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• Warm greetings to accused founder of Legionaries of Christ. [Decades : Maciel (Legionaries of Christ)] - Roman Catholic Church (RCC).

   National Catholic Reporter, www.national catholicre porter.org/ word , "The Word From Rome" feature, by John L. Allen Jr., jallen@ natcath. org , January 28, 2005
   ROME - Speaking of the sexual abuse crisis, when Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado declined reelection on Jan. 20 as head of the Legionaries of Christ, some observers concluded he did so to avoid sex abuse charges directed against him by several former members, or that he acted under Vatican pressure.
   Just yesterday, however, the Vatican's top official for religious orders was full of praise for Maciel and the Legionaries. Archbishop Franc Rodé, a Slovenian who serves as prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, celebrated a Mass Jan. 27 marking the conclusion of the Legionaries' General Chapter at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. [Emphasis added]

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Series starts: www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethicscontents.htm Visit http://www.ncrnews.org/abuse    INCOMPLETE LINKS: Refer back to "References 61" for methods of obtaining the URLs.    "I extend a warm greeting to all the participants in the third ordinary general chapter of the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ," Rodé said. "I greet especially the new director general, Fr. Álvaro Corcuera, and his council, who assume the leadership of a tested and powerful congregation, with an undeniable apostolic dynamism and a penetrating vision of its present and future mission in the church and the world."
   "A particular greeting is directed to Fr. Marcial Maciel, who was the instrument chosen by God to carry out one of the great spiritual designs in the church of the twentieth century," Rodé said. "Esteemed and beloved Fr. Maciel, after having exercised with great prudence, wisdom and firmness the task of director general for more than 60 years, you leave the leadership of the Legion in younger hands, with the legitimate sense of having fulfilled your duty like a true soldier of Christ, accompanied by the veneration and gratitude of your children. I am sure that fidelity to the many precise norms you have left to the Legion of Christ, which make her a model of harmony and maturity, will continue shining in the congregation like a beacon of light for the generations to follow."
   I have a story in the Feb. 4 print edition of the National Catholic Reporter about the potential impact of Maciel stepping down on the Vatican investigation of sex abuse charges against him. Subscribers can access that story on the NCR Web site on Feb. 1. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 07:21 AM] (This is the first of the Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews. org/abuse , for Tue February 01, 2005.)
• 'One strike' abuse policy being looked at - RCC.

   National Catholic Reporter, The Word From Rome, By JOHN L. ALLEN JR., January 28, 2005
   ROME - Most Americans probably regard the sexual abuse norms adopted by the U.S. bishops in 2002, the heart of which is the "one strike" policy, as by now more or less written in stone, a permanent part of the church's response to the crisis. In fact, however, those norms were approved by the Vatican only for two years, and that trial period is up in March. What happens next is unclear.
   A "mixed commission" of Vatican officials and American bishops to discuss the norms will meet in Rome in the offices of the Congregation for Clergy, Jan. 31-Feb. 1.
   Concerns linger about the norms - about the fairness of the 'one strike' policy, the definition of the "sexual abuse," the routine lifting of the statute of limitations, and various due process issues - though opinion is divided both in Rome and in America. Some canonists and Vatican officials, and most American bishops, believe the norms are working and should be continued largely as they stand. Other Vatican officials, however, and many overseas bishops, remain opposed.
   Sources told NCR in late January that this meeting of the mixed commission is not necessarily expected to produce a decision, but to air experiences and concerns on both sides.
• Testimony: Shanley pulled boy out of class [1980s Shanley] - RCC. Boy.

   Boston Herald, http://news. bostonherald. com/localReg ional/view.bg? articleid= 66237 , By Marie Szaniszlo, Tuesday, February 1, 2005
   CAMBRIDGE (MA) - The man accusing Paul Shanley of raping him as a child often was either sent out of Sunday school class or removed by the priest for misbehaving, four former classmates testified yesterday.
   "I remember (the alleged victim) going out more than once," Brendan Moriarty said yesterday. Shanley "pulled Gregory Ford (another student) and (the alleged victim) out on separate occasions."
   Prosecutors rested their case yesterday after Moriarty and three other former classmates contradicted two former teachers who testified last week that they didn't recall Shanley taking his accuser out of class in the 1980s, when the priest allegedly molested the boy in the bathroom, the rectory, the pews and the confessional.
   One of the teachers had testified that class began at 8:50 a.m., ended an hour later and was followed by a 10 a.m. Mass, making it impossible, the defense suggested, for Shanley to do those things, particularly with other students and teachers around.
   Yesterday, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Stephen Neel dismissed one of three rape charges against Shanley after his lawyer, Frank Mondano, argued there was no evidence his client forced the alleged victim to perform oral sex on him. Shanley, now 74, faces up to life in prison if he is convicted of the other charges, as well as two counts of indecent assault and battery.
• Pastor held for raping girl, 12 - Zion Christian Church. Girl becomes 2nd wife.

   News 24, 21:02, Jan/31/2005 - (SA)
   KwaMhlanga, SOUTH AFRICA -- A Zion Christian Church leader has been charged with rape for apparently taking a 12-year-old church member as his second wife when he could no longer have sex with his pregnant wife.
   Captain Mamsy Cibe said on Monday the 43-year-old pastor from KwaMhlanga north of Witbank was arrested at his church on Sunday afternoon.
   The girl had been helping the pastor at a spaza shop since December 11 last year and, during that time, they allegedly started to have sex.
   [COMMENT: "Spaza shop" - meaning unknown to webmaster. 07 Mar 05. COMMENT ENDS.]
• Former pastor accused of abusing six boys [1990-2003 Neathery] - Baptist. 6 boys.

