Priest in Pa. child sex-abuse case: 'You don’t say no to Cardinal Bevilacqua'
Source: Washington Post/AP
A priest assigned to help handle child sex-abuse complaints at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia told jurors Tuesday that Monsignor William Lynn was the only other person who could have created a typed list of suspected pedophile priests.
Monsignor James Beisel's testimony came as the defense began its case in Lynn's child-endangerment and conspiracy trial. Rev. James Brennan also is on trial, charged with molesting a teenager.
Prosecutors have introduced the list as evidence that Lynn and other church officials were aware the archdiocese had known predators in jobs around children for years or decades. But defense lawyers argue Lynn took orders from Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua. And witnesses Tuesday agreed that only the cardinal could transfer a priest or remove him from ministry.
Said Beisel: "... you dont say no to Cardinal Bevilacqua."
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/first-defense-witness-in-philadelphia-priest-abuse-trial-says-cardinal-made-priest-transfers/2012/05/22/gIQAqo48hU_story.html
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)derby378
(30,252 posts)An excerpt from an old 'Ndrangheta (Calabrian Mafia) tune - first in the original Calabrian dialect of Italian, then in English:
L' omertá é cumandamentu
Esti leggi saggia e giusta
Cu prestau lu giuramentu
Lu sgarrari assai ci custa
Occhiu tengu ma nun viu
Sugnu surdu e puru mutu
Sacciu i reguli di Diu
Ma restu sempri nu tambutu
Omertá, omertá
Chista é leggi societá
Leggi chi non perduna
A cu faci infamitá
Secrecy is a commandment
It's a law that's just and wise
Whosoever breaks his oath
He must pay - he knows the price
I have eyes, but I see nothing
I am deaf and mute as well
For I know the laws of God
And always keep them to myself
Omertá, omertá
It's the law of our society
A law that does not forgive
Those who break their secrecy
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)How about, "It's about time!"
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Glass houses. Now lets keep throwing the rocks, and rid ourselves of these freaks once and for all. Expose them and send them to jail. There are many "souls" they can save there. I bet even their own "souls" can be save by others looking for a soul mate.
Volaris
(10,274 posts)If you can't bring yourself to speak truth to Power, then you don't deserve the power you have.
atreides1
(16,093 posts)"We were following orders"!
Haven't we heard that one before?
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Quelle surprise....
.... NOT!
meow2u3
(24,774 posts)Spendid and outwardly pious, but rotten to the core, in the same vein as the Pharisees in Jesus' time.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)That whole "do unto others as ye would have done onto yourselves...." bit (amongst other instructions for a pