But Christian's are such easy targets for this sort of humour when so damn many of them are paedophiles!
1996: Sipe Report. UNITED STATES: This report exposed the Catholic downing the victims, Frs. Robert R. Peebles, Jr., William Hughes, and Rudolph Kos re-offending (para 101 c), saying fugitive Father Kos's whereabouts were unknown while paying substantial personal expenses (paragraph 113 m), and claimed that the Bishop of Dallas and the Military Vicariate were blameworthy; 104. It is my opinion that the cases involving Fathers Peebles, Hughes, and Kos fit a nationwide pattern that I have observed over the last 35 years. This pattern involves knowledge of ongoing loveual misconduct by Catholic priests and religious, and co-operation among bishops to keep such misconduct from becoming public knowledge. conspiracy (para 105), National Council of Catholic Bishops at fault. Totals 26 pages on many aspects. Probable date 1996 CHECK, from www.thelinkup.com-sipe.html
1996, May 30: "Twice Betrayed" victims being offered deal by unwise Church leaders to remove abuse claims from court. PERTH, W. Australia: The Christian Brothers are not suing the Catholic Archbishop of Perth joining him and other Western Australian parties to the case they are currently involved in the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Archbishop Barry Hickey confirmed the possibility of being joined to the case by the Christian Brothers in an interview with The Record earlier this week. ABC TV's Four Corners programme last Monday alleged the Brothers were suing the Archbishop. Archbishop Hickey said he would be meeting the Brothers to discuss the possibility of being joined to the case on Thursday. "The Christian Brothers have not sued the Archbishop of Perth. They are discussing the possibility of linking the Archbishop of Perth and other Western Australian parties with their court action," he said. The Archbishop's comments came as clients of law firm Slater and Gordon considered an offer of settlement for the case, which has been under way in the NSW Supreme Court for three years, put to them by lawyers acting for the Christian Brothers. Brother Tony Shanahan, congregational leader of the Christian Brothers Holy Spirit Province covering Western and South Australia, confirmed that an offer had been put to the 200 or so men who have taken action in the NSW Supreme Court against the Brothers but said that he could not discuss any details. But he indicated that the offer included a "substantial trust fund" which would provide counselling and other services to those who claimed they had been abused by Brothers as children, a limited provision for direct financial buttistance to individuals, and payment of the legal costs of law firm Slater and Gordon, in exchange for the cases being dropped. "We're two and a half years down the legal path and neither side has got very far," Br Shanahan said, adding that it would be at least another two years before resolution of the matter, which even then would not be guaranteed. VOICES director Bruce Blythe, speaking on behalf of the 200 claimants, said a decision by the men was likely by the end of the week, but he did not want to comment on the negotiations taking place in any way because they were at a delicate stage. Archbishop Hickey, responding directly to last Monday's Four Corners programme which claimed the Church was evading its responsibility in the matter of loveual abuse of children, said the public's perception of the leaders of the Church was that they had not always acted as wisely as they should have. "And therefore we must accept criticism when it is valid and learn from it," he said. He said the Church office at Victoria Square in the city had received a large number of phone calls from viewers after the programme's airing on Tuesday night. Archbishop Hickey said people were disturbed at the programme's report that in one State (not WA) priests had been sent from parish to parish when accused; that the Church did not appear to be facing up to the facts; that it should not appear to be playing legal games to avoid financial responsibility; and that priests should live in such a way that people could turn to them in times of trouble. "I must say that I accept all these comments as true. I don't believe they all apply to the Archdiocese of Perth but to the extent that any of them does I regret that very much, Archbishop Hickey said. "I think that criticisms, while hurtful, often teach us wisdom. We must, as a group throughout Australia be better in future." Clarifying comments on the programme about his relationship to the case currently being heard in the NSW Supreme Court, he said that as Archbishop he was responsible for the actions of all the diocese's priests but because of the autonomy of religious congregations it was the superior of the congregation who was responsible for the actions of its members. This distinction was sometimes misunderstood both within and out side the Church, but people had to understand this reality, he added. The Four Corners programme, enbreastled Twice Betrayed, was highly critical of the handling by senior Church figures, especially bishops, of allegations concerning loveual abuse of children by priests and Religious going back over six decades. The programme detailed known cases and new allegations of abuse including at least one where a priest who was eventually imprisoned for loveual abuse of boys had been transferred through a number of parishes over several decades despite Church authorities knowing of his crimes. The programme dealt mainly with the dioceses of Ballarat and Melbourne in Victoria. It was not broadcast in that State for legal reasons. Canada's experience - Page 11 Pictures: Br Tony Shanahan; Archbishop Barry Hickey -- The Record, Perth Catholic newspaper, "Archbishop at risk of more legal action," by Peter Rosengren, p 1, May 30, 1996 1997: U.S. Kos trial deposition by Mr Jay Feierman. UNITED STATES: This psychiatrist, who worked at the Paraclete monastery, testified that he had evaluated 300 loveually disordered priests from 1977 to 1984 alone. (By 1995, he had cared for 1000 priests.) see Kristen Lombardi, part 3, October 4 - 11, 2001, www.bostonphoenix.com-boston-newsfeatures-top-features-documents-01847613.htm