   Houston Chronicle, www.chron.com/ cs/CDA/ssistory. mpl/metropol itan/3018849 , Associated Press, ~ February 01, 2005
   FORT WORTH (TX) - A former pastor has been indicted on charges alleging that he sexually abused six boys over a 14-year period, many inside Westside Victory Baptist Church.
   The Rev. Larry Nuell Neathery, 55, has been jailed since he surrendered three weeks ago. He was indicted Friday.
   Neathery, who resigned as Westside Victory's pastor in December, is accused of sexual misconduct from 1990 until last year.
   Defense attorney Tiffany Lewis said Monday that Neathery "emphatically denies each and every allegation."
   According to the indictment, a 13-year-old church member said Neathery sexually assaulted him several times in late 2003 and early 2004. Another person claims Neathery fondled him as a youth in 1990 and, after he was an adult, tried to sexually assault him in 2003.
• Local seminary became filmmakers' subject as church scandal unfolded - RCC. Film
   Cincinnati Enquirer, By Karen Vance, Enquirer contributor, February 01, 2005
   MOUNT WASHINGTON (OH) - The sex abuse scandal was unfurling in the Roman Catholic Church - and a documentary film crew wanted to watch from inside the walls of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati's seminary.
   Church officials in both the archdiocese and the Athenaeum of Ohio's Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Mount Washington agreed.
   And what the cameras saw in 2002 and 2003 - the impact the scandal had on the archdiocese's future priests - became a documentary called "Keeping the Faith: Becoming a Priest in Today's Catholic Church." It airs nationally today at 10 p.m. on the Times/Discovery Channel.
   Producer Carol Marin said the seminary and the archdiocese gave them complete access after others turned them away.
   "The seminary took a real risk in doing this, and despite all that was going on, they let us in, they had no control over the script, no control over the questions we'd ask," said Marin. "It was pretty remarkable."
   For Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk, the documentary was an opportunity to share the story of an institution he's proud of. "I know Mount St. Mary's is one of the best seminaries in the country, and I was happy to say that and have someone else say it," he said.
• State rests in ex-priest's rape trial [1980s Shanley] - RCC. Boy.
   Nashua Telegraph, By DENISE LAVOIE, The Associated Press, Published: Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005
   CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Prosecutors rested their child rape case against Paul Shanley on Monday after a former classmate of his accuser testified that the former priest and the boy left Sunday school classes together on several occasions.
   Prosecutors have said Shanley, one of the most notorious figures in the clergy sex abuse scandal, would pull the boy from catechism classes at St. Jean's parish in Newton in order to rape him in the church confessional, pews, rectory and bathroom.
   Brendan Moriarty, who attended CCD classes with Shanley's accuser in the 1980s, said several boys were frequently sent out of the classroom when they became rowdy, including Shanley's accuser. He said he recalled seeing Shanley and his accuser leaving the classroom together.
   After prosecutors called their final witness, Judge Stephen Neel threw out one of the three child rape charges at the request of Shanley's attorney. That leaves him facing two counts of raping a child and two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child. The maximum sentence would be life in prison.
• Ex-Priest's Defense Calling Expert Witness [1980s Shanley] - RCC. Boy.
   TheBostonChannel.com ; POSTED 6:45 am EST February 1, 2005; UPDATED 7:01 am EST February 1, 2005
   CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Paul Shanley's lawyer plans to call one witness - a well-known psychologist who has challenged the reliability of recovered memory - in defense of the defrocked priest who is on trial for child rape.
   Following an off day, attorney Frank Mondano will begin presenting his case on Wednesday by calling Elizabeth Loftus, a University of California psychologist, to testify about recovered memory. She may not be available until Thursday, Mondano said.
   Prosecutors rested their case Monday after a former classmate of his accuser testified that Shanley and the boy left Sunday school classes together on several occasions.
   Prosecutors have said Shanley, one of the most notorious figures in the clergy sex abuse scandal, would pull the boy from catechism classes at St. Jean's parish in Newton in order to rape him in the church confessional, pews, rectory and bathroom.
   Brendan Moriarty said several boys, including Shanley's accuser, frequently were sent out of the classroom when they became rowdy. He said he recalled seeing Shanley and his accuser leaving the classroom together.
   On Monday, Judge Stephen Neel threw out one of the three child rape charges. That leaves Shanley facing two counts of raping a child and two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child. The maximum sentence would be life in prison.
• No duty to report abuse suit [1965-70 Gilpin (former seminarian; school assistant principal)] - RCC, then Episcopal. Abused as RC seminarian. Males.
   Bradenton Herald, By MICHAEL BARBER, AIMEE JUAREZ and STEPHEN MAJORS, Herald Staff Writers, ~ February 01, 2005
   MANATEE (FL) - Under state law, Haile Middle School assistant principal Joseph Gilpin was not obligated to inform school district officials about the sexual molestation accusations lodged against him in Massachusetts and Maine.
   Because Gilpin was never criminally charged, a civil case filed in Boston four years ago never came to the attention of Manatee County school officials until last Wednesday.
   That same day, district officials also learned of a second, similar abuse complaint filed in Maine in September 2003 against the 34-year veteran of the Manatee school system.
   "No criminal charges were, nor have they ever been filed against him," Superintendent Roger Dearing said. "There is no obligation on his part to notify us unless there is a criminal charge filed against him."
   Upon learning of the allegations, Dearing immediately placed Gilpin on paid administrative leave. Gilpin, who was a Catholic seminarian in the 1960s, submitted a letter of resignation on Friday. Gilpin has declined repeated requests for comment but has denied the allegations in court documents.
• Maine diocese failed to tell Manatee schools [1960s Gilpin (ex-seminarian, school assistant principal); 2003-05 Portland Archdiocese] - RCC, then Episcopal. 2 boys.
   Bradenton Herald, www.bradenton. com/mld/ bradenton/ news/local/ 10783758.htm , By RICHARD DYMOND, ~ February 01, 2005
   MANATEE (FL) - When allegations of sexual molestation surfaced against former seminary student Joseph Gilpin in 2003, officials of the Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Maine made no effort to find him.
   Instead, the diocese immediately turned his name over to the Maine attorney general's office in Augusta and to the Maine Department of Human Services and eventually began settlement negotiations, said diocese spokeswoman Sue Bernard.
   Meanwhile, Gilpin continued with his 34-year career as a teacher and administrator in Manatee County schools until last Wednesday, the day the allegations were forwarded to the school district by a national advocacy group.
   Gilpin resigned Friday from his assistant principal post at Haile Middle School amid allegations that he sexually molested two young boys when he was a Catholic seminarian in the late 1960s.
• Diocese's legal fees approach $800,000 - RCC. Children.
   The Arizona Republic, Associated Press, Feb. 1, 2005
   TUCSON (AZ) - The bill in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson's bankruptcy case stands at nearly $800,000 after four months, according to recent court filings.
   The expenses, mostly legal fees, are in keeping with what would be expected in a Chapter 11 case, bankruptcy experts said. The final tally will depend on how long the case is in court.
   The Tucson Diocese, which serves 350,000 Catholics in nine Arizona counties, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in September in the face of 22 pending legal actions alleging sexual abuse of children by priests. Its filing was the second by a diocese; the Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., filed in July.
   The court has set a deadline of April 15 to file a claim for those who believe they were sexually abused by a diocese priest. The Chapter 11 plan could be approved this year if all creditors agreed.
   Creditors, including any victims with valid claims of sexual abuse, will be paid after the diocese pays the administrative costs of the bankruptcy. Federal law requires that administrative costs be paid first.
• Prosecutors rest case vs. Shanley [1980s Shanley] - RCC. Boy.
   The Boston Globe, By Joanna Weiss, Globe Staff | February 1, 2005
   CAMBRIDGE (MA) -- The former Sunday School classmates agree on this much: Their class was rowdy, the teachers were overwhelmed, and the three most raucous boys sometimes left the classroom, including one who accuses defrocked priest Paul R. Shanley of raping him during those hours.
   But when they testified at Shanley's child rape trial in Middlesex Superior Court yesterday, the four classmates offered strikingly different memories of St. Jean Church in the early 1980s.
   They disagreed about where the classes were held in the Newton church and whether Shanley himself pulled the boys out of class. Several couldn't name their teachers and could only recall a few classmates. One said she hadn't seen Shanley's alleged victim since confirmation, but the man testified last week that he was never confirmed.
   In a case that hinges on recollections from two decades ago, jurors yesterday got a taste of the vagaries of memory, as Shanley's defense lawyer grilled the former students on the details of St. Jean's. The jury also heard testimony about the controversial subject of repressed memories and heard a psychiatrist acknowledge that some in his field believe they are phony.
   Prosecutors rested their case yesterday, the fifth day of testimony in Shanley's long-anticipated trial. Superior Court Judge Stephen Neel eliminated one of the three child rape charges against Shanley, 74, after the defense and prosecution agreed there had been no evidence presented on it. Shanley now faces two charges of raping a child and two charges of indecent assault and battery on a child, and he could be sentenced to life in prison if found guilty.
   Those charges stem from the memories of a 27-year-old man, a firefighter who says Shanley repeatedly raped and fondled him in church pews, the boys' room, the rectory, and the confessional from ages 6 to 11.
• Man sues archdiocese claiming abuse by priest [? 1970 Marsh] - RCC. Boys.
   Post-Intelligencer, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF, ~ February 01, 2005
   SEATTLE (WA) - The youngest in a family of five brothers, three of whom won a $425,000 settlement from the Seattle Archdiocese after accusing former priest John Marsh of sexual abuse, yesterday filed his own complaint.
   The man, now 42, is identified only by his initials in the lawsuit, which describes Marsh frequently visiting the boys and their mother during the late 1960s and early '70s. On several occasions, the suit says, the priest asked the older boys to spend nights with him at the rectory, and when G.S. was 8, he was invited too.
   Marsh showered with the child, fondled his genitals and then sodomized him, the suit says. Afterward, when the archdiocese received complaints from the boy's family, officials transferred Marsh to another parish, according to lawyer Michael Pfau.
• $5 million paid in abuse suits [Miami Archdiocese] - RCC. 35 court suits. Children.
   Miami Herald, BY JAY WEAVER, jweaver@herald.com, ~ February 01, 2005
   MIAMI (FL) - The Archdiocese of Miami says it paid $5.2 million last year to victims of alleged sexual abuse by priests to settle dozens of negligence lawsuits -- more than double its payouts during the previous 37 years.
   The archdiocese has settled 31 of the 35 suits, Archbishop John Favalora wrote in a four-page special section recently published in The Florida Catholic newspaper. All of those suits were filed since the nationwide clergy sex abuse scandal erupted in 2002.
   "As I told all Catholics earlier this year [2004], this decision was made as prudent exercise of my stewardship of the archdiocese and in light of the inability of those lawsuits to ascertain if the alleged abuse actually took place," Favalora wrote in the special section, entitled Protecting God's Children.
   Church officials insisted that no funds collected at weekly Masses, in donations from parishioners or from the annual Archbishop's Charity Drive were used for the settlements. Officials said all the money came from an in-house insurance program.
   "It's all coming from insurance money," archdiocese spokeswoman Mary Ross Agosta said Monday. "We pay premiums to private insurers on our insurance policies that cover all of these areas, from workmen's compensation to property damage to sexual-misconduct claims."
   [COMMENT: But, who provides the money for the INSURANCE PREMIUM MONEY? Does his reverence know that? Ah! The "Pay, pray and obey" brigade, perhaps? COMMENT ENDS.]
• Revelations: Faith betrayed (Part 1) - RCC. Boy.
   KTUU, www.ktuu.com/ CMS/templates/ master.asp? articleid=11259& zoneid=4 , by Megan Baldino, Monday, January 31, 2005
   ST. MICHAEL, Alaska - When Alaska's bishops met in Anchorage in February last year, they came together to divulge the scope of clergy sex abuse in Alaska. One bishop said he never imagined that the problem in his diocese was only just beginning.
   In what is now the largest clergy sex abuse lawsuit, 34 men claim a deacon raped them hundreds of times as children. They're now suing the Diocese of Fairbanks.
   Just off the coast of Norton Sound, an old Catholic Church stands tall, among plywood and log homes that make up the village of St. Michael, home to 400 people. Early missionaries talked about how easy it was to convert the people here to Christianity. They were already deeply spiritual. It wasn't long before the church became the center of their world.
   Peter Kobuk, 45, is a devout Catholic. He's lived in St. Michael his entire life. When he was young, he spent half his day at public school and then crossed the road and spent the rest of his day at St. Michaels Church.
   These days, Kobuk rarely comes this close to the old church. He was hoping it would be torn down years ago. Instead, the church looms over the village as a constant reminder of the horrible things that many say happened here years ago.
• Revelations: Faith betrayed (Part 2) - RCC. Boys.
   KTUU, www.ktuu.com/ CMS/templates/ master.asp?article id=11260& zoneid=4 , by Megan Baldino, Monday, January 31, 2005 -
   STEBBINS, Alaska - For decades, they buried their secrets, hoping no one would ever find out. Most of the men who say Joseph Lundowski molested them have never told anyone -- until now.
   Although most still want to remain anonymous, the men find courage in numbers and are finally coming forward, not only from St. Michael, but also from the nearby villages of Hooper Bay and Stebbins.
   "I didn't know he was that kind of a person."
   James Doe 4 says he was only 7 years old when the abuse began inside St. Bernard's Church in Stebbins. He says it continued for years, and even today he can barely talk about it.
   "At one time, he had three of us laying down with our pants down, taking turns on us," he says.
   He says the sexual abuse -- his first sexual experience ever -- has had a devastating effect on his life. "I thought it would be OK to have sex with another, the same sex. It really confused me."
   More than 30 years later, nearly a dozen men have gathered in the village community center in St. Michael and, for the first time ever, they've begun to realize they are not alone. As in St. Michaels, the men of Stebbins say there was a "monkey room" here, as well. [Emphasis added] [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 06:19 AM]
   [COMMENT: Were these clergy by their actions (and private words) delivering the "faith, once for all delivered to the saints," OR some other belief system? COMMENT ENDS.]
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Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont109.htm
For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed.
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• Man begins action over alleged abuse [1971-04; Murray, Sisters of Charity, Irish policemen, Ossory Diocese] - Roman Catholic Church. Sexual and physical. Boy.

   One in Four, www.oneinfour. org/news/news 2005/aggravated , from RTENews, ~ February 02, 2005
   IRELAND - A 45-year-old man who claims he suffered sexual and physical torture as a child in care is claiming aggravated damages from the State.
   Raymond Noctor told the High Court that the abuse continued at St Joseph's Industrial School in Kilkenny even after he complained personally to the Bishop of Ossory, Dr Peter Birch.
   Mr Noctor said the abuse started at the Sisters of Charity-run institution in 1971 when he was 12 and continued for four years.
   The court was told he was raped two to three times a week by housemaster David Murray.
   After it started he complained repeatedly to the head nun - once in the presence of two off-duty gardaí, the court heard. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 07:18 AM]
• Ex-Priest's Rape Trial Hangs On Recovered Memories [1980s Shanley] - RCC. Boy.

