september-11-anniversaries-for.html The numbers of victims of Los Angeles and USA pedophile priests outnumber more than five times those of 9/11.

A picture speaks a thousand words and Our Lady of Guadalupe, who has appeared in many images herself, inspires us to show you here – many artists’ illustrations of the heinous priest pedophilia that has infested the Catholic Church who has systemically covered-up pedophile priests for over half of the 20^th century – as Amnesty International has reported it – read more here -- Amnesty International Report Vatican “Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment” on tens of thousands of children sexually abused by priests in Irelandhttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/09/amnesty-international-report-vatican.html

California, the home of Hollywood that produce the most images on the planet, also has produced the most numbers of pedophile priests in the USA and in the world – and it is your imperative moral duty to reveal the full scope and scale of victims they have - through bill SB 131. As Governor, please do not imitate Argo &“saint” John Paul II are make-believe legends of Hollywood and the Vatican, the twin cities that “lie for a living” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/argo-john-paul-ii-are-make-believe_11.html

As Governor of California, you have this rare and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to disclose the extent of Catholic Church priests pedophilia and it is your duty not to give “a free pass” and “exemption on justice” for Cardinals, Bishops and clerics who are at the same time the “voices and representatives of God” – (especially with their self-claimed every Sunday spectacle and daily supernatural powers to be able to instantly clone Christ’s flesh in the Sacrament of the Eucharist) on earth in the biggest basilicas and cathedrals all over California, read our article -- OC Diocese buys Crystal Cathedral as flesh-factory of Christ... for wealthy God-flesh-eating Catholics http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/oc-diocese-buys-crystal-cathedral-as.html

Our Lady of Guadalupe would like the world – but especially the Catholic Church to stop “sexually abusing” her children - especially the little altar boys which they have done for millennia - and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has proven itself as having the most numbers of pedophile priests’ victims in the USA, read their files here Los Angeles files. Mahony must be jailed as Nazis caught in their old age and retirement http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/los-angeles-files-mahony-must-be-jailed.html. .

Therefore, today on September 11, it is but fitting and just to present here many images, from the first images which came out of Boston, where the priest pedophilia was first revealed in the USA, up to today when a Cuban artist Erik Ravelo's photo project "Los Intocables” has shown an image that could very well be Cardinal Mahony with a naked little boy behind his back – because he spent millions to cover-up and protect his California pedophile priests. Like murder, there should be no statute of limitations for the heinous crimes of pedophiles (priests).

Jesus said that “Whatever is hidden shall be brought to light", and you hold the pen to reveal all secrets to light of ALL pedophile priests and their victims in California as much as possible.

The Catholic Bishops and Catholic League and their Goliath-bully Bill Donohue are pressuring you – through their Vatican Pied Pipers Catholic media outlets – and Catholic million dollars lawyers to lobby and pressure you to veto bill SB 131. Please do not listen to this Goliath-bully Bill Donohue, read more here about him here -- Goliath Bill Donohue, Catholic League, Bishop Myers’ tactics to suppress freedom of speech in the USA http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/goliath-bill-donohue-catholic-league.html

As we wrote to Judge Emile Elias last New Year’s, we reprint a part of it because its message is timeless and is meant also for you today, please read the entire letter here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/judge-elias-please-release-all.html .

New Year’s plea to the judge of Los Angeles: Reveal the whole truth, the entire truth now

Dear Judge Emilie H. Elias,

You are our final hope for the whole truth and nothing but the truth…and May the Almighty God help you and give you the courage to do the right thing.

We beg you to please release all confidential church records of the

names of vicars, bishops and others who handled reports of child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles for the sake of hundreds of victims of sexual abuse that settled their claims in 2007 for $660 million. Money can settle for compromise and silence, but it cannot buy the whole truth and money cannot repair the lives of hundreds of children in Los Angeles that have been destroyed forever by Roman Catholic pedophile priests.

Please be the first – and only – judge in the history of the United States of America that will unravel one of the most heinous crimes against American children and reveal once-and-for-all, without any reservation and without the filter of religious clout - be fearless like writers of the Bible and reveal now all names of vicars, bishops and others who handled reports of child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Please take a look at the worse Roman Catholic Church pedophile priests attacks against more than 15,500 Americans … compared to the September 11, 2001 attacks against 3,000 Americans at the Twin Towers in New York.

When you will allow all the records of the names of vicars, bishops and others who handled reports of child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles – you will have helped bring some of the final justice and the final truth, not only to American victims, but also to the hundreds of thousands of victims worldwide, of this half a century global crimes committed by the Roman Catholic Church -- which the Vatican itself admitted http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/vatican-blame-game-its-them-not-us-john.html

and which was condemned (for the first time) by Amnesty International http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/09/amnesty-international-report-vatican.html

and the Prime Minister of Ireland condemned the Vatican narcissism before parliament http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/07/irish-pm-blasts-narcissism-of-vatican.html.

Images of the JP2 Army- John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army

Image of John Paul II by Danish artists of Mohamed http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2007/10/john-paul-ii-portrait-by-danish-artist.html

Our Lady of Guadalupe protect children from the evil serpent -- but in contrast Pope John Paul II and Cardinals and Bishops freely gave boys to pedophile priests

Cuban artist Erik Ravelo's photo project "Los Intocables", depicting violence against children in various contexts,including the Catholic Church, see article and links below.

Cardinal Mahony covered-up the most numbers of pedophile priests in the USA and in the whole world, read more here - Los Angeles files. Mahony must be jailed as Nazis caught in their old age and retirement" http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/los-angeles-files-mahony-must-be-jailed.html

Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

JP2 Army – 100,000 victims - 6,100 pedophile priests (Los Angeles, Boston, etc covered-up and transferred from one parish to another by Cardinals and Bishops) responsible leaders - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

Rosary could not defeat JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the 20th Century ... unlike the Battle of Lepanto in the 16th Century http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/

Pope John Paul II blessing and celebrating serial pedophile priest Fr. Marcial Maciel, a few months before his papal death. Maciel is JP2's Achilles Heel, read more here John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-patron-of-pederasts-and.html

Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html

Boston cartoon

in 2002

http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2006_08_01_archive.html

Cardinal Bernard Law denying any knowledge of pedophile priests, in the end, he admitted to protecting 80 pedophile priests in Boston.
Read more here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2006_10_01_archive.html

In The Pope In Winter: The Dark Face of John Paul II's Papacy
Cornwell Documents that JPII Left the Church Worse than He Found It

Read more here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2006_10_01_archive.html

Wealth of Vatican Billions: its history, sources, and assets today worldwide. BOYCOTT the Vatican Museum and boycott ALL donations to the Vatican Catholic Church Reign of Terror

http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html

Australia JP2 Army! Anne Lastman the false witness to “the limping Christ towards Calvary”… she camouflages John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/australia-jp2-army-anne-lastman-false.html

CSC Holy Cross Congregation delay $18 million compensation payout. Brother Andre & Saint JOSEPH giant GOLDEN COW STATUES could not help victims of CSC pedophiles http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/csc-holy-cross-congregation-delay-18.html

BOYCOTT Oratory of Saint Joseph! CANDLES to giant Zeus statues of St. Joseph and Brother Andre cannot protect children from CSC pedophiles

http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/boycott-oratory-of-saint-joseph-candles.html

People, please STOP DONATING to the ORATORY and STOP LIGHTING CANDLES to St. Joseph and instead donate your money to Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, your local charities, and the homeless shelters of Montreal. God will listen more to your prayers in your acts of charity because they are better than material candles and money you give to the wealthy billionaire CSC religious Holy Cross family of Saint Brother Andre. If you were to face Christ on Judgement Day today, He will not ask you how many candles you have lit at the Oratory of St. Joseph, but how many poor people you have helped, as He has said, “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, that you have also done to Me.”

ZEUS GIANT SAINT JOSEPH did NOTHING to stop pedophile priests of the Congregation de Sainte-Croix happening right before his very eyes for 50 years

If you live in Los Angeles, or elsewhere in the USA or in the world, and are planning a “pilgrimage” to the Oratory of St. Joseph or flying to the Vatican, DON'T GO and instead DONATE that pilgrimage money to the Red Cross or your local charity - or sponsor a poor student and pay for his or her school supplies and school lunch for a year, or feed a homeless person for a year at McDonald's, instead of flying to Montreal to see the Oratory or the Vatican Mammon Beast - and God will listen more to your prayers in your act of mercy rather feeding the Vatican Mammon Beast or St. Joseph Oratory Mammon Beast copying the Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy.

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Updated September 7, 2013

21-8. Thank you Senators, for voting YES to SB 131… you’ve given another victory for California children

Please tell Governor Brown you support SB 131. You can write his office directly here http://govnews.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php

Dear Governor Jerry Brown,

With your good moral conscience - and compassionate heart, please sign immediately bill SB 131 - because the people of California have spoken unanimously through their Representatives and Senators - and now it is time for the victims who’ve been waiting for years to have their day in court. The crimes against American children systemically covered-up by (especially by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese) in Los Angeles and throughout California must not be hidden in the dust of history -- nor must they be given the chance to be shredded and forgotten forever into oblivion .

As a Catholic and former Jesuit seminarian, for sure you believe in the Patroness of California, Our Lady of Guadalupe. She inspires us to invite you to please take time to gaze at this image where she carries a child and protect children away from the evil serpent.

Please read all the articles in this post and especially our letter to Judge Emile Elias of Los Angeles who made the historic decision to release all records of pedophile priests instead of shredding them into the perpetual secrecy of the ancient Roman Catholic Church http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/judge-elias-please-release-all.html .

http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2008/07/letter-to-opus-dei-pope-john-paul-ii.html The names of the transferring or covering up Bishops and Cardinals are: Roll Call Please!

Updated September 4, 2013

California State Senate, please vote YES to SB 131...Contact/ Write to your State Senators - let them know you support the bill!

42-14, California Assembly voted YES to SB 131. Hoorah! Hoorah!

Thank you, California Representatives, for voting YES to SB 131, may God reward you for doing the RIGHT THING. You shall bring your vote to SB 131 to your grave and eternal life. Every child that you render justice to - with this SB 131 - you shall be greatly rewarded by Divine Justice! California Legislative Assembly, you are showing to the USA and to the whole world that – the Roman Catholic Church is not above the law, specially secular law

– and that the (once-upon-a-time godly) Roman Catholic Church must now (again like Cardinal Mahony paid $660 million to victims) - pay for ALL the crimes it covered-up – and face ALL the consequences of ALL pedophile priests it covered-up through the decades. It’s time for the hypocritical Roman Catholic Church to stop obstructing justice against children and women, read our related article about the (wrong) powerful influence of the Vatican in the United Nations here -

At the UN, the Vatican obstruct women’s rights throughout the world http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/at-un-vatican-obstruct-womens-rights.html

HOORAH!!! HOORAH!!! That’s two defeats - this August and September for Opus Dei Archbishop Gomez -- and Catholic Goliath-bully Bill Donohue and his boastful 10,000 members of Catholics League Army failed to convince the Assembly this Wednesday…again, despite his Los Angeles Archdiocese’s automatic Catholic standard letter and direct links to all the Representatives in the diocese’s website. Goliath-bully Bill Donohue and his Catholic League Army failed last August 21, and now they failed again on September 4. That’s strike two. (We are looking forward to) strike three... and you are out!!!

Read our related article, Goliath Bill Donohue, Catholic League, Bishop Myers’ tactics to suppress freedom of speech in the USA http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/goliath-bill-donohue-catholic-league.html

We pray for the SENATE to VOTE the final YES to bill SB 131 so as to prove to people in California and in the USA, that our American secular government is above all religion and most of all above the Roman Catholic Church

and all its Canon Laws and Vatican Mammoth wealth, read about the Vatican assets that own practically entire Rome and Italy - http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html

We encourage each member of the Senate to read the book The Celestine Prophecy, read an excerpt here -- Middle Ages Vatican condemns New Age American Nuns: The Celestine Prophecy come true! Sisters in Crisis book mocks LCWR Sisters in Christ http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/middle-ages-vatican-condemns-new-age.html

The Assembly “narrowly” passed bill SB 131 with 42-14 votes, see news updates below including Senator Jim Beall article that “Institutions are culpable for turning a blind eye” that SB131 is about justice. Whatever, however “narrowly” that means, the bill passed, and that is the most important thing, because now it can go forward to the Senate for final vote. Olympians win their medals at the fraction of seconds. So we’ll take “narrowly” – as long as it passed! These votes are all akin to Olympic gold medals for victims of pedophiles (priests)!

California Legislature is more moral than the Catholic Church

As the world watches the California Senate to finally pass this “role model” monumental bill – which will influence other states to do the same – may California Senators prove that secular law trumps religious law – that they as secular lawmakers are more relevant for the salvation of children, women and men, that secular representatives and senators are more important than false sorcerers and false magicians Bishops and priests who cannot clone cats and dogs but claim that they can clone God the Christ’s flesh!

The California Legislature is proving itself “more moral” than the Roman Catholic Church. California Representatives proved themselves as reliable moral representatives of the people of California. And adults, women, and now children can rely on their representatives. Read our related article,

NCAA & Penn State more moral than Vatican. Sports is more moral than John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html

It is now up to the Senate to give their final vote to this bill SB 131 that will change the lives of poor victims of pedophiles (priests). Like the bill in 2003 that released victims and pedophiles priests in the open that cost 1.2 billion dollars for the Roman Catholic Church, we can only expect the same in 2013. California will surprise and unravels itself with the most number of victims of pedophiles (priests) in the USA…again.

So the Roman Catholic Church is pulling out all the stops and preaching every Sunday to Catholics to drown out the moral conscience of their Representatives and Senators (with tons of emails and Catholic letters written by Archbishop Gomez of LA).

The Roman Catholic Church has lost its moral voice in the USA and in the whole world because of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army – and he is supposed to be the fastest tracking saint of the 2st century, in the Devil’s Ass, he is! Read the double Achilles Heels of John Paul II that proved he never said anything and never did anything to save and protect children from the thousands of pedophile priests he was overseeing right under his nose as he traveled around the world as the most traveled pope the Devil’s Bowels smell like roses http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/rome-glorifies-bernard-law-80th.html .

It is time that secular governments put the Vatican in its proper place – that it is NOT a country and it has NO moral authority over people and countries and cities and states, read our related articles

Middle Ages Vatican condemns New Age American Nuns: The Celestine Prophecy come true! Sisters in Crisis book mocks LCWR Sisters in Christ

http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/middle-ages-vatican-condemns-new-age.html

Pope Francis trip to Brazil proved us right and Anne Lastman wrong - http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/australia-jp2-army-anne-lastman-false.html

Australia JP2 Army! Anne Lastman the false witness to “the limping Christ towards Calvary”… she camouflages John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army

Sorcery of the Eucharist here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/oc-diocese-buys-crystal-cathedral-as.html

Actually, the more true way of describing the Catholics is not “Roman” but “Vatican” Catholic Church – because Rome is now a secular city, read more in our related article here

Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI resigns as Vatican Pontiff of Vatican Catholic Church. It’s deceitful to say “Roman Pontiff” of “Roman Catholic Church” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/vatican-last-tsar-benedict-xvi-resigns_13.html

American children should never call John Paul II a “saint” in deference to all American children who were victims of Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions – these Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils of the 20^th century is crying out to Heaven worse than Abel’s innocent blood! Read more here

Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html

And while the California Assembly was busy voting YES to SB 131, the Papal Nuncio in the Dominican Republic, a Bishop ordained none other by his fellow Polish Pope John Paul II was caught and arrested for frequenting a prostitute district, soliciting young male prostitutes – and he is still a priest cloning instantly God’s flesh in the sorcery of the Eucharist, what a lot of Vatican Bullshit! It just never stop and never end, read our related article, the Devil’s Bowels smell like roses in the Vatican False Saint John Paul II is the Patron Saint of Pedophiles and Pederasts, read the prayer here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/prayer-to-john-paul-ii-saint-of.html .

See list of our related articles below for September 4, 2013

Updated August 30, 2013

California State Senate and Assembly representatives, please vote YES to SB 131...

Children should not be treated as “less sacred, worth less or less important” than Popes, Bishops and priests and their “holy robes, sacred vessels and exclusive male-club basilicas and churches”. Children who are the most vulnerable and voiceless class in our American society should have first place in our State Senate legislature and Assembly and in every heart of all senators and representatives. It is the moral duty of the California State Senate and Assembly representatives to vote for SB 131 in order to expose ALL pedophiles (priests) - especially in court - with SB 131 and render the only justice which many of our suffering American children will ever know in their lifetime .

California State Senate and Assembly representatives, you must render the final and only justice to victims of pedophiles (priests) in California - History has revealed to us as the largest numbers of victims from the systemic cover-up by the Roman Catholic Church. There are more victims out there, and therefore, you must release them from their prisons - secretly coerced and established by pedophiles (priests and their complicit Bishops).

You hold the moral power to vote for this bill SB 131 which will be one of the most important bills you will ever pass in your life and which you shall bring to your grave - and unto your eternal life!

We humbly invite all members, each member of the California State Senate and Assembly representatives who will vote for SB 131 - to listen – and ponder upon - this radio broadcast - of personal stories of victims of pedophile priests, albeit in Minnesota because the secretive Modus Operandi of all pedophiles (priests) are the same whether it be in Boston, Minnesota or Los Angeles, (click to listen) "Community Round Table" with New Director Bev Alquist” . There are also news updates below of more secret pedophiles (priest)s files in California, Iowa and Australia, see below.

Please do not be complicit to the aftermath crimes of JP2 Army – the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army named aptly after the longest reigned pope for 27 years who said nothing and did nothing to protect children from pedophiles and he did nothing to remove (not even one among countless) pedophile priests in California and in the USA.

If you are complicit, the Sacrament of Confession will not save you because the Sacrament of Confession protects criminals and persecutes their victims (read our related article)http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html

Children and women must not be “less sacred” than priests and their males’ only sacred robes and churches which have become crimes scenes of priest pedophilia.

The secret hidden “living Hell” the pedophiles (priests) coerced on vulnerable voiceless children must be brought to light in California and - justice must be served NOW - for those voiceless victims.

With your moral conscience - and compassionate hearts, vote YES to SB 131 because the crimes against American children systemically covered-up by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and throughout California must not be hidden in the dust of history -- nor must it be given the chance to be shredded and forgotten forever into oblivion ….

"Community Round Table" with New Director Bev Alquist (click to listen)

MINNESOTA
K-Music Radio, KDJS-AM 1590
[audio]
Minnesota SNAP Director Bob Schwiderski talks about the Minnesota Child Victims Act and child predator priests Fr. William J Marks and Fr. David A Roney of the Diocese of New Ulm.

Thank you, Bob, for being the voice of vulnerable voiceless hundreds of thousands of victims of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/

Updated August 24, 2013

The final vote in the Assembly floor is coming up in a few days. We beg the Assembly members to read and meditate on our letter to Los Angeles Judge Elias who made the historic decision on the side of victims of pedophile priests against the millions dollars lawyers of Cardinal Mahony.

Dear (Judge Emilie H. Elias) California State Senate and Assembly representatives,

You are our final hope for the whole truth and nothing but the truth...and May the Almighty God help you and give you the courage to do the right thing.

The crimes against American children systemically covered-up by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles must not be hidden in the dust of history nor must it be given the chance to be shredded and forgotten forever into oblivion ….

Read full letter here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/judge-elias-please-release-all.html

As a survivor wrote: As SB131 heads to Assembly floor, LA Archdiocese spins and presses

The only way to be able to protect students in public schools would be to eliminate sovereign immunity, an entirely different issue. In addition, SB 131 is a “first step” bill. We will never be able to fight abuse in the hugely powerful public arena until we build public awareness. To defeat the powers that be who control public entities, we need to prove that the problem is huge. SB131 is the only way to do that. And to imply that public school victims are “jealous” is infantile. Exposing ANY perpetrator is a huge step towards exposing ALL perpetrators. ...

What can you do? Follow this link to write your legislators NOW and tell them you support SB131.

Enter your California address and click the locate button to find your State Senate and Assembly representatives. http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

Please read also the Dark Ages tactics of the Catholic Bishops and Catholic League who are trying to defeat this bill SB 131 and how they suppress the freedom of speech in the USA

Goliath Bill Donohue, Catholic League, Bishop Myers’ tactics to suppress freedom of speech in the USA http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/goliath-bill-donohue-catholic-league.html

Goliath-bully Bill Donohue operates like in the Dark Ages when Kings and their stupid whims were the law of the land and anyone criticizing the King was punished, beheaded, tortured, imprisoned or banished from the kingdom which is why The Borgias, Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils always got away scot-free for centuries. Imagine if today, Americans criticizing President Obama would be jailed or banished from the US, where would these critics go to live? We wouldn’t have our late night talk shows such as Jon Stewart, Jay Leno, David Letterman, etc. Yet, today, any American criticizing the Pope or the Vatican is punished, ridiculed, berated, and tortured like Opus Dei Bishop Myers of New Jersey condemning freedom of speech of the media as “evil” because they published his questionable chain of erroneous actions and fallible judgements....read the important articles here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/goliath-bill-donohue-catholic-league.html

Updated August 21, 2013

California Assembly Appropriations Committee, voted YES to SB 131 !!! Contact/ Write to members of the House Appropriations Committee - let them know you support the bill!

Muchas Gracias! Thank you, California State Assembly Appropriations Committee - for voting YES to SB 131 - you did the right thing and may God bless you all.

Now victims - especially of JP2 Army - the Los Angeles branch of John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army - can proceed and claim the ONLY JUSTICE they have left - from the living hell 27 years of Opus Dei papacy could not let them taste. Cardinal Mahony have some unfinished business left - which Opus Dei Archbishop Gomez must now finish to pay out to victims, read our related article, Los Angeles files. Mahony must be jailed as Nazis caught in their old age and retirement http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/los-angeles-files-mahony-must-be-jailed.html. .

Everyone, please read our related article, Argo &“saint” John Paul II are make-believe legends of Hollywood and the Vatican, the twin cities that “lie for a living” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/argo-john-paul-ii-are-make-believe_11.html

Please protest the canonization of John Paul II who said nothing and did nothing to save children – especially the thousands of children of California – the largest victims of the Catholic Church - those not-jailed thousands of pedophile priests. Children must not pray to such a FALSE saint who had neither compunction nor compassion during his life, and neither does he care for children now that he is dead , read our related articles list below, especially
9/11 victims = 3,000. JP2 Army = 100,000s. May Day: both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1 on John Paul II Beatification Day B-Day http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html

Image of John Paul II by Danish artist http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2007/10/john-paul-ii-portrait-by-danish-artist.html

Rosary could not defeat JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the 20th Century ... unlike the Battle of Lepanto in the 16th Century http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/

Muchas Gracias, Nuestra Madre de Guadalupe – she is SMILING DOWN - WATCHING LOS ANGELES, SACRAMENTO and CALIFORNIA. Now her children will get some more justice from the SECULAR COURT of California!! Those Opus Dei Popes, Cardinals and Bishops are useless for the protection of her children.

Read the BOOK and watch the movie the Celestine Prophecy – through it, I knew the bill would pass - http://www.celestinevision.com/

Updated August 20, 2013

California Assembly Appropriations Committee, please vote YES to SB 131...Contact/ Write to members of the House Appropriations Committee - let them know you support the bill!

We beg all members of the California State Assembly Appropriations Committee - - the California legislative panel to vote “YES” on SB 131 this Wednesday (8/21) - and make it easier for California child sex abuse victims to expose their child molesters in court. We invite all Committee members to read our letter to Los Angeles Judge Emilie H. Elias who made - the historic decision and judgement - to release all pedophile priests’ files of the Los Angeles Archdiocese - against the million dollars lawyers of Cardinal Mahony who wanted them all to be shredded and hidden and denied to the public.

Our letter - New Year’s plea to the judge of Los Angeles: Reveal the whole truth, the entire truth now – today apply as well to the California State Assembly Appropriations Committee when they’ll make their historic vote on SB 131.

Dear (Judge Emilie H. Elias) California State Assembly Appropriations Committee,

You are our final hope for the whole truth and nothing but the truth...and May the Almighty God help you and give you the courage to do the right thing.

Read full letter here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/judge-elias-please-release-all.html

August 16, 2013

All good members of the California State Assembly, Committee on Appropriations, please vote “yes” SB 131 - a bill by state Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose. Help victims of abuse. SB 131 should be approved as quickly as possible, and Gov. Jerry Brown should sign it.

All good people of California, contact and write to members of the House Appropriations Committee - let them know you support the bill - and let final justice happen for hundreds, if not, thousands of victims of pedophiles (priests) in California!!

Committee members, please “yes” SB 131 - Let Justice ring loud from the hilltops of Los Angeles and Sacramento and all over California!

