Friday, May 16, 2014

UN verdict “guilty” on Holy See the last recourse of justice for children tortured sexually by bestial Vatican JP2 Army - John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army

Here are the TOP 13 NEW LAWSUITS, POLICE HUNTS AND REVELATIONS  on PEDOPHILE PRIESTS since the UN event last May 5-6 when the Vatican was interrogated for its criminal records of thousands of pedophile priests and their hundreds of thousands of victims - children sexually tortured and abused in catholic churches worldwide – covered-up by complicit bishops and cardinals.   These prove that the UNCAT verdict of “guilty of torture” on the Holy See/Vatican is the last recourse of justice for these victims - and all victims  in all countries - who will be encouraged to come out – as soon as the “guilty verdict” is rendered and pronounced.  May the UNCAT open the floodgate of justice for hundreds of thousands of victims sexually tortured by the bestial Vatican JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army.  

We pray that the UNCAT will render a “guilty of torture” verdict on the Holy See because that is the last chance of justice for hundreds of thousands of Catholic children who were sodomized and sexually bestially tortured worldwide by thousands of pedophile priests of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army named aptly after the 27 globetrotting watch of (false saint) cold-blood-ed Pope John Paul II.   New victims especially in the USA (where almost 3 billion dollars are already paid to victims) are still coming out today and trying to pursue justice against their predator priests and complicit bishops.  Read our latest article, Vatican volcanoes & San Juan Pablo Fault. Lawsuits vs. Queen of Heaven & Our Lady of Guadalupe prove Vatican created a culture of sex abuse   http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/vatican-volcanoes-san-juan-pablo-fault.html   There are new victims in foreign countries especially in Puerto Rico, Australia, Italy, Ireland, India, and South America - they are only beginning to seek justice but their laws are outdated and most have expired statute of limitation. 

PRAY for the (UNCAT) United Nations Committee Against Torture who will soon be handing down its verdict on the Vatican on May 23, 2014 (because the Octopus Dei Beast a.k.a. Vatican Mammon Beast continues to engulf and attack the UN panelists, see news below on Goliath-bully Bill Donohue). 

We hope that UNCAT verified the TGTBT Vatican statistics which Papal Nuncio con-artist Archbishop Tomasi  presented as defense – because they were never mentioned last January at the first UN interrogation on the Holy See, hence it is possible they were fabricated, cooked-up and were doctored documents at the last minute.  That is why last February, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) found the Holy See guilty and condemned the Vatican for crimes against children because the only defense the Vatican gave at that time was that its jurisdiction is only for the tiny state of the Vatican City of 800 inhabitants.  Since Pope Francis and priests can even clone the exact flesh-and-blood of Jesus the Son of God the Creator of the Universe, hence they can clone anything especially - the TGTBT all-of-a-sudden 848 defrocked and 2,572 penalized pedophile priests and their documents doctored by professional artists scribes at the Vatican archives.  The Vatican Mammon Beast a.k.a. Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team can concoct anything because like Argo and John Paul II, Hollywood and the Vatican are twin cities that “lie for a living”, read our article here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/argo-john-paul-ii-are-make-believe_11.html


Read our related articles on the UN interrogation against the Holy See:

TGTBT Vatican defense too good to be true: 848 defrocked & 2,572 penalized pedophile priests. Are they part of 100,000 priests who gladly left priesthood since Vatican II?  http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/05/since-vatican-ii-100000-priests-left.html


UN vs. Vatican (half its 800 population do NOT live inside Vatican City) – so its jurisdiction is only for 400 in-house residents?


UN condemns Vatican for crimes against children.. HOORAH. 10 Reasons to abolish the papacy and why there should never be another pope  http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/02/un-condemns-vatican-for-crimes-against.html


JP2 Army in Puerto Rico! Plague of Pedophile Priests in Latin America! John Paul II the Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts & Rapists-Priests

Vatican journalists vipers attacked UN panelists and their countries  http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/02/vatican-vipers-attack-un-committee-on.html

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Octopus Dei Beast tentacles engulfs the UN

But this time, the Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team is more fierce and is determined to swallow up the United Nations - with its Octopus Dei Beast tentacles – by using its entire mainstream media foot soldiers all over the globe to attack and discredit the UN, see http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/05/un-committee-harassed-by-vaticanopus.html  

Read our article - Vatican Vipers attack UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Failure of the Sacraments. Letter to a Christian Nation (USA) - http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/02/vatican-vipers-attack-un-committee-on.html

Nevertheless, we hope most of all, that the UNCAT members are paying attention to Abuse Tracker and BishopsAccountability.org because despite Tomasi’s poker face and con-artist performance at the UN, fresh news are still erupting of pedophile priests being hunted by police or victims  in Italy, USA, Puerto Rico, India, etc..  Here are the latest news of pedophile priests wanted by police and victims worldwide. The news compilations are below in the news updates.

OPUS DEI: THE VATICAN-PENTAGON CONNECTION. How Opus Dei controls the USA, the multinational corporations & the Vatican Swiss Banks http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/09/opus-dei-vatican-pentagon-connection.html

The Hague is above Pope, Vatican, Religion. The Hague must prosecute Benedict XVI now to prove secular International Justice reigns over ALL Religions and Despots http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/the-hague-is-above-pope-vatican.html

Irish PM blasts ‘narcissism’ of Vatican. The narcissism of John Paul II and the Vatican are one and the samehttp://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/07/irish-pm-blasts-narcissism-of-vatican.html

Irish PM Enda Kenny speech on Cloyne Report: VIDEOS http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/07/irish-pm-enda-kenny-speech-on-cloyne.html

Ex-Jesuit Gov.Jerry Brown vetoes SB131,invokes Roman law, perpetuates cover-up of 20th Century JP2 Army who stabs the heart of Jesus’ mother http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/08/california-bill-sb-131-must-win-next.html

UN sets Benedict XVI Ratzinger’s records straight. Benedict refuses to meet Italian victims of JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army but meets with rare Cuban crocodile  http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2011/10/benedict-refuses-to-meet-italian.html

Silence of Pope Francis-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio on Argentina 42 pedophile priests. Online records in BishopAccountability.org. Where are YOUR “transparency and responsibility”?  http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/silence-of-pope-francis-cardinal-jorge.html


TOP 13  NEW PEDOPHILE PRIESTS LAWSUITS,

 POLICE HUNTS AND REVELATIONS  since the 

UNCAT event last May 5-6.


1.  Italy - on May 9th, (three days after Tomasi’s TGTBT Vatican defense on May 5th at the UN), Italian victims of pedophile priests sent a video to Pope Francis, read more in our article with news compilation about the video http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/05/un-committee-harassed-by-vaticanopus.html    

2.  Puerto Rico – on May 13th  US federal authorities in Puerto Rico, the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Israel Berrios, 58, the first priest to be detained over charges of this kind in Puerto Rico, a US territory. Berrios, in the photo of his Facebook profile appears taking the hand of the late Pope John Paul II  had been relieved of his duties by the diocese of Caguas, a city neighboring San Juan.  He is accused of sexually abusing an altar boy and faces a minimum of 10 years in jail if found guilty. His arrest is part of a wider investigation into sexual abuse allegations on 18 pedophile priests in Puerto Rico, read our article  http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/jp2-army-in-puerto-rico-plague-of.html  
3. Albuquerque, New Mexico – on May 14, two new lawsuits filed against Archdiocese of Santa Fe involving two priests at churches in: Queen of Heaven Parish and Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish that  also lists 40 priests from central and northern New Mexico were part of a culture of child sex abuse.  This is one of most recent development and it is a incontrovertible proof that Vatican created a “culture of sexual abuse” for decades – hence Catholics must stop believing in the sorcery of the Eucharist because Christ wants to be liberated from the evil hands of popes and priests who cannot clone ants and dogs and therefore they cannot clone Christ wither, read our latest article   http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/vatican-volcanoes-san-juan-pablo-fault.html

4.  Australia, on May 8th,  Abuse lawyer notes announcement from Christian Brothers on unjust compensation payments.  The Royal Commission into child sex abuse is currently sitting in Perth, Australia and is looking into possible abuse carried out in children’s’ homes run by the Christian Brothers. Many British child migrants who were sent to Australia and other Commonwealth countries over many decades lived in homes run by the Brothers, and many of them suffered appalling abuse. The extent of the abuse was revealed to the Royal Commission last week when 11 men gave evidence about the brutal and continuous abuse that they suffered at four orphanages run by the Brotherhood. See news compilation below.  Read our article 7 acts Australia must do for humanity’s good motivated by the Victorian Inquiry that slams the Vatican (Roman) Catholic Church!  http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/australia-victorian-inquiry-slams.html
5.  USA & India – On May 14th - a Catholic priest from India - who previously worked with the Archdiocese of Winona, Minnesota Leo Charles Koppala, 48, was escorted by officers of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) on a commercial flight and turned over to Indian authorities on May 14 in New Delhi -   following his conviction for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old.  See news compilation below. 
6.  Seattle, Washington, USA, on May 9th – a cleric of the Christian Brothers who abused more than 50 victims may settle soon.  SNAP announced: “Over two decades from coast to coast, Br. Courtney was a principal, teacher and coach in ten schools (in New York, Nevada and Washington state) and is believed to be living now in Honolulu. We strongly suspect that neither Br. Courtney's neighbors nor his family really know the truth about him, so he could well be molesting kids even now.”  See news compilation below.
7.  Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, on May 14th , 57-year old Gabriele DelBianco, a former Catholic priest, is sentenced to 4 year in federal prison - he was found guilty of three of 18 charges against him involving four teenage girls during the 1980′s while in  priesthood.  See news compilation below.

8.   Fall River, Massachusetts May 13th - Two men have filed a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River and then-Bishop Daniel Cronin for allegedly failing to prevent a priest from sexually abusing them when they were altar boys. The men, who are now in their late 40s, filed a complaint in Connecticut in January and reported being sexually abused over several years.  See news compilation below.

9.  Australia – May 10th “At the core of the enquiry, for many people, is the existence of a ‘Catholic mafia’ within the ranks of the NSW police force. A Catholic mafia that, if it exists, is responsible for protecting accused Catholic clergy from investigations and convictions in NSW. A Catholic mafia, that, if it exists, represents a serious blight on the Australian system of justice. A Catholic mafia that, if it exists, needs to be rooted out quickly before more children are harmed by predators potentially protected at high levels of the NSW system of justice.”   lewisblayse.net.  See news compilation below.


10.  In Ireland,  May 12th - The fact that no child safeguarding case management files existed in the Divine Word (SVD) missionary congregation prior to 2013 “is of great concern and indicates a lack of any focus on child protection within the society over the last 20 years”.  See news compilation below.

11. Pittsburgh (PA)  May 14th Number of people reporting abuse at North Catholic up to 19  The scope of one of the largest sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh grew Wednesday with the disclosure that 19 people have made 23 allegations of abuse by members of a religious order at the former North Hills Catholic High School.  See news compilation below.


 12. Ireland - May 10th --  101 priests in single diocese accused of abuse in 40 years    The number of priests formally accused of sexually abusing children in the country’s biggest Catholic diocese over the past 40 years has topped 100, according to the latest figures.  The cost of compensating victims of paedophile priests in the diocese has exceeded €20m, with €14m paid out in settlements and €6.4m spent on legal bills.  See news compilation below.

13.  Missouri - May 15th  In just 5 weeks, 8 predatory clerics are exposed    Over the last five weeks (April 3 - May 14), eight Catholic clerics who belong to a St. Louis-based Catholic group have been publicly exposed – for the first time – as credibly accused child molesters.  All eight are Marianists and all eight worked at a Pittsburgh Catholic school. We suspect that some of them worked in St. Louis too.  SNAP calls on Catholic officials – with the St. Louis archdiocese, the Pittsburgh diocese, and the Marianists – to disclose the full work histories of the eight clerics.   See news compilation below.


Pope Francis is the biggest CON-Christ, Pretender and Impostor of Jesus, greatest Thief in mankind’s history, the most evil pope.  Saint John Paul II is the second most evil pope.  http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/

At last. Ignatius Loyola’s worst nightmare has come true – that a Jesuit is pope and he commits the biggest heist in mankind’s history that will have ripple effect for generations to come.  May Our Lady of Fatima bring her prophecy to pass soon…





 Read OPUS DEI: THE VATICAN-PENTAGON CONNECTION. How Opus Dei controls the USA, the multinational corporations & the Vatican Swiss Banks

TGTBT Vatican defense too good to be true: 848 defrocked & 2,572 penalized pedophile priests.

UNITED STATES
PopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.

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The Vatican defense by Archbishop Tomasi of 848 defrocked and 2,572 penalized pedophile priests is TGTBT! What does ‘too good to be true’ mean? Wiki.answers: “If something appears too good to be true, it usually isn’t true. This is how con-artists take money for nothing from gullible people. ‘Too good to be true’ basically means what it says – that something is so wonderful, there’s no way it could be real." Pope Francis is the biggest CON-Christ so it is no surprise that his Papal Nuncio to the UN, Archbishop Tomasi is also a con-artist.

Vatican envoy Tomasi mocks victims & supporters as “deaf and blind” before UN.

UNITED STATES
POPE FRANCIS the CON-Christ.

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Updated May 12, 2014

Foremost Vatican Pied Piper John Allen wrote on May 10, 2014, in defense of the Vatican at its recent interrogation by the UN Commission Against Torture – and along with other Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team journalists who are still attacking the UN (as they await its verdict) - that: “The Vatican boasts the world’s oldest diplomatic corps, and its members take their tradecraft extremely seriously. They pride themselves on being the soul of discretion, never burning bridges, never shutting down lines of communication, and always having the big picture in view”. Allen is quite right except for what he is not saying beneath his adulating words for his Vatican employer - and that “always having the big picture in view” – means the “big picture” is the Vatican Mammon Beast a.k.a. Opus Dei Beast today and the Vatican Billions stashed in secret Vatican Swiss Banks.

 

UN vs. Vatican (half its 800 population do NOT live inside Vatican City) – so its jurisdiction is only for 400 in-house residents?

UNITED STATES
PopeCrimes & Vatican Evils.

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Background: In January 2014, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child did not buy the religious logic of the Holy See’s delegation, headed by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's UN ambassador in Geneva, who insisted that "The Holy See country is confined exclusively on the tiny Vatican City State” and therefore the Holy See was not responsible for the horrendous clergy sexual abuses in Catholic churches worldwide. In February 2014, the UN condemned the Vatican for its crimes against children, read more here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/02/un-condemns-vatican-for-crimes-against.html

May 5-6 – The United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) in Geneva for 2 days is now interrogating the Vatican a.k.a. Holy See for its criminal records of thousands of bestial pedophile priests who sexually abused in the most inhuman and degrading torture hundreds of thousands of Catholic children worldwide.
For the second time, the Vatican is at the UN – to defend its holy religious record on child sexual torture – and again it claims -- that when it signed the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) in 2002 - its legal jurisdiction (responsibility) is limited only to its tiny country of the Vatican City State of 800 people inhabiting an area less than half a square-kilometer in size. 



Pedophile Priest Getting Salary, Health Insurance, Living Expenses Vs. Prison

MINNESOTA
The Legal Examiner

Posted by Mike Bryant
May 16, 2014

The Child Victims Act has given survivors the chance to get justice. To come out into the light and recover for their losses. As the cases have come forward and discovery has uncovered information, the comparison to what has happened to the offending priests is so very troubling. These men belong in prison.
Instead , the evidence continues to mount that they have almost been rewarded. Rev. Gil Gustafson has been disclosed as a credibly accused priest. He was one of the few who were actually charged as he was sentenced to six months in jail and a $40 fine. He was incarcerated for about 41/2 months.
According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, after jail he went back to the church and has benefited as:
The church continued his priestly salary and health insurance, covered his living expenses and psychological treatment, and paid for his education and training, according to church records and a former archdiocese accountant. It has given him jobs in the chancery, helped him establish his own consulting business, and steered clients his way.
He lives in a bungalow in West St. Paul. The story goes on to tell the story of what happened to one of the children that he abused:
The years of abuse “mentally and physically destroyed him,” Herrity said. Classmates at Hill-Murray School mocked him after he went public with his abuse, his father said. He began a descent down a “path of destruction” that included drug abuse and promiscuity and ended in his death of complications from AIDS at age 28, in 1995.

NEWS COMPILATION for TOP 13  NEW PEDOPHILE PRIESTS LAWSUITS, POLICE HUNTS AND REVELATIONS  since the UNCAT event last May 5-6.

May 9, 2014

Italian victims of priest sex abuse appeal to pope

VATICAN CITY
Miami Herald

BY NICOLE WINFIELD
ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY -- Italian victims of priestly sex abuse appealed directly to Pope Francis for justice Friday, calling for a commission of inquiry into the problem in the Vatican's backyard.
In letters and a video posted online, 17 survivors denounced the treatment they have received by the Italian Catholic Church and the Vatican itself. Half of them are former students of a notorious school for the deaf in Verona where hundreds of children are believed to have been sexually assaulted over the years by two dozen priests and religious brothers.
The "Abuse Network" organization, one of the most active in Italy, said it sent a copy of the video to the Vatican's deputy secretary of state, Monsignor Angelo Becciu, addressed to the pope. There was no comment Friday from the Vatican on whether it had been received or viewed.
In a letter to Francis sent last month, the Verona deaf victims called for a commission of inquiry to be set up as has been done in Ireland and Australia to investigate the depths of the scandal in Italy.
The Abuse Network has posted online the names of some 150 Italian priests it says have been convicted by Italian courts since 2000 for abuse-related crimes in a bid to show that the problem is very real in Italy. Yet the Italian bishops' conference has been slow to respond to the problem and only this year released Vatican-mandated guidelines for how to protect children.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:10 PM

Pedophile priest victims send pope a video message

ITALY
ANSA

(ANSA) - Rome, May 9 - An organization of survivors of child sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests has sent Pope Francis a videotaped appeal for justice and compensation, La Repubblica newspaper reported Friday.
The organization called Rete l'Abuso (Abuse Network) made the video featuring dozens of adult survivors of child sexual abuse in religious institutions. Among them are eight deaf-mute people who were enrolled at the Antonio Provolo religious institute for disabled children in the northern city of Verona, where some 25 priests abused at least 100 victims from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s. In a 2011 letter, an association of adult survivors of the abuse at Provolo wrote to then-pope Benedict XVI, asking him to deconsecrate three churches they said they were sexually assaulted in as children.
In their video message, the victims call on Francis for compensation, because the crimes committed against them have long since timed out under Italian law.
In a Wednesday hearing in Geneva, Vatican UN Ambassador Silvano Tomasi told the UN Committee on the Convention against Torture that since 1950, the Holy See has paid sex-abuse victims a total of $2.5 billion in damages and $78 million to pay for therapy. The Abuse Network in February called on the Vatican to declassify its archives on pedophile priests so they can be turned over to public prosecutors.
On its website, it has published a list of 148 convicted child-molesting priests, as well as a map of Italy detailing all the parishes where child abuse allegations have surfaced.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:11 PM

Pope receives video message from pedophile victims

VATICAN CITY
UPI

By Ed Adamczyk | May 9, 2014
VATICAN CITY, May 9 (UPI) --Pope Francis has been sent a video made by victims of child sex abuse at the hands of priests, calling for sympathy and compensation.
The Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported Friday the Rete l'Abuso (Abuse Network) organization produced the video, which presents several dozen adult victims of child sex abuse. They include eight deaf and mute people who were enrolled in a school in Verona, where 25 priests abused at least 100 students from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Those in the video call on the pope for compensation, noting the statute of limitations for prosecution under Italian law has expired.
The organization's website identifies 148 priests convicted of child molestation, and a map of Italy detailing the Catholic parishes where the crimes occurred.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:08 PM

Johannes Paul II. hätte in der Missbrauchskrise einschreiten können - doch er tat es nicht.