   TheBostonChannel.com ; POSTED 6:35 am EST February 2, 2005
   BOSTON (MA) -- At the height of the Boston Archdiocese sex scandal, Paul Shanley was brought back to Massachusetts in handcuffs, accused of raping four boys while he was a priest at a suburban parish in the 1980s.
   But as Shanley's trial winds down this week, there is only one accuser left, and prosecutors are fighting to convince a jury the man's recovered memories are for real.
   "It all hinges on the credibility of this one victim," said Michael Cassidy, an associate professor at Boston College Law School.
   In a sign of the central importance of recovered memory to the case, the defense plans to call only one witness: a research psychologist who has challenged the science behind recovered memories.
   The trial is one of the few criminal cases that prosecutors have been able to bring against priests accused of molesting youngsters decades ago. Most of the priests avoided prosecution because the statute of limitations on their alleged crimes had run out. But when Shanley moved away from Massachusetts, the clock stopped, allowing authorities to arrest him in California in 2002.
• Diocese costs rising in defense against sex abuse allegations [Fushek, LeClaire] - RCC. 8 clergy, 14 lawsuits
   East Valley Tribune, By Gary Grado, ~ February 02, 2005
   ARIZONA - The cost of defending lawsuits against priests sent behind bars for sex offenses keeps rising for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix.
   Since December 2002, when the first of eight priests was indicted after a yearlong investigation, at least 14 lawsuits have been filed against the diocese alleging sexual misconduct.
   The latest involves Monsignor Dale Fushek, pastor of St. Timothy Catholic Community in Mesa. On Friday, the Rev. Karl LeClaire became the third priest to plead guilty and to be sentenced for his crimes.
   Diocese officials refuse to disclose how much they are paying the private law firms defending the cases, but insist their finances are in good shape.
   "The diocesan resources and insurance resources are sufficient to resolve these cases," said Mike Haran, diocesan attorney. Insurance will cover some of the cases, but not all, he added. [Bolding added]
• Alleged abuser quits job at school [1960s Gilpin (ex-seminarian, school assistant principal)] - RCC, then Episcopal. Boy.
   Maine Today, By Staff and news services, February 02, 2005
   MAINE - A man who is accused of molesting a boy when he was a teacher in Biddeford in the late 1960s has resigned his job as assistant principal at a middle school in Florida.
   Church officials in Maine, meanwhile, circulated a notice to parishioners in Biddeford addressing the allegation and encouraging anyone with a complaint to come forward.
   Haile Middle School Assistant Principal Joseph Gilpin resigned Friday, two days after the school district learned that the former Catholic seminary student had been accused of sexually abusing two boys - one in Massachusetts and one in Maine - in the 1960s.
   Gilpin was put on administrative leave last Wednesday pending a school district investigation.
• 58 sexual-abuse counts filed against former Inland priest [1988-89 Dominguez] - RCC. 2 boys.

   The Press-Enterprise, By MICHAEL FISHER, 11:18 PM PST on Tuesday, February 1, 2005
   CALIFORNIA - Prosecutors have filed 58 sexual-abuse charges against a defrocked Inland priest accused of molesting two teenage boys at churches in Perris and Coachella during the late 1980s.
   Jesús Armando Dominguez, the onetime personal aide to Bishop Phillip F. Straling, the former head of the San Bernardino Diocese, faces more than 43 years in prison if convicted of the charges of unlawful oral copulation, sexual penetration and sodomy, Riverside County prosecutors said.
   Dominguez, a 55-year-old registered sex offender, could not be located for comment Tuesday. Prosecutors, who say they are wrangling with diocesan lawyers to unseal Dominguez's personnel file, have secured a $500,000 arrest warrant for the former priest, but they suspect he has fled to Mexico.
   Dominguez, known in his days of ministry in the Inland diocese as Father Jesse, is accused of abusing the boys in 1988 and 1989 at Our Lady of Soledad Church in Coachella and St. James Church in Perris.
• Hunt Is On for Ex-Priest Charged in Abuse Cases [1980s Dominguez] - RCC. 2 boys.
   Los Angeles Times, By Lance Pugmire, February 02, 2005
   CALIFORNIA - A defrocked Roman Catholic priest was charged Tuesday with molesting two teenage altar boys after allegedly plying them with alcohol, cash and pornographic movies while he served parishes in Coachella and Perris in the 1980s.
   Jesus "Father Jesse" Armando Dominguez, 55, allegedly abused the boys over a four-year period and faces 58 counts of sexual abuse. Dominguez was registered as a sex offender in 2001 when he was convicted of trying to take nude pictures of a 15-year-old boy from La Mirada.
   Authorities believe the former priest has fled to Mexico, where he may have relatives.
   "We're looking for him, working with all authorities, including Mexico," said Sgt. Earl Quinata, Riverside County Sheriff's Department spokesman. "We're putting as many resources as possible into this. Based upon his offenses, he's a priority for us."
• Accuser's 'life was destroyed' [1960s Gilpin (ex-seminarian, school assistant principal)] - RCC, then Episcopal. Boy. 200 clergy cases annually.

  Bradenton Herald, By RICHARD DYMOND, ~ February 02, 2005
   MANATEE (FL) - Joseph Gilpin's accuser from Maine has been divorced three times, is alienated from his one child, is hooked on drugs and suffers from depression and anxiety, his attorney said.
   "He's had anything but a normal life," said Irwin Zalkin, a partner in the San Diego law firm Zalkin & Zimmer LLP. Zalkin declined to reveal the identity of his client, who he said is now in his 50s and working as a mechanic.
   But Zalkin and his client contend that all his emotional problems stem from sexual encounters with Gilpin in the 1960s.
   Zalkin & Zimmer handles roughly 200 clergy sexual abuse cases a year, the attorney said.
   "He is very typical of what children experience," Zalkin said. "He has a difficulty with sexual identity and very difficult times in relationships. His life was destroyed. . . . He's had a life of substance abuse and multiple marriage."
• Revelations: Faith betrayed (Part 3) [Lundowksi; Northern Diocese of Alaska; Jesuits] - RCC. Boys.
   KTUU, www.ktuu.com/ CMS/templates/ master.asp? articleid= 11289& zoneid=4 , by Megan Baldino, Tuesday, February 1, 2005
   FAIRBANKS (AK) - Dozens of men claim that a deacon or lay volunteer sexually abused and raped them for years in western Alaska villages.
   The Diocese of Fairbanks has responded to the allegations, but in doing so, Bishop Donald Kettler may raise more questions than answers about what may have happened to these young boys years ago.
   As wave upon wave of accusations pound the Catholic Church in Alaska, nightmares of sexual abuse churn in the minds of men from Stebbins, St. Michael and Hooper Bay. After years of silence, the tide has turned. They are ready to speak out against Joseph Lundowksi.
   Peter Kobuk is one of 33 men suing the Northern Bishop of Alaska, the Oregon Province of Jesuits and the Society of Jesus - Alaska.
   "I only told a Catholic because I wanted a Catholic to fix it themselves and come forward themselves and say, yes, Joseph Lundowski was molester," says Peter Kobuk, who is James Doe 18 in the lawsuit.
• Warrant issued for ex-priest's arrest [1988-89 Dominguez] - RCC. 2 boys.
   The Desert Sun, by Lois Gormley, February 2, 2005
   CALIFORNIA - A warrant was issued Monday for the arrest of a former Coachella priest on 58 counts of sexual abuse and molestation against two boys during his service as a priest in Riverside County in the 1980s.
   The current whereabouts of Jesus "Jesse" Armando Dominguez, 55, are unknown. He served for three years at Our Lady of Soledad in Coachella. His last address of record was in the Los Angeles area near Whittier but authorities believe he might now be in Mexico.
   "We are confident there are other victims out there," said Riverside County Deputy District Attorney Morgan Gire. "Until he is apprehended we are concerned he is continuing to victimize children."
   Bishop Gerald R. Barnes has directed that a letter be read following weekend Masses at the four parishes to which Dominguez was assigned.
   "That message will urge any victims of abuse by priests or church personnel to please come forward and begin the healing process," said the Rev. Howard Lincoln, spokesman for the San Bernardino Diocese which also covers Riverside County.
   Dominguez is charged with numerous acts of unlawful oral copulation, sexual penetration and sodomy against two boys, ages 14 to 17, between January 1988 and April 1989 while working at churches in Coachella and Perris.
   The investigation is ongoing.
• Ouster of Rockwall priest sought [unnamed, Richard] - RCC. Keeping handyman on staff. Indecent exposure.
   The Dallas Morning News, www.dallasnews. com/sharedcontent/ dws/news/city/ rockwallrowlett/ stories/020205 dnmetrockwall church.3672e. html ; By BROOKS EGERTON, 08:10 PM CST, Tuesday, February 1, 2005
   ROCKWALL (TX) - Some Catholics in Rockwall are urging Dallas Bishop Charles Grahmann to remove their pastor, citing the priest's support for a lay minister who is serving a probationary sentence for indecent exposure.
   The protesters say the Rev. William Richard is seeking the bishop's permission to continue employing the layman - and is dismissing parishioners who oppose this from volunteer positions.
   "There are several other grave matters we would like to discuss with you," adds a letter to the bishop that is posted on the group's Web site. It does not elaborate.
   More than 110 people from Our Lady of the Lake parish have recently signed petitions calling for the pastor's removal, the Web site says. About 1,500 people attend Sunday services, according to the Dallas Catholic Diocese.
   Bronson Havard, the bishop's spokesman, said the petitions are under review, as is the lay minister's status. He declined to comment further Tuesday.
   Father Richard said the reviews had led him to be quiet.
   "With the parish I haven't said a lot, out of discretion and so forth, but that's given a lot of people an opportunity to spin things their own way," the priest said.
• Miami Archdiocese paid $5.2 million in 2004 to end abuse claims - RCC. $US 5.2m.
   New Mexican, Associated Press, February 1, 2005
   MIAMI (AP) (FL) - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami says it paid $5.2 million last year to settle sexual abuse claims against its priests -- more than double its payments during the previous 37 years.
   Archbishop John Favalora says the archdiocese has settled 31 of 35 sexual abuse lawsuits filed against it. All were filed after the church's sexual abuse scandal erupted nationally in 2002.
   By making the settlements, Favalora said the archdiocese was not admitting that its priests committed abuse, but that the legal costs of defending the suits was getting too expensive.
   "As I told all Catholics (in 2004), this decision was made as prudent exercise of my stewardship of the archdiocese and in light of the inability of those lawsuits to ascertain if the alleged abuse actually took place," Favalora wrote in The Florida Catholic newspaper.
• Prosecutors finish sexual abuse case against former priest [1980s Shanley] - RCC. Boy.
   CNN, By Emanuella Grinberg, Court TV, Posted 11:37 AM EST (1637 GMT), Tuesday, February 1, 2005
   EAST CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Court TV) -- Prosecutors rested their child rape case against defrocked priest Paul Shanley by calling his accuser's Sunday-school classmates, who offered the only testimony to corroborate the accuser's claims of abuse 15 years ago.
   Four of his peers from catechism class at St. John's Parish in Newton, where Shanley was assigned in the 1980s, testified that the accuser was part of a "rowdy" group of boys often sent from class to visit Shanley for disciplinary action.
   "The best word I can use is very chaotic. It was hard to pay attention," Kerry Lessard testified of the classroom environment.
   "The three boys seemed to get in a lot of trouble," Christine Michelon said.
• Pope tells Church to improve priest vetting - RCC. Outside specialists to teach celibacy.