Source: http://apro.assembly.ca.gov/membersstaff

Committee Members	District	Office & Contact Information
Mike Gatto (Chair)	Dem - 43	Contact Assembly Member Mike Gatto Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 2114, Sacramento, CA 94249-0043; (916) 319-2043
Diane L. Harkey (Vice Chair)	Rep - 73	Contact Assembly Member Diane L. Harkey Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 6027, Sacramento, CA 94249-0073; (916) 319-2073
Franklin E. Bigelow	Rep - 05	Contact Assembly Member Franklin E. Bigelow Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 4116, Sacramento, CA 94249-0005; (916) 319-2005
Raul Bocanegra	Dem - 39	Contact Assembly Member Raul Bocanegra Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 4167, Sacramento, CA 94249-0039; (916) 319-2039
Steven Bradford	Dem - 62	Contact Assembly Member Steven Bradford Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 5136, Sacramento, CA 94249-0062; (916) 319-2062
Ian C. Calderon	Dem - 57	Contact Assembly Member Ian C. Calderon Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 5150, Sacramento, CA 94249-0057; (916) 319-2057
Nora Campos	Dem - 27	Contact Assembly Member Nora Campos Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 3160, Sacramento, CA 94249-0027; (916) 319-2027
Tim Donnelly	Rep - 33	Contact Assembly Member Tim Donnelly Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 2002, Sacramento, CA 94249-0033; (916) 319-2033
Susan Talamantes Eggman	Dem - 13	Contact Assembly Member Susan Talamantes Eggman Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 2003, Sacramento, CA 94249-0013; (916) 319-2013
Jimmy Gomez	Dem - 51	Contact Assembly Member Jimmy Gomez Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 2176, Sacramento, CA 94249-0051; (916) 319-2051
Isadore Hall, III	Dem - 64	Contact Assembly Member Isadore Hall, III Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 3123, Sacramento, CA 94249-0064; (916) 319-2064
Chris R. Holden	Dem - 41	Contact Assembly Member Chris R. Holden Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 5119, Sacramento, CA 94249-0041; (916) 319-2041
Eric Linder	Rep - 60	Contact Assembly Member Eric Linder Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 2016, Sacramento, CA 94249-0060; (916) 319-2060
Richard Pan	Dem - 09	Contact Assembly Member Richard Pan Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 6005, Sacramento, CA 94249-0009; (916) 319-2009
Bill Quirk	Dem - 20	Contact Assembly Member Bill Quirk Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 2175, Sacramento, CA 94249-0020; (916) 319-2020
Donald P. Wagner	Rep - 68	Contact Assembly Member Donald P. Wagner Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 2158, Sacramento, CA 94249-0068; (916) 319-2068
Shirley N. Weber	Dem - 79	Contact Assembly Member Shirley N. Weber Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 5158, Sacramento, CA 94249-0079; (916) 319-2079

We invite all Committee members to read our letter to Los Angeles Judge Emilie H. Elias who made the historic decision and judgement to release all pedophile priests files of the LA Archdiocese against the million dollars lawyers of Cardinal Mahony who wanted them all to be shredded.

New Year’s plea to the judge of Los Angeles: Reveal the whole truth, the entire truth now

Dear Judge Emilie H. Elias,

You are our final hope for the whole truth and nothing but the truth...and May the Almighty God help you and give you the courage to do the right thing.

The crimes against American children systemically covered-up by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles must not be hidden in the dust of history nor must it be given the chance to be shredded and forgotten forever into oblivion (five or six banker's boxes of documents).

Read full letter here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/judge-elias-please-release-all.html

In 2002 and now in 2013

About 10 years ago, in 2002, the California legislature bravely signed off a historic bill that’s similar to the now SB 131—the California Child Victims’ Act, a bill that gives crime victims the opportunity to use the civil courts to seek justice and accountability. The Los Angeles Diocese under Cardinal Mahony spent millions of dollars in lawyers’ fees to lobby, defend, protect and shield his pedophile priests from their crimes and victims, read their files here - Los Angeles files. Mahony must be jailed as Nazis caught in their old age and retirement http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/los-angeles-files-mahony-must-be-jailed.html.

Because of that historic bill in 2002, Americans and the whole world discovered the enormity and magnitude of crimes committed by pedophile priests in Los Angeles. Consequently, victims won a historic $660 million in compensation for their decades of sufferings, the “living Hell” impregnated by pedophile priests. This was the largest amount ever paid out, a part of the 3 billion dollars the Catholic Church in the USA alone has paid for its Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army – named aptly after the longest reigning pope who said nothing and did nothing for children, read our related article, Argo &“saint” John Paul II are make-believe legends of Hollywood and the Vatican, the twin cities that “lie for a living” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/argo-john-paul-ii-are-make-believe_11.html

Today, 10 years later, the California legislature is again at the crossroad of voting for another historic California bill, the SB 131 that would suspend the statute of limitations for one year in cases where someone claims he was molested when he was a minor in a private institution (such as the Catholic Church); this law would apply to those who were 26-years-old in 2002. This means they were still too young in 2002 to come forward because as we know now, it takes decades for victims to realize and come to terms with their pedophile inflicted childhood. 'Supporters of the bill argue that victims need extra time to file lawsuits because it may take years for them to admit that they were molested or to realize the psychological harm caused by sexual abuse. The bill's main author, Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, says it would cost the state little money'. (see news below).

But Los Angeles (Opus Dei) Archbishop Gomez has already spent more than $250,000 in lobbying against Senate Bill 131 and at the end of July, he wrote in the Catholic newspapers and he passed out a letter to all Catholics in the dioceses saying: “…My brother bishops and I in the California Catholic Conference are asking all Catholics to contact their Assembly members and Senators and urge them to vote “No” on Senate Bill 131.” Catholic Goliath-bully Bill Donohue also boasted that he and his Catholic League contacted well over 10,000 members in California asking them to weigh in on this issue and he brags that the “bill is running out of time” (see news below). Last Wednesday, the bill which needed nine votes to leave the lower house's appropriations committee and go to the Assembly floor, gathered only six votes. One of those who voted “no” was CA Assembly Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Diane Harkey — ‘even though a similar 2003 bill exposed horrible abuse in her own district’ (see news below).

But there is a flicker of hope, for ONE LAST CHANCE! One more time for Justice to reign in California! May California be the model of Justice in the USA - justice for ALL CHILDREN who were victims of hypocrites holy pedophile priests. California bill, SB 131, will be taken up again next week and can still be voted on during that legislative session. We need to pray and believe – and everyone to act, act, act by contacting all the legislative members to vote for SB 131 because it is the final justice, the final chance for possibly hundreds of victims of pedophile priests the Catholic Church. It is time to push Justice to its limits - one more time. Perhaps CA Assembly Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Diane Harkey can learn from the historic decision of Los Angeles Judge Elias to release all LA files of pedophile priests, read more here - Judge Elias, please release ALL confidential church records of names of vicars, bishops, others who handled reports of child sexual abuse in Los Angeles Archdiocese http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/judge-elias-please-release-all.html

If California has more victims, let Senate Bill 131 open the door-of-justice for them to come out now – and don’t be scared, let the diocese pay them as well, because after all Los Angeles is the wealthiest diocese in the USA and its assets are beyond belief like the Vatican wealth, read here how the Vatican owns pretty much most of Rome and Italy --Vatican Billions: its history, sources, and assets today worldwide. BOYCOTT the Vatican Museum and boycott ALL donations to the Vatican Catholic Church Reign of Terror http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html

Cost of true justice

True justice is priceless especially for the most vulnerable members of society, the children.

The bill's main author, Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, says it would cost the state little money'.

According to the LA Times, A key question for the committee is whether new lawsuits would strain an already overburdened court system…

The panel, which mainly considers how much a proposal would cost the state, will take up SB 131 again next week. It has already passed the state Senate and the Assembly judiciary committee.

Yes! California court system can take this on! $$$ For the sake of hundreds of children victims!

Yes, CALIFORNIA court system CAN AFFORD this bill SB131 – one more time…just like in 2003 (Imagine that, 10 years ago!)

Justice-for-children is knocking and visiting California, one more time!

In California, especially in Los Angeles, there are hundreds or thousands of victims of the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army – named aptly after the longest reigned pope who said nothing and did nothing to save and protect children happening right under his holy watch in the Holy See! His JP2 Army infest his Achilles Heels thus he can never be a “saint!” Read here about his evil Achilles Heels -- Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html

Let California, home of Hollywood, the city that “lie for a living” reveal the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth – ONE MORE TIME (like it did in 2002)! Read our related article about Hollywood here - Argo &“saint” John Paul II are make-believe legends of Hollywood and the Vatican, the twin cities that “lie for a living” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/argo-john-paul-ii-are-make-believe_11.html

Do not slumber on, California Legislature Members, for your children’s sake, for justice sake. Let your conscience wake up and not fail you, ALLOW this final chance for justice of children to ring loudly in California…and in turn for justice to ring loudly in the USA and in the whole world!

Read our related letter to Judge Elias who set the unprecedented decision to release all files of pedophile priests that inspired other courts of law, like Milwaukee to also release their files. And now the United Nations is asking the Vatican to release all its cover-ups files about pedophile priests and all their victims, read here -- UN commands Vatican to reveal cover-ups/info… like Milwaukee pedophile priests files & Cardinal Dolan’s role http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/un-commands-vatican-to-reveal-cover.html

New Year’s plea to the judge of Los Angeles: Reveal the whole truth, the entire truth now

Dear Judge Emilie H. Elias,

You are our final hope for the whole truth and nothing but the truth…and May the Almighty God help you and give you the courage to do the right thing.

The crimes against American children systemically covered-up by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles must not be hidden in the dust of history nor must it be given the chance to be shredded and forgotten forever into oblivion (five or six banker's boxes of documents).

Read full letter here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/judge-elias-please-release-all.html

When your district is rife with crime, hold bad guys responsible

CALIFORNIA
The Worthy Adversary
http://theworthyadversary.com/2090-sb-131-stalled-in-committee
Posted by Joelle Casteix on August 15, 2013

Rep. Diane Harkey: Please take a look at cost of crimes in YOUR district before voting no.

Yesterday, CA Assembly Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Diane Harkey voted no on important crime victims legislation—even though a similar 2003 bill exposed horrible abuse in her own district.

I don’t believe it was a malicious act against victims, I just think she doesn’t know about the child sex crimes and cover-up that have thrived in the 73rd Assembly District.

SB 131—the California Child Victims’ Act, a bill that gives crime victims the opportunity to use the civil courts to seek justice and accountability—has stalled in House Appropriations Committee.

According to the Los Angeles Times:

A key question for the committee is whether new lawsuits would strain an already overburdened court system. At the height of the clergy abuse scandal in 2002, the legislature signed off on a similar one-year window. Hundreds of people filed claims, many of them against the Catholic Church.

Diane Harkey (R-Dana Point) was one of the no votes. She represents the district that is the home of St. Edward’s in Dana Point—home of some of the worst perpetrators in OC history. We wouldn’t know about the scope and scale of the crimes against her constituents were it not for for a similar, but broader, 2003 civil window bill.

And since this was a vote in Appropriations, she should be weighing the “costs” to the court system against the millions of dollars in state-wide and district-specific social services that have already and are currently being spent to care for the victims in her district alone. Let wrong-doers pay for their crimes, not taxpayers. The costs to the courts are minimal in comparison.

Let’s take a look at St. Edwards:

Here are the known predators – It’s a “Who’s Who” of OC offenders.

John Lenihan (who, despite the arrest chronicled in this story, is a free man)
Denis Lyons (was finally sentenced when a younger victim came forward)
Gerald J. Plesetz (he got a 16-year-old Mater Dei student pregnant and signed the adoption papers in San Diego)
Michael Pecharich (he told parishioner there was just one “boundary violation.” We later learned that he and diocese officials were not quite telling the truth)
Henry Perez
Sigfried Widera

Without the 2003 window, Michael Pecharich would still be in ministry, Denis Lyons would never have gone to jail, and we never would have learned the whole truth about Sigfried Widera, who was sent to OC after an arrest for “sexual perversion” in Milwaukee.

I think that Ms. Harkey should know what has been going on in her district, don’t you? I think that the state of California would be saved a whole lot of money if wrong-doers are forced to do the right thing.

What Can You Do?

Fortunately, SB131 supporters have time to re-present to the committee. But in the meantime, what can YOU do?

Write members of the House Appropriations Committee and let them know you support the bill.

Bill to allow sex abuse victims more time to sue fails to advance

CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles Times
By Ashley Powers
August 14, 2013

A bill that would give some sex abuse victims more time to file lawsuits, which has drawn fierce opposition from the Catholic Church, failed to get enough support Wednesday to make it out of a key legislative committee.

The bill, which needed nine votes to leave the lower house's appropriations committee and go to the Assembly floor, mustered only six. Four committee members opposed the bill and seven did not weigh in after an emotional hearing that included testimony from a lobbyist who is also a sex abuse survivor.

The panel, which mainly considers how much a proposal would cost the state, will take up SB 131 again next week. It has already passed the state Senate and the Assembly judiciary committee.

The bill would, in part, lift the statute of limitations for one year to allow certain victims to sue private or nonprofit employers who may have failed to protect them from known molesters. Supporters say sex abuse victims need extra time to file lawsuits because it often takes decades for them to admit that they were molested.

A key question for the committee is whether new lawsuits would strain an already overburdened court system. At the height of the clergy abuse scandal in 2002, the legislature signed off on a similar one-year window. Hundreds of people filed claims, many of them against the Catholic Church.

Mercury News editorial: Bill would allow victims of child abuse to seek justice

Mercury News Editorial

Posted: 07/29/2013 01:45:00 PM PDT | Updated: 19 days ago

Pope Francis made two statements of historic proportion Monday.

He said of gays: "If they accept the Lord and have good will, who am I to judge them? They shouldn't be marginalized. The tendency (to be homosexual) is not the problem. They are our brothers."
What a heartening declaration from the Roman Catholic pontiff. We hope it helps open the minds of some vocal Christians opposed to gay rights.
We also were heartened to hear the pope carefully distinguish between being gay and being a predator. Chastising reporters for dwelling on possible homosexual affairs by priests, he said they are matters of sin -- not crimes like sexually abusing children.

It is a distinction that opponents of gay rights often blur, and the pope's reminder is timely. His church in California is strongly opposing a bill by state Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, that would help victims of abuse. SB 131 should be approved as quickly as possible, and Gov. Jerry Brown should sign it.

Current state law allows childhood victims to sue abusers or abusers' employers until age 26, or three years after psychological problems have been linked to the abuse. Beall wants victims to have another chance: SB 131 would open a one-year window Jan. 1, 2014 to file suit. One year is the most that victim advocates think can pass -- partly because of intense lobbying by the church and some non-profit organizations.

Studies conducted for the federal Centers for Disease Control found childhood abuse frequently linked to emotional, behavioral and physical problems later in life, including substance abuse, depression and conduct disorders. It can take years for victims to understand the link, let alone feel prepared to confront abusers.

The societal costs of these problems are enormous. Nationally, the CDC puts the damage at
$124 billion a year, and if abusers do not pay, taxpayers do. Lawmakers need to act in their interests.

California opened a similar window in 2003, when more than 900 plaintiffs came forward and won $1.2 billion in damages from the church alone. They also forced the church to produce files it kept on priests accused or suspected of abuse.

Edward Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, told the Los Angeles Times once was enough. "Are you going to open another window five years from now? When does it end?"A better question is: Why should it ever end? Why should those responsible for abuse get a pass if enough time goes by?

Beall's bill has passed the Senate and the Assembly Judiciary Committee; it moves to Assembly Appropriations on Aug. 14. The estimated cost is $160,000, pennies by state standards, so it should quickly move to the Assembly floor and to the governor's desk.

Pope Francis' clarity on the seriousness of abuse should influence California's church to stand up and, if necessary, pay up for all victims of priests it once sheltered. This would bring everyone a step closer to closure -- which we suspect is the aim of this pope, whose stature continues to grow.

Debunking The Catholic Church Latest Myth

UNITED STATES
SOL Reform

Posted on Aug 8, 2013

Why Survivor Lawsuits Have No Connection To Catholic School Closures

Introduction

In its most recent attempt to deny survivors of childhood sexual abuse the remuneration they deserve, the Catholic Church is attempting to link the newly proposed statute of limitations outlined in SB 131 to a significant financial burden on the state of California via the public school system.

Essentially, they argue that more lawsuits would force them to divert resources from their private, Catholic schools to survivors, in turn, forcing them to close these Catholic schools. The effect, then, would be an influx of students to the public school system, and ultimately, more costs for the state of California.

While the Church is correct in it’s observation that private, Catholic schools are in decline both in California, and nationally, there is no logical connection between their closures and the lawsuits brought by victims of childhood sexual abuse. Rather, this decline nationally, and in California, can be attributed to a number of factors, including: (1) the economic recession, (2) middle income families’ flight from urban areas, (3) and the rise of charter schools.

The Economic Recession

Between 1970 and 1990, Catholic schools lost 75% of their religious faculty. This has forced Catholic schools to hire secular faculty who demand salaries commensurate with their public school counterparts. This has forced tuition at Catholic schools to rise, triggering enrollment declines and ultimately, school closings.[1]

“For Catholic parents, tuition is a key factor, a 2006 NCEA report suggests. The national study, performed from 2000 to 2005 by Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, found that, among a randomized sample of about 1,400 parents with school-age children who attended Catholic services, 44 percent reported that insufficient tuition aid was “somewhat” or “very much” a problem.”[2]

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The womb of the Immaculate Conception of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe carried Jesus this way

9-months gestation of Jesus the Son of God

READ more here about the pregnancy of Our Lady http://stella0maris.blogspot.ca/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html

DOLLY THE CLONED SHEEP

The cloning process that produced Dolly
http://www.youtube.com/embed/39BbcZVCx8I

BLACK MAGIC OF EUCHARIST

1-MINUTE black magic of the cloning of Christ by sinful Vatican pope and priests

Our comment: Transubstantiation or the Mass is a recent development . St. Peter and St. Paul and the Apostles never celebrated Mass and never “transubstantiation” the bread into the flesh of Christ, what they did was to preach about Christ. The Mass was a slow development from the 12th century through various liturgical reforms until the 20th century. It was only in 1215 at the Fourth Council of the Lateran that the Mass began to take form and in 1551 at the Council of Trent that transubstantiation became what it is today.

The Vatican has come to use it as its main crux of power on earth deceiving Catholics and peoples of all faiths that only Popes and men-priests have the exclusive power to transubstantiate - or clone - God’s flesh. Because of the Mass, the Vatican has gotten away with all kinds of heinous crimes, e.g. the Crusades, the Inquisition, the burning of women and witches http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006/11/john-paul-ii-revived-inquisition.html “For the sake of the Eucharist” and because of the shortage of priests, John Paul II, Cardinal Ratzinger-Benedict XVI, the Opus Dei who controls the Vatican, the Cardinals and Bishops shuffled pedophile priests from one parish to another. The rest is history: the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army committed Holy ES Eucharist-and-Sodomy of Biblical proportions see the John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.com/.

In the name of Hail Mary, we dare challenge and defy the Magisterium: No words pronounced by any finite-man can create an infinite-God! No words of the Pope and priests can re-create or re-incarnate Christ’s flesh. The words of sinful popes and priests are powerless and can never create God! Only Mary the Immaculate Conception deserved to bear God in her womb. No evil pope and evil priests is worthy to touch and hold God in their evil hands. The words of popes and Cardinals, Bishops and priests are mere clashing-cymbals of St. Paul see John Paul II the Great clashing cymbal of St. Paul http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2009/11/john-paul-ii-great-clashing-cymbal-of.html.

See Benedict XVI to beatify John Paul II is “brought to nothing” by St. Paul http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2009/11/benedict-xvi-to-beatify-john-paul-ii-is.html

No matter how we look at it, finite-man cannot create an infinite-God. Man can never create God’s flesh. Not in in-vitro fertilization of the scientific laboratories. Not in the sacred altars of holy Roman Catholic churches which by the way were the same pedophile altars of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army See the John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.com/

Rome, call us heretics and we don’t care because in Boston and in America, we have freedom of speech. It was our freedom of speech that got rid of criminal-Cardinal Bernard Law and sent him packing out of our sight and out of our land. But only you, Rome, you the Roman Catholic Church a.k.a. Magisterium would glorify criminals like Cardinal Bernard Law and John Paul II. No other American state has been able to replicate our courage as Bostonians who got rid of the first Cardinal caught guilty of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in America. Yes, we caught the first SS officer of the Third Reich of the Roman Catholic Church … but he went into glorious exile in Rome because only in the Catholic Church are criminals glorified See The John Paul II Millstone John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army expands into Ireland &John Paul is elevated as "Venerable"... only in the Catholic Church are criminals glorified http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2009/12/john-paul-ii-pedophile-priests-army.html

Benedict XVI, from the Chair of Peter, thinks his papal letter will heal the victims and solve the problem of clergy abuse in Ireland. The fact is, Benedict XVI’s words are powerless. NO POPE has ever healed anyone. As this picture shows,

They came sick and they left sick.

There is NO "Apostolic" authority or succession here,

for NO Pope has EVER been able to heal like Peter or Paul did.

Opus Dei Goliath-bully Bill want to propagate Catholic Medieval Doctrine that all crimes of JP2 Army of pedophile priests are already forgiven and forgotten under the Sacrament of Confession that protects criminals and persecutes their victims, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html

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More NEWS FOR AUGUST 16, 2013

The California Catholic Bishops Fight Access to Justice for Child Sex Abuse Victims

CALIFORNIA
Justia Verdict
Marci A. Hamilton

At the end of July, Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archbishop Jose Gomez sent the following letter to the editor of California Catholic, Bob McPhail, asking him to publish Gomez’s letter encouraging parishioners to contact their state elected representatives urging them to vote against statute-of-limitations (SOL) reform for child-sex- abuse victims, by voting against Bill SB131. The primary target of the Catholic bishops, and bishops nationwide, is this statute-of-limitations window which would open a one-year period during which those victims of clergy child sex abuse whose statutes of limitations had expired (which is the vast majority) could still file lawsuits against their abusers and those who covered up the abuse.

Here is an excerpt of what Gomez said:

Friends, my brother bishops and I in the California Catholic Conference are asking all Catholics to contact their Assembly members and Senators and urge them to vote “No” on Senate Bill 131.

SB-131 fails to protect all victims of childhood sexual abuse, discriminates against Catholic schools and other private employers, and puts the Church’s social services and educational mission at risk.

This is the same playbook that was first conjured up by now-Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput when he was the Archbishop of Denver, Colorado. The main idea is that, once SOL reform is proposed in the legislature, the bishops then mobilize their parishioners against it, with messages that misrepresent the actual impact of such legislation, and then play a false anti-Catholic card to really get their parishioners out of the pews and onto their computers and phones. The trouble is that neither claim is true, nor is either truly in the spirit of Catholic teachings.

Who Is Listening to Catholic Bishops on the Issue of Child Sex Abuse, and What Religious Values Fuel Their Opposition to Victims’ Access to Justice?

California Bill Would Extend Deadline on Child Sex Abuse Lawsuits

CALIFORNIA
Valley Public Radio
By MAX PRINGLE

A bill that would extend California’s statute of limitations on civil suits for victims of childhood sexual abuse has stalled in an Assembly Committee.

Democratic Senator Jim Beall says his bill would bring a measure of justice to people who may just now be coming to terms with childhood trauma.

“When they discover later in life, through therapy or whatever, that they were attacked by somebody, it allows them to go to civil court," says Beall.

Under the bill, anyone 26 and older would get an extra year to seek damages against institutions that failed to prevent abuse.

California measure to extend statute of limitations for sex abuse victims fails in committee

CALIFORNIA
Sacramento Bee
By Melody Gutierrez
mgutierrez@sacbee.com
Published: Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013

A bill to extend the statute of limitations for some sex abuse victims fell three votes short in an Assembly committee Wednesday amid fierce lobbying, including more than $250,000 from an umbrella organization of the California Catholic Council.

Senate Bill 131 by San Jose Democrat Jim Beall would open a one-year window for victims excluded from a 2003 law that extended the time during which sexual abuse victims can file a civil lawsuit.
The measure is sponsored by the National Center for Victims of Crime and supported by the California Police Chiefs Association and the Consumer Attorneys of California.

Opponents have argued that the bill unfairly targets the Catholic Church and Boy Scouts in order to create a revenue machine for lawyers.

"If the bill loses, the molester protectors win," Beall said after it failed 6-4 along party lines in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

CALIFORNIA SEX ABUSE BILL STALLS (CATHOLIC GOLIATH BULLY BILL DONOHUE)

CALIFORNIA
Catholic League

Bill Donohue comments on a California bill, SB 131, that would suspend the statute of limitations for one year in cases where someone claims he was molested when he was a minor in a private institution; the law applies to those who were 26-years-old in 2002:

Good news: SB 131 never got out of committee today. While the bill can still be voted on during this legislative session, time is running out. The fact that it stalled today is encouraging.

This bill has more to do with punishing the Catholic Church for offenses alleged to have been committed decades ago than it does with protecting minors today. The bill is also an affront to fairness on another level: it gives the biggest offenders of all—those who work in the public schools—a pass.