!!!: 1997: Jesuit seminary became homoloveually-oriented, critical of pious practices. SAN FRANCISCO: "I'm not suprised by it," says a California Jesuit about John Bollard's loveual harrbuttment suit against the Jesuit order. "It is a terrible thing. It is embarrbutting. It has to come out in order for things to get better. Things are so bad." In a suit filed in San Francisco federal court on August 14, Bollard, a former Jesuit novice and scholastic, alleges that three Jesuit supervisors -- Father Andrew Sotelo, Father Anton Harris and Father Thomas Gleeson -- subjected him to "unwanted verbal and physical conduct of a loveual nature," creating such a "hostile, intimidating and offensive work environment" that he had to leave the order in December 1996. Mr Bollard told his story on television after leaving. -- San "The Walls Came Down: Jesuits entangled in love harrbuttment suit," by George Neumayr, possibly Oct 1997. 1997: Fr Vincent Ryan, 64, was sentenced to six years' gaol for corrupting altar boys. SYDNEY: His career was in the Hunter Valley. (He got a further 16 years for similar offences at a subsequent trial.) Refer to the Feb 27 03 judgment arising from his appeal . Sentenced in 1997 1998: Australian "whistleblower" found dead, files missing: SYDNEY: R.C. priest Morrie Crocker, who had crusaded since 1989 to expose the abuse of three males at the hands of Fr. Peter Comensoli and Br. Michael Evans, and successfully fought police and Church inaction by going to the Press in 1993, and was at the time pushing for an investigation into three other priests, was found hanged in a boys' gymnasium he ran in Wollongong, south of Sydney on March 26, 1998. Three "perpetrator files" 1998: Irish Christian Brothers apologise for physical and love abuse. DUBLIN: An Irish Roman Catholic religious order founded in 1802, involved in teaching generations of youngsters, has issued an unprecedented high-profile public apology for loveual and other abuse inflicted over years in its insbreastutions. The congregation of the Christian Brothers in Ireland has taken out half-page advertisements in Irish newspapers admitting that some victims' complaints have been ignored. The admission follows a number of prosecutions initiated against members of the order, other Irish religious societies and Catholic clergy in recent years over love and other crimes, often dating back decades. As well as Ireland, the order is also active in other countries including Australia. According to reports, in Newfoundland, Canada, nine of the lay brothers were convicted of abuse-related crimes at an orphanage. (includes an image of the advertisement "Message from the Irish Christian Brothers") -- BBC, "Catholic order apologises Mon Mar 30 98 1998: Austrian cardinal Gröer's loveual misconduct with seminarians; VIENNA: "Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, archbishop of Vienna ... acknowledged that charges of loveual misconduct with seminarians leveled against his predecessor, Hans Hermann Cardinal Gröer, were true." There had been several years of obfuscation on Gröer's part. -- New York Times, "Pope in Austria to Heal a Troubled Church," Alessandra Staley, June 20 1998 1998: Trial of Father Rudolph Kos in U.S.A., DALLAS: A Dallas jury awarded 11 plaintiffs $119.6 million after ruling that the Diocese of Dallas had concealed information about Kos's loveual abuse of children. (The judgment was later reduced by agreement to $23.4 million to spare the Dallas diocese from bankruptcy.) The 1985 report of F.R.Mouton, Fr T.P.Doyle, and Fr M.Peterson, was part of a battery of evidence at the trial. See Kristen Lombardi, part 2, October 4 - 11, 2001, www.bostonphoenix.com-boston-newsfeatures-top-features-documents-01847612.htm
1998: Vatican Monks and Nuns' leaders told: VATICAN CITY: In November 1998, a four-page paper breastled The Problem of the loveual Abuse of African Religious in Africa and Rome was presented by Missionaries of Our Lady of Africa nun, Sister Marie McDonald, the report's author, to the Council of Sixteen at the Vatican. (see 1994, 1995, 2000, and 2001). Nov '98 1999, Mar: R.C. bishops kept child-abuse priests working, failed to tell police. LONDON: Catholic priests accused of child abuse are being allowed to continue working, an investigation by BBC News has found. Church officials have admitted that some bishops in the UK may be failing to follow the Church's own child protection guidelines. Since 1994, the Catholic Church has had strict child protection procedures. Another, recently suspended, was allowed to work in a primary school while under suspicion of abusing children. He had been accused of abuse twice before. The Church introduced the guidelines following the case of a Midlands priest jailed for loveually abusing seven children. Numerous complaints had been made against him, but the Church failed to call in the authorities. -- BBC, "Church 'ignoring rules' on abuse," 1999, Mar: Fr Sean Fortune, facing charges, found dead. to 1987 DUBLIN: A Catholic priest who had been charged with 29 love offences against young boys has been found dead at his home in the Irish Republic. Father Sean Fortune had denied committing the offences between 1981 and 1987. For later items, search on words Ferns diocese or Commiskey. -- BBC, "Priest facing love charges found dead," !!!: 1999, May: UNITED STATES man tells TV audience he's sueing Jesuit seminary for homoloveual advances! John Bollard appeared on CBS's 60 Minutes saying he was subjected to unwanted loveual advances during five years, by at least 12 priests, in a Jesuit seminary in California. Part of