VEREINIGTE STAATEN
Roy Bougeois

Gestern fragte die Augsburger Allgemeine, ob Johannes Paul II. mit Schuld am Leid der Missbrauchsopfer habe.
Gleichzeitig meldet sich in der U.S. Zeitschrift National Catholic Reporter ein Insider, der amerikanische Jesuit Tom Doyle, zu Wort. Tom war in den achtziger Jahren in der Nuntiatur in Washington, DC tätig und setzt sich in den letzten 30 Jahren für die Opfer des Klerikermissbrauchs ein. Er vertritt auch Pater Roy kirchenrechtlich als Anwalt.
P. Tom Doyle schreibt, die die Heiligsprechung von Johannes Paul II. ein Schlag ins Gesicht nicht nur der Missbrauchsopfer ist, sondern auch der von der Kirche bestraften und ausgestoßenen, wie Pater Roy. Ein Beitrag, der sehr nachdenklich macht. Wer sind die wirklichen Heiligen in der Kirche? Aus aktuellem Anlass der Heiligsprechung von Johannes XXIII. und von Johannes Paul II. am 27. April 2014 bringen wir hier seinen Artikel in der Übersetzung in voller Länge.
National Catholic Reporter
25.4.2014

von Thomas P. Doyle
In dem Bücherregal meines Arbeitszimmer steht, in Leder gebunden, eine Kopie des Kirchenrechts. Nicht irgendeine Kopie. Diese hat Papst Johannes Paul II signiert auf Bitte meines damaligen Chefs, Kardinal Pio Laghi. Der Papst hat es datiert: der 6.6.1983. Da bin ich mir sicher, damals habe ich ihn bewundert.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:00 PM

Vittime dei preti pedofili a Papa Francesco: “Almeno tu fai giustizia”

ITALIA
Blitz

[Summary: Victims of clergy sexual abuse in Italy have sent a video to Pope Francis in which they tell their stories.]
ROMA - “Papa Francesco, almeno tu fai giustizia”. L’Abuso, l’associazione italiana in difesa delle vittime nella Chiesa cattolica, ha consegnato a Papa Francesco una richiesta di aiuto, una raccolta di testimonianze in difesa delle vittime dei preti pedofili.
Nel video-messaggio per Papa Francesco anche le testimonianze di 8 sordomuti del Provolo di Verona, uno dei casi più gravi confermati dalla Commissione pontificia, che non sono mai stati risarciti: per la legge italiana i reati commessi erano già prescritti.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:55 AM

Rome- Italian clergy abuse victims release video; SNAP responds

ITALY
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Monday, May 12, 2014
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314-503-0003, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )
We are deeply impressed by the courage and moved by the pain of the dozens of Italian clergy sex abuse victims who are part of a just-released YouTube video message to Pope Francis. For the safety of the vulnerable and the healing of the suffering, we endorse their call to Vatican officials to release long-secret church records about clerics who commit and conceal heinous sexual violence against children.
[UPI}
It's hard for a victim of sexual violence to speak about their suffering. It's often harder when the perpetrator is a powerful church official. And it's often harder still to do so publicly, revealing one's name and face. So we applaud these wounded, but obviously caring individuals for having the strength.
We hope their video prompts many others – Catholics and non-Catholics – to offer these gutsy, pained individuals the sympathy and love they so richly deserve. They clearly have been hurt, are still hurt, and should be treated with extraordinary kindness and gratitude for their work in exposing – and hopefully preventing - these dreadful crimes. We also hope their video prods others who saw, suspected or suffered clergy sexual violence and cover ups to speak up, get help, expose wrongdoers, and protect kids. Silence endangers kids and helps predators. Stepping forward helps kids and exposes those who commit and conceal heinous child sex crimes.
At the same time, however, we urge these brave men and women to stay focused on healing and prevention without expecting or waiting for any positive response from Catholic officials. In our 25 years of experience, we've learned that we do, in fact, have the capacity to recover from the trauma we suffered as innocent children and vulnerable adults at the hands of Catholic clerics. And we can recover from the added trauma we suffered as brave adults when we sought help from church officials. It helps when church officials don't ignore or re-victimize us. But often, that's precisely what they do. Still, we can get better without them and that's what we hope these courageous Italian survivors are doing.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:15 PM

"Papa Francesco, almeno tu fai giustizia" Appello delle vittime dei preti pedofili

ITALIA
La Repubblica - Inchieste

[con video]
MILANO - "Papa Francesco ascolta anche noi". È questa la richiesta contenuta nel video-messaggio che Rete L'Abuso, l'associazione italiana in difesa delle vittime di pedofilia nella Chiesa Cattolica, ha consegnato a Papa Francesco poche ore fa in Vaticano. In questo video parlano alcune delle vittime di abusi sessuali emersi negli ultimi anni, tra cui il caso recentissimo di Giada, la ragazza diciottenne di Portocannone in provincia di Campobasso che dopo aver denunciato il suo parroco si è ritrovata contro gli abitanti del suo paese che la accusano di essersi inventata tutto.
A chiudere il videomessaggio sono otto vittime dell'Istituto per Sordomuti Provolo di Verona, gravissimo caso esploso nel 2009 dopo un'inchiesta dell'Espresso e che ebbe molta risonanza anche all'estero. Si parlò di oltre 25 religiosi coinvolti e più di cento vittime abusate dalla metà degli anni '50 fino alla metà degli anni '90. Venne anche istituita una commissione d'inchiesta vaticana che confermò gli abusi, ma per la legge italiana quasi tutti i reati erano ormai prescritti e le vittime non sono mai state risarcite. "Non vogliamo sfidare nessuno", spiega Francesco Zanardi portavoce di Rete L'Abuso "ma abbiamo voluto far parlare le vittime, alcune giovanissime, perché si raccontasse la verità su di loro: nessuno le ha ascoltate, nessuno le ha risarcite sono state lasciate sole. I media amano questo nuovo Papa noi gli chiedano: Perché non ci ascolti?"
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:01 AM

Pedophile priest victims send pope a video message

ROME
Gazzetta del Sud

Rome - An organization of survivors of child sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests has sent Pope Francis a videotaped appeal for justice and compensation, La Repubblica newspaper reported Friday. The organization called Rete l'Abuso (Abuse Network) made the video featuring dozens of adult survivors of child sexual abuse in religious institutions. Among them are eight deaf-mute people who were enrolled at the Antonio Provolo religious institute for disabled children in the northern city of Verona, where some 25 priests abused at least 100 victims from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s. In a 2011 letter, an association of adult survivors of the abuse at Provolo wrote to then-pope Benedict XVI, asking him to deconsecrate three churches they said they were sexually assaulted in as children. In their video message, the victims call on Francis for compensation, because the crimes committed against them have long since timed out under Italian law. In a Wednesday hearing in Geneva, Vatican UN Ambassador Silvano Tomasi told the UN Committee on the Convention against Torture that since 1950, the Holy See has paid sex-abuse victims a total of $2.5 billion in damages and $78 million to pay for therapy.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:52 AM

Sin secretos con el crimen de abuso sexual a menores

PUERTO RICO
El Nuevo Dia

[Summary: The legal confrontation between the Arecibo Catholic diocese and the Department of Justice of Puerto Rico takes on a new twist with the first arrest made by federal authorities. Although the priest - Israel Berriors Berrios - belongs to the Caguas diocese, it is obvious that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) also has its sights on the Arecibo diocese where six priests have been expelled in recent years. The Arecibo diocese has so far refused to hand over its records to the local justice department. The diocese has sustained two legal setbacks in its effort to provide that the records required by justice prosecutors are confidential but the issue is now before the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.]
El enfrentamiento judicial entre la diócesis católica de Arecibo y el Departamento de Justicia de Puerto Rico cobra un nuevo giro con el primer arresto efectuado por las autoridades federales en el País de un sacerdote suspendido de sus funciones por un admitido acto de pedofilia.
Aunque el sacerdote arrestado, Israel Berríos Berríos, pertenece a la diócesis de Caguas, resulta obvio que el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) tiene en su mira también a la diócesis de Arecibo, la que a pesar de que seis de sus sacerdotes han sido expulsados en años recientes, se resiste a entregar los expedientes al Departamento de Justicia local.
La diócesis arecibeña ha sufrido dos reveses judiciales en su esfuerzo por demostrar que los expedientes requeridos por los fiscales de Justicia son confidenciales, pero ahora el asunto está en manos del Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico, que la semana pasada accedió a revisar el caso.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:32 AM
PUERTO RICO
Primera Hora
[Summary: In Puerto Rico, the first priest fund guilty of abusing a child under 14 was Anibal Torres Ortiz who was convicted in 2005. The scandal of sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church and cover-up have taken on international resonance for more than a decade.]
>El escándalo de abuso sexual contra menores en la Iglesia Católica y el encubrimiento en las esferas de poder del clero llevan más de una década con resonancia internacional.
Tanta, que hasta Puerto Rico ha llegado. Tanta, que hasta el argentino papa Francisco tuvo que pedir perdón y comprometerse a sancionar a esos hombres de Dios que bajo la sotana ocultan a un pedófilo. Tanta, que la Iglesia ha tenido que pagar millones de dólares en indemnizaciones.
“Me siento obligado a asumir personalmente todo el mal que algunos sacerdotes, bastante pocos en número, obviamente no comparable con el número de todos los sacerdotes, a pedir perdón personalmente por el daño que han causado por haber abusado sexualmente de niños”, dijo el Papa el mes pasado.

Una letanía de curas que abusan de niños

PUERTO RICO
Primera Hora

[Summary: In Puerto Rico, the first priest fund guilty of abusing a child under 14 was Anibal Torres Ortiz who was convicted in 2005. The scandal of sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church and cover-up have taken on international resonance for more than a decade.]
>El escándalo de abuso sexual contra menores en la Iglesia Católica y el encubrimiento en las esferas de poder del clero llevan más de una década con resonancia internacional.
Tanta, que hasta Puerto Rico ha llegado. Tanta, que hasta el argentino papa Francisco tuvo que pedir perdón y comprometerse a sancionar a esos hombres de Dios que bajo la sotana ocultan a un pedófilo. Tanta, que la Iglesia ha tenido que pagar millones de dólares en indemnizaciones.
“Me siento obligado a asumir personalmente todo el mal que algunos sacerdotes, bastante pocos en número, obviamente no comparable con el número de todos los sacerdotes, a pedir perdón personalmente por el daño que han causado por haber abusado sexualmente de niños”, dijo el Papa el mes pasado.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:04 AM

Puerto Rico arrests priest charged of child sexual abuse

PUERTO RICO
BBC News

US federal authorities in Puerto Rico have arrested a Roman Catholic priest on charges of sexual abuse of minors.
Israel Berrios, 58, is the first priest to be detained over charges of this kind in Puerto Rico, a US territory.
He is accused of sexually abusing an altar boy and faces a minimum of 10 years in jail if found guilty.
His arrest is part of a wider investigation into sexual abuse allegations by several priests in the Caribbean island.
Puerto Rico Justice Secretary Cesar Miranda alleged Mr Berrios initially gave money, a computer and a camera to the boy, who is now 21, and also took him on a cruise.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:18 AM

Priest arrested in Puerto Rico on sex-abuse charges

PUERTO RICO
Free Press Journal

San Juan: A Catholic priest was arrested by the FBI and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for crimes of sexual trafficking and paedophilia, an official said.
Rev. Israel Berrios Berrios, 58, was arrested Tuesday at his residence in Naranjito, a village in the central part of this US commonwealth, Puerto Rican government spokesman Miguel Pereira told Efe.
Berrios, who in the photo of his Facebook profile appears taking the hand of the late Pope John Paul II, had been relieved of his duties by the diocese of Caguas, a city neighbouring San Juan, while he was being investigated.
This was the first arrest of a priest by the US federal authorities in Puerto Rico, with local authorities expected to confirm the charge, which would make Berrios the second priest charged with sex crimes on the island.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:09 AM

Priest arrested in P.R. on sex-abuse charges

PUERTO RICO
La Prensa (Cuba)

San Juan, May 13 (EFE).- A Catholic priest was arrested Tuesday by FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for crimes of sexual trafficking and pedophilia, Puerto Rican government spokesman Miguel Pereira told Efe.
The Rev. Israel Berrios Berrios, 58, was arrested at his residence in Naranjito, a village in the central part of this U.S. commonwealth.
Berrios, who in the photo of his Facebook profile appears taking the hand of the late Pope John Paul II, had been relieved of his duties by the diocese of Caguas, a city neighboring San Juan, while he was being investigated.
This was the first arrest of a priest by U.S. federal authorities in Puerto Rico, with local authorities expected to confirm the charge, which would make Berrios the second priest charged with sex crimes on the island.
The first priest to be accused by Puerto Rican authorities is the former president of the Ecclesiastical Court of Arecibo Diocese, the Rev. Edwin Mercado Viera, scheduled to appear at a preliminary hearing on May 30.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:01 PM

Priest Arrested in Puerto Rico on Sex-Abuse Charges

PUERTO RICO
Latin American Herald Tribune

SAN JUAN – A Catholic priest was arrested Tuesday by FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for crimes of sexual trafficking and pedophilia, Puerto Rican government spokesman Miguel Pereira told Efe.
The Rev. Israel Berrios Berrios, 58, was arrested at his residence in Naranjito, a village in the central part of this U.S. commonwealth.
Berrios, who in the photo of his Facebook profile appears taking the hand of the late Pope John Paul II, had been relieved of his duties by the diocese of Caguas, a city neighboring San Juan, while he was being investigated.
This was the first arrest of a priest by U.S. federal authorities in Puerto Rico, with local authorities expected to confirm the charge, which would make Berrios the second priest charged with sex crimes on the island.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:57 PM

Puerto Rico priest arrested on child sex abuse charges

PUERTO RICO
Canoe

REUTERS
May 13, 2014

SAN JUAN - U.S. authorities on Tuesday arrested a 58-year-old Catholic priest in Puerto Rico on child sexual abuse charges, marking the first such detention in the U.S. territory by federal officials.
Israel Berrios was taken into custody at a relative's home in the rural town of Naranjito, said Ivan Ortiz, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Berrios was arrested after a federal grand jury delivered four charges against him for sexual trafficking of minors and transportation of a minor with the intention of involving the minor in an illicit sexual act, Ortiz said.
Berrios faces a sentence from 10 years to life in prison. It was not immediately clear if he had a lawyer.
Bishop Ruben Gonzalez, who heads the Caguas Diocese where Berrios worked, said he cooperated with authorities in the case after receiving the original complaint early last year.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:38 PM

Puerto Rico- Priest faces federal child sex abuse charges, SNAP responds

PUERTO RICO
Survivors Network of Those Abused Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 503 0003 cell, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )
A Puerto Rican priest was arrested on federal sexual abuse charges involving children. We are grateful that law enforcement officials are taking serious action to protect children.
[Yahoo! News]
Fr. Israel Berrios, from the Diocese of Caguas, is charged with sexually trafficking minors. This is reportedly the first federal case of its kind in Puerto Rico. We hope this signals a new vigor in holding predators accountable and protecting children.
We are grateful to the brave victims who came forward and worked with federal investigators. We urge Catholic church officials in Puerto Rico to aggressively reach out to anyone who saw, suspected, or suffered child sex crimes. They should also post the names, photos, and work histories of all credibly accused child molesting clergy.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:05 PM

Un cura católico puertorriqueño detenido por tráfico sexual y pedofilia

PUERTO RICO
El Nuevo Herald

San Juan -- Un sacerdote católico puertorriqueño fue detenido el martes por agentes de la Oficina federal de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) por cuatro cargos relacionados con tráfico sexual de menores y pedofilia.
Así lo confirmó el portavoz del Departamento de Justicia de Puerto Rico, Miguel Pereira, quien añadió que el religioso, identificado como Israel Berríos Berríos, de 58 años, fue detenido en su residencia en Naranjito, pueblo de la zona central de la isla.
Berríos Berríos, quien en la foto del perfil de su cuenta de Facebook aparece dándole la mano al fenecido papa Juan Pablo II, había sido relevado de sus funciones por la Diócesis de Caguas, ciudad aledaña a San Juan, mientras era investigado por delitos similares.
Se trata de la primera detención federal de un cura en Puerto Rico, y se espera que las autoridades estatales también formalicen una acusación, lo que lo convertiría en el segundo sacerdote acusado en este ámbito.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:33 PM

Arrestan a cura por pedofilia

PUERTO RICO
El Nuevo Dia

El sacerdote fue acusado por un gran jurado por tráfico sexual de menores e inducir a un menor a una conducta sexual ilícita
El sacerdote suspendido, Israel Berríos Berríos, quien en la mañana de este martes fue arrestado por las autoridades federales, firmó una declaración en la que aceptó haber cometido un acto de pedofilia mientras era párroco de la iglesia San José de Aibonito, donde ocurrieron los hechos.
Así lo reveló a este diario el obispo de Caguas, Rubén González. “Tenemos certeza moral de que el hecho se cometió. El mismo sacerdote lo admitió”, sostuvo el líder de la Diócesis de Arecibo.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:31 PM

Puerto Rico priest faces federal sex charges

PUERTO RICO
Yahoo!
News
By DANICA COTO
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. authorities in Puerto Rico said Tuesday they have arrested a Roman Catholic priest on charges including sexual trafficking of minors in the first federal case of its kind in the U.S. territory.
Ivan Ortiz, spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said 58-year-old Israel Berrios was a priest in the Diocese of Caguas, south of the capital of San Juan. He said the priest was arrested in the northern town of Naranjito.
Ortiz said the investigation is ongoing and that more arrests are possible. Authorities have not yet given details of the case.
Puerto Rico prosecutors also filed charges of lewd acts against Berrios.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:06 PM

Acusaciones contra padre Córdova, sin motivo, dice Antonio Torres

MEXICO
Plano Informativo

San Luis Potosí, SLP.- El rector de Catedral, Antonio Torres Martínez, indicó que el ex sacerdote Alberto Atihe y Carmen Aristegui han emprendido acciones en contra de la iglesia sin motivo alguno, esto luego de las declaraciones del ex sacerdote se compararan las acciones de Eduardo Córdova Bautista con el fundador de los Legionarios de Cristo.
Luego de la eucaristía dominical, el rector de la catedral metropolitana indicó que las investigaciones del Vaticano permanece, por lo que descartó que hasta el momento se haya dictado una penitencia canóniga.
En caso de que se encuentre o determine responsabilidad el sacerdote potosino, en caso de ser culpable, la Iglesia presentará las pruebas correspondientes.