CALIFORNIA SEX ABUSE BILL SHOWDOWN

(CATHOLIC GOLIATH BULLY BILL DONOHUE)

CALIFORNIA
Catholic League
Bill Donohue comments on the fate of SB 131:

Tomorrow, the California Assembly Appropriations Committee will once again take up the issue of suspending the statute of limitations for cases involving minors who allege they are victims of sexual abuse. SB 131 would allow anyone who was 26-years-old in 2002, and claims to have been molested, one year to file suit. To those interested in justice, the bill appears to be fair. But there is just one problem: most of those who meet the criteria are not legally permitted to file suit. How can this be? Because it does not apply to anyone who was violated by a public employee, such as a public school teacher, aide, counselor or coach. For them—and they account for the lion’s share of abuse—it’s just too bad.

The purpose of this outrageous bill is to sock it to the Catholic Church. In California, lawmakers already suspended the statute of limitations for private institutions; they did so in 2003. But public school teachers have never been subjected to this condition. In other words, the bill is nothing more than a vindictive effort to punish the Catholic Church.

Leading the fight against this bill are the California bishops, and the California Catholic Conference; we are particularly taken by the aggressive leadership of Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez. We are proud to play a support role: The Catholic League has contacted well over 10,000 members in California asking them to weigh in on this issue.

California abuse bill could still threaten Catholic Church

CALIFORNIA
DFW Catholic

Los Angeles, Calif., Aug 16, 2013 / 02:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A California bill accused of unfairly targeting the Catholic Church and other groups with lawsuits on decades-old abuse charges has stalled in a committee, but the measure is still being considered.

On Aug. 14, Senate Bill 131 received six votes in the local Assembly Appropriations Committee, three short of the nine needed to advance to the assembly floor for a full vote. Four committee members voted against the bill while seven did not vote.

The committee, which primarily considers how much a bill will cost the state government, focused on whether new lawsuits would overburden the legal system, the Los Angeles Times reports. The group will consider the bill again next week.

California's Catholic bishops have asked Catholics to continue to contact their lawmakers in protest of the legislation.

California bill on sex abuse lawsuits stalls

Manteca Bulletin

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California bill that would give some sex abuse victims more time to sue failed to gain enough support to make it out of a key Assembly committee in Sacramento.

The bill needed nine votes in the Appropriations Committee move to the Assembly floor but received only six on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/17qYWHn) reported.

Four members of the committee opposed the bill and seven did not comment following emotional testimony from a sex abuse survivor lobbying for the bill.

Senate Bill 131 would permit the filing of lawsuits against private and nonprofit employers of alleged abusers by people who have been unable to do so due to time and age restrictions.

The proposed law would lift the statute of limitations for one year for the group of alleged victims who were 26 and older and missed the previous deadline set by a similar bill nearly a decade ago.

Supporters of the bill argue that victims need extra time to file lawsuits because it may take years for them to admit that they were molested or to realize the psychological harm caused by sexual abuse. The bill's main author, Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, says it would cost the state little money.

The Roman Catholic Church, which has fought hard against the proposed legislation, says it would be financially crippled by the bill. The church did not fight the 2002 bill that opened the floodgates for hundreds of victims and led to $1.2 billion in settlements from dioceses statewide, including $660 million in Los Angeles alone.

The church and private organizations charge they have been unfairly targeted because the bill does not apply to public schools.

The appropriations panel, which takes into consideration how much a proposal would cost the state, will review the bill again next week. It has already passed the state Senate and the Assembly Judiciary Committee.

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Second UN Committee Scrutinizes Vatican

UNITED STATES
The Worthy Adversary

Posted by Joelle Casteix on August 15, 2013

The UN Convention Against Torture has announced that it will be reviewing reports by the Holy See to determine if they are in compliance with the international treaty against torture.

Other states being reviewed include Sierra Leone, Cyprus and Lithuania.

While it’s a routine review—and only in the informational stages—victims and advocates hope that the review will publicly expose Vatican crimes.

This latest news comes on the heels of a request of the UN Committee for the Rights of the Child, in which in the international organization asked the Vatican to account for every child sex accusation by clergy it has received and disclose all records of abuse and cover-up by church officials.

While these actions are symbolic and have no “teeth”—in other words, no one is going to go to jail and the Vatican can simply “quit” the UN if it doesn’t want to play along—it’s reassuring to the victims’ community to see that international bodies DO recognize that there is a problem.

Second United Nations panel to question Vatican

GENEVA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Committee against Torture calls Catholic officials to account
For the second time in recent months, a United Nations panel will soon determine if Vatican officials are complying with an international treaty. The Geneva-based UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) has set next May as the date for a review of whether top church officials are honoring the 1984 treaty on torture.
[United Nations Human Rights]
"Every time anyone tells Catholic officials 'You will be held to the same standard as other institutions,' that's progress," said Barbara Blaine of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. "This is an encouraging development. We suspect this committee will see and point out how the church hierarchy continues to tolerate and enable sexual violence."
"Vatican bureaucrats have long made and broken promises with impunity. Ever so slowly, those days are waning," said David Clohessy of SNAP. "But progress is happening only because of brave victims and determined advocates. So for the safety of innocent kids and vulnerable adults, we all must all keep pressing hard and keep exposing complicity."
In June, two US SNAP leaders traveled to Geneva and met with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, chaired by Kirsten Sandberg of Norway. In July, that panel released a list of "issues" related to child sex crimes and cover ups that church officials must response to by Nov. 1.

SEX & ABUSE BY CATHOLIC CLERGY

UNITED STATES
Richard Sipe

SIPE ON THE PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

PAST: Putting sexual abuse in perspective.

Sexual abuse of minors is not a recent phenomenon; the reality of clergy sexual activity has existed, as long as there have been priests and bishops.

Church documents from the earliest centuries record the ideal of religious celibacy and its violations. (Cf. Doyle, Sipe & Wall 2006) There is an element of basic asceticism in the practice of religious celibacy—the imitation of Jesus in having nothing: not a place “to lay his head”; poverty by choice; and forsaking all-family relationships in order to be like Jesus. Treating others as Jesus did was the object of the discipline.

This ideal was found especially in the earliest monks of the desert.

But the other side of the coin is the corruption of the ideal. In our time, publicity about abuse has refocused our knowledge of the frequency of sexual violations by clergy and the horrendous and long
lasting damage done to victims.

Purity was thought to be the source of clerical power.

Sexual abuse of minors does not stand alone within clerical culture. It is a symptom—and always has been—of a corrupt system of double lives and duplicity that reaches from local parishes to the Vatican; it destroys the myth of clerical purity. The whole idea that clergy practice celibacy has imploded.

THIRTY YEARS: WHAT WE’VE LEARNED AND WHAT I’VE LEARNED

UNITED STATES
Richard Sipe

Thomas Doyle, J.C.D., C.A.D.C.
July 27, 2013
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This year marks the end of the third decade of the contemporary chapter in the Catholic Church’s age-old reality of sexual violation of clerics. In 1983 Jeff Anderson filed the historic case in Minnesota that would launch him on his life-long vocation of bringing not only civil but human rights to the Church countless victims. That summer, the bizarre saga of Gilbert Gauthe was exposed to the light in Lafayette, Louisiana.

This nightmare did not begin in Boston in January 2002 as many erroneously believe. It did not begin in 1983 either. It has been a toxic virus in the Body of Christ since its very beginning. The Didache, a handbook for the earliest followers of Christ, written before the end of the first century, explicitly condemns men who sexually abuse boys….and the “men” included the leaders or elders of the infant Church. The Louisiana spectacle generally gets the credit for being the beginning of public wareness of the so-called “crisis.” I daresay though that had Jason Berry lived in Minneapolis and not New Orleans, things might have been different. Either way you look at it, Jeff in Minnesota and Ray Mouton in Louisiana opened a new era for the Catholic Church and in doing so, changed the course of its history.

When I first became involved with the Gauthe case in 1984 I still believed in the Church. I thought the institutional Church and the People of God were one and the same. In spite of already having served three years on the inside at the Vatican Embassy I still had some confidence in bishops and shared the hope with my colleagues at the time, Mike Peterson and Ray Mouton, that once the bishops became aware of how terrible sexual abuse of a child could be and also aware of the potential for a very serious problem in the Church, they would quickly step up to the plate and do the right thing, especially by the victims.

I was dead wrong and by the time I left my position at the Vatican embassy I was quite convinced I was wrong. I had no idea however, of the extent of the problem but more important, and worse, I had no idea just how duplicitous and destructive the bishops could be.

THE DISRUPTION OF NORMAL PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE SEXUALY ABUSED CHILD AND ADOLESCENT

UNITED STATES
Richard Sipe

Dr. Marianne Benkert on Developmental Disruption

INTRODUCTION

It gives me great pleasure to with you here tonight. I would like to thank the leadership of SNAP for inviting me to share part of this evening with you. We are all here because of this organization that has done such incredible work supporting victims and survivors of clerical sexual abuse and has helped to
keep this issue before the public eye.

What I bring to you this evening as a physician and psychiatrist is expertise and experience, a history of treating thousands of people over my long professional career, a majority of them physically and sexually abused, all of them in deep pain. Initially no one comes into my office telling me how good their life is.

Tonight I want to talk with you about the normal psychological development of children and adolescents and the disruption that occurs with abuse, especially sexual abuse. First I would like to put all of us in the role of a basic scientist for just five minutes and share with you some of the amazing neurobiological discoveries that are taking place.

Psychology, psychiatry and the neurosciences are in a state of dynamic discovery. Our understanding of human nature and human development is constantly being refined. Recent studies have shown the anatomy of the brain actually changes in response to abuse and trauma. We call this ability neuroplasticity. We can identify which part of the brain is responsible for different sensations and emotions.

Two more NJ predators are “outed”

NEW JERSEY
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Two more NJ predators are “outed”
Both are Catholic clerics from elsewhere
One sexually abused a girl in Los AngelesThe other molested in both Texas and Illinois
Neither priest has ever gotten attention in NJ
New records showed a third predator was in Newark
SNAP wants help from a parish, a school & three bishops
WHAT
Holdings signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, clergy sex abuse victims will disclose the names of two credibly accused child molesting clerics who worked in New Jersey, abused elsewhere and have never been “outed” here. They will also give more specifics about a third predator priest who was “outed” in New Jersey just last week.
The three worked in Perth Amboy, Jersey City, Newark, Garfield, Rumson, Summit and Englewood.
The victims will also announce that they’re writing to a parish, a school and three prelates - Newark’s archbishop, Trenton’s bishop and Metuchen’s bishop - urging all of them to “do aggressive outreach” to find other victims of the clerics
WHEN
Friday, August 9 at 1:00 p.m.
WHERE
Outside the Newark Catholic Archdiocese headquarters, 171 Clifton Ave. in Newark, NJ
WHO
Two-three members of an international support group called SNAP (the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), including the organization’s long time New Jersey director
WHY
SNAP has learned recently about three credibly accused child molesting clerics who were in New Jersey. All molested kids elsewhere. Two have attracted no public attention in New Jersey. One was exposed as having lived and worked in New Jersey just last week.
The two being “outed” today by SNAP are Fr. Eusebio Pantoja and Fr. Rubin V. Abaya. Both worked at parishes in Perth Amboy. The one “outed” last week is Fr. Joseph B. DiPeri, who worked in five New Jersey cities.

OPEN LETTER TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

UNITED STATES
Catholic Whistleblowers
By Patrick Collins
Ten years ago, on my 39th anniversary of ordination, I sent this letter to the bishops of the United States. On this May 31, 2013, my 49th anniversary, I share these words because they remain painfully true in my opinion.
Nevertheless I rejoice today in 49 years of priestly life and ministry. Despite these leadership problems, our faith community continues to deepen and do good works for the Reign of God. And my spiritual life continues to deepen, be enriched and bring me great joy each day.
Dear Bishops,
As I have witnessed men and women committing themselves to the “for better or for worse” in the Sacrament of Marriage, I have often thought: “You really don’t know what you are in for!” And, as I have listened to their marital difficulties unfolding over the years, I realize how correct I was. Only over the years of trying to be faithful to that vow can they come to understand the great difficulties associated with keeping the promises they made on the day of their marriage.
Similarly for me on the day my ordination to the ministerial priesthood. When I placed my hands into those of Peoria, Illinois bishop John Baptist Franz on May 31, 1964, I heard him ask me, in Latin of course, “Do you promise to me and to my successors obedience and respect?” With trust in God and the goodness of bishops, I, without a clue as to the future implications of my response, responded innocently “I promise.” ...
Too many in our church leadership have engaged in embarrassing secrecy and complicity in the crisis of clerical sexual abuse. Past systemic forms of episcopal governance have facilitated this. And this not only in Boston. Some bishops continue to protect their brother bishops whom they know to be guilty by not investigating allegations against them for improper handling of cases. Many of us priests know as well of examples in which priests have given incriminating information about other priests to bishops and nothing has happened. In one case I have in mind, the offending priest was even promoted to a prominent position after his bishop was informed of the priest’s inappropriate sexual conduct.
Which is worse, many of us priests are asking: The unspeakable sin and crime of abusing children committed by less than 6 percent of priests in this nation – or the much larger percentage of bishops who have covered up, paid off and lied for the sake of their self-protective behaviors?
In the years prior to the current sexual scandals many bishops seemed to protect the institution of the church and its assets by protecting the violating priests but not adequately respecting and serving the violated. Now it seems they are bending over backwards to make up for those errors by almost failing to honor the due process deserved by the violating priests while being totally dedicated to the violated. There is a noted consistency here, it would seem. The primary driving energy would appear to be to protect themselves and the patrimony of the institutional church. In neither case is the energy primarily about protecting and honoring persons – either the priest or the children and the family. That is sad to realize. Because this is becoming more and more obvious, our leaders are finding diminished respect from more than just the clergy.

Catholic Church must not be allowed to police itself

SCOTLAND
Herald Scotland
Tuesday 6 August 2013
Colette Douglas Home
Columnist
CHRISTOPHER Walls's cry from the heart woke me yesterday.

"I was robbed of my childhood. I was robbed of my education. I am left swallowing anger, frustration,' he told the Today programme on Radio 4. I am left to deal with that on a daily basis, on my own. They can be of no help to me."

This man, now in his sixties, was responding to an apology from the Bishop of Aberdeen following revelations of abuse at Fort Augustus Abbey School.

Mr Walls, who was beaten daily and sexually abused when he was a pupil at Carlekemp (the Fort Augustus prep school in East Lothian) said: "I think these are sins crying out to heaven for vengeance.'
The Bishop of Aberdeen, Hugh Gilbert, has been applauded for offering an apology for the "shameful abuse" days after a documentary that exposed it to the public.
But Mr Walls remains cynical. He finds the apology "thin". Over the years he has told his story to members of the clergy and been "shushed". He made an official complaint to Dom Richard Yeo, Abbot President of the Benedictines, in 2010. An inquiry was launched yet no-one interviewed him or his brother David, a fellow victim.

Schüller in Los Angeles: decrying 'dictatorship' of church hierarchy

CALIFORNIA
National Catholic Reporter
Gabrielle Canon | Aug. 5, 2013
LOS ANGELES It was 7:15 p.m. Friday. Seats in the dimly lit auditorium adjacent to the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, Calif., were beginning to fill. More than 200 Catholics from the Los Angeles area had gathered to hear the presentation by Austrian priest Fr. Helmut Schüller, who is calling upon Catholics to defy church hierarchy.
As a leader in a worldwide reform movement, Schüller has spent the last two and a half weeks meeting congregations in cities throughout the United States as part of his "Catholic Tipping Point" tour. Sponsored by 10 Catholic organizations, each presentation details the intentions behind the "Call to Disobedience," a document published by the Austrian Priests' Initiative.
The lights flickered, signaling that the event was about to begin, and as people began to quiet, Fr. Kevin Steen, a local priest and host of the event, took the microphone. The evening began with a prayer, followed by prayers for intercession led by members from the congregation. Each petition outlined the objectives the reformers in attendance hoped would be addressed.
"Celebrating the beauty of God's image in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people -- we pray," a woman quietly said into the microphone. "Lord, hear our prayer," the congregation answered.
"Longing for the day when, like St. Mary of Magdala, women can proclaim the Gospel from our pulpits -- we pray." "Lord, hear our prayer."

Catholic Church Insurance accused of dictating church policy on abuse

AUSTRALIA
ABC - Lateline
[with video]
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 08/08/2013
Reporter: Steve Cannane
The Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse is taking submissions into the Catholic Church's Towards Healing protocols which were introduced in 1996 to deal with abuse committed by clergy.
Transcript
TONY JONES, PRESENTER: The Royal Commission into child sexual abuse is taking submissions into the Catholic Church's Towards Healing protocols, introduced in 1996 to deal with abuse committed by clergy.
The protocols are meant to be driven by pastoral concerns dealing with the pain of victims through a Christian response.
But tonight for the first time a consultant to the committee has spoken out, saying the Church's insurance company had too much influence on the response and that a senior official from the company boasted of destroying Church personnel records.
Recently at the Victorian parliamentary inquiry into child sex abuse, the CEO of Catholic Church insurance, Peter Rush, said CCI officers remained independent of the underlying process.
Steve Cannane has this exclusive report, produced by Sashka Koloff.
STEVE CANNANE, REPORTER: Catholic Church insurance was set up in 1911 to insure Church properties against fire.

New Book Traces Sad Recent History of Priest Sex Scandals

UNITED STATES
CBS Philly
By John Ostapkovich
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — It’s a story we know all too well in Philadelphia, but a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist has now put the whole Catholic priest sex scandal in one volume.
Mortal Sins (Sex, Crime and the Era of Catholic Scandal) is not simply a crime blotter but a sweeping tale of an institution seeing its towering moral authority threatening to crumble.
“The shocking thing is that this has gone on for so long,” says author Michael D’Antonio. “This is three decades of horror stories.”"
D’Antonio’s focus shifts from Rome to Washington to towns across the US (including Philadelphia) and Europe, from meetings of top church officials to the anguished voices of victims.
In the end, D’Antonio says, this is a story of hope.

7 Right-Wing Christians ...

UNITED STATES
AlterNet
AlterNet / By Amanda Marcotte
August 7, 2013

Right-wing Christians have a lot of ridiculous sexual rules to control and direct sexual behavior: Everything from frowning on all nomarital sex to denouncing homosexuality to objecting to divorce. Of course, the problem they run up against is that consenting adults have lives that are complex, emotional and messy, and they’re going to make decisions based on their own circumstances and not the rules. This is so true that the very people espousing these strict rules about sex and marriage can’t even be bothered to follow them. Here’s some examples.
1) Catholic vicar Arthur M. Coyle caught with a prostitute.The Catholic Church has a long, long list of “nos” when it comes to sex, so long that it’s easier to list what you can do than what you can’t under their rules: Have contraception-free sex within marriage. That’s it, and if you’re a priest, even that is off the table for you. Which is why it’s newsworthy that Monsignor Arthur Coyle, who has been holding the high office of episcopal vicar for the Archdiocese of Boston was recently arrested for soliciting sex from a prostitute. The cops noted that Coyle was routinely spotted in the area where the prostitutes hung out, and so really, it was just a matter of time before he got caught. As usual, any lessons about what kind of behavior people will get up to if they’re denied healthy outlets for their sexuality will be ignored by the Catholic hierarchy.

Vatican Corruption Tweets Return to Haunt Pope's PR Francesca Chaouqui

VATICAN CITY
International Business Times
By UMBERTO BACCHI: August 12, 2013
The Holy See has been embarrassed by claims that Pope Francis's new PR had accused a senior cleric of corruption and said that Pope Benedict XVI had leukaemia in tweets she made before she got the job.
The Vatican has reportedly launched an inquiry into the hiring of Francesca Chaouqui, 30, who was appointed as PR officer for a new papal committee set up to overhaul the Vatican's financial administration in July.
Before securing the job, Chaouqui had extensively tweeted about Vatican affairs, often not mincing her words, giving rise to speculation that she had access to some degree of confidential information.
In a tweet in March Chaouqui described the Vatican's Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, as corrupt and claimed that he was involved in dubious business deals with an unnamed company from the Veneto region.

State is sick to allow church rule wards

IRELAND
Irish Independent
GENE KERRIGAN – 11 AUGUST 2013
It's important to remember that only a very small percentage of Irish Catholic priests raped and abused children. Though estimates vary, there are some that put the figure as low as around 4 per cent. A lot of entirely innocent priests were subjected to unwarranted suspicion.
It's equally important to note that the Catholic Church as an institution wholly and consistently covered up such crimes. It did so as a matter of policy, in a number of jurisdictions, repeatedly and over many years. Again and again, to sustain the reputation and maintain the political power of the church, the institution protected rapacious priests from the law and moved them to fresh fields, in which they could do further damage to children.
It says a lot for the resilience of the hierarchy that despite this disgusting record, so many of their flock remain stalwartly obedient. So much so that the Irish church retains a tight grip on education and health.
The church was caught repeatedly putting its own interests above the interests of abused children. This, surely, should have resulted in the church being immediately relieved of institutional responsibility for schools. Not out of anger, or revenge – simply as a prudent measure. To do otherwise is to gamble with the welfare of children.

Scotland's Catholic church must be contrite or cease to exist

SCOTLAND
The Observer
Kevin McKenna
The Observer, Saturday 10 August 2013
So the downfall of the Catholic church in Scotland didn't occur at the hands of the Orangemen or the secular humanists of the church's vivid imagination. All of the most grievous wounds it has suffered have turned out to be self-inflicted. The catalogue of sexual abuse by hundreds of priests stretching back decades; the sexual bullying of priests by its own cardinal; the cover-ups and intimidation of witnesses and victims – it didn't need the assistance of any external agency to bring about the moral catastrophe that currently engulfs it.
The single beacon in this, the Scottish church's darkest period, was provided by the most unlikely source. One of the victims of the sex abuse by priests at Fort Augustus Abbey School broke his anonymity last Sunday night and agreed to be interviewed on television. His words gave us a sense of the anger and humiliation he still felt more than 40 years after his torment. Yet he also possessed a dignity, courage and wisdom that has been entirely missing from the Scottish Catholic church and from Rome since the lid began to be lifted on this cesspit earlier this year.
This man was not impressed by the apology offered by the bishop of Aberdeen, Hugh Gilbert, pointing out, correctly, that public opinion and widespread revulsion following BBC Scotland's excellent investigation into abuse at Fort Augustus the previous week had dragged it from the church.
For any confession to be considered sincere and authentic, this brave man also pointed out, it has to be accompanied by "a firm purpose of amendment". Nothing, though, in any of what has passed for a response from the church, has contained anything remotely like "a firm purpose of amendment".

Papal Ceremoniaire Expelled from the Vatican

VATICAN CITY
Eponymous Flower

(Vatican) This information was hardly known, but it is not without significance. The Italian Monsignor Franco Camaldo, 61, from Lagonegro (Potenza), formerly of Papal Ceremonies, whose name often appeared recently in connection with a "gay lobby", was removed from the Vatican. Monsignor Camaldo was deported as a canon of the Lateran basilica "with right of abode." That is to say that he has to leave the Vatican.

Monsignor Camaldo appeared, because of his "old and intimate friendship" in the headlines with the Former Gentleman of His Holiness, Angelo Balducci, as investigations were launched against the Balducci-Anemone conspiracy ( see separate report ). It was about forcing the contracts of large firms.

Although he is not from Rome, the whole career Camaldos played out from Rome under the pontificate of Pope John Paul II. In June 1984 he became an Honorary Prelate of His Holiness and Papal Ceremonies. Soon, even the title of Honorary came Conventual Chaplains ad honorem of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the title of Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Maurice and Lazarus were added. More melodious tributes were yet added.

At last Msgr. Camaldo was put into play by Patrizio Poggi. Poggi, a former priest, had been laicized for child abuse. Italian justice sentenced him to several years in prison, which he has since served. Recently he reported to the police and claimed that there is a "ring" of homosexual priests and laymen active in Rome, the young men and children to perform as prostitutes. However, Poggi was deemed not credible. He was arrested for libel. The prosecutor denied the allegations Poggi about a pedophile ring. However, they acknowledged in this context that there are aberrosexual priests in Rome who live out their immoral desires.

Reports of suspicious financial activity up at Vatican

VATICAN CITY
Gazzetta del Sud
Rome, August 9 - The success of the Vatican's commitment to greater financial surveillance is demonstrated by the rise in suspicious activities detected, the head of financial intelligence there said Friday. In an interview published in the daily La Repubblica, Rene Bruelhart said the Vatican's latest measures toward greater financial enforcement are already proving themselves. The rising number of suspicious transaction reports this year - with more reported to date in 2013 than in the previous year - proves the system is effective, said Bruelhart, director of the Vatican's watchdog Financial Information Authority (AIF). '

News Updates for August 21, 2013

Assembly panel passes bill on sex-abuse lawsuits

CALIFORNIA
Contra Costa Times
LAURA OLSON Associated Press
POSTED: 08/21/2013
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A bill that would give some victims of childhood sexual abuse more time to file civil lawsuits is heading to the Assembly floor after it previously failed to clear a key committee.
The legislation from Democratic Sen. Jim Beall of San Jose would lift the statute of limitations for one year for a group of alleged victims who were 26 and older and missed a similar window to file lawsuits in 2003.
The Assembly Appropriations Committee passed the bill Wednesday, 12-4.
The Catholic Church is a main opponent of SB131. Representatives of the church and other institutions say it unfairly applies only to private or nonprofit groups.