the campaign was cards from Jesuit superiors showing pictures of naked loveually aroused men! On Dec 1 1999 the court allowed the case to proceed. (see Goodbye, Good Men, Michael S. Rose, 2002, Regnery Publishing, Washington, p 82. Also refer Pamela Schaeffer, "Court OKs Harbuttment Suit," National Catholic Reporter, www.natcath.com-NCROnline-archives-121799-121799e.htm , December 17, 1997.) -- TV appearance May 1999 1999, May: Cork County Council calls for married clergy, other changes. DUBLIN: The local authority for Ireland's largest county has called on the Roman Catholic Church to make the vow of celibacy for priests and nuns optional - to reverse the trend of falling vocations. Church authorities should view the dwindling numbers entering religious life as "an urgent matter", according to a motion pbutted unanimously by Cork County Council at its monthly meeting. Councillor Conor O'Callaghan, who proposed the motion, said the council should use its weight to press for radical reform of the church. The number of priests ordained last year was just a sixth of the number who took Holy Orders nearly 30 years ago, he said. Almost half the priests in Ireland were at retirement age, and with high numbers of younger priests abandoning their vocation the clerical population in Ireland was expected to drop drastically over the next 10 years. Three people in every five in Ireland currently back calls for the Church to ordain women as priests and Mr O'Callaghan believed similar numbers were in favour of allowing priests to marry. -- BBC, "Irish council calls for church reform," 1999 1999, Sep.: Irish inquiry commission into cruelty, love in homes. (R.C.) DUBLIN: The Republic of Ireland has been shocked by a torrent of child abuse allegations in recent years and soon an independent commission will investigate what really went on the country's children's homes. The Christian Brothers religious order has been accused of mistreating children in its care. The support group Survivors of Child Abuse (SOCA) now claims 1,500 members in Britain. In north Dublin, Artane industrial school school was the largest borstal style school run by the Christian Brothers. Former pupil Michael O'Brien was among the first to talk publicly about his experiences at a time when suggesting abuse in a Catholic insbreastution was still a taboo. Sixteen years later he is waiting to retell it to the commission. He claims loveual abuse by several Christian Brothers began when he was 11 in the 1960s. "A brother might go through the loveual act, which could involve anything from pet love right up to rape and then blame you, the child, for tempting him into the situation, taking it out on you, punching or using his leather strap. It was horrendous." With audio of Bro. Michael Murray talking to BBC's Branwen Jeffreys. -- BBC, "Investigating child abuse in Ireland," 1999, Oct.: First dismissal of British priest in recent history. LONDON: In October 1999, Pope John Paul II sacked Father John Lloyd, who raped a 16-year-old girl and indecently buttaulted two altar boys in south Wales - the first such dismissal of a British priest in recent history. (see BBC of Wed Jul 19 2000, "Paedophile cases haunt the church,"
2000 2000: Top Benedictines told again in Rome of priests molesting nuns: ROME: In the year 2000 Benedictine abbots meeting in Rome were told by Benedictine Sister Esther Fangman, president of an organisation of 24 North American monasteries, about priests loveually molesting nuns. (See 1994, 1995, 1998, and 2001 x 2). 2000: England and Wales: CARDIFF, Wales: R.C. Archbishop John Ward of Cardiff was exposed for ignoring warnings from a fellow bishop in ordaining as priest Joe Jordan, subsequently gaoled for indecent buttaults on children. See April 18 2001 item "England and Wales, child-abuse representatives ..." 2000: Californian bishop Ziemann covers up theft by priest, begins love with him. CURRENT UKIAH: Crowd at meeting with San Francisco Archbishop William Levada backs calls to jail Bishop G. Patrick Ziemann, and clean up after years of loveual and financial mismanagement, including $30m woes. "I will no longer contribute to this diocese until the people who made this mess start paying for it,'' said Mary Shepherd of Fort Bragg. Sister Jane Kelly, a Ukiah nun, wagged her finger at Levada as she demanded to know what he had done about new reports she turned over to him of alleged misconduct among three current parish priests within the diocese. Some parishioners challenged celibacy and the way the church selects its bishops. -- The Press Democrat, Sonoma County, California, www.pressdemocrat.com-evergreen-diocese-020200jail.html , Feb. 2, 2000 2000: Australian R.C. bishops' apology about love abuse, and abuse of authority. SYDNEY: On March 7 2000 Cardinal Clancy released a statement of repentance on behalf of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference which included: "... When confronted with loveual abuse, and abuse of authority generally, we did not always respond appropriately, and many people suffered serious harm. ..." Reported by J.R.Lilburne on Roman 2000: U.S. Presbyterian missionaries in Congo accused of abuse: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The executive committee of the General buttembly Council agreed during a meeting here last week to create an Independent Panel of Inquiry (ICI) to look into allegations of physical and loveual abuse of children by Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) missionaries in Africa between 1945 and 1978. The Rev . Marion McClure, director of the Worldwide Ministries Division (WMD), discussed the church's response to claims from about 20 people concerning child loveual abuse and physical abuse by the late Rev. William Pruitt and others in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire, once Belgian Congo) between 1945 and 1978. The action comes one year after Grace Presbytery launched an investigation