Acusaciones contra padre Córdova deben probarse: Antonio Torres Herrera

MEXICO
La Razon

Caso Cordova
[Summary: Antonio Torres Herrera, rector of the San Luis Potosi cathedral, has acknowledged that a case has been filed with the Vatican against accused pedophile priest Eduardo Cordova. He has been compared to Macial Maciel, founder of the Legionaries of Christ.]
El rector de la Iglesia Catedral, Antonio Torres Herrera, reconoció que El Vaticano ya prepara un expediente del caso de supuesta pederastia del padre Eduardo Córdova Bautista y que partiendo de esto, la Arquidiócesis dará alguna postura.
Torres Herrera, el sacerdote celebrante de la misa dominical, fue entrevistado acerca de que el escándalo del padre Eduardo Córdova, ex apoderado legal de la Arquidiócesis, ya es comparado con el protagonizado por el fundador de los Legionarios de Cristo, Maciel.
A esto, el padre Antonio Torres Herrera matizó la comparación y contestó que no hay denuncias y por lo tanto, está en proceso el expediente, sin excomulgarlo o separarlo.

WA- Abuse suits may soon settle against ex-WA Catholic cleric

WASHINGTON
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Friday, May 9, 2014
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com )
Child sex cases against a Catholic cleric who molested more than 50 kids – and who worked at several Seattle area schools – are expected to settle soon.
[Seattle Weekly]
We urge Seattle Archbishop Peter Sartain to aggressively spread the word about his crimes and beg anyone who saw, suspected or suffered them to call police. Specifically, we beg Sartain to put notices in parish bulletins and on church websites prodding victims, witnesses and whistleblowers to call police so that the cleric might be charged, convicted and kept away from kids.
The cleric, Brother Edward Courtney, belongs to a Catholic religious order, the New Rochelle, New York based Christian Brothers.
We urge Christian Brothers officials to explain and apologize for “paying Courtney’s way at (a university” to earn accreditation as a school principal” and writing “letters of recommendation on his behalf” even after they'd received multiple credible abuse reports against him (according to Seattle Weekly).
Over two decades from coast to coast, Br. Courtney was a principal, teacher and coach in ten schools (in New York, Nevada and Washington state) and is believed to be living now in Honolulu. We strongly suspect that neither Br. Courtney's neighbors nor his family really know the truth about him, so he could well be molesting kids even now.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:43 AM

Lawsuit: Archdiocese created culture of sex abuse

NEW MEXICO
KRQE

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) — Two men are taking on two Albuquerque catholic churches and the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in a set of new lawsuits that accuse the church of allowing a culture of sexual abuse that lasted for decades.
The lawsuit specifically names the Queen of Heaven and Lady of Guadalupe parishes in Albuquerque where the two men say they were raped in the 60′s and 80′s.
But the men also claim that the Archdiocese knew they and other boys were at risk but did nothing to prevent abuse.
Lawsuits over priest sex abuse claims are nothing new for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe but attorney Brad Hall hopes two lawsuits he’s filed on behalf of two men will address what he calls a “bigger picture.”
“We’re saying they knew or should have known that something was going on and done something to stop it sooner,” said Hall.

Man who accused priest of sexual abuse shares his story

KENTUCKY
WAVE

[with video]
By Katie Bauer
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – The man who says a Kentucky priest molested him as a child is sharing his story days after another man came forward saying he was sexually abused by the same priest.
Father Joseph Hemmerle has been placed on administrative leave as lead pastor from two Marion County churches since this second accusation.
Michael Norris is a Louisville native who now lives in Houston and works as a chemical engineer. Late last week he found out another man has come forward accusing Father Joseph Hemmerle of sexual abuse.
"The church confirmed to me that the victim was abused at Camp Tall Trees, which is the same place I was abused so quite honestly that place was open for probably 30 years, we're not the only two, I'm sure there are more," said Norris.
Norris said he attended Camp Tall Trees in Meade County when he was 11. He said he got a bad case of poison ivy and Hemmerle told him he could help.

Child protection review severly critical of Divine Word

IRELAND
Irish Times

Patsy McGarry
Mon, May 12, 2014
The fact that no child safeguarding case management files existed in the Divine Word (SVD) missionary congregation prior to 2013 “is of great concern and indicates a lack of any focus on child protection within the society over the last 20 years,” the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland (NBSCCCI) review has found.”Case files were constructed by the society in advance of the review taking place,” it said.
The existence of child safeguarding case management files within the congregation “can only be traced back to the beginning of 2013,” it said. “A lot of documentation was either never generated, or was removed or destroyed by parties unknown, or was kept in some file or files the existence of which has not yet been discovered.” it said.
It said it was “not acceptable that any Church authority in Ireland would have waited until 2012 to begin the process of implementing accepted and agreed Church child safeguarding policies, procedures and practices and while there may be explanations offered for this state of affairs, there are no excuses for it.”
It also described as “ truly unfortunate and a great injustice that it is almost impossible to identify the victims of historical child sexual abuse who live in developing countries and whose abuse took place many years ago.
“The behaviour of the few SVD members who perpetrated this abuse has severely undermined the integrity of a Christian brotherhood that aspires to bring the Good News to people who have not yet heard it,” it said.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:58 PM

Ex-Archbishop Cronin Named In Suit Accusing Priest

CONNECTICUT
The Hartford Courant

By MATTHEW KAUFFMAN, mkauffman@courant.com
The Hartford Courant
5:47 p.m. EDT, May 13, 2014

Former Hartford Archbishop Daniel Cronin is being sued by two men who say he was negligent in his supervision of a Massachusetts priest who allegedly molested the pair 30 years ago.
The plaintiffs, former alter boys who are now in their 40s, say they were abused from 1979 through the mid-80s by Monsignor Maurice Souza, who served as pastor of St. Anthony's Parish in East Falmouth, Mass. At the time, Cronin was bishop of the Diocese of Fall River, which included St. Anthony's
The suit does not claim that Cronin was aware of the alleged abuse, but says that as Souza's supervisor, he had a "duty to evaluate whether Monsignor Souza posed an unreasonable risk of harm to minors."
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:59 PM

2 new sex abuse lawsuits filed against Archdiocese of Santa Fe

NEW MEXICO
KOB

An Albuquerque law firm on Wednesday filed two new child sex abuse lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
The lawsuits point to two specific cases of alleged abuse involving two priests at churches in Albuquerque: Queen of Heaven Parish and Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish.
The lawsuits are filed on behalf of two men who say they were abused in the late 1960s and in 1986. The lawsuit also lists 40 priests from central and northern New Mexico who the lawsuits claim were part of a culture of child sex abuse during that time in the Archdiocese.
"The therapeutic needs of these men require transparency by the current Archdiocese leadership.
Without documents from that era, where about a third of the priests were sexually abusing hundreds of boys, it will be difficult for these men to begin to understand how and why this happened to them," said Levi Monagle, a member of the litigation team helping the alleged victims.

Priest Guilty of Abuse in Minn. Deported to India

UNITED STATES/INDIA
KSTP

A priest who was convicted of fondling a 12-year-old girl while he was working in the Diocese of Winona has been deported to his native India.

Officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement say 48-year-old Leo Charles Koppala was turned over to authorities in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Koppola was charged last June with second-degree criminal sexual conduct. He pleaded guilty in March, admitting he fondled the girl while eating dinner at her grandmother's house.

The Diocese of Winona has said Koppala was assigned in 2009 to the Catholic Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Blue Earth and to St. Mary's in Winnebago. He was placed on leave in June, and the diocese alerted his home diocese of Nellore, India.

Minnesota priest deported after fondling conviction

UNITED STATES/INDIA
Pioneer Press

Associated Press
POSTED: 05/14/2014
A priest who was convicted of fondling a 12-year-old girl while he was working in the Diocese of Winona has been deported to his native India, officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Wednesday.
ICE said Leo Charles Koppala, 48, was turned over to authorities in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Koppola was charged last June with second-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a victim younger than 13. He pleaded guilty in March, admitting he fondled a girl while eating dinner at her grandmother's house.
ICE says Koppala didn't contest his deportation, and an immigration judge ordered his deportation April 1.
"Koppala held a position of trust in the Catholic Church and the community. He broke that trust," Scott Baniecke, field office director for ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations in St. Paul, said in a statement. "We sincerely hope that his permanent removal from the United States will help the healing process for the victim and the victim's family."

PA- Three more Pittsburgh child molesting clerics exposed

PITTSBURGH (PA)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com )
Three more credibly accused child molesting clerics have been publicly exposed for the first time thanks to the courage of victims. We applaud these brave men and women for stepping forward and beg them to contact secular authorities, not church figures.
[Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
There are at least two key lessons here.
First, times are slowly changing. It's somewhat less difficult these days for victims to expose predators. So we encourage anyone who was hurt by clerics – no matter how long ago it happened – to speak up so that the truth can be known, kids can be protected and healing can really happen.
Second, there are obviously many child molesting clerics who have yet to be publicly exposed. So we again prod Catholic officials – as we do nearly every day and have done nearly every day for a quarter century – to go beyond the bare minimum and aggressively use their resources and bully pulpits and websites and bulletins and newspapers to beg those who saw, suspected or suffered clergy sex crimes to speak up.
It's irresponsible for Catholic officials to passively sit back and wait for the phone to ring. Pittsburgh's bishop should personally visit every single parish where a proven, admitted and credibly accused priest, nun, seminarian or church employee worked. The bishops should clearly and emphatically beg victims, witnesses and whistleblowers to break their silence by calling police and prosecutors. Terse, carefully crafted three sentence notices tucked far back in a diocesan newspaper or parish bulletin don't cut it.

MN- Convicted priest deported to India, Victims respond

UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Wednesday, May 14, 2014
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 Catholic priest who has worked in Minnesota and was convicted of child sex crimes has been deported back to his home country of India. He is Fr. Leo Charles Koppala.
[Business Standard]
This is not the first predator priest from India who has worked and abused in Minnesota. Fr. Joseph Jeyapaul raped a Minnesota girl, Megan Peterson, just a few years ago. He returned to India and until recently, oversaw a group of schools there, even though his bishop knew he was a fugitive from justice. He's being extradited now.
Kids are more at risk of sexual violence in the developing world and that is why we hope Catholic officials will do all they can to warn unsuspecting families about this dangerous man. Bishop John Quinn of the Winona Diocese claims he alerted Catholic officials in Nellore, India about Fr. Koppala. We hope Quinn actually followed through and we hope serious action is taken by Indian church officials to ensure that Fr. Koppala is kept away from children.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:04 PM

Catholic priest deported to India for molesting minor in US

UNITED STATES/INDIA
Business Standard

Press Trust of India | Washington May 14, 2014
A Catholic priest from India - who previously worked with the Archdiocese of Winona, Minnesota - was deported today following his conviction for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old.
Leo Charles Koppala, 48, was escorted by officers of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) on a commercial flight and turned over to Indian authorities on May 14 in New Delhi, the federal agency said.
This deportation was conducted by officers with ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Bloomington, Minnesota.
On June 8, 2013, the Blue Earth (Minnesota) Police Department arrested Koppala and charged him with second-degree criminal sexual conduct. The victim was 12-year-old at the time of the offense.
On June 10, 2013, Koppala posted bail and was released from local custody.

Former Priest Given 4 Year Prison Term

CANADA
Blackburn News

By Dave Dentinger on May 14, 2014
A man who served as a marriage and family counselor in Auburn and Kincardine is going to prison.
57-year old Gabriele DelBianco is also a former Catholic priest, and has been handed a penitentiary term on sex-related charges at Sarnia courthouse. Ontario Superior Court Justice Joseph Donohue sentenced DelBianco to a total of four years in federal prison. He had been found guilty of three of 18 charges against him relating to incidents involving four teenage girls during the 1980′s in southwestern Ontario while in the priesthood.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:29 PM

ONTARIO EX-PRIEST GETS FOUR YEARS IN PRISON FOR HISTORICAL SEX CRIMES

CANADA
Sun News

NEIL BOWEN | QMI AGENCY
SARNIA, Ont. - His victims said he used his "rock star" status in the church to coerce them into sexual relationships as teens. Now Gabriele DelBianco, a former priest at churches in southwestern Ontario, will serve four years in prison for his crimes.
The sentence was handed down Wednesday in a Sarnia, Ont., courtroom.
In February, court found DelBianco, 57, guilty of one count of gross indecency against one victim and sexually assaulting another woman twice.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:27 PM

Number of people reporting abuse at North Catholic up to 19

PITTSBURGH (PA)
Tribune-Review

By Bill Zlatos
Published: Wednesday, May 14, 2014
The scope of one of the largest sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh grew Wednesday with the disclosure that 19 people have made 23 allegations of abuse by members of a religious order at the former North Hills Catholic High School.
The Rev. Ronald Lengwin, spokesman for the diocese, said 18 of the alleged victims are men and the other is a woman. The latest Marianist brothers being accused of abuse are Brother James Kline, who taught at North Catholic from 1940 to 1947; Brother Joseph Binder, who taught at North Catholic from 1961 to 1966, 1975 to 1976 and 1979 to 1989; and Brother Julius May, whose service date at the school is unknown. Kline died in 1997, Binder in 2000 and May in 1970.
Asked how the diocese could not have known about such expansive abuse at one school, Lengwin responded, “I don't know how you wouldn't know or would know. A lot of people were able to hide their immoral behavior.”
The scandal began on March 20 when the diocese learned that Marianist Brother Bernard Hartman, 74, a former science teacher at North Catholic, is awaiting trial in Australia on charges he molested four students at a Catholic school there in the 1970s and ‘80s.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:24 PM

Canada- Predator priest is sentenced; SNAP responds

CANADA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314-503-0003, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )
A former Windsor priest was sentenced to 4 years in prison for molesting multiple girls. He faced 18 charges of sexual abuse of children.
[Windsor Star]
Windsor church officials should aggressively seek out others who may have seen, suspected or suffered this cleric’s crimes.
We are glad that this dangerous predator will spend time in jail. We are disappointed it is not for longer, but glad he will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
We hope church officials will take further action and post the names, photos, work histories and whereabouts of all credibly accused child molesters on church bulletins and websites. We also hope this ruling encourages others to come forward and report to police.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:21 PM

Marion County Priest Placed On Leave As Archidiocese Investigates Abuse Allegations

KENTUCKY
WKU

By WKU PUBLIC RADIO NEWS
The Archdiocese of Louisville says it has opened an investigation into sexual abuse allegations against a Marion County priest. The Courier-Journal reports a May 8th letter written by Archbishop Joseph Kurtz says the church is looking into complaints against the Rev. Joseph Hemmerle. Hemmerle, who is the pastor of two Marion County parishes, has been placed on leave.
Kurtz says the archdiocese has reported the allegations to the commonwealth’s attorney in Meade County where the alleged abuse took place in the 1970s.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:44 PM

Priest Arrested

CALIFORNIA
KCBA

[with video]
May 12, 2014
Parishioners at a church in Davis say they are shocked and heartbroken after a popular priest’s arrested for statutory rape. He is accused of having a sexual relationship with a teenage girl. Police arrested 45-year-old Father Hector Coria on Friday. Investigators say he became involved with a 17-year-old girl last year. He is a priest at St James parish in Davis. He has been placed on administrative leave.

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Parishioners at a church in Davis say they are shocked and heartbroken after a popular priest’s arrested for statutory rape. He is accused of having a sexual relationship with a teenage girl. Police arrested 45-year-old Father Hector Coria on Friday. Investigators say he became involved with a 17-year-old girl last year. He is a priest at St James parish in Davis. He has been placed on administrative leave.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:42 PM

Dark history of hidden horrors ...

AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph

Dark history of hidden horrors ... The Christian Brothers order has finally been forced to face their secret sins
JANET FIFE-YEOMANS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MAY 08, 2014
IT was rule 85 that stated the most obvious: Brothers must not fondle their pupils. It entered the constitution of the Christian Brothers in 1962, a time when the order was supposedly getting tougher on the pedophiles in its ranks.
It spoke volumes about the order that they still didn’t get it. Assaulting boys was not breaking a rule, or even breaking the vow of chastity — it was a crime. The order even hid behind the quaint term “fondling”.
Former Christian Brothers leader Anthony Shanahan was asked last week in the child sex abuse royal commission what he thought they had meant by “fondling” in 1962.
The royal commission has been inquiring into the handling of the shocking sexual abuse and brutal beatings in the order’s four notorious Western Australian orphanages between 1947 and 1968.
“I presume it would refer to like having a hand around the student, for example, sort of sitting with the student, sort of hand on him, sort of perhaps rubbing his back, that sort of physical contact,” Shanahan, a member of the order’s WA governing council from 1989 to 2002, said.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:08 PM

These orphanage boys were abused by the "Christian Buggers"

AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites

By a Broken Rites researcher (article posted 11 May 2014)
Child-abuse at four Catholic orphanage-type institutions was so bad (and was so well covered-up) that the Christian Brothers earned a reputation many years ago as the "Christian Buggers", Australia's national child-abuse Royal Commission was told during public hearings in April-May 2014.
The senior barrister assisting the Royal Commission, Ms Gail Furness, said at a public hearing that the mention of "Christian Buggers" was made in a report from the UK House of Commons, referring to four Catholic institutions in Western Australia. These institutions housed disadvantaged boys, many of whom were orphans shipped to Australia from the UK and Malta during migration schemes.
Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse held two weeks of public hearings in Perth in April-May 2014 to investigate how the Christian Brothers and successive West Australian governments responded to allegations of horrific abuse at four Christian Brothers institutions in the two decades to 1968. The Institutions were:
* Bindoon (St Joseph’s Farm and Trade School);
* Castledare (Castledare Junior Orphanage);
* Clontarf (St Vincent’s Orphanage); and
* Tardun (St Mary’s Agricultural School).

Eleven former residents of the institutions told the Royal Commission about indecent assaults, beatings, child labour, neglect and cruelty by the Christian Brothers. The abuse was successfully covered up by the Christian Brothers community.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:43 AM

The Australian’s Premature Reporting on the NSW Special Commission of Enquiry (Or: Support for Peter Fox Needed NOW)

AUSTRALIA
lewisblayse.net

At the end of the month, the NSW Special Commission of Enquiry is due to release its final report. The full title of the special commission of enquiry is the “Special Commission of Inquiry into matters relating to the Police investigation of certain child sexual abuse allegations in the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle.”
Many people have latched on to what they see as the core issue at stake. At the core of the enquiry, for many people, is the existence of a ‘Catholic mafia’ within the ranks of the NSW police force. A Catholic mafia that, if it exists, is responsible for protecting accused Catholic clergy from investigations and convictions in NSW. A Catholic mafia, that, if it exists, represents a serious blight on the Australian system of justice. A Catholic mafia that, if it exists, needs to be rooted out quickly before more children are harmed by predators potentially protected at high levels of the NSW system of justice.
While the existence of a Catholic mafia within the ranks of the NSW police is indeed an allegation made by whistleblower police officer, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox, whose fearless stance sparked the NSW enquiry (and indeed gave the necessary impetus for establishment of the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse), and may be what most concerned people really want to know about, this is not in fact the focus of the NSW enquiry. Even if it should be.
The NSW enquiry established by former NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell and headed by Margaret Cunneen SC is very limited in its scope. It’s only charged with the ability to look at two matters:
1. “The circumstances in which Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox was asked to cease investigating relevant matters and whether it was appropriate to do so; and
2. Whether, and the extent to which, officials of the Catholic Church facilitated, assisted, or co-operated with, Police investigations of relevant matters, including whether any investigation has been hindered or obstructed by, amongst other things, the failure to report alleged criminal offences, the discouraging of witnesses to come forward, the alerting of alleged offenders to possible police actions, or the destruction of evidence.”