CA - Legislative panel passes child safety bill; SNAP responds

CALIFORNIA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com )
A California legislative panel today passed a bill that will enable more child sex abuse victims to warn parents about molesters through the civil justice system.
[Los Angeles Times]
California kids are the winners today. Lawmakers can make it easier or harder for crime victims to expose predators.
These lawmakers are making it easier.
Those who commit and conceal heinous child sex crimes in California can't breathe easier now. Those who want to prevent and expose such crimes still have a tough road. We hope the rest of the California legislature will fully pass this measure so that California kids will be safer.

Bill to give sex-abuse victims more time to sue advances on second try

CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles Times
By Melanie Mason
August 21, 2013, 12:09 p.m.
SACRAMENTO -- After failing to muster enough support last week, a bill that would give some sex-abuse victims more time to file lawsuits advanced in an Assembly committee Wednesday.
SB 131, sponsored by Sen. Jim Beall (D-San Jose), would lift the statute of limitations for one year to enable some victims of childhood sexual abuse to sue private or nonprofit employers that failed to protect them from known molesters.
The Catholic Church has fiercely lobbied against the measure, saying a flood of new suits could cripple the church economically, forcing parochial schools to close.
At an emotional hearing of the Assembly Appropriations committee last week, victims told stories of grappling with their abuse for decades after it occurred. Supporters of the measure say that because some victims can take years to acknowledge they were molested, they need more time to file lawsuits.
The church and other opponents, including private-school consortiums and organizations such as the YMCA, argued that the bill unfairly targets private and nonprofit employers.

LEGISLATURE: Bill would exempt statue of limitations on some sexual abuse suits

CALIFORNIA
Press-Enterprise
BY DAVID OLSON August 20, 2013
David Nickell said the repeated sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of a Catholic priest in 1980 still haunts him today.
Nickell, 45, of Riverside, looks back at years of “self-medicating” and drifting from job to job and relationship to relationship and believes at least some of the instability in his life is the result of what he said was sexual abuse he suffered when he was 11 and 12 years old.
“I’ve lost a lot of years,” Nickell said.
Current law does not allow Nickell to pursue legal action against the Diocese of San Bernardino, because the alleged abuse happened so long ago. But a bill now being debated in the state legislature would give Nickell and some other alleged victims one year to file suit, exempting them from the statute of limitations for sexual abuse.
A 2002 law granted a similar one-year window but supporters of the new bill say many victims don’t realize the effects of their abuse until later in life.

California Assembly Appropriations Committee,vote YES to SB 131... Contact/ Write to members of the House Appropriations Committee...

CALIFORNIA
Pope Crimes & Vatican Evils...
Paris Arrow
Updated August 20, 2013
We beg all members of the California State Assembly Appropriations Committee - - the California legislative panel to vote “YES” on SB 131 this Wednesday (8/21) - and make it easier for California child sex abuse victims to expose their child molesters in court. We invite all Committee members to read our letter to Los Angeles Judge Emilie H. Elias who made - the historic decision and judgement - to release all pedophile priests’ files of the Los Angeles Archdiocese - against the million dollars lawyers of Cardinal Mahony who wanted them all to be shredded and hidden and denied to the public.
Our letter - New Year’s plea to the judge of Los Angeles: Reveal the whole truth, the entire truth now – today apply as well to the California State Assembly Appropriations Committee when they’ll make their historic vote on SB 131.
Dear (Judge Emilie H. Elias) California State Assembly Appropriations Committee,
You are our final hope for the whole truth and nothing but the truth...and May the Almighty God help you and give you the courage to do the right thing.

California statute of limitations hearing tomorrow

CALIFORNIA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
POSTED BY DAVID CLOHESSY ON AUGUST 20, 2013
Tomorrow, a California legislative panel will vote on SB 131, a measure that would make it easier for child sex abuse victims to expose child molesters in court.
Leading the charge against the measure: California’s Catholic bishops.
The highest ranking prelate in the state, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, claims that the bill
--“fails to protect all victims of childhood sexual abuse” (So if a bill doesn’t protect EVERYONE or fix EVERYTHING, it should be defeated?)
--“discriminates against Catholic schools” (Really? The bill doesn’t mention Catholic schools.)
--“discriminates against other private employers” (No, the bill focuses on private employers because that’s where history and common sense tell us abuse is more apt to be covered up. That’s not “discrimination,” that’s smart public policy.)
--“puts the Church’s social services and educational mission at risk” (Really? That’s what virtually every bishop says every time anyone proposes reforming the archaic, arbitrary, predator-friendly statute of limitations.)
Gomez isn’t the only Catholic official who’s wrong about this. The bishops’ lead public relations guy, Kevin Eckery, claims “Nobody who may have been abused in a public daycare will have any rights under this law whatsoever.”

ACTION ALERT: Committee votes on SB131 tomorrow!

CALIFORNIA
The Worthy Adversary
Posted by Joelle Casteix on August 20, 2013
**********************ACTION ALERT******************************
Want to take action TODAY to help victims and protect kids? Here’s how:
Tomorrow, Wednesday (8/21), the California State Assembly Appropriations Committee will consider a measure that makes it easier for child sex abuse victims to expose predators in court, keep kids safe right now and hold wrongdoers accountable.
Please take just a few minutes and contact the lawmakers below, urging them to vote YES on SB 131.
The San Jose Mercury News—as well as other papers across the state—have urged a yes vote. You can also read my previous posts about the bill here and here.
You CAN HELP! Please send an email TODAY. And please circulate this request to others you know understand the importance of shining the light of truth on child sexual abuse.
Here is the list of important legislators to contact. You can find their email address and phone numbers here.

Meanwhile another Opus Dei Bishop in New Jersey is playing the typical despot

A Contemporary Example of Catholic Hierarchical Scapegoating: Archbishop Myers and His "Evil" Critics

NEW JERSEY
Bilgrimage
William D. Lindsey
For a contemporary example of Catholic hierarchical scapegoating that doesn't seem to get the church very far down the road to credibility as it proclaims the gospel in the public square:
1. Read Grant Gallicho at Commonweal on the problems poor Opus Dei Archbishop Myers of Newark, New Jersey, appears to have with memory--understandable, perhaps, with all his trips to the race track to distract him from remembrance, all the silver and gold gewgaws given him by priests who serve under him to take his attention away from the dreary task of remembering.
2. Read poor Archbishop Myers's response to his critics, which Brian Roewe discusses yesterday at National Catholic Reporter. A précis: said critics are "evil," and in cahoots with a secular media and politicians out to attack the Catholic church and its truths.
3. Then read the response of the New Jersey Record to poor Archbishop Myers's attempt to engage in a bit of nasty (and entirely unconvincing) scapegoating, as he attacks his critics, the media, politicians--faithful Catholics asking for transparency and accountability from him and other bishops:
The archbishop apparently believes criticism is an act of evil. Not all men of the church have felt that way. The Gospel of Matthew says: "Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?"
Myers should start sawing.
The Record is clearly correct. The days in which Catholic prelates could count on wild allegations about the evil of their critics and the anti-Catholicism of the media and politicians to carry the day, when said prelates are asked to account for their indefensible actions, are long since over and done with. That kind of shoddy scapegoating to avoid responsibility for indefensible episcopal actions no longer plays even in Peoria.

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news update for August 24, 2013

As SB131 heads to Assembly floor, LA Archdiocese spins and presses

CALIFORNIA
The Worthy Adversary
Posted by Joelle Casteix on August 24, 2013

SB 131 – The California Child Victims’ Act – is scheduled for a floor vote in the Assembly soon. And the Archdiocese of LA is pulling out all of the stops.

The Archdiocese, in its attempt to defeat the bill, has created a website that allows ordinary folks to send mass emails to legislators. They hope that low-information Catholics – those who aren’t following the issue and don’t understand the legislation – will just march lock-step with Archbishop Gomez.

I would include the link, but I don’t want to send them traffic. Once you fill out the form, the website automatically generates emails to your particular legislators.

Here is the text of the emails that the website generates (with my notes):

I am your constituent and I respectfully urge you to vote “No” on SB-131.

This legislation does not protect all victims of child sexual abuse. In fact, it offers no protection to the 92 percent of children who attend public schools or for children in foster care or in other public settings.

The only way to be able to protect students in public schools would be to eliminate sovereign immunity, an entirely different issue. In addition, SB 131 is a “first step” bill. We will never be able to fight abuse in the hugely powerful public arena until we build public awareness. To defeat the powers that be who control public entities, we need to prove that the problem is huge. SB131 is the only way to do that. And to imply that public school victims are “jealous” is infantile. Exposing ANY perpetrator is a huge step towards exposing ALL perpetrators. ...

What can you do? Follow this link to write your legislators NOW and tell them you support SB131.

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News updates for August 30, 2013

Orange Diocese Bishop Kevin Vann Doing His Damndest to Stop CA Bill that Would Help Child-Abuse Victims

CALIFORNIA
Orange County Weekly
By Gustavo Arellano Fri., Aug. 30 2013

It's been almost a year now since Kevin Vann became bishop of the Diocese of Orange, and what has he accomplished? There was a profile in one of the Orange County Register's magazines that read like a press release. He approved the removal of memorial stones at the former Crystal Cathedral, memorial stones that the sheep of the Rev. Robert H. Schuller spent thousands to install under the idea they'd be up there for centuries. And now he's joining his fellow bishops in trying to defeat a California State Senate bill that seeks justice for child-abuse victims.

SB 131 would open a one-year window lifting statutes of limitation so that victims of pedo-priests can file civil lawsuits against the Catholic Church regardless of when their abuse happened. A similar window occurred in 2002, exposing the Church as a pedophile factory. And that's why Vann doesn't want it to happen again.

Under his direction, the Orange County Catholic, the "newspaper" of the Diocese of Orange, has published five articles opposing SB 131 since June, including a commentary from retired OC Superior Court Judge Francisco Firmat calling it "bad legislation," a column by Vann, and a whole other bunch of gobbledygook. The rag is pushing its stories on Twitter, and also retweets stories that support its view. This past week, Vann directed parish priests to send out emails to their congregation urging them to contact their state assemblymen to vote against SB 131.

Vann's position? SB 131 discriminates against Catholics and does nothing to protect children. And why should you believe him? "Dioceses throughout California have worked to atone for past mistakes," Vann writes, "and have implemented robust procedures to ensure children and young people are as safe as we can make them."

In other words: yeah, we let pedo-priests rape children, then covered it up. But NOW you should really, really trust us!

SNAP comments on two papal appointments (Pope Francis has appointed a Legion of Christ priest to No.2 post in Vatican proving that the more than 200 plus Billion dollars deposit and investment of the LC founded by heinous pedophile Fr. Marcial Maciel rules over the Vatican Bank from beyond his grave with John Paul II http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/ Papal Nuncios have diplomatic immunity so that they can control the billion dollars investments of the Vatican in poor countries and they make sure the people stay poor so that the Vatican can control the despots and their ill-gotten wealth. he Legion of Christ has more than 20 billion of assets in secret Vatican Swiss Banks...believe it or not!!!

UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Friday, Aug. 30

Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )

Pope Francis has made one new appointment and reportedly will soon make another. We’re disappointed with both.

The pontiff has promoted a Legion of Christ priest, Fr. Fernando Vergez Alzaga, to secretary-general of the office governing Vatican City.

The Legion is perhaps the most secretive and scandal-ridden religious order in the church. While we don’t know much about Fr. Vergez, his long tenure in the Legion is troublesome.

The pontiff is expected to soon name Archbishop Piero Parolin as his secretary of state.

Noted Vatican observer John Allen calls Parolin “the consummate insider.” To some, that might seem like a compliment. To us, it’s a distressing sign.

[National Catholic Reporter]

An outsider, not an insider, is what’s needed. If concealing child sex crimes in the church will ever stop, it will only happen when complicit church officials are replaced by independent-minded men who have shown, through their actions, real courage in challenging a corrupt clerical culture. We see no evidence that Parolin is such a person.

Allen reports that by selecting an Italian, “Francis does not intend to completely upend the Vatican's traditional culture.” That’s a serious understatement. Francis has, in our view, done precious little to “upend” the most damaging aspect of Vatican culture – the on-going recklessness, callousness and secrecy surrounding those who commit and conceal heinous crimes against kids.

MN SNAP Director realizes one, long-fought goal with passing of the Minnesota Child Victims Act

MINNESOTA
Minnesota SNAP
News-Mirror
Outreach to those seeking civil justice and healing process still a long, hard journey
Back in the early seventies a young man from Buffalo Lake had finished high school -- sort of -- and set out to see the world on his thumb.
He saw and learned much more about this Country, its citizens and their history than any book could ever describe.
Entering his second decade the young man left his home and his family to live a life of solidarity.
He hadn’t gone farther than a few miles from his workplace. A farmer, which owned a vacant farm house that did not want it “squatted” by vagabonds, rented the house on a quarter mile driveway in the middle of a section of the farmer’s land.
It was a perfectly quiet setting. Remote enough to the kind of gardening “Hippies” did in the ‘60s. Yet, close enough, to the necessities -- food, bread, and beer--to get you through a night and ready for the next day.
This “Child of the ‘60s” soon became host to several other “Children” - some for a weekend, others for months - for little more than the four seasons of a year.

Revived Sex Abuse Bill Headed to Assembly Floor

CALIFORNIA
Capital Public Radio
A previously-stalled California bill that would expand the ability of victims of sexual abuse to file lawsuits is on its way to the Assembly floor after getting a second chance in committee today.
(Sacramento, CA)
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
By Harry Gibbons
The measure extends the statute of limitations by a year for anyone older than 26 seeking damages for sexual abuse.
Ellen Yin-Wycoff is with the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault. She said the bill is necessary to give those who come to terms with their abuse later in life the ability to pursue legal recourse.
“What it allows for is accountability in terms of every institution that may have had some contributing factor or may have been involved in protecting a perpetrator or offender of sexual violence," said Yin-Wycoff.

CALIFORNIA SEX ABUSE BILL ADVANCES (GOLIATH-BULLY BILL DONOHUE RIDICULES AND BLAMES DEMOCRATS FOR VICTORY OF SB 131, read our related article Goliath Bill Donohue, Catholic League, Bishop Myers’ tactics to suppress freedom of speech in the USA http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/goliath-bill-donohue-catholic-league.html)

CALIFORNIA
Catholic League
Bill Donohue comments on the California bill that would allow those who claim they were molested in a private institution more time to file lawsuits:
On August 14, SB 131 lost in the Assembly Appropriations Committee by a 6-4 vote; there were seven abstentions. Yesterday, it passed 12-4. The bill now heads to the Assembly; it could be voted on as early as Monday.
It was the Democrats who made the difference between last week and this week. Last week, they were indecisive; this week they decided to cast their vote in favor of a bill that discriminates against the Catholic Church.
We need a lawmaker who will introduce a bill that discriminates against the public sector. The bill should suspend the statute of limitations in cases involving the sexual abuse of minors who were victimized in a public school or any other public entity. All private institutions, including Catholic schools, would be given a pass.

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Archbishops letter offers abundant falsehoods, no apologies: Editorial (Opus Dei Bishop Myers mock families and victims of pedophile priests whom he covered up because that is the Modus Operandi of Opus Dei who covered-up thousands of pedophile priests during 27 years papacy of John Paul II, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/the-hague-is-above-pope-vatican.html)

NEW JERSEY
The Star-Ledger
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board
on August 21, 2013

Last weekend’s letter from Newark Archbishop John J. Myers regarding his handling of sexual abuse cases is so crowded with falsehoods and insults that it’s difficult to know where to begin.
What’s most revealing is what is missing: There’s not a single word of sympathy for the victims and their families. Myers instead insults them by suggesting they are blaming the church for problems in their own families. “One can understand when family difficulties lead parents, even by conjecture, to blame someone outside the family,” he wrote. “But conjecture is no reason to undermine the Ministry of individual Priests (or Bishops for that matter.)”
It boggles the mind that in 2013 an archbishop would dare speak of families like this. But it is vintage Myers. While many bishops are working hard to rehabilitate the church, he offers only haughty disdain for those who question his judgment.
This time, he calls his critics “evil, wrong, and immoral” and suggests that they may burn in hell: “God will surely address them in due time.”
The latest damning information comes from a lawsuit the church recently settled for $1.35 million. It accuses Myers of ignoring a credible accusation against a priest on his watch. The lawsuit claimed that the Rev. Thomas Maloney went on to repeatedly abuse an 8-year-old boy.
In his deposition, Myers says he never saw written warnings that went to the diocese, perhaps because of his “slipshod” filing system. If that were true, if it was an innocent mistake, you would expect Myers to offer a heartfelt apology to the victim and his family for his failure to red-flag these cases. Instead, he has refused for years to meet with them.

The Record: Archbishop John J. Myers blames his critics

NEW JERSEY
The Record
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2013
NEWARK ARCHBISHOP John J. Myers does not like criticism. In an Aug. 15 letter to priests of his archdiocese, Myers declared that those who question his or the Catholic Church's role in protecting children are "simply evil, wrong, immoral, and seemingly focused on their own self-aggrandizement."
Myers has the advantage of being in a job not affected by popular opinion or newspaper editorials. Only Pope Francis can remove him from his position in Newark.
The archbishop is miffed that the media, politicians and, yes, the children victimized by clergy, most of them now adults, and their families continue to demand answers and accountability from him. The sexual abuse of minors by clergy is not a myth or the brainchild of anti-Catholic publicity seekers. The U.S. bishops have acknowledged that too many predator priests were allowed to emotionally scar the children they were ordained to protect because too many bishops put the image of the institutional church ahead of the image of the man upon whom that church was founded.
Myers, before coming to Newark, was the bishop of Peoria, Ill. That diocese reached a $1.35 million settlement, announced last week, with a man who claimed he had been molested by a priest in 1996, a month after the diocese received a complaint from a woman claiming to have been abused as a child by the same priest. Myers denies any knowledge of that woman's complaint and said the diocese may have lost it because of a "slipshod filing system."
His explanation is slipshod as well. In New Jersey, the Newark Archdiocese entered into an agreement with the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office that barred a priest who had been convicted of groping a minor from having future contact with minors. The conviction had been overturned because of a judicial error; the agreement with county law enforcement was supposed to keep the priest, Michael Fugee, away from children. That did not occur. Myers did not take responsibility for that either. But the archdiocese's second-in-command, Monsignor John E. Doran, resigned in the wake of the scandal.

Myers under fire for Peoria record

ILLINOIS/NEW JERSEY
National Catholic Reporter
Brian Roewe | Aug. 26, 2013
Newark, N.J., Archbishop John J. Myers, already under fire for the lax supervision of a priest who was under court order not to minister to youth, faces new questions concerning his handling of clergy sex abuse allegations while he was bishop in Peoria, Ill., more than a decade ago.
Attorneys for abuse victim Andrew Ward announced Aug. 13 that they had reached an agreement with the Peoria diocese over a lawsuit accusing Msgr. Thomas Maloney of molesting Ward when he was a boy in the mid-1990s. The diocese settled the suit for $1.35 million. Maloney died in 2009 at age 73.
Records released as part of the agreement show the Peoria diocese received complaints about Maloney's inappropriate conduct with children in 1995 and 1999, but that in 2000 Myers wrote to a family that the diocese had no record of complaints against Maloney.
That same year, Myers nominated Maloney for the honorific "monsignor."
In a 2010 deposition, also unsealed as part of the settlement, Myers said he never had any suspicions of sexual abuse on Maloney's part, but acknowledged "there may have been things that got by me" and describes the administration of diocesan records in his time in Peoria as a "loose system."

Analysts: Monsignor Coyle likely won't be fired for arrest

LOWELL (MA)
Lowell Sun
By Grant Welker, gwelker@lowellsun.com
UPDATED: 08/26/2013
LOWELL -- When officers watched as a black Chevrolet Equinox passed through known prostitution spots in the city more than a dozen times since late November, it wasn't just another john they were seeing.
It was allegedly someone among the highest-ranking officials in the Archdiocese of Boston, the fourth-largest in the Roman Catholic Church in America.
Monsignor Arthur Coyle, a priest for 36 years, was honored in December with the title of "prelate of honor" by the head of the archdiocese, Cardinal Sean O'Malley and then-Pope Benedict XVI. Coyle has served as a trustee for two Boston area Catholic high schools, including Lowell Catholic, as well as a high-school chaplain and a college director of campus ministry.
Coyle, 62, has been held in high regard by the church, but his future with the archdiocese of 1.8 million Catholics is now in doubt after he was arrested Aug. 4, and charged with offering a prostitute money for oral sex while parked in his car in a cemetery off Boston Road in Lowell.

Mother: Priest sexually abused my son 30 years ago

TEXAS
KHOU
by KHOU.com staff
khou.com
Posted on August 9, 2013
HOUSTON -- A mother has come forward saying a man sexually abused her son 30 years ago.
The woman reported it to the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.
Officials there said they've relieved the priest of his duties while police investigate.
The priest also worked as a chaplain in a local hospital.
We did not release his name because charges were not filed.

Santa Rosa Diocese sued over alleged abuse

CALIFORNIA
San Francisco Chronicle
Ellen Huet
Published 2:55 pm, Wednesday, August 21, 2013
LAKEPORT, LAKE COUNTY -- A Lake County family is suing a Roman Catholic parish and the Diocese of Santa Rosa, claiming they knew a priest had a history of sexual abuse and didn't protect an altar boy from being molested.
The suit, filed Tuesday in Sonoma County Superior Court, claims that the late Rev. Ted Oswald of St. Mary Immaculate in Lakeport had already been accused several times of abusing young parishioners, but was still promoted to pastor and allowed unsupervised access to young boys at and outside the church.
The suit claims that unfettered access allowed Oswald to abuse an altar boy, now 16 years old, whose mother is also a plaintiff in the suit.
Oswald targeted the boy when he was about 10 years old, said the plaintiffs' lawyer, Skye Daley. The priest invited the boy to wash his recreational vehicle at his house, which is where the alleged abuse began, Daley said.

Trouble with celibacy in the church in Africa

AFRICA
National Catholic Reporter
Pat Perriello | Aug. 26, 2013 NCR Today
I have to admit I was surprised to see this Religion News Service article about schismatic priests in Africa.
I don't know much about the church in Africa, but considering a few months ago we were talking seriously about the possibility of an African pope, it is worth exploring. Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana was one African candidate mentioned at the time as a possible replacement for Pope Benedict. We were also led to believe that the African church was a thriving, fast-growing community that bode well for the future of the universal church.
Now we learn of an extensive resistance to celibacy within the African church. We read about an African bishop who left the church to marry and subsequently provided leadership for many other priests who chose to marry. Many of us may remember Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo getting married several years ago in a Unification Church ceremony. Yet the entire incident generally seemed to be a somewhat strange aberration.
Milingo left the church and became a leader of others wishing to serve God as married priests. We now learn that large numbers of priests feel celibacy is simply incompatible with African culture. Finally, we read that there are as many as 300,000 African Catholics following these schismatic married priests and their archbishop. Such a large group cannot be ignored as somehow inconsequential. To carry it one step further, there are those who are saying that if the truth were known, the actual situation of the African church would be even more startling.

Archdiocese of Dubuque pays $5.2 million to sexual abuse victims

IOWA
Telegraph Herald
Posted: Wednesday, August 28, 2013
BY MARY NEVANS-PEDERSON TH STAFF WRITER MNPEDERSON@WCINET.COM
Another 26 claims of clergy sexual abuse against priests with the Archdiocese of Dubuque have been settled for cases from the late 1940s through the 1970s.
The Archdiocese paid a total of $5.2 million to the abuse survivors: 22 men and four women, according to attorney Chad A. Swanson of the Waterloo, Iowa, firm Dutton, Braun, Staack & Hellman. The firm has resolved 83 clergy sexual abuse claims against the archdiocese since 2006.
The priests named in the latest group of claims are John Reed, Joseph Patnode, Patrick McElliot, Robert Swift, William Schwartz, Robert Reiss, Allen Schmitt, Louis Wunder, Louis Wendlin and Peter Graff. All the priests are dead except for Schwartz, who was dismissed from the priesthood by Pope Benedict in 2005, and Schmitt. Schmitt has had his priestly duties curtailed, but he is still a priest and works at the archdiocesan administration center in Dubuque under supervision.

