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• Cloak of silence covered the sin [2004 Roberts] -- Community Church. Girls +.

   Sun, www.thesunlink.com/ redesign/2004-09-08/ local/200409088902. shtml , By Julie McCormick, (360) 415-2683, jmccormick@thesunlink.com , Sep 8, 2004
   EGLON (WA): The little Eglon Community Church that found a viper in its midst still isn't quite ready to completely cast him out.
   Elders of the church learned that pastor Scott Roberts molested the young daughter of a church member in February. But they decided to handle things in what they call "the Biblical way," grant his plea for forgiveness, fire him, but keep quiet about it, even allowing him to continue coming to church.
   The two sisters whose sexual abuse resulted in Roberts' conviction Tuesday were admonished by church members to tell no one.
   Roberts has since told authorities that he lied to church members about the extent of his sinfulness, making his case for silence by calling up the specter of official interference and a quote from Matthew: "If a brother has sinned, go to them about it. ... If they repent, there is no need for anything further." (This is the first of the Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse , for Wed September 08, 2004.)

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   INCOMPLETE LINKS: Refer back to "References 61" for methods of obtaining the URLs.    Interim pastor Barry Bryant said the decision might have been different if church members had known more.
Lengthy pattern
   Because, as it turns out, Roberts didn't repent for enough.
   Court documents from a psychosexual evaluation by a sex crime specialist, a lie detector test and a state Department of Corrections sentencing interview show Roberts has admitted to victimizing one little girl 10 times over a period of four years, fully aware she had been previously sexually abused.
   He also molested three others. Victims were between the ages of 5 and 9 at the time of the incidents.
   Roberts' admissions show a man with highly repressed relations with women whose life showed a pattern of extended hidden sexual compulsion, escalating deviant behavior, with pedophilia the most serious, the psychologist wrote.
   Roberts himself admitted that if he hadn't been stopped, he probably would have raped his most frequent victim.
Lacked information
   Late last week, Roberts' longtime friend Bryant said neither he nor the elders of the congregation had yet had time to look at the newly filed documents and weren't aware of the full extent of Roberts' admissions, only of his initial lie and one additional victim.
   Nevertheless, he and a few other members of the congregation are paying for Roberts' defense attorney, and Bryant offered him a home to live if the judge agreed to release him under a minimum special sentence.
   "I would say that our basic position is that we really do love and forgive him," Bryant said Friday.
   It's a picture disaffected members of the congregation find eerily familiar. "It's very, very cult-like," said former church member Leslie Pate. Pate stopped attending the church 10 years ago when she was 20 after spending much of her childhood as a member with the rest of her family.
   "I was told that if I didn't repent, I would be leading my sisters to hell," Pate said.
   Pate is the woman who learned in April of the February molestation incident and reported it to a Kitsap County sheriff's detective, who arrested Roberts shortly after.
   On Tuesday, Roberts pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree child molestation and was sentenced to 6-1/2 years in prison.
Other controversy
   The church, which Roberts described as charismatic and evangelical, and Bryant calls conservative Christian, is nondenominational and has seen controversy before, although not in so public a way.
   Bryant's father, Fred, became pastor in 1964, but had to step down in 1982 when his wife left and they divorced. The church considers divorce a sin, the reason some regard it as a cult, Bryant said. "We have strong standards on things," he said.
   Roy DuPea, another fallen-away church member, said the event is recalled as tumultuous by all. "There was a huge break in the family and evidently a huge break in the church," he said.
   Conservative Christianity was just what DuPea and his wife, Sandra, were looking for when they first moved to Eglon 16 years ago. They chose the little Eglon church to get married in and were warmed by the friendly welcome they received.
   "Their message was what I thought was the right thing, just very basic and conservative," DuPea said. Each led Bible study groups and taught Sunday school.
   Like Pate, the DuPeas felt an increasing intrusion by church members into their personal lives.
   "I noticed they were trying to run our life by telling us what kind of friends we should have, who we associate with. Basically, what they wanted was to only communicate with the church family," DuPea said.
   "My son became a skateboarder, and they said that was a real sin and he shouldn't be doing that."
   Things came to a head three years ago when DuPea questioned Roberts about the propriety of the church paying the taxes on property owned by a Bryant family corporation whose board included him as a member.
   According to DuPea, Roberts answered evasively. "I asked him to leave and that was the last time we ever attended the church," he said.
   Bryant acknowledged the payment, but contended the property eventually will be used for church mission purposes. "Obviously, we have some property in this area, but so do a lot of other people," he said.
   "It's a family-owned church, is what it is," DuPea said. "The fact that every adult in that church turned a blind eye, that's real control."
   Bryant said not everyone in the church knew the details behind Roberts' resignation.
   The two little girls who were the victims in the incidents Roberts was charged with have been in counseling. Initially, the girls were removed from their home by Child Protective Services until it was assured Roberts would not be released near them.
   "Now there's all these insecurities on top of it," Bryant said, and recovery will take time.
   The impact on victims was at the top of Kitsap County Superior Court Judge Leonard Costello's concerns at Tuesday's sentencing.
   "How these kids see the world, the potentially negative impact for these kids, could be forever," he said. # [Emphasis added] [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 08:11 PM]
   [COMMENT: In the second paragraph the Church elders are reported as saying they would handle things "the Biblical way," and in the fourth paragraph quoted Matthew's Gospel. Perhaps this is a reference to Matthew 18:15-17. However, the congregation and elders ought to also read Matt 10:34-35, Matt 12:32, Luke 9:62, 1 John 5:16- 18, Hebrews 6:4-6, 1 Corinthians 5:7-13, Ephesians 5:3, Matt. 18:6-9, Mark 9:42, Luke 17:2, Romans 14:13, and 1 Cor 6:13-20. The first five quotations especially contradict the "forgive seven times 70" and the forgery "don't cast the first stone" type of quotation!
   These quotes, especially those from Hebrews 6 and Luke 9, helped convince the early Church that anyone who sinned seriously after joining the Church could hardly be forgiven. So impossible was it to be forgiven AFTER baptism that eventually some Christians in some places even delayed being baptised until death was believed to be imminent. (Elizabeth A. LIVINGSTONE (ed.), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 1977, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, page 47; and see p 209 a)
   When the early Christians "softened off," those who had been baptised, if they sinned seriously, were expected to confess before the congregation, wear special robes and sit separately during religious ceremonies, not receive Holy Communion, go on a strict diet, give generous donations, and some were expected to have no sex for the rest of their lives ! (Livingstone 1977, article "Penance" p 390 b) You didn't learn that in Sunday School or R.E., did you ! Further information is at: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/religion/religcont.htm#repeated COMMENT ENDS.]
• Former pastor gets 6-1/2 years for child molesting [2000s Roberts] -- Community Church. Girls.
   Sun, www.thesunlink.com/ redesign/2004-09-08/ local/200409088935. shtml , By Julie McCormick, Wed. Sep. 8, 2004
   EGLON (WA): The judge who sentenced former Eglon Community Church pastor Scott Roberts for molesting two little girls chose accountability over treatment and Tuesday gave him 6-1/2 years in prison for his crimes.
   "My decision in this case ultimately comes down to trust and the abuse of that trust," Kitsap Superior Court Judge Leonard Costello said of Roberts' sexual exploitation of two little girls.
   The girls, both younger than 12, are daughters of a church member and longtime friend whose family regarded Roberts as one of its own.
   Roberts and his supporters had hoped Costello would agree with the psychosexual evaluator, who recommended him as a good candidate for a special sex-offender sentencing alternative with only six months in jail followed by intensive treatment and monitoring.
• Trial begins for priest accused of decade-old abuse in Bay area [1994-95 Superiaso] - Roman Catholic Church. Girl.
   The Tribune, www.sanluisobispo.com/ mld/sanluisobispo/ news/politics/ 9610383.htm , Associated Press, Posted on Wed, Sep. 08, 2004
   REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - The trial of a Catholic priest accused of decade-old sexual abuse in a Bay area parish opened with testimony from the alleged victim.
   The trial of Jose Superiaso resumed Wednesday in San Mateo County Superior Court, a day after the prosecution's opening statements and two weeks after the priest rejected a plea offer.
   Superiaso is accused of molesting a girl between July 1994 and November 1995 when he served at St. Andrew Church in Daly City. He has pleaded not guilty to 24 counts of child molestation.
   The accuser, who was 12 when the abuse allegedly began, testified Tuesday after the prosecution's opening statements, the San Mateo County district attorney's office said. The defense chose to give opening statements later but called a character witness who is a friend of the 50-year-old priest. [...]
   Ordained in his native Philippines, Superiaso also served in California as a priest at Our Lady of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Belmont and at Our Lady of the Pillar Church in Half Moon Bay. ...
• DA Claims 'Legal Victory' In Battle Over Priest Documents -- RCC.
   NBC 4, www.nbc4.tv/news/3716170/detail.html , POSTED 3:27 pm PDT September 8, 2004, UPDATED 4:28 pm PDT September 8, 2004
   LOS ANGELES (CA) -- A judge ruled Wednesday that the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese cannot withhold potential evidence or proof of clergy sex abuse by claiming that communications between priests and bishops are confidential.
   The ruling in a long-running legal battle was made by Thomas F. Nuss, a retired state judge appointed to review thousands of pages of church personnel documents subpoenaed by a Los Angeles County grand jury investigating possible sexual abuse by priests.
   In weighing the balance between private personnel files and potential evidence of abuse, Nuss wrote in his 32-page ruling that the grand jury's subpoenas don't "have as a principal or primary effect the inhibition of religion."
   The district attorney subpoenaed about 2,000 pages of personnel files and other confidential church records since 2002. But most of those subpoenas were dismissed in July because they dealt with allegations that fell beyond the statute of limitations.
   Prosecutors said Nuss' ruling could open the way for access to hundreds of pages of confidential documents involving two retired priests. But the archdiocese said the ruling was narrower, applying only to 80 pages that the church had argued were protected by the First Amendment.
• Community reacts to priest's resignation amid sex allegations [1970s Reyes] -- RCC. Girl, Women.
   KVUE, www.kvue.com/ news/top/stories/ 090804kvuepriest 3-eh.f9f2936a.html , By Kevin Peters and Amanda Lawson / KVUE News, 07:28 PM CDT, Wednesday, September 8, 2004
   AUSTIN (TX): Austin's Catholic and Hispanic communities are reacting to the resignation of a well known and highly respected priest.
   Father Lonnie Reyes of Santa Julia Church in East Austin confessed to having sexual relations with an underage girl as well as adult women.
   The incidents date back to the 1970's.
   Reyes has been the priest at Santa Julia in East Austin for the past 18 years. He earned the title monsignor and served as chancellor, one of the highest positions a priest can hold in the diocese.
   "He's a man. He's a man, like anybody else, and he didn't force nobody. She was 17. She knew better than to go with a priest," says church member Carroline Aleman.
• Ruling May Put Priest Papers in Spotlight -- RCC.
   Austin American-Statesman, www.statesman.com/ news/content/news/ ap/ap_story.html/ National/AP.V9604. AP-Church-Abuse-Ca.html ; By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writer, Sep-08-04
   LOS ANGELES (CA) (AP)--A judge ruled Wednesday that the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese cannot withhold potential evidence or proof of clergy sex abuse by claiming that communications between priests and bishops are confidential.
   A prosecutor hailed the decision in the long-running legal battle as a "major legal victory," while the Los Angeles Archdiocese expressed dismay, saying it feared the ruling would erode constitutional religious freedoms.
   The ruling was made by Thomas F. Nuss, a retired state judge appointed to review thousands of pages of church personnel documents subpoenaed by a Los Angeles County grand jury investigating possible sexual abuse by priests.
   In balancing privacy rights against prosecutors' need to search for potential evidence, Nuss wrote that the grand jury's subpoenas don't "have as a principal or primary effect the inhibition of religion."
• Cardinal Mahony Ordered to Provide Files [2003-04 Mahony] -- 500 complainants. 2-year battle. RCC.
   Los Angeles Times, www.latimes.com/ news/local/la- 090804priest_lat, 1,2935339.story?coll= la-home-headlines ; By Jean Guccione, Times Staff Writer, September 8, 2004
   LOS ANGELES (CA): Cardinal Roger M. Mahony was ordered today to turn over documents in the secret personnel files of Roman Catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children after a judge rejected his claim that prosecutors were interfering with Roman Catholic Church operations, in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
   Superior Court Judge Thomas F. Nuss ruled that disclosing internal documents to criminal investigators doesn't violate the ability of the church to freely exercise religion, nor does it illegally entangle the state in church business. Rather, the state has a compelling interest in prosecuting child molesters, he ruled.
   Mahony's lawyers - who have waged a fierce, 2-year legal battle behind closed doors to keep the subpoenaed documents secret - have vowed to appeal Nuss' ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.
   Those hardball tactics were criticized this year by an independent Catholic national review board that found that Mahony's legal "argument did little to enhance the reputation of the church in the United States for transparency and cooperation."
   Mahony's quest to withhold the documents is being fought on two fronts: in the criminal case, where prosecutors have charged two priests with molesting children, and in the civil arena, where lawyers for more than 500 alleged victims say those papers will prove that the church hierarchy failed to protect children from known molesters.
• Vicar in family split after affair [2004 Abram] -- Church of England. Woman.

   Manchester Evening News, www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ news/s/129/129756_vicar_in_ family_split_after_ affair.html ; Wednesday, September 8th, 2004
   BRITAIN: A vicar who helped rebuild a shattered community in the wake of a five-year-old boy's gangland gun murder has separated from his wife after admitting an affair with a parishioner.
   The Rev Steve Abram, vicar of St George the Martyr in Daubhill, Bolton, has left his wife Annette and teenage daughter for a mother-of-four it is understood he met at his church.
   Church of England bosses today confirmed that the 54-year-old resigned from the ministry in July when news of the affair emerged.
   It is understood that his family has moved out of the vicarage and Mr Abram is living there alone.
   A Church of England spokesman confirmed today: "Mr Abram submitted his resignation and withdrew from public ministry in July following a period of separation from his wife.
   "The diocese remains in close contact with the Abram family and parishioners at St George the Martyr to offer support and advice. A new vicar has yet to be appointed but the process is under way."
   Mr Abram has been vicar at the church for 14 years.
Bullet
   He conducted a memorial service in 1998 to commemorate the life of Dillon Hull - shot dead by hitman Paul Seddon as he walked home hand-in-hand with his father John Bates in Bankfield Street, Deane, Bolton, in 1997. ...
• Priest Confesses To Sex With Teenager, Resigns [1970s Reyes] -- RCC. Girl.

   WOAI, www.woai.com/news/ local/story.aspx?content_ id=1B776ADB-4C31- 4E45-BEAE- 948EFF238B73 ; Posted By Angela Becerra, LAST UPDATE 6:54:06 AM, Sep/8/2004
   AUSTIN (TX): A high-ranking Catholic priest resigns from Saint Julia's Church in Austin, after admitting having sexual relations with an underage girl in the 1970s. The victim appears to be from San Antonio.
   The Reverend Lonnie Reyes, who is 62, served as a priest for 30 years. He earned the title monsignor and served as chancellor.
   Church officials said in a story in an online edition of the Austin American-Statesman, that a San Antonio woman recently reported having a sexual relationship with Reyes when she was a teenager. The diocese is also investigating two more possible victims.
   The diocese will provide money for counseling for the woman.
• Detroit Archdiocese adds to child sex abuse prevention program -- 116 victims. RCC.
   Detroit Free Press, www.freep.com/ news/statewire/ sw103866_20040907. htm , September 7, 2004, 8:41 PM
   DETROIT (MI) (AP) -- The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit says it is adding to its program to prevent child sexual abuse with lessons for children from kindergarten through eighth grade.
   The lessons are part of "Protecting God's Children," the archdiocese said in a news release Tuesday.
   "Touching Safety" is a "two-lesson, age-appropriate program" that "teaches children how to identify and resist any touch that can harm them and to be respectful of their own and others' health and safety," the archdiocese said.
   Teaching children about good and bad touching has emerged as an important education issue in the aftermath of the church's sex abuse scandal. Thousands of children reported being sexually abused nationwide by priests over a 50-year period, including 116 in the Detroit archdiocese.
• Friar wanted in Canada moved to Missouri facility [1970s Chumik] -- RCC. Franciscan. Boy +.

   Herald-Tribune, www.heraldtribune. com/apps/pbcs.dll/ article?AID=/20040908/ APN/409080627 , Associated Press
   LOS ANGELES (CA) -- A Franciscan friar who fled molestation charges in Canada and took refuge at the Santa Barbara Mission has been moved to a rural church facility in Missouri, a church official said.
   Gerald Chumik, 69, will live at an isolated Franciscan facility, similar to a monastery, on 280 acres with about 20 other priests and brothers, church officials said.
   Chumik was transferred because of pressure from victims' groups and others that began in July, when the public learned that the friar was wanted in Canada for allegedly molesting a boy three decades ago, said Father Alberic Smith, the superior at the Franciscan mission in Santa Barbara. The groups demanded that he be returned to Canada to face possible charges but no move has yet been made.
   Cardinal Roger Mahony lacks jurisdiction over the Franciscan order, to which Chumik belongs, but he could have ordered Chumik out of his archdiocese. A spokesman for Mahony said the cardinal was satisfied that the Franciscans were properly monitoring Chumik and that he was no danger to children.
• Tarnished legacy [1970s Reyes] -- RCC. Female +.