   Deepikaglobal.com ; ~ Feb 02, 2005
   VATICAN CITY, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Pope John Paul urged the Roman Catholic Church today to improve vetting procedures for would-be priests in the wake of numerous sex scandals.
   In a letter to the cardinal in charge of priestly education, the pope said specialists might have to be called into to help teach young candidates about the reality of celibate chastity.
   "Right from the moment the young men enter a Seminary their ability to live a life of celibacy should be monitored so that before their ordination one should be morally certain of their sexual and emotional maturity," the pope wrote.
   "Given on-going social and cultural changes, teachers might find it useful to turn to the work of competent specialists to help the seminarians fully understand the demands of the priesthood," he added.
   The pope, who is suffering from influenza and has cancelled all his public appearances so far this week, has previously called on bishops to provide more guidance to priests to try to prevent the sort of sex scandals that rocked the U S church. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:44 AM]
   [COMMENT: But, but, if celibacy was REALLY coming from Heaven, who better than the Heaven-directed clergy to teach the clergy celibacy? Can anyone see any gap in the logic? And, what happened to the scripture text that every man ought to have his own wife, and vice-versa? COMMENT ENDS.]
• Lincoln pulls Super Bowl car ad after sex abuse victims complain

   San Francisco Chronicle, http://sfgate. com/cgi- bin/article. cgi?f=/news/ archive/ 2005/02/02 /sports2045 EST0397.DTL ; By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer, (02-02) 17:45 PST NEW YORK (AP), Wednesday, February 2, 2005
   NEW YORK - Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday yanked a planned Super Bowl advertisement that depicts a clergyman tempted by a new pickup truck after some victims of clergy sex abuse complained it made light of their trauma.
   The company wants to keep the focus on its new truck model rather than any controversy, said Sara Tatchio, spokeswoman for Ford's Lincoln division.
   The ad shows a set of car keys placed on a collection plate. The clergyman finds a new Lincoln Mark LT truck in the parking lot, and lovingly caresses the exterior.
   The car's owner then enters the picture, with his little girl poking her head from behind him -- the implication being she had dropped the keys in the plate. The clergyman hands over the keys, then is depicted adding the letters L and T to a message board advertising an upcoming sermon, to spell lust.
   The Chicago-based Survivors Networks of those Abused by Priests [SNAP] believed the little girl's presence in the ad with the clergyman and word "lust" had sexual overtones and that Lincoln was playing off the news of religious sex scandals to sell cars. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 08:10 PM]
   [COMMENT: When a corporate giant, a motor firm, is using the nonprofit giant, the Roman Catholic Church, as a butt of a humorous advertisement, even the silliest bishop (of the "forgive 'em all", "boys will be boys", or "none of us is without faults -- wink, wink" kind) ought to realise the "game is up." In the 1980s the US RC bishops were warned that if they kept allowing clergy to seduce children, there would be a massive lost of respect for the RCC. The other Churches were, or ought to have been, aware of that report, and if they were really guided "from beyond the stars" all Churches would have immediately stopped their practices of condoning clergy child sex abuse, and transferring the abusers from place to place, promoting them, and even putting them in charge of complaints boards! - FPP. COMMENT ENDS.]
////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker www.ncrnews.org/abuse , Wed February 02, 2005
Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont109.htm
For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed.
• Vatican aide supports use of condoms. - RCC. AIDS crisis. Card. Cottier speaks up.

   The West Australian, from The Guardian, p 14, Wednesday, February 2, 2005
   ROME - A senior Vatican official has supported the use of condoms to fight Africa's AIDS pandemic, contradicting the Catholic Church's official position.
   Cardinal Georges Cottier, theologian of the pontifical household, told the Italian news agency Apcom that the use of condoms was "legitimate" to save lives in the poorest parts of Africa and Asia, where there was no time to teach abstinence or faithful conjugal love.
   He is the most senior figure so far to argue that condoms should be admissible in exceptional circumstances. Contraception is officially forbidden by the Church and the Vatican has argued that condoms are full of "tiny holes" and do not guarantee protection against the transfer of the AIDS virus.
   Reiterating the Church's official line, Cardinal Cottier said condoms should not be used as contraceptives, could encourage immoral sexual conduct and were not the best way to stop the spread of HIV. But the threat of AIDS was so immediate that "the use of condoms in some situations can be considered morally legitimate".
   "The virus is transmitted during a sexual act, so at the same time as (bringing) life there is also a risk of transmitting death," he said. "And that is where the commandment 'thou shall not kill' is valid."
   The cardinal's comments come days after a Spanish bishops' conference was forced to retract similar statements in favour of condoms. Juan Antonio Martinez Camino, a spokesman for the Spanish bishops' conference in Madrid, had said: "The time has come for a joint strategy in the prevention of such a tragic pandemic as AIDS and contraception has a place in the context of the integral and global prevention of AIDS." He suggested every method to help prevent the spread of the disease should be used.
   Cardinal Cottier's comments signal a growing swell of realism within the Church, with more and more prominent figures supporting the use of condoms to save lives, despite misgivings.
   Growing numbers, including Cardinal Godfried Daneels, tipped as a possible future pope, have taken this stance publicly in recent years, but experts say the Vatican is unlikely to change its line under the current Pope. [Emphasis added] [Also shown in religion/religchron.htm] [Feb 2, 05]
• Pope put into hospital with influenze.
   Electronic news media, February 2, 2005
   VATICAN CITY: Pope John Paul II has gone into hospital with influenze. [Feb 2, 05]
Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont109.htm
For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed.
#### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse, Thu February 03, 2005 edition follows:-
• Personnel Bile; Weekly announces release of Catholic Church pedo-protecting archives. [Orange Diocese] - Roman Catholic Church.

   Orange County Weekly, www.ocweekly. com/ink/05/22/ ex-arellano. php , by Gustavo Arellano, garellano@ocweekly.com , Vol. 10 No. 22, February 4 - 10, 2005
   CALIFORNIA - For the past two years, sex-abuse victims with civil cases against the Catholic Diocese of Orange have clamored for the release of personnel files they say will prove the church's complicity in their molestations.
   That day is coming soon: on Jan. 31, diocesan officials turned over personnel files to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter Lichtman as part of their $100 million settlement with sex-abuse victims, the largest in the history of the Catholic Church. Lichtman will decide at a yet-to-be-determined date what documents to release and, citing legal privileges, which to keep sealed.
   Whenever that date is, it won't come soon enough. So, as a public service, the Weekly is opening our personal archives of church documents. Every week on our website, www.ocweekly.com, readers will find a new file available for viewing or printing in a .pdf format.
   Some files are public record, such as the 1986 police report in which a Huntington Beach detective investigating allegations that Andrew Christian Anderson was molesting altar boys at St. Bonaventure noted that church officials were "attempting to avoid me." Other documents include private church correspondence that illuminates how Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown spun the scandal to his priests. All of them are damning.
   Our first document is a psychological profile on Monsignor Michael Harris, the former Mater Dei and Santa Margarita principal who was sued by nine plaintiffs as part of the $100 million settlement. Orange officials forced Harris to undergo the exam at the St. Luke Institute in Maryland in 1994 after pedophilia allegations first surfaced against him. In 2001, when Ryan DiMaria sued Harris and the Orange diocese and eventually settled for $5.2 million, Brown sought to keep the profile sealed, going as far as the California State Supreme Court.
   Some highlights:

On page three, Harris admits "he has been sexually aroused while hugging adolescent boys"; a couple of paragraphs later, Harris claims that children "have flirted with him."

Page four makes repeated reference to Harris attending therapy with a Dr. Gottschalk. The psychologist in question is Louis Gottschalk, professor emeritus at UC Irvine, which named its medical plaza after him.

On page 10, the St. Luke team diagnoses Harris with ephebophilia, a sexual attraction to adolescents. "It has been our experience that in many cases like these," wrote St. Luke head Stephen J. Rossetti, "the allegations that have surfaced are only a few of the actual incidents of abuse that have occurred." Rossetti also disclosed, "Michael indicated that he would be willing to be open about the truth if the information would not be given to the diocese or be used in a court of law."
   Harris stepped down as Santa Margarita's principal the same year he underwent the psychological exam. And yet, despite knowing what was in the report, Orange diocese officials allowed Harris to attend Santa Margarita football games for the next several years and didn't defrock him until 2001.
   To download and read the 12 page pdf document, click here http://www.ocweekly.com/images/ink/05/22/22letter.pdf.
   Please note: The document should take about three minutes to load with a 56k modem.# [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 09:03 PM]