26 Iowa clergy sex abuse cases settle, SNAP responds

IOWA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: August 28, 2013
Statement by Steve Theisen of Hudson IA, Iowa director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 319 2311663, Ltreggiefan@cs.com )
Twenty six clergy sex abuse victims have settled child sex abuse and cover up cases against the Dubuque Catholic archdiocese.
I applaud each of these brave survivors. Like all who have suffered clergy sex crimes and cover ups, they endure and continue to endure the life-long consequences from trusting someone in a collar or a habit.
Like a small minority of those who have suffered clergy sex crimes and cover ups, they have found the strength to come forward, expose predators and seek justice. All Iowa citizens and Catholics owe them a debt of gratitude.
At least 83 clergy sex abuse victims, represented by one law firm, have settled cases against the Dubuque Archdiocese, just one of four dioceses in Iowa. This is, we suspect, fewer than half of all such victims. We urge Iowa’s bishops to “come clean” and disclose ALL the settlements, those in which victims were represented by lawyers and those in which victims were not represented.
Before this settlement, there were 88 proven, admitted and credibly accused child molesting Iowa Catholic clerics. Now, there are 90. Three of the newest settlements were against predators who the Archdiocese has seem to have slid under the radar and onto their Table of Accused (Fr. Graff, Fr. Wunder, and Fr. Wendling) or at least the Archdiocese did not well-publicize these cases.
Catholic officials will claim that they have put measures in place to prevent this from happening again. We in SNAP remain very skeptical of this claim. At best, it’s too early to tell whether any of the policies bishops hastily adopted a few short years ago area having any impact. Frankly, we doubt that they are. The crux of this crisis has always been that bishops have nearly unlimited power. And their power remains intact. So they continue to ignore and conceal child sex crimes for the same reason they always have: because they can.

Catholics rise up against bishop's leadership

DEUTSCHLAND
The Local
German Catholics have rebelled against a bishop, attacking his leadership style and reading out a letter in a cathedral calling for change.
In a letter delivered on Sunday to church authorities, the Frankfurt Catholic Association questioned Bishop of Limburg Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst and the leadership of the diocese.
The letter said: “The diocese must immediately change tack.” The protesters said that they were “greatly concerned” about the growing crisis of confidence in the diocese, newspaper the Frankfurter Allgemeine reported.
The letter was read out in Frankfurt Cathedral after a service on Sunday and has also been sent to other towns in the diocese.
According to a report on the website of the Frankfurt Catholic Church, 500 people have signed the letter which is seen as a show of support for Frankfurt’s deacon, Johannes zu Eltz, who is a critic of the bishop.

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News updates for September 4, 2013

Jim Beall: Institutions are culpable for turning a blind eye

CALIFORNIA
Orange County Register

By JIM BEALL / For the Register

I introduced Senate Bill 131 because I do not believe an organization that knowingly protects employees who sexually abuse children in the workplace should escape responsibility for the harm it caused. SB131 is about justice. This bill seeks to give the adult survivors of childhood molestation their day in court against the institutions that enabled their abusers.

I introduced SB131 after listening to victims plagued with depression and anger fueled by the heinous crime inflicted upon them as innocents. For these victims, their agony is compounded because a quirk in the law denies them the opportunity to obtain justice against their abuser.

Our laws must work for victims of crimes, not against them. That's why SB131 is supported by health care professionals such as the California Nurses Association and by law enforcement agencies such as the Peace Officers Research Association, the California Association of Chiefs of Police, and prosecutors, including the district attorneys of Santa Clara and San Diego counties.

“This bill will allow those who have suffered for years in private the public support they need to come forward and seek compensation,” San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis wrote in support of SB131. “This bill gives a voice to those who have suffered in silence way too long.'' (Read the full article below with updates)

Assembly passes bill to allow sex-abuse lawsuits

CALIFORNIA
Fresno Bee

By LAURA OLSON — Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — The state Assembly on Wednesday narrowly approved legislation that would open a one-year window for some victims of childhood sexual abuse to sue religious organizations and other private or nonprofit groups that employed their abusers.

The bill from Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, is similar to a 2002 measure passed amid the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal. It would lift the statute of limitations for a group of alleged victims who were 26 and older and missed the previous window to file lawsuits because of time and age restrictions.

The Catholic Church and victims' advocates have lobbied heavily on SB131, and lawmakers said there were unsuccessful efforts in recent days to work out disagreements over the legislation.

Beall's measure cleared the Assembly, 42-14, and now returns to the Senate for a final vote.

Catholic Church leaders and representatives of other organizations opposing the bill, such as private schools and the State Alliance of YMCAs, say the legislation is unfair because it does not include the ability for accusers to sue public institutions.

Assembly OKs bill to extend statute of limitations on sex abuse

CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles Times

By Melanie Mason
September 4, 2013

SACRAMENTO — A bill that would give some victims of childhood sexual abuse more time to file lawsuits narrowly passed the Assembly on Wednesday, following emotional appeals from lawmakers and nearly an hour of extended wrangling for votes.

The measure, by Sen. Jim Beall (D-San Jose), would lift the statute of limitations for one year to enable some abuse victims to sue private or nonprofit employers that failed to protect them from known molesters.

Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) spoke of her own childhood abuse in advocating the bill.

"We cannot put a timeline on what triggers our ability to deal with an experience we had as a child," Skinner said, adding that she did not confront her past until her daughter reached the age when Skinner's abuse started.

California Legislature may expand rights of child sex abuse victims

CALIFORNIA
Digital Journal

A bill currently pending before the California Legislature would open up one-year window for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse to bring lawsuits.

September 05, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Childhood sexual abuse is one of the worst things a human being can be forced to endure. In addition to the immediate physical trauma, child sex abuse often inflicts emotional damage that can last well into adulthood. In too many cases, victims never fully recover from the horrors to which they have been subjected.

In California, victims of child sexual abuse have the right to sue their abusers and, in some cases, the institutions that enabled the abuse. However, many children are so frightened by the prospect of confronting their abusers that they do not tell anyone about the abuse until many years after it occurred. Others may repress memories of the abuse, only to have them reappear later in life. Unfortunately, this delayed reporting can sometimes prevent victims from being able to take legal action.

Under current California law, sexual abuse victims who are adults over the age of 26 are often barred from bringing suit over childhood sexual abuse.

Church opposes bill allowing sex abuse victims more time to sue

CALIFORNIA
News 10

[with video]

Nick Monacelli

SACRAMENTO, CA - Is the state of California waging a war against the Catholic church?

Some say yes, and others say for good reason.

"There's no war on anybody," Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, said. "It's a law that allows people to have justice against people who molested them. How simple can you get?"

Right now, a victim only has until the age of 26 to seek punitive damages.

Senate Bill 131 changes the statute of limitations only for 2014, giving victims of sexual abuse a 1-year window to sue, regardless of when the molestation happened. In 2002, a similar law was written, opening a 1-year window in 2003 allowing abuse victims of any age to sue, regardless of the statute of limitations.

California Child Victims’ Act Passes Assembly Floor Vote

CALIFORNIA
The Worthy Adversary

Posted by Joelle Casteix on September 4, 2013

Senate Bill 131 – The California Child Victims’ Act – just passed an Assembly floor vote, 42-14.

The bill give victims of child sexual abuse a one-year window to come forward and use the civil court system to get justice and accountability. It is also a huge step forward for ALL victims of abuse—the more we expose abuse in private institutions, the easier it will be to pass legislation that eliminates sovereign immunity (the legal barrier to suing public institutions for crimes like child sexual abuse).
The bill now goes back to the Senate for a final floor vote.

Remember – we would know little to nothing about the criminal activity of men like Cardinal Roger Mahony were it not for the 2003 window. Statewide, more than 250 predators—dozens in Orange County—were exposed (with supporting documents and evidence to go with it!). Men like Denis Lyons and Michael Baker would never have seen a day behind bars, and and the crimes at places like Mater Dei High School would never have been exposed.

Viewpoints: There should be equal justice for sex abuse

CALIFORNIA
Sacramento Bee

By Victor Garza
Special to The Bee
Published: Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2013

“To create a distinction between private and public entities would make a mockery of the Legislature’s stated intent to ‘ensure that victims severely damaged by childhood sexual abuse are able to seek compensation from those responsible.’”

That’s a quote from a legal brief filed by Irwin Zalkin, one of the attorneys and co-sponsors of Senate Bill 131, authored by Sen. Jim Beall.

It’s doubly ironic, because discrimination against public victims of childhood sexual abuse is at the center of SB 131. It’s why the bill has developed such a broad and surprising coalition of opponents.

On the surface, SB 131 looks like serious legislation to deal with the rights of victims of child sexual abuse to sue their abuser by reviving claims that have died because the statute of limitations has expired. But scratch the surface and people should have serious concerns about how it addresses the problem. Why?

Viewpoints: Remembering the second grade and knowing why bill for abuse victims should pass

CALIFORNIA
Sacramento Bee

By Paula Treat
Special to The Bee
Published: Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2013

It is perhaps a product of the times we live in that we are finally able to confront old demons in a public forum. Just a few years ago I would have been terrified to say out loud that I survived sexual abuse and molestation at a very young age. Recently, however, I made that revelation in front of my colleagues. I testified at a legislative hearing on a bill that will allow some victims of such abuse legal recourse to find some semblance of justice.

Surviving molestation does not come without cost. My life was changed instantly, terribly and dramatically when a trusted individual in authority decided to abuse a second-grader.

I have learned over the years that I am part of a painful sorority. Unfortunately, since the introduction of Senate Bill 131, by Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, I have learned that girls who were my age then still suffer from the effects of the abuse when we become women our age now. It is not unusual to hide the details from those closest to us, or suppress the memories to spare ourselves. The momentary sexual satisfaction of the abuser remains a lasting specter in the lives of the abused.

The stories are similar. They are unpleasant to repeat in polite company, yet they deserve to be told to set the record straight and to do everything possible to prevent them from being repeated.

Francisco F. Firmat: Disregarding statute of limitations is wrong (a pathetic Catholic Pied Piper who wants to stick to obsolete man-made laws)

CALIFORNIA
Orange County Register

By FRANCISCO F. FIRMAT / For the Register

As early as this week the California State Assembly will vote on Senate Bill 131, proposed legislation authored by state Sen. Jim Beall, D-Campbell, that seeks to amend the current California Statute of Limitations (Code of Civil Procedure Section 340.1). It relates to the filing of civil lawsuits concerning the abuse of minors. Senate Bill 131 offers no additional protections to children nor does it increase criminal penalties for abusers. This is bad legislation that should not be enacted.

Childhood sexual abuse is wrong, evil and an affront to all our concepts of decency. It is a crime against the innocent and the defenseless that causes lifetime harm. It is a betrayal of trust, a violation of the child's dignity and a scandal that it occurs in America within our public and private institutions. It deserves to be extinguished and its perpetrators severely punished. The victims deserve monetary compensation. However, allowing a lawsuit to be brought 20 or more years after the abuse is a wrong solution and very bad public policy.

Article Tab: Victoria Martin, a victim of sexual abuse by a priest, holds a quilt with faces of other victims at the Los Angeles County Courthouse where a record $660 million settlement between the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and plaintiffs who alleged they were sexually abused by clergy members was presented for approval by a judge on July 16, 2007 in Los Angeles.

Statutes of limitations have existed in this country since our nation was founded and serve the important purpose of assuring that evidence be fresh and thus trustworthy and that the plaintiff be diligent; it is deemed unfair that a defendant have to defend a stale lawsuit where evidence has not been preserved. Some of the best-known California Statutes of Limitations have the following filing limitations:

Papal Nuncio, Ordained by Pope John II, Removed ...

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Hispanically Speaking

Papal Nuncio, Ordained by Pope John II, Removed from Dominican Republican Amidst Pedophile Claims

The Vatican has removed and ordered back to Rome the papal nuncio in the Dominican Republic, Archbishop Josef Wesolowski.

The removal comes in light of the announcement today by the Dominican National District prosecutor Yeni Berenice that an investigation has been opened into the activities of the 65-year-old Vatican diplomat. Rumors of sexual abuse of minors had been swirling around Wesolowski for sometime but no official investigation until today.

A local news program aired allegations that he had paid for sex with minors in Santo Domingo and was connected to a Polish priest accused of sexually assaulting boys under the age of 14. News reporter Nuria Piera alleges Wesolowski was a regular vistor to the Zona Colonial area of Santo Domingo where he was seen drinking and paying for sex in open areas of the Zona.

Archbishop Wesolowski had been acting as nuncio (ambassador) representing the interests of the Vatican in DR for nearly six years. He was born in Nowy Targ, Poland and started as a Vatican diplomat in 1999 in Bolivia. Wesolowski has the proud distinction of having been ordained a priest by Bishop Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John II.

'Priest oral sex video not a hoax': Police

SPAIN
The Local

[with video]

Spanish Police have announced that a video released last May showing a priest receiving oral sex from a young man in a forest is indeed real.

Francisco Javier Ruiz, a priest in the Murcian town of Churra, claimed the video in which a cleric is seen engaging in fellatio with another man was not him.

"I have never been to Cotos Cuadros forest and I do not recognize myself in these images that are said to be of me," online daily La Verdad reported him as saying back in May.

"This must be a fake. This material should be destroyed because if it is not it is going to create a scandal."

Scandal poses Dominican Catholic Church’s toughest test since tyranny

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Dominican Today

The Vatican’s confirmation that its ambassador in the Dominican Republic has been pushed out of office in the wake of a pedophilia scandal subjects the local Catholic Church to its biggest test since the 30-year reign of terror from the dictator Rafael Trujillo.

I had a chance to speak with the Vatican’s representatives when he first arrived in the country, and he struck me as a decent, open and hard-working priest.

But now, Josef Wesolowski, together with another Polish priest, Alberto Gil Nojache, and several similar cases reflects the Catholic Church’s battle with the specters of child abuse that erode its credibility and faith among the nation’s overwhelming majority of Catholics.

The depth of the scandal also became evident when bishop and Catholic University (PUCCM) president Agripino Nuñez Collado stumbled on a reporter’s question about who alerted The Vatican on the alleged abuses.

Pope’s ambassador accused of abuse; SNAP responds

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Wednesday, Sept. 4

Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )

The pope’s ambassador to the Dominican Republic has been recalled after child sex abuse allegations against him surfaced in news accounts. But like all of his predecessors, Pope Francis is acting belatedly, secretively and recklessly.

[CNN]

It’s the same old, same old...

Catholic officials act only when forced to do so by media pressure. When they do act, they act secretively – in this case, by not disclosing the allegations, the suspension or the reason for the suspension. (According to CNN, “The Vatican confirmed Wednesday that Jozef Wesolowski was removed from his post and that an investigation is under way, but did not say what allegations were made.”)

Catholic officials claim they’ll act with “openness and transparency” in clergy sex cases. But they don’t. They claim they’re “learning” and “reforming” in clergy sex cases. But they aren’t.

The new pontiff has raised many people’s hopes by his personal warmth and simple gestures and more down-to-earth style. Tragically, however, one of that has translated into any significant change in the hurtful and self-destructive patterns of irresponsible action by the church hierarchy in child abuse and cover up cases.

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News updates for September 7, 2013

Bill expanding child abuse victims' rights to sue heads to governor

CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles Times

By Patrick McGreevy
September 6, 2013

SACRAMENTO -- The Senate approved a measure Friday that would make it easier for some child abuse victims to sue private or nonprofit employers for failing to protect them from molesters.

The bill, which is opposed by the Catholic Church, squeaked by on a 21-8 vote and now heads to the governor. The bill would allow some child abuse victims more time to file lawsuits against private institutions such as parochial schools, but would not apply to public schools. Some victims for whom the statute of limitations has expired would get a new one-year window during which they could bring a lawsuit.

Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) disclosed during the floor debate that he was a victim of child abuse by a family member. He said the legislation is needed because it sometimes takes decades for people to admit they were molested.

“I was alone trying to understand what happened to me for many years,” Lara said. “I couldn’t go to anyone.”

Capitol Alert: Measure to extend statute of limitations for sex abuse victims advances

CALIFORNIA
Fresno Bee

By Christopher Cadelago — ccadelago@sacbee.com

A bill to extend the statute of limitations for some sex abuse victims narrowly passed the state Senate on Friday.

The vote was 21-8 in the 40-member house, the minimum required for passage. It now heads to Gov. Jerry Brown.

The bill, which was resurrected after failing last month amid fierce lobbying from the Catholic Church and others, would open a yearlong window for those excluded from a 2003 law that extended the time during which sexual abuse victims can file a civil lawsuit.

Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, punctuated the debate with moving testimony about his own struggles arising from the abuse he suffered from a member of his own family. Lara, who referred to himself as a "high-level survivor," said he knows many of his legislative colleagues have been pressured by the church not to support the bill.

SB 131 Passes Senate Floor – Now On To The Governor

CALIFORNIA
The Worthy Adversary

Posted by Joelle Casteix on September 6, 2013

SB 131 – the Child Victims’ Act – has become the “little bill that could.” Despite great odds and millions of dollars spent on lobbying to kill the bill (by Roman Catholic and USA Swimming officials), SB 131 passed the senate floor vote 21-8 and is heading to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk.

There is talk that California’s bishops have heavily (and personally) lobbied Brown, a former Jesuit seminarian, to veto the bill.

Brown needs to know that this anti-crime bill—which holds wrong-doers accountable and protects kids RIGHT NOW—is a top priority for California.

California sex abuse bill could open door to Palma lawsuits

CALIFORNIA
Monterey Herald

By JULIA REYNOLDS
Herald Staff Writer
POSTED: 09/06/2013

After several fits and starts, a bill extending the statute of limitations for some childhood sexual abuse victims was approved by the California Legislature on Friday — paving the way for possible lawsuits against Palma High School in Salinas.

Nine people who say they were abused by priests while attending Palma may be among the first to sue if Gov. Jerry Brown doesn't veto the bill, known as SB 131.

The bill extends the civil statute of limitations for child sex abuse victims.

Seven of the nine former Palma students say they were sexually assaulted by the Rev. Gerald Funcheon when he was a chaplain at the school from 1984-85. Funcheon, who is still a priest but is housed in a secure “treatment” facility, admitted in sworn testimony last year that he molested one of the men, but denied the others.

The two other alleged victims say they were molested by Brother Marcos Chavira and the late Brother Jerome Heustis.

So far, none of the nine has sued the school, and Palma spokesman Kevin Elliot said Friday he had not heard of any out-of-court legal settlements.

Attorney Michael Pfau, who represents the nine men, said some settlement talks had taken place but haven’t gotten far.

He did vow to go through with filing lawsuits for all nine against Palma if the new law goes into effect as scheduled on Jan. 1, 2014, and said there may be more plaintiffs.

Palma historically has been affiliated with the Irish Christian Brothers, which in March announced a massive settlement with alleged abuse victims. But because Palma is a separate corporation, its assets were not included in the settlement.

Still, the nine alleged Palma victims were included among 400 people who will share the $18 million settlement because the priests who allegedly abused them worked for the Irish Christian Brothers.

The new legislation in California was proposed in response to a current statute that bars civil action after a victim of child molestation turns 26.

Under the new bill, a victim could file a lawsuit against an institution responsible for employing a child molester up to age 30, or five years from when that victim discovers his or her adult psychological problems are related to the abuse — whichever is later.

Sex abuse bill approved Friday

CALIFORNIA
Signal

Nine people who say they were abused by priests while attending Palma may be among the first to sue if Gov. Jerry Brown doesn’t veto the bill, known as SB 131.

The bill extends the civil statute of limitations for child sex abuse victims.

Seven of the nine former Palma students say they were sexually assaulted by the Rev. Gerald Funcheon when he was a chaplain at the school from 1984-85. Funcheon, who is still a priest but is housed in a secure “treatment” facility, admitted in sworn testimony last year that he molested one of the men, but denied the others.

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News articles and updates for September 11, 2013

Cuban artist points the finger at the Catholic Church in controversial child crucifixion art project

Cuban artist Erik Ravelo's photo project "Los Intocables", depicting violence against children in various contexts,including the Catholic Church, is raising a storm

Merope Ippiotis
Rome

The paedophilia scandal continues to haunt the Catholic Church, this time through the realm of art – though some may disagree about how appropriate the use of the term “art” is in the case of Cuban artist Erik Ravelo’s project “Los Intocables” (The Untouchables).

Ravelo recently published a controversial photo collection, featuring images of children “crucified” to the backs of a number of symbolic figures representing different contexts in which violence is notoriously inflicted on children. “The images refer to paedophilia in the Vatican, child sex tourism in Thailand, the war in Syria, the trafficking of black market organs "donated" by children in the third world and obesity,” Australian website news.con.au reports. “Erik Ravelo took a series of photos of children hung like Jesus from a cross, but in the place of the cross were soldiers, surgeons, priests and Ronald McDonald,” the website explains.

The images which points the finger at the Catholic Church, depicts a young boy in nothing but his underwear, pinned to the back of a Catholic cardinal is a painful reminder of the sex abuse scandal that has plagued the Catholic Church in recent years.

Ravelo said he took the photos to make a point about the state of childhood in the world, though numerous complaints have been made about the degree of nudity in the pictures. Ravelo has continued to publish the photos despite Facebook having removed them and shut down his account, news.con.au reports.

Many comments on the artist’s Facebook page (most of them in Spanish) seem to show a positive reaction to Ravelo’s interpretation of the crude reality of sex abuse against children.

In a statement to Argentinian newspaper Clarín, Ravelo said: “What a coincidence that they should only remove the photo of the cardinal. I think many people get irritated when someone tells it like it is and now they are annoyed at the fact my art is so frank,” Ravelo told Clarín.

According to the website, Ravelo, a Christian, said the religious icon of Jesus on the Cross does not belong to any one person or group.

"The religious icon is not someone's else religious icon. It's my icon too, it's my culture, it's my education, it's the way I was taught to communicate. So, in any case I'm talking about me too,” the artist apparently said.

Click here to view the photo collection

Library Exhibit Confronts Clerical Sexual Abuse by West Roxbury Artist

WEST ROXBURY (MA)
Patch
Posted by David Ertischek (Editor) , September 08, 2013
A new exhibit at the West Roxbury Library includes a photo collection of several pages of a handcrafted book created in 2008 to acknowledge clerical sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston. The exhibit 'Hope and Inspiration' features the calligraphy work of West Roxbury's Jan Boyd.
"I am very pleased that photographs of many of the individual pages I created for a book of names of clerical abuse survivors, presented to Pope Benedict XVI in 2008, are on display in West Roxbury," said Boyd. "This work, which includes almost 1500 first names of Boston Archdiocese survivors, has never been shown here. It is my hope that the photos might be a healing tool - allowing people to find their name in the artwork and to view a written, artistic representation that the church recognizes their name and their individual struggle. The exhibit will also include many original pieces of my calligraphic art."

GOV. BROWN SET TO RULE ON SEX ABUSE BILL

CALIFORNIA
Catholic League

On September 6, the California Senate passed SB 131, the bill that makes it easier for alleged victims of sexual abuse to sue if the molestation happened when they were a minor. But it does not apply to the public sector, just to institutions such as the Catholic Church.

Bill Donohue wrote a letter today to California Governor Jerry Brown about the bill. He will decide its fate; he has until October 13. To read the letter, click here.

Read our related article:

Goliath Bill Donohue, Catholic League, Bishop Myers’ tactics to suppress freedom of speech in the USA

http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/goliath-bill-donohue-catholic-league.html

Catholic League urges veto of ‘discriminatory’ Calif. abuse bill

CALIFORNIA
DFW Catholic
Sacramento, Calif., Sep 11, 2013 / 02:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- California Gov. Jerry Brown should veto an abuse lawsuit bill that is “flagrantly discriminatory” and “targeted at the Catholic Church,” says Bill Donohue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
“Going after the Catholic schools today for cases of abuse that took place decades ago, while exempting the public schools – at a time when there is a serious problem with the sexual molestation of minors in the public schools – is irrational, discriminatory and grossly unjust,” the Catholic League president said in a Sept. 10 letter to Gov. Brown.
His comments come in response to S.B. 131, a bill now headed to the governor’s desk that would lift the statute of limitations on abuse lawsuits only for private institutions, but not for public schools.
Donohue said the bill is “indefensible” because under its provisions “no one who was abused in public schools before 2009 can sue the teacher, the school, or the school district, but if someone was abused in a Catholic school when JFK was president, he can sue the teacher (if he is alive), the school, and the diocese.”

Files further document the evidence of cover-up and callous disregard for safety of children

CALIFORNIA
Law Offices of Raymond Boucher
[Click here for the documents.]
After eleven years of litigation and a six year battle over the release of files, the more than 600 victims of clergy sexual abuse have secured for publication, additional confidential files which reveal a painful history of cover-up and betrayal by the Catholic Church. The confidential files were turned over to the victims as part of global settlement with the Archdiocese by the Vincentians, Augustinians and Norbertines.
"One needs only to compare the just released file from the Vincentian Order on Carlos Rodriguez with the Archdiocese's prior "full and complete" disclosure of this serial child molesting priest to grasp the extent to which the Catholic Church was involved in a cover-up. The file's show clearly the Church was more concerned about "scandal" than the safety of minors" said Raymond Boucher.
"These files underscore the churches preoccupation with protecting its image in the face of "scandal". It shows a church so indoctrinated with the view of protecting itself that they allowed heinous sexual acts to be committed upon the very children whose care they were entrusted with," Boucher said.
"That's the irony in all of this. In their vain attempts to protect the image of the church, they've tarnished it beyond repair."

LA Archdiocese Files Shows--Again--How John Urell Covered Up for OC Pedo-Priests

CALIFORNIA
Orange County Weekly
[Fr. John Ruhl documents]
By Gustavo Arellano Wed., Sep. 11 2013
In the spring 1992, a huge controversy emerged at St. Joseph Elementary School in Placentia, as parents and teachers were up in arms against the Diocese of Orange and principal John Ruhl. The former Vicentian was apparently a Grade-A douchebag, physically and verbally assaulting female teachers, and parents wanted him gone. Monsignor John Urell, secretary to then-Bishop Norman McFarland, told the media not to worry: Ruhl had "taken a leave of absence to care for an ailing family member," and Urell didn't know when he'd return.
It would be never, because Urell was hiding an inconvenient secret: Ruhl was a pedo-priest. That revelation wouldn't happen until this week, when personnel files released by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles revealed that Urell and the Orange diocese knew Ruhl was a pedo-priest, but never alerted the public or authorities about it.
Ruhl's story is already somewhat known; in 2005, his Orange diocese personnel file was inadvertently leaked to the Orange County Register, who--breaking news in the pedo-priest scandal for the first time ever (and taking three reporters to do it)--reported that the priest admitted to diocesan officials that he once duct-taped a student's penis to stop the teen from masturbating. McFarland, to his credit, had Ruhl removed from active ministry and paid to hook up Ruhl to a lie-detector machine, "results...not included in the portion of his file," wrote the Reg back in 2005.
The results appeared in a June 16, 1993 memo included in Ruhl's LA archdiocese files. At the end of the 121-page report is the memo, detailing a conversation that a Vicentian Fathers and Brothers investigator had with Urell after a former prospective seminarian had come forward to claim that Ruhl had made him kneel down, naked, then shoved his face into Ruhl's crotch "for his penance."

Priest recalls LA flight after abuse confession

LOS ANGELES (CA)
Sun Herald
[September 2013 Religious Orders Released Files via Raymond Boucher law offices]
By GILLIAN FLACCUS and GREG RISLING — The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — The orders the Rev. Carlos Rodriguez got from his religious superiors after he confessed to molesting a 16-year-old boy just hours before were swift and decisive: Leave immediately.

Check into a motel. Don't tell anyone where you are going. Wait for further instructions.

Rodriguez, then 31, picked up cash at a Catholic retreat center and waited by the phone. The next day, the regional leader of his religious order called and told him to book a plane ticket out of state. By the time the victim's family went to police, he had checked in at a residential treatment center for troubled priests in Maryland.

"I felt like a fugitive. But what else could I do under the circumstances. I had no other choice but to follow orders," he wrote years later in an essay that was included in his Vatican petition to be defrocked.

The essay was part of a 330-page confidential personnel file on the priest that was released Monday along with files for five other priests who were also accused of molesting children while working for their Roman Catholic religious orders — the Vincentians, the Norbertines and the Augustinians — while assigned to parishes in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Governor Jerry Brown, please sign SB 131 immediately….Contact/write to the Governor, tell him you support SB 131

CALIFORNIA
Pope Crimes & Vatican Evils...
Paris Arrow
Updated September 7, 2013

21-8. Thank you Senators, for voting YES to SB 131… you’ve given another victory for California children

Please tell Governor Brown you support SB 131. You can write his office directly here http://govnews.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php

Dear Governor Jerry Brown,

With your good moral conscience - and compassionate heart, please sign immediately bill SB 131 - because the people of California have spoken unanimously through their Representatives and Senators - and now it is time for the victims who’ve been waiting for years to have their day in court. The crimes against American children systemically covered-up by (especially by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese) in Los Angeles and throughout California must not be hidden in the dust of history -- nor must they be given the chance to be shredded and forgotten forever into oblivion .

As a Catholic and former Jesuit seminarian, for sure you believe in the Patroness of California, Our Lady of Guadalupe. She inspires us to invite you to please take time to gaze at this image where she carries a child and protect children away from the evil serpent.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:51 PM

California sex abuse bill could open door to Palma lawsuits

CALIFORNIA
Monterey Herald
By JULIA REYNOLDS
Herald Staff Writer
POSTED: 09/06/2013
After several fits and starts, a bill extending the statute of limitations for some childhood sexual abuse victims was approved by the California Legislature on Friday — paving the way for possible lawsuits against Palma High School in Salinas.
Nine people who say they were abused by priests while attending Palma may be among the first to sue if Gov. Jerry Brown doesn't veto the bill, known as SB 131.
The bill extends the civil statute of limitations for child sex abuse victims.
Seven of the nine former Palma students say they were sexually assaulted by the Rev. Gerald Funcheon when he was a chaplain at the school from 1984-85. Funcheon, who is still a priest but is housed in a secure "treatment" facility, admitted in sworn testimony last year that he molested one of the men, but denied the others.
The two other alleged victims say they were molested by Brother Marcos Chavira and the late Brother Jerome Heustis.

Sex abuse bill approved Friday

CALIFORNIA
Signal
After several fits and starts, a bill extending the statute of limitations for some childhood sexual abuse victims was approved by the California Legislature on Friday — paving the way for possible lawsuits against Palma High School in Salinas.
Nine people who say they were abused by priests while attending Palma may be among the first to sue if Gov. Jerry Brown doesn’t veto the bill, known as SB 131.
The bill extends the civil statute of limitations for child sex abuse victims.
Seven of the nine former Palma students say they were sexually assaulted by the Rev. Gerald Funcheon when he was a chaplain at the school from 1984-85. Funcheon, who is still a priest but is housed in a secure “treatment” facility, admitted in sworn testimony last year that he molested one of the men, but denied the others.

Church Sex Abuse Victims Cheer Bill Heading To Gov. Brown’s Desk

CALIFORNIA
CBS Sacramento
[with video]
STOCKTON (CBS13) — Victims of church sex abuse may get more time to sue religious organizations and those who abused them under a bill heading to the governor’s desk.
“It’s very exciting and we are very hopeful.”
Kathleen Conti is pleased the senate passed SB131. The Stockton woman says she was abused by a Jehovah’s Witness leader when she was a teenager, and a family member also became a victim.
“The only way you are going to stop pedophiles is to identify them and warn people—allow us as parents to know who they are within our congregations. Otherwise, how do we know? How can we protect other children.”
Lawmakers say the bill corrects a Supreme Court case that, because the statute of limitations had been reached, denied a narrow group of child sex-abuse victims the right sue religious organizations, private and nonprofit groups that employed their abusers.

Calif. advances abuse bill that could bankrupt Catholic dioceses

CALIFORNIA
DFW Catholic

Los Angeles, Calif., Sep 10, 2013 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A California sex abuse bill that has been described as discriminatory against the Catholic Church has passed the legislature and is advancing to the governor’s desk.
Last Friday, the bill passed the State Senate by a vote of 21-8 at the close of the legislative session, and opponents are now asking for a veto from California Governor Jerry Brown.
The legislation would lift the statute of limitations on child sex abuse lawsuits against private schools and private employers who failed to take action against sexual abuse by employees or volunteers. It would allow alleged victims younger than 31 to sue employers of abusers, extending present age limit for alleged victims presently set at 26 years-old.
The bill specifically exempts public schools and other government institutions from lawsuits. It also exempts the actual perpetrators of the abuse from civil action in some cases, while leaving their employers vulnerable.

Read our related article about Mother Angelica founder of EWTN

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6 more files shed light on Catholic Church abuse scandal

CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles Daily News
[the documents]
By Barbara Jones, Los Angeles Daily News
POSTED: 09/09/13
One priest admitted to fathering a daughter, while another was hustled off to a treatment center after confessing to having sex with a teenage boy.

Yet another reportedly failed a lie-detector test when he was asked about sexual misdeeds with male students.

Those details are among many contained in a new set of confidential personnel files of six more priests who were accused of molesting children while working for their Roman Catholic religion orders — the Vincentians, the Norbertinese and the Augustinians — while assigned to parishes in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The files are the second set to be released this summer and at least a half-dozen more are expected in the coming weeks as religious orders comply with a 2007 settlement with hundreds of clergy abuse victims.

Some of the details were released earlier this year when the archdiocese released thousands of pages on its own priests who were accused of sexual abuse, but the full picture of the problem has remained elusive without records from the religious orders.

Beall’s sex-abuse victim bill goes to Brown’s desk

CALIFORNIA
Political Blotter
By Josh Richman
Friday, September 6th, 2013
A bill to re-open a window so certain sexual-abuse victims can sue the organizations that put them at risk is headed for Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk.
The state Senate on Friday concurred in Assembly amendments to SB 131 by Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, which closes a gap that has prevented certain victims from seeking restitution.
A 2003 law that passed the Legislature with unanimous votes had expanded the statute of limitations for victims to file claims against third parties who knew their employees were a danger to children but still allowed them to work with kids. It gave victims over age 26 the opportunity to sue if they discovered their emotional and physical problems stemmed from the abuse they suffered as children, giving them three years from the time of discovery to file lawsuits. It also opened a one-year window – from 2003 to 2004 – for victims who were previously barred from filing.
But that law didn’t do anything for victims over 26 who made connection between their abuse and their problems after 2004. If signed into law, SB 131 would let those people sue and seek restitution in 2014.

John Urell and the ol’ “Forgiveness vs. Accountability” argument

CALIFORNIA
The Worthy Adversary
Posted by Joelle Casteix on September 11, 2013

Msgr. John Urell is back in the headlines again, this time featured in the latest document dump by religious orders in the Los Angeles Archdiocese.

From Gustavo Arellano at the OC Weekly:

At the end of the 121-page report is the memo, detailing a conversation that a Vicentian Fathers and Brothers investigator had with Urell after a former prospective seminarian had come forward to claim that Ruhl had made him kneel down, naked, then shoved his face into Ruhl’s crotch “for his penance.”

Urell reassured the Vicentian investigator that Ruhl “was on ‘inactive leave’ and that there were no expectations that he would ever return to active ministry.” Reason? Ruhl “had been confronted with another case of similar inappropriate behaviour and that a lie-detector test had indicated that there was reason to suspect that there had possibly been other inappropriate behaviours.”

Did Urell and the Orange diocese ever report Ruhl to the police? Nope. Did Urell ever tell parents at St. Joseph that they lied to them when announcing Ruhl had gone on leave to care for a mythical sick relative? Nope.

And Urell still has a job as the pastor at St. Timothy’s parish. There is even a nifty photo of him on the website.

Which leads me to my point: It’s way past time for John Urell to go. How many more crimes—facilitating child sex abuse and covering up for offenders—does he need to commit?

But I can hear the Urell defenders now … It’s back to the ol’ “Forgiveness vs. Accountability” argument.

“Oh, Joelle,” they say. “Quit being so angry and forgive him. He is such a nice guy and has done so much good for so many people. He was so kind when my mother died/we got married/my child was ill/I needed someone to listen to me.”

Dominicans Demand Punishment for Pedophile Priests

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Prensa Latina
Santo Domingo, Sep 11 (Prensa Latina) Dominican organizations are planning to ask for former papal nuncio Josef Wesolowski and two priests accused of alleged child rape to be brought to justice.

The demand will occur at a central intersection in the capital, in front of the Papal Nunciature, said two of the organizations, Colectiva Mujer y Salud and La Multitud.

"We will demand that Dominican justice intervene so that these cases do not go unpunished and the victims can be compensated through criminal and civil actions against the defendants," reads the call.

At least seven children between the ages of 13 and 18 were identified as victims of sexual abuse by Wesolowsk, said Deputy Attorney Bolivar Sanchez yesterday. Sanchez is in charge of the criminal investigation which began last week.

Pope Francis Popularity Hits Snag, Blasted Over Recall of Vatican Envoy to Dominican Republic

VATICAN CITY
International Business Times
By Esther Tanquintic-Misa | September 6, 2013
In what could be a first for his 6-month tenure as chief spiritual leader of the 1.2-billion strong Roman Catholic church, the popularity of Pope Francis has hit a snag following the Vatican's recall of its envoy to the Dominican Republic amid child abuse allegations.
The US-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), in a statement, blasted the half-year reigning pope for covering up the pedophile scandal in Dominican Republic, asserting further that he was in no way different from his immediate predecessor, Benedict XVI, and those way before him.
"Like all of his predecessors, Pope Francis is acting belatedly, secretively and recklessly. Catholic officials act only when forced to do so by media pressure," the group said on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the Vatican confirmed that Monsignor Josef Wesolowski was indeed sacked from his job. But what irked SNAP and other victims groups was that the Vatican never made the matter public, only when it happened to be leaked. Monsignor Wesolowski had been removed from his post as the papal nuncio in Santo Domingo since Aug 21.

Bp Paprocki Blames the World

UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
Michael Sean Winters | Sep. 10, 2013 Distinctly Catholic
My colleague Brian Roewe reported yesterday on an interview given by Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois. There is much that is - how to put this as kindly as possible - jarring about the bishop's comments. His comparison of the situation of the Church today in America to that of the early Christians in imperial Rome was histrionic to say the least: Whatever one thinks of Obama, he is not Nero or Diocletian. Paprocki's comments on homosexuality exhibited a fifth grade understanding of the issue. But, what was most alarming were the bishop's remarks about the sex abuse crisis. Those who criticized the Church's handling of the issue are dismissed as anti-Catholic bigots. Many bishops have forthrightly confronted the issue of clergy sex abuse, to be sure. Others, not so much. And the Holy See has so far failed to establish a procedure for removing bishops who do not enforce the canonical norms that have governed the Church's response since 2002. Bishop Robert Finn is still the Bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph. Archbishop John Myers is still the Archbishop of Newark. By refusing to admit any wrong-doing, but sweeping everything under the proverbial rug, by blaming the media for its coverage, Paprocki looks like no one so much as the tobacco executives who once insisted that smoking cigarettes had nothing to do with causing cancer.

Church believed pedophile priests 'curable' (SBS)
Church figures give conflicting evidence to inquiry (The Australian)
Church believed pedophile priests who apologised could be cured (The Daily Telegraph)
Catholic leaders 'could not accept' that priests would abuse (The Newcastle Herald)
Senior Church leader did not recall dealing with pedophile (ABC/Yahoo7)

Pope’s envoy in the Dominican Republic is abruptly removed because … oh, you’ve guessed it!

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
The Freethinker (United Kingdom)
BY BARRY DUKE – SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
AMIDST “rumours” that Archbishop Josef Wesolowski has been kiddie-fiddling, the Catholic Church has speedily removed their nuncio from the Dominican Republic, and Vatican spokesman, the Rev Federico Lombardi, confirmed that that Church is conducting an investigation.
But he declined to provide any details about the accusations against the Polish-born prelate.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic say they will investigate allegations of child sex abuse against the papal envoy to the Caribbean country.
Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito was careful to note that his office is aware only of “rumours” about the papal nuncio and has not received any accusations.
A nuncio is the pope’s ambassador to a country and such an abrupt removal is rare.
Dominguez told reporters at a news conference that the investigation was in its initial stages and largely in response to media reports of allegations of sexual misconduct by Wesolowski as well as a friend and fellow priest. He said that he had designated a senior official to lead the investigation and coordinate with the Vatican.
We will not allow anyone to use the Catholic Church or other religious institutions as a shield to commit illegal acts, especially against children.

Abuse by nuns is ignored

UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
POSTED BY DAVID CLOHESSY ON SEPTEMBER 09, 2013
Last week, another child molesting nun was publicly exposed. She’s Sister Agnes Daniels, who worked at St. Mary School in Boston when she reportedly committed the abuse. (Thanks to attorney Mitchell Garabedian for disclosing the accusations.)
[The Republic]
In July, two other abusive nuns were publicly exposed: Sister Agnes Santomassimo and Sister Mary Joseph. Both allegedly molested in California. (Santomassimo also worked in Chicago. Joseph also worked in Idaho, Arizona and Washington state.)
(Thanks to attorney Tony Demarco for disclosing the accusations.)
http://www.lorpb.com/documents/Agnes-File.pdf
(In all three cases, Catholic officials settled cases with victims of these nuns.)
And last month, the umbrella group for most of America’s nuns held its annual meeting. Clergy sex abuse wasn’t on the agenda. No reporters apparently questioned them about clergy sex crimes or cover ups by women religious.
This part of the church’s continuing clergy sex abuse and cover up crisis remains largely unexamined – the nuns who commit and conceal child sex crimes.

Former altar boy abused by paedophile priest breaks his silence to reveal his despair at how crime was covered up

SCOTLAND
Daily Record
PAUL Smyth, who says he was 11 when paedophile Father Paul Moore sexually assaulted him, wants an apology after the clergyman was never brought to trial despite his victims co-operating with police.
THE victim of a paedophile priest who escaped being prosecuted even though he confessed to his crimes has broken his silence over his ordeal and his despair.
Paul Smyth, who says he was just 11 when Father Paul Moore sexually assaulted him, reveals his anger that the priest was never brought to trial, despite his victims co-operating fully with the police.
In the 1990s, Moore admitted to former Bishop Maurice Taylor that he had abused children over several years.
But prosecutors decided not to pursue a criminal case against the pervert priest. Instead, he was sent away to a special centre in Canada for treatment before returning to Ayrshire, where he now lives in a church-owned house.

Whistleblower Catholic priest sacked after sex revelations to Observer

SCOTLAND
The Observer

Catherine Deveney
The Observer, Saturday 7 September 2013

A Scottish Catholic priest, who has fought for 17 years to force the hierarchy to act against a fellow priest who abused him, has been dismissed from the diocese of Galloway while recovering from cancer and issued with a formal warning for talking to the Observer.

Father Patrick Lawson, who spoke out in the Observer in July using the pseudonym "Father Michael", was sent a decree of removal by Bishop John Cunningham last Wednesday, forcing him to hand over the keys of his parish house within two days. The bishop had consistently refused to accept Father Lawson's pleas, on the advice of doctors, to drop one of his two parishes – St Paul's, Hurlford – while convalescing.

The case is a potentially explosive development in an increasingly tense relationship between the Scottish hierarchy and the laity over abuse and cover-up. There is now a standoff in Father Lawson's other parish – St Sophia's, Galston – with many parishioners telling the Observer that they will walk out of masses this weekend in protest, cancel their church subscriptions, and refuse to return unless the priest is reinstated.

Parishioner Manuela Kevan says around 200 people have signed a petition backing the popular, hardworking priest. "We know what this is really about."

Significantly, there are now signs of rebellion among the clergy themselves. The Catholic church insists on silence and obedience from its priests but Father Gerard Magee of St Winin's in Kilwinning, has written to the papal nuncio in London, backing Father Lawson and criticising the diocese. "What they are doing is underhand, malicious and sinister," he writes. "They hide behind ... canon law and, by doing so, they abuse the same law and make a mockery of it."

State 'must do more' for abused children

AUSTRALIA
The Age
September 9, 2013
Caroline Zielinski
Police Reporter at The Age
The royal commission on child sex abuse is ''not enough'' to compensate abused children, according to a group representing former victims.
Care Leavers Australia Network is demanding the Victorian government, churches and charities acknowledge the full extent of abuse, neglect and slave labour forced on thousands of orphaned children.
The group staged a protest outside St Paul's Cathedral in the city on Sunday to let people know about the ''abuse the orphans copped, and the abuse children suffer in general''.
The group's chief executive, Leonie Sheedy, said the government, churches and charities in Victoria should contribute to a redress scheme for people who were abused as children under their care. She said many former victims lived in poverty and on disability pensions and were finding it difficult to move on.

State 'must do more' for abused children

First Things belongs to the Opus Dei that covered-up the 27 years papacy of the JP2 Army

Read more here John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-patron-of-pederasts-and.html

Unequal Treatment on Sex Scandals

CALIFORNIA
First Things
Monday, September 16, 2013
Greg Forster
California is about to open a litigation “window” that temporarily allows victims of sex abuse for whom the statute of limitations has run out to sue the employers of their abusers. The prime target is of course the Roman Catholic Church, with the Boy Scouts also on the radar. Over on NRO, Kevin Williamson notes that California is exempting its own government-run public schools from liability to these lawsuits, even though the available data strongly indicate that rates of sex abuse in public schools are much higher than in churches or any other institution:
In the Los Angeles Unified School District alone some 600 teachers over a four-year period were fired, have resigned, or were facing sanctions because of “inappropriate conduct” relating to students. The lumping of cases together somewhat obscures things: About 60 teachers faced punishment for outright sexual relations with students (or other minors), while others were punished for offenses such as showing pornography to students, forcing students to act out “master and slave” sexual role-play scenarios, taking a student on a field trip to a sex shop, lining girls up in the classroom to judge their relative breast size before having them do jumping jacks, and old-fashioned sexual harassment.

Child abuse inquiry opens in Australia

AUSTRALIA
Aljazeera
An unprecedented Australian inquiry into church and institutional child abuse began Monday, with warnings that widespread and shocking allegations would be heard against places of worship, orphanages, community groups and schools.
Justice Peter McClellan, the chairman of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, launched public hearings on Monday, as the panel said more than 4,000 victims had come forward.
"It is now well known that the sexual abuse of children has been widespread in the Australian community, however the full range of institutions in which it has occurred is not generally understood," McClellan said in his opening address.

50 Years for Ratigan

KANSAS CITY (MO)
Waiting for Godot to Leave
Kevin O'Brien

Fr. Shawn Ratigan has been sentenced to 50 years in Federal prison without the possibility of parole for molesting and taking explicit photographs of girls as young as age 2.

You can read about it here - but the Kansas City Star goes into some detail about the nature of the crimes, and it's not easy to stomach.

At the time the story broke, when it was revealed that Ratigan's bishop, Robert Finn, mishandled the case and showed a flagrant disregard for the victims and their families, Bill Donohue of the Catholic Defense League downplayed Ratigan's crimes and asserted that no child pornography was involved. The priest was just a shutter bug who liked to take photos of young girls and their crotches, or so Donohue implied.

In the perfect world, Bill Donohue would read the Star's description of the photos Ratigan took and the physical contact he had with his helpless victims and would issue a heart-felt apology for the shameful way he spun the story with lies and half-truths, not to "defend" the Catholic Church, but merely as a knee-jerk way of running interference for Bishop Finn and his criminal priest. In fact, Donohue didn't have to wait for the sentencing - much of what Ratigan did was described in detail in a report paid for by the diocese of Kansas City, a report Donohue ignored in order to spin his web of unrighteous indignation.

German priest faces extradition over abuse

SOUTH AFRICA/GERMANY
IOL
September 17 2013
By SAPA
Brits - A German Catholic priest on trial for child abuse in South Africa could face extradition over 36 more counts of sexual offences against children in Germany, The New Age reported on Tuesday.
Georg Kerkhoff appeared in the Brits Magistrate's Court on Monday in connection with the German offences, after Interpol arrested him at the same court last week.
Kerkoff's lawyer Graham Kerr-Phillips said his client's arrest on the German charges was “unnecessary and arbitrary”, according to the report.
A German newspaper reported earlier that Kerkhoff allegedly shared beds, saunas, and showers with young men and boys.

News updates for October 1, 2013

California Bill to Help Sexual-Abuse Victims Sits on Governor’s Desk

CALIFORNIA
Ms. Magazine
by Melissa McGlensey
California Senate Bill 131, otherwise known as the The Child Victims Act, was passed by the state Legislature earlier this year–but it’s still sitting on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. He has until October 13 to sign the bill, veto it or let it pass into law without signing.
The governor, a former Jesuit seminarian, is under pressure to veto the bill from Catholic dioceses and other Church officials, as well as from organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America and USA Swimming–all entities that could face lawsuits if the bill is passed into law.
The Child Victims Act would expand the statute of limitations for victims of sexual abuse to seek monetary damages in civil courts. If the bill becomes law, victims would be able to sue institutions that failed to adequately protect them from sexual predators.

Don't canonise John Paul II, he was no saint

AUSTRALIA
Canberra Times
September 30, 2013
Terry Fewtrell
It's a simple proposition. There is no place in the list of Catholic saints for someone who gave succour to paedophiles. But that is what the Catholic Church seems determined to do with the mooted canonisation of former pope John Paul II.
It is not suggested that John Paul was a paedophile. Sadly, though, there is evidence that he harboured and effectively protected a serial offender. There is also good reason to claim that it was during his time as pontiff that paedophilia prospered, with accountability and management structures not only failing to act, but seemingly putting their main energies into protecting the institution and covering up the problems.
For a pope these amounted to monumental failures of duty, the cost of which is directly borne by the victims. They resulted in a perversion of the church's role, a total negation of its mission and message. Apart from direct involvement in child abuse, which has not and is not here suggested, it is difficult to imagine a more grievous distortion or failure. On a purely organisational level it is likely that the church will struggle for generations to gain the faith and confidence of what is otherwise known as ''the faithful''.
The accusations against John Paul fall into two categories. The first relates to the notorious case of Father Marcial Maciel, the founder and promoter of a traditionalist order known as the Legionaries of Christ. For many years John Paul refused to listen to, or accept as worthy of investigation, repeated accusations against Maciel that he molested young men at his seminaries. John Paul not only turned his back on these allegations, but he also made Maciel an honoured person in the Vatican. He was a sort of protected species, untouchable.