Note the use of the term “relevant matters.” which are said to be:
“… any matter relating directly or indirectly to alleged child sexual abuse involving Father Denis McAlinden or Father James Fletcher, including the responses to such allegations by officials of the Catholic Church (and whether or not the matter involved, or is alleged to have involved, criminal conduct).”
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:25 AM

Assault charges against for St Stanislaus' form master

AUSTRALIA
Western Advocate

A FORMER priest and St Stanislaus’ College form master has been charged with 10 counts of indecently assaulting a male.
The matter involving Peter John Ryan, now 71 of Newington, was mentioned before magistrate Michael Allen in Bathurst Local Court yesterday.
Ryan, who is being represented by barrister Greg Walsh, did not appear during the brief hearing, which was mentioned by Department of Public Prosecutions solicitor Mr Walford.
Mr Walford told the court there were still police statements outstanding and asked the matter be put over until June 16 for replies.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:40 PM

Catholic diocese removes priest as pastor of Shelton church

CONNECTICUT
Shelton Herald

A Shelton priest has been relieved of his duties at St. Margaret Mary Church in Shelton.
Diocese of Bridgeport Bishop Frank J. Caggiano made the announcement that the Rev. John J. Stronkowski submitted his resignation after being asked to do so by the bishop.
“I do this in light of serious difficulties that have come to my attention recently regarding Father Stronkowski’s tenure as administrator, including his persistent absenteeism from both the rectory and the parish and its ministries, his growing difficulties with both the staff and lay leaders of the parish, and other personal and administrative shortcomings,” Caggiano wrote in a letter distributed to parishioners during this past weekend.
Been at parish since 2012
Stronkowski has been serving as the parish pastor since January, and previously was appointed as its administrator in September 2012.
He has been a priest in the Diocese of Bridgeport since 1985.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:39 PM

Ky priest accused of sexual abuse

KENTUCKY
Herald-Dispatch

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Catholic priest who leads two parishes in central Kentucky has been placed on administrative leave after an allegation that he sexually abused a boy in the 1970s.
The Rev. Joseph Hemmerle is pastor at St. Francis of Assisi and Holy Cross parishes in Marion County.
Archbishop Joseph Kurtz wrote in a letter to parishioners that the Archdiocese of Louisville was contacted by someone who alleged the abuse by Hemmerle. The archdiocese referred it to law enforcement in Meade County, where the abuse allegedly occurred. The archdiocese is also conducting an internal investigation.
"We realize that this is a painful situation, and we want to support you during this time of uncertainty," Kurtz wrote. "Please keep Father Joe and all victims of sexual abuse in your prayers."
The Courier-Journal reports Hemmerle was also put on leave in 2002 after another man alleged he was molested in the mid-1970s at Camp Tall Trees, in Otter Creek Park. Hemmerle was allowed to return to ministry after investigations by police and the archdiocese could not substantiate the accusation.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:36 PM

Priest serving at St. James Parish in Davis arrested for alleged sexual abuse of minor

CALIFORNIA
Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento

Father Hector Coria, a priest of the Diocese of Sacramento serving since July 1, 2012 as parochial vicar of St. James Parish in Davis, was arrested May 9 by Davis police on suspicion of statutory rape and oral copulation with a minor.

Police began investigating the sexual abuse charges against Father Coria, 45, earlier this month, according to a spokesman for the Davis Police Department. Father Coria allegedly befriended the 17-year-old female victim in late 2013, police said.

“In late 2013, Father Coria began a sexual relationship with the minor and engaged in that sexual relationship on multiple occasions since 2013,” a department news release said.

On May 9, Davis police served search warrants at multiple locations and subsequently arrested Father Coria. He was booked into Yolo County Jail on May 9 but was released on bail as of the evening of May 10, according to a jail spokeswoman. He is expected to be arraigned next month in Yolo Superior Court.

The following statement was released May 10 by Kevin Eckery, spokesman for the Diocese of Sacramento, concerning the arrest of Father Coria:

“Father Hector Coria, a priest at St. James Parish in Davis, has been arrested for alleged sexual misconduct by a minor by the City of Davis Police Department.

“In keeping with diocesan policy, Father Coria has been placed on administrative leave, his faculties have been withdrawn and he may no longer function as a priest while this matter is under investigation by local law enforcement and Davis Police.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:34 PM

Davis priest placed on administrative leave after arrest for sexual misconduct; Diocese to cooperate with Davis PD investigation

CALIFORNIA
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sacramento

Davis priest placed on administrative leave after arrest for sexual misconduct; Diocese to cooperate with Davis PD investigation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kevin Eckery
Saturday, May 10, 2014 916-296-5945
keckery@eckery.com

The following statement was released by Kevin Eckery, spokesperson for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, concerning the arrest of Rev. Hector Coria for unspecified sexual misconduct charges with a minor by the City of Davis Police Department.

“Fr. Hector Coria, a priest at St. James Parish in Davis, has been arrested for alleged sexual misconduct with a minor by the City of Davis Police Department.

“In keeping with diocesan policy, Fr. Coria has been placed on administrative leave, his faculties have been withdrawn and he may no longer publicly function as a priest while this matter is under investigation by local law enforcement and Davis Police.

“If you have any information that could assist law enforcement with their investigation, or if you feel you have been a victim of Fr. Coria, we urge you to contact Lt. Paul Doroshov of Davis PD at (530) 747-5420.”

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:28 PM

Davis priest accused of statutory rape arrested by police

CALIFORNIA
News 10

A Davis Catholic priest was arrested for having sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, the Davis Police Department said.
Rev. Hector Coria, 45, was taken into custody by police after officers served search warrants at multiple locations Friday, police said.
The police department started investigating Coria after they got reports of the sexual abuse in early May. During the investigation, police found that Coria befriended the 17-year-old girl while he was a priest at St. James Parish in late 2013 and began a sexual relationship with the teen, police said.
Coria was booked into Yolo County jail for statutory rape and oral copulation with a minor.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:27 PM

CA- Davis priest arrested for sexually molesting girl - Victims respond

CALIFORNIA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

Statement by Joelle Casteix of Newport Beach, SNAP Western Regional Director, 949.322.7434, jcasteix@gmail.com
The sexual molestation of a child by a person in a position of power—especially religious power—is a crime.
The term "statutory rape" is troublesome. It implies that the victim—a child—has the power to consent to a sexual relationship with a much older adult in a position of power. Not only was Fr. Hector Coria an adult who should have known better, but he is also a priest with a moral and religious authority. And now, he has allegedly sexually molested a child. That is a crime with devastating effects on the victim, the community and the public.
We encourage Davis and Yolo County law enforcement to vigorously investigate this case, seek out other victims, and encourage witnesses to come forward. Coria has only been a priest for a short time, and we fear that there may be other victims from his time in the seminary and after his 2011 ordination.
We also urge Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto to reach out to the Spanish speaking communities where Coria worked, as well as the student community at UC Davis, where Coria conducted seminars and retreats. We beg Soto to act quickly and reach out to parishioners to ensure that they understand the gravity of Coria's alleged crimes and do not act in ways that alienate and re-victimize girls who may have been abused, as we saw in the case of Redding priest Fr. Uriel Ojeda.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:22 PM

Davis Priest Arrested for Relationship with Minor, on Administrative Leave

CALIFORNIA
Fox 40

[with video]
by Rowena Shaddox
Reporter

DAVIS-
A week-long investigation ended with Davis police arresting Father Hector Coria of St. James Catholic Church.
“Unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and oral copulation, is what occurred here,” Davis Asst. Police Chief Darren Pytel said.
Police believe Coria began the inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old girl from his parish, late last year.
Investigators learned of the alleged affair just this week, and began their investigation, which led them to search several locations Friday, and ended with Coria being booked into the Yolo County Jail.
He has since made bail.
“Well, that may explain why confession was cancelled today,” parishioner Richard Bruce said.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:20 AM

Parishioners Reeling After Arrest Of Popular Davis Priest

CALIFORNIA
CBS Sacramento

[with video]
DAVIS (CBS13) – Parishioners had no idea of the arrest of a popular priest until an announcement was made at Saturday’s 5:30 p.m. mass.
Many at St. James Parish still can’t believe it was the priest they describe as friendly and popular.
“It’s the closest I’ve been to a priest or someone in the parish accused of something like this. I’m blown away,” said one parishioner.
Friday, officers arrested Father Hector Coria on charges he charges he was having sex with a teenager.
“I’m heartbroken because he’s such a dear person. I can’t believe it,” said another parishioner.
Davis police began investing 45-year-old Coria earlier this month after information surfaced that he was having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl. Police would not say if the girl was a member of the church, only noting that the alleged relationship occurred at the same time Coria was a priest.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:18 AM

Priest cleared in sex abuse investigation faces new accusations

KENTUCKY
WLKY

May 12, 2014
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —A former Trinity High School teacher cleared by the Archdiocese of Louisville of a sexual abuse allegation in 2002 is now facing another allegation.
“On May 8, an individual made a report of sexual abuse to the Archdiocese of Louisville. He reported that as a child he had been sexually abused in the 1970s by Father Joseph Hemmerle,” said the archdiocese in a statement.
The accuser in 2002 also reported being sexually abused in the 1970s.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:22 PM

Marion Co. priest faces new allegation of child sexual abuse

KENTUCKY
WAVE

By Joey Brown
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - The pastor of two Roman Catholic parishes in Marion County has been placed on administrative leave by the Archdiocese of Louisville after he was accused for a second time of child sexual abuse.
According to the Archdiocese, the accuser came forward on May 8 and reported that Fr. Joseph Hemmerle abused him as a child in Meade County during the 1970s. Hemmerle was ordained to the priesthood in 1967 and currently serves as pastor of St. Francis and Holy Cross parishes in Marion County.
In a written statement, the Archdiocese said it has written to the Commonwealth Attorney in Meade County to report the accusation and has advised the person making the accusation to contact authorities.
Hemmerle was previously accused of child sexual abuse in 2002. The accuser in that case also reported having been sexually abused by Hemmerle in the 1970s, and the priest was placed on administrative leave. After several months of investigating, neither police nor the Archdiocese was able to substantiate the accusation, so Hemmerle was allowed to return to the ministry.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:20 PM

Davis priest accused of statutory rape arrested by police

CALIFORNIA
News 10

A Davis Catholic priest was arrested for having sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, the Davis Police Department said.
Rev. Hector Coria, 45, was taken into custody by police after officers served search warrants at multiple locations Friday, police said.
The police department started investigating Coria after they got reports of the sexual abuse in early May. During the investigation, police found that Coria befriended the 17-year-old girl while he was a priest at St. James Parish in late 2013 and began a sexual relationship with the teen, police said.
Coria was booked into Yolo County jail for statutory rape and oral copulation with a minor.
Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento spokesperson Kevin Eckery released the following statement in response to Coria's arrest:
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:38 AM

May 10, 2014

Davis Priest Arrested on Statutory Rape Charges

CALIFORNIA
KFBK

The Davis Police Department began to investigate allegations into the sexual abuse of a 17-year-old female earlier this month.
During the course of the investigation, it was determined that the suspect, Fr. Hector Coria, a 45-year-old male, had befriended the minor while he was a priest with a Catholic Church.
In late 2013, Fr. Coria began a sexual relationship with the minor and engaged in that sexual relationship on multiple occasions since 2013.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:19 PM

Davis Priest Arrested On Sexual Abuse Charges

CALIFORNIA
CBS Sacramento

DAVIS (CBS13) – A Davis priest has been arrested on charges that he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a minor, Davis Police announced Saturday.
Police have been investigating Fr. Hector Coria, a priest at St. James Parish in Davis, after allegations arose earlier in May that he had been sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl. Investigators found that Coria had befriended the girl while he was a priest with the Catholic Church.
Investigators believe that, since late 2013, Coria had been in a sexual relationship with the girl.
Friday, authorities served a warrant on Coria’s residence and arrested him on charges of statutory rape and oral copulation with a minor.

“In keeping with diocesan policy, Fr. Coria has been placed on administrative leave, his faculties have been withdrawn and he may no longer publicly function as a priest while this matter is under investigation by local law enforcement and Davis Police,” wrote Kevin Eckery, spokesperson for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, in a statement on Coria’s arrest.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:15 PM

Davis priest arrested on statutory rape charge

CALIFORNIA
KCRA

By Michelle Schultz
DAVIS, Calif. (KCRA) —A Davis priest is charged with statutory rape and oral copulation with a minor, police said Saturday.
Father Hector Coria was arrested Friday after the Davis Police Department served search warrants at several locations, officers said. Coria is now held at the Yolo County Jail.
Police started investigating the sexual abuse allegations earlier this month. The alleged victim is a 17-year-old girl, officers said.
Officials determined Coria, 45, befriended the girl as he served as a priest at the Catholic church.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:13 PM

Davis priest arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing teen girl

CALIFORNIA
Daily Democrat

By Democrat staff
news@dailydemocrat.com @WoodlandNews on Twitter

CREATED: 05/10/2014
A Davis priest has been arrested for the alleged sexual abuse of a 17-year-old girl.
On Friday, Davis police served search warrants at multiple locations and subsequently arrested Father Hector Coria, 45, on charges of statutory rape and oral copulation with a minor, according to a department statement. Coria was booked into the Yolo County Jail.
The Davis Police Department began to investigate the sexual abuse allegations earlier in May. During the course of the investigation, it was determined that the suspect had befriended the minor while he was a priest with a Catholic Church.
He is listed as a priest at St. James Parish in Davis. According to a Facebook page of St. Thomas Catholic Church in Paradise, he was ordained in January 2011.
In late 2013, Coria began a sexual relationship with the minor and engaged in that sexual relationship on multiple occasions.
Anyone with additional information is asked to call Davis police at 747-5400.
The following statement was released by Kevin Eckery, a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, regarding Coria's charges, to KCRA.
"Fr. Hector Coria, a priest at St. James Parish in Davis, has been arrested for alleged sexual misconduct with a minor by the City of Davis Police Department.
"In keeping with diocesan policy, Fr. Coria has been placed on administrative leave, his faculties have been withdrawn and he may no longer publicly function as a priest while this matter is under investigation by local law enforcement and Davis Police."
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:10 PM

Davis Catholic priest arrested on suspicion of statutory rape

CALIFORNIA
Sacramento Bee

By Edward Ortiz
eortiz@sacbee.com
Published: Saturday, May. 10, 2014

A priest at St. James Parish Catholic church in Davis, has been arrested for allegedly abusing a 17-year-old female, the Davis Police said.
Friday’s arrest of the Rev. Hector Coria, 45, was the result of an ongoing investigation by Davis police. In that investigation, it is alleged that while a priest at St. James Parish church in 2013, Coria befriended the minor and began a sexual relationship with her.
Coria was arrested on suspicion of statutory rape and oral copulation with a minor, and has been booked into Yolo County jail.
The Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, in a written statement, said Coria has been placed on administrative leave and may no longer publicly function as a priest while under investigation.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:06 PM

Archdiocese of Lou. places priest on administrative leave due to allegations

KENTUCKY
WHAS

[with video]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- The Archdiocese of Louisville has placed Father Joseph Hemmerle on administrative leave for allegations of sexual abuse.
The archdiocese said someone came forward and said Father Hemmerle abused them as a child in the 1970's.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:58 PM

St. Francis, Holy Cross pastor on leave after sex abuse allegation

KENTUCKY
Kentucky Standard

By Forrest Berkshire, Editor
Friday, May 9, 2014

The pastor of St. Francis and Holy Cross is on administrative leave following an accusation that he molested a young boy in the 1970s.
Parishioners of the churches received a letter Friday from the Archdiocese of Louisville stating an individual had accused Father Joseph Hemmerle of sexual abuse.
Brian Reynolds, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Louisville, confirmed Friday that Hemmerle was on leave and that the church was in the process of turning the matter over to law enforcement.
Reynolds said the church had heard “secondhand” that an accusation was coming, but was not notified until Thursday. Reynolds said Archbishop of Louisville Joseph Kurtz met with Hemmerle the day the accusation was received, informed him of the accusation and placed him on leave.
The letter to parishioners stated the actions by the archdiocese conformed with its policies, which includes placing the accused on a leave of absence, outreach to the person making the accusation, reporting the accusation to civil authorities and conducting its own internal investigation.
This is the second time Hemmerle has been accused of sexually abusing young boys in the 1970s, when he served as a camp director for Camp Tall Trees in Otter Creek Park in Meade County.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:52 PM

Ich bin kein Opfer mehr – missbraucht im Namen Gottes

SCHWEIZ
Doki

[video]
[Summary: Christina was 6 when she was abused by missionaries in South America. The missionaries were there to translate the Bible for native people in Bolivia. The perpetrators were never prosecuted and their actions are now time-barred but Christina has decided to speak out about the abuse.]
Als Christina sechs Jahre alt war, missbrauchten sie Missionare über viele Jahre aufs Schlimmste. Christina Krüsi glaubte sie helfe ihremVater die Bibel zu übersetzen, wenn sie sich nicht wehre. Die Täter waren gut organisiert und sehr pervers. Die Mission der Täter war eigentlich, im Urwald die Bibel für die Indianer zu übersetzen. Dass ihr Kind sexuell missbraucht wurde, glauben die Eltern von Christina inzwischen und auch die Täter sind ihnen bekannt. Diese wurden nie vor Gericht gestellt und inzwischen sind die Taten verjährt und die meisten der Vergewaltiger gestorben. Erst mit über dreissig konnte Christina endlich über die schlimmen Taten reden. Ein wichtiges Mosaiksteinchen in ihrem Heilungsprozess ist eine Reise nach Bolivien. Dort ist der Ort der schrecklichen Erlebnisse und Taten. Diese Doku zeigt eine starke Frau, die nicht zerbrochen ist, obwohl ihr im Namen Gottes schlimmes angetan wurde…
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:55 PM

#PapaFrancesco : Il filmato shock della Rete L’ABUSO

ITALIA
Rete L'Abuso

[con video]
[Summary: J'Accuse is an eight-minute video in which some representatives of pedophila priests in Italy tell their stories and publicly denounce their situation and their indignation at the false media campaign launched by the Vatican. The media campaign deeply offends and subjects victims to further violence at the hands of the "executioner." The video is in three language with subtitles and has been sent to Pope Francis.]
Un “j’accuse” di 8 minuti nel quale alcuni rappresentanti delle vittime italiane di preti pedofili, mettendoci la faccia, denunciano pubblicamente la loro situazione e la loro indignazione davanti ad una campagna mediatica falsa, avviata dal Vaticano e fatta sulla loro pelle.
Una campagna mediatica che offende profondamente e sottopone le vittime ad un’ulteriore violenza, per mano di quel carnefice, che invece di riparare, propaganda il falso cercando di far credere all’opinione pubblica che la chiesa sta intervenendo in aiuto delle vittime.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:17 PM

Cardinal says the Vatican is judging Wesolowski

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Dominican Today

Santo Domingo.– Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez said the Vatican is following the trial of ex-Vatican envoy Josef Wesolowski, accused of committing pedophile acts while exercising his religious and diplomatic post in the Dominican Republic.
"The Vatican is following his case at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is the one that handles child abuse cases. We're supposed to wait for its verdict," said the prelate.
The Cardinal said he did not know how the process go. "I just stuck to report the case to the Pope," he pointed out.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:09 PM

Former Windsor priest sentenced for sex crimes

CANADA
Windsor Star

Last Updated: May 14, 2014
A former Windsor priest has been sentenced to four years in prison and will spend the rest of his life on the sex offender registry.
Gabriele Del Bianco, 57, was sentenced Wednesday in a Sarnia court for three of 18 sex charges he initially faced for his abuse of young girls in the 1980s and early 1990s.
“I feel that we have all been robbed of so much joy,” one victim said Wednesday in court before her tormentor was sentenced. “Uncomplicated joy that comes from a world that makes sense. What Gabe has done doesn’t make sense. And, even more importantly, what God has allowed Gabe to do has left so many of us without faith.”
The trial began in October with four of Del Bianco’s alleged victims testifying in court.
Del Bianco was acquitted of sexual misconduct charges involving two women but found guilty for abusing the other two.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:58 PM

Six monks at Glenstal faced 10 abuse allegations

IRELAND
Irish Times

Patsy McGarry
Mon, May 12, 2014
Ten allegations of child abuse have been made against six Benedictine monks at Glenstal Abbey in Co Limerick since January 1st, 1975.
The National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC) review said that the Benedictine community at Glenstal Abbey “is made up of 27 priests, 10 professed brothers (all of whom have taken solemn vows), and one brother who has taken temporary vows. All of these men irrespective of age or status are referred to as ‘monks’.”
It noted that of the six accused monks “two are deceased”, one of whom had admitted the abuse and was sent for treatment. He was removed from monastic life/the clerical state by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in 2007. The allegation against the second monk was received long after his death and its veracity could not be established.
Of the remaining four accused monks, two had left the Benedictines and Glenstal. One eventually admitted abusing a student at the school there 14 years previously. He too had been removed from monastic life/the clerical state by the CDF.