Archdiocese Documents [1980s Cincinnati Archdiocese, Pilarczyk, Kelley] - RCC. Boys.
   WCPO www.wcpo.com/ wcpo/localshows/ iteam/7a7022c. html , Reported and Web Produced by: I-Team, Laurie Quinlivan lquinlivan@wcpo.com , 21:23:27, Updated: Feb/03/05
   CINCINNATI (OH) - Tonight the I-team lays out documents the Archdiocese of Cincinnati hoped people would never see.
   They show the Cincinnati Archdiocese leaders' failure to report the sexual abuse of a priest with dozens of victims.
   I-team reporter Laure Quinlivan has our exclusive report.
   (Laure Quinlivan) Have you covered up any of the crimes of your priests?
   (Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk) No, No.
   (Laure Quinlivan) Have you reported felony child abuse to police as required by Ohio law?
   (Archbishop Pilarczyk) Yes. (Laure Quinlivan) When? (Pilarczyk) When required. (Quinlivan) Well that's been a law since 1974, have you been reporting all the child abuse you've become aware of to police?"
   Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, on tape: "We have reported all the child abuse that we are required to report. That's all I can tell you, I don't know any more than that."
   Victim of priest, on tape: "He is a liar."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, on video: Victims are angry after reading these letters www.wcpo. com/wcpo/ local shows/ iteam/arch diocese/ index.html> from one priest's personnel file. They call them bombshells and we're going to show them to you.
   David Kelley was a charming priest who befriended boys from West Side parishes he served, and from Elder High School where he taught religion.
   Victim of priest, on tape: "We thought, why don't we invite Father Kel? Father Kel's cool."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, on video: In May of '83, his glee club invited Chaplain Kelley to their end of year party. He says Kelley drank with the teens then invited him in for a nightcap.
   Victim of priest, identity hidden, on tape: "I said sure."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team Reporter, on video: He was naive, and a virgin. Kelley was a wrester, chaplain of Elder's team. He used wrestling skills to pin the boy's head between his legs and sexually assault him.
   Victim of priest, identity hidden, on tape: "That still just haunts me."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, on video: "Why?"
   Victim of priest, identity hidden, on tape: "Because I'm a male and that just doesn't happen."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, on video: "He made you question your sexuality?"
   Victim of priest, identity hidden, on tape: "Yeah, everything. You know what happened to me? I haven't told my wife what I've told you."
   Victim of David Kelley, identity hidden, on tape: "The drinking and smoking.
Full screen image of four victims.
   Victims say Kelley routinely invited boys to his room where he gave them beer, pot, porn and molested those he could.
   Victim of priest, identity hidden, on tape: "He says what happened here, we can't let this go out of this room, and I was like who do you think I'm gonna tell?"
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, on video: He graduated in '83 and told no one. But that fall, another victim did tell. An Elder sophomore told his mom Kelley had abused him, and she told Elder Principal Tom Kuhn.
   Voice of victim's mother from phone call: "I talked to Father Kuhn on the phone and told him."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, on video: This letter proves Archbishop Pilarczyk knew several teens accused Kelley of molesting them.
   Names are erased from these letters, but using dates and Catholic directories, the I-Team fills in the blanks.
Full screen graphic of letter.
   Pilarczyk writes in the fall of '83:

"The priest principal, [Laure says: Father Tom Kuhn], reported parents of at least two students said. (Father Kelley) had them take off their clothes and he touched their genitals….within a few weeks the same kind of reports were brought to the principal by several additional students"
"fearing the real possibility of widespread scandal… (fr. kelley) was told he would have to leave the faculty and the parish. he readily agreed. he was strongly advised…to enter into professional counseling. he never did, to the best of my knowledge."

Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, on video: Compare the Archbishop's letter to the what he told the I-Team about Kelley in 2003.
Archbishop Pilarczyk, on tape during 2003 interview with I-Team: "He was excessively familiar with young men."

Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, on video, during 2003 interview: "You removed Father Kelley from Elder. Why wouldn't you remove him from the priesthood? You didn't even send him to counseling."
Archbishop Pilarczyk, on tape during 2003 interview with I- Team: "No, I'm sorry, I don't remember all the details. I'm not trying to be coy, I don't remember."

   Victim of David Kelley, on tape: He should have taken Father Kelley by the hand and marched him right down to police and said here, we know this guy is abusing little kids."
Graphic of a letter.
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over video: This memo shows leaders knew the law. In 1985, Priest Personnel Director Paul Rehling writes, Kelley should be sent to counseling "out of state. Reason: Ohio law requires reporting of child abuse."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over video: Instead of calling police to report Kelley's alleged abuse, the Archbishop moved him to St. Christopher's, north of Dayton.
   No one told the pastor here Kelley might be a child molestor. Two years later, he kicked Kelley out.
(Graphic of a letter.) Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, reading text of letter: Reverend Bob Monnin writes Kelley...

"The first day or so of your arrival, I bluntly asked you what the problem was. You said very little. I did emphatically state to you, 'no one except priests or family would be allowed to go to the second floor into our quarters.'"
   "In the months that followed, there were numerous occasions when you took people into your room while I was in Texas. It's evident that [boy] was allowed to spend the night."
   "[Boy] is a high school student who missed school the next day. Frankly, this scares the Hell out of me!"
   "I have asked Father [Rehling] to reassign you. Not a single person in the parish will suspect a thing when you leave."

   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over video: The same month, the Archbishop got another letter about Kelley from another priest, Reverend Tom Bolte.
   Bolte pastors St. Ingatius Loyola in Monfort Heights.
   Bolte says a man he was preparing for marriage in 1986 told him Kelley had abused his best friend at Little Flower back in the 70's.
   Rev. Tom Bolte, St. Ignatius Loyola, on tape: "So I contacted Father Rehling who was in charge of, uh, priest personnel at that time to let him know the situation and Father Rehling asked me to send it in a letter you know so it would be documented and that's what I did."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over fullscreen graphic, then reading aloud from letter: He writes that he told Rehling...

"This is a serious matter. I wonder if there might have been other students [Fr. Kelley] took up to his bedroom. These boys might need counciling [sic]."

Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over fullscreen graphic, then reading aloud from letter: So Rehling writes Pilarczyk.

"Advise [Fr. Bolte] to tell the [groom's] friend to talk to some priest he can trust. The problem: if the young man were to talk to a professional counselor, that person may report the accused priest to civil authorities. I don't think you should say this to [Fr. Bolte] however. It would be held against you in any future court case."

   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over video: Former Priest Personnel Director Paul Rehling is now at St. William in Price Hill. He declined to talk.
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, asking Rehling a question on video: "How can you justify not taking him out of the ministry?"
Video continues, showing Rev. Paul Rehling slamming door.
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over graphic: The Archbishop took Rehling's advice and wrote Bolte.
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, reading aloud from letter:

"I suggest he talk to some priest he can trust. There is some possibility he is confused about what happened."

   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over video: We showed these documents to Father Bolte.
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, on tape, interviewing Bolte: "What disturbs you about the letter?"
   Fr. Tom Bolte, on video: "If criminal proceedings needed to occur, it should have occurred, and to remove Fr. Kelley from ministry at that time."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over video: Instead, the Archbishop sent Kelley for treatment out of state then assigned him chaplain at Mercy Hospital in Anderson.
   Father of priest victim, on tape: "He's a monster who masquerades as a priest."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over video: Kelley apparently kept abusing.
   In 1993, Father Bolte said another young man told him Kelley had tried to seduce him. Bolte says he told Priest Personnel Director Ken Czillinger, who's since left the priesthood.
   Bolte writes... [Reading letter text:] "I told him [Father Kelley] was still stalking teenagers, still coming on sexually to young men after I had reported him in 1986. This was a serious problem with [Fr. Kelley] being chaplain at the hospital and living in an apartment unsupervised."
   (Fr. Tom Bolte) "It was wrong, this was a dangerous situation and I hoped they were working with it."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over video: But the Archbishop let Kelley continue as Mercy's chaplain. Kelley also said mass at St. Veronica's in Mt. Carmel and St. Andrews in Milford. He even worked at this rehab center counseling teenagers.
   Video shows rehab center.
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over video: Kelly's secret came out only after victims filed lawsuits in 2003, and despite all their letters on Kelley from the mid-80's we've shown you, this was the Archdiocese's public response.
   Dan Andriacco, Archdiocese spokesperson, on tape during September 2003 news conference: "We are certain that we have not received any allegations of child abuse by Father Kelley previous to 1994. If there was any report of abuse before 1994, it never made it to the Archdiocese."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over video: That claim upset Father Bolte, who wrote church leaders to remind them he "contacted the Archdiocese about [Fr. Kelley] in 1986 and 1993."
   Fr. Tom Bolte, on tape: "Everything needs to be above board and honest. Yes it does."
   Laure Quinlivan, on tape, approaching David Kelley in fall 2003: "Can we talk to you?"
   David Kelley on tape in fall 2003: No, you can't."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over video: In December 2003, Kelley left Cincinnati for Clarksville, Tennessee. He lives here, in a neighborhood with children.
   Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters, on tape: "There is no cure for pedophilia and they remain dangerous forever."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, on tape talking with Deters: "Given that, should the Archbishop take responsibility to warn people about Kelley, keep track of him?"
   Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters, on tape: "They should be taking every step to make sure the priests who engaged in this activity never have contact with any child again, no matter what it takes."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over video: The Archdiocese warned the local church but not Kelley's neighbors. They found out when victims handed out flyers in October.
   Alexandra Neppl, neighbor of Kelley's, on tape: "He had teenage kids -- I think they were 17 or 18 -- over to his house. They were helping him cut his grass, just have a barbeque. [sic] I have told my little brother to stay on our side of the driveway, not to go over and talk to him or anything."
   Laure Quinlivan, I-Team reporter, voice over video: "This local news story [Video shows the front page of the Leaf-Chronicle] is how Kelley's new boss learned his background. Kelley'd been working as a counselor."
   Laure Quinlivan, on tape: "If you would have known that he was suspected of all these sexual offenses would you have hired him?"
   Voice of Barb Smith, Buffalo Valley Rehab Center: "Definitely not."
   Laure Quinlivan, voice over video: And now victims have learned the former prosecutor who declared justice...
   Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen, during November 2003 news conference, on tape: "The Archdiocese has been held responsible."
   Laure Quinlivan, voice over video: ...focused his plea deal on church crimes before 1982, letting the Archbishop off the hook.
   Archbishop Pilarczyk, during November 2003 interview, on tape: "I believe that whatever needed to be done on my watch was done."
   Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen, during November 2003 news conference, on tape: "There's nothing more we could have gotten out of this case than we got."
   Laure Quinlivan, voice over video: But our investigation finds Allen had all the documents we've shown you, that prove the Archbishop's involvement.
   Joseph Deters, Hamilton County Prosecutor, on tape: "It looks like they had those records."
   Laure Quinlivan, interviewing Deters: "Then why didn't he use them?"
   Joseph Deters, Hamilton County Prosecutor, on tape: "I don't know. That is an issue for Mike Allen."
   Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen, during November 2003 news conference, on tape: "We examined under oath every witness from the Archdiocese who would have had knowledge of this abuse."
   Laure Quinlivan, interviewing Bolte: "Did prosecutors contact you?"
   Fr. Tom Bolte, on tape: "No, I was not contacted."
   Joseph Deters, Hamilton County Prosecutor, on tape: "If anyone in your listening audience has evidence that someone, or they saw something that should come to our attention, please call us, because we're reviewing this right now, and if there's information we should know about, I hope they report it."
   I-Team "BONG" and animation
   Laure Quinlivan, on set: The Archbishop declined to answer any questions, on camera or in writing, because of pending litigation.
   However a spokesman says: "Archbishop Pilarczyk never intentionally misled anyone about his knowledge of child abuse by priests or others representing the Archdiocese during his tenure as Archbishop."
   Meanwhile, victims are working with Ohio lawmakers to temporarily lift the statute of limitations www.wcpo.com/wcpo/localshows/iteam/archdiocese/index.html to file civil lawsuits for childhood sexual abuse.
   Contact the I-Team Laure Quinlivan lquinlivan@wcpo.com #