We Are Church objects to JPII canonization

UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
Dennis Coday | Sep. 30, 2013 NCR Today
The International We are Church reform organization, which counts chapters in 20 countries, released the following statement this morning
Not all the People of God agree about canonisation of J.P. II .
The opinion of the International Movement We Are Church
Today Pope Francis has announced in Concistoro the day of canonisation of Pope John Paul II on April 27, 2014 - together with John Pope XXIII.
The decision concerning Pope John Paul II is not agreed from all in the Catholic Church. The International Movement We Are Church has expressed its opinion already in a press release on 16 January 2011.
Pope John Paul II was a pope of great contradiction. His tragedy lies in the discrepancy between his commitment to reform and dialogue in the world and his return to authoritarianism within the church.
It was his penchant for spiritual authoritarianism that contributed to the greatest tragedy of his tenure as pope: the sexual abuse of thousands of children globally. By holding church hierarchy paramount above the needs of the people, John Paul II perpetuated a toxic environment in which priests were permitted, often repeatedly, to sexually abuse children as long as the criminal behaviour was kept secret, preserving the public image of untarnished leadership.

An opportunity for Prophetic Action: Tony Flannery

IRELAND
Association of Catholic Priests
Pope Francis rebuke of the Curia for its “inappropriate behaviour” in the censuring of priests, his wish that issues of discipline be dealt with at local church level, and his dramatic re-definition of the phrase ‘sentire cum ecclesiae’ have created a new landscape for dealing with people who have been, in various ways, punished for what the CDF has previously considered ‘unorthodox’ views.
It may, or may not, be a coincidence that the six priests whom we know to have felt the ire of the CDF here in Ireland are all members of religious congregations. And the Irish bishops have made it clear to the Association of Catholic Priests that they do not wish to have any involvement in this matter. That does not surprise me, since I do not tend to expect courageous action from our hierarchy.
But religious congregations have traditionally seen themselves as being positioned more to the edge of the Church, with something of a prophetic role. I am suggesting that the particular congregations whose members are included among these ‘censored’ priests have now got a great opportunity to act prophetically.
I don’t think any reasonable person would regard Eoin O’Sullivan, Iggy O’Donovan, Gerry Moloney, Brian D’Arcy or Sean Fagan as remotely heretical or a danger to the faith, and even less a cause of scandal. (I will leave my own case to be judged by others). It surely makes no sense to have censors appointed to monitor the writings of Eoin, Brian and Gerry. And surely it is also time that these ‘censors’ stopped co-operating with oppressive power structures and refused to accept the role.
So I call on the five congregations, the Augustinians, the Capuchins, the Passionists, the Marists and the Redemptorists to come together and to lift all restrictions on the six of us.

NJ - Trenton bishop hid “sexting” by priest; SNAP responds

NEW JERSEY
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Monday, September 30, 2013
Statement by NJ SNAP director Mark Crawford (732-632-7687, mecrawf@comcast.net)
For months, Trenton’s Catholic bishop has kept hidden the fact that one of his priests sent 1,200 inappropriate sexual text messages to what he thought was a teenaged boy and had sexually harassed at least five teenagers and young men, some of whom were seminarians.

NY - Victims blast Cardinal Dolan over child sex secrecy

NEW YORK
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Monday, Sept. 30, 2013
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, SNAPdorris@gmail.com)
Cardinal Tim Dolan has apparently kept silent for months about an accused child molesting cleric. And instead of urging people to call police, Dolan is makes the same self-serving but hurtful plea bishops have made for decades – asking those with information about child sex crimes to call church officials, not police or prosecutors.
Shame on him.
[The News Journal]
Deacon Al Mazza has been dismissed from his duties at Church of the Holy Name of Mary Croton-on-Hudson has been “permanently removed from ministry.”
1) Dolan claims he suspended Mazza months ago, but we see no evidence that he made this public in any way. That’s reckless and irresponsible.
Dolan is a media-savvy guy with an efficient public relations team. He knows how to get attention. But he refuses to bring attention quickly on a credibly accused child molesting cleric. Instead, he waits months to warn parents, parishioners and the public about Mazza.
The accusations against Mazza should have been announced – far and wide – when they were made. Or they should have been announced – far and wide – when he was allegedly suspended months ago.
(And if he was allegedly suspended months ago, why is Mazza’s name still on the parish bulletin September 8 and 15 and 22?)

MO - St. Louis Priest abuse trial starts

ST. LOUIS (MO)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
St. Louis cleric is accused of molesting a teenage girl
For immediate release: Monday, Sept. 30
For more information: David Clohessy (314) 566-9790 cell, SNAPclohessy@aol.com, Barbara Dorris (314) 862 7688, SNAPdorris@gmail.com
A St. Louis priest who allegedly molested a teenage girl last year is set to go to trial tomorrow.
The accused is Fr. Fr. Xiu Hui “Joseph” Jiang who was criminally charged with fondling a teenage girl (under 17) on four occasions as recently as last summer. Evidence in the case reportedly includes text messages from the victim’s phone and a recorded voice mail from Fr. Jiang.
He faces of “witness tampering” and “endangering a child.” Both are felonies.
The “tampering” charge is based on an allegation that Fr. Jiang left the girl’s parents a $20,000 check after he reportedly admitted his crimes to the girl’s parents. The following day, according to a civil lawsuit, Archbishop Robert Carlson asked if the parents would give the check to him. But they had already given it to prosecutors.
Fr. Jiang was ordained a priest by at the Cathedral in May 2010. Before that, he was a deacon at the Cathedral. He has a bedroom in the archbishop’s residence.
Fr. Jiang’s trial was originally to take place in Lincoln County last spring but it has since been moved to Bowling Green in Pike County.

Church: Payments part of 'support' to ensure abusive priests don't reoffend

MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
by Tom Scheck, Minnesota Public Radio
October 1, 2013
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis is acknowledging it has financially supported priests involved in alleged sexual misconduct with adults and children.
Priests who were involved in misconduct received financial, therapeutic and spiritual support, the archdiocese said in a statement released Tuesday.
The support is needed to ensure that the priests in question do not reoffend, the archdiocese said. The statement also said offending priests are monitored to ensure that they do not offend again.
The former top accountant for the archdiocese has alleged that payments were made to nine priests.
Scott Domeier was sentenced to 39 months in prison for stealing more than $600,000 from the archdiocese and filing false tax returns. The archdiocese statement said Domeier's claims included factual errors and misrepresentations.

News updates for October 15, 2013

GOV. BROWN VETOES SEX ABUSE BILL (Goliath-bully Bill Donohue claims Governor Jerry Brown cited his letter. The Opus Dei bought the soul of ex-Jesuit Brown and promise him a prime real estate in the Los Angeles Basilica cemetery)

CALIFORNIA
Catholic League

Bill Donohue comments on the decision by California Governor Jerry Brown to veto a sexual abuse bill that lifted the statute of limitations for cases of alleged molestation if the incident occurred in private institutions:

Governor Brown saw right through the machinations of those who selectively sought to allow alleged victims of sexual abuse another chance to file suit. He properly noted that legislation passed a decade ago already covered the Catholic Church, so there was no need to do so again. But most important, he denounced the politics involved. “This extraordinary extension of the statute of limitations, which legislators chose not to apply to public institutions, is simply too open-ended and unfair,” he said.

I personally wrote to Governor Brown citing the sexual abuse of students at Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles. To think that they would be excluded from the bill sponsored by Sen. James Beall Jr., simply because they were abused at a public school, is mindboggling. But that’s what would have happened. I am delighted that Governor Brown saw fit to mention Miramonte in his statement. He said those students who were assaulted “are no less worthy because of the institution they attended.”

The Catholic League contacted over 1,000 parishes in California, all the lawmakers, and every one of our members in the state asking them to demand justice. But the real heroes are the bishops of California, led by Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez. (Archbishop Gomez is member of the Opus Dei, the evil ruler behind the Vatican Catholic Church responsible for the cover-up of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army whom they covered up during the Opus Dei papacy of evil John Paul II =============).

LibertyBell Law Civil Lawyers Hail Sexual Abuse Suing Deadline Axed

CALIFORNIA
Fort Mill Times

LOS ANGELES --
LibertyBell Law Group’s civil lawyers applaud the new California bill, SB-131, allowing childhood sexual abuse victims to seek damages by axing the statute of limitations for one year effective January 1, 2014. The sexual abuse law does have some requirements

The bill, dubbed the Child Victims’ Act, passed in the Senate and Assembly. The bill sits on the desk of Governor Jerry Brown, who has until October 13th to sign or veto the bill. If the governor does nothing, SB-131 becomes law without his expression of approval or dissent.

Opponents of the Child Victims’ Act argue the bill unfairly targets private schools and non-profit institutions; some of which have a publicized history of child sexual abuse. Recently, Reuters reported on a sex abuse scandal spanning many years of shielded sexual abuse by priests, evidenced by 6,000 pages of released documents ordered by a Wisconsin judge. On September 3, 2013, the New York Post reported sexually abused victims’ pleas for help were ignored by an elite private school, which is confirmed by government investigations of the Horace Man sexual abuse.

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the largest public school system in California and second in the country, now has a zero-tolerance policy towards sex abuse after the Miramonte sex abuse scandal. Governor Brown recently also signed AB-449, Teacher Misconduct Bill, which criminalizes superintendents for failing to report teachers when they are disciplined or fired for misconduct. One of the LAUSD board members, Tamar Galatzan, is also a criminal prosecutor since 2002.

The Elephant in the Room is Back

UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
POSTED BY BARBARA DORRIS ON OCTOBER 09, 2013
One big meeting of Catholic officials has ended. Another meeting takes place next month. And at both, a huge “the elephant in the room" was ignored.
Last week in Rome, the new “Council of Cardinals” met with Pope Francis for three days. According to papal spokesman Fr. Frederico Lombardi “the sex abuse issue did not come up during the G-8 meeting.”
[National Catholic Reporter]
Next month, hundreds of US bishops gather in Baltimore. Here’s their agenda:
[United States Conference of Catholic Bishops]
Again, there will be no mention whatsoever of clergy sex crimes and cover ups.
At least there will a “changing of the guard” at the top of the USCCB next month. Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s term as president expires. In recent years, he has been awful on abuse and cover up in his archdiocese.

In Rome, hopeful signs. In the US, not so much

UNITED STATES
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
David Clohessy

Last week, while many Catholic eyes were focused on new and hopeful moves to streamline the home office, the supervisors in the field offices were focused on very old and depressing moves to do what’s long been done: ignore, conceal, and “spin” child sex crimes and cover-ups.
And while in Rome all seems to have gone swimmingly, in US chancery offices all hell was breaking loose.
In St. Paul, a police report surfaced saying that St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese staff withheld evidence of likely child porn and now the alleged sex offender can’t be criminally charged. (And in the wake of a different but new child sex scandal there, the vicar general also stepped down this week.)
In Trenton, Bishop David O’Connell essentially admits that, for months, he has hidden the fact that one of his priests sent 1,200 inappropriate sexual text messages to what he thought was a teenaged boy and had sexually harassed at least five teenagers and young men, some of whom were seminarians.
In Chicago, a suspended and credibly accused archdiocesan priest who faces three allegations has taken a secular job counseling grieving families, and Cardinal Francis George claims he’s powerless to stop this.

Jerry Brown should look to MN to see import of Child Victims Act

CALIFORNIA
The Worthy Adversary

Posted by Joelle Casteix on October 7, 2013

California Governor Jerry Brown has until Sunday, October 13 to sign or veto SB 131, The California Child Victims’ Act. If he does nothing, the bill will be enacted as written. In the meantime, victims wait.

Here is why the bill’s opponents are scared: Minnesota enacted a THREE-YEAR civil window earlier this year and the revelations have been startling. They fear the same could happen in California.

Here is what we have learned in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in just the past few weeks:

Fr. Curtis Wehmeyer
Last year, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis won praise for quickly removing Fr. Curtis Wehmeyer when he was accused of abuse by a parishioner (he later pled guilty to 20 counts of abuse and possession of child pornography).

BUT …

An investigation by Minnesota Public Radio discovered that Archdiocese officials had know about Wehmeyer’s conduct for a DECADE and did NOTHING. Of wait, they did do something: they kept Wehmeyer in ministry.

The Vicar General, the Whistleblower, and the Case of the Disappearing Banker’s Box of Child Pornography

==================

News updates for October 13, 2013

Pope Francis Earns Low Grades On Reform So Far

UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism

Jerry Slevin

No international decision makers today would elect someone over 75 years old as chief executive. The lone exception is the Catholic Church’s Cardinals in their desperate struggle to salvage the world’s oldest absolute monarchy. Its patriarchical positions have provided the Cardinals and their predecessors with a lifetime of unaccountable power and wealth for almost 1700 years. That is about to end, with or without Pope Francis’ help.

Bishops normally retire at 75 years old. Indeed, Thomas Aquinas, who passed on hierarchical ambition and criticized absolute monarchs, retired at 49 years old! Pope Francis will be eighty in a few years, but evidentally couldn’t resist taking the top spot, likely an imprudent choice at best.

Francis’ apparently lifelong pattern of being ambitiously authoritarian, disguised often by his friendly and presumably well-intentioned style, appears ascendant as he ages rapidly. Ex-Pope Benedict has shown that this ambition can be hazardous to one’s health.

Francis’ basic choice upon election was either (1) to announce promptly a specific and transparent offensive reform strategy and pursue it expeditiously or (2) to continue his two predecessors’ flawed and secretive defensive strategy, enhanced with tighter hierarchical discipline, softer public relations’ tactics and a better executed geo-political policy. He so far has mainly chosen the defensive strategy, imprudently and unfortunately.

Given his age and the hierarchy’s escalating scandals, especially in Latin America, he will likely fail. That is, unless he promptly faces the multiple challenges more effectively and honestly than he has so far. In a world of Internet linked democracies with women having voting rights, authoritarian patriarchs are doomed to fail, including Francis and any papal patriarch who may succeed him in a few years.

Jerry Brown invokes Roman law...

CALIFORNIA
Sacramento Bee

[Gov. Brown's statement]

October 12, 2013

Jerry Brown invokes Roman law, vetoes statute of limitations bill for sex abuse victims

Invoking a legal tradition of "fairness" dating back to Roman law, Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday vetoed legislation that would have extended the statute of limitations for some sex abuse victims.

Senate Bill 131, by Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, would have opened a yearlong window for sex abuse victims who were excluded from a 2003 law that extended the statute of limitations.

Opponents painted the bill as an attack on the Catholic Church, and the church's political arm called it a money grab by trial lawyers.

Brown, a former Catholic seminarian, issued an unusually lengthy, three-page veto message (Note that there is no mention of “Jesuit” seminarian and it was lengthy because it was co-written with the Opus Dei and Jesuit janitors in the Vatican).

"Statutes of limitation reach back to Roman law and were specifically enshrined in the English common law by the Limitations Act of 1623," he wrote. "Ever since, and in every state, including California, various limits have been imposed on the time when lawsuits may still be initiated. Even though valid and profoundly important claims are at stake, all jurisdictions have seen fit to bar actions after a lapse of years."

SB 131 is vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown

CALIFORNIA
The Worthy Adversary

Posted by Joelle Casteix on October 12, 2013

I am devastated.

Brown vetoes bill giving sex abuse victims more time to file lawsuits

CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles Times

[Gov. Brown's statement]

[Statement from the California Catholic Conference]

By Ashley Powers and Melanie Mason
October 12, 2013

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have given some childhood sex abuse victims more time to file lawsuits, after a heated opposition campaign led by the Catholic Church that stretched from Capitol hallways to Los Angeles church pews.

In an unusually detailed three-page veto message released Saturday, the Democratic governor, a former Jesuit seminarian, said the bill raised questions of equal treatment of public and private employers. Pointing to a centuries-long tradition of limiting the period when legal claims can be filed, Brown said institutions should feel secure that "past acts are indeed in the past and not subject to further lawsuits."

He also argued that the legislation, which would have in part lifted the statute of limitations on sexual abuse claims for one year to allow some childhood victims to file lawsuits, was "unfair" because it singled out private organizations, such as Catholic dioceses and the Boy Scouts. Public schools would not have been affected by the bill, something Brown called "a significant inequity."

"The children assaulted by Jerry Sandusky at Penn State or the teachers at Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles are no less worthy because of the nature of the institution they attended," Brown wrote, referring to two recent abuse scandals at public institutions.

What Can You Personally Do About The Priest Sex Abuse Scandal?

UNITED STATES
Why I Am Catholic (STUPID ROBOT CATHOLICS PRAYING RATTLING ROBOTIC PRAYERS OF ROSARY THAT OUR LADY FINDS REPULSIVE LIKE BROKEN RECORDS)

October 12, 2013 By Frank Weathers (Vatican Pied Piper)

This message is for most of us who aren’t directly involved in any of the ongoing scandals that continue to percolate to the surface these days, like in Newark, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and the latest scandalous news coming out of Cleveland, but who understand that we need to do something.

It’s time to break out the big guns of prayer and fasting, is all I can figure. How to do that? Check this out. (Note, if all criminals had to do was use “the big guns of prayer and fasting”, ALL OUR COURTS AND JAILS WOULD BE EMPTY. This is Vatican Deceits by Vatican Pied Piper Frank Weathers, read our related article, Confession protects criminals and persecutes their victims http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html)

Even after a decade of so-called reform, many bishops continue to enable a clerical culture in which children are put at risk. Stories of abusive priests, and what seems to be the deliberate cultivation of an environment conducive to abuse, continue to shock and appall Catholics of all walks of life. Those outside the Church may be drawing the impression that this is what the Church is and that Catholics don’t care.

But Catholics do care. And this is not what the Church is – or at least what God wants it to be. This is not how those who call themselves Christians should behave – whether they be lay, deacons, priests or bishops. It is scandalous and deeply offensive; it is a terrible witness, and it is crippling any true attempt to evangelize the culture at large.

And while both lay and clergy are not in a position to change the lack of faith and malfeasance in the Church that has led to this, there are at least three things we can do.

Praying and Fasting: making Reparations for the sins of the abusers and their enablers.

Living Lives of Personal Holiness: If our leaders won’t lead as true Christians, pray that God give us the grace to live as such, primarily by “loving one another” (John 13:34-35), which includes reaching out to victims, to abusers, and to those who are in a position to protect potential victims and abusers. Someone has to set a Christian example. If priests and bishops won’t do it, the laity will.

Always Calling for the Truth to be Revealed – Despite Resistance and Persecution. Realize that, as Jesus told us, “The truth will set you free” (John 8:32), and that He is “the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). Therefore, the more the truth comes out about abusers and their enablers, the more readily will healing come to their victims, and the more possible it will be for this rot and corruption be purged from the Body of Christ.

Gov. Brown vetoes sex abuse lawsuit bill

CALIFORNIA
U-T San Diego

By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Saturday that would have allowed some sex abuse victims who are now barred by the statute of limitations to file lawsuits against private institutions that employed their abusers.

Brown said he vetoed Senate Bill 131 because it unfairly expanded on a similar measure passed in 2002 amid the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal.

The current bill from Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, would have lifted the statute of limitations for a group of alleged victims who are 26 or older and missed the previous window to file lawsuits because of time and age restrictions.

"It was unfair to the vast majority of victims and unfair to all private and nonprofit organizations," said the Rev. Gerald Wilkerson, president of the conference. He said the church has paid $1.2 billion to settle more than 1,000 cases.

The National Center for Victims of Crime, which sponsored the bill, and other supporters say victims might take years to acknowledge they were molested.

The Consumer Attorneys of California organization said it was "disappointed" with the veto.

"This measure was narrowly tailored and would have greatly helped victims of childhood sexual abuse who need and deserve to have their day in court," said the group's president, Brian Kabateck.

Jailed Vatican accountant fears death by poisoning

ROME
UPI

ROME, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- A former Vatican priest arrested in connection with an alleged tax evasion scheme said Thursday he fears he will be poisoned for talking to investigators.

In a newspaper interview conducted through his lawyer, the Rev. Nunzio Scarano said, "I have told of episodes that could put me in danger," ANSA news service reported.

"I am trying to be stronger than the fear and nightmares that torment me, but despite my prayers, I am certain that I will die by poisoning," Scarano added.

The prelate had headed up a key Vatican accounting department until a month before he was arrested in June.

Italian police charge he conspired with a former Italian spy and a financial broker to secretly bring into the country $27 million allegedly acquired through tax evasion.

Scarano called himself "the scapegoat of a number of powerful Vatican figures." He called on Pope Francis to talk to him "at least once" before judging him.

German Outrage Swells Over a Bishop’s Spending

GERMANY
The New York Times

By ALISON SMALE
Published: October 12, 2013

BERLIN — Since being elected in March, Pope Francis has quickly made a mark with his displays of modesty, eschewing lavish papal apartments for a spartan guesthouse in Vatican City, wearing simple vestments, carrying his own bag and preaching against a Roman Catholic Church hierarchy that he said was overly insular and too often led by “narcissists.”

Apparently, Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, 53, the bishop of Limburg, Germany, for almost six years, is not on the same page as his new boss.

Roman Catholic bishops rarely serve as Page 1 tabloid fodder or top the national television ratings. But the prelate of Limburg earned this dubious distinction in 24 hours last week as outrage swelled after the news media reported the cost of the renovation of his residence, about $42 million, and a state prosecutor in Hamburg charged him with lying in a legal case.

The bishop ordered up a palatial living room, and his apartment alone cost $3.9 million, according to Jochen Riebel, the spokesman for the body administering church property in Limburg. Mr. Riebel said the bishop lied last summer when confronted over the cost, estimating the renovation at just $13.5 million.

Clergy Abuse Scandal Reaches Minnesota Archdiocese

MINNESOTA
ABC News

MINNEAPOLIS October 12, 2013 (AP)

By AMY FORLITI and RACHEL ZOLL Associated Press

Attorneys for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis were seeking to put out a fire, not start a new one, when they asked a judge this month to keep private a list of Roman Catholic clergy believed to have molested children.

The court proceeding produced no definitive ruling on whether that document would be released, as victims are seeking, but it did reveal new details that intensified the crisis.

A judge entered into the public record a police report church attorneys had cited about a priest's cache of porn kept in church archives for eight years, unleashing a cascade of new revelations about how the archdiocese responded when confronted with allegations of sexual misconduct.

In the days leading up to the Oct. 3 hearing, church officials already were fending off a canon lawyer who quit the archdiocese and was now accusing administrators of ignoring warnings in the last several years about at least two priests.

But with the latest disclosure, local police are investigating, prosecutors are getting involved, the top aide to Archbishop John Nienstedt has resigned from his leadership post, and the actions of a longtime high-ranking church administrator and a former archbishop are being called into question. Nienstedt set up a committee to conduct a review he hopes will restore trust that the archdiocese is following the U.S. bishops' 2002 toughened policy on abuse.

"I think what it shows is how structural the problem is — that the problem does really go beyond something that is easily fixed simply by resolutions and handling things in a different way," said David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, who has advised church officials in Boston and elsewhere on stopping clergy abuse.

MN- Two more lawyers to advise archbishop; "Ho hum" SNAP says

MINNESOTA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Wednesday Oct. 9, 2013

Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )

Ho hum. Another church abuse panel. It’s the same old, same old.

First, the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese had such a panel in 1995:

[St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocese].

Second, on the national level, Catholic officials created a panel like this, made up of bishops, in the early 1990s. (For years, it was headed by St. Paul-Minneapolis Archbishop Harry Flynn, on whose watch Fr. Jonathan Shelley’s thousands of porn images were found but kept secret from police, prosecutors, parishioners and the public).

Third, in 2002, every archdiocese was mandated to create such a panel and a national church panel like this was set up.

[National Catholic Reporter]

Fourth, just last month, the Twin Cities archdiocese quietly created another clergy misconduct panel:

El Vaticano debe pronunciarse por Obispo Gabino Miranda

PERU
La Primera

[Summary: The pedophilia case that caused removal of Gabino Miranda Melgarejo as auxiliary bishop of Ayacucho will go unpunished if the Vatican decides not to give information required by the Ayacucho prosecutor. Prosecutor Garry Chavez Valdivia said without the testimony the prosecutor has no basis to act and the case could go unpunished.]

El caso de pedofilia que originó la destitución del obispo auxiliar de Ayacucho, Gabino Miranda Melgarejo, podría quedar en la impunidad si el Vaticano decide no darle la información que requiere el fiscal de Ayacucho, Garry Chávez Valdivia, para profundizar las investigaciones del caso.

“Sin los testimonios la denuncia fiscal no tendrá fundamentos y el caso podría quedar en la impunidad”, dijo el periodista Pedro Salinas, quien considera que el Vaticano tiene que ser consecuente con la “Tolerancia cero” que pregona bajo el mando del papa Benedicto XVI y demostrar a la Iglesia peruana que sí quiere investigar y sancionar este tipo de delitos.

El fiscal Chávez Valdivia hizo el pedido a través de la Fiscalía de la Nación, que a su vez debe hacer el trámite por intermedio del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, a fin de que la Santa Sede colabore con la justicia peruana.

Catholic bishop spends €350,000 on wardrobes

GERMANY
The Local

The lavish lifestyle of a bishop who is spending €31 million on building a new headquarters in west Germany was exposed on Friday, when it emerged he has spent €783,000 on a garden, €25,000 on a table and €15,000 on a bath tub.