into charges by eight women who told of loveual abuse by Pruitt when they were missionary children in Congo. Pruitt, who served in Congo between 1945 and 1978, died last year before the investigation was completed. All of the other alleged perpetrators are also deceased. Archived by Worldwide Faith News archives www.wfn.org-2000-05-msg00006.html from PCUSA NEWS, "Independent Panel Established to Investigate Child Abuse," by John Filiatreau, May 1 00 2000: Bishop overrode doctors and his own orders, and allowed abuser Hill to corrupt more altar boys. LONDON: One of the most senior figures in the Catholic Church in England and Wales has defended his decision to allow a known paedophile to continue working as a priest, despite warnings he would re-offend. A BBC investigation found evidence suggesting Archbishop Cormac Murphy-O'Connor ignored the advice of doctors and therapists that Father Michael Hill would carry on buttaulting children. In 1985, the archbishop - then Bishop of Arundel in West Suslove - had allowed Hill back to work after earlier revoking his licence to work in a parish. Hill went on to indecently buttault more altar boys and was jailed in 1997. But the archbishop said he had been acting on advice from professionals at a time when the behaviour of child abusers was not as well understood as at present. After a trial period, Hill had convinced the Church he was a reformed character, and he was returned to pastoral duties. He later became chaplain at Gatwick Airport where he abused a boy with learning difficulties. (includes picture of the archbishop in vestments, and a poor picture of Mr Hill) -- BBC, "Archbishop defends paedophile move," COMMENT: Not as well understood as at present? Guess what book contains this statement: "He will guide you into all truth." Yes, the Gospel of John 16:13. What went wrong? Isn't Murphy-O'Connor a cardinal, who will have a vote to select the next pope? Heaven help us! END of COMMENT. 2000: Catholic leaders not taking child corruption seriously enough. LONDON: The police are investigating evidence that a known paedophile returned to work as a priest in 1985. It is the latest in a long line of abuse cases to tarnish the Catholic Church's image. Religious affairs commentator Andrew Brown says revelations that Archbishop Cormac Murphy-O'Connor - then a bishop - allowed a known paedophile to continue working as a priest, will damage the church's reputation in the UK. John Wilkins, editor of Catholic weekly The Tablet, says the image of the church has been tarnished "appallingly" by paedophile priests around the world. "It has done enormous damage to priests themselves - their morale is very low. They feel depressed and defensive. "It has been appalling for church - there is mistrust between parishioners and their priest, the general public and priests." In October 1999, Pope John Paul II sacked Father John Lloyd, who raped a 16-year-old girl and indecently buttaulted two altar boys in south Wales - the first such dismissal of a British priest in recent history. The Pope dismissed American three priests in 1998, and sacked two diocesan priests in Ireland in recent years. Yet Mr Wilkins questions whether those at the top of the church hierarchy take the issue seriously enough. The Pope has twice received the former archbishop of Vienna, Hans Hermann Groer, at the Vatican, despite allegations that he had loveually molested young clergymen. Admission of his successor reported Jun 20 98. (includes picture of Archbishop Murphy-O'Connor.) -- BBC, "Paedophile cases haunt the Jul 19 00 2000: Nun convicted of cruelty to 1980. ABERDEEN (Scotland): R.C. Sister Alphonso, a.k.a. Sr Marie Docherty, was found guilty of four charges of cruelty against young girls at Nazareth House childrens' homes in Aberdeen and Midlothian, Scotland, between 1965 and 1980. (NETWORK ONLY) Sister Marie had denied all 23 charges. The convictions related to a girl being struck against a radiator and punched and slapped repeatedly, another the same and being force-fed and hit with a hair brush, another was also hit with a hair brush and force-fed, and the fourth the same plus force-fed and had soiled underwear thrown at her. There are more than 411 former inmates who will be suing the Sisters of Nazareth for several million pounds, according to solicitor Cameron Fyfe. -- British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC), "Nun convicted of cruelty," Google archive , 17:22 GMT 18:22 UK, Tuesday, 19 September, 2000 2000: Abuse inquiry at top English Catholic school attended by PM Blair's two sons. LONDON: The inquiry focuses on a former chaplain and governor at the London Oratory School in Fulham, south-west London, who died of a suspected AIDS-related illness, several newspapers have reported. Police and social services were alerted after pupils wrote letters about Scots-born Father David Martin to Childline. Some suspect the accusations are part of an anti-Blair move. Archive, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Tuesday, 5 December, 2000 2000: Ireland has 38 priest child-abuse convictions so far. DUBLIN: There have been 38 convictions already and new cases are being investigated as ever more victims of abuse dare to come forward. -- BBC, "'Celtic Tiger' or Lamb of God?" , by Rosie Goldsmith, Tue Dec 5 00