• Ex-Priest's Child Rape Trial Goes to Jury [1980s Shanley] - RCC. Boy.
   Reuters, http://olympics. reuters.com/newsArticle. jhtml?type= domesticNews& storyID= 7532094 , By Greg Frost, 04:20 PM ET, Thu Feb 3, 2005
   CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) - The defense attorney for Paul Shanley, the defrocked U.S. Catholic priest accused of child rape, said Thursday there was "massive doubt" about what occurred two decades ago and called for the jury to acquit him.
   In closing arguments of the trial of Shanley, a central figure in a U.S. Catholic Church abuse scandal, attorney Frank Mondano said the accuser may have lied about events at a Boston-area church, but the prosecution contended there was no doubt the boy was molested "again and again and again."
   "There isn't reasonable doubt in this case. There's massive doubt in this case," Mondano said in his closing arguments, in which he cast doubt on the memory and motives of the sole accuser in the criminal trial.
   The jury retired to consider its verdict Thursday afternoon.
   Shanley, the 74-year-old former priest, was indicted in 2002 on charges of child rape and indecent assault and battery on a child. Prosecutors dropped most of the charges because three of the original four accusers either would not testify or could not be found.
   The only remaining charges relate to a 27-year-old firefighter who last week took the witness stand and tearfully told of being raped and molested in the 1980s -- memories he says he repressed until they came flooding back as a clergy sex scandal rocked the Archdiocese of Boston.
• Priest suspended after child porn arrest [2005 Bagert] - RCC. Computer child porn.
   Star-Telegram, www.dfw.com/ mld/dfw/news/ 10808718.htm , By Susan Schrock, ~ February 03, 2005
   GRAND PRAIRIE (TX) - The Dallas Catholic Diocese has suspended a Grand Prairie priest indefinitely after he was arrested for reportedly possessing child pornography on his church computer.
   Father Matthew Bagert, 36, was arrested Wednesday morning at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on NE 17th Street, two days after the diocese contacted Grand Prairie police that he had child pornography on his computer.
   Bagert was released from the Grand Prairie Jail on $20,000 bond.
   Bronson Havard, spokesperson for the diocese, said Bagert was consulting an attorney Thursday and was declining interviews.
   Bagert was ordained in 1997 and has been the church's pastor since 2001, Havard said. The diocese had received no previous complaints about him, Havard said.
   "This was a shock for all of us," Havard said. [Bolding added!]
• Supes seek to save St. Brigid Church - RCC.
   San Francisco Chronicle, www.sfgate.com/ cgi-bin/article. cgi?f=/c/a/2005/ 02/03/BAGMTB4 NTJ1.DTL ; by Suzanne Herel, Chronicle Staff Writer, Thursday, February 3, 2005
   SAN FRANCISCO (CA) - The San Francisco Board of Supervisors wants to label the long- closed St. Brigid Catholic Church a local historic landmark in an effort to thwart the archdiocese's plan to demolish the building and sell the land to pay off settlements of priest abuse cases.
   Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, who represents District 2, where the church sits at Broadway and Van Ness Avenue, introduced a resolution Tuesday urging the Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board to consider an official historic designation for the structure, built in Richardsonian Romanesque style in 1900.
   The measure has enough co-sponsors to pass at the board meeting Tuesday.
   But Maurice Healy, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said that even if the church does become a historic landmark, it won't affect the archdiocese's plan to sell the building to a developer who intends to erect condominiums on that corner.
   Under state law, Healy said, religious organizations are permitted to reject landmark status -- as the archdiocese already did in this case with the national and state registers of historic places -- and do what they like with the buildings they own.
   [COMMENT: If outsiders tried to knock St Brigid's down, the Church leaders would cry "sacrilege!" But if a priest destroys the virtue of a child (whose body is a "temple of the Holy Spirit"), the leaders hush it up, and move the destroyer to another place. "These people honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me." - JCM. COMMENT ENDS.]
• Support Groups Help Victims of Sexual Abuse - RCC.
   Arlington Catholic Herald, www.catholic herald.com/ articles/05 articles/support 0203.htm , By Soren Johnson, Special to the Herald, Feb/3/05
   VIRGINIA - The diocesan Victim Assistance Office and Catholic Charities will collaborate to offer two support groups for victims of sexual abuse beginning this spring.
   The confidential support groups, to be offered initially in Arlington and Fredericksburg over a 10-week period, will be a "safe place of ongoing healing, where trust might be in some part regained," according to Pat Mudd, diocesan victim assistance coordinator.
   "We're here to support victims/survivors on their journey to healing." The establishment of the groups was requested by Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde last fall.
   Because of the sensitive nature of the topic, it will not be a drop-in group; participants will be asked to register and commit to attend weekly sessions.
   Among those leading the support groups will be Pamela Staszak, a professional counselor with Catholic Charities who has previously overseen support groups for victims of sexual abuse in North Carolina; Pat Cole, assistant program director of Family Services for CCDA who has worked extensively with adult victims of sexual abuse and trauma in workshops and support groups; and Marguerite Turner, assistant program director of Family Services, who has provided therapy to individuals, couples and families focusing on issues of depression, self-esteem, abuse survival, trauma and anxiety.
   [COMMENT: They want to shut the gate after the horse has bolted! - KJJM. COMMENT ENDS.]
• Second creditors' committee formed [Spokane Diocese] - 5 victims now on committee. RCC.
   KGW, www.kgw.com/ sharedcontent/ APStories/ stories/D8818 BT01.html , By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS / Associated Press, February 03, 2005
   SPOKANE (WA) - A second committee of creditors has been formed in the bankruptcy of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane, to satisfy complaints that the first group did not include enough victims of sexual abuse.
   The new committee contains five men who have filed lawsuits against the diocese contending they were abused by priests.
   The original committee now contains just three members, representing sexual abuse victims who so far have declined to sue the diocese. Two other members of the original committee have moved over to the new committee.
   The Office of the U.S. Trustee made the changes on Wednesday.
   "The trustee advised diocesan attorneys that the second committee had been formed because the makeup of the original, single committee left some individuals feeling disenfranchised from the process," the diocese said in a news release.
• Bias Detected In Super Bowl Ad Protest - RCC and Episcopal.
   Catholic League, www.catholic league.org/05 press_releases/ quarter%201/ 050203 _superbowl. htm , February 03, 2005
   UNITED STATES - Bowing to pressure from SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), Catholic activists, lawyers, psychologists and feminists, the Ford Motor Company has withdrawn a Super Bowl ad for a new Lincoln truck, the Mark LT.
   The ad shows a clergyman (dressed to look like either a Catholic or an Episcopalian priest) who finds the keys to the truck in the collection plate; a little girl put them there as a prank.
   The happy cleric, who thinks the truck is his, is dismayed when the girl and her father show up to claim the keys. The ad ends by showing the cleric approaching a church marquee; he then puts the letters L and T on the opposite sides of the word US, thus spelling LUST.
   Catholic League president William Donohue criticized the protesters today:
   "When asked yesterday by the Chicago Tribune what I thought of the ad (it could be seen on the Internet), I had a one-word response - asinine. When asked what I had to say about the protesters, I said it was 'absurd' to charge that the ad 'trivializes and exploits the sex scandal.' Indeed, it is worse than absurd - it reveals a deep-seated bias against Catholic priests that is very disturbing.
• Jury gets case in Shanley priest-abuse trial [1980s Shanley] - RCC. Boy.
   Union-Tribune, By Denise Lavoie, ASSOCIATED PRESS, 1:34 p.m. February 3, 2005
   CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A jury on Thursday began deliberating the fate of defrocked priest Paul Shanley, who is charged with raping a boy at his church outside Boston in the 1980s.
   The jury got the case after lawyers clashed over the validity of the repressed memories Shanley's accuser said came to him three years ago, when the Boston church abuse scandal broke.
   The jury of seven men and five women deliberated for all of 30 minutes before the judge sent them home for the day. They were to return Friday.
   The defense earlier presented a sole witness: a psychologist who argued that some people's repressed memories are really false.
   Shanley's lawyer said the accuser's claims of sexual abuse were lies orchestrated by personal injury lawyers.
   But prosecutor Lynn Rooney said the accuser had no reason to lie, particularly since he was required to endure three days of intense questioning on the witness stand.
• Accused priest being returned to Jackson parish - RCC. (1980) Fr Mickey said to be cleared. 2 boys.
   Commercial Appeal, www.commercial appeal.com/mca/ midsouth_news/ article/0,1426, MCA_1497_3518 678,00.html , By Bill Dries, February 3, 2005
   TENNESSEE - A Catholic priest accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually abusing two teenage brothers will return to his parish in Jackson, Tenn.
   Memphis Catholic Bishop J. Terry Steib announced Wednesday he is returning Father Richard Mickey to the ministry after the church's investigation concluded the allegations were "not credible."
   Blain and Blair Chambers are suing Mickey, the Memphis Diocese and Bishop Byrne High School, claiming Mickey sexually abused them in 1980 when they were students at the high school and Mickey was a counselor and teacher. Mickey was not a priest at the time.
   The lawsuit, filed in July, claims the twins each had repressed memories of the alleged abuse that surfaced during a July 2003 fishing trip in Montana.
   It is the first time a priest in the Memphis Diocese has been publicly accused of child sexual abuse.
   Depositions in the lawsuit are scheduled to begin later this month.
• Man accused of molesting girls at church [1999-2004 Ruiz] - Elim Church. 4 girls.
   KESQ, www.kesq.com/ Global/story. asp?S=2896092 , ~ February 03, 2005
   RICHMOND, Calif. A man arrested for allegedly molesting four girls was kicked out of a Richmond church last year -- but officials there never called police.
   Prosecutors filed charges last week against 34-year-old Boris Mauricio Ruiz on suspicion of molesting four girls during a five-year span that ended last March or April, when a pastor counseled a family in his congregation to report the crimes.
   After that meeting at Iglesia de Cristo Ministerios Elim -- Ruiz vanished and no one called police until July.
   Three of the four victims are sisters related to Ruiz who were all 8 to 10 years old when he allegedly propositioned them, showed them pornography, exposed himself and fondled them at times from 1999 to 2004.
• Ex-Priest's Defense to Call Psychologist [1980s Shanley] - RCC. Boy.
   Guardian (Britain), By DENISE LAVOIE, Associated Press Writer, 1:46 PM, Thursday February 3, 2005
   CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The defense in the child rape trial of a former priest is focusing on the validity of repressed memory theories, hoping to debunk a key claim of the 27-year-old accuser in the case.
   Paul Shanley's defense was expected to call just one witness - Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist and memory researcher who is skeptical about the validity of repressed memory theories.
   After her testimony is presented Thursday, closing arguments are expected to follow.
   On Wednesday, a judge rejected a request from Shanley's attorney to dismiss the child rape and indecent assault charges against the defrocked priest. Attorney Frank Mondano said the evidence showed Shanley's accuser has a false memory of being abused in the 1980s.
   "You have either a false memory or a repressed memory, and I submit that the evidence is greater on the false memory theory," Mondano said.