Investigators seek possible victims of child abuse suspect

IDAHO
Idaho Statesman

Forest Reuben Gibson, 33, was arrested April 28 by the Canyon County Sheriff's Office for alleged sexual abuse of a minor ages 16 or 17. The sheriff's office announced the arrest Friday, noting that investigators worry there could be more victims in Canyon County and other nearby areas.
Anyone with information about possible victims or abuse is asked to contact Canyon County Detective Shawn Becker at 454-7261 or sbecker@canyonco.org.
Details of the allegations against Gibson are sparse. Friday's announcement noted that the Payette County Prosecutor's Office is involved and described Gibson as a "local church youth leader." But Payette County's ties to the case were not spelled out, and it wasn't clear if the alleged abuse involved a member of Gibson's church.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:42 AM

Father Jerry Served in St Cloud: Gerald Funcheon

MINNESOTA
The Legal Examiner

[with video]
Posted by Mike Bryant
May 12, 2014

Recently, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis released the name of Gerald Funcheon, adding him to the list of credibly accused priests who have been in that Archdiocese. So far no other list in Minnesota has included him. Looking at his record, he was in St Cloud at Cathedral High School and St. John XXIII Middle Schools a chaplain.
Watch this video about his offenses:
Kare 11 recently asked the questions of when did he start abusing children and how many?
In his own words:
“I suspect, and I don’t remember, it would have been at it St. Odilia’s,” he testified in a 2012 deposition
His assignment to St. Odilia‘s was in 1970 to 1974!
As to how many:
In one of those cases, Twin Cities attorney Jeff Anderson was able ask Father Jerry – under oath in 2012 – how many kids he’d sexually abused.
“I would say a dozen,” Funcheon testified at first. But attorney Anderson challenged him, suggesting there are more victims.
Anderson – “Do you think you might be underestimating that number?
Funcheon –”Wow – I couldn’t count ‘em up. I’ll go – I don’t know. I’ll go to 18. I can’t give you a number on this, okay?”
KARE 11 discovered the real number could be much higher.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:16 PM

National- “More of the same” at national church abuse panel

UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com )
Three new people (from Ohio, Minnesota and Indiana) have been put on the US bishops sex abuse panel. All are Catholic. All have close ties to Catholic schools or universities. None, as best we can tell, show any signs of real courage or independence.
So it's the “same old, same old.”
Originally, a dozen years ago, this National Review Board showed a glimmer of hope. Initially, some of its members were high profile and outspoken individuals who didn't depend on church institutions for their paychecks (such as former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating and Illinois Judge Anne Burke). Now, however, it's filled with low key Catholic insiders whose incomes often derive from Catholic institutions and who are clearly quiet and compliant “company men.” They will very likely never utter a single critical word about a single Catholic official, no matter how egregious his misconduct might be or how many kids are hurt on his watch.
Very quickly this so-called “watch dog” became a “lap dog.” It remains a “lap dog.”
Unfortunately, these new appointees (Mary K. Huffman of Centerville, Ohio; Donald J. Schmid of Granger, Indiana, and Nelle Moriarty of Rochester, Minnesota) look to be more of the same.
These men and women give their time and lend their reputations to church officials. But they end up being used as part of a shrewd public relations strategy in which bishops' put respected, sincere lay people on panels, give them inadequate and inaccurate information, and thus shield themselves from criticism when bad decisions are made.
Far too few Catholics on these panels ever become brave “whistleblowers.” And that's one reason why child molesting clerics remain hidden, why kids remain at risk and why the church's horrific clergy sex abuse and cover up crisis continues.
NOTE - Just this week, two Seattle men who were on a local church review board blasted Seattle's archbishop for keeping secret – for a decade – serious allegations against a predator priest.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:12 PM

Judge, Federal Prosecutor, Family Therapist Appointed To National Review Board

UNITED STATES
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

May 1, 2014
WASHINGTON—Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has Named Judge Mary. K. Huffman of Centerville, Ohio; Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald J. Schmid of Granger, Indiana, and Marriage and Family Therapist Nelle Moriarty of Rochester, Minnesota to four-year terms on the U.S. bishops’ National Review Board. Their terms begin in June.
Archbishop Kurtz in the appointment letters said that “The National Review Board plays a vital role as a consultative body assisting the bishops in ensuring the accountability of our procedures in the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.” With a quote from the Charter, he added that “The whole Church, especially the laity, at both the diocesan and national levels, needs to be engaged in maintaining safe environments in the Church for children and young people.”
Judge Huffman has served as a judge on the Montgomery County, Ohio Common Pleas Bench since 2002, and is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Dayton School of Law, her alma mater. She currently is president of the Dayton Bar Association.
Mr. Schmid has been Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana since 1994. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Notre Dame, where he was an adjunct professor of law, 2001-2008.
Nelle Moriarty has been a marriage and family therapist at Bluestem Center for Child and Family Development in Rochester, Minnesota since 1997, and a school counselor in Rochester Catholic Schools since 1992. She has been a trainer for the VIRTUS “Protecting God’s Children” program since 2011, and chairs the diocesan review board of the Diocese of Winona, Minnesota. She holds a master of science in counseling psychology from Mankato State University and has a Specialist Certificate in Human Sexuality from the University of Minnesota.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:14 PM

SCHMID APPOINTED TO NATIONAL REVIEW BOARD

INDIANA
Today's Catholic News

GRANGER — A diocesan resident has been appointed to the National Review Board of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. That board collaborates with the bishops’ conference in preventing the sexual abuse of minors by persons in the service of the Church.
Donald J. Schmid of Granger, an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, was nominated by Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. His appointment was announced May 1 by Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, president of the bishops’ conference.
Schmid is the father of three children and a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He has been a prosecutor with the Department of Justice since 1994 and has served on the diocesan review board since 2009. He also has served on the review board for the Midwest and United States Provinces of the Congregation of Holy Cross for several years.
Bishop Rhoades told Today’s Catholic that he nominated Schmid for the National Review Board because of his “excellent” service on the Diocesan Review Board.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:11 PM


Father McCormick finds a lawyer

PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer

With two weeks to go before the judge’s deadline, the Rev. Andrew McCormick has found a new lawyer to represent him in his retrial on charges he sexually assaulted a 10-year-old altar boy in 1997 when he was at St. John Cantius church in Bridesburg.
Center City criminal defense lawyer Trevan Borum confirmed Wednesday that he will represent McCormick, 58, in the retrial. Borum said he will formally enter his appearance at a May 29 status hearing on the case before Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Gwendolyn N. Bright.
If Borum’s name is familiar to some, it may be because he had been hired by retired Catholic priest Robert Brennan. Brennan, 76, was charged with raping a boy from ages 11 to 14 who was a member of the “altar guild” at the Resurrection of Our Lord parish school in Rhawnhurst. The criminal charges were dismissed after the 26-year-old alleged victim died of an accidental drug overdose on Oct. 13.
McCormick had been searching for a new lawyer since March 12 when a jury deadlocked on the charges against him and defense attorney William J. Brennan Jr. was permitted to withdraw. Earlier, Brennan had said he felt uncomfortable after discovering shortly before trial that he knew the extended family of the alleged victim.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:45 AM

MI- Letter to Dept. of Education re Thomas Hodgman

MICHIGAN
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

May 14, 2014
James Moore, Compliance Manager
Administrative Actions and Appeals Group (Clery),
U. S. Department of Education
Union Center Plaza
830 1st Street, NE room 72 J1
Washington, DC 20202
Email: James.Moore@ed.gov

Dear Mr. Moore,
We are members of a self-help support group called SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priest). Our mission is to heal the wounded and protect the innocent. That’s why we’re asking for your help.
We are worried about the safety of those at or near Adrian College in Michigan. A music professor there, Dr. Thomas Hodgman, admitted molesting two girls and is accused of molesting at least one more.
[BishopAccountability.org]
His former employer, a Catholic high school, had to pay $1.6 million to a California woman who was repeatedly sexually violated by Hodgman when she was a youngster.
Hodgman is also the Artistic Director and Conductor at Lenawee Community Chorus and “works with other educators and students to offer a music class to community preschoolers,” according to an Adrian official.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:42 AM

MI- Victims file complaint vs. professor

MICHIGAN
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

He admitted molesting two teenaged girls
His former employer was forced to pay $1.6 million
But he works now at a MI college & no one was warned
Group wants Methodists, who meet there this week, to act
SNAP: “Church officials should at least alert others about him”
He is also accused of impregnating one girl & giving her an STD

WHAT
Holding signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, child sex abuse victims and advocates will disclose that they are;

–writing a federal official saying that a Michigan college may have broken federal law by quietly hiring a credibly accused child molesting professor but telling no one about him, and
–writing Michigan Methodist officials, who meet this week at the college, and urging them to warn their flocks about him.

They will also beg;
– college officials to at least alert staff and students about the professor's past, and
– anyone who may have seen, suspected or suffered any crimes or misdeeds by the professor to “speak up, get help, expose wrongdoers, protect others and start healing.”

WHEN
Wednesday, May 14 at 4:00 p.m.

WHERE
On the sidewalk leading to the Bell Tower at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan

WHO
Two-three members of a self help group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org)

WHY
Leaders of SNAP are writing Michigan Methodist church officials and a federal bureaucrat about Dr. Thomas Hodgman, a music professor at Adrian College. The college hired Hodgman in 1999, despite the fact that Hodgman admitted molesting two girls and is accused of molesting at least one more.

[BishopAccountability.org]
Hodgman's former employer, a Catholic high school, had to pay $1.6 million to a California woman who was repeatedly sexually violated by Hodgman when she was a youngster.
A federal law called the Clery Act requires colleges “to give timely warnings of crimes that represent a threat to the safety of students or employees.” In a new letter to a U.S. Education Department official, SNAP alleges that Adrian's “continuing secrecy” surrounding Hodgman's past “violates the spirit of the Clery Act and may well violate its letter too.”
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:54 AM

Court told retired vicar 'always seemed to be very fond of girls'

UNITED KINGDOM
Get Reading

May 14, 2014 08:50 By Natasha Adkins
A woman, who said she was 11 when a retired vicar sexually assaulted her, gave evidence yesterday to Reading Crown Court.
Brian Spence, 74, faces nine counts of indecent assault involving four girls aged under 16.
All the offences are alleged to have taken place between 1995 and November, 1999 when Spence – known then as Father Brian – was vicar of St John the Baptist Church in Crowthorne.
He was more recently priest-in-charge at St Mark’s Church in Englefield before he retired.
The jury watched a police interview recorded in 2012, in which the woman, now 30, described the incident as “a burden which I have carried with me since I was 11”
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:45 AM

Pope appoints bishop of Elphin, Ireland

VATICAN CITY
Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Kevin Doran bishop of the diocese of Elphin, Ireland. Bishop-elect Doran succeeds Bishop Christopher Jones in the pastoral care of the diocese on the western coast of Ireland.
Bishop-elect Kevin Doran was born in Dublin June 26, 1953. He studied for the priesthood at Mater Dei College in Dublin and at the Pontifical Irish College in Rome. He was ordained a priest July 6, 1977 for the Archdiocese of Dublin.
After his ordination, he taught in a school in Ringsend, Dublin ( 1977-1983). From 1980 to 1983 he served in the diocesan Secretariat for Education. In 1983 he was appointed University Chaplain. In 1990 he returned to Rome, earning a doctorate in philosophy at the Angelicum and at the same time was appointed Spiritual Director at the Irish College .
On returning to Ireland he was Parochial Vicar at Foxrock (1995-1998), director of the diocesan, later national Commission for Vocations (1998-2006), pastor of Glendalough (2005-2009) , and finally, Secretary General of the Preparatory Committee of 50th International Eucharistic Congress (2008-2012).
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:43 AM

NEWS: Men sue FR Diocese, retired bishop, alleging abuse

FALL RIVER (MA)
WPRO

By Steve Klamkin WPRO News
Two men who allege they were sexually abused as young boys by a now-deceased priest are suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River and its retired former bishop.
Daniel Sherwood and Paul Andrews allege in a lawsuit filed in Hartford, Connecticut that they were victims of clergy sex abuse by the late Monsignor Maurice Souza at St. Anthony’s parish in East Falmouth, Massachusetts in the late 1970’s and 1980’s. Monsignor Souza died in 1996.
The suit was filed in Connecticut, which allows for a longer statue of limitations, until victims are 48 years old, said Robert Hoatson, a former priest who co-founded “Road to Recovery”, which serves survivors of sexual abuse and their families.
“The scandal of abuse was bad enough,” said Hoatson.
“What was worse, in many cases, was the cover-up and or the denial and or the enabling. And Bishop Cronin, we think did all of those things,” said Hoatson, outside a Fall River building housing offices of the Diocese where Daniel Cronin presided as Bishop for more than 20 years before being made Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut. He has since retired.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:39 AM

Diocese details efforts to resolve new sex abuse claims; result called "unreasonable"

FALL RIVER (MA)
Wicked Local Dighton

Brian Fraga
Herald News Staff Reporter
Posted May. 13, 2014

FALL RIVER — The Diocese of Fall River was first notified in 2012 of sexual abuse allegations against the late Monsignor Maurice Souza, diocesan spokesman John Kearns told reporters Tuesday.
Kearns said independent investigators hired by the diocese did not find evidence to support some of the claims made by two former altar servers that Souza sexually abused the boys for almost 10 years in the late 1970s and mid ‘80s. Kearns said the diocese offered both men counseling, and tried to resolve the issue through mediation, but he claimed that their attorney, Mitchell Garabedian of Boston, called off the mediation in May 2013.
“We wanted to resolve it through mediation, but that process was stopped,” Kearns said.
Garabedian said the mediation was unsuccessful because the diocese was “unreasonable in its position.”
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:15 AM

Former altar boys file sexual abuse lawsuit

FALL RIVER (MA)
WPRI

[with video]
Shaun Towne; Reporting by Madeline WrightUpdated: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
FALL RIVER, Mass. (WPRI) — Two former altar boys have filed a lawsuit claiming they were sexually abused by a now-deceased priest.
The lawsuit alleges Maurice Souza, a former monsignor at St. Anthony’s Parish in East Falmouth, abused the boys in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Road to Recovery, an advocacy group, is calling attention to the suit, which claims the abuse began in the 1970s, when the boys were 9 and 10 years old, and that it lasted until they were 17.
The alleged victims filed the lawsuit against the Diocese of Fall River and former Bishop Daniel Cronin, who they claim failed to protect them.
“We have two very damaged men. We want them made whole,” said Robert Hoatson, a spokesperson for the alleged victims. “If the diocese steps up and does the empathetic and sympathetic thing, we can avoid a trial.”
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:55 PM

Lawsuit accuses former Fall River priest of sexual abuse

FALL RIVER (MA)
Turn to 10

By Cierra Putman
FALL RIVER, Mass. -
Two men have filed a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River and then-Bishop Daniel Cronin for allegedly failing to prevent a priest from sexually abusing them when they were altar boys.

The men, who are now in their late 40s, filed a complaint in Connecticut in January and reported being sexually abused over several years.
Although the lawsuit was filed in January, the two men have asked the Road to Recovery, a support group for survivors of sexual assault, to speak on their behalf because they now want to make the suit known to the public.
"We're here (Tuesday) to congratulate, to support and encourage two very courageous men who have said to themselves enough is enough," said Robert Hoatson, of Road to Recovery.
The alleged victims accuse the now-deceased Monsignor Maurice Souza of sexually assaulting them while he was a priest and pastor at St. Anthony's Parish in East Falmouth.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:49 PM

Fall River priest, Diocese named in abuse lawsuit

FALL RIVER (MA)
ABC 6

Nicole Gerber
ngerber@abc6.com
@nicolegerber

FALL RIVER - A former priest from the Fall River catholic church is named in a lawsuit for sexually abusing minors. Now the Archbishop who acted as his supervisor also faces accusations of neglect and oversight.
The lawsuit has been filed in Connecticut.
Retired Archbishop of Hartford, Daniel Cronin, was the Bishop in Fall River back in the 70's and 80's while the accused priest Monsignor Maurice Souza allegedly committed countless sexual crimes against two altar boys.
The lawsuit names Cronin as the bystander who let it happen.
"He was his supervisor, and when supervisors are negligent they need to be held accountable... Someone knew in that parish, someone knew probably in the area, and probably should have stepped in and done something about it," said Robert Hoatson of Road to Recovery - a nonprofit supporting the alleged victims.

 

19 reporting abuse at Pittsburgh Catholic school

PENNSYLVANIA
SF Gate

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh says 19 former students at one of its high schools have now leveled sex abuse allegations at eight Marianist brothers who once worked at the school — one as long ago as 1940.
The revelations began when the diocese learned earlier this year that Brother Bernard Hartman was being prosecuted by Australian authorities on charges he molested four students at a Catholic school there in the 1970s and 80s.

PA- SNAP statement today re 8 just "outed" Pittsburgh predatory clerics

PENNSYLVANIA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Thursday, May 15, 2014
Statement by Judy Jones of St. Louis, Midwest Assistant Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 636 433 2511, 314 974 5003, snapjudy@gmail.com )
Here's our question today for Bishop Zubik: Why wait? Why not write to every alum of every Pittsburgh Catholic school and beg them to come forward if they were hurt by any priest, nun, brother, seminarian or teacher?
That's what a truly caring shepherd would do.
Years ago, Pittsburgh Catholic officials had a choice: do real outreach to clergy sex abuse victims or to pretend to do real outreach to clergy sex abuse victims.
They opted to pretend.
The result is clear: credibly accused child molesting clerics who might have been exposed, ousted or even criminally prosecuted years ago were not. Victims who might have gotten help or felt relieved did not. A cancer in the diocese that could have been removed more quickly was not.
Instead, for years, child molesting clerics stayed “under the radar.” Some of them stayed on the job in schools and churches. Some of them quietly moved on, getting other positions near kids. Some quietly resigned.
And for years, victims – perhaps dozens of them – have suffered in silence, shame and self-blame, believing they were the only ones, fearing their truth would never surface, needlessly blaming themselves.
Who knows how many other proven, admitted and credibly accused priests, nuns, brothers, seminarians, coaches, or teachers are still under the radar.