The bishop of Limburg, Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, has been heavily criticized for the luxurious complex being built next to Limburg Cathedral in the state of Hesse. Earlier this week it emerged the costs had overrun by ten times the initial estimate from around €3 million to €31 million.

And on Friday Bild newspaper published a breakdown of the costs of the pricey project. They include €350,000 on built-in-wardrobes, €25,000 on a conference table and €783,000 on a garden.

His own apartment in the complex is costing €3 million with €478,000 going on furnishings. Guest rooms will cost €1.1 million and the new chapel €2.67 million.

The Nassauische Neue Presse newspaper also reported on Wednesday that the bishop's bathtub cost €15,000.

Cleveland Catholic Diocese Issues Statement Regarding Arrest of Priest Caught Soliciting Gay Sex at Park

CLEVELAND (OH)
Cleveland Leader

Published by Julie Kent on October 12, 2013

On Friday afternoon, a Cleveland priest was arrested after he was caught soliciting a plain clothed ranger at Edgewater Park for sex. The Cleveland Catholic Diocese issued a very brief statement following news of Rev. James McGonegal's arrest, which read:

“Diocesan authorities have a policy of cooperating with civil authorities in these kinds of matters and will do so in this matter.”

McGonegal, 68, allegedly signaled a man over to his car and offered him $50 for oral sex, not knowing that the man was a Metroparks ranger in plain clothes. He also admitted to authorities that he is HIV positive.

McGonegal is a priest at St. Ignatius of Antioch Church on Lorain Ave. in Cleveland, and now faces felony charges.

Crackdown on the 'bank of popes'

VATICAN CITY
Christian Science Monitor

By Nick Squires, Correspondent / October 11, 2013

Its entrance is watched over by pantaloon-wearing soldiers from the Swiss Guard, its cash-dispensing machines give instructions in Latin, and its headquarters are in a 15th-century tower that was once used as a papal prison.

But seven months into the papacy of Pope Francis, it is clear that the imposing stone walls of the Tower of Pope Nicholas V are no match for the South American pontiff’s determination to clear up the Vatican bank’s finances after years of scandal and allegations of impropriety.

The pope, who has criticized the iniquities of the international banking system since he was selected in March, has embarked on a campaign to dramatically improve the transparency and accountability of an institution that Forbes last year called “The Most Secret Bank in the World.” The bank manages funds and accounts held by the Holy See, as well as Catholic charities and orders around the world, and individual cardinals, priests, and nuns.

The latest initiative came this week, when the Vatican passed a new law designed to improve financial transparency, enhance cooperation with other countries and law enforcement agencies, and prevent money laundering and tax evasion.

Obispo Abanto: "Nunca he negado que esa niña es mía"

PERU
Religion Digital

[Summary: Former Auxiliary Bishop Guillermo Abanto Guzman met the little girl who was conceived with a young psychologist after a week of scandal and harsh criticism of the Peruvian Catholic church. The former bishop said he has never denied he was father of the girl.]

El ex obispo habla de su "pecado" con un canal de televisión peruano

Redacción, 12 de octubre de 2013

El exobispo auxiliar de Lima, Guillermo Abanto Guzmán, se reunió con la pequeña niña que concibió con la joven psicóloga Alexandra de la Lama Luna, tras una semana cargada de escándalo y duras críticas a la Iglesia Católica Peruana. Lo cuenta Periodismoenlínea

Según un avance de Punto Final, Abanto hace un mea culpa y asegura que nunca le negó la paternidad a la menor en entrevista exclusiva con el espacio dominical que difundió el caso.
Asimismo se difundieron fotografías de Abanto cargando a su hija. "Yo nunca he negado que esa niña es mía, yo nunca me he resistido a firmarla", exclamó.

T-minus 2 for SB 131

CALIFORNIA
The Worthy Adversary

Posted by Joelle Casteix on October 11, 2013

As of this writing, there is no new new news on SB 131. California Governor Jerry Brown has until Sunday to sign the bill, veto it, or do nothing. If he signs the bill or does nothing, SB 131 will become law on January 1, 2014

Let’s keep our fingers crossed for victims—all victims. Why? Because ALL victims will benefit if SB 131 becomes law.

According to Brown’s website, here is the status of many of the bills that have crossed his desk:

• AB 218 by Assemblymember Roger Dickinson (D-Sacramento) – Employment applications: criminal history.
• AB 256 by Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) – Pupils: grounds for suspension and expulsion: bullying.
- See more at: http://theworthyadversary.com/2306-t-minus-2-for-sb-131#sthash.egsNDc6B.dpuf

The Elephant in the Room is Back

UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

POSTED BY BARBARA DORRIS ON OCTOBER 09, 2013

One big meeting of Catholic officials has ended. Another meeting takes place next month. And at both, a huge “the elephant in the room" was ignored.

Last week in Rome, the new “Council of Cardinals” met with Pope Francis for three days. According to papal spokesman Fr. Frederico Lombardi “the sex abuse issue did not come up during the G-8 meeting.”

[National Catholic Reporter]

Next month, hundreds of US bishops gather in Baltimore. Here’s their agenda:

[United States Conference of Catholic Bishops]

Again, there will be no mention whatsoever of clergy sex crimes and cover ups.

At least there will a “changing of the guard” at the top of the USCCB next month. Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s term as president expires. In recent years, he has been awful on abuse and cover up in his archdiocese.

In Rome, hopeful signs. In the US, not so much

UNITED STATES
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

David Clohessy

Last week, while many Catholic eyes were focused on new and hopeful moves to streamline the home office, the supervisors in the field offices were focused on very old and depressing moves to do what’s long been done: ignore, conceal, and “spin” child sex crimes and cover-ups.

And while in Rome all seems to have gone swimmingly, in US chancery offices all hell was breaking loose.

In St. Paul, a police report surfaced saying that St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese staff withheld evidence of likely child porn and now the alleged sex offender can’t be criminally charged. (And in the wake of a different but new child sex scandal there, the vicar general also stepped down this week.)

In Trenton, Bishop David O’Connell essentially admits that, for months, he has hidden the fact that one of his priests sent 1,200 inappropriate sexual text messages to what he thought was a teenaged boy and had sexually harassed at least five teenagers and young men, some of whom were seminarians.

In Chicago, a suspended and credibly accused archdiocesan priest who faces three allegations has taken a secular job counseling grieving families, and Cardinal Francis George claims he’s powerless to stop this.

Perú: investigación...

PERU
Terra

Perú: investigación fiscal a obispo acusado de pedofilia podría llegar al Vaticano

[The Vatican's transparency in religious sex scandals could be tested if Peruvian civil authorities decide to inquire about the removal of Gabino Miranda, auxiliary bishop of Ayacucho. Prosecutors are investigating Miranda for alleged pedophilia. The request should not affect relations between Peru and the Vatican because they are trying to clarify commission of an alleged crime, according to jurist Diego Garcia Sayan. The judicial investigation stalled Thursday after it became known that documents submitted by the Peruvian church were insufficient to determine what happened. The Miranda case could be the first case where a bishop was publicly sanctioned by the Vatican since Pope Francis became head of the Catholic church. The case is covered under "pontifical secrecy." ]

La transparencia del Vaticano en escándalos sexuales de religiosos podría ser puesta a prueba si Perú decide solicitar información sobre la destitución del obispo de Ayacucho, Gabino Miranda, a quien la fiscalía investiga por un caso de presunta pedofilia.

"Ese pedido (de información) no debe afectar las relaciones entre Perú y el Vaticano, porque se trata de esclarecer la comisión de un presunto delito", dijo a la AFP el jurista peruano Diego García Sayán, presidente de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos.

La investigación judicial se estancó luego de que se conociera este jueves que el fiscal Gary Chávez, encargado del caso, admitiera que la documentación entregada por la iglesia peruana es insuficiente para poder determinar lo que ocurrió.

El caso Miranda sería el primero de un obispo que sobre abusos sexuales que el Vaticano sanciona públicamente desde que el papa Francisco sucedió a Benedicto XVI al frente de la iglesia católica en marzo pasado, aunque amparado bajo "el secreto pontificio".

Les Légionnaires du Christ convoqués en chapitre général extraordinaire

ROME
La Croix (France)

Dans une lettre datée du 4 octobre 2013, le cardinal Velasio De Paolis, délégué pontifical pour la Légion du Christ et le mouvement Regnum Christi, a convoqué le chapitre général extraordinaire de la congrégation. Celui-ci débutera le 8 janvier 2014 et devrait se terminer à la fin du mois de février. Ce chapitre aura lieu à Rome et sera composé de délégués d’office (gouvernement général et provinciaux) et de délégués élus dans chaque province.

« Le chapitre général doit représenter tout l’institut et être “un vrai signe de son unité dans la charité” (Code de droit canonique, can. 631, § 1). Étant donné que le prochain chapitre extraordinaire se situe au terme d’un long chemin de renouveau spirituel et aura pour objectif principal de conclure la révision des Constitutions, il a été convenu, en réponse, notamment, au souhait de beaucoup, d’élargir la représentativité des membres élus », écrit le cardinal de Paolis qui détaille les modalités des élections.

Lessons learned from dealing with clerical bullies

UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter

Isabella R. Moyer | Oct. 10, 2013

Bloggers muse and ponder on the issues of the day. We rant and rave. We dream and vision. The challenge comes when someone asks us, "So? What should we do about it?"

My last NCR blog post was titled, "Pope Francis asks us to be the reform we want to see." As I was writing, I was increasingly aware that I was speaking in generalities. Paragraphs were filled with nice-sounding words that painted a utopian picture and with platitudes that pointed to some ephemeral "what could be" if we only tried to "be the reform we want to see."

A kind reader sent me an email asking for more. He liked the tone of the post but wondered about the practicalities of reform. How do we make it come about? For example, what if we are the unlucky ones stuck with a mediocre or dysfunctional parish or pastor? Pope Francis is challenging mediocrity and clericalism from the top. How do we do challenge the same on the local level? ...

Many years ago, my parish lived through the dark ages of an authoritarian priest. He happened to be the sidekick to an even more authoritarian bishop. It was a sadly dysfunctional time in the diocese as a whole. Heads were rolling. Priests and laity were being dismissed without explanation. Lines were being drawn in the sand. Folks sucked it up, grumbled and stayed, or they spoke out and quickly found themselves on the other side of the church door. I was in the latter group.

I learned several lessons about church politics from this experience. My priest friends, who were skittishly looking over their own shoulders at the time, were not willing to stand up for me. They offered a shoulder to cry on and affirmed the injustice that had been done, but that was the extent of their help. I was left alone. But when two of their own were unceremoniously removed from the diocese, we lay folks were expected to raise our voices in loud protest and support.

When power and authority are abused, they must not be supported. For my husband and me, this meant withdrawing our time, talent and treasure, and we had given generously in all. Eventually, it meant walking out the door.

SNAP: Seek out victims of clergy sex abuse

MINNESOTA
Star Tribune

Article by: JEAN HOPFENSPERGER , Star Tribune Updated: October 10, 2013

Members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) is returning to the archdiocese offices in St. Paul for its second news conference this week Thursday, this time urging the archdiocese to seek out victims of two clerics accused of molesting children.

The group focuses on the Rev. Robert Kapoun, the “Polka Padre,” who was found liable for $1 million for abusing children in a jury verdict that was later overturned. The group says he is still a priest and living unsupervised.

The second is a Catholic brother that the group accuses of molesting 80 children.

Lavish Bishop: Catholic Leader Accused of Making False Statements

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Spiegel

The bishop of Limburg was already under fire for cost overruns on his luxurious new headquarters, and on Thursday he suffered another setback. Prosecutors have accused him of making false statements in affidavits.

He's drawn criticism for his lavish lifestyle and cost overruns on his luxurious new residence, and now the Bishop of Limburg in Germany faces penal measures in a court case against SPIEGEL.

Prosecutors claim he made false statements in affidavits submitted in two civil claims against the magazine after it accused the cleric of flying first class during a trip to visit the poor in India. Prosecutors have since determined the statements he made were false and have now called for punitive measures, possibly including fines.

The decision comes just days after Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst was forced to admit earlier this week that the total price on his new bishop's headquarters in Limburg, in the western state of Hesse, had risen to a whopping €31 million ($41.9 million).

Earlier this week, Hubertus Janssen, a retired Limburg priest who has remained close to the congregation, called on 53-year-old Tebartz-van Elst to step down, warning that the bishop had become a burden to Limburg and possibly to the Catholic Church. Priests and members of the church alike have been outraged by Tebartz-van Elst and his involvement in the lavish new bishop's headquarters. The building, located adjacent to the city's cathedral, was initially supposed to cost €2 million. Then, partly as the result of special requests made by Tebartz-van Elst, costs ballooned to €5 million. The cost of the bishop's three and a half room apartment within the complex alone reached a cost of €2 million. The local Nassausische Neue Presse sparked further outrage on Wednesday when it reported that the bishop's bathtub alone came at a cost of some €15,000.

German bishop accused of lying to court

GERMANY
New Zealand Herald

BERLIN (AP) A German bishop already facing questions over his new multi-million euro (dollar) residence now has legal problems after prosecutors on Thursday accused him of lying to a court.

Chief Hamburg prosecutor Nana Frombach said in a statement that she had asked the court to fine Limburg Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst an unspecified amount for providing false testimony in a case he brought against Der Spiegel magazine.

Tebartz-van Elst's office had no comment.

Tebartz-van Elst has been under pressure over the construction of a new residence complex and related renovations that his diocese confirmed this week cost around 31 million euros ($42 million). The Vatican had sent a senior official, Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, to investigate complaints.

Mounting fury over Catholic bishop spending £25million ...

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Daily Mail (UK)

Mounting fury over Catholic bishop spending £25million on new palatial home in Germany as the Pope promotes a more humble lifestyle

By AARON SHARP

A German Catholic bishop faced pressure to resign on Wednesday after it emerged that his new palatial residence would cost £25m, over six times the original estimate.

Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, bishop of Limburg, was investigated by a Vatican envoy last month after protests in his diocese against lavish spending.

His luxurious choice of home is at odds with Pope Francis's shift of the Church's focus towards simplicity and poverty.

The soaring cost of the stately residence next to Limburg's hilltop cathedral was made public by the diocese on Monday and was immediately criticised by churchgoers and officials.

Local Catholic Raimund Champert said: 'Such prestige projects simply does not fit with Catholicism
'The Church, like the Pope, has a responsibility to be humble and lead by example.

'We are not in the Middle Ages anymore.'

Christoph Hefter, a lay member of the diocesan council, said: 'The cost is shocking, it is beyond belief.'

Embattled German 'luxury bishop' faces legal trouble

GERMANY
Economic Times

BERLIN: Pressure grew today on a German Roman-Catholic bishop under fire for building an extravagant multi-million-euro residential complex when prosecutors alleged that he also lied under oath.

Embattled Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, 53, of Limburg in Hesse state is accused of giving false statements in court in a case centred on a first-class flight he took to India to visit poor communities.

Prosecutors allege the bishop twice gave false statements under oath in a Hamburg court battle against news weekly Der Spiegel when he denied having told the magazine's journalist that he flew only business class.

If found guilty, he would likely face a fine. The case adds to pressure on the bishop after laymen and clergy have voiced anger this week at his lavish spending on his ostentatious new bishop's residence, where costs have ballooned to more than 31 million euros (USD 40 million).

German Catholics take 'luxury bishop' scandal to pope

GERMANY
Reuters

BERLIN | Thu Oct 10, 2013

(Reuters) - The head of Germany's Roman Catholic Church said on Thursday he would discuss with Pope Francis a scandal over a bishop who has been criticized for splashing out on a luxury residence and accused of lying under oath about a first-class flight.

Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, head of the German Bishops' Conference, said he took the situation in the Diocese of Limburg very seriously. His decision to take the matter to the pope may raise pressure on the bishop of Limburg to stand down.

Francis' response to the case is being closely watched, because it may show how far he will go to promote frugality and simplicity in a church plagued for decades by sexual abuse scandals and questions about opaque financial transactions at the Vatican bank.

State prosecutors said they wanted Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, bishop of Limburg which is near Frankfurt, fined for making false affidavits about a first-class flight to India.

Peruvian priest resigns over paternity suit

PERU
Peru This Week

By Rachel Chase

Military bishop fathered a child with woman he met through church.

Guillermo Martín Abanto Guzmán, formerly bishop of Peru’s military ordinariate, has resigned his charge over a court order that he recognize the paternity of a child born in 2011.

According to Peru21, Abanto Guzmán (then 49) met 26-year-old Alexandra Daniela de la Lama Luna in 2009 when she sought out spiritual help in the wake of personal turmoil. Their relationship deepened over time, and Abanto Guzmán even visited the young woman’s house on several occasions. In 2011, De la Lama gave birth to a baby girl. Peru21 reports that Abanto Guzmán did not recognize the girl as his daughter at the time, in order to avoid creating a scandal; sources indicated to Peru21 that this action may have been taken with the consent of De la Lama.

Then in June of this year, De la Lama took Abanto Guzmán to court to demand that he recognize the paternity of the child. In July, Abanto Guzmán resigned his post as bishop, and now the court has ordered that he recognize De la Lama’s child as his daughter.

Peru21 reports that church authorities learned of the case, but were assured by Abanto Guzmán that his relationship with De la Lama was only sexual, and did not constitute a sentimental relationship. Investigative news program Punto Final also reported last week that the church had previously offered De la Lama a pension for her daughter if she agreed to keep quiet about the case.

Updated October 27, 2013

Brown Denies Justice to Victims – Guest Blog Post – Mark Crawford

CALIFORNIA
The Worthy Adversary
Governor Jerry Brown denies justice for those sexually abused as children
Mark Crawford

Last week Catholic officials were jubilant when Governor Jerry Brown chose to kill bill SB 131, which would have temporarily lifted the statute of limitations for some child victims of sexual abuse. The governor made several excuses as to why he struck down the bill. He referenced the Romans who first used the “statute of limitations” centuries ago. Curious choice, but had Governor Brown, the former Jesuit seminarian done his homework sufficiently he would have learned that the application of the statute of limitations, at that time, applied to debts, or money owed, not crimes. In fact, the Romans were more than harsh with those who violated the law for far lesser crimes. I have never heard of Pontius Pilot discussing the statute of limitations before ordering a crucifixion, have you?

Have church leaders and Governor Brown forgotten about a man called Jesus Christ? Only in the last 100 years have lawyers began to apply SOL to other “infractions” of the law. Church officials and the governor’s main argument is an example of hypocrisy at its finest. Both claimed the bill was “unfair” as it only applied to victims of private institutions, not public. Was it was unfair to exclude some of the victims? Perhaps, but their solution to this disparity was to deny everyone the opportunity for justice by vetoing bill SB 131. Why not pass this bill, as it afforded justice to some victims and THEN introduce a bill that would include public institutions as well? Neither Church officials nor the Governor has spoken of any such intention.

We have repeatedly heard church officials claim “evidence is lost, witnesses die and memories fade” as a reason to oppose reforming statute of limitation laws throughout our country. We now know in many cases the opposite is often true. There is in fact much evidence. Should we simply forget about the cases that have concrete record of criminal behavior or wrong-doing? Of course not. Then why should they be time-barred as well? I don’t hear the Catholic conference, our bishops or the governor speaking about that injustice.

We know there have been instances in which priests admitted to molesting children, plenty of examples in which the priest wrote or texted his victim discussing his sexual acts and we know there have been cases where church officials held documents detailing claims of previous victims. We saw several clear examples in the recently released files of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, where Cardinals and bishops worked to conceal these crimes from law enforcement and the faithful. How could Governor Brown not see the appalling injustice of protecting powerful institutions, which sought to violate civil law over the need to protect children from known predators? The acts of exposing past crimes and allowing victims civil rights protect children. They are also a deterrent to institutions that put self-preservation before child protection.

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A PRAYER FOR THE LABELING OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS. Between now and November 5, voters in the state of Washington are casting votes to decide whether labeling GMOs will be required in the state. If it passes, it will be the first state in the US where this law will be fully in effect. Initiative 522 will require seeds, raw agricultural commodities, and processed foods to reveal their GMO content.

This is occurring while mounting research published in peer-reviewed journals reveals a wide variety of health hazards in humans from ingesting GMOs. Finally, enough people are concerned to push forward what seems to be the most publicized GMO initiative to date. The GMO labeling cause is a world-wide effort to require the farming and food industries everywhere to fully label what they are doing so the consumer can exercise a fair choice.

Join us as we prayerfully visualize that a full conversation emerge on the safety of GMOs, and that a complete acknowledgement sweep the world so that citizens everywhere have the right to know what is in their food.

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Opus Dei Bishop Finn (above image, see more here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/criminal-bishop-finn-attacks-national.html) of Kansas City guilty of aiding and abetting 50 years in federal prison Reverend Father Ratigan - still cloning Christ in the Magid and Sorcery of the Eucharist

Opus Dei Golden Cow John Paul II statues worldwide vis-a-vis Paterno statue gone from Penn State. Only the Catholic Church glorifies criminals http://stella0maris.blogspot.ca/

BOYCOTT Oratory of Saint Joseph! CANDLES to giant Zeus statues of St. Joseph and Brother Andre cannot protect children from CSC pedophiles

http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/boycott-oratory-of-saint-joseph-candles.html

Vatican Billions: its history, sources, and assets today worldwide. BOYCOTT the Vatican Museum and boycott ALL donations to the Vatican Catholic Church Reign of Terror

http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html ).

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Read our related article, Rosary could not defeat JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the 20th Century ... unlike the Battle of Lepanto in the 16th Century

Australia JP2 Army! Anne Lastman the false witness to “the limping Christ towards Calvary”… she camouflages John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/australia-jp2-army-anne-lastman-false.html

NCAA & Penn State more moral than Vatican. Sports is more moral than John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html

Middle Ages Vatican condemns New Age American Nuns: The Celestine Prophecy come true! Sisters in Crisis book mocks LCWR Sisters in Christ

Australia JP2 Army! Anne Lastman the false witness to “the limping Christ towards Calvary”… she camouflages John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army

Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI resigns as Vatican Pontiff of Vatican Catholic Church. It’s deceitful to say “Roman Pontiff” of “Roman Catholic Church” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/vatican-last-tsar-benedict-xvi-resigns_13.html

Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html

You hold the moral power to vote for this bill SB 131 which will be one of the most important bills you will ever pass in your life and which you shall bring to your grave - and unto your eternal life!

"Community Round Table" with New Director Bev Alquist (click to listen)

Goliath Bill Donohue, Catholic League, Bishop Myers’ tactics to suppress freedom of speech in the USA http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/goliath-bill-donohue-catholic-league.html

California Assembly Appropriations Committee, voted YES to SB 131 !!! Contact/ Write to members of the House Appropriations Committee - let them know you support the bill!

California Assembly Appropriations Committee, please vote YES to SB 131...Contact/ Write to members of the House Appropriations Committee - let them know you support the bill!

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We invite all Committee members to read our letter to Los Angeles Judge Emilie H. Elias who made the historic decision and judgement to release all pedophile priests files of the LA Archdiocese against the million dollars lawyers of Cardinal Mahony who wanted them all to be shredded.

New Year’s plea to the judge of Los Angeles: Reveal the whole truth, the entire truth now

New Year’s plea to the judge of Los Angeles: Reveal the whole truth, the entire truth now

Mercury News editorial: Bill would allow victims of child abuse to seek justice

NCAA & Penn State more moral than Vatican. Sports is more moral than John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html

Pope Francis Top 10 Vatican Deceits. Francis cloned @3.13.13 inside Vatican Titanic as Jesuit Mask of Vatican Evils. “Bergoglio. Basura. Vos sos la dictadura.” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pope-francis-top-10-vatican-deceits_30.html

Sacrament of Confession protects criminals and persecutes their victims http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html

Vatican bank Bishop∕accountant caught money laundering €20M and it surpasses the Da Vinci Code intrigue. Vatican greedy Mammon never sleeps and never stops http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/06/vatican-greedy-mammon-vatican-banks.html

Australia JP2 Army! Anne Lastman the false witness to “the limping Christ towards Calvary”… she camouflages John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/australia-jp2-army-anne-lastman-false.html

Dreamworks movie on Boston Pedophile Priests: Its moral message and mission in Boston, in the USA and in the world http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/04/dreamworks-movie-on-boston-pedophile.html

9/11 victims = 3,000. JP2 Army = 100,000s. May Day: both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1 on John Paul II Beatification Day B-Day http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html

Image of John Paul II by Danish artist http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2007/10/john-paul-ii-portrait-by-danish-artist.html

They came sick and they left sick.

Francisco F. Firmat: Disregarding statute of limitations is wrong (a pathetic Catholic Pied Piper who wants to stick to obsolete man-made laws)

Goliath Bill Donohue, Catholic League, Bishop Myers’ tactics to suppress freedom of speech in the USA

Diamond bride Mother Angelica’s EWTN acquires Fr. Marcial Maciel’s National Catholic Register: same God and Mammon, same hypocrisy http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/01/diamond-bride-mother-angelicas-ewtn.html