   American-Statesman, www.statesman.com/ metrostate/content/ metro/09/8priest.html , By Eileen E. Flynn, Wednesday, September 08, 2004
   AUSTIN (TX): A longtime community activist and high-ranking Catholic priest, the Rev. Lonnie Reyes, acknowledged having sexual relations with an underage girl in the 1970s and has resigned from the ministry, Austin Bishop Gregory Aymond announced Tuesday evening to parishioners of St. Julia's Church, which Reyes had pastored since 1986.
   Diocesan officials said a San Antonio woman recently reported having a sexual relationship with Reyes when she was younger than 18, the legal age for consent. The diocese is also investigating the possibility that there are two more victims.
   "In his weakness, Father Reyes was unfaithful to his commitment to chastity," Aymond told parishioners. "He is greatly embarrassed and repentant of his actions and the pain it will cause you."
   Reyes, 62, could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
• Group asks for censure of bishop [2000s Brown; Murray] -- RCC. Female.
   Daily Pilot, www.latimes.com/ news/local/pilot/ news/la-dpt-allegation 08sep08,1,5294955. story?coll=la-tcn- pilot-news ; by S.J. Cahn, Sep 8, 2004
   NEWPORT BEACH (CA) - A support group for clergy abuse victims sent a letter to a Catholic lay group Tuesday, asking it to declare that Orange County Bishop Tod D. Brown violated the U.S. Bishops Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People in a case involving a priest at a Balboa Peninsula church.
   The letter, sent by members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests [SNAP], alleges that the diocese kept secret a $500,000 settlement with a victim of Msgr. Daniel Murray of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and failed to remove Murray from his position.
   "As the largest support group for survivors for sexual abuse by clergy, we believe that the actions by Tod D. Brown and the Diocese of Orange are putting children in direct risk in the Diocese of Orange," the letter reads.
   Among the two women who signed the letter was Corona del Mar resident Joelle Casteix, the group's Orange County spokeswoman, who says she was abused by a priest when she was in her teens. It was sent to the executive director of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and asks that it be forwarded to the group's National Review Board.
• Woman testifies in priest's molestation trial [1994-95 Superiaso] -- RCC. Girl.
   San Mateo County Times, www.sanmateocountytimes.com/ Stories/0,1413,87~ 11268~ 2387 423,00.html ,
   REDWOOD CITY (CA) -- Jurors Tuesday heard emotional opening testimony from the alleged victim of multiple acts of sexual abuse by a former Daly City priest.
   Jose Superiaso, 50, once a priest at St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Daly City, allegedly had sex multiple times with a then-12 and 13-year-old girl in 1994 and 1995.
   The alleged victim, a petite Filipina identified in court as "Jane Doe," first reported the crimes to authorities in May of 2003.
   Superiaso was arrested on June 10, 2003 at a coffee shop after the woman, cooperating with the police, lured him to the area from New Mexico.
   In opening statements, Prosecutor Sharon Henry read from a letter Superiaso wrote on the day of his arrest. "I come here fully resigned to accept responsibility and beg for your forgiveness and understanding," the letter stated.
• Defense says abuse suit filed too late [1973-74 Broderson] -- RCC. Boy.
   Alameda Times-Star, www.timesstar.com/Stories/0,1413,125~1486~2387489,00.html , By Glenn Chapman
   OAKLAND (CA) -- Attorneys for a Roman Catholic priest being sued for alleged sexual abuse of a child more than 30 years ago will ask that the sexual battery portion of the suit be thrown out because it was filed too late, according to a motion filed in Alameda County Superior Court on Tuesday.
   The man accusing Donald Broderson of being a molester while a priest at St. Francis parish in Concord in 1973 or 1974 apparently missed the filing deadlines outlined by state law, contends Patrick McMahon, a lawyer defending Broderson against the charges. Broderson's case is one of some 160 priest sex-abuse civil suits bundled together in the court as "Clergy III."
   State law legitimizing belated priest molestation lawsuits requires litigation be filed within eight years of the purported victim reaching legal adulthood or within three years of the point the person should have reasonably become aware childhood sexual abuse was behind their mental health problems.
   The man accusing Broderson of wrongdoing didn't indicate his age in the 2003 civil suit, but the time line in the accusation indicates he is older than 26, according to McMahon's motion. The complaint contains no information about when or how the man supposedly linked childhood sexual abuse to the emotional and psychiatric distress he claims to be suffering, the motion maintains. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 07:31 AM]
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• Catholic Church Ad Campaign Seeks Abuse Victims -- RCC.

   National Public Radio, www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3907771 , Sept. 9, 2004
   OREGON: The Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., recently declared bankruptcy in an effort to manage expensive sexual abuse lawsuits. Now the church is proposing a national media campaign to seek out undeclared abuse victims. Colin Fogarty of Oregon Public Broadcasting has the story. (Single transcript: $4.95) [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 07:35 PM]
• Diocese forms sex-abuse group -- RCC.
   Herald, www.zwire.com/ site/news.cfm? BRD=1601&dept_id= 478675&newsid= 12889494&PAG= 461&rfi=9 , By Nick Buglione September 09, 2004
   LONG ISLAND (NY): The Diocese of Rockville Centre is forming a support group for victims who have been sexually abused by clergy and other church personnel in parishes throughout Long Island, including St. Raphael's in East Meadow.
   The group, which is scheduled to hold its first meeting Sept. 20, was formed in response to victims' requests, according to Eileen Puglisi, director of the diocese's Office for the Protection of Children and Young People. We're responding to a need voiced by some survivors of abuse who said they would find a support group helpful in bringing about healing, Puglisi said.
   The diocese, which comprises 134 parishes in Nassau and Suffolk counties, has come under fire in recent years, as victims have come forward alleging sexual abuse at the hands of clergy. Some have even accused William Murphy, bishop of the diocese, of trying to cover up the incidents by transferring pedophile priests out of the parishes where they have been accused of sexual abuse.
• No further allegations against priest emerge [1998 Deyo] -- RCC. Boy.
   Press-Citizen, www.press-citizen.com/ apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20040909/NEWS01/ 40909013/1079 ; by Mike McWilliams, 339-7360 or mmcwilliams@press-citizen.com , Thursday, September 9, 2004
   IOWA: Catholic Church officials said no more allegations have been reported since local parishes learned nearly two weeks ago of an alleged sex abuse incident involving a boy and former Johnson County priest.
   However, Davenport Diocese attorney Rand Wonio said the inquiry into accused priest Paul Deyo is ongoing and likely will not be closed any time soon.
   “The policies relating to sexuality and personal behavior don't contain a statute of limitations,” Wonio said Thursday. “Any report will be investigated and handled in accordance with the policies.”
   No criminal charges have been filed against Deyo, who lived in Iowa City from 1991 to 2000. The diocese released Deyo’s name Aug. 28 in an attempt to urge others who may have been abused by him to come forward.
   Deyo is accused of committing sex abuse in 1998 against a minor in Johnson County. The alleged victim reported the incident to the diocese in July 2003 and has opted not press charges to protect his identity, church officials have said.
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• €250,000 For Man Abused in School [1976-88 Kelly] -- Christian Brother. RCC. 11 victims.

   One in Four organisation, http://oneinfour.org/ news/news2004/schools , Source: The Star; Sep 8, 2004
   IRELAND: A man who was raped by his school principal as a child has received compensation of over €250,000 from the Christian Brothers
   Victim Derek Power (34) reached the settlement over five years after his abuser, Br Patrick John Kelly was sentenced to eight years in jail in 1999. Br Kelly who had an address at St Helen's York Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, was convicted on a 51 counts of indecent assault and two of gross indecency. He was the first Christian Brother to be convicted for the sexual abuse of youngsters in their care. Power who is originally from Waterford but now living in Dublin, told The Star he was happy to have reached the settlement after a long struggle with the Christian Brothers. "I spent my childhood being raped. I spent my teenage years suffering and I spent my adult life struggling to have this abuse recognised." he said.
   The abuse took place in 1979, but Power did not confront his abuse until 1993. When he did, Kelly dismissed him as "an alcoholic, a liar and a junkie". Mr Power was receiving treatment at a rape crisis centre at the time. The victim said he had gone public because he wanted people to know about the extent of clerical sexual abuse in Ireland. "I want people to know that I put him in jail. I want people to know that the Christian Brothers have a history they should be ashamed of. "No one from the Christian Brothers ever came to us to say they were sorry. They never even sat down to talk to us," he said. [...]
   Kelly's offences - committed against 11 victims - occurred in Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Wicklow, Kildare and Tipperary on dates from 1976 to 1988. They were committed in schools, his home, victims homes and in a field. He was a trusted family friend on several of his 11 victims and had been sexually abused as a child. ...
• Details of abuse were often written in Latin -- Rosminians. RCC. Boys.
   One in Four, http://oneinfour.org/news/news2004/latin , by Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent - Irish Times, www.ireland.com/ newspaper/ireland/ 2004/0909/7167 24796HM8ABUSE.html , Sep 9, 2004
   IRELAND: Latin terms were used in internal documents to describe sexual assaults by members of the Rosminian congregation on boys at industrial schools at Ferryhouse, Co Tipperary and Upton, Co Cork, the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse heard yesterday.
   Father Joe O'Reilly, provincial of the congregation in Ireland, told the commission's investigation committee that correspondence found at the Rosminian headquarters in Rome this past year were frequently in Italian, as the superior general was usually of that nationality.
   He recalled that letters to Rome from past provincials in Ireland had said relevant members were "indiscreet with boys" and had "sinned against the sixth commandment (thou shalt not commit adultery)" [It is 5th to non-RCs]
   "I think Latin was used a good bit in correspondence," he said. A letter to Rome from Ireland in 1956 said one member had been "indiscreet cum pueres (with boys) and is in periculum (danger)". Senior Counsel for the committee, Mr Noel McMahon, referred to a letter from 1948 where a member was described as "in admiratio" (enamoured) of boys.
• Committee told boys were punished for sex with other boys -- RCC. Rosminians. Boys.
   One in Four, http://oneinfour.org/news/news2004/toldboys , by Patsy McGarry - Irish Times , Sep 9, 2004
   IRELAND: Boys who had been found to be involved sexually with other boys at their industrial schools were punished "severely", the commission heard.
   However, Father Joe O'Reilly told the investigation committee that he was sure that a boy abused by a member of the congregation was not punished. "I would hope not. I doubt if he was," he said.
   He was sure also that "very little was done to help a boy ". He felt "it is clear a lot more should have been done", but he was "not sure whether it would've been known what more to do. It might not have been much better in society at the time."
   There were no records of the extent of sexual abuse of boys by boys at the schools, but he was sure it would have been dealt with in the same way whether between boys of the same age or where there was an age difference. It was seen as a problem of "immorality, in the religious sense." It was recognised that older boys picked on younger boys and used sex to bully them.
• Parishes attempt to shield assets from seizure in bankruptcy of Archdiocese -- RCC.

   The Oregonian, www.oregonlive.com/ news/oregonian/index. ssf?/base/news/ 1094731100115710.xml , By NANCY HAUGHT and STEVE WOODWARD, Thursday, September 09, 2004
   OREGON: At least two dozen Roman Catholic parishes in Western Oregon are moving to shield their churches, schools and financial investments from being seized to pay off millions of dollars in lawsuits alleging clergy sex abuse.
   The Committee of Parishes, representing about one-fifth of parishes in the Archdiocese of Portland, has hired two lawyers to help it seek legal standing in the archdiocese's 2-month-old bankruptcy.
   John H. Rickman, retired president of U.S. Bank and a longtime member of St. Pius X Parish in suburban Cedar Mill, said the parishes want to ensure that their assets may still be used for the mission work of the church.
   Generations of Oregonians have worked and contributed to build parishes that participate in the Catholic mission, Rickman said.
   "To live as Jesus taught us," Rickman said, "to pass that on to our children, to help the poor, work for the sick, console those who grieve, educate the young and old and, on a weekly basis, to worship God. That is the real heart of Catholicism."
   The committee is sympathetic to victims' claims, Rickman says.
   [COMMENT: It would be interesting to find the scripture to show that Jesus taught " ...to pass that on to our children ..." Most of us thought the Jesus teaching was not to worry too much about tomorrow, or what to eat or wear, and He declined to help a man with an inheritance dispute. COMMENT ENDS.]
• Parishioners share emotions over pastor [1970s Reyes] -- RCC. Girl, Women.
   News 8 Austin, www.news8austin.com/ content/headlines/? ArID=118957 &SecID=2 , By Jitin Hingorani, 7:40 PM, 9/8/2004
   AUSTIN (TX): Josephine Zamarripa raised her 13 children all by herself. Her faith in God and the Catholic Church gave her strength. She's been attending Santa Julia for more than 30 years, but now she's not sure if she will ever go back.
   "I told my family I don't want to go to Santa Julia. I don't want to get attached to another pastor. It's heartbreaking on us, the community," she said.
   Rev. Lonnie Reyes, also a monsignor, resigned his ministry without explanation.
   On Tuesday, Austin Bishop Gregory Aymond told parishioners why Reyes left. The pastor admitted to having sex with one teenage girl and intimate relationships with other women.
• Mass to pray for the Healing of Victims of sexual abuse -- RCC.
   Fredericksburg.com ; www.fredericksburg.com/community/calendar/one_event_info?event_id=1093551090 ,
   ARLINGTON (VA): The Catholic Diocese of Arlington is offering Healing Masses to pray for victims of sexual abuse. Bishop Loverde will celebrate a mass on Sept. 9, St. Mary of Sorrows Chruch, Fairfax Station, 7:30 p.m; All Saints Church, Manassas, Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m., Fr. Bob Cilinski celebrating; St Mary, Fredericksburg, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m. Bishop Loverde celebrating. For more information, call Patricia Mudd at 703-541-2530.
Info online: www.arlingtondiocese.org/protect/healing-ma ; Sponsored by: Catholic Diocese of Arlington
• Wuerl says pope active, alert and in command -- RCC.
   Post-Gazette, www.post-gazette.com/pg/04253/375953.stm , By Ann Rodgers, Thursday, September 09, 2004
   PITTSBURGH (PA): On a visit to Rome this week, Bishop Donald Wuerl found Pope John Paul II more active and alert than he had been told to expect.
   "To formulate words takes him a little longer," Wuerl said yesterday from Rome, where all bishops of Pennsylvania are making their five-year reports. "But he was clearly in command of the audience." ...
   While reviewing his reports on developments in the diocese, Vatican staffers have so far shown little interest in lawsuits pending against it and several other dioceses that allege a conspiracy to cover up long-ago cases of child sexual abuse by priests.
   Because legal procedures vary widely around the world, those are treated as local issues, Wuerl said. Vatican officials are more interested in programs, such as religious education, that are expected of every diocese, he said.
• Bankruptcy expert: Filing would be 'good thing' for Tucson diocese, sex-abuse victims -- RCC.
   Tucson Citizen, www.tucsoncitizen.com/breaking/090904bankruptcy.html , By SHERYL KORNMAN, Sept. 9, 2004
   TUCSON (AZ): If the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson files for bankruptcy protection it will be a good thing, according to Marti Kopacz, a consultant to the Archdiocese of Boston while it considered Chapter 11 to resolve claims of sexual abuse by priests.
   Boston chose instead to sell some of its valuable properties to settle claims.
   Kopacz, a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, is an analyst for New York City-based Alvarez & Marsal, a global firm which provides turnaround management consulting and crisis management services.
   She said Chapter 11 is the only way to go if the Tucson diocese wants to resolve the matter in a way that is fair to everybody.
   "It allows the diocese to deal with it once and for all," she said.
   And it allows the diocese to make it clear to claimants who have sued that "we're not going to be more fair to you because you have an attorney," Kopacz said.
• Bishop Mulvee meets with pope, brings local concerns to Vatican -- RCC.
   Providence Journal, www.projo.com/religion/content/projo_20040909_mulvee9.294b6e.html , BY RICHARD C. DUJARDIN, Journal Religion Writer, Thursday, September 9, 2004
   PROVIDENCE (RI) -- Fresh from his once-every-six-years meeting with the pope, Providence Bishop Robert E. Mulvee says it goes without saying that the clergy sexual abuse scandal has been a dark cloud in the life of the church in the United States and John Paul II wants America's bishops to be more affirming of those who have been injured by the scandal.
   "The message I got from the Vatican congregations and indeed from the pope was that we cannot forget the victims," Bishop Mulvee said. "We have to try to heal the wounds. It has to be our primary concern.
   "And while the Holy Father made only passing reference to it because he's talked so many times on the subject, his message was that we must not forget the good priests."
   Bishop Mulvee, who will turn 74 in February, was part of a delegation of 24 American bishops from the Northeast who visited the pope at his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo for their required "ad limina" visit. Roughly translated as "to the threshold," the ad limina gives the pope and bishops an opportunity to meet one on one and to raise any concerns.
   It also opens the door to face-to-face meetings with the various congregations that make up the church's central bureaucracy, and to review issues related to doctrine, worship, priestly formation, education, dialogue with other faiths or any number of other topics affecting a region or diocese.
• Priest in Austin resigns [Reyes] -- RCC. Female.
   San Antonio Express-News, www.mysanantonio.com/ news/metro/stories/ MYSA090904.1B.priest_ quits.6413b383.html , by Peggy Fikac, Chief, Express-News Austin Bureau, Web Posted: 02:25 AM CDT Sep/09/2004
   AUSTIN, TEXAS: The actions by Monsignor Lonnie Reyes - who resigned as pastor of St. Julia Parish and no longer can serve in any capacity as a priest - were brought to light by a San Antonio woman.
   She informed Bishop Gregory M. Aymond several weeks ago, the diocese said.
   Aymond said the woman wished to remain anonymous, so the diocese would not provide details of what occurred.
   "She's been through a difficult time. It's been painful for her, but she's divulged the deep, dark secret, which is going to be very important for her healing," Aymond said Wednesday.
• Reaction to Mahony's Decision Is Divided -- RCC.
   Los Angeles Times, www.latimes.com/ news/local/la-me- mahony9sep09,1, 7227395.story?coll= la-headlines- california , By Larry B. Stammer, Times Staff Writer
   LOS ANGELES (CA): Cardinal Roger M. Mahony's decision to appeal a court order to give prosecutors secret personnel files of priests accused of molesting minors has disturbed some critics, who called it "foolish and obstructionist," but pleased some priests who lauded its attempt to protect privacy rights.
   Catholic scholars and lay leaders interviewed Wednesday said the Los Angeles cardinal's continuing legal battle over the files risks undermining gains in credibility that he and the nation's Roman Catholic bishops have made in addressing the sexual abuse crisis.
   "It's not a wise decision, politically. But it's a wise decision legally," said Father Richard P. McBrien, a Catholic columnist and theology professor at the University of Notre Dame.
   McBrien cautioned that he did not know the reasons why Mahony chose to appeal Wednesday's order by a state judge that the church turn over to prosecutors documents about two former priests accused of sexually abusing children. While an appeal, he said, could be "entirely legitimate," it also "looks to a lot of Catholic laypeople like the 'same old, same old' - fighting tooth and nail to resist being transparent."
• Judge Rules Mahony Must Provide Files: Prosecutors want to see records of two ex-priests accused of molesting children. Archdiocese plans to appeal, a step that could take years. [2003-04 Mahony] -- 27 months so far. RCC.
   Los Angeles Times, www.latimes.com/ news/local/la-me- priests9sep09,1 ,3728751.story?coll= la-headlines-california , By Jean Guccione, September 9, 2004
   LOS ANGELES (CA): A state judge, rejecting claims by Cardinal Roger M. Mahony that the Constitution gives the Roman Catholic Church a right to withhold personnel files, on Wednesday ordered the Los Angeles archdiocese to turn over confidential records of two former priests accused of sexually abusing children.
   Prosecutors have sought the files for 27 months, part of a county grand jury investigation of allegations that the two priests molested children. Citing grand jury secrecy, prosecutors have declined to name the two priests or say how many children were allegedly molested.
   Lawyers for the archdiocese said they would appeal the ruling by Judge Thomas F. Nuss, a move that could delay, perhaps for years, the actual delivery of files to the grand jury.
   "We believe that Judge Nuss' ruling is novel, is inconsistent … and should be considered by a higher court," said Donald F. Woods Jr., one of Mahony's attorneys.
   Mahony has taken the position that any review of confidential communications between a bishop and his priest by prosecutors would violate the church's rights under the 1st Amendment.
• An Award of Punitive Damages Against A Religious Institution: Is It a Constitutional Violation?
   FindLaw, http://writ.news.findlaw.com/ hamilton/20040909.html , By MARCI HAMILTON, hamilton02@aol.com , Thursday, Sep. 09, 2004
   UNITED STATES: Recently, a novel constitutional basis has been proposed for limiting punitive damages in civil cases: The First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause, which guarantees the freedom to exercise one's religion. This basis is not only novel - it's ridiculous. And in the context in which this argument has been made - clergy abuse cases - it's actually offensive.
   Can it truly be the case that tobacco companies who disregarded health risks to adults deserve punitive damages, but churches that disregarded horrific, traumatic abuse to children with immense psychological health consequences do not?
   Can it truly be the case that car companies that disregarded faulty brakes deserve punitive damages, but churches that disregarded intentional rape of the defenseless do not?
   That's exactly what this argument - which was recently made by the Becket Fund in an amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief filed in Arizona Superior Court - suggests.
   The Becket Fund has declared that it will be filing similar briefs "in every case seeking punitive damages against religious institutions from whatever tradition." So the issue is not just an Arizona issue, or a Catholic Church issue. It's a national one.
   But every court that addresses this argument ought to reject it - for it is simply wrong. And the courts that confront this argument in clergy abuse cases ought to passionately reject it - for it slights the terrible suffering of abuse victims, and the wrongs of their abusers, and those who knew of the abuse but did nothing. [...]
   Punitives are necessary to get the attention of the institution of the Church, and to force it to change its ways. Institutions are inherently static, and act out of self-preservation instincts.
   It takes a truly significant prod to move a criminal or tortious institution off its current position, and toward a position of social responsibility. And when an institution has been entrenched in its ways for many years (or centuries), that institution is going to be particularly adverse to change.
   The question that must be posed to any entity arguing - even as a policy matter -- against punitive damages in clergy abuse cases is: How does it propose to deter this criminal, illegal, and antisocial behavior in the future? It is obvious that self-policing is inadequate to serve the public good.
   Incarcerating the pedophiles and the leadership that aided and abetted their behavior is likely to deter particular individuals (unless current, shockingly short statutes of limitations make that incarceration impossible). But such incarceration does not address the institution's culpability, or effectively deter it for the future: An institution may simply accept that criminal prosecutors will "clean house" for it every so often (and belatedly), and keep right on acting as it always has. There are always candidates willing to be promoted through the ranks. ...
[ Also published on "The Messengers 12" website, www.themessengers12.net/page4.html ]
Marci A. Hamilton is a Visiting Scholar at the Princeton Theological Seminary and the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. An archive of her columns, including those on the Catholic Church clergy abuse scandal can be found on this site. Her email is hamilton02@aol.com.
• Ruling could put priest files in hands of L.A. grand jury -- RCC.
   Oakland Tribune, www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~2389680,00.html , By Michael R. Blood, Associated Press, Thursday, September 09, 2004
   LOS ANGELES (CA) -- A judge ruled Wednesday that the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese cannot withhold potential evidence or proof of clergy sex abuse by claiming that communications between priests and bishops are confidential.
   The ruling in a long-running legal battle was made by Thomas F. Nuss, a retired state judge appointed to review thousands of pages of church personnel documents subpoenaed by a Los Angeles County grand jury investigating possible sexual abuse by priests.
   In weighing the balance between private personnel files and potential evidence of abuse, Nuss wrote in his 32-page ruling that the grand jury's subpoenas don't "have as a principal or primary effect the inhibition of religion."
   The district attorney subpoenaed about 2,000 pages of personnel files and other confidential church records since 2002. But most of those subpoenas were dismissed in July because they dealt with allegations that fell beyond the statute of limitations. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 07:35 AM]
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• Archbishop says he's powerless in legal flap over Nevada priest [Roberts] -- RCC. Boy.