 

Group offers support for two men who claim they were abused by Fall River Diocese priest

FALL RIVER (MA)
South Coast Today

By Curt Brown
cbrown@s-t.com
May 13, 2014

FALL RIVER — A New Jersey-based group for sexual abuse victims offered its support today for two men, who are charging in a lawsuit that former Fall River Bishop Daniel A. Cronin did not properly supervise a priest they said assaulted them.
"We are supporting two men who have said 'enough is enough," said Robert M. Hoatson, co-founder and president of Road to Recovery, Inc., a New Jersey nonprofit charity that assists victims of sexual abuse and their families.
The victims have accused the late Rev. Monsignor Maurice Souza, a New Bedford native, of sexually abusing them when they were altar boys, beginning when they were 9 and 10 years old, and Souza was assigned to St. Anthony's Parish in East Falmouth.
The lawsuit, filed in January in a Connecticut court, names Cronin and the Fall River Diocese as defendants. Cronin headed the Diocese for 21 years until he left in December 1991 to become archbishop of the Hartford Diocese.
In a separate press conference, John E. Kearns Jr., a spokesman for the Fall River Diocese, said the Diocese first learned of the allegations against Souza when it was notified of a possible claim in 2012.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:08 PM

Former altar boys allege sex abuse at Roman Catholic church in Falmouth, claim former bishop of Fall River did nothing to stop it

FALL RIVER (MA)
MassLive

By The Associated Press
on May 13, 2014

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Two former altar boys at a Massachusetts Roman Catholic church have filed a lawsuit alleging they were sexually abused by a now deceased priest, while the former bishop of Fall River did nothing to stop it.
The suit was filed in Hartford, Connecticut in January but came to light Monday.
The complaint alleges that former Fall River Bishop Daniel Cronin did not properly supervise the late Monsignor Maurice Souza, accused in court documents of sexually abusing the boys, beginning when they were 9 and 10 years old in the 1970s, when Souza was at St. Anthony's in Falmouth.
The now-retired Cronin went on to become Archbishop of Hartford. Souza died in 1996.

IN- Former Indiana professor faces sexual harassment allegation

INDIANA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Friday, May 09, 2014
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314-503-0003, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )
A former Indiana professor has been hired at a Chicago Catholic university, despite allegations that he “likely” recently sexually harassed a married couple.
[Inside Higher Ed]
He is Miguel H. Diaz, who represented the U.S. at the Vatican from 2009-2012. He also taught Theology at Notre Dame University.
We strongly urge Loyola University (where he will soon teach) officials to reverse and explain their reckless decision. We also call on officials at the University of Dayton (where he previously taught) to admit and disclose Diaz' wrongdoing, so that others will be protected from his predatory tendencies.
No students and staff at any college should be subjected to sexual harassment. Given the findings of University of Dayton officials, Diaz does not belong on any campus.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:40 AM

OH- Child molesting cleric worked in Ohio

OHIO/PENNSYLVANIA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Friday, May 9, 2014
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 Catholic cleric, who was convicted of disorderly conduct involving a minor and was recently "outed," also worked in Cincinnati. We want Catholic officials from Ohio and Pennsylvania to reach out to victims.
[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Brother Ralph Mravintz was convicted of disorderly conduct in 1986, which was a reduced charge from sexual assault of a teenage boy. He worked in Pittsburgh in the 1960s and 1980s. He also worked in Cincinnati at Purcell High School from 1948-49.
We want Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Catholic officials to immediately:
– reach out to anyone who was hurt by him and may be suffering in silence and self blame, and
– post on their websites the names of dozens of proven, admitted and credibly accused child molesting clerics – especially those who are still living and may be hurting other kids right now.
Mravinzt is now deceased.
We hope every single person who saw, suspected or suffered clergy sex crimes and cover ups in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati – whether in a school or parish – will come forward, get help, call police, expose wrongdoers and start healing.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:37 AM

CA- Davis priest arrested for sexually molesting girl - Victims respond

CALIFORNIA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

Statement by Joelle Casteix of Newport Beach, SNAP Western Regional Director, 949.322.7434, jcasteix@gmail.com
The sexual molestation of a child by a person in a position of power—especially religious power—is a crime.
The term "statutory rape" is troublesome. It implies that the victim—a child—has the power to consent to a sexual relationship with a much older adult in a position of power. Not only was Fr. Hector Coria an adult who should have known better, but he is also a priest with a moral and religious authority. And now, he has allegedly sexually molested a child. That is a crime with devastating effects on the victim, the community and the public.
We encourage Davis and Yolo County law enforcement to vigorously investigate this case, seek out other victims, and encourage witnesses to come forward. Coria has only been a priest for a short time, and we fear that there may be other victims from his time in the seminary and after his 2011 ordination.
We also urge Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto to reach out to the Spanish speaking communities where Coria worked, as well as the student community at UC Davis, where Coria conducted seminars and retreats. We beg Soto to act quickly and reach out to parishioners to ensure that they understand the gravity of Coria's alleged crimes and do not act in ways that alienate and re-victimize girls who may have been abused, as we saw in the case of Redding priest Fr. Uriel Ojeda.

 Deadline for sex abuse claims against Diocese

CALIFORNIA
Manteca Bulletin

By Rose Albano Risso
City Editor ralbanorisso@mantecabulletin.com 209-249-3536
POSTED May 14, 2014

Sexual abuse claims against the Catholic Diocese of Stockton must be filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California by 4 p.m. on Aug. 15, 2014.

That announcement came from Bishop of Stockton Stephen E. Blaire in a media release sent by Director of Communications Sister Terry Davis.
The deadline for filing a claim, called the “Sexual Abuse Claim Bar Date,” applies to all sexual abuse claims that occurred before Jan. 15, 2014.
Earlier bar dates are set for other types of claims against the diocese pertinent to its filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. General claims have to be filed by May 22, 2014. Claims made by governmental bodies must be filed by July 14, 2014.
Sexual-abuse claimants must use the court-approved Sexual Abuse Proof of Claim Form for their claim to be valid. There are a number of ways to obtain that form.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:20 AM

Davis parishioners shocked, sad after pastor arrested

CALIFORNIA
Modesto Bee

BY DARRELL SMITH
dvsmith@sacbee.com
May 12, 2014

Maria Bunter heard the news over the weekend and couldn’t believe it. Not our Hector, she said. Can’t be.
But on Monday, days after a popular priest at her Davis church was arrested on allegations of sex with a 17-year-old girl, sadness joined Bunter’s disbelief as reality sank in. Hector Coria, 45, a pastor at St. James Parish in Davis, was arrested by Davis police Friday on suspicion of oral copulation and statutory rape involving the teen.
Davis police allege that while a priest at St. James in 2013, Coria befriended the girl and that the two later engaged in sexual relations. Police on Monday offered little information but said search warrants yielded enough to arrest the pastor Friday night. Coria remained free on bail Monday.
“We have a great deal of compassion for him and all concerned. He was a wonderful priest,” Bunter said Monday, standing with husband Walter in the parish parking lot. Coria, she said, always “found the right words” at the pulpit.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:33 AM

Helena Catholic Diocese...

MONTANA
Missoulian

Helena Catholic Diocese: Victims have August deadline for sex-abuse claims
HELENA — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena is giving notice that sex abuse victims have until Aug. 11 to file a claim as part of the diocese's bankruptcy proceedings.
The diocese filed for bankruptcy reorganization in January as part of a proposed settlement with about 360 victims of sexual abuse from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Monday's notice by the diocese is part of a May 6 federal court order setting a deadline by which claims must be made.
Anyone who was sexually abused an employee of the diocese, or believes the diocese is liable for their abuse before the Jan. 31 bankruptcy filing, can file a claim by 4:30 p.m. Aug. 11.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:24 AM

Diocese sex abuse victims must file by August 11

MONTANA
KXLH

HELENA -- Victims of sexual abuse by employees of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena have until August 11 to file a claim if they wish to be part of a settlement that now includes more than 360 potential victims.
Facing the claims, the diocese declared bankruptcy in late January, part of a settlement with the diocese's accusers.
The deal included the creation of a $15 million fund for victims.
The August 11 deadline (4:30 p.m. Mountain Time) follows a May 6th order by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Montana.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:22 AM

Ex-bishop named in sex abuse suit

FALL RIVER (MA)
Cape Cod Times

By CURT BROWN
cbrown@s-t.com
May 13, 2014

FALL RIVER — Former Fall River Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and the Fall River Diocese failed to supervise a priest who sexually abused two Falmouth altar boys from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, according to a lawsuit filed in Connecticut.
The suit, filed in the Judicial District of Hartford, names Cronin and the diocese as defendants. Cronin headed the diocese for 21 years until he left in December 1991 to become archbishop of the Hartford Diocese.
The 50-page complaint alleges Cronin did not properly supervise the late Monsignor Maurice Souza, a New Bedford native accused in court documents of sexually abusing the two altar servers beginning when they were 9 and 10 years old when he was assigned to St. Anthony's Parish in East Falmouth.
The abuse of the victims continued until they were 17 years old, according to Robert Hoatson, president of Road to Recovery Inc., a New Jersey nonprofit charity that assists victims of sexual abuse and their families and is an advocate for the plaintiffs in this case.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:15 AM

101 priests in single diocese accused of abuse in 40 years

IRELAND
Irish Examiner

By Caroline O’Doherty
The number of priests formally accused of sexually abusing children in the country’s biggest Catholic diocese over the past 40 years has topped 100, according to the latest figures.
The cost of compensating victims of paedophile priests in the diocese has exceeded €20m, with €14m paid out in settlements and €6.4m spent on legal bills.
The review of the Dublin Archdiocese by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church found that allegations were made against three more priests in the last year, bringing to 101 the total of diocesan priests accused of abuse since 1975.
Concerns about 40 of them arose in the past 10 years. Of those, four were convicted in the criminal courts and 23 were found to involve concerns that were credible, although not proven. In those 27 cases, the diocese substantially restricted or terminated their ministries.
Of the total 101 accused, 49 are deceased, 34 are living and remain priests of the diocese, and 18 have left the priesthood and/or the diocese. In total, they faced 432 separate allegations of abuse.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:09 AM

Bishop Reilly admits 'it was terrible' that sex abuse priest was left in post

IRELAND
Irish Independent

GORDON DEEGAN, RALPH RIEGEL AND SARAH MACDONALD – PUBLISHED 13 MAY 2014
A BISHOP has admitted that it was "a terrible thing" that an abusive priest was allowed to remain in ministry after complaints of sex abuse had been made against him.
Bishop of Killaloe Dr Kieran O'Reilly said that it was "inexcusable" that 'Father A' remained an active priest until he retired in 1993.
The priest is the late Fr Tom McNamara, who served in the east Clare area of Mountshannon-Whitegate area during the 1970s to 1990s.
A report by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church (NBSCCC) reported that there were 26 complaints of abuse concerning 'Father A'.
Dr O'Reilly confirmed that the late Bishop of Killaloe Dr Michael Harty had referred 'Father A' to therapy.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:19 AM

New Justice Minister ‘must act over forced adoption victims’

IRELAND
Irish Post

By Niall O Sullivan on May 9, 2014
IRELAND’S new Minister for Justice must follow Alan Shatter’s lead by reuniting thousands of families torn apart by forced adoption, a leading campaigner has said.
Just as the now-disgraced former minister was once praised for bringing justice to women who suffered in Magdalene Laundries, Susan Lohan said his replacement must help forced adoption victims.
The Adoption Rights Alliance co-founder claimed Frances Fitzgerald would have “no excuse” for failing to act due to her past experience as Children’s Minister.
“We expect Frances Fitzgerald to continue to engage with us on dealing with the injustices of forced and illegal adoptions in Ireland by introducing laws that would reunite thousands of families,” Ms Lohan said.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:52 AM

Abuse lawyer notes announcement from Christian Brothers on unjust compensation payments

AUSTRALIA
Leigh Day

8 May 2014
Abuse lawyer Frances Swaine who has worked with the Child Migrant Trust for many years has given the announcement by the Christian Brothers (CB) in Australia that they will review unjust compensation payments made to survivors of childhood abuse a muted welcome.
The Royal Commission into child sex abuse is currently sitting in Perth, Australia and is looking into possible abuse carried out in children’s’ homes run by the Christian Brothers.
Many British child migrants who were sent to Australia and other Commonwealth countries over many decades lived in homes run by the Brothers, and many of them suffered appalling abuse.
The extent of the abuse was revealed to the Royal Commission last week when 11 men gave evidence about the brutal and continuous abuse that they suffered at four orphanages run by the Brotherhood.
Following the giving of evidence last week the Christian Brothers have said that they will re-examine any unjust payments made to survivors of abuse by them.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:42 AM

Catholic priest quizzed again over sex abuse allegations

UNITED KINGDOM
Manchester Evening News

A Catholic priest has again been quizzed about historic sex allegation.
Canon Mortimer Stanley, 82, who retired from St Vincent de Paul RC Church in Norden, Rochdale, was first interviewed last year.
Originally three women claimed they were indecently assaulted and sexually abused while pupils at nearby St Vincent’s Primary School.
The women were under 11 when it is alleged the offences happened more than 30 years ago.
It is claimed the abuse was committed in a presbytery next to the school. After the M.E.N reported the allegations six other women came forward with information.
Canon Stanley, who joined the church as a parish priest in 1972, retired to his native Ireland in 2002. He retired to Ballybunion in Kerry.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:11 AM

Archdiocese made ‘astonishing’ claim in concealing ...

SEATTLE (WA)
Seattle PI

Archdiocese made ‘astonishing’ claim in concealing Seattle priest’s sexual offenses, review board says
Posted on May 12, 2014 | By Joel Connelly
The Archdiocese of Seattle failed to inform Catholic faithful, and made an “astonishing” claim and “serious misstatements” in seeking to explain why a priest suspended from ministry for sexual misconduct with a teenager went on saying mass and conducting weddings, say former leaders of a diocesan review board.
“We urge you to consider releasing the documents of the review board relating to this matter, subject to not identifying any victims, so that the laity can have complete and accurate information,” retired Judge Terrence Carroll and former U.S. Attorney Mike McKay wrote earlier this month to Archbishop J. Peter Sartain.
Or as Carroll put it bluntly in a Monday interview: “By God, let those files be open so people can know what and who we are dealing with. We may have another case like this out there.”
The investigations documents, dating to 2004 and which the archdiocese has refused to make public, would reveal that a 17-year-old boy involved in a sexual relationship with the priest, Harry Quigg, was passed among the priest and friends, according to multiple sources.
Sartain has not talked with or directly responded to Carroll and McKay.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:23 PM

Abuse survivors still haunted decades on

AUSTRALIA
Echo Netdaily

Eoin Blackwell, AAP
For the past 70 years, Gordon Grant has rarely slept more than two hours a night.
It isn’t the memories of his two tours of Vietnam that keeps the former soldier awake in the dark.
It’s the nightmare he lived while in the care of the Christian Brothers at St Joseph’s Farm and Trade School, in Bindoon, Western Australia, that won’t let him rest.
When he was 13 years old, the principal of the school, Brother Paul Francis Keaney, asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up.
‘He was a huge man, and I said, “I don’t know yet, brother”, and without warning, he slammed his clenched fist into my face and I was knocked backwards along the cement floor,’ Mr Grant told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Perth last week.
‘He had broken my nose and it started to bleed before I got up from the floor.’
When Keaney asked him again, he replied he wanted to be a poultry farmer.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:10 AM

 Priests with ties to Carol Stream area named in Diocese of Joliet sex abuse documents

ILLINOIS
My Suburban Life

By ED MCMENAMIN - emcmenamin@shawmedia.com
Thousands of pages of documents released April 30 by a Chicago law firm detail decades of sexual abuse by DuPage County priests, including priests with ties to Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, Itasca and Roselle, and the protection they allegedly received from the Diocese of Joliet.
The files of 16 priests accused of abuse, long held confidential by the diocese, were obtained and released by Jeff Anderson and Associates to coincide with five new lawsuits filed by the firm against four offenders.
Priests named in the diocesan documents include the Rev. Anthony Ross, who worked as associate pastor at St. Peter Parish in Itasca from 1980 until 1982 and as associate pastor and then temporary administrator at St. Isidore Parish in Bloomingdale from 1989 until 1990; the Rev. Phillip Dedera, who worked as associate pastor at St. Walter Parish in Roselle from 1979 until 1984; the Rev. Donald Pock, who worked as pastor at St. Peter Parish in Itasca from 1987 until 2002; and the Rev. Salvatore Formusa, who worked at St. Luke Parish in Carol Stream from 1967 until 1968.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:52 AM

Diocese of Joliet sex abuse documents name priests with Bensenville ties

ILLINOIS
My Suburban Life

By ED MCMENAMIN - emcmenamin@shawmedia.com
Thousands of pages of documents released April 30 by a Chicago law firm detail decades of sexual abuse by DuPage County priests, including three priests who worked at St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Bensenville, and the protection they allegedly received from the Diocese of Joliet.
The files of 16 priests accused of abuse, long held confidential by the diocese, were obtained and released by Jeff Anderson and Associates to coincide with five new lawsuits filed by the firm against four offenders.
Priests named in the diocesan documents include the Rev. Anthony Ross, who worked as pastor at St. Charles Borromeo from 1990 until 1993; the Rev. Michael Gibbney, who worked as associate pastor at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Bensenville from 1980 until 1986 and associate pastor at St. Charles Borromeo Parish from 1986 until 1988; and the Rev. James Burnett, who worked as an associate at St. Charles Borromeo Parish from 1968 until 1974.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:50 AM

Diocese of Joliet sex abuse documents name priests with Bensenville ties

ILLINOIS
My Suburban Life

By ED MCMENAMIN - emcmenamin@shawmedia.com
Thousands of pages of documents released April 30 by a Chicago law firm detail decades of sexual abuse by DuPage County priests, including three priests who worked at St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Bensenville, and the protection they allegedly received from the Diocese of Joliet.
The files of 16 priests accused of abuse, long held confidential by the diocese, were obtained and released by Jeff Anderson and Associates to coincide with five new lawsuits filed by the firm against four offenders.
Priests named in the diocesan documents include the Rev. Anthony Ross, who worked as pastor at St. Charles Borromeo from 1990 until 1993; the Rev. Michael Gibbney, who worked as associate pastor at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Bensenville from 1980 until 1986 and associate pastor at St. Charles Borromeo Parish from 1986 until 1988; and the Rev. James Burnett, who worked as an associate at St. Charles Borromeo Parish from 1968 until 1974.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:48 AM

 

MT- “Bar date” set for clergy sex abuse victims, SNAP responds

MONTANA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
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 judge in Montana has set a “bar date” for clergy sex abuse victims. They have until August to report their crimes and potentially be part of a settlement.
[KXLH]
“Bar dates” give victims a limited amount of time to come forward, report their abuse, and receive help. This is wrong. It's convenient for those who commit and conceal heinous child sex crimes. It's hurtful to everyone else.
It often takes years or decades for child sexual abuse victims to find the strength and courage to come forward and report the horrible crimes they suffered. Putting a deadline on when they can speak up and get help only benefits wrongdoers.
Still, we hope anyone who is suffering in silence and self blame will find the courage to come forward and start healing.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:27 PM