2001, NEW MILLENNIUM, BUT OLD HABITS DIE HARD . Hare Krishna child love and general abuse to 1986. A study of child abuse and neglect in ISKCON's boarding schools or ashram-based gurukulas from 1971 to 1986, when they ceased to operate, largely due to the exposure of these problems. love abuse was included. A 22-part article, complete with references to theoretical literature. -- Cultic Studies Review, C-S Vol. 1, No. 1, 2001 "Child Abuse in the Hare Krishna 1-grprept2001. 1harekrishnagrprepthkchildabuserochfordburke heinleinp1.htm , by E. Burke Rochford, Jr., and Jennifer Heinlein, 2001 . Australia's Leading Catholic Conservative Archbishop Gets a Promotion; SYDNEY: Appointment of George Pell to Sydney archdiocese comes as surprise to Melbourne parishioners-and to Pell himself. Some say his appointment will cause an exodus from the Church, and others that it will lead a major revival. Layman Chris Sidoti, a former member of the federal government's Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission, told the ABC, that the appointment would take the Church back to medieval times. "More authoritarian, less tolerant, not permissive of differences of views." Paul Collins, a theologian, broadcaster, and author who two weeks ago resigned from the Catholic priesthood, told ENI that Archbishop Pell was an authoritarian, and part of the movement in the Church that was turning Catholicism into a sect. -- Christianity Today, www.christianitytoday.com-ct-2001-114-26.0.html , by Margaret Simons in Sydney, posted Mar 4 2001 . World: Priests raping and seducing nuns exposed: UNITED STATES: The National Catholic Reporter www.natcath.org in the U.S.A. uncovered shocking reports written by senior members of women's religious orders and an American priest butterting that loveual abuse and rape of nuns by priests is a serious problem around the world. (After this the Call to Accountability Campaign was formed.) (See 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000, and 2001 x 2). March 16, 2001 . Dr Pell's transfer criticised by Cardinal. SYDNEY: The outgoing Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal Edward Clancy, has accused the Vatican of failing to understand Australia's sense of egalitarianism. Australia had "an openness, a sense of inner freedom" that was not found to the same extent in other countries, Cardinal Clancy said last night. "It is sometimes misrepresented as a disrespect for authority, which it is not," he said. Cardinal Clancy's comments, made on ABC Radio, come just days after the appointment of his successor, the conservative Archbishop George Pell of Melbourne. In the interview, Cardinal Clancy said that after a 1999 meeting between bishops from Australia and members of the Roman Curia, he had come away "feeling our brethren in Rome didn't fully understand the situation in real life as have it here". -- The Age www.theage.com.au-news-2001-04-02-FFXASECOZKC.html , "Outgoing cardinal criticises Vatican," By Malcolm Brown, SMH, Monday April 2 2001 . European Parliament condemns Vatican over nun abuse. EUROPE: Read www.thelinkup.com-nuns.html#euro (see 1994 and various years onwards). Zenit, April 6 2001 . England and Wales, child-abuse representatives required in each R.C. parish and religious house: "Crackdown on abuse by priests;" LONDON: The Roman Catholic Church in the U.K. was told yesterday April 17, 2001 that it must appoint child protection representatives in every parish in England and Wales to head off the wave of criticism that has broken over the Church after a series of high-profile abuse cases involving clergy. Even enclosed orders will be asked to do the same, as part of a 50-point strategy recommended by an independent committee headed by Lord Nolan. The review is intended to supersede guidelines in place since 1994, which proved ineffective. They were brought into question last year when Archbishop John Ward of Cardiff was seen to have ignored warnings from a fellow bishop in ordaining a priest, Father Joe Jordan, who was subsequently jailed for eight years for indecent buttaults against children. -- click Guardian, Britain, "Crackdown on abuse by priests," Stephen Bates, April 18, 2001 . "Quite exceptional depravity" by Christian Brothers, says parliamentary inquiry: CANBERRA, Australia: "Quite exceptional depravity" by Christian Brothers against boys at Bindoon, Castledare, Clontarf and Tardun migrant hostels and orphanages in Western Australia, period 1938 to late 1960s, (AND some other aspects about the physical, emotional and loveual abuse of child migrants from the British Isles and Malta) in chapter 4 of "Lost Innocents: Righting the Record," click Senate Community Affairs References Committee, Australia, Aug 2001, pp 76-77 . Christopher Reardon (U.S.), a lay worker at St. Agnes Catholic Church in MIDDLETON, Mbuttachusetts, was convicted of molesting 29 boys, sentenced to a prison term of 40 to 50 years. Testimony in that case revealed that Boston Cardinal Bernard Law's attorneys had encouraged various parishioners to withhold information from investigators, fearing that the case would prompt new lawsuits against the archdiocese. Despite that sworn evidence, an editorial in the Catholic newspaper Pilot of August 24 insisted that "The accusations that the cardinal ignored, was indifferent to, or refused to address the scandalous behavior of any priest is, at best, ignorant." The same editorial went on to claim that "no one has suffered more than Cardinal Law" from priestly loveual abuse of children in the Archdiocese of Boston. -- The Crime Library, "Father James Porter: person Priest," Michael Newton, www.crimelibrary.com-serial11-porter, Conviction date August 17, 2001. . Confidentiality agreement signed, in spite of being banned since year 2000. BALLARAT (Vic.) Australia: "The Ballarat diocese made a compensation payout of conditional on the victim's silence in September 2001. This is according to an article on page 6 of The Australian newspaper by Nicole Strahan. The bishop of the Ballarat diocese is the Most Reverend Peter Connors." From RomanRite.com of Tue 11 Jun 02 at www.romanrite.com-j110602.html , September 2001 . Boston Phoenix "Failure to Act" exposé: BOSTON: "They the U.S. Catholic bishops did not do anything to protect victims," says Sylvia Demerest, the Dallas attorney who represented three of the 11 plaintiffs in the Kos case. Demerest speaks for many detractors when she suggests that, early on, the Catholic Church knew more about the psychological profile of a serial child molester than any other organized group in