   Las Vegas Sun, www.lasvegassun.com/ sunbin/stories/nevada/ 2004/sep/10/ 091010446.html , By JIM SUHR, ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sep 10, 2004
   ST. LOUIS (MO) (AP) - St. Louis' archbishop said Friday he has no authority to remove a former Nevada priest from a Missouri treatment center close to the home of a young man once sexually abused by the priest.
   While saying he understood and sympathized with the victim's family, Archbishop Raymond Burke said Mark Roberts was being treated by court order at RECON, a Catholic-run residential center not under the archdiocese's control.
   Beyond that, Burke said, "I acknowledge, too, RECON's 11-year successful history of housing priests and religious brothers who have committed sexual offenses and protecting society with the best security and safety available."
   Roberts, 53, was removed from his position as pastor at St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church in Henderson, Nev., in February 2002 and pleaded guilty in January 2003 to lewdness and child abuse involving five teens. He was sentenced to three years of probation. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 06:57 PM]
• Report: Austrian scandal bishop asked to resign -- RCC. Males in seminary.

   Catholic World News, www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=32069 , Sep. 10, 2004
   VIENNA, AUSTRIA (CWNews.com) - Pope John Paul has asked an Austrian bishop at the center of a sex scandal involving his seminary to resign from his office, according to the Kathpress news agency on Friday.
   "Church sources in Rome said on Friday that the Vatican has suggested to St. Poelten Bishop Kurt Krenn, who is in Rome this week for talks, that he retire due to health reasons," the news agency reported. Bishop Krenn's spokesman declined to comment to the Austrian news agency APA.
   The scandal erupted last month when local police arrested a Polish seminarian at the St. Poelten seminary on charges of storing and disseminating child pornography on a computer at the school. Other photos found in the course of the investigation showing seminarians and priests kissing and groping were later obtained by a magazine and published.
• Austrian Church struggles with scandal -- RCC. Males in seminary.
   Toronto Star, www.thestar.com/ NASApp/cs/ContentServer? pagename=thestar/ Layout/Article_ Type1&c=Article& cid=1094681411835& call_pageid= 991479973472& col=991929131147 ; "OPINION," By MICHAEL HIGGINS
   AUSTRIA There are a lot of good things about the Roman Catholic Church in Austria that we should celebrate: the Von Trapp family; Cardinal Franz Koenig; a legion of distinguished composers, artists, intellectuals and leaders.
   Contemporary Austrian Catholic notables include Aurora entrepreneur Frank Stronach of Magna, and the Republican governor of the state of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, a regular communicant at his parish in Santa Monica and a thorn in the side of Los Angeles Cardinal-Archbishop Roger Mahoney.
   But there is no greater thorn in the side of the Austrian Church itself than the Bishop of St. Polten, Kurt Krenn, whose current imbroglio involves the Vatican itself and a scandal of depressing proportions.
   The Austrian Church has not had an easy time over the past two decades. Following the resignation in the late 1980s of the much loved and much admired Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna, Franz Koenig, a Council Father and friend of several popes, things took a turn for the worse.
   He was succeeded by Hans Herman Groer, a largely nondescript abbot of limited pastoral experience, limited theological acumen, and limited leadership ability. There was some resistance to his appointment, allegedly including Koenig himself, but the Vatican was determined to place a pious prelate of impeccable marian credentials as the new Primate of Austria.
   Within a short time , Groer was enmeshed in a sexual abuse scandal that plunged the church into the slough of despond. Groer adamantly refused to answer the allegations, declare his innocence or guilt, apologize or reconcile. In brief, he chose silence and would be accountable to no one save the Pope.
• Priest target of parish fund probe [2004 Lisowski] -- Funds, prostitute. RCC.

   Chicago Tribune, www.chicagotribune.com/ news/local/chicago/ chi-0409100333sep10 ,1,3114611.story? coll=chi-newslocal chicago-hed ; By Jeff Coen and David Heinzmann, September 10, 2004
   CHICAGO (IL): The former pastor of a Catholic church on the Southwest Side has become the focus of a probe of possible financial misconduct at the parish, a review being handled by the Cook County state's attorney's office, authorities said.
   The onetime leader of St. Bede the Venerable, Rev. Brian Lisowski, offered his resignation in July after acknowledging that he had been stopped by police in the company of an alleged prostitute, church officials confirmed. An audit by the Chicago Catholic Archdiocese followed, archdiocese spokesman Jim Dwyer said, and enough irregularities were found that prosecutors were notified.
   Lisowski has not been charged with any crime, and prosecutors' assessment of materials turned over by church officials is ongoing.
• Woman: Church ousted her over sex abuse issue [Swafford] -- Whistleblower. Episcopal Church.
   The Post and Courier, www.charleston.net/ stories/091004/ loc_10episcopal.shtml , BY MICHAEL GARTLAND AND STEVE REEVES, Sep 10, 2004
   SOUTH CAROLINA: A former member of West Ashley's Holy Trinity Episcopal Church said she was excommunicated nearly two years ago because she badgered church officials about improper behavior by a man who was arrested late last month on charges of sexually molesting children at the church.
   But church lay leaders said they removed the woman because her constant gossip and negative behavior was disrupting the congregation and threatening to divide the church.
   The former parishioner, Beverly Moore, complained about the man verbally and in writing to church officials from May 2001 until she was excommunicated in October 2002.
   She said she was removed from the church after openly refusing to take communion wine from Mack Swafford, a lay leader. Swafford was arrested Aug. 30 on child molestation charges alleged to have occurred between 1986 and 1990.
• Bishop's charity event returns -- ~$156,000. Protesters. RCC.
   The Union Leader, www.theunionleader.com/ articles_showfast. html?article=43752 , By MARK HAYWARD
   MANCHESTER (NH) - After putting a low profile on fundraising efforts for two years, Bishop John McCormack hosted a $500-per-head charity effort at his mansion last night, generating nearly $156,000 in donations and in-kind contributions.
   Last night marked the return of the traditional Bishop's Charitable Assistance Fund garden party, which raises donations and distributes proceeds to charities across the state.
   Some 200 people attended the event, men in suit and tie; women in gowns or professional dress. A Manchester chapter of the Knights of Columbus provided valet service, but protesters stood on a sidewalk across from the Trudel House, greeting guests with heckling and signs.
   "This party is to raise funds to help the poor in our state," McCormack said before the event. "What we did in a quiet way for two years, we're now back to the house."
   Ever since his part in the Boston priest-sex scandal became known, McCormack has been hounded by a small but committed band of protesters. Yesterday, the picketers said they don't want to stop people from giving money to charity. But they urged people not to attend the event.
   "This institution is so incredibly corrupt, I wouldn't even trust a dime of my money to the church," said Lori Lambert, a former Bedford resident who now lives in Massachusetts. She said she gives to Catholic organizations such as the St. Boniface Fund and Earthen Vessels.
• Sex offender loses bid for teaching certificate [2001-02 Beine aka "Mar James"] -- Former clergyman.
   St. Louis Post-Dispatch, www.stltoday.com/ stltoday/news/stories. nsf/stlouiscitycounty/ story/601C68ACF01EEC 9586256ECD0013317A? OpenDocument&Headline= Sex+offender+loses+ bid+for+teaching+ certificate
   FULTON, Missouri: Former St. Louis city school counselor and convicted sex offender James Beine cannot regain his teaching certificate, the Missouri State Board of Education decided unanimously Thursday.
   Beine's license was revoked automatically last year after a jury found him guilty on four counts of sexual misconduct with a child. The conviction was for exposing himself to students in a restroom at Patrick Henry School, 1220 North 10th Street, during the 2001-02 school year.
   Beine, who also called himself "Mar James" is a former priest. He is serving a 12-year prison sentence on the charges.
• Priest Arrested For Murder Of Girl (8) [2004] -- Apostolic Church.

   Vaal Weekly, www.news24.com/ Regional_Papers/ Components/Category_ Article_Text_Template/0,, 372_1587080~E,00.html
   SOUTH AFRICA: An Evaton priest has been denied bail by a Sebokeng magistrate following the alleged rape-murder of eight-year-old Delisile Dlamini on August 30.
   A young Dlamini had been fatally strangled and her hands broken by the time neighbours discovered her body last Monday morning.
   She was allegedly abducted by the priest on Saturday 28 August. Before kidnapping her, he had allegedly sent Delisile to buy him a "Polony Roll".
   At the time the family was adamant that the priest had raped her before he killed her so as to silence her.
   The Apostolic Church priest, who is close to the family, was arrested early on Saturday.
• Cardinal sins: Mahony's stonewalling in priest abuses continues [2004 Mahony] -- RCC.
   Press-Telegram, www.presstelegram.com/ Stories/0,1413,204~ 21479~2390979,00.html
   CALIFORNIA: Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese has protected child molesters in the priesthood and knowingly helped them evade justice, has refused to cooperate in the D.A.'s investigation of the crimes, and has disregarded a grand jury subpoena.
   So it comes as little surprise that Mahony has vowed to fight a judge's order to disclose evidence in the church's coverup of child abuse within its ranks.
   A state judge on Wednesday ordered Mahony to turn over personnel records involving two priests accused of child molestation. The files are among many that District Attorney Steve Cooley has been seeking since 2002.
   Mahony has steadfastly refused to give the files to the grand jury, claiming the same type of privacy privilege that applies to priests and religious confessions.
   Mahony promised to appeal the judge's ruling, an action that could delay any transfer of the records to the grand jury for several years.
• Candlelight ceremony held in honor of slain children [2004 Meza] -- Jehovah's Witness.
   The Sun News, www.myrtlebeachonline.com/ mld/myrtlebeachonline/ news/local/9626280.htm , The Associated Press
   ROCK HILL (NC) - A national support group for sexually abused children held a candlelight vigil Thursday tonight to honor three killed children from York County.
   The service was sponsored by Silentlambs, a support group for abused children in "religious institutional settings."
   The Meza family were members of a Rock Hill Jehovah's Witnesses church. The children -- Jayro, 5; Denise, 8; and Denia, 14 - died Aug. 9 before a fire engulfed their home. Authorities say they were slain by one of their parents -- Marbely or Jose Denis Meza -- who died in the fire. The case is still under investigation.
   Jose Denis Meza had been arrested three weeks before on charges he molested Denia. Officials say she was also raped within five days of her death.
   A national spokesman for the Jehovah's Witnesses church said Jose Denis Meza "confessed" to church officials about sexually abusing his daughter, but he stressed that church officials turned that information over to York County authorities.
• Clergy Abuse Victim Publishes Book [1970s Birmingham] -- RCC. Male.
   TheBostonChannel.com ; www.thebostonchannel.com/ news/3720320/ detail.html , POSTED: 6:23 am EDT September 10, 2004
   BOSTON (MA) -- One of the most vocal victims in Boston's clergy sex abuse crisis has published a book about the scandal.
   "Don't Call Me A Victim: A Personal Story of Faith, Hope & Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church," was released Thursday by Arc Angel Publishing, a company started by the book's author, Gary Bergeron.
   "If one survivor reads it and finds comfort in it, I've done what I set out to do," Bergeron said.
   Bergeron, of Lowell, Mass., became a spokesman for victims in 2002, when he went public with his own abuse by the late Rev. Joseph Birmingham in the 1970s.
   Last year, Bergeron, 42, and his 77-year-old father, also a clergy abuse victim, traveled to Rome and met with the Vatican's secretary of state.
   In March, Bergeron founded a nonprofit foundation formed to help adult survivors of sexual abuse in recovery and treatment.
• Settlement reached in Kelley suit [1976-84 Kelley, 1968-70 Teczar, 1980s Shauris] -- RCC. Girls, Boys.
   Telegram & Gazette www.telegram.com/ apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20040910/NEWS/ 109100474/1116 ; by Gary V. Murray, gmurray@telegram.com , Sep 10, 2004
   WORCESTER (MA) - The Worcester Diocese has reached an out-of-court settlement with an Idaho woman who filed a civil lawsuit two years ago alleging she was sexually abused as a child by the Rev. Robert E. Kelley.
   Terms of the recent settlement were not disclosed by a lawyer for the diocese, who said yesterday the settlement was one of seven reached in the last several months between the diocese and plaintiffs in clergy sex abuse cases.
   The woman, Denise Hanrahan, was one of two remaining plaintiffs in a suit filed in 2002 in Middlesex Superior Court and transferred last month to Worcester Superior Court. Ms. Hanrahan alleged that she was sexually abused by Rev. Kelley between 1976 and 1983, when the Catholic priest was assigned to St. Cecilia's Parish in Leominster.
   The abuse allegedly occurred at various locations, including the church rectory and in New Hampshire, according to the lawsuit. Named as defendants were the Catholic Diocese of Worcester, the Rev. George E. Denomme and the Rev. Francis Goguen. Rev. Denomme was pastor of St. Cecilia's when the abuse was alleged to have occurred and Rev. Goguen was also assigned to the Leominster parish, according to the suit. The plaintiffs were minors when they were allegedly abused.
   The suit alleged that the defendants knew or should have known that Rev. Kelley posed a danger to Ms. Hanrahan and the other plaintiffs and failed to take steps to protect them.
   Rev. Kelley, 61, was sentenced to 5 to 7 years in state prison on Oct. 1, 2003, after pleading guilty in Worcester Superior Court to raping two young girls between 1981 and 1984, when the victims were ages 6 to 9. The rapes occurred at St. Cecilia's and Sacred Heart Parish in Gardner.
   One of the two victims in the criminal case was Diane Gallian of Ashburnham, who is now the sole remaining plaintiff in the civil case in which Ms. Hanrahan was also a plaintiff.
   Heather Mackey of Tewksbury, the other victim in the criminal case, had also been a plaintiff in the civil action, but her claims against the diocese were dismissed in July, 2003, after she voluntarily chose not to proceed. The claims of two other plaintiffs, Nicole M. Cormier of Fitchburg and Debbie A. Doucet of Leominster, were also dismissed in July, 2003, after settlements were reached between them and the diocese.
   Rev. Kelley's October sentencing marked the second time he had been imprisoned on child sexual assault charges. He had served six and a half years of a seven-year state prison sentence imposed in 1990 after pleading guilty to six counts of rape of a child.
   Last week, Ms. Hanrahan's lawyers, Jeffrey A. Newman and James P. Ponsetto, and lawyers James G. Reardon Jr. and Joanne L. Goulka, representing the defendants in the civil case, filed a stipulation of dismissal regarding Ms. Hanrahan's claims. As grounds for the dismissal and the entry of a final judgment, the defendants' lawyers said they had reached a settlement with Ms. Hanrahan.
   Mr. Reardon declined to comment yesterday on the terms of the settlements with Ms. Hanrahan and the plaintiffs in the other cases against the Worcester diocese that have been resolved. Mr. Newman could not be reached for comment. Court documents did not reflect the terms of the settlements.
   A stipulation of dismissal based on an undisclosed settlement was filed April 5 in Worcester Superior Court in a 2003 suit filed by John Riganati of Dennis Port. Mr. Riganati alleged that he was sexually abused by the Rev. Thomas Teczar from about 1968 to about 1970, when he was about 16 to 18 years old. In his suit against the diocese and Rev. Teczar, Mr. Riganati alleged that he was repeatedly sexually abused in the rectory of St. Joan of Arc Church in Worcester, in Rev. Teczar's car and on Cape Cod.
   A stipulation of dismissal based on a settlement was filed June 7 in a 2002 case brought by Melinda Ness of California, who alleged that she was sexually abused by Rev. Kelley in the late 1970s at St. Cecilia's in Leominster.
   The settled cases also included one brought against the diocese in 2002 by James Kane of Derry, N.H., and Jeff Doherty of Deerfield Beach, Fla. Mr. Kane and Mr. Doherty alleged that the Rev. Robert Shauris engaged in acts of nonconsensual sexual contact with them in the 1980s, when they were students at St. Bernard's Catholic High School in Fitchburg and Rev. Shauris was a priest assigned to the school.
   Rev. Shauris was not a named defendant in the lawsuit. A stipulation of dismissal in the case was filed July 15.
   There are a dozen clergy sex abuse cases still pending against the Diocese in Worcester Superior Court. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 06:22 AM]
////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker www.ncrnews.org/abuse , Fri September 10, 2004
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#### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse, Sat September 11, 2004 edition follows:-
• Accused priests stay close to Rome [Henn, Bossa] -- RCC.