• Lustful cleric ad is now commercial that never was - Ford Lincoln.
   Sun-Sentinel, By Bonnie Miller Rubin and Meg McSherry Breslin, Tribune staff reporters. Tribune staff reporter Jim Kirk contributed to this report; Posted February 3 2005
   UNITED STATES - An automaker on Wednesday said it would pull a 30-second Super Bowl commercial featuring a clergyman who lusts in his heart for a truck, after a group representing victims of clergy sex abuse registered its outrage.
   In the ad, the clergyman discovers an unusual tithe in the collection plate: the keys to a new Lincoln Mark LT. The cleric checks out the truck and finds it heavenly, but then is returned to earth when the owner arrives to say his little girl had put the keys on the plate by mistake. The commercial ends with the clergyman adjusting the church marquee to note that next week's sermon will be on "lust."
   Leaders of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests [SNAP] sent a letter Wednesday to Ford Motor Co., urging the firm to withdraw the ad, contending it trivializes and exploits the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.
   "We are appalled at how insensitive this ad is," SNAP president Barbara Blaine said in a statement. "It just rubs salt into an already very deep and still hurting wound for many of us."
• Paterson Diocese rules priest molested boy [1960s Smith] - RCC. Minor.
   NorthJersey.com ; www.northjersey. com/page.php? qstr=eXJpcnk3 ZjczN2Y3dnFlZ UVFeXk0NSZmZ2 JlbDdmN3ZxZWV FRXl5NjY0OTA5 NSZ5cmlye TdmNzE3Zjd2c WVlRUV5eTM= ; By JOHN CHADWICK, STAFF WRITER, Thursday, February 3, 2005
   PATERSON (NJ) - The Paterson Diocese has determined that one of its priests molested a Fair Lawn boy in the 1960s and should be removed from public ministry, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
   The ruling brings to a conclusion the first church trial held in North Jersey as a result of the clergy abuse scandal of 2002.
   A panel of three priests found that the Rev. James A.D. Smith was "guilty of at least one act of sexual abuse of a minor," spokeswoman Marianna Thompson said in a statement.
   Smith, in his 70s, is barred from celebrating the sacraments of the church, including communion.
   "The penalty shall be permanent suspension of Rev. Smith's faculties as a priest," the statement said. "He may no longer represent himself as a priest or exercise any of the authorities or duties of ecclesiastical office."
   Smith, who served in several parishes, including Sacred Heart in Clifton and Our Lady of Victories in Paterson, is expected to appeal the decision to Rome.
• Head Priest Suspended From School After Arrest [2004 Bagert] - RCC. Child porn.
   NBCi.com ; www.nbc5i.com/ family/4159178/ detail.html , February 3, 2005
   GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas -- A Grand Prairie priest has been suspended after being arrested, accused of possessing child pornography.
   Officials arrested Father Matthew Bagert on Wednesday. Bagert served at Immaculate Conception Catholic School in Grand Prairie.
   The school notified parents of Bagert's arrest by sending letters home with the children.
   "I don't want to say that I do believe, and I don't want to say I don't believe. We need to wait and see. He was always real nice, talking to everyone. But you never know what people do behind closed doors ... [Emphasis added!]
• Lawsuit says priest molested two girls [2001 Arakal, Stockton Diocese, Illo] - RCC. 2 girls.
   Modesto Bee, By AMY WHITE, ~ February 03, 2005
   MODESTO (CA) - A lawsuit alleging that a Modesto priest molested two Hughson girls is set for trial in Stockton this month.
   The lawsuit, filed in September 2002, alleges that the Rev. Francis Arakal, an associate pastor at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Modesto, fondled 11- and 13-year-old sisters at their Hughson home in July 2001. The trial proceedings are set to begin Feb. 22 in San Joaquin County Superior Court.
   The lawsuit also charges that the Diocese of Stockton and St. Joseph's pastor, the Rev. Joseph Illo, responded inappropriately when one of the girls told Illo about the alleged abuse on Sept. 11, 2001.
   Diocese officials declined to comment on the case. Illo, reached by phone this week, contested the lawsuit's description of events.
   According to the complaint, Arakal touched the breasts of the 13-year-old girl and breasts and groin area of the 11-year-old girl on July 25, 2001.
   According to her attorneys, the younger girl told Illo of her sister's abuse in a setting at the church that she believed was confidential. Illo violated that confidentiality, the lawsuit says, setting a meeting for him, Arakal and the younger girl.
   "During the confrontation, (Arakal and Illo) began to yell, berate and intimidate (the girl), calling (her) a 'liar,'" the complaint says. It states that Illo said, "All your mother wants to do is have sex with me."
• Hurt, angered by abuse scandal, Catholics gather to seek healing - RCC.
   Naples Daily News, By JANINE A. ZEITLIN, jazeitlin@naplesnews.com , February 3, 2005
   NORTH NAPLES (FL) - Catholics burdened by how their church leaders tucked decades of sexual abuse by priests into shadows left a North Naples mass Wednesday feeling lighter.
   Nearly 500 attendees packed pews at the spacious St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church for the noon mass pulled together by the Southwest Florida chapter of Voice of the Faithful.
   The group with 40,000 members nationwide was formed by lay people to respond to unraveling scandals and to support sexual abuse victims and innocent priests.
   Devout Catholics compared the church response's to sexual abuse to familial deception.
   "It was just like being viscerally hurt by your family. There was a lot of anger," said Peg Clark of East Naples, president of the local chapter.
   Of Wednesday's mass, Clark said: "I could feel the embrace. Everything today clicked . . . There was definitely community there."
   [DOCTRINE: 2 - 3 - 6:44 "For of thorns men do not gather figs." DOCTRINE ENDS.]
• Church wants Gilpin to stay [1960s Gilpin] - RCC, then Episcopal Church. 2 boys.
   Bradenton Herald, Bu RICHARD DYMOND, ~ February 03, 2005
   MANATEE (FL) - Fellow church members of a man accused of molesting two boys in the 1960s have offered their public support to him and will not ask him to resign from the church's vestry.
   Christ Episcopal Church officials cited Joseph Gilpin's service to the church, including teaching a sexual molestation awareness course for adults called "Safeguarding God's Children."
   Gilpin's decades of service prompted the church to back him amid the allegations made public last week, said the Rev. Kerry Robb, the interim rector of Christ Episcopal Church on Manatee Avenue West.
   "I have received letters from church members saying the allegations against him are unproven and we should support him," Robb said. "And that is our posture. We are going to continue to support him."
• Sex-abuse talks set - RCC. Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, USA), ~ February 03, 2005
   WORCESTER (MA) - College of the Holy Cross is sponsoring two lectures dealing with aspects of the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church as part of its "Beyond Brokenness: Healing, Renewal and the Church" series.
   Judge Anne Burke, former interim chairwoman of the United States Catholic Bishops' National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Rehm Library at the college as part of the series.
   Judge Burke, who lives in Chicago, serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals, and will speak on "Lay Catholics and the Future of the American Church."
   She will be giving the annual Bishop Flanagan Lecture which began in 1991 to build a relationship between the Diocese of Worcester and Holy Cross on social justice and peace issues.
   Janine Geske, professor at Marquette University Law School, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Rehm Library.
• Revelations: Faith betrayed (Part 4) - RCC.
   KTUU, www.ktuu.com/ CMS/templates /master.asp? articleid= 11292&zone id=4 , by Megan Baldino, Tuesday, February 1, 2005
   FAIRBANKS, ALASKA -- "There is no one in this room that is anti-Catholic. The last thing anybody at this table wanted is to be here."
   John Manly is a partner with the law firm Manley and McGuire in Orange County, Calif. The firm helped win the largest clergy sex-abuse settlement in the nation -- $100 million -- against the Orange County Diocese.
   Manley represented 30 of 90 clients. "Ten years ago, if you told me I was going to be doing this work, I would've laughed," he says.
   Manley says he's a real estate lawyer, who got a call one day that changed his life. A young man needed a lawyer to sue the Orange County Diocese. That man, now a lawyer at Manley's firm, was abused by a popular priest.
   Manley says the diocese would not accept an initial offer to settle for $100,000.
   "Four-and-a-half years later, they paid my client $5.2 million," he says.
• Revelations: Faith betrayed (Part 5) [Lundowski] - RCC. 34 boys.
   KTUU, www.ktuu.com/ CMS/templates/ master.asp? articleid= 11394&zone id=4 , by Megan Baldino, Wednesday, February 2, 2005
   CHICAGO, Illinois - When 34 men came forward accusing Deacon Joseph Lundowski of sexually abusing them as children, many questions surfaced about who Lundowski is. The church says it has little record of Lundowski, saying that he was simply a lay volunteer.
   Despite the lawsuit, officials haven't tried to track him down.
   In the darkest days of winter, the secrets of a small church on the edge of Alaska's Norton Sound are finally being exposed.
   "He pulled my pants down and I was holding them like this, and he unbuckled and un-zippered my pants and pulled it down, and I keep asking what he was doing and he said I'll find out," said Peter Kobuk, who is James Doe 18 in the lawsuit.
   The man Kobuk is referring to is Deacon Joseph Lundowski, now accused by 34 men of sexually abusing them as children -- the largest case of alleged clergy sex abuse in Alaska.
   "He was a big heavy-set person, very strong," Kobuk says.
• Revelations: Faith betrayed (Part 6) [Lundowski] - RCC. 33 boys.
   KTUU, www.ktuu.com/ CMS/templates/ master.asp? articleid= 11395&zone id=4 , by Megan Baldino, Wednesday, February 2, 2005
   ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The village of Stebbins has always been a quiet place. Residents tend to keep to themselves. That makes it that much more surprising that several men of the village are finally talking about what they say happened to them when they were children.
   In a lawsuit filed against the Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks, 33 men claim that Joseph Lundowski -- who served in Stebbins, St. Michael and Hooper Bay -- sexually abused them, even raped them, as children.
   Most of the men say the abuse has changed them and their communities.
   "I know it had an effect on them inside them. I know it had an effect on the community, too," says one victim who did not wish to be identified. He admits he has struggled
• Shanley defense to call just one witness [1980s Shanley] - RCC. Boy.
   The Boston Globe, By Joanna Weiss, Globe Staff | February 3, 2005
   CAMBRIDGE (MA) -- When the child rape trial of defrocked priest Paul R. Shanley resumes today, the defense will call only one witness: a California professor who has built a long and prominent career out of debunking repressed memories.
  Elizabeth Loftus has drawn both accolades and death threats, as well as a steady stream of legal consulting work, for her contention that false memories can be planted in susceptible minds.
   She represents the debate at the core of the Shanley case: whether his accuser's 20-year-old memories are genuine or were suggested to him by personal-injury lawyers and the experts they hired.
   Loftus's believers are drawn to her vivid descriptions and striking experiments; at the University of California-Irvine, where she teaches social ecology, she once persuaded some lab subjects, falsely, that they remembered hugging Bugs Bunny at Disneyland.
   "Elizabeth Loftus has done a lot of research which helps us in understanding that not all of the repressed memory cases are legitimate," said Michael Avery, an evidence professor at Suffolk Law School.
   But advocates of child abuse victims have long criticized Loftus's methods and her willingness to help certain defendants.
   David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests [SNAP], calls her "a hired gun for the defenders of child molesters."
   And some mental-health specialists question whether her research, often done within the confines of a lab, bears weight in a highly charged case of child trauma.
• Ex-priest vanishes [1980s-89 Dominguez] - RCC. 2 boys.