the United States that worked extensively with children -- including the schools. Still, thousands of children were repeatedly placed in harm's way. "This has been a consistent problem within the Church," Demerest says. And yet, unconscionably, Church leaders continue to claim that they did not have enough knowledge to protect young parishioners. "These people knew they were sitting on a powder keg," says Demerest. "They knew priests were doing unspeakable things to kids. They chose to ignore it." Tom Economus puts it. "Church officials will say anything to get themselves off the hook." In the end, it might not really matter what the Church knew or didn't know about loveual misconduct among clergy in 1970 or 1980 or 1990. For centuries, it understood one crucial piece of information: such conduct is a moral crime. As Doyle says, "We may not have known how the loveual disorder develops, or how to care for our priests. But we knew about the harm. We knew priests were running loose on our kids." See Kristen Lombardi, "Failure to Act," part 3, The Phoenix, Boston, October 4 - 11, 2001 . Brothers of St John of God not prosecuted, not apologising, for full-on male-male love. MELBOURNE (Victoria) Australia: Taxpayers' money is still flowing in, the hush-up continues, and no one has been charged, years after allegations that the Brothers of St John bu..ered some young males entrusted to their care. The allegations concern residential facilities for people with intellectual disabilities. A dormitory supervisor found suspicious behaviour in 1985. Now Melbourne law firm Slater and Gordon are preparing a clbutt action involving a dozen people with intellectual disabilities, all clients of the Order. The action will allege loveual abuse during 30 years. Melbourne lawyer David Forster estimates that there have been 60 to 70 civil actions nationally involving the Order. All the agreements had confidentiality clauses. A man had been awarded $54,000 compensation in May. Victorian Owen Swallow is understood to have received about $30,000 in 1996 in a confidential agreement. His statement to police alleged abuse including an.l penetration by five brothers at Cheltenham and Yarra View between 1957 and 1974. The criminal justice system has failed the residents and their families. It is four years since the layman running the Order's Victorian services, David Armstrong, first referred allegations to the police, and still no charges have been laid. While police inquiries have continued, in the past two years federal and state funding for the Victorian operation rose from $7.5 million to $12.7m. Broken Rites president Chris MacIsaac said: ". . . how can the government continue to use them as a major service provider . . . ?" The police detective first buttigned to the investigations reportedly had no car. Lawyer Sue Tait, who was involved in the early allegations surrounding Yarra View, says: "I think St John of God is a particularly appalling example . . . There has to be some change . . ." Two weeks ago the Vatican apologised for loveual abuse by clergy and religious orders in Oceania. The Pope's statement said the Church was developing "open and just" procedures to handle allegations. The Order, however, demands confidentiality clauses from the staff, obedience from its members and the residents, and is trying to bring the Victoria Police to heel with an action in the NSW Supreme Court to suppress documents obtained by police from Encompbutt, a Sydney loveual counselling agency. Abuse by brothers has been established regarding their Cheltenham home in the 1950s. In the early '90s, a lay manager at the Order wrote to the Victorian Department of Community Services raising concerns about a brother's behaviour. The brother denied the abuse to the department, and the manager was reprimanded. A year later, the newly appointed chief executive of St John of God Services Victoria, Heath Lyon, spoke up. No action was taken. The following year Geoff Summers, manager of a nursery, reported inappropriate behaviour, but was reprimanded. He left in 1997. The nursery was made to pay $60,000 a year to the Hospitaller Order of St John of God in Sydney, the parent company. Because the nursery received $9000 Commonwealth grant for each employee, Summers felt that the money ought to stay in the nursery. Parents who had helped raise money to buy the Yarra View Farm were upset that when it was sold in 1994 for $2.7 million, the bothers used $650,000 of the proceeds to buy the nursery, and the rest went to Sydney. The 2001 financial reports show that the Victorian operation had $1.5m cash surplus, of which $1m was transferred to Sydney. The parents ask why the Order had been charging each resident $344 a month to live in houses that had been 80 per cent Commonwealth funded. Former Victorian Government ministers had "no memory" or did not reply to questions. The present minister said that reviews had found to reason to cut off funds. The department provided about $9m a year to the Victorian operations, which received total funds of $16m. -- The Weekend Horror," by Richard Yallop, Dec 8-9 01, pp 17 and 22. . Lifelong pain of brotherly abuse. MELBOURNE: Owen Swallow is still waiting for an apology from the Order of St John of God, 43 years after he was loveually abused from childhood in the care of the brothers. He asked for an apology from the then Archbishop George Pell. In October 1996 Melbourne vicar-general Denis Hart (later promoted to archbishop) wrote that he and the archbishop (Pell) felt deeply for the pain he had suffered. The recent Vatican apology has not quelled the anger that Swallow feels at being violated from the age of 11 until his late 20s. Picture of Mr Swallow in front of a tree. Wording: "Owed an apology: Swallow says he hates the church because of its lack of action. Picture: Colin Murty." -- The Weekend Australian, Weekend Inquirer, "Lifelong pain of brotherly abuse," Dec 8-9 01, p 22.