   The Dallas Morning News, www.dallasnews.com/ sharedcontent/dws/dn/ religion/stories/091204 dnrelrome.bc6c5.html , One in an occasional series, By REESE DUNKLIN, Saturday, September 11, 2004
   ROME: - Pope John Paul II summoned U.S. cardinals to the Vatican two years ago, at the height of the church's sex abuse crisis, and made a stirring pronouncement.
   "People need to know," he stressed to them, "that there is no place in the priesthood and religious life for those who would harm the young."
   Yet today, one block from the Vatican, a fugitive priest lives in a church building with rooftop views of St. Peter's Basilica and the pope's apartment.
   The Rev. Joseph Henn's superiors have let him stay with them, even though they say he has refused their instructions to go back to Phoenix and face charges that he molested three boys.
   A short cab ride north, the Rev. Barry Bossa, an ex-con and fugitive, has found similar sanctuary in a leafy neighborhood of sidewalk cafes and low-rise apartments. His religious bosses hastily moved him out of the United States two years ago as his criminal record and new allegations began to emerge.
   Here in the heart of Catholicism, church leaders are giving refuge to priests who face allegations of sexual abuse in other countries. The Dallas Morning News located the men - some of them admitted abusers - as part of a yearlong investigation into the global movements of accused priests. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 04:45 PM]
• Monday Sept. 6 Labor Day. This is a joke, right? [Murray] -- $US 500,000. RCC.

   Orange County Weekly, www.ocweekly.com/ ink/05/01/columns- lowery.php , Tuesday Sept. 7, 2004
   CALIFORNIA: It's that time of the month for the Diocese of Orange: pedo-spinning! Over the weekend, the Los Angeles Times reported that church officials settled a sex-abuse lawsuit last year against Father Daniel Murray for $500,000.
   Church spokesman Father Joe Fenton defended the non-disclosure of the settlement-which violates a 2002 vow taken by all Catholic bishops in the United States to reveal all sex-abuse settlements-by claiming the alleged victim wished to avoid publicizing the case, a claim quickly repudiated in the article by the victim's attorney.
   Meanwhile, all was silent at St. Boniface Church in Anaheim, where Murray served as priest from 1983 to 1994. Weekly writer Gustavo Arellano said there was no announcement on the Murray settlement at this past Sunday's Mass, despite Thesis No. 6 of the diocese's "Covenant with the Faithful," which pledges to be "open, honest and forthright" regarding all sex-abuse settlements.
   Instead, a prayer was offered for the fifth straight Sunday that "everyone involved - victims, lawyers and judges - reach a fair and equitable settlement in their lawsuits against the diocese for sexual abuse." Those three are the last entities for which the faithful should be lighting votive candles - how about a tire fire for the soul of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown?
• Rape of boy during papal visit recalled: Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse [1979] -- RCC. Boy.

   One in Four, http://oneinfour.org/ news/news2004/papal , by Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent - Irish Times
   : IRELAND: The investigation committee of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse was told yesterday that a boy, prevented from attending Pope John Paul's Mass in Limerick in September 1979, was raped by the brother left in charge of him.
   Father Patrick Pierce, manager in 1975-91 of St Joseph's Industrial School, Ferryhouse, Co Tipperary, told the committee the boy had not been allowed accompany his colleagues to the Pope's Mass as punishment for absconding. The brother who raped him had been a prefect at the school and volunteered to stay back with the boy.
   Father Pierce, who was recalling that in November 1979 he first learned about the abuse of boys at St Joseph's by "Brother X", became upset while giving his evidence. "Little did we know we were living with an abuser," he said, ...
• A number of sex abusers resided in industrial school [Rosminians] -- RCC. Male.

   One in Four, http://oneinfour.org/ news/news2004/number , by Patsy McGarry - Irish Times
   IRELAND: A number of sex abusers had connections to the industrial school at Ferryhouse, the investigations committee of the child abuse commission was told yesterday.
   Father Patrick Pierce gave evidence about three other abusers, apart from "Brother X".
   He said he was appointed Irish provincial of the Rosminian congregation in 1991, and in July 1992 ITV broadcast a programme about abuse, after which he received a call from his counterpart in England.
   He said he had been contacted by a man in Wales alleging that an Irish Rosminian priest, who had been a prefect at Ferryhouse in the 1960s, had attempted to abuse him on a visit to Ireland.
• Man charged with making false abuse allegations bailed [2003-04 Anderson.] -- RCC.

   One in Four, http://oneinfour.org/ news/news2004/false , by Nicola Anderson - Irish Independent
  IRELAND: A man who stands accused of making false allegations of indecent assault and buggery against a priest has been remanded on bail at Kilmainham Court.
   It marks the first time that such a case has come before the courts.
   Paul Anderson (30), of Ivy Trust House, New Bride Street, Dublin 8, was arrested on foot of a bench warrant yesterday morning at a house in Crumlin Park and charged under Section 12 of the 1976 Criminal Law Act.
   It is understood that the claims, made in June 2003 relate to alleged incidents from February to May 1981.
   The investigation was led by Det Sergeant Martin Mooney of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigations and a file was sent to the DPP. Mr Anderson could face five years in prison if found guilty. He was remanded on his own bail of €500. ...
   Allegations of sexual abuse were made last year against Fr John Wall of Clondalkin but following a Garda investigation, no further action was taken.
   Fr Wall was reinstated in his job as parish priest of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Clondalkin, having been immediately asked by the diocese to stand aside following the allegations.
   The Church's guidelines for dealing with allegations of child abuse, in place since 1996, allow bishops and religious superiors to exercise their discretion when deciding whether an accused cleric should step down from his ministry.
• Former Youth Group Sponsor Gets 20 Years [2003 Dickens] -- Baptist. Girl.

   Tyler Morning Telegraph, www.zwire.com/ site/news.cfm? BRD=1994&dept_id= 226369&newsid=12900916&PAG= 461&rfi=9 , By CASEY KNAUPP, September 10, 2004
   EDITOR'S NOTE: The name of the victim in this article was not identified in keeping with the Tyler Morning Telegraph's policy to protect the identity of victims of sexual abuse and to encourage the reporting of such crimes.
   TEXAS: A sponsor of a church youth group in Winona was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl he met at church.
   Greg Dickens, 35, worked with the youth group "Team Kids" at the Winona First Baptist Church when he met the girl in August 2003. The victim asked him if she could help with the group and soon he began "grooming" her to become his prey, Chief Felony Prosecutor April Sikes said.
   The defendant is what Mrs. Sikes called an "authority pedophile." He groomed the victim, telling her she was beautiful and that he loved her. She rode her bicycle to his home, where he lived with his parents and where he would sexually assault her, Mrs. Sikes said.
• Abuse settlements reached; court rules on priest files -- Mixed actions. $US 7m RCC.
   Catholic News Service www.catholicnews.com/ data/briefs/cns/ 20040910.htm , Sep 10, 2004
   WASHINGTON (DC) (CNS) -- Three U.S. dioceses reached a new phase in clergy sexual abuse settlements recently and a fourth said it would appeal a judge's order to turn over some priest personnel files. In the Cincinnati Archdiocese 134 sexual abuse claimants signed up by the Sept. 1 deadline to seek independently mediated settlement of their claims under a $3 million fund the archdiocese has set aside for that purpose.
   The Diocese of Springfield, Mass., delivered checks to 46 abuse claimants Aug. 31, completing the main element of a $7 million settlement reached in July. In agreements announced Aug. 25, the St. Louis Archdiocese settled 18 of 21 sexual abuse lawsuits under mediation. The settlements totaled $2,036,800.
   In California, an attorney for the Los Angeles Archdiocese said the archdiocese would appeal a Sept. 8 decision by Superior Court Judge Thomas F. Nuss ordering the archdiocese to turn over 80 pages of personnel files on two priests accused of sexual abuse of minors who are being investigated by a grand jury for possible criminal charges.
• The gospel according to Jimmy Breslin -- RCC.
   Salon, www.salon.com/ books/feature/ 2004/09/11/breslin/ index_np.html , By Andrew O'Hehir, Sept. 11, 2004
   NEW YORK: Jimmy Breslin wants to start his own church. He's had enough of the old one after almost 74 years, and who can blame him?
   When you look back over the career of New York's consummate common-man columnist -- one of the best at cramming characters, emotion and sense of place into a 650-word rectangle of newsprint that Gotham has ever seen -- his break with the Roman Catholic Church has been a long time coming.
   It wasn't exactly the sexual abuse scandal itself that sent Breslin over the edge, although he's been covering it with intense and deepening anger for the last two years. Instead, he says, it was one of the scandal's side effects: discovering that one of the American church's most prominent men of God was a niggling, pedantic little man. [Emphasis added]
• Accuser absent from hearing in Shanley case -- RCC. Males.
   Telegram & Gazette, www.telegram.com/ apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20040911/APN/ 409110627 , The Associated Press, Sep 11, 2004
   CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- One of two remaining accusers in the Paul Shanley rape case did not appear in court Friday for a pretrial hearing, but prosecutors said they expected the accuser to remain in the case.
   Shanley's defense attorney, Frank Mondano, questioned whether the accuser was going to "stay the course" in the case.
   But district attorney's spokesman Tim St. Laurent told the Boston Herald, "The charges do stand and we will go forward."
   The 73-year-old defrocked priest was a key figure in the church sex abuse scandal that began in Boston in 2002.
   Shanley is currently facing six rape charges and four charges of indecent assault. Prosecutors in July dropped several charges brought by accusers Anthony Driscoll and Gregory Ford.
• Goa DGP model to fight paedophiles

   The Times of India, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ articleshow/847517.cms , By SANJAY BANERJEE, TIMES NEWS NETWORK, 04:35:04 PM, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2004
   PANAJI, INDIA: Seven cases of child abuse registered in Goa last month including one involving a parish priest has helped put a smile on the faces of NGOs who have been waging a long and protracted fight against paedophiles.
   The new director general of police, Amod Kanth, better known as a supercop in Delhi and who also runs 'Prayas' (NGO) for children says, "I believe that NGOs can make a difference in aiding social investigation and have followed the model in four states where Prayas is working."
   Henceforth, a panel of lawyers, doctors, psychologists, sociologists and jury of the children and juvenile courts would work in tandem to help the victim shed away fear and ensure a composite understanding by professionals from various faculties to discern the abuse and nail the culprit.
   The new methodology ensures protection of the child from not only foreign nationals but also the Goan society where the neighbour could be a paedophile.
• Pope Talks With U.S. Bishops About Scandal -- RCC.

   Austin American-Statesman, www.statesman.com/ news/content/news/ ap/ap_story.html/Intl/ AP.V4724.AP-Vatican- Sex-Abu.html By TOM RACHMAN, Associated Press Writer
   VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope John Paul II discussed the U.S. sex-abuse scandal with a group of American bishops Saturday, encouraging them to be more open to the needs of parishioners in the wake of a "crisis of confidence in the Church's leadership."
   The pontiff was speaking with Church officials from Pennsylvania and New Jersey--including Cardinal Justin Rigali, archbishop of Philadelphia, and Archbishop John Myers of Newark--during a regularly scheduled visit to the Vatican.
   John Paul noted that Roman Catholic bishops have "an unequivocal right and duty of governance." But he indicated that the approach of some American Church leaders may have inadvertently driven a wedge between them and churchgoers.
   During the scandal, dozens of reports emerged of abusive priests who had been moved from parish to parish rather than being punished. Victims groups accused the Church hierarchy of favoring the protection of priests over their victims, and many faithful were infuriated by the response of Catholic leaders.
• Shanley accuser's no-show casts shadow over rape case -- RCC.
   Boston Herald, http://news.bostonherald.com/ localRegional/view.bg? articleid=43749 , By Casey Ross, Saturday, September 11, 2004
   CAMBRIDGE (MA): One of two remaining accusers in the Paul Shanley rape case did not appear yesterday for a pretrial examination, creating more problems for prosecutors trying to win a conviction against the defrocked priest.
   The accuser's failure to attend the key hearing comes two months after Middlesex prosecutors dropped charges brought by two of four alleged victims in the case.
   Also yesterday, a superior court judge postponed Shanley's trial until Jan. 18, moving it back from a scheduled start date in October. Attorneys on both sides said the postponement was the result of a scheduling conflict and had nothing to do with the accuser's failure to appear.
   But Shanley's defense attorney, Frank Mondano, yesterday questioned whether the accuser is going to "stay the course" in the case. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 08:59 AM]
////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker www.ncrnews.org/abuse , Sat September 11, 2004
Abuse Chronology, visit: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont96.htm
#### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse, Sun September 12, 2004 edition follows:-
• Celibacy Seen as a Gift That Edifies the Church -- RCC.

   Zenit, www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=58759 , SEPT. 12, 2004
   SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (Zenit.org).- A priest who is not profoundly spiritual is "a poor celibate," says a consultor to a Vatican dicastery.
   "Priestly celibacy is not an exclusive characteristic of priests of the Catholic rite, and even less so an imposition of the Church, but a gift received for the edification of the community," said Father Amedeo Cencini, when referring to the topic he alluded to during a meeting of seminary rectors and formators in Spain.
   Father Cencini is a professor at the Salesian and Gregorian universities of Rome, and a consultor to the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
   He explained during an interview with ZENIT that the Church "does not impose celibacy on anyone, it simply chooses priests among those who have received this charism."
   "What is most important is that the celibate make these motivations his own and live his celibacy as a choice of love, with a thankful heart free of egoism, and with a profoundly spiritual attitude," he said. "If the priest is not profoundly spiritual, he is a poor celibate."
   The priest continued: "The recent scandals of certain Churches must not lead to deception, because there is no scientific proof that shows that in the realm of ecclesiastical celibacy this type of problem is more frequent than in other realms." [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 05:55 PM]
   [COMMENT: It would be difficult to scientifically prove that celibacy is one of the causes of RCC clergy sex abuse, because no-one can perform repeatable experiments in such matters. However, in the USA 4 per cent of the supposedly "celibate" RCC clergy were exposed by the Church's own records as failing celibacy by sexually abusing children, youth, and women. The RCC celibacy rule seriously skews the selection process for clergy, so presumably has an effect on outcomes.
   Christians don't need social studies theories ("science") to guide them on this subject. The New Testament favours marriage, including one text where the epistle writer claims that no man ought to touch a woman, but concludes by recommending marriage! (1 Corinthians 7:2) "It is better to marry than to be burnt up." (1 Corinthians 7:9) Two forged bible books include recommendations for the clergy to be "husbands of one wife" and fathers as well (1 Timothy 3:2-7; Titus 1: 5 - 9). More information is at "Celibacy crept ...", "Non-marital carnal activity ... ", and "Fathers ..." . COMMENT ENDS.]
• Accused priest recalled as both 'saint' and abuser [Lammers , Sisters of Charity of Nazareth] -- RCC.

   Kentucky.com www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/9646760.htm , Associated Press
   LOUISVILLE, Ky. - At his death in 1986, the longtime director of Catholic Charities was lauded for his efforts to help refugees, tornado victims and others in need.
   Now, 32 people have accused Monsignor Herman J. Lammers in lawsuits of raping, fondling or otherwise molesting them while he was resident chaplain at the former St. Thomas-St. Vincent Orphanage near Anchorage.
   To date, 41 people have sued the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Jefferson Circuit Court accusing the order of failing to protect them from abuse between the 1930s and 1970s. Fourteen of the plaintiffs also accuse 15 nuns of sexual or physical abuse, and three others accuse two men identified as a volunteer and an assistant.
   Most of the allegations are linked to St. Thomas-St. Vincent, which the order operated for the Catholic Charities agency of the Archdiocese of Louisville. Other allegations are linked to the St. Thomas and St. Vincent orphanages before they merged in 1952, or to schools where the nuns worked in the Louisville area.
   A spokeswoman for the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth has denied the allegations.
• Televangelist Paul Crouch Attempts to Keep Accuser Quiet [1992 Crouch] -- Trinity Broadcasting Network. $US 425,000 paid. Male.
   Yahoo! News, http://news.yahoo.com/ news?tmpl=story&u=/ latimests/20040912/ts_ latimes/televangelist paulcrouchattempts tokeepaccuserquiet ; By William Lobdell, 7:55 AM ET, Sun Sep 12 2004,
   CALIFORNIA: Televangelist Paul Crouch, founder of the world's largest Christian broadcasting network, has waged a fierce legal battle to prevent a former employee from publicizing allegations that he and Crouch had a sexual encounter eight years ago.
   Crouch, 70, is the president of Trinity Broadcasting Network, based in Orange County, whose Christian programming reaches millions of viewers around the world via satellite, cable and broadcast stations.
   The source of the allegations against him is Enoch Lonnie Ford, who met Crouch at a TBN-affiliated drug treatment center in 1991 and later went to work for the ministry.
   After Ford threatened to sue TBN in 1998, claiming that he had been unjustly fired, Crouch reached a $425,000 settlement with him. In return, Ford agreed, among other things, not to discuss his claim about a sexual encounter with the TV preacher.
   But in the last year, Ford has threatened to go public with his story, prompting a flurry of legal maneuvers - conducted in closed court hearings, sealed pleadings and private arbitration.
   In court papers, Crouch has denied the allegations, and ministry officials have described Ford - who has a history of drug problems and has served time for a sex offense - as a liar and an extortionist.
• Confession of a pervert priest [1987-90 McQuillan] -- RCC. Boys.

   Sunday Life, www.sundaylife.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=560918 , Exclusive by Stephen Breen, 12 September 2004
   NORTHERN IRELAND: This is the first picture of the pervert Ulster priest who has confessed to a series of sex crimes against boys.
   Father Gerard McQuillan, from Armagh, admitted a litany of gross indecency and indecent assault charges, at Newry Crown Court.
   The shamed priest also pleaded guilty to committing an act of b*ggery, on a boy under 16.
   Last night, one of his victims told Sunday Life he was relieved McQuillan had pleaded guilty, sparing his victims further suffering.
   'Paul' (not his real name) said: "I can forgive him because I'm now getting on with my life, but he's a very sick man who needs help. He could have destroyed my life by what he did to me, but I won't let him."
   McQuillan's offences against four boys took place between 1987 and 1990, but only came to light last year, following a complaint to police.
• Priest admits to stealing more than $1 million [1999-2004 Lisowski] -- Made full restitution. Caught with prostitute. RCC.

   WQAD, www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=2289540
   CHICAGO (IL): A Catholic priest who resigned earlier this summer from his Chicago church has admitted to stealing more than one million dollars from the parish.
   The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago announced yesterday that the Reverend Brian Lisowski had misappropriated funds at St. Bede the Venerable between January 1999 and July 2004. Lisowski resigned in July after acknowledging he had relapsed into alcoholism and had been stopped by police in the company of an alleged prostitute.
   The Reverend Michael Adams read a letter written by Auxiliary Bishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller to parishioners yesterday on Chicago's southwest side. It said Lisowski had made full restitution of the money he took.
• Diocese concerned about audit -- RCC.
   Nashua Telegraph, http://nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040912/NEWS02/209120391/-1/news , Sunday, Sep. 12, 2004
   MANCHESTER (NH) (AP) - Talks have broken down over auditing the Diocese of Manchester's child protection policies and procedures.
   Attorney General Kelly Ayotte says the state and church have a fundamental disagreement over the audit's scope.
   Ayotte would not specify the differences, but a lawyer for the Roman Catholic diocese said constitutional concerns divide them.
   David Vicinanzo said the two disagree how much authority the state can have over internal church decisions without violating the Constitution.
   "The diocese's view is that the state, while acting in good faith, wants certain authority that neither the agreement nor the federal constitution permits, and which is unnecessary to performing the thorough and professional audit that was agreed upon," he said.
• 'Sex case priests sheltered in Rome' [Henn] -- Salvatorian. RCC.