WA- Victims blast ex Catholic panel members & archbishop

SEATTLE (PI)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
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 retired judge and ex-U.S. attorney are blasting Seattle's Catholic archbishop for being secretive and deceitful about predator priests.
We're glad they're speaking up. But they are to blame as well. They let themselves be used by church officials. They too kept quiet about Fr. Quigg for a decade.
[Seattle PI]
The two men - retired Judge Terrence Carroll and former U.S. Attorney Mike McKay - are former members of an archdiocesan review board.
It's great to see them urge Archbishop Peter Sartain to “release the documents” about Fr. Quigg, a credibly accused cleric who sexually exploited a teenager, but whose wrongdoing was hidden for ten years until our group recently sent out a news release about him.
But these two men could and should have done more sooner to warn the public and protect others. We hope they'll do more soon, sharing other secrets they've kept. Far too few Catholic church members and employees have become “whistleblowers.” And that's one reason why the church's horrific clergy sex abuse and cover up crisis continues and why child molesting clerics remain hidden and kids remain at risk.
We agree with Carroll and McKay when they say it's deceitful for Sartain to claim his staff “recently learned” that Fr. Quigg was still acting like a priest. We strongly suspect that archdiocesan staff knew Fr. Quigg was doing this but ignored it for fear of drawing attention to his sexual misdeeds.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:58 PM

Inhabilitan a sacerdote por presunto abuso sexual, en Guanajuato

MEXICO
El Occidental

[Summary: Priest Fernando Ortis Garcia has been disqualified from exercise of his priestly ministry and all church activities. He is alleged to have sexually abused a child under age 13.]
José Sánchez/ OEM en línea
Celaya, Gto.- El sacerdote Fernando Ortíz García fue inhabilitado del ejercicio de su ministerio y de toda actividad eclesiástica que realizaba desde hace cuatro años en el templo de San Luis de la Paz, debido al presunto abuso sexual cometido hacia una menor de 14 años de edad.
Con éste ya suman tres los casos de presunto abuso sexual contra menores en la Diócesis de Celaya, ya que los otros dos primeros fueron denunciados hace tres años en San Miguel de Allende, y aún se encuentran, como éste último caso, en dos procesos, el penal y el de carácter religioso. - See more at: http://www.oem.com.mx/eloccidental/notas/n3389239.htm#sthash.ezKXv9X1.dpuf
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:44 AM

MO- In just 5 weeks, 8 predatory clerics are exposed

MISSOURI
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

All belong to Marianists, a St. Louis-based Catholic group
It's the religious order that runs Vianney and Chaminade

For immediate release: Thursday, May 15, 2014
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com)
Over the last five weeks (April 3 - May 14), eight Catholic clerics who belong to a St. Louis-based Catholic group have been publicly exposed – for the first time – as credibly accused child molesters.
[Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
All eight are Marianists and all eight worked at a Pittsburgh Catholic school. We suspect that some of them worked in St. Louis too. We call on Catholic officials – with the St. Louis archdiocese, the Pittsburgh diocese, and the Marianists – to disclose the full work histories of the eight clerics.
And we know that there are at least eight proven, admitted and credibly accused child molesting Marianists clerics who HAVE certainly worked – and abused – in St. Louis (at three schools: Vianney, Chaminade and St. Mary's High School).
The burgeoning Pittsburgh scandal is reminiscent of what happened with Brother William C. Mueller (who worked at Chaminade and Vianney). Until 2005, he remained “under the radar.” That year, however, a St. Louis man filed suit against Mueller and the Marianists. Over the next few months dozens and dozens of men in three states disclosed that they too had been sexually victimized by Mueller (who now lives in San Antonio, Texas).
Since all of the eight, newly-accused Pittsburgh Marianists worked at a parochial school, we are asking Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik to write letters to alums of all current and closed parochial schools, urging anyone who was molested to speak up. We urge Archbishop Robert Carlson to do the same here.
We applaud these brave victims for stepping forward and beg them to contact secular authorities, not church figures.
There are at least two key lessons here.
First, times are slowly changing. It's somewhat less difficult these days for victims to expose predators. So we encourage anyone who was hurt by clerics – no matter how long ago it happened – to speak up so that the truth can be known, kids can be protected and healing can really happen.
Second, there are obviously some (perhaps many) child molesting clerics who have yet to be publicly exposed. So we again prod Marianist officials to go beyond the bare minimum and aggressively use their resources and bully pulpits and websites and bulletins and newspapers to beg those who saw, suspected or suffered clergy sex crimes to speak up.
It's irresponsible for Catholic officials to passively sit back and wait for the phone to ring. Top church officials – archdiocesan and Marianists – should personally visit every single parish and school where a proven, admitted and credibly accused cleric worked. They should clearly and emphatically beg victims, witnesses and whistleblowers to break their silence by calling police and prosecutors. Terse, carefully crafted three sentence notices tucked far back in a diocesan newspaper or parish bulletin don't cut it.
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This post and blogs are inspired by St. Michael the Archangel whose flaming sword defends us from Goliath bullies of Opus Dei Beast Mafia.  St. Michael shows us - through the much canonization news coming out this week – (see compilation below) – that there are more journalists speaking out against John Paul II’s sainthood, therefore our blogs all these years have not been in vain.  Read Paris Arrow’s vision of St. Michael tying the giant millstone around John Paul II’s papal neck during his last World Youth Day in Toronto in 2002, as JP2 vehemently refuse to apologize and stop his bestial JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, St. Michael dragged him and threw him into a raging sea of fire as stupid Catholic robots chanted “JP2, we love you”.  http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/09/911-decade-and-jp2-millstones-9th.html   Beware, Francis-Maniacs for the demise of the Vatican Temple akin to the Temple of Solomon is at hand!


St. Michael the Archangel stands over the Vatican Mammon Beast now ruled by Pope Francis and the heads of the Beast = John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Opus Dei

















The REAL UGLY COLD-BLOOD-ed COLD-HEART-ed Holy Father

Pope John Paul II: La-la-la-la-la-la — I can't hear those things you're saying about sex abuse

I am John Paul II the GREAT – I refuse to hear about my JP Army 
– John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army 
- I hide them in my Achilles Heels - no one can see them

Read Pope Francis the CON-Christ and biggest THIEF of mankind http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/



Read more here - John Paul II Millstoneread here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/

The JP2 Army prayer: Children’s most important prayer

-- more important than the Eucharist and the Rosary



JP2 Army with me, JP2 Army before me, JP2 Army behind me,



JP2 Army in me, JP2 Army beneath me, JP2 Army above me,



JP2 Army on my right, JP2 Army on my left,



JP2 Army when I lie down, JP2 Army when I sit down



JP2 Army when I arise





The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable - read more here -  http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html



Mary with John Paul II
$ 180.55
€ 119.00

http://www.holyart.it/en/religious-items-articles-108217/statues-107/hand-painted-wooden-statues-107078/mary-with-john-paul-ii-1456.html

Many statues of John Paul II are being carved to equal those of Mary, Jesus and St. Joseph...the narcissim and grandiosity of John Paul II can only be equal to that of the Devil who refused to bow down to Jesus but wanted to be his equal on this earth.

John Paul II is LUCIFER reincarnated :" He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat in God's temple, displaying himself as God.  (2 Thessalonians: 2-4)





  






Our Lady wants to be set free from the 

narcissim 

of Satanas John Paul II who has usurp her 


Baby 

Jesus from her arms







The RED DEVIL


the "slimy bastardCardinal Bernard Law, those thousands of little boys and little girls who had the grave misfortune of loving and revering this human piece of filth...I’m ashamed to be of the same faith as this evil, malicious creep." But to prove that he is "the Great" John Paul II PAPAL FARTed at us Bostonians and took Cardinal Law to Rome to be the High Priest of the Mother of all Basilicas, that is why Cardinal Law is the evil Achilles Heel of John Paul II

  

Satanas John Paul II and serial pedophile priest Marcial Maciel, 


Christ wants to be set free from 

the PRISONS of GOLD



Catholic Vatican tabernacles 


worldwide 


-- because popes and priests have



 NO


 powers to clone ants 

and dogs and God!




Tabernacles



HOAX of EUCHARIST






The black belt means she is pregnant




The womb of the Immaculate Conception of 

Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe carried Jesus this way



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9-months gestation of Jesus - the Son of God 














DOLLY THE CLONED SHEEP




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



BLACK MAGIC 


OF EUCHARIST


1-MINUTE black magic of the cloning of Christ 

by sinful Vatican pope and priests




HOUDINI POPES and MERLIN PRIESTS




Pope Francis, all Popes, Cardinals, Bishops and priests cannot clone cats and dogs and therefore they cannot clone Christ either.
















VATI-LEAKS









Irish cartoon shows duplicity of priests. Sacrament of Confession’s absolute choice to protect pedophiles. Priests’ callousness towards children’s security and wellbeing











SAINT & FACE of VATICAN MAMMON BEAST


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 theTwin Towers in New York.



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 - 15,750+ victims - 6,100 pedophile priestscovered-up by John Paul II, Benedict XVI Ratzinger, Opus Dei = the Vatican Trinity.

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.   



Look deeply into this image of Our Lady of Guadalupe defending and protecting children from the Serpent  ... compared to Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Cardinals, Bishops who coverd-up pedophile priests  




















Many think Pope John Paul II is a saint,” says Jan Egesborn, satirical artist and founder of the Danish satirical grou Surrend, “but he didn’t do anything about sex abuse of children by priests in the Roman Catholic church and this is why we think he belongs in hell.”
Egesborn says early responses from Poles who have seen his satirical webpage have been strong. “For Poles it is just as controversial as the Mohammed cartoon was for Muslims,” he said.

Danish cartoonist of Mohammed drew this cartoon of John Paul II holding up the back robes of altar boys to expose their butts to satiate his thousands of JP2 Army - John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army , read more here  http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2007/10/john-paul-ii-portrait-by-danish-artist.html





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

The Hague: Full text Criminal Charges against Dr. Joseph Ratzinger, Pope of the Roman Catholic Churchhttp://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-text-of-criminal-charges-against.html


















The REAL UGLY COLD-BLOOD-ed COLD-HEART-ed Holy Father

John Paul II Millstone, read here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/






POPE FRANCIS the CON-Christ. 


Biggest THIEF of mankind


Pretender & Impostor of Jesus.


LIAR. CANNOT CLONE Jesus or dogs



10 REASONS TO ABOLISH THE PAPACY





After Joseph Ratzinger publicly announced his plans to retire, quite a few people who are aware of this website or the @Fire_the_PopeTwitter account remarked how I got my wish or, jokingly, how my website may have led to the first resignation of a pope in 600 years.

Yes, I’ve had Ratzinger’s picture prominently displayed on this site and, given his long record both as the pope and as the one person responsible for handling all sex-crime cases in the Church, I strongly believed him to be incompetent at best.


However, FireThePope doesn’t just mean fire Joseph Ratzinger. FireThePope isn’t a cause to bring down one man. FireThePope is an effort to expose the entire Roman Catholic Church, as is, as fraudulent and there is no better way to do that than to start at the top.

St. Peter Square from above
Not your Father’s  church.


The Roman Catholic Church sets itself apart from all other religions, including Christian denominations, by claiming its head, the pope, is the successor of Peter and that Jesus anointed Peter to be the head of his church. The Church points to Matthew 16:13-20 to support this claim. Catholics conclude the Roman Catholic Church is the “one true church” of Jesus Christ and all other Protestant or non-Roman orthodox churches are inferior to it.


Roman Catholics call their church “the bride of Christ” and “Holy Mother Church”. These nicknames market the idea that Roman Catholicism dates back to the days of Jesus Christ and it – or “She”, as they say – is the very foundation of Christianity and all other religions are mere offshoots or sequels to Roman Catholicism.

Ultimately, Roman Catholicism rests solely on the supremacy of Peter and the apostles. Without the supremacy of Peter, there would be no pope. Without the supremacy of the apostles, there would be no priesthood as the Roman Church defines it. Without the superhuman powers of Catholic priests, bye-bye sacraments, indulgences, and the entire institution.


Today, let’s focus on the papacy. Following are ten reasons why there should never be another pope and, if there is, he should be completely ignored by the Catholic laity, the media, politicians, and the public at large.

Because the Vatican bases its very existence on a scene from the New Testament, it must also accept other verses of the NT in order to be consistent. Either the NT should be accepted as true, non-fictional accounts or not. Either those accounts must be taken literally or not. But, one cannot say this is a source of truth, inspired by the Holy Spirit and then pick and choose which passages the Church wants to follow or not.

1. The church of Jesus Christ in the bible was not a physical empire. Matthew 24:1-2 - ”Jesus left the temple precincts then, and his disciples came up and pointed out to him the buildings of the temple area. His comment was: ‘Do you see all these buildings? I assure you, not one stone will be left on another – it will all be torn down.’” 1 Corinthians 3:16 – “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwells in you?” Also, Peter 2:5-9 – “Be yourselves as living stones built into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” Jesus preached in homes and on hillsides, not in buildings. He only went in to temples to draw people out of them or to scold the church leaders. The word catholic, found in the bible with a lower-case c, means universal. In the first century, the wordchurch (also lower-case c) meant a society of men, women, and children who are spiritually – not necessarily physically – united to serve God. According to the NT, Jesus established the catholic church – a universal society of believers who would offer spiritualsacrifices. I explain below who really instituted the Roman Catholic Church, which requires material (pagan) sacrifices.


2. The church of Jesus Christ was not built upon one man. The idea that the church of Jesus was built upon one man is preposterous. Yet, that is what the Roman Church claims. Its only foundation is the notion that Peter was chosen by Jesus to be the first pope and that all popes are Peter’s successors, chosen by the Holy Spirit and infallible in all of their declarations. Roman Catholicism teaches that the pope, acting on behalf of the Church (notice the capital C indicating the Corporation) has the power and a duty to act as a mediator between the Creator and his creatures. It has been a long-held tradition that the Vatican, the Magisterium, and the clergy would interpret the bible for the laity. However, 1 Corinthians 3:11 reads, “For other foundation no one can lay, but that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ”. According to scripture, Jesus, not Peter, is the foundation of the Christian church. Jesus is also the sole mediator, so says 1 Timothy 2:5: ”And the truth is this: ‘God is one. One also is the mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, and who gave himself ransom for all.” According to the New Testament where Catholics turn to justify the existence of their Church, there is only one mediator between God and the people and that is Jesus Christ, not Peter and not Joseph Ratzinger.


3. The church of Jesus Christ in the bible did not have a pope.The word pope is not in the bible, where the Roman Church points to as justification for itself. The early church described in the New Testament speaks of bishops who were overseers or local supervisors of the effort to spread Christianity. They were not rulers over the people. No one bishop had authority over any other. No one bishop was the head of the effort. There was a bishop in many major cities, including one in Rome. It so happened that certain Roman emperors (namely Constantine and Charlemagne) elevated the position and authority of the bishop of Rome, specifically, because they had the power to do so and because it was convenient as Rome was the seat of power. Emperors appointed bishops and abbots and usually appointed members of aristocratic families. The idea of a pope – one bishop over all others – was a corrupt power grab by murderous dictators and had nothing to do with Jesus Christ or anything in the bible.

4. The Peter of the throne was not the apostle but an impostor. Remember, the apostle Peter originally went by the name of Simon. Then, he was referred to as Simon Peter. Jesus named him Peter at the rock because the name Peter – or Petros (Greek) means rock. This Peter was from Cyprus, according to the bible. But, there is another Simon in the bible, this one from Samaria and he was a troublemaker. Locals called him Simon the

Swiss Guard soldiers in circus costumes 
Swiss Guard Army elite - who later on go to manage secret Vatican Swiss Banks in Switzerland and worldwide
The Circus of Nero continues.

Magician. He claimed to be able to do magic tricks and held The Circus of Nero in Vaticanus Hill. Simon Magnus claimed he was God (hence, the magic) and he became a nemesis, a rival, and a thorn in the side of the apostle Peter. There was such trouble between the two that Emperor Nero set up a contest to settle their differences. Simon Magnus was killed after being thrown from his chariot and so Nero, who had favored him, had Peter arrested and thrown in jail. If there was a pope on a throne in the days of the early church, it was not Peter the Apostle but Simon the Magician. Simon sat on a throne; Peter never did. Simon claimed to be God; Peter never did. Simon claimed to have supernatural powers; Peter never did. Simon Magnus even started going by the name Peter in order to confuse people. They both had the same name, they both died in the same year – 67 A.D., and they both had spent time in Rome. The proof that the Simon of Samaria, not Cyprus, sat on the throne in Rome is the documentation that Magnus stayed in Rome for many years at a time while the apostle came and went quite often.

5. The apostle Peter never considered himself God or Jesus Christ. Again, the idea of the papacy rests on the supremacy of Peter. The Roman Church claims the pope is “Christ’s (sole) representative on earth”. The Peter whom the popes are supposed to have succeeded was married with at least one child – a daughter. He never sat on a throne and he never claimed to have magic powers or to be infallible. He never claimed to be better or more important than the other apostles or early leaders of the Christian church. He never dressed in fancy clothes, he never wore a ring to be kissed, and he never insisted on the red carpet treatment. Acts 10:25-27: “As Peter entered, Cornelius went to meet him, dropped to his knees before him and bowed low. Peter said, ‘Get up! I am only a man myself.’” When Nero sentenced Peter to death by crucifixion, Peter insisted on hanging on the cross upside down because he was unworthy to die as Jesus died. Peter the apostle, claimed by the Church as the first pope was never a pope and his philosophy and practices, according to the New Testament, were a far contrast to those of the papacy no matter who is holding the title.

6. The Roman Catholic Church was not established until the 4th Century. Roman Catholics claim Peter of the bible was the first pope and that there is an unbroken line of popes stretching from biblical times to present-day. This claim is nothing but a re-writing of history. The Church needs that lineage in order to justify itself and the papacy yet it does not have the facts on its side so they have to create a new reality. What the Church

Holy Name Cathedral interior

Not Jesus’ interpretation of “church”.



has done is go back and list anyone who was a bishop of Rome as a pope. The actual papacy didn’t begin until the Roman Catholic Church began and that wasn’t until the 4th Century with Pope Constantine I – the emperor – who ruled from the “chair of St. Peter” from 306-337. Constantine came to the rescue of Christians who were being persecuted by Emperor Diocletian. It’s not that he was overcome by compassion but realized he could take political advantage from the growing number of Christians. This ties the pagan Roman Empire to the Catholic Church whose members also worship objects and offer material sacrifices.


7. The papacy was on life support as recently as 1870. In the mid-19th Century, there was an effort to unify Italy which was split in two by the Papal States governed by the pope, then Pope Pius IX (the one who dreamed up Immaculate Conception). Victor Emmanuel II, the new King of Italy, had seized all of the Church-controlled territory except a small segment of Rome. Napoleon, who had previously been an ally of Emmanuel, protected the pope and by having some of his troops stand guard at the Vatican. When the Franco-Prussia War intensified, Napoleon pulled his troops out of Rome, leaving the pope defenseless. The Italian troops moved in and the pope lost all of his temporal (civil) power minus rule over the tiny territory of the Vatican. Emmanuel allowed the pope to keep the Vatican and freed him from Italian rule but the pope was defiant. Pius IX refused to recognize Emmanuel’s new kingdom and he voluntarily kept himself a prisoner of the Vatican. He cried anti-Catholic bias until support and donations poured in for him, including from Catholics in America. The empire of the Roman Church was all but lost in 1870. It took more deception to keep it alive.