   San Bernardino Sun, By BILL BYRON and BRAD A. GREENBERG, ~ February 3, 2005
   CALIFORNIA - Investigators believe a defrocked Catholic priest called Father Jesse has fled to Mexico to escape charges of sexually molesting two teenage altar boys in the 1980s.
   Jesus Armando Dominguez, who once served as associate pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Chino, could not be found when Riverside County sheriff's deputies tried to execute a $500,000 arrest warrant that was issued Tuesday morning.
   When the incidents occurred, Dominguez, 55, was a priest at Our Lady of Soledad Church in Coachella and St. James Church in Perris, Riverside County prosecutors said.
   He last lived in Whittier. Dominguez is accused of oral copulation, sodomy and other sexual acts involving two boys in a period from the mid-1980s to 1989. The boys were around 14 and 17.
   If found and convicted, Dominguez could face more than 43 years in prison.
• Gauthier: Who would you believe? [1980s Shanley] - RCC. Boy.

   MetroWest Daily News, By Deborah E. Gauthier, Thursday, February 3, 2005
   CAMBRIDGE (MA) - It's hard to feel anything but compassion and admiration for the 27-year-old Newton firefighter with courage enough to confront the man he says raped him over a period of years when he was a young boy. It's hard to feel anything but contempt for the man accused.
   But in a court of law, one is innocent until proven guilty. Who would you believe if you were on the jury?
   The young man says he repressed the memories of sexual abuse until two years ago when three other men -- who were parishioners of St. Jean's Parish in Newton between 1979 and 1989 just as he was -- filed charges that they were molested by the Rev. Paul Shanley.
   He heard their stories, and a torrent of memories flooded in -- memories of being pulled from CCD classes and sexually abused in church pews, the bathroom and the confessional. He was 6 years old the first time it happened. It continued for six years.
   His sobs at the end of the first day of grueling cross-examination, when his memories, motives and lifestyle were attacked, tore at the heart. He begged the judge not to make him go through it again.
   But the judge said the case would be lost if he did not return, and he returned. He is a brave man, Shanley's lone accuser. Prosecutors dropped the complaints from three others rather than have them face Shanley's defense attorneys.
• Ford forced to pull 'lustful' clergy ad from Super Bowl - Ford Lincoln.
   Brand Republic, Staff, Brand Republic, 12:30, Feb-03-2005
   NEW YORK - Ford has pulled an ad it was planning to run during the Super Bowl, which showed a clergyman being tempted by a Lincoln truck, after complaints from those who have been sexually abused.
   People who had been sexually abused by the clergy objected to the spot because it featured a little girl, and a joke at the end where the priest was set to give a sermon on the topic of lust.
   There is super sensitivity regarding every second of Sunday's broadcast, after last year's debacle when Janet Jackson exposed her breast, leading to some parents claiming that their children were damaged by the site of her heaving bosom.
   In the spot, produced by WPP's Young & Rubicam New York, a Christian clergyman finds not just cash on the collection plate, but a set of car keys for a Lincoln Mark LT luxury pick-up truck.
   Outside in the church's parking lot, he sees the new Lincoln and stands admiring his new drive as a parishioner turns up with his young daughter in tow.
   The father explains that his daughter dropped the keys in the collection plate by accident.
   The 30-second spot finishes the with minister putting the letters "LT" outside the church to spell out next week's sermon topic: "LUST." [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 07:11 AM]
////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker www.ncrnews.org/abuse , Thu February 03, 2005
Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont109.htm
For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed.
#### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse, Fri February 04, 2005 edition follows:-
• No Verdict Yet in Mass. Priest Abuse Case [1980s Shanley] - Roman Catholic Church. Boy.

   Guardian (Britain), www.guardian. co.uk/uslatest/ story/0,1282,- 4779098,00.html , 10:16 PM, Friday February 4, 2005
   CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A jury deliberated for seven hours Friday without reaching a verdict on child rape charges against defrocked priest Paul Shanley.
   The jury is to resume deliberations Monday.
   Shanley's accuser, now a 27-year-old firefighter in a Boston suburb, testified that the priest began molesting him while he was in the second grade, taking him out of religious education classes for discipline and raping him in the confessional.
   The man says his repressed memories of the alleged abuse were recovered when he heard media reports about the clergy sex abuse crisis in Boston in 2002. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 07:11 PM]
• Grand jury indicts Hebron pastor on sex charges [2002-04 Aleshire] - Baptist. 2 girls.
   The Advocate, By ERIK JOHNS, ~ February 04, 2005
   NEWARK (OH) - A Licking County [This is a real name] grand jury indicted a Hebron pastor Friday on seven felony sex abuse charges, including one count of rape.
   Lonny J. Aleshire Jr., 34, of 503 E. Main St., Hebron, faces six counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, third-degree felonies, three counts of sexual imposition, third-degree misdemeanors, and one count of rape, a first-degree felony.
   The indictment claims Aleshire engaged in sexual conduct and contact with a girl, now 15, between August 2002 and August 2004.
   Prosecutors also claim that Aleshire raped a second girl in June 2004, when she was 16. She is now 17.
   Licking County Assistant Prosecutor Melinda Seeds alleges that some of the abuse - including the rape - took place in the Licking Baptist Church, Hebron, where Aleshire is the associate pastor.
• 3 priests laicized [McGrath, Straub, Yim] - RCC. Minors.
   St. Louis Review, ~ February 04, 2005
   ST. LOUIS (MO) - Three priests accused of sexual abuse have been dismissed from the priesthood, Archbishop Raymond L. Burke announced Jan. 28.
   Archbishop Burke had initiated laicization proceedings last year against Michael McGrath, Donald Straub and Robert Yim "for the welfare of all children and for the welfare of the Church," according to a statement by the archdiocese.
   The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith dismissed the three from the clerical state.
   According to the statement by the archdiocese, all three men had credible allegations of sexual abuse of a minor against them. Last year in a mediation process the archdiocese settled several civil cases of clergy abuse that involved McGrath and Yim as well as others.
   Laicization, which is given with the approval of the pope, means that a priest has been definitively returned to the status of a layman, is dispensed from all the obligations that he assumed by sacred orders and that a diocese no longer has responsibility for his support.
• Jury resumes deliberations in case against defrocked priest [1980s Shanley] - RCC. Boy.
   azcentral.com ; Associated Press, 12:55 PM, Feb. 4, 2005
   CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A jury resumed deliberating the fate of defrocked priest Paul Shanley on Friday, weighing conflicting views on the repressed memories his accuser said came to him decades after the sexual abuse allegedly took place.
   The jurors received the case Thursday afternoon and deliberated for 30 minutes before the judge sent them home for the day. They returned to Middlesex Superior Court on Friday.
   The accuser said his memories of the abuse were repressed for 20 years and then resurfaced when the Boston church abuse scandal broke in 2002.
   But Shanley's lawyer, Frank Mondano, said in his closing argument Thursday that they were false memories that were planted by a friend, who also had accused Shanley of abuse, and then were exploited by attorneys who filed a lawsuit.
   "The core facts in this case are just not true," Mondano said.
• Missionary indecently assaulted teenage nephew - [1978-82 MacEntee (Capuchin)] RCC. Boy (nephew).

   One in Four, by Azra Naseem - Irish Independent, ~ February 04, 2005
   IRELAND - A MISSIONARY brother who indecently assaulted his teenage nephew has been remanded in custody for sentence by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
   The Capuchin Order brother pleaded guilty to two counts of indecently assaulting his nephew between February 27, 1978, and February 27, 1982, at two locations in Ireland.
   Patrick MacEntee SC, for the 51-year-old brother, told Judge Frank O'Donnell his client had committed the offences at a time when he was coming to terms with the realisation that he was of homosexual orientation.
   Detective Garda Michael Lally told the court that the brother had spent most of his working life as a missionary in South Africa. He was on holiday in Dublin when he invited his nephew to the Capuchin Priory in Raheny.
• Priest's tip led to pastor's arrest in porn case [2004 Bagert] - RCC. Boy computer porn.

The Dallas Morning News, By STEPHANIE SANDOVAL, 08:40 PM C