   Irish Examiner, http://breaking.examiner.ie/2004/09/12/story166174.html , Sep/12/2004
   ROME: Some Roman Catholic religious orders have been sheltering priests in Rome despite claims that the men sexually abused children, it was reported today.
   Of the seven accused priests located by The Dallas Morning News, one has been indicted in Arizona, but refuses to return to face the charges. Two others had admitted to abuse years ago, but now face additional claims.
   Supervisors of the accused clergy said they were not trying to help the men elude law enforcement or victims, but wanted to give them a place to live and work away from children, the newspaper reported.
   In one case, the Reverend Joseph Henn, a member of the Salvatorian order, was indicted last year in Arizona on child molestation charges. The Diocese of Phoenix, where he had worked, had already reached a settlement with one of his accusers in the 1990s, the newspaper said.
   Salvatorian officials said in a written statement to the newspaper that they had told Henn to return and face authorities, but he refused.
   The Arizona prosecutor in his case, Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, noted that priests take vows of obedience and said Henn’s superiors have the authority to order him back to America.
   In another case, the Reverend Barry Bossa, a member of the Pallottines order, was criminally charged last year in Massachusetts. He has been accused of sexually abusing young boys in the 1970s, when he taught at a Bridgewater, Massachusetts, parish. Bossa had separately pleaded guilty in 1974 to misdemeanor sexual abuse.
   A colleague of Bossa’s who had monitored him in the United States, the Reverend Terzo Vinci, said the religious order moved Bossa to Rome to isolate him from children and now he was unable to return because of his health.
   "It’s not a promotion," Vinci said. "He went to Rome in exile. Zero promotion. Zero anything."
   The Reverend James Tully, of the Xaverian Missionary Fathers, was moved to Rome two years ago, about a month after he was accused of inappropriately touching a boy several decades earlier, the newspaper said.
   Tully had pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct in 1992 for giving alcohol to three boys and grabbing one of them.
   An official with Tully’s order said his transfer to Rome was unrelated to the abuse allegations. The official said the clergyman was recovering from working in war-torn parts of Africa and was not ready for ministry in the United States.
   The newspaper identified the men as part of a year-long investigation that found more than 200 priests accused of abuse have been moved from country to country. Nearly half of the cases involved clergy who tried to elude law enforcement, the newspaper said. #
• Camp Hill congregation surprised by pastor's sex abuse conviction [Hale] -- Universalist Church

   The Decatur Daily www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/040912/abuse.shtml , Sep 4, 2004
   CAMP HILL (AL) (AP) - The Rev. Signard Dennis Hale said he resigned as pastor when members of his congregation learned about the child sex conviction that he described as a "skeleton in my closet."
   Members of the First Universalist Church of Camp Hill were to meet today to consider Hale's resignation.
   "Personally, I feel that he has paid his debt to society and has tried to atone by living the right kind of life since," said church president Barbara Taylor.
   She said the church has grown under his leadership.
   "There's a deep hurt and I'm very surprised," said church member Jimmy Johnson of Cedartown, Ga. "This is a lot to digest. When you're dealing with human beings, anything is possible." [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 04:43 AM]
• Criminal Record Forces Camp Hill Pastor to Resign [Hale] -- Universalist Church. Girl.
   WSFA, www.wsfa.com/ Global/story.asp? S=2290696&nav=0RdEQpAV
   CAMP HILL (AL): Camp Hill's First Universalist Church members unanimously accepted their reverend's resignation Sunday. The Associated Press reports the congregation was surprised to learn that Pastor Dennis Hale had served time in prison for sexually abusing a six year old Auburn girl.
   However, WSFA 12 News has learned that the information may not have been completely unknown to church members.
   In a telephone interview, Pastor Hale said, when he first took the job, he told church members he would resign if news of his conviction ever got out. WSFA 12 News tried to get church officials to confirm that, but they refused to comment on specifics.
   In a prepared telephone statement, Church President Barbara Taylor would only say, "After over 158 years of history, First Universalist Church will continue to grow and serve the surrounding areas."
• Acrimony splits victims, church in mediation process -- ~ 75 victims. Religious Orders not brought in. RCC.
   Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com/news/metro/sep04/258217.asp , By TOM HEINEN, theinen@journalsentinel.com , Posted Sept. 11, 2004
   MILWAUKEE (WI): Begun last December with high hopes, mediation between the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and a group now totaling about 75 victims of sexual abuse by priests has fractured to the point that the two sides do not even agree on why they have not met for several months.
   Victims contend the archdiocese made non-negotiable offers and dragged its feet on scheduling meetings after the Legislature and governor approved a new clergy sexual-abuse law. That law passed without a provision allowing victims in old cases to get around state Supreme Court decisions and statutes of limitation to sue the church.
   Victims also claim that the archdiocese offered far less restitution than some other dioceses, failed to get representatives of religious-order priests to participate in mediation and is pushing all victims into individual mediation.
   But Archdiocesan officials contend that various issues, including how to involve religious orders in the process, remain on the table along with an open invitation to continue meeting. They defend separate, independent mediation for individuals and small groups, saying it has helped victims begin to heal.
   No sessions are scheduled.
• Diocese faces new claims of sex abuse -- 140 new claims. < $US 3m at risk. RCC.
   Boston Globe, www.boston.com/news/ local/massachusetts/ articles/2004/09/12/ diocese_faces_new_ claims_of_sex_abuse ; By Kevin Cullen, September 12, 2004
   BOSTON (MA): Less than a year after it paid $85 million to settle 541 sexual-abuse claims, the Archdiocese of Boston is facing at least 140 new claims that a church spokesman says the church cannot now afford to settle, in part because it has been unable to recoup money from its insurance policies to cover last year's settlement.
   The new claims, which lawyers handling the cases say involve charges against priests that span the 1950s to the 1980s, have presented Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley with a potentially huge bill. Even if the suits were settled for the $20,000 maximum allowed under the charitable immunity standard, the archdiocese could be facing claims worth nearly $3 million. If the archdiocese followed the standard it set in settling the 541 cases last year, the bill would be more in the range of $20 million, legal analysts say.
   The archdiocese borrowed the money used to settle the cases last December, and since then has sold the historic cardinal's residence and surrounding land in Brighton to Boston College for $107 million to pay down its debts. It has also slated 82 parishes for closure as part of a drastic cost-cutting effort and realignment.
   But the Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, a spokesman for O'Malley, said none of the funds raised by the property sale or by closing parishes would be used to settle sexual abuse claims.
   "Our intention is that the money used to pay the settlements should come from the insurance sources, not pastoral sources," said Coyne. "All of our effort is to settle the actions we've taken against our insurers."
• Boston Archdiocese: no talks on new wave of sex abuse claims -- RCC. Insurance litigation.
   Telegram & Gazette, www.telegram.com/ apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20040912/ APN/409120598 ,The Associated Press, Sep 12, 2004
   BOSTON (MA) - The Archdiocese of Boston, which has already paid millions to settle claims of sex abuse by priests, is facing at least 140 more claims and it can't afford to settle them, a church spokesman said, in part because it has been unable to get insurance payments to cover the first settlement.
   "We've been letting the lawyers know that we would not be moving forward with negotiations until we have settled with our insurance carriers," said Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, a spokesman for the archdiocese.
   One lawyer said he was unmoved by the church's statements and believed the church had plenty of resources to settle the claims.
   "They always seem to have an excuse," said Mitchell Garabedian, one of the driving forces in the first wave of claims. "I'm just preparing for trial."
   The archdiocese reached an $85 million settlement last year of 541 sexual abuse claims. If the new claims were settled at a similar rate, the bill could be in the range of $20 million, legal analysts told the Globe.
   Coyne said it was too early to comment on how much money the new claims might cost the archdiocese.
• 'Sex Case Priests Sheltered in Rome' [Henn] -- RCC. Orders hiding. Salvatorian supposedly won't obey.

   Scotland on Sunday, http://news.scotsman.com/ latest.cfm?id=3486416 , "PA"
   ROME: Some Roman Catholic religious orders have been sheltering priests in Rome despite claims that the men sexually abused children, it was reported today.
   Of the seven accused priests located by The Dallas Morning News, one has been indicted in Arizona, but refuses to return to face the charges. Two others had admitted to abuse years ago, but now face additional claims.
   Supervisors of the accused clergy said they were not trying to help the men elude law enforcement or victims, but wanted to give them a place to live and work away from children, the newspaper reported.
   In one case, the Rev. Joseph Henn, a member of the Salvatorian order, was indicted last year in Arizona on child molestation charges. The Diocese of Phoenix, where he had worked, had already reached a settlement with one of his accusers in the 1990s, the newspaper said.
   Salvatorian officials said in a written statement to the newspaper that they had told Henn to return and face authorities, but he refused.
   The Arizona prosecutor in his case, Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, noted that priests take vows of obedience and said Henn's superiors have the authority to order him back to America.
• Abuse suit involving old orphanage brings forth both critics and defenders [Sisters of Charity of Nazareth] -- RCC.

   The Courier-Journal www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2004/09/12ky/A1-abuse0912-10204.html , By Peter Smith, psmith@courier-journal.com ,
   LOUISVILLE (KY): The large brick orphanage was demolished 20 years ago, and a subdivision has replaced the fields and hills where hundreds of children once lived, played and sometimes ran away.
   Although the St. Thomas-St. Vincent Orphanage faded into history along with many other large children's homes that closed in the late 20th century, memories of the orphanage in eastern Jefferson County have been revived by a wave of litigation this summer. Those memories range from fond to nightmarish.
   To date, 41 people have sued the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, alleging sexual abuse between the 1930s and 1970s by a priest, 15 nuns and others.
   Most of the allegations are linked to St. Thomas-St. Vincent, which the order operated for the Catholic Charities agency of the Archdiocese of Louisville. Other allegations are linked to the St. Thomas and St. Vincent orphanages before they merged in 1952, or to schools where the nuns worked in the Louisville area.
   In interviews, some former residents - plaintiffs and others - talk about incidents such as being locked in closets, force-fed until they gagged, thrown down stairs or compelled to crawl for hours for offenses.
• Pope tells bishops to heed laity -- RCC.

   Pioneer Press, www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/nation/9640543.htm , BY TOM RACHMAN, Associated Press
   VATICAN CITY: - Pope John Paul II discussed the U.S. sex-abuse scandal with a group of American bishops Saturday, encouraging them to be more open to the needs of parishioners in the wake of a "crisis of confidence in the church's leadership."
   The pontiff spoke with Roman Catholic officials from Pennsylvania and New Jersey - including Cardinal Justin Rigali, archbishop of Philadelphia, and Archbishop John Myers of Newark - at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, as part of the U.S. prelates' regularly scheduled meetings there.
   John Paul noted that Catholic bishops have "an unequivocal right and duty of governance." But he indicated that the approach of some U.S. church leaders may have inadvertently driven a wedge between them and churchgoers.
   During the scandal, reports emerged of abusive priests who had been moved from parish to parish rather than being punished. Victims groups accused the church hierarchy of favoring the protection of priests over their victims, and many faithful were infuriated by the response of Catholic leaders.
   "In our meetings, many of you have expressed your concern about the crisis of confidence in the church's leadership provoked by the recent sexual abuse scandals, the general call for accountability in the church's governance on every level and the relations between bishops, clergy and the lay faithful," the pope told his visitors.
• Accuser misses sex abuse hearing [Shanley] -- RCC.

   Daily News Tribune, www.dailynewstribune.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=40509 , By Associated Press, Sunday, September 12, 2004
   CAMBRIDGE (MA) -- One of two remaining accusers in the Paul Shanley rape case did not appear in court Friday for a pretrial hearing, but prosecutors said they expected the accuser to remain in the case.
   Shanley's defense attorney, Frank Mondano, questioned whether the accuser was going to "stay the course" in the case.
   But district attorney's spokesman Tim St. Laurent told the Boston Herald, "The charges do stand and we will go forward."
   The 73-year-old defrocked priest was a key figure in the church sex abuse scandal that began in Boston in 2002.
   Shanley is currently facing six rape charges and four charges of indecent assault. Prosecutors in July dropped several charges brought by accusers Anthony Driscoll and Gregory Ford. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 04:24 AM]
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Abuse Chronology, visit: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont96.htm
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• Leading Catholic school is focus of abuse inquiry [1960s-70s] -- RCC. Boys.

   BRITAIN, The Telegraph, www.telegraph.co.uk/ news/main.jhtml? xml=/news/2004/09/12/ ncath12.xml&sSheet=/ news/2004/09/12/ ixhome.html ; By David Harrison, Filed Sep/12/2004
   Police are investigating allegations of child sex abuse by two monks at Ampleforth College, Britain's leading Roman Catholic boarding school, the headmaster said last night.
   Fr Gabriel Everitt told The Telegraph that police had contacted him about the allegations, made by ex-pupils, in February.
   Detectives have questioned the former prep and junior school pupils about "traumatic and terrifying" abuse that they say they were subjected to between the ages of six and 13.
   The abuse is alleged to have happened in the late 1960s and 1970s.
   The actors Rupert Everett and Colin Firth, Michael Ancram, the deputy leader of the Conservative party, and Edward Stourton, a presenter on Radio 4's Today, were all pupils there at the time. Lawrence Dallaglio, who has just stepped down as England rugby captain, attended the school more recently. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 09:23 PM]
• The Cutting Edge: Holy Watergate -- RCC.

   Sydney Morning Herald, www.smh.com.au/ articles/2004/09/13/ 1094927489854.html , By Bernard Zuel, September 14, 2004
The Cutting Edge: Holy Watergate, Special Broadcasting Service television, 8.30pm
   AUSTRALIA: Self-sacrifice of the marathon monks' variety is theoretically present in the lives of Catholic priests, too, but the sordid hunger for power and its application has a greater hold for some (of any religion, creed or profession, for that matter).
   This very personal tale by American filmmaker Mary Healey-Conlon peels away the protective shell of a damaged church. Along the way, it shows how the rest of society, in particular the media, is almost as culpable for averting its eyes and ears for so long.
   The high-level protection of abusive priests, which not only kept them from legal punishment but allowed them to continue their abuse of children in new environments, took decades of diligent research and pursuit by victims and a handful of journalists to uncover.
   Healey-Conlon puts some history behind the actions of both the church and its pursuers and shows how it was the protection of power and prestige that crippled the church's morality. She also shows us those within the church who have fought to change the culture, including a priest who was himself abused as a child. [Emphasis added]
• $4m for rising pedophile workload -- Anglican, + community groups.

   The Australian, www.theaustralian.news.com.au/ common/story_page/0, 5744,10761371% 255E1702,00.html , September 14, 2004
   AUSTRALIA: A pedophile Task Force in South Australia will receive an extra $4 million from the state Government over the next two years to help it cope with demand.
   Police Minister Kevin Foley today said four extra sworn police officers would be recruited to the task force, along with 10 extra non-sworn workers.
   Mr Foley said the task force faced a "phenomenal workload", which was not expected to ease for at least the next two years.
   The task force was originally set up to deal with allegations arising from an Anglican church inquiry into sex offences.
• 'I will not be bought' -- RCC. Male.

   The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/ 0100news/0100localnews/ tm_objectid=14637037 &method=full&siteid= 50060&headline=- i-will-not-be-bought-- name_page.html ; By Richard Porritt, Sep 13 2004
BRITAIN: A man who claims he was the victim of abuse at the hands of Catholic priests has vowed he will not be silenced.
   Jim Beresford, 56, of Raw Nook Road, Salendine Nook, says he was physically and sexually abused as a teenager while attending an industrial school near Dublin in the early 1960s.
   Now solicitor Jonathan Dixon, of Clarksons Solicitors in Halifax, is urging victims of abuse to come forward and tell their stories to a commission set up by the Irish Government to award compensation. One victim has already received £50,000.
• Former Minister Must Undergo More Counseling [2001, '04 McMullin] -- Girl. Internet pornography.

   WIVB, www.wivb.com/ Global/story.asp? S=2295891&nav= 0RapQrlt , September 13, 2004
   STAFFORD, NY - - A Genesee County judge says a minister convicted of sexual abuse must undergo more counseling before learning his fate for violating probation.
   56-year-old Jack McMullin was convicted of sexually abusing an underage girl in 2001.
   He admitted to violating his probation by downloading pornographic images onto his computer.
   McMullin was the interim minister at a church in Strykersville.
• NZ Association of Rationalists and Humanists Tell the Pope to Get Over It -- RCC supports but bans marriage, hides sex abuse, refuses AIDS preventive.

   Scoop, www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0409/S00116.htm
   NEW ZEALAND: The NZ Association of Rationalists and Humanists is urging the Government to tell the Pope to stay out of New Zealand's business.
   This follows a statement made by the Pope on Monday that New Zealand's planned Civil Unions legislation "violated God's plan for humanity". The Pope was meeting a delegation of New Zealand Catholic Bishops. The delegation was led by Cardinal Thomas Williams, who recently fretted about "the spiritual bankruptcy of liberalism".
   Paul Litterick, Secretary of the NZ Association of Rationalists and Humanists, noted that the Pope's commitment to marriage was such that he prohibited any of his nuns, monks and clergy from entering into it.
   Likewise the Pope's support of the family was shown by the way his church had implemented a deliberate policy of concealing numerous cases of sexual abuse committed by members of his clergy.
   "God's plan for humanity" also seems to involve Catholic authorities in developing countries denying people access to contraception, thereby creating unwanted pregnancies and spreading AIDS.
• Trinity Broadcasting Denies Hush Report [1996 Crouch] -- possible extortion. Television evangelical. Male.