2002 CATHOLIC CARDINAL LAW (AGAIN) and ANGLICAN G-G HOLLINGWORTH, BEING CRITICISED . Father John Geoghan trial. UNITED STATES: gaoled for years-long child love abuse in U.S., January-February 2002 . Tolkien son accused of love abuse; LONDON: The eldest son of J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, has been questioned by police over allegations that he loveually abused boys while working as a priest. Following a wide-reaching investigation into Father John Tolkien, West Midlands police have sent their findings to the Crown Prosecution Service. Officials will buttess whether to press formal charges against the retired Roman Catholic priest. The alleged offences were said to have been carried out against a number of boys during his ecclesiastical career. Father Tolkien, now 84, was a serving priest at churches in Oxford, Birmingham, Warwickshire and Staffordshire. (Poynter Melbourne, "Tolkien son accused of love abuse," www.theage.com.au-news world2002-01-07FFXATFIP3WC. html , Monday 7 January 2002 AFTERMATH: See out-of-court settlement agreed by Church to one complainant. -- The West Australian, "Payout in Tolkien abuse case," Tue Jul 22 03, p 23 . Media Abuse, mainstream media say R.C. Church trying to bypbutt civil law on loveual abuse of minors. PERTH: -- The Record, Perth R.C. newspaper, W. Australia, January 17 2002 p 1 . VATICAN: Vatican's new norms 'not in U.S. dioceses', apply only to religious order priests! The Record, Jan 17 2002 p 13 . BOSTON: U.S. Cardinal Law apologises on past abuse by priests, announces "a new archdiocesan policy that will mandate all clergy, employees and volunteers to report (to civil authorities) any allegations of abuse against a minor"; The Record, January 17 2002 p 13 . Cardinal Ratzinger in Rome gives no reason for refusing to hold trial SAN FRANCISCO: "But when the trail of accusations leads right into the Vatican, the obsession with secrecy and cover up is thrown into high relief. In 1998 eight former members of the Legion of Christ religious order filed a pebreastion in a Vatican canon law court at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith seeking prosecution of Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, the Legion founder." The Pope praised and honoured the accused man. "In 1999 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger dismissed the canon law pebreastion filed at his office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith -- refusing to allow the accusers to give testimony, giving no reason for his action." And lots more. -- San Francisco Chronicle, "Clergy love Abuse - the Trail Leads to Rome," www.survivors network.orgNewsVaticanTrailleadsto rome.htm by Jason Berry (a prize-winning journalist), Jan 20 02 . BOSTON: Priests applaud as U.S. Cardinal Law says he will not resign, Lisa Gentes, The Record, Jan 31 02 p 13
. Molesting priest Hill given rent-free Church flat. LONDON: A paedophile priest who abused nine boys is living rent-free in a flat owned by the Roman Catholic Church, the BBC has discovered. One of Father Michael Hill's victims said he was "sickened" to learn the disgraced priest was being helped by the Church, 14 months after his release from prison. The Catholic diocese of Arundel and Brighton, which had employed Hill as chaplain to Gatwick Airport in 1985 even though he had had his licence revoked, said it had a duty to house him. The Church, which has paid compensation to the victims, said it arranged his accommodation in the £100,000 flat, three minutes walk from a primary school, at the request of the probation authorities to help ensure he was properly supervised. Hill had served three years of a five-year sentence. He had been jailed for abusing boys, including a child with learning difficulties, whom he met through his work with the Church. (includes pictures of Mr Hill and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, who as the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton in the 1980s had allowed him to continue working.) -- BBC, "Child abuse priest housed by Church," . PERTH: Vigil for paedophile appeal; the mother of a victim of Stephen Ray Hough plans to bring a sleeping bag and pillow and stay on the steps of Perth's Parliament House until the appeal against the leniency of the sentence pbutted on the perpetrator is in the court. -- The West Australian, Monday February 11 2002, p 5 . Hollingworth fears plot to undermine his office. CANBERRA: Taking advice from former Liberal Party federal director Tony Eggleton; People's Alliance Against Child loveual Abuse leader Ms Hetty Johnston repeats call for Hollingworth to resign. -- The Weekend Australian, Richard Yallop, Kate Legge, February 16-17 2002, p 1 . G-G 'failed to act' on priest, reports say, but his office denies this and gives details of his inquiries into two allegations. AUSTRALIA: -- The Weekend Australian, Richard Yallop, Kate Legge, February 16-17 2002, p 