8. The papacy was corruptly propped back up by a fascist dictator. In the 1920′s, the Italian government wished to settle its differences with the Church. At the time, the Prime Minister of Italy was Benito Mussolini.

Mussolini signs Lateran Pacts
A Dictator legitimizes the Roman Catholic Church.

He conspired with the Vatican to shut out populist factions in the country in order to amass more power and control for himself. The Vatican silenced priests who favored a more democratic government. In return, Mussolini gifted the Church by officially recognizing the Vatican as an independent and sovereign city-state. Within the borders of Italy, popes would receive diplomatic immunity and the Church would receive financial reparations for its loss of the Papal States. Also, Roman Catholicism would be the one state religion in Italy. These agreements were called the Lateran Pacts and they are what revived the much weakened papacy. Mussolini would go on to become one of history’s most brutal dictators. Today, Vatican City, the whole 0.2 square miles of it, is recognized by the United Nations as a sovereign city-state of which the pope is head.



9. The pope is an absolute monarch at a time when most educated and reasonable human beings believe in freedom, democracy, and accountability. In 2011, the world witnessed what is now referred to as The Arab Spring. Ordinary people protested – many to their deaths – for freedom, respect, and democratic elections. Many citizens of some nations in the Middle East had been oppressed for generations and they finally decided it was time to take a stand against tyranny. It has been said there is a natural hunger to live freely, no matter what part of the world one lives. The pope is an absolute monarch, only one of a few that still exist and certainly the most powerful. As such, and because he enjoys diplomatic immunity both in Italy and out, he is accountable to no one. The pope is elected but not by the people he represents as in a democracy. He is elected by the same men whom he appointed to the College of Cardinals. Once a pope takes office, he is unaccountable to anyone inside the Church or out. This type of power is contrary to what the New Testament described when Jesus turned tables on the clergy. The pope, like Simon Magnus, claims to be God. Only someone with a God-complex would claim to be above the law and every other human being.




10. The papacy is not inspired by the Holy Spirit. If anything, it would be inspired by the spirit of Lucifer. As construction workers ready the Vatican chimney for the upcoming puffs of white smoke or black,


"St Peter's chair"
The throne of Simon Magnus


rational human beings are expected to believe that the Holy Spirit is guiding the process of the papal conclave. When cardinals vote a certain way, we are told, it was because the Holy Spirit told them to. It’s time for a reality check. Many of the men who will be voting – or running – for the next pope have blood on their hands – blood ofchildren. Yet, we are supposed to believe they have an inside track to the Holy Spirit. From the beginning of the Roman Catholic Church, throughout its history, and including today, Roman Catholicism has been a corrupt empire disguised as a Christian religion. I’ve heard many people credit it merely because “it has been around for 2,000 years”. It hasn’t been around that long and does it matter that it has only survived as long has it has because it has succeeded in fooling gullible people? Does it matter that it has grown as large as it has because many of its converts joined only under the threat of death? Does it matter than the majority of Catholics were entered into the Church before the age of reason? Catholics are quick to remind us of “all the good the Church does”. There isn’t a tyrant in history that couldn’t claim the same. Evil almost always presents itself in disguise – as something good. When deception is the foundation of an institution, no amount of superficial acts that come out of it can make it good. Deeds and institutions can only be good if they are based in truth. Like it or not, the spirit that is guiding the Roman Catholic Church isn’t holy, it is evil. And the only way to kill a serpent is by chopping off its head.


"Do not use, out of order"
  
Remarks: System broken

Signed:  J.C.

Jesus Christ

The "odious" sacrament

The Failure of the Sacraments


There’s an elephant quietly sitting in the nave that everyone on all sides of the clergy sex abuse crisis have been diligently ignoring, even the victims themselves. No clergy or even would-be reformers have really remarked on it yet, although it should be more obvious with each and every sad story. More importantly, it is a troubling issue that touches on the very heart and soul of Catholicism.

The monstrous truth is simply this: what the clergy sex abuse crisis clearly demonstrates is that the sacramental system has failed.

This is not just a case of hierarchical reneging of responsibility.There’s more to this than some bad apples. This is nothing that a few reforms can fix, some screening of seminarians or more pastoral responses by bishops. It is nothing less than a fundamental challenge to the entire Catholic Church, and it shows that the spiritual principles the whole structure is supposedly based on simply do not work.

Think about it. The offenders here are Roman Catholic priests, highly trained men. But unlike other professionals, these men are supposedly set apart and dedicated to lives of the spirit. They claim to have the power to forgive sins and make God appear.

They not only administer the sacraments to others, but also receive them themselves daily. That means, among other things, frequent confession to other priests. Moreover, many of these men belong to religious orders or are otherwise under close spiritual direction. They are supposed to confide everything to their confessors and superiors and to obey them unquestioningly.

So what went wrong? When an abusive priest goes to confession, does he start, “Bless me, father, for I have sinned: I buggered an altar boy three times this week”? And does the confessor tell him to say 3 Our Fathers and 4 Hail Marys and not to do it again?

According to their own theory, confessors have the power to forgive sins, but also to refuse to do so if sorrow is insufficient. Moreover, they are to appoint penances – if they wish, they can require satisfaction or significant signs of reform from the penitent before absolution. Some sins – such as solicitation for sex in the confessional – are even deemed so serious that only higher prelates, sometimes only the Pope or his appointed delegate can forgive them.

Yet the abusers continue to abuse. So are the sexually active priestslying to their confessors? This would mean that not only do the perpetrating priests remain in a state of mortal sin and are automatically excommunicated, they perform the sacraments in that state which is itself a grave sacrilege.

Or, even worse, are all the abusive priests linked? Do they only go to confession to like-minded perps who will understand? Is there then an organized network of sexually perpetrating priests, all busily enabling each other? This adds collusion and conspiracy to the sinand would indicate that the very structure itself is rotten to the core.

The evidence available suggests that perhaps both scenarios are true to varying degrees in different situations. Either way, however, the result is much the same.

The sacraments are meant to unite believers with Christ. Not just to remove the accumulations of sin like the weekly laundry, but togradually improve the recipient. They are intended to sanctify and uplift the faithful, increase devotion to God, charity to fellow humans, and moral stamina in the face of evil.

If the sacraments actually worked like this, wouldn’t we hear ennobling stories of clerical reform, of some molester inspired to truly repent and devote himself to the cause? But rather, the stories are depressingly the same, of priests caught time and again, transferred, treated, and now finally, laicized often against their will, with no regret or even acknowledgement of their evil.

What this means, each person must decide in their own conscience. But perhaps the fall off in confessions over the years itself tells the story. Why should anyone, lay or not, risk a ritual that seems so impotent in promoting reform and may, instead of granting grace, actually expose them to greater human wickedness?


The MASS is fake flesh of Christ

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 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 witcheshttp://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. Paulhttp://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 Millstonehttp://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 glorifiedhttp://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 herehttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html

 








JP2 Army 

 JOHN PAUL II PEDOPHILE PRIESTS ARMY

The Cardinals and Bishops who enabled the Vatican sex 

maniac rapists priests





 CSC Holy Cross Congregation delay $18 million compensation payout. Brother Andre & Saint JOSEPH giant GOLDEN COW STATUES could not help victims of CSC pedophileshttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/csc-holy-cross-congregation-delay-18.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.http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/oratory-of-st-joseph-copy-vatican.html


Children are better sex educated reading the Los Angles files rather than wasting their time to attend the wizardry of the Mass where priests ceaselessly reiterate those old horrid stories of extinct people in the Bible, read here the Immoral Bible http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010_12_01_archive.html
It’s more important and more relevant for children to know the story of Eleuterio Ramos and all JP2 Army Vatican sex maniac rapists priests of the 20th century - than the ancient Bible stories irrelevant mythical figures like Jonah being swallowed by a whale, read here the Los Angeles Files http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/los-angeles-files-mahony-must-be-jailed.html

BOYCOTT Oratory of Saint Joseph! CANDLES togiant Zeus statues of St. Joseph and BrotherAndrecannot protect children from CSC pedophiles

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






Billion Dollar Christ & Apostles in Red now playing in Vatican. Evil impact of Papal Conclave: epidemic violence against women & perpetuity of poor countries


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.”
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Vatican’s wealth all over Rome and Italy and England and USAhttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html  

Pope Francis & Cardinals: “Princes” of the Vatican Catholic Church in their Emperor’s Clothes regalia and diplomatic passports as they follow “Jesus walking ahead” http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/pope-francis-cardinals-princes-of.html

 Jesus never baptized anyone in the Sea of Galilee or in the River Jordan http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/jesus-never-baptized-anyone-in-sea-of.html

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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

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The Danish cartoonist of the prophet Mohammed portrayed John Paul II as the Pope of Pedophilia with the inscription "I am not for homosexuality but for pedophilia". 

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John Paul II in the Basilica of Guadalupe in Rome

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Vatican Vipers attack UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Failure of the Sacraments. Letter to a Christian Nation (USA) - read our related article http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/02/vatican-vipers-attack-un-committee-on.html

Silence of Pope Francis-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio on Argentina accused 42 pedophile priests. Online records in BishopAccountability.org. Where was YOUR “transparency and responsibility”? http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/silence-of-pope-francis-cardinal-jorge.html


UN condemns Vatican for crimes against children.. HOORAH. 10 Reasons to abolish the papacy and why there should never be another pope http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/02/un-condemns-vatican-for-crimes-against.html

JP2 Army in Puerto Rico! Plague of Pedophile Priests in Latin America! John Paul II the Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts & Rapists-Priests  http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/jp2-army-in-puerto-rico-plague-of.html

Who’s the liar: Pope Francis or UN? Vatican secret thousands/files covered-up by Bishops versus UN open/thorough investigators. Francis Pinocchio nose getting bigger  http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/whos-liar-pope-francis-or-un-vatican.html

Vatican rebuffs UN! Catholic Church not the moral authority of the world. Holy See defies UN Convention it ratified in 1990. Vatican Titanic sunken deep in the ocean of moral bankruptcy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/the-catholic-church-is-not-worlds-moral.html


Women. Legion of Christ. Opus Dei.  Pope Francis Hypocrisieshttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/women-legion-christ-opusdei-francis.html

UN condemns Vatican for crimes against humanity’s childrenhttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/02/un-condemns-vatican-for-crimes-against.html


Vatican Bank closes thousand accounts/criminal transactions BURNT to leave no trail of crimes further/future investigations...drowned by loud Francis-maniacs at St. Peter’s Square  http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/vatican-bank-closes-thousand.html


Theology and John Paul II are heartless and together they made serial pedophile priest Fr. Marcial Maciel thrive http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2010/05/theology-and-john-paul-ii-are-heartless.html  


Fr. Marcial Maciel's Swiss Bank accounts: Angelo Sodano with Carlos Slim´s help has set his nephew up in business with a swiss registered company  http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/fr-marcial-maciels-swiss-bank-accounts.html

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


 John Paul II the Holy Father of Lies! Cardinal Dziwisz book: “JPII knew nothing” about bestial pedophile priest Fr. Maciel is Vatican Titanic Deceitshttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/11/john-paul-ii-holy-father-of-lies.html

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 

John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/  

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

Paris Arrow’s vision of St. Michael tying the giant millstone around John Paul II’S neck then dragging him and throwing him into a raging sea of fire  http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2006/08/john-paul-ii-pope-of-sodomy.html

Benedict XVI – RATzinger, God’s Rottweiler http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/

Occupy The Vatican... like Occupy Wall  Street http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/10/ows-otv-occupy-wall-street-occupy.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  

See the Vatican-owned 23 million Euros gay apartment with the largest gay sauna in Europe where a Vatican Cardinal lives right on the first floor to welcome those wealthy gay clients of Rome and Europe   http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pope-francis-top-10-vatican-deceits_30.html .

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

Vatican’s wealth all over Rome and Italy  and Englandhttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html  

The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicablehttp://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html


BOYCOTT going to the Vatican and the Oratory of St. Joseph and use that "pilgrimage trip" donate your money to a poor student, feed one homeless in your city http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/boycott-oratory-of-saint-joseph-candles.html

9/11= 3,000 victims. JP2 Army = 100,000s victims. May 1: Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on John Paul II Beatification Day

Vatican is eVil.  Rome is Romantic. 

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 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 Pope has no authority in Rome.

The Pope is not Roman. Catholics are not Roman.


The Pope has no power in Rome.

The Pope is not Roman. Catholics are not Roman.

The Pope has no power in Rome.


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

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

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 herehttp://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”.


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 powershttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/forbes-delusion-of-vatican-last-tsar.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”.


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 powershttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/forbes-delusion-of-vatican-last-tsar.html.





SAINT JOSEPH THE Enabler of Pedophile Priests

People, please STOP DONATING to the ORATORY of 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 - through 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. 

God said in the Bible: It isn’t material sacrifice that I want, but acts of mercy. 

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, buthow 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.” 
Christ also said, when you pray, go to your room, close the door and pray to your Father in secret, and he will hear your prayers



Pope John Paul II and all popes and cardinals and bishops mitres




Because of his biggest heist crime between the Vatican Bank and secret Vatican Swiss Banks - Pope Francis is the greatest  pretender and impostor of Jesus and Pope Francis is NOT the Vicar of Christ but the Vicar of the Devil.  

Read Hidden Heist in the Holy See?  The SECRET biggest heist in the history of mankind! Pope Francis is the Greatest THIEF on earth?! http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/hidden-heist-in-holy-see-biggest-heist.html

The 1.2 billion Catholics are Francis-Maniacs and together with Pope Francis fit like a glove in what Jesus said: Your father is the devil. You are his children, and you want to do what your father wants. He was a murderer from the beginning. He has never stood for the truth, because there's no truth in him. Whenever that liar speaks, he speaks according to his own nature, because he's a liar and the father of liars. (John 8:44 CEB).  

Pope Francis is the worst con-artist and CON-Christ more than John Paul II and Benedict XVI-RATzigner and all popes combined.  He fits perfectly that last pope portrait in the gallery of 266 popes (as predicted by Nostrasdamus) and he warrants the prediction of The Third Secret Fatima on the destruction of the Vatican like the Temple of Solomon wherein not one pillar will be left standing.  The Temple of Solomon was filled with jewels and was the wealthiest in the kingdoms of the world exactly like the Vatican is the wealthiest today especially with the hundreds of billions heist of Pope Francis, read more here  Hidden Heist in the Holy See?  The SECRET biggest heist in the history of mankind! Pope Francis is the Greatest THIEF on earth?! http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/hidden-heist-in-holy-see-biggest-heist.html


Pope Francis & Cardinals: “Princes” of the Vatican Catholic Church in their Emperor’s Clothes regalia and diplomatic passports as they follow “Jesus walking ahead” http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/pope-francis-cardinals-princes-of.html


When Jesus said these words, he was saying it to the self-righteous Pharisees who were constantly praying in the Temple of Solomon or synagogues, and today, those would be the Opus Dei and the Catholics who are Francis-Maniacs especially at the Vatican and St. Peter’s Square.



A thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. But I came so that my sheep will have life and so that they will have everything they need. John 10:10 GW  Pope Francis is the greatest thief of mankind who does not provide for his Sheep except the fake Host in the Sorcery of the Eucharist where he is a Merlin HOAX magician who cannot clone ants and dogs and therefore cannot clone Christ either.

In the history of the Vatican Catholic Church, it is possible to be both a magician and a rapist at the same time –– to be a magician magically cloning Christ everyday in the Eucharist and be a bestial rapist holy father saintly missionary  -- like  Belgian missionary Father Eric or like the Italian Franciscan saint who raped countless virgin brides in a town in China in the 18th century - but was canonized by John Paul II nonetheless amidst Chinese protest, read more here   http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2007/09/john-paul-ii-canonised-rapist-in-china.html

 

FRANCIS UPDATES:John Allen and Vatican Pied Pipers toot Francis-mania…while Hans Kung points out “the Pope and his ‘double’” shadow pope Ratzinger!



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






POPE FRANCIS the CON-Christ.  


Biggest THIEF  of mankind

 

Pretender & Impostor of Jesus. 


LIAR. CANNOT CLONE Jesus or dogs


Christ as AIR we BREATHE-IN=Jesus=Son of God=AIR is EVERYWHERE+FREE FOR ALL peoples & countries. Jesus/AIR is at HOME with US in OUR FAMILY.  

Christ said in the Bible:The Kingdom of GOD is WITHIN YOU. Jesus/AIR does not need EVIL POPES/priests as mediators.

CHRIST/AIR CANNOT be CLONEd, monopolized, locked-up in churches.STOP giving MONEY to CATHOLIC CHURCH= VATICAN MAMMON BEAST.

 GIVE MONEY to POOR+SICK in our families, our schools, our hospitals.  

STOP GOING to EAT FAKE flesh of Christ= SORCERY                 


The allegiance of Catholics is NOT to Rome; therefore,

 it is fallacious to call them “Roman Catholics”.















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    IDOLATRY OF GOLDEN COW ST. JOSEPH 

    I am the Holy Father of Jesus, Son of God.
    ST. JOSEPH of MOUNT ROYAL 
    St. Joseph with candles in the Votive Chapel of the Oratory of St. Joseph


    IDOLATRY OF GOLDEN COW ST. JOSEPH 

    I am the Holy Father of Jesus, Son of God.

    ST. JOSEPH of MOUNT ROYAL





    St. Joseph with candles in the Votive Chapel of the Oratory of St. Joseph

    Giant Saint Joseph could NOT help young students victims! His giant statue is only a few nearby the College Notre DAme where hundreds of students were sodomized by Holy Cross Brothers of Saint brother Andre.

    These 2 saints SAID NOTHING and DID NOTHING TO PROTECT CHILDREN


    Saint Brother Andre said nothing and did nothing 
    to protect young students victims of his Holy Cross Brothers

    Giant Saint Joseph could NOT help young students victims! 
    Oratory candles could not stop CSC pedophiles and bestial lust for 50 years from 1950 to 2001. 

    Give your money to the homeless shelters of Montreal
    Stop lighting candles! God does not need candles. 

    The poor need to eat. The homeless need a shelter. Homeless people NOT allowed in Oratory! 

    It’s acts of mercy that I want, says the Lord, not material sacrifices and candles! 

    God does not need your candles!

    Saint Joseph does not need your candles.


    Vatican Billions: its history, sources, and assets today worldwide. BOYCOTT the Vatican Museum and boycott ALL donations to the Vatican Catholic Church Reign of Terrorhttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html ). .


    IDLE SAINT JOSEPH CANNOT SPEAK AND CANNOT PROTECT CHILDREN 

    Giant statue of St. Joseph said nothing and did nothing to save hundreds of students - at College Notre Dame - which he can see day-and-night - across the small street in front of him -- being sexually abused by Brother Andre's pedophile priests and brothers


  • Enabler of Pedophile Priests

  • BOYCOTT ORATORY OF SAINT JOSEPH AND DO NOT GIVE MONEY TO BILLIONNAIRE PRIESTS AT ORATORY OF SAINT JOSEPH.

  • PROTEST POPE FRANCIS VISIT TO USA - 
  • Pope Francis and Queen Elizabeth rule the Stock Exchange
  • SEE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS PROTEST BENEDICT XVI-RATzinger and they succeeded 
  • Benedict XVI rejected by Rome's Sapienza University students and professors 


  • Read IDLE Saint Joseph versus First Nations native people of Canada  http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/11/oratory-of-saintjoseph-pedophile.html


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