   Ledger-Enquirer, www.ledger-enquirer.com/ mld/ledgerenquirer/ news/nation/ 9653863.htm , Associated Press
   LOS ANGELES (CA) - The world's largest Christian broadcasting network denied a report that its founder has sought repeatedly to prevent a former male employee from going public with allegations of a sexual encounter between them in 1996.
   Paul Crouch, 70, president of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, reached a $425,000 settlement in 1998 with the former worker who threatened to sue over claims he had been unjustly fired from the network, the Los Angeles Times said Sunday.
   Crouch later won a closed-door ruling against the employee, Enoch Lonnie Ford, 41, when he tried to violate a provision of the settlement that barred him from discussing the alleged encounter, the newspaper said.
   In court papers, Crouch has denied the allegations, and ministry officials have described Ford - who has a history of drug problems - as a liar and an extortionist.
• Bad faith, blackmail and a troubled TV evangelist [1996 Crouch] -- "Fundamentalist" evangelist. Male.
   Independent, http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=561436 , by Andrew Gumbel, 14 September 2004
A drug addict's allegations of gay sex sessions with the founder of the world's largest televangelist group has sparked a furious response, reports Andrew Gumbel
   CALIFORNIA: The time was the autumn of 1996, the scene a cabin in the San Bernardino mountains near Los Angeles. The cabin was owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world's largest televangelist organisation with outlets on thousands of satellite, cable and terrestrial channels around the world. That much we know.
   According to Lonnie Ford, an admittedly troubled sometime drug addict who worked for the station, it was also the site of an inappropriate - and potentially scandalous - sexual encounter between himself and TBN's president and founder, Paul Crouch.
   For eight years, Mr Ford has been threatening to go public with the story and has written a lengthy manuscript detailing his allegations. The two sides have been in and out of court, money has changed hands and each has accused the other of acting in bad faith.
   Mr Crouch has denied everything, as well he might, since homosexuality is a big no-no in the Christian fundamentalist world which he inhabits and which has provided him with a lifestyle of striking lavishness over the past 31 years. In fact, the star evangelist on TBN, Benny Hinn, once announced that "God will destroy the homosexual community of America ... with fire".
   For eight years, TBN managed to keep the story under wraps, persuading courts to keep the relevant documents sealed and threatening Mr Ford with legal action if he tried to break the terms of a 1998 settlement and seek a publisher for his manuscript. That changed last weekend, though, when The Los Angeles Times got wind of the affair and went public with at least the gist of it. Through interviews with some of the participants, including a friend of Mr Ford's who helped him write the manuscript, the Times pieced together a tawdry legal history in which Mr Ford has brazenly demanded large quantities of money in exchange for his silence and TBN has reacted first by paying up and then by branding him a liar and an extortionist.
   One way or the other, it seems America may be about to witness its first really juicy televangelist scandal in 15 years. In a hastily issued statement over the weekend, TBN described the allegations as "deplorable", "salacious" and "false", but avoided going into any details of what may or may not have transpired on that weekend in the mountains. Mr Ford's friend and co-author Sandi Mahlow, meanwhile, told the Times how Mr Ford had broken down in tears after returning from the cabin near Lake Arrowhead and told her that he and Mr Crouch had engaged in sexual acts. "Lonnie has a lot of bad traits. One thing he isn't, and that's a liar," Ms Mahlow said.
   The Times also quoted a letter written by TBN lawyer Dennis Brewer, in which he recalled Mr Crouch's youngest son, Matt, telling his then law partner, David Middlebrook: "I am devastated; I am confronted with having to face the fact that my father is a homosexual." Mr Middlebrook and the younger Mr Crouch now deny there was ever such a conversation.
   In its statement, TBN painted Mr Ford as a disturbed man with a history of relapses into drug addiction - something the Times's piece discussed as well. "It is a reprehensible fact of modern life that public persons like Dr Crouch are targets of such dishonest, false and scandalous claims," statement lamented. "The lifelong ministry of Dr Crouch has been to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to all the world. The good works of TBN are what define Dr Crouch and it is this work that will continue to define him."
   But TBN also acknowledged that it had agreed to a financial settlement with Mr Ford - the Times put the figure at $425,000 - rather than go to court to fight his twin allegations of sexual harassment and wrongful termination. "This course of action was deemed less expensive and would avoid the bad publicity, time and effort that it would take to fight the false claims," the statement said. "Dr Crouch reluctantly agreed to this advice with the understanding that the accuser would go away and leave both he and TBN alone forever."
   One understands why TBN has fought so hard to keep even the allegations out of the public eye. The affair's oddly compelling pairing of sex and sanctimony - whether substantiated or not - are a direct reminder of the scandals of the late 1980s that brought down Jimmy Swaggart, the preacher forced to admit he was addicted to pornography and prostitutes, and Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, the husband-and-wife team behind the Praise The Lord network. Jim Bakker was not only forced to admit having an affair with an employee, a former Playboy playmate, Jessica Hahn. He was also caught trying to pay her off with $265,000 from church funds - one of a string of financial improprieties that landed him in prison.
   TBN shares many of the traits of those earlier televangelist outfits. Mr Crouch and his wife, Jan - who started out as business partners of the Bakkers - like to portray themselves as regular humble folks doing the Lord's work and giving of themselves just as they hope their viewers will give, by sending in financial contributions.
   Their costumes and studio sets are every bit as gaudy and kitschy as anything the notoriously campy Tammy Faye Bakker ever came up with. The motif of the whole station, in fact, is distinctly regal, with a crest based on the British lion and unicorn (plus a religious dove, thrown in for good measure). During their personal appearances on air, the Crouches like to sit on high-backed purple chairs that look just like thrones.
   Questions have been asked about the money the Crouches have generated and how exactly it has been spent. The Bakkers had tens of thousands of dollars of gold plating in their bathrooms, and air-conditioning in their dog kennel. The Crouches, meanwhile, bought a $5m oceanfront home in the ritzy California yachting resort Newport Beach a few years ago. They gave various explanations for the move, suggesting at one point that the property belonged to the church and they would not actually be living in it, then saying that the purchase was proof of the lavish rewards bestowed on them by the Almighty for their good works. The real estate column in the Times, meanwhile, cited sources close to the couple explaining: "Jan Crouch had been wanting a bigger yard for her dogs."
   Similar lavishness appears to be in order at the couple's private offices, which occupy half of the top floor of TBN's headquarters just off a freeway in Costa Mesa, 20 minutes' drive from Newport Beach in Orange County. The 8,000 sq ft personal office space is off limits to the public and the press, but construction workers who helped build it have told reporters it includes a wet bar and sauna, a personal gym, meticulously handcrafted black walnut woodwork and ornate velvet furniture. "This makes Hearst Castle look like a doghouse," Steve Oliver, the master carpenter, told the Orange County Register when the building opened in 1998. TBN described the premises as "standard executive offices".
   The money issue has been exacerbated by the Crouch's singular fund-raising techniques. They have some stiff competition when it comes to spinning lines to true believers and inducing them to open their wallets. (Back in the 1980s, Oral Roberts once told his viewers that God would strike him down and kill him if his supporters did not send him $8m within a year. The money arrived, and Mr Roberts' life, miraculously, was spared.) Mr Crouch's favoured rhetorical trope appears to be equating his network with the Lord God Himself. "If you have been healed or saved or blessed through TBN and have not contributed to [the] station, you are robbing God and will lose your reward in heaven," he said on air in 1997.
   The Crouches also have a singular line in defensiveness when it comes to criticism of the station - criticism that has spanned many lawsuits and also included accusations from rival Christian organisations that TBN is spreading blasphemy. "God, we proclaim death to anything or anyone that will lift a hand against this network and this ministry that belongs to You, God," Mr Crouch said in 1997. A few years earlier, he reacted even more vehemently to critics he characterised as "heresy hunters": "To hell with you!" he ranted during a Praise-a-thon in 1991. "I say get out of God's way! Quit blocking God's bridges or God's going to shoot you - if I don't."
   The Crouches are positively tame compared with Mr Hinn, the star performer on their network, who has preached that Adam was a superman who flew to the moon and expressed his belief that one day the dead will be raised by watching TBN from inside their coffins. Describing his frustrations with his enemies, Mr Hinn once expressed regret that the Bible didn't sanction murder. "Sometimes I wish God would give me a Holy Ghost machine gun. I'd blow your head off!" he vented. Mr Hinn was embroiled in his own legal controversy a few years ago when Mario Licciardello, a private investigator he hired to look into his ministry's finances, turned against him and threatened to publicise the dirt he had dug up. The investigator died shortly afterwards, and Mr Hinn moved his ministry from Florida to Texas.
   Licciardello has now shown up in the gay sex allegations. The Los Angeles Times found a deposition in which Licciardello quoted Mr Hinn talking about "a sexual relationship that Paul Crouch had with his chauffeur". Mr Hinn also said: "Paul's defence was that he was drunk." Mr Hinn has denied saying these things, but at least one other witness has corroborated them.
   In the mid-1990s, the Crouches tussled with the Federal Communications Commission over the legality of some of their station licences and only narrowly escaped being yanked off the air in key markets. In 1999, they were also slapped with an embarrassing lawsuit after a terminally ill woman from Virginia accused them of ripping off a novel of hers for their commercially successful end-of-the-world movie The Omega Code. The Crouches denied any impropriety, but they also entered settlement negotiations and ended up paying the woman an undisclosed amount of money.
   One thing they have on their side is some powerful friends. Paul Crouch, 70, was brought up in the same Missouri town as John Ashcroft, President George Bush's fundamentalist Attorney General, and still regards him as a close friend. When Mr Ashcroft was facing the Senate confirmation process in January 2001, TBN drummed up support for him in hour upon hour of programming. Who knows if Mr Crouch will ever ask the country's top law officer to return the favour?
   PREACHERS' REWARDS
   JIMMY SWAGGART
   On 21 February 1988, Jimmy Swaggart addressed his 7,000-strong congregation in tearful tones and admitted to having sinned against his God and his wife, Frances, after being caught on film taking a prostitute to a Louisiana motel. Not just the sin of adultery but hypocrisy, too - Swaggart had been instrumental in having rival preachers Jim Bakker and Martin Gormann defrocked for similar failings. Swaggart, first cousin to Jerry Lee Lewis, had - since 1958 - built his ministry into a $150m-a-year (£85m) concern. It staggered on, but after an allegation the following year of a 10-year affair, his two million television audience turned its back on him.
   ORAL ROBERTS
   In 1987, Oral Roberts made an urgent plea, telling his massive television audience that God had told him to raise $8m (£4.5m) or he would "take him home". He raised $9.1m, including a donation of $1.3m from a dog track owner. By 1989 his financial difficulties got the better of him and he closed his City of Faith medical centre in Tulsa. Former friends and employees have alleged that Roberts used expense accounts to buy clothes and jewellery and fund travel in an eight-seat fanjet. He remains chancellor of Oral Roberts University, where his son Richard - also a televangelist - is president.
   ROBERT TILTON
   Tilton dominated the televangelism vacuum left by the falls of Swaggart and Bakker. In the late 1980s, hewas pulling in $80m (£45m) a year. His followers were soon to find out that they, not God were blessing Tilton with these rewards. ABC's Primetime Live revealed that far from praying over prayer requests made with donations, Tilton never saw most of them, a batch of which were found in rubbish bins. His second wife, Leigh, also made allegations of physical abuse and drunken debauchery. His ministry never recovered. Reports are that he is turning a dollar from a Florida-based mail-order firm.
   JIM BAKKER
   Jim Bakker would tell critics of his extravagance that prosperity was a "gift from God". The funds began to dry up after he was caught in an affair with a church secretary, Jessica Hahn, to whom he had funnelled $265,000 (£150,000) in church funds as hush money. That failed to stop Ms Hahn appearing in Playboy in 1988, but by this time he had had to resign from PTL, the television business he had helped to found, been defrocked as a minister and indicted for fraud and conspiracy. Bakker admitted to taking more than $158m of his ministry's funds. He was found guilty and sentenced to 45 years in 1988. Released in 1994, he returned to televangelism last year with The New Jim Bakker Show. #
• Weblog: Former TBN Employee Alleges Gay Tryst With Paul Crouch [Crouch] -- Televangelist. Male.
   Christianity Today, www.christianitytoday.com/ ct/2004/137/11.0.html , Compiled by Ted Olsen, posted 2:30 p.m. Sep/13/2004
   CALIFORNIA: How big a televangelist scandal?
   When Rick Jones, an ordained minister and former cop, heard his boss talking about another minister's homosexual activity with an employee, he "got up and walked away," the Los Angeles Times reported on its front page yesterday. "I didn't want to hear gossip."
   But his boss was televangelist Benny Hinn, a staple on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. And Hinn was talking about TBN founder and president Paul Crouch. And Los Angeles Times reports that it's no longer just gossip - it's a tale of attempted extortion, litigation, and tragedy.
   For all the details, you'll have to read William Lobdell's extensively reported, 1,900-word article. [...]
• Garrard pastor's exposure case continued again [2004 Priddy] Baptist. Indecent exposure alleged.
   The Advocate Messenger, www.amnews.com/ public_html/? module=displaystory& story_id=8844 &format=html ,
   LEXINGTON (KY) - For the second time in little more than a month, Garrard County minister Rev. Everrett Priddy's indecent exposure case was continued Friday in Fayette County District Court.
   Priddy, pastor of Hyattsville Baptist Church, was arrested in June during a sting operation in Jacobson Park in Lexington, where police were investigating numerous complaints of sexual activity. Priddy is accused of exposing himself to an undercover officer in a restroom at the park.
   Priddy pleaded not guilty to the charge.
• Prosecutor: Diocese Can Handle Own Affairs -- RCC.
   Tallahassee Democrat, www.tallahassee.com/ mld/tallahassee/ news/9654730.htm , By MICHELLE ROBERTS RUSHLO, Associated Press
   PHOENIX (AZ) - The Roman Catholic Diocese has made changes in the way it handles priest sex abuse allegations and no longer needs to be supervised by prosecutors, authorities said Monday.
   The Diocese operated under the watchful eye of the county prosecutor's office under a deal reached last year. It barred Bishop Thomas O'Brien from being involved in sex abuse allegations in return for not charging him with covering them up.
   Bishop Thomas Olmsted, who became head of the Diocese in December, may now oversee the abuse allegations, said Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley.
   "The church has made tremendous efforts to make sure this doesn't happen again," he said.
   The agreement came after O'Brien acknowledged accused priests were allowed to work with children and sometimes were transferred to other parishes without the knowledge of supervisors or parishioners.
• Confirmed: Austrian bishop asked to resign -- RCC. Males at seminary.

   Catholic World News, Sep. 13, 2004
   VATICAN (CWNews.com) - Bishop Kurt Krenn of the scandal-ridden St. Pölten diocese in Austria has been asked to resign, informed Vatican sources have indicated.
   Church officials in Rome, confirming reports that emerged from Austria late last week (see the September 10 CWN story), indicated that Bishop Krenn had been asked to step down from his pastoral duties.
   Bishop Krenn's resignation "is not official," an informed source said; but an announcement is expected soon.
• Church suspected priest it defended [Garcia-Rubio] -- RCC. Boys.

   Miami Herald, www.miami.com/ mld/miamiherald/ 9647953.htm , BY JAY WEAVER, jweaver@herald.com
   MIAMI (FL): When the story broke 16 years ago about a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing refugee boys, the Archdiocese of Miami denounced it as an "inquisition" -- though the church's own records now show its spiritual leader took the allegations dead serious.
   Out of the public eye, Archbishop Edward McCarthy had already insisted that the Rev. Ernesto Garcia-Rubio be evaluated for pedophilia, according to investigative records obtained by The Herald.
   Six months before the paper's November 1988 story, the archbishop told Garcia-Rubio, then on sabbatical in Colombia, that he shouldn't return to Miami for a visit to celebrate his 25th year in the priesthood.
   McCarthy said he was concerned about the priest's "physical safety" and "possible negative publicity" stemming from his alleged misconduct at the Sweetwater parish where Garcia-Rubio had been pastor.
• Bishop and pastor offer Mass for victims [2000s McDonnell] -- RCC.
   Telegram & Gazette, www.telegram.com/ apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20040913/ APN/409130666 , The Associated Press
   EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass.- The head of the Catholic church in western Massachusetts and a priest who has been the leading critic of the diocese's handling of the clergy sex abuse scandal celebrated Mass together in honor of the victims.
   But lingering resentments were clear Sunday at St. Michael's parish, which had withheld a portion of its collections from the diocese for two years to protest the church's continued financial support for a priest convicted of child abuse.
   Bishop Timothy McDonnell, who was making his first visit to the suburban parish for Sunday's Mass, publicly apologized to the Rev. James Scahill, St. Michael's pastor, for his angry criticism.
   During a heated exchange in May that ended with the bishop dismissing Scahill from a diocesan advisory council, McDonnell had suggested the priest's strident criticism of diocesan officials had done as much damage to the church's reputation as the actions of convicted pedophile priest Richard Lavigne.
   The bishop also apologized on behalf of the church to the victims of child abuse.
• Miami Archdiocese Sent Priest For Pedophilia Evaluation [Garcia-Rubio] -- RCC. Boys.
   NBC 6, www.nbc6.net/ news/3725371/detail.html , September 13, 2004
   MIAMI (FL) -- The Archdiocese of Miami sent a priest accused of sexually abusing refugee boys for a pedophilia evaluation in the 1980s, even as it defended him publicly and criticized media reports on him as an unfair "inquisition," a newspaper reported Monday.
   Former Archbishop Edward McCarthy told the Rev. Ernesto Garcia-Rubio, then on sabbatical in Colombia, that he shouldn't return to Miami because of "possible negative publicity" stemming from his alleged misconduct at a Sweetwater parish.
   "I also must insist that following your sabbatical, but prior to your return, you receive a psychiatric evaluation in a setting determined by the archdiocese," McCarthy wrote him on May 11, 1988. "The nature of the complaints definitely warrant the concern I am manifesting."
   The evaluation at a Catholic treatment center found "insufficient" evidence of pedophilia, but said results were borderline, according to records obtained by The Miami Herald.
   Garcia-Rubio was removed as pastor of Our Lady of Divine Providence in 1988 amid the allegations and later was defrocked. He has repeatedly denied the allegations in the past. Now 67, his whereabouts are unknown.
• TBN Response to the LA Times Article -- Accuser broke his parole. Male.
   TBN, www.tmcnet.com/ usubmit/2004/Sep/ 1072272.htm , Sept. 12, 2004
   TUSTIN, Calif. (Business Wire) -- The following is a statement from Trinity Broadcasting Network:
   In a recent article in the Los Angeles Times reporting a story that Dr. Paul Crouch, the founder and president of Trinity Broadcasting Network, was allegedly involved in a wrongful termination and sexual harassment case in 1997 is deplorable and the scandalous claims leveled against him are false.
   The accuser is a convicted felon and longtime drug abuser who has been imprisoned for years for serious crimes ranging from child sexual molestation to using illegal drugs such as crack cocaine. The accuser became involved with TBN through a drug rehabilitation program conducted on TBN's property. Upon his successful completion of the program, TBN gave him a chance by offering him employment.
   Although the accuser fell back into drug abuse on more than one occasion during his employment, TBN extended grace to this man and kept him employed while he continued to seek rehabilitation and counseling. Finally, after being arrested for yet another drug related violation, he was found guilty of violating his probation and was returned to prison for a year.
   Upon his release from incarceration in 1997, he again sought employment with TBN and when TBN declined, he threatened to sue TBN by alleging wrongful termination and sexual harassment, directing his most salacious allegations towards Dr. Crouch personally.
• TV rev. in gay sex scandal: Another televangelist, another sex scandal. -- Male.
   New York Daily News www.nydailynews.com/ front/story/231669p- 198802c.html , BY JOHN OSWALD, DAILY NEWS DEPUTY NATIONAL EDITOR
   CALIFORNIA: Move over, Jimmy "I have sinned against you" Swaggart.
   Step aside, Jim "how could you hurt Tammy Faye" Baker.
   Now there's Paul Crouch, the 70-year-old founder of the world's largest Christian broadcasting network.
   Crouch has sought repeatedly to prevent a male former employee from going public with allegations of a gay sexual encounter between them eight years ago, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday.
   Crouch, president of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, reached a $425,000 settlement in 1998 with the former worker who threatened to sue over claims he had been unjustly fired from the network.
   In a statement, the network confirmed yesterday that Crouch "reluctantly" agreed to pay Enoch Lonnie Ford, 41, with "the understanding that the accuser would go away and leave both he and TBN alone forever."
   "The scandalous claims leveled against him are false," the statement continued, adding that the money used to pay Ford was not ministry funds raised from the network's millions of religious faithful.
• Televangelist denies sexual allegations -- Male.
   The Desert Sun, www.thedesertsun.com/ news/stories2004/ national/200409 13022201.shtml , The Associated Press, September 13th, 2004
   LOS ANGELES (CA) -- The founder of the world's largest Christian broadcasting network has sought repeatedly to prevent a male former employee from going public with allegations of a sexual encounter between them eight years ago, a newspaper reported Sunday.
   Paul Crouch, 70, president of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, reached a $425,000 settlement in 1998 with the former worker, who threatened to sue over claims he had been unjustly fired from the network, the Los Angeles Times reported.
   Crouch later won a closed-door ruling against the employee, Enoch Lonnie Ford, 41, when he tried to violate a provision of the settlement that barred him from discussing the alleged encounter, the newspaper said.
   In court papers, Crouch has denied the allegations, and ministry officials have described Ford -- who has a history of drug problems -- as a liar and an extortionist.
   In a statement issued Sunday, TBN said Crouch denies any wrongdoing and agreed to settle the case "reluctantly" on the advice of attorneys and spiritual leaders who said it would be better to reach a financial settlement than fight his accuser in court.
• Fugitive friar moves [Chumik] -- Franciscan. RCC.

