Posted on 07/23/2004 5:34:22 AM PDT by Alfred Hitchcock
Child molestation is and there is a definate pattern of the Church protecting, aiding and abetting known pedophile priests.
I hope the Church pays DEARLY for this. If they will not police their own then they should be policed from outside.
Spoken like a true Lawyer!
Just like John Edwards helping clean up the medical practices by putting the Doctors out of Business or making them do more C-Sections to protect themselves from Him.
The Catholic Church needs to clean up its act and I do not want to give them money until they do since it will only go to the blood-sucking lawyers anyway.
RamS
MTV Ping.
Not surprising to me. I once lived in that Diocese. Too many good men were turned down for seminary. Too many gay ones were admitted.
Cardinal Keeler's track record is less than stellar in Baltimore. Many lawsuits against priest molesters have been settled there. One priest was shot and almost killed by a young man he had been abusing since eary teenhood.
And not much has been done to change things.
Meanwhile, Cardinal Keeler has given orders not to give First Communion to homeschooled Catholic children unless they use HIS teaching materials--full of modernist falsehoods.
A mother of a prospective seminarian in the HBG Diocese was a good friend of mine. Her boy, a decent honest lad with a clearly discernible vocation, was invited to a weekend at the "Cabin" with a bunch of priests and other candidates. What he witnessed there was none other than a homosexual orgy. He left in disgust, and WAS NOT accepted into the Diocese's sem. program.
Wrong, spunkets. RICO has been used for many other purposes. Prolifers have been prosecuted under RICO statutes.
I'm so happy to lern that Michael Rose is still at it, trying to expose the filthy rotting corpse of the Am-Church.
More from the article:
A pattern of deception
Hower’s lawsuit not only details his own dismissal for ‘blowing the whistle,’ it also painstakingly documents other similar incidents in order to show a pattern of deception used by many American bishops and senior priests in order to cover up the misdeeds of fellow priests.
The ostracization and banishment of whistleblowers sends a strong signal to others that silence about sexual crimes and immoral sexual activities is to be rewarded while those who reveal clerical misdeeds are to be punished—or, effectively eliminated, as in Hower’s case or in the recent case of Fr. James Haley in Arlington, Virginia.
(Haley was permanently suspended by Bishop Paul Loverde for testifying in a legal deposition about the immoral homosexual practices of his fellow diocesan priests. He was told that he was guilty of violating an order for him not to publicize priestly wrongdoing in order to "avoid scandal, to maintain ecclesiastical discipline and to protect the reputation and privacy of both the faithful and priests of this diocese." In other words, he was ordered to participate in a cover-up, while his bishop did nothing to remedy the situations of concern.)
Hower’s own investigation, he says, has revealed the same pattern of deception in the dioceses of Boston, Los Angeles, Saint Louis, Minneapolis, Chicago, Manchester and Portland, Maine—to name but a few. Hower’s treatment at the hands of Keeler and Moreno illustrates the modus operandi whereby whistleblowers are treated as criminals, while active homosexual priests are protected and promoted by their allies in what priest sociologist Fr. Andrew Greeley has dubbed "the Lavender Mafia."
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More power to Hower!
OK, Counsel. Tell me about this stuff.
RICO application requires that the org engage in criminal operations as a rule. The Church does not do that. If you think this is wrong, then you have to show where the conspiracy also applies to lawful activity, or that the Church is engaged in a criminal activity as a rule. I hold that the Church does not and RICO applies only to criminal orgs.
" Prolifers have been prosecuted under RICO statutes."
Any orgs that were, engaged in civil rights violations as a rule. The violation I noticed was that they blocked abortuary entrances as a rule.
Turning rectories into brothels for male prostitutes, paid for with parishioner's money, certainly sounds like a criminal operation to me.
The Church does not condone it, or allow it.
I'll give you the last word.
We shall see how this one plays out.
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