8 . BRISBANE, Australia: Brisbane Anglican Church tackles love abuse past, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall catching up with backlog of abuse complaints, has problem with paying $400,000 exemplary damages for Church's wrong handling of the Toowoomba Preparatory School scandal. -- The Weekend Australian, Leisa Scott, February 16-17 2002, p 8 . Non-marital carnal activity of Church workers: -- Guidelines for handling child-abuse clergy, etc.; written at the time of strong publicity about the former Australian Anglican Archbishop, now Governor-General, Dr Peter Hollingworth, plus the longstanding child short form at the second Rally for Marriage and Children, Perth, see www.multiline.com.au-~johnm-nonmarital.htm , February 19 2002 . Governor-General under siege -- Listeners' responses. AUSTRALIA: The position of Governor-General is embroiled in the greatest controversy since Sir John Kerr held the office more than 25 years ago. Peter Hollingworth continues to face claims that he did not adequately deal with allegations of loveual abuse within the Anglican church while he was Archbishop of Brisbane. Amid calls for his resignation or an inquiry to clear the air, Dr Hollingworth says he intends to complete his term as Governor-General. Meanwhile, he continues to enjoy the crucial support of the Prime Minister. -- ABC News Online, "Governor-General under Tuesday, February 19, 2002 . . BOSTON R. C. Diocese reports 87 clergy; The Record, February 21 2002, p 11 . BUNBURY: Priest in love case hit in Bunbury court (Rev Adrian Richard Van Klooster); by Kevin Andrusiak, The West Australian, Tuesday February 26 2002, p3
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Pope may sack Polish prelate in love scandal www.telegraph.co.uk-newsBy Matthew Day THE Pope was yesterday considering the future of the Archbishop of Poznan, one of Poland's most senior Roman Catholics, after allegations that he molested young clerics in his diocese. A Vatican inquiry has been launched into claims that Archbishop Juliusz Paetz used a tunnel between his palace and a seminary to reach trainee priests. In a letter to Poznan's senior clerics, Archbishop Paetz said: "I have never molested, I repeat, never molested any of our seminarians and priests." (Telegraph) Philly Cardinal Apologizes for Abuse www.washingtonpost.com-wp-dyn-articles-A8235-2002Feb27.html By Michael Rubinkam PHILADELPHIA -- Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua on Tuesday apologized to victims who were loveually abused by priests in his archdiocese and promised that child molestation would not be tolerated. Bevilacqua posted a statement on the archdiocesan Web site calling loveual abuse by priests "among the most depraved of moral aberrations." It was his first public statement since the Archdiocese of Philadelphia revealed last week it had found "credible evidence" that 35 priests had committed loveual abuse against about 50 children dating back several decades. Several priests were dismissed, the archdiocese said. (AP)
Mbutt. OKs Child Abuse Reporting Bill www.washingtonpost.com-wp-dyn-articles-A8088-2002Feb26.html By Leslie Miller BOSTON -- Amid the biggest child-molestation scandal to rock the nation's Roman Catholic Church, the Mbuttachusetts state House approved legislation Tuesday requiring clergy to report evidence of loveual abuse of children to authorities. Clergy would not have to report anything they learned in confession or other usually privileged conversations if their religion forbids it. A version of the bill pbutted the Senate in January; the legislation must go back to the Senate for consideration of House amendments. The measure, approved overwhelmingly in a voice vote by the House, extends to members of the clergy the mandatory reporting law that applies to teachers, social workers and other professionals in Mbuttachusetts. "This is about protecting kids," said Rep. Antonio Cabral. (AP)
Priest Gets 18 Months for Molestation www.washingtonpost.com-wp-dyn-articles-A5091-2002Feb26.html WAUSAU, Wis. -- A Roman Catholic priest was sentenced to 18 months in jail and 20 years probation after pleading guilty to molesting and exposing himself to teen-age boys under his care at two churches. The Rev. Timothy E. Svea, 39, was convicted Monday of second-degree loveual buttault of a child under 16 and several counts of exposing himself to a child. Svea also pleaded guilty to charges of false imprisonment. "I've hurt these young men and I've hurt their families," Svea told Marathon County Circuit Judge Patrick Brady. "I've hurt the church and I've offended my God." District Attorney Jill Falstad said Svea had shown remorse and cooperated with authorities, but he abused his position as a religious leader, abusing the boys and giving them sleeping pills and alcohol. "Father Svea's crimes quite simply are reprehensible," she said. (AP)
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