   The Telegram, www.thetelegram.com/ news.aspx?storyID=21103 , By Rob Antle
   CANADA: The fugitive Franciscan brother who police allege sexually wounded a boy decades ago in this province is becoming a Wounded Brother.
   Gerald Chumik, 69, moved to a retreat in Missouri from California this week to escape public scrutiny about decades-old sex charges in Newfoundland, according to media reports in the U.S.
   That Missouri retreat - which is called the Wounded Brothers Project, and is also known as Recon - is on a large estate in a rural area near St. Louis.
   Father Bertin Miller, a Franciscan priest, is the director of Recon.
   The man who answered the phone Thursday at a Robertsville, Mo., listing in Miller's name said "try another number, not this one," then hung up.
• Letter's demands may jeopardize talks -- "Spiritual shepherd" demand. RCC.

   Newsday, www.newsday.com/ news/local/longisland/ ny-livotf123965979 sep13,0,7763245. story?coll=ny-linews- headlines ; BY RITA CIOLLI, September 13, 2004
   LONG ISLAND (NY): Negotiations between Long Island Voice of the Faithful and the Diocese of Rockville Centre will come to a halt unless the group rescinds its call for Bishop William Murphy's resignation and makes a public statement of support for him "as the spiritual shepherd of the Church on Long Island," according to a letter sent by the bishop's representatives to the lay Catholic group.
   The strongly worded letter, which VOTF termed an "ultimatum," quickly became yet another source of dispute between the two sides, highlighting the frayed relationship between supporters of the bishop and the grassroots group, which wants more accountability from the church hierarchy.
   Sean Dolan, a spokesman for Murphy, said VOTF's disclosure of the diocese's negotiating position "just increases the rhetoric and makes it increasingly difficult to remain committed to reconciliation."
   Dolan said the discussions need to remain confidential to "foster free thinking."
   The demands of Murphy's liaison team were disclosed by VOTF last week when the group's leadership mailed a survey to its 2,200 members on how to respond.
• Hollow Words: Despite stance, Vatican protects abusive priests -- Seven runaways ministering in Rome. "Return to sender." RCC.
   The Dallas Morning News, www.dallasnews.com/ sharedcontent/dws/ dn/opinion/editorials/ stories/091304dnedi church. 494f3.html ; 12:06 AM CDT on Monday, September 13, 2004
   DALLAS (TX): When Pope John Paul II met with American cardinals in the Vatican at the height of the 2002 sex-abuse crisis, he laid down the law. "People need to know that there is no place in the priesthood and religious life for those who would harm the young," he said.
   Shockingly, you need look no further than the Vatican itself to discover how hollow the holy father's words are.
   Dallas Morning News reporter Reese Dunklin found seven priests accused of sexual abuse, some of them runaways from justice in the United States, living in Rome around the Vatican. These priests are ministering with the full knowledge and consent of church officials.
   In one case, The News investigation found that Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano received a 2003 written request from U.S. authorities, asking him to direct two runaway priests to come home to face their accusers. Cardinal Sodano sent that letter back marked "return to sender" - this more than a year after John Paul's widely reported statement. If the cardinal, the No. 2 man in the Vatican, heard the pope's words, he's not acting like it. [Emphasis added]
• Archdiocese: Talks on new abuse claims on hold -- RCC. Awaiting disputes with insurers.
   MetroWest Daily News, www.metrowestdailynews.com/ localRegional/view.bg? articleid=77881 , By Associated Press, Monday, September 13, 2004
   BOSTON (MA) -- The Archdiocese of Boston has received at least 140 new reports of sexual abuse by priests, but said it will not negotiate the claims until it resolves disputes with its insurers over payment of last year's $85 million settlement.
   Archdiocese spokesman the Rev. Christopher J. Coyne told the Boston Sunday Globe that the archdiocese cannot afford to settle the new claims, which legal analysts said could come to about $20 million.
   "We've been letting the lawyers know that we would not be moving forward with negotiations until we have settled with our insurance carriers," he said.
   Mitchell Garabedian, an attorney for some of the plaintiffs in the new round of claims, said the church has enough resources to settle the claims without insurance money.
   "They always seem to have an excuse," he said. "I'm just preparing for trial."
• Group wants 2 clergy sent elsewhere -- one is a runaway from Canada. Bishop says powerless. RCC.

   St. Louis Post-Dispatch www.stltoday.com/ stltoday/news/stories. nsf/stlouiscitycounty/ story/3637D53E396D A40486256F0E00180 AC6?OpenDocument&Headline= Group+wants+2+clergy+ sent+elsewhere ; By Tim O'Neil, Sep/12/2004
   MISSOURI: A group that represents victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy is protesting the recent arrivals at a special retreat center near St. Louis of a priest who was convicted in Las Vegas and a Franciscan brother who is a fugitive from Canada.
   The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests [SNAP] has asked Archbishop Raymond Burke to have the two clergymen sent elsewhere. But Burke, through a statement, said he lacks the power to have them removed.
   The two are residents of RECON, a secluded retreat center on Vondera Road south of Robertsville in eastern Franklin County. RECON, also known as the Wounded Brothers Project, is operated by an independent Catholic board and provides lodging and supervision for clergymen who have been accused of abuse or who suffer from emotional problems. Three of its residents are listed on Franklin County's registry of convicted sexual offenders.
• Church issues rules of conduct

   The Detroit News, www.detnews.com/2004/religion/0409/13/c01-271505.htm , By Mike Martindale
   DETROIT (MI) - The Archdiocese of Detroit is issuing a 14-page code of conduct to priests, deacons and volunteers in the ministry in its latest effort in the campaign to combat sexual abuse.
   Ned McGrath, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Detroit, said Sunday an estimated 100,000 copies of the booklets are being printed and will be distributed to every parish attended by 1.5 million Catholics in the six-county Detroit Archdiocese.
   "This is something which was called for by U.S. bishops ... to help protect young people and others," said McGrath. "There has always been an understood code of conduct, but certainly nothing as detailed as this. It was discussed among priests and it was agreed it was something that was needed."
   The code of conduct for clergy and other church personnel has been available for about 10 days on the Archdiocese's Web site, www.aodonline.org, McGrath noted.
   [COMMENT: The Jesus code of contact did not need 14 pages. There were the 10 commandments (Matthew 19:16, 18-19; Mark 10:17-19; Luke 18:20), the commandment to love God and your neighbour as yourself (Matt 22:37-39, Mark 12:30-31,) and love one another (John 13:34), and the ban on tripping up children (Matt. 18:6, 7; Mark 9:42; Luke 17:2) and indeed anyone (Matt 18:8-9). COMMENT ENDS.]
• Accused ex-clergy now an organist [1980s Paulin] -- RCC / Methodist. Male.
   Bennington Banner, www.benningtonbanner.com/ Stories/0,1413,104~ 8676~2398238,00.html , By LAURA RASKIN
   ARLINGTON, VERMONT -- A former priest who resigned in 2003 after he was accused of sexual abuse is now the organist at two area churches.
   The Rev. George Paulin, former pastor in Ludlow, now plays the organ at St. Margaret Mary's in Arlington and at the United Methodist Church in Shaftsbury, said the Rev. George Dupuis, of St. Margaret Mary's, on Sunday.
   The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington paid 34-year-old former Berkshire County, Mass., commissioner Paul Babeu an unspecified sum in return for dropping his court case against it in October 2003.
   Babeu, now of Arizona, alleged that Paulin had sexually abused him when he was a teenager in the 1980s on an overnight trip to the Northeast Kingdom.
   After 8 a.m. Mass here on Sunday, Paulin said, "This has been such a torment."
• Priest who claimed abuse taking a leave -- RCC. Boy.
   Seattle Post-Intelligencer, http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/ local/190478_ priest13.html , SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF
   BOTHELL (WA): The Bothell priest who quit after announcing he was molested by a priest as a child will be taking a leave of absence instead and using that time to get a complete health evaluation.
   According to a letter Wednesday by the Rev. Lawrence Minder to the parishioners of St. Brendan Catholic Church, the Seattle Archdiocese has granted him a temporary leave of absence rather than accepting the resignation he had offered.
   Previously, Minder, who announced last month that he had been molested by a priest 30 years ago, had resigned rather than submit to a psychological evaluation, the results of which would have been made available to the archdiocese.
   But in his letter, Minder wrote that he had reached an agreement with his superiors that access to his medical records would be limited.
• Detroit Archdiocese issues code of conduct book to parishes -- RCC.
   MLive.com ; www.mlive.com/ newsflash/regional/ index.ssf?/base/news- 18/1095071052257000. xml&storylist= newsmichigan ; The Associated Press, 6:06 a.m. ET, Sep/13/2004
   DETROIT (MI) (AP) - The Archdiocese of Detroit is issuing a written code of conduct to its clergy and volunteers in its latest effort to combat sexual abuse.
   Ned McGrath, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Detroit, said an estimated 100,000 copies of the 14-page booklets are being printed and will be distributed to every parish in the archdiocese.
   "This is something which was called for by U.S. bishops ... to help protect young people and others," McGrath told The Detroit News for a Monday story. "There has always been an understood code of conduct, but certainly nothing as detailed as this. It was discussed among priests and it was agreed it was something that was needed."
   The booklet will provide guidance to priests and others regarding a wide range of situations, including physical contact, counseling, harassment and ethical misconduct.
• Healing Mass said for victims -- RCC.
   Republican, www.masslive.com/ chicopeeholyoke/ republican/index.ssf?/ base/news-1/10950787 6323971.xml ; By PATRICIA NORRIS, pnorris@repub.com , Monday, September 13, 2004
   EAST LONGMEADOW (MA) - It was a beginning.
   But closure remained elusive at St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church yesterday during a healing Mass for clergy abuse victims, despite a courteous posture from the Most Rev. Timothy A. McDonnell, bishop of the Diocese of Springfield, and maverick priest Rev. James J. Scahill, St. Michael's pastor.
   McDonnell and Scahill together celebrated the Mass of "Healing and Reconciliation" at the East Longmeadow church, which included remarks by abuse victim Stephen Block.
   "A healing Mass is a wonderful idea. It's great. But I find it preposterous to think that any healing can begin when there are some 20 (abuse) claims yet to be settled by the diocese," said Art E. Henneberger of Springfield before the service.
   McDonnell and Scahill were greeted by parishioner applause before they approached the altar, but their differences intensified as the Mass proceeded.
• Worcester DA Conte changes pending clergy page of web site.
   Worcester Voice http://worcestervoice.com/Current%20news.htm
   WORCESTER (MA): Last week after failing to gain a conviction in the third straight clergy abuse cases of which investigation was conducted by his Auburn C-Pac State Police unit, currently commanded by Captain Thomas G. Greene, District Attorney John J. Conte has removed the pending clergy case portion, which had been of question lately, from his clergy web link.
   For over a year, Worcester advocates have been proclaiming false illusions within the walls of 2 Main Street, Worcester. What District Attorney John Conte has been publicly releasing and what is actually occurring within his tightly controlled political network, organized over the past 28 years differs tremendously. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 07:54 AM]
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#### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse, Tue September 14, 2004 edition follows:-
• Former priest pleads guilty to having sex with minor [1994 Butler] -- New Apostolic Church. Girl.

   Newsday, www.newsday.com/ news/local/wire/ ny-bc-ny-brf--priest- sexple0914sep14,0, 6860824.story?coll=ny-ap- regional-wire ; September 14, 2004
   ALBANY, N.Y. -- A former priest from northern New York pleaded guilty in federal court to traveling to New Jersey to have sex with a minor.
   Frank J. Butler, 32, of Plattsburgh, pleaded guilty Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Lawrence Kahn.
   Butler admitted that in 1994, while employed as a deacon at the New Apostolic Church in Plattsburgh, that he engaged in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a minor while driving her home after confirmation classes, said U.S. Attorney Glenn Suddaby.
   Butler also admitted that after becoming a priest, he drove the then-14-year-old girl from Plattsburgh to New Jersey to engage in sexual acts with her, Suddaby said. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 09:45 PM]
• Judge denies diocese to dismiss cases -- RCC. Males.
   Quad-City Times, www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1035153&t=Local+News&c=2,1035153
   IOWA: An Iowa 7th Judicial District judge again denied attempts by the Catholic Diocese of Davenport to dismiss two more of 16 civil lawsuits alleging decades-old sexual abuse by priests.
   The diocese has argued that the plaintiffs - Don Green of DeWitt and a man identified only as John Doe IA - failed to file the suits before a statute of limitations expired.
   Diocese attorney Robert McMonagle said the diocese has asked the Iowa Supreme Court to review Judge C.H. Pelton's ruling on those lawsuits.
• One year anniversary of diocese program aimed at protecting children -- RCC.
   KVOA, http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=2301530
   TUCSON (AZ): As allegations of sexual misconduct by local clergy continue to surface in the Tucson Catholic Diocese, the local church is preparing for the anniversary of a program, which they hope will spell the end of the problem.
   It was a year ago Wednesday that the diocese created the Safe Environment Program, a program which the diocese believes is already paying dividends.
   Now, file cabinets with more than 3,000 criminal background checks occupy a small corner of the Diocese of Tucson's downtown office.
   Irene Felix has spent six hours a day for the past six months, processing fingerprints of all diocesan employees and volunteers.
• Parole board silent on decision on possible parole of former priest [1970s Holley] -- RCC. Boys.
   Telegram & Gazette, The Associated Press, Sep 14, 2004
   LOS LUNAS, N.M.- The New Mexico Parole Board ruled Tuesday on whether a former Roman Catholic priest who once worked in Massachusetts and was convicted of child molestation in New Mexico should be paroled, but withheld its decision from the public.
   The board will not release its decision until David Holley, who is in custody at the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Los Lunas, is notified in writing, Cindy Aragon, chairwoman of Holley's parole board said.
   Aragon told the Albuquerque Tribune it is standard procedure to first notify the inmate. She said the decision should be public by Monday.
   Holley admitted to molesting the boys in Alamogordo in the early 1970s and pleaded guilty in 1993 to eight counts of molestation.
He was sentenced to 275 years in prison. He is serving the sentence at the geriatric unit of the minimum-security state prison.
• Church official in sex case [1994 Butler] -- New Apostolic Church. Girl.
   Press-Republican, www.pressrepublican.com/ cgi-bin/newspro/fullnews.cgi? newsid10952 14439,3637 ; By ANNA JOLLY, Staff Writer
   PLATTSBURGH (NY) -- A former Plattsburgh priest pleaded guilty to a sex charge in U.S. District Court Tuesday.
   Frank J. Butler, 32, admitted that, while employed as a deacon for the New Apostolic Church in 1994, he started a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl he would drive home from confirmation classes.
   He later became a priest with the church on Tom Miller Road.
   Butler also said that, in November 1994, he drove the girl from Plattsburgh to New Jersey to engage in sexual acts.
• Krenn could go 13 years to the day after being appointed Bishop -- RCC. Males at seminary. Pornography at seminary.

Die Presse, www.diepresse.at/ Artikel.aspx?channel= &ressort=ee&id=442751 , (Die Presse - Printed Edition) 14.09.2004 19:22
VIENNA, AUSTRIA - The waiting continues for official confirmation that Bishop Kurt Krenn will be removed from his post three days after the decision first became known at the Vatican. If the announcement were to come over the next two days, this would provide a circular closure to the Krenn case. While today, September 14 marks the ceremony of the holy cross, it is also the date when controversial Bishop Hermann Groer assumed office and stepped down again nine years later. Krenn had been suffragan bishop under Groer .
• Catholic Church to face at least two more sexual abuse lawsuits -- RCC.

   WCAX, www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=2298661
   BURLINGTON, Vt.: Vermont's Catholic Church faces at least two more lawsuits charging clergy with sexual abuse.
   Burlington Lawyer Jerome O'Neill has filed civil cases against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, George Paulin, a former pastor in Ludlow, and Edward Paquette, a former priest in Burlington.
   O'Neill says he also is filing a third case against an unnamed priest and expects to file about half a dozen more.
   The diocese this spring settled two of O'Neill's cases against two priests for a total of 170-thousand dollars.
• Another abuse suit filed against Tucson diocese [Meunier de la Pierre, Teta] -- 22 cases now. RCC.
   KVOA, http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=2299287
   TUCSON (AZ): The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson is now facing 22 pending lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by members of its clergy.
   The latest suit was filed Monday by a 35-year-old Tucson man who claims he was abused by two priests in the 1970s when he was a parishioner at Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church.
   The suit names the Revs. Luke Meunier de la Pierre and Michael Teta. Both are on the diocese's public list of clerics with "credible" accusations of child sexual abuse against them.
   Meunier de la Pierre is presumed dead while Teta was last known to be living in Tucson. However, there was no telephone listing for him and he could not be immediately reached Monday for comment.
• Parole board considers releasing habitual sex offender priest [1970s Holley] -- RCC. Boys.
   KRQE News 13, www.krqe.com/ crime/expanded.asp? RECORD_KEY%5BCrime% 5D=ID&ID%5BCrime% 5D=6880
   NEW MEXICO: It's the day the victims say they have been waiting for with concern. Convicted child molester and ex-priest, David Holley is up for parole in Los Lunas today.
   Today's hearing came after the parole board rescinded its decision to grant Holley parole in May after it was discovered his victims were never told about the hearing.
   In 1993 David Holley was convicted of abusing 8 boys in Alamogordo where he served as a priest during the early 70's. He was sentenced to between 55 and 275 years in prison. However, he was sentenced under an old statute and became eligible for parole after his first 7 years behind bars.
   He had been continually denied parole until May.
   A group that tracks sexual abuse by priests says three of Holley's victims from Alamogordo appeared before the board today.
• Priest To Go Before Parole Board [1970s Holley] -- RCC. Boys.
   Albuquerque Journal, www.abqjournal.com/ news/metro/appriest 09-14-04.htm , The Associated Press, Sep 14, 2004
   LOS LUNAS, NEW MEXICO - A former Roman Catholic priest convicted of molesting eight boys was scheduled to go before the New Mexico Parole Board Tuesday.
   David Holley admitted to molesting the boys in Alamogordo in the early 1970s and pleaded guilty in 1993 to eight counts of molestation.
   He was sentenced to 275 years in prison. He is serving the sentence at the geriatric unit of the minimum-security state prison at Los Lunas.
   Holley, 77, was granted parole May 26, but the decision was rescinded because victims were not notified of the hearing or parole.
   Gov. Bill Richardson removed Bob Martinez as director of the Parole Board over the board's failure to notify victims of the hearing.
• Abusive priest has parole rehearing [1970s Holley] -- RCC. Boys.
   Albuquerque Tribune, www.abqtrib.com/ archives/news 04/091404_ news_holley.shtml , By Joline Gutierrez Krueger
   NEW MEXICO: A Roman Catholic priest sentenced to from 55 to 275 years in prison for molesting eight boys has another chance at parole today, a chance his victims will work to deny.
   "He's just a very pathetic person who preys on weak children," said Robert Curtis, an Albuquerque lawyer who was one of the boys the Rev. David Holley admitted to molesting in Alamogordo in the early 1970s. "He's just trying to get out of jail to do it all over again."
   Holley, 77, had already been granted parole May 26, but the decision was rescinded, and Robert Martinez, the executive director of the New Mexico Adult Parole Board, was fired by Gov. Bill Richardson for failing to notify Holley's victims of the hearing.
   Curtis said Holley has had five parole hearings since pleading guilty to eight counts of molestation in 1993. Curtis said he has been advised of only two of the hearings, including one scheduled today at the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Los Lunas.
   He won't miss this one.
• Police identify 600 possible pedophiles -- Police to double staff. Anglicans and community.

   Townsville Bulletin, http://townsvillebulletin.news.com.au/ common/story_page/0,7034, 10763519%255E421,00.html ; Sep 14, 04
   AUSTRALIA: More than 600 suspected pedophiles had been identified by a South Australian police taskforce, the state government said today.
   The taskforce was established in June last year to investigate child sex abuse within the Anglican Church's Adelaide diocese, but expanded to include other community groups including scouts and surf lifesaving clubs.
   Some 37 alleged paedophiles had already been arrested or reported for child sex abuse offences, but Police Minister Kevin Foley said today he expected more arrests in coming months.
   Mr Foley today announced that the SA Police paedophile task force would be doubled in size and receive an extra $4 million in state funding in the next two years.
• Attorney: Former priest might have more victims [? 1990s - 2000s Campobello] -- RCC. Females.

   Kane County Chronicle, www.kcchronicle.com/ MainSection/2910 85050286954.php , By DAN CAMPANA
   GENEVA, ILLINOIS - Former priest Mark Campobello might have more victims.
   So claims an attorney representing two women who Campobello admitted to molesting when they were teenagers.
   The attorney, Keith Aeschliman, wants church documents that show how the Rockford Diocese handled 30 allegations of priest abuse in northern Illinois. Aeschliman wants the information to use in a civil lawsuit.
   Church officials did not respond to Aeschliman's allegations.
   The diocese, Bishop Thomas Doran and 39-year-old Campobello are named in lawsuits filed individually by the two women, who are 20 and 21 years old. The lawsuits charge the diocese and Doran with negligence for failing to conduct background checks on Campobello before hiring him in 1994.
• Lost in translation? Pastor says language barrier led to sex-sting arrest [2004 Melo] -- RCC.
   Lowell Sun, www.lowellsun.com/ Stories/0,1413,105~ 4746~2398885,00.html , By MICHAEL LAFLEUR, Sun Staff
   LOWELL (MA): Glauceo Melo, a local pastor who ministers to the Eliot Church's Portuguese-speaking Brazilian congregation, is among the thousands of non-English-speaking immigrants who call this city home.
   Last month, Melo drove through a section of the Acre neighborhood where Lowell police were conducting an undercover prostitution sting that netted about 25 arrests. Melo, 46, with no prior record, found himself arrested on charges of offering money for sex. His case was dismissed the next week after he paid the court $150.
   Melo contends his arrest was the result of a misunderstanding by officers who did not speak his language. Police defend their actions and Melo's arrest.
   The case is an example of a continuing problem facing Lowell police and court officials in this immigrant city. Both lack interpreters for the numerous languages spoken in Lowell.
   According to Melo, who speaks only Portuguese, his interaction with an undercover female police officer dressed as a prostitute went like this: He pulled over to put something in the back seat.
   A woman, whom he presumed to be a prostitute, came to his car window and said things he didn't understand. He said he told her "it's OK" in English and drove off, only to be stopped and arrested within a few blocks.
• Our Opinion: Send him back [Henn, 2000s Salvatorian Order] -- RCC.

   Tucson Citizen, www.tucsoncitizen.com/ index.php?page=opinion& story_id=091404op , Sep 14, 2004
   ARIZONA: It is indeed distressing that a priest who has been indicted in Arizona on child molestation charges is being sheltered in Rome by his religious order.
   The Dallas Morning News reported that the Rev. Joseph Henn, a member of the Salvatorian order, is in Rome and refuses to come to Arizona. He has been indicted in Maricopa County, but his order refuses to compel him to return to Arizona.
   If a priest is accused of violating a criminal law, he must be held answerable to authorities. The behavior of Henn and his religious order is inexcusable.
• Pastor in abuse case decides to retire [Haas] -- RCC.

   Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com/news/metro/sep04/258668.asp , By TOM HEINEN, theinen@journalsentinel.com , Posted: Sept. 13, 2004
   MILWAUKEE (WI): The pastor of a Port Washington Catholic church who was investigated on allegations of sexual abuse has retired and agreed not to return to any parish ministry even though an archdiocesan board concluded that the accusations are not substantiated.
   I'm very disappointed and very confused because I'm getting mixed messages from the archdiocese.
   The decision of Father Joseph Haas, 71, and the conclusion of the Diocesan Review Board were announced to staff members and parishioners at St. Peter of Alcantara Church last weekend.
   However, neither a letter from Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan that was read at all of the parish's weekend Masses, nor an interview Monday with the board's leader, former Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow, shed much light on the paradoxical results or the reasons behind them.
   After noting the board's conclusion, Dolan's letter says, "However, as a result of the turmoil that has risen in this situation and of concern expressed by the Review Board, Father Haas has decided to retire and not to return to parochial ministry. This is also the recommendation of the Review Board."
• Diocese to look into hiring of former priest -- [Paulin] RCC / Methodist.
   Bennington Banner, www.benningtonbanner.com/ Stories/0,1413,104~ 8676~2399932,00.html , By CHRIS PARKER
   ARLINGTON (VT) -- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington was unaware that a former priest who resigned after being accused of sexual abuse is the organist at two area churches, but is now looking into the matter.
   The Banner reported on Monday that the Rev. George Paulin, who resigned from his post in Ludlow in 2003, now plays the organ at St. Margaret Mary's in Arlington and at the United Methodist Church in Shaftsbury.
   The Rev. Wendell Searles, vicar general for the diocese, said his office acquired a copy of the article Monday morning and was looking into the matter.
   "We're dealing with that," he said. "We're looking into it and we'll deal with it."
   Searles said the case is a "matter of confidentiality, rights and reputation" and that he wouldn't elaborate on the diocese's plans. He said his biggest issue was that the diocese wasn't made aware that Paulin was working in one of the diocese churches again.
• Mahony Stalls the Healing -- 27 months delaying "did little to enhance reputation". RCC.
   Los Angeles Times, www.latimes.com/ news/opinion/editorials/ la-ed-mahony14sep14, 1,5112108.story?coll= la-news-comment- editorials ; Sep 14, 2004
   CALIFORNIA: Cardinal Roger M. Mahony is not exactly filling laypeople with faith in the credibility of the church. His efforts to block prosecutors' access to personnel files on priests accused of sexual abuse "did little to enhance the reputation of the church in the United States for transparency and cooperation," concluded a Catholic national review board. Mahony should display whatever moral leadership he has left, call off his lawyers and let the criminal justice system do its job.
   A grand jury investigation of two priests came to a head last week with a ruling by Thomas F. Nuss, a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge appointed to referee the dispute, that the Los Angeles Archdiocese must turn over portions of the men's confidential personnel files. Mahony has blocked access for 27 months and is planning to appeal the ruling.
   Mahony should look at how the Boston Archdiocese went from negligence to disclosure. Instead of endlessly prolonging the appeals process, it dropped its opposition to cooperating with state officials and turned over the names of every priest who had sexually abused a minor. It followed up by making public the personnel files of abusive priests and, after Cardinal Bernard Law's resignation, agreed to settle more than 500 lawsuits - paying $85 million to 552 victims.
• Crouch to Stay Chief of TBN Despite Gay Sex Allegation -- television evangelist. Male.
   Los Angeles Times, www.latimes.com/ news/local/state/ la-me-tbn14sep14,1,614060. story?coll=la- news-state ; By William Lobdell, Times Staff Writer
   CALIFORNIA: While the Christian community buzzed Monday about allegations that televangelist Paul Crouch had been involved in a homosexual tryst, Trinity Broadcasting Network officials said their leader would continue "God's call" as the network's president.
   They also said that Christian leaders from around the country offered private words of encouragement Monday for Crouch.
   "We prepared for the worst and prayed for the best," knowing that the allegations would be made public over the weekend, said Paul Crouch Jr., eldest son of the pastor and an executive at the network.
   "So far our prayers are being answered. Most of the e-mails and calls have been very positive."
   He said the network received unsolicited backing from dozens of Christian leaders who called or e-mailed their support, including author Josh McDowell; Doug Wead, a onetime advisor to former President George H.W. Bush; and singers Pat Boone and Carman.
• Judge to rule on diocese, order taking part in suit -- RCC.
   Union-Tribune, www.signonsandiego.com/ news/metro/20040914- 9999-1m14priest.html , By Greg Moran, September 14, 2004
   CALIFORNIA: A federal judge said yesterday he will issue a ruling on whether the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and a religious order can become part of a suit challenging the constitutionality of a state law that allowed hundreds of lawsuits against churches.
   In the opening stage of what could be an intriguing court battle, U.S. District Court Judge Larry Burns indicated he might allow the archdiocese and the Sisters of Nazareth to enter the case on a limited basis.
   A ruling could come as early as this week, lawyers in the case said after the hearing.
   At issue is one of the hundreds of lawsuits filed against Roman Catholic institutions last year under a state law which lifted the legal time limit for bringing suits alleging sexual abuse.
• Priest may return to Bothell parish -- Victim is a priest. RCC. Male.
   The Seattle Times, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ html/eastsidenews/ 2002034796 _pastor14e.html , By Nick Perry, Seattle Times Eastside bureau
   BOTHELL (WA): A popular Bothell priest who abruptly resigned last month has reached an agreement with the Seattle Archdiocese under which he will take a paid leave of absence instead.
   The Rev. Lawrence Minder, pastor at St. Brendan Catholic Church, will undergo an evaluation at a priest guesthouse attached to the Mayo Clinic, he told parishioners in a letter he wrote last week.
   "It is my desire, if it is God's will, to return to you as pastor after my assessment in Minnesota and the completion of recommended treatment, if any," he wrote.
   Minder stunned parishioners in August when he told them he had been raped by a priest as a teen. He also told them he would resign rather than comply with medical requests from the archdiocese.
• LI Catholics hold the key to reforming the church -- Knee-deep in abuse of authority and trust. RCC.
   Newsday, www.newsday.com/ news/opinion/ny- vprya143966765sep14, 0,1272746.story?coll= ny-viewpoints-headlines ; BY DICK RYAN, September 14, 2004
Dick Ryan of West Islip is the author of "Holy Human: Stories of Extraordinary Catholics."
   LONG ISLAND (NY): Bishop William Murphy has broken off all talks about a mutual agreement with the Long Island Voice of the Faithful until they begin to play nice, curb the dogs calling for his resignation and get back to filling up the collection basket.
   So it comes down to the stark reality that the Catholic Church is still knee-deep in an abuse of authority and trust. And it may be up to the Voice of the Faithful, with the help of many priests and nuns, to step forward and restore some sense of healing, hope and trust to the church. And here are a few things they might consider.
   The largest chapter of Voice of the Faithful in the country is on Long Island, so it could sponsor a national Congress of Catholic Laity at the Nassau Coliseum that would explore the concerns and solutions to the current crisis in the church from Catholics and Catholic organizations from all across America.
   If the idea sounds like the beginning of an organized union in the best sense of that word, then so be it. Despite all the papal encyclicals about a just wage and the rights of the working person, unions frighten the bejabbers out of many in the church hierarchy, and they are anathema in most Catholic institutions where teachers, nurses and social workers receive skeleton wages and benefits with the pious reminder that they're working for God. [Emphasis added]
• Romley's office concludes oversight of diocese -- RCC.
   The Arizona Star, www.azcentral.com/ arizonarepublic/ news/articles/ 0914diocese14.html , by Michael Clancy, The Arizona Republic, Sept. 14, 2004
   PHOENIX (AZ): The Diocese of Phoenix still faces a dozen sexual-abuse lawsuits, but it managed to put at least some of its legal problems tied to the scandal behind it Monday.
   Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley announced that his office is relinquishing oversight of the diocese because it has made key changes in how it handles sex-abuse allegations.
   "It is time for us in law enforcement to move out," Romley said, adding that terms of an agreement made between the diocese and his office 15 months ago have been met.
   "We no longer need the agreement," Romley said at a news conference with Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted at his side.
• Lawyer wants documents for suits against priest [Campobello] -- RCC. Girls.
   Chicago Tribune, www.chicagotribune.com/ news/local/nearwest/ chi-0409140162sep14, 1,4981876.story? coll=chi-newslocal nearwest-hed ; September 14, 2004
   KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS -- The Kane County criminal trial of a priest accused of sexually abusing two teenage girls ended with his guilty plea this spring, but the fight to obtain secret church documents in the case has not.
   The Catholic Diocese of Rockford had refused to turn over subpoenaed documents to the state's attorney in preparation for the trial against ex-priest Mark Campobello, 39, who was charged in 2001 with aggravated criminal sexual abuse. He pleaded guilty before his trial was set to begin. The Illinois Appellate Court ruled the church must turn the documents over to the state, but the order came after Campobello's plea.
• Rev. Holley up for parole in N.M. -- RCC. Boys.
   Telegram & Gazette, www.telegram.com/ apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20040914/ NEWS/109140346/1052/ NEWS01 ; By Kathleen A. Shaw, kshaw@telegram.com , TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF, Sep 14, 2004
   WORCESTER (MA) - The Rev. David A. Holley, a priest of the Catholic Worcester diocese who is serving a maximum 275-year prison sentence in New Mexico on child rape charges, will go before the New Mexico Adult Parole Board today in another attempt to get released.
   Rev. Holley, who left Worcester in 1969, ended up in New Mexico in the 1970s where the diocese sent him for treatment at a now-defunct center in Jemez Springs, N.M., operated by the Servants of the Paraclete.
   Rev. Holley, 77, told the parole board he wants to be released from prison and go live with family members.
   National and regional leaders of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests [SNAP], a self-help and advocacy organization for victims of clerical sexual abuse, and Phil Saviano of Jamaica Plain, one of Rev. Holley's alleged victims in the Worcester diocese, yesterday sent a letter to the parole board urging that he not be released.
   "We fear that Holley has not experienced 11 years of rehabilitation and reflection; just 11 years of pent-up desire and continued denial," the SNAP leaders said. The letter was signed by David Clohessy, national director; Barbara Blaine of Chicago, national president; Mr. Saviano; and Steve Rabi, director for SNAP New Mexico.
   Mr. Saviano, an early New England leader in SNAP, said he was sexually abused by Rev. Holley when the priest was assigned to St. Denis Parish, East Douglas. Mr. Saviano received a small settlement from the Worcester diocese in a civil suit in the 1990s.
   Rev. Holley, who has served 11 years of his sentence after pleading guilty in 1993 to child rape charges involving eight boys in New Mexico, got approval for parole on May 26, but victims did not hear of this until last month. Gov. Bill Richardson rescinded the action after finding that victims were not notified. A new hearing was scheduled for today.
   Only the New Mexico victims will be allowed to make statements to the parole board, but Mr. Saviano said he wanted to send his comments anyway.
• Lawyer to seek records on 33 priests [Campobello] -- RCC. Girls.
   Chicago Daily Herald, www.dailyherald.com/ news_story.asp? intid=38244318 , By Tona Kunz, Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2004
   ROCKFORD (IL): An attorney for two women accusing a former Geneva priest of sexual abuse plans to ask the Rockford Diocese to hand over the records of all of the diocese's accused priests.
   "That's relevant because the records will show how the diocese handled accused priests," said Keith Aeschliman, a civil attorney from Shorewood. "There was a pattern of practice of transferring priests."
   Aeschliman's clients are suing the diocese and Mark Campobello for sexual abuse when one woman was a 14-year-old at St. Peter Elementary School in Geneva and the other woman was a 16-year-old at Aurora Central Catholic High School.
   Aeschliman isn't ruling out additional lawsuits against the now incarcerated Campobello.
• Roman Catholic Diocese looks into reports about accused priest [1980s Paulin] -- RCC / Methodist. Male.
   WCAX, www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=2297454
   ARLINGTON, Vt. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington is looking into reports that a former priest who resigned last year amid sexual abuse allegations is now an organist at two southern Vermont churches.
   The Bennington Banner reported yesterday that the Reverend George Paulin now plays the organ at Saint Margaret Mary's in Arlington and at the United Methodist Church in Shaftsbury.
   He was accused by 34-year-old Paul Babeu of sexually abusing him during an overnight trip to the Northeast Kingdom when Babeu was a teenager in the 1980s.
• New Mexico clergy abuse case a result of failure of Worcester dioceses to protect children. [Holley] -- Released to victimise more while receiving "treatment." RCC. Boys.
   Worcester Voice, http://worcestervoice.com/ new_mexico_clergy_abuse_ case_a_result_of_failure_ of_worcester_dioceses_to_ protect_children_.htm ; September 14, 2004
   WORCESTER (MA): Area victims of clergy sexual abuse are watching closely today, Sept. 14, as events unfold before the Parole Board in New Mexico.
   Father David Holley, who was ordained as a Worcester priest in 1958, is coming up for a parole hearing. He has served only 11 years of a sentence of 55 to 275 years after he pled guilty to molesting and raping boys in New Mexico.
   Father Holley was able to commit these despicable crimes against children and young people because he was sent there by the Diocese of Worcester. He was supposed to be receiving pedophilia treatment from the Servants of the Paraclete but was let loose into the area where he was able to satisfy his sexual appetite for young boys.
   One must ask how much remorse Father Holley has shown for his crimes against our young ones when he recently told this Parole Board that he did not believe he should have to seek treatment as a sex offender or submit to electronic monitoring. Because he was never defrocked by the Catholic Church, he is still a priest. He told the Parole Board he should not be denied the right to wear his priests clothing.
   It is troubling that the Diocese of Worcester has never moved to laicize this priest despite his crimes against children. Several of these crimes happened when he was working in the Worcester Diocese. [Emphasis added ] [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 08:21 AM]
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• Holy Watergate - The Sex Abuse Crisis In The Catholic Church.
   Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Australia, "Cutting Edge - Holy Watergate - The Sex Abuse Crisis In The Catholic Church ," www.sbs.com.au/whatson/index.php3?progdate=14:09:2004 , 08:30 pm, September 14, 2004
   UNITED STATES: This program is an amazing journey that documents 19 years of an emerging crisis in the Catholic Church in the USA. The film begins as a personal journey of filmmaker Mary Healey Conlon, who is also a Catholic.
   She films a series of historic events where we meet key players involved in the sexual abuse scandal, including victims, whistle-blower priests and a senior ranking US Cardinal who is called upon by the Vatican to control a waxing maelstrom.
   The film exposes the institutional mind of the Catholic Church, a powerful institution that now promises to rectify the horrors of the abuse it enabled upon thousands of children.
   Over the course of the film, five victims' stories are tracked from events preceding their childhood sexual abuse, to their decision to bring their abusers to justice.
   This intensely personal and political story investigates a myriad of contributing factors that set in motion the ongoing crisis in the Church. (From the US, in English) (2002) M (S,A) CC SMS Alert Code: 8084 # [Sep 14, 04] FOR GOOD TEACHINGS TO BE HEEDED, A BIG CLEAN-UP IS NEEDED Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker SIGN-UP: www.ncrnews.org/abuse/signup.php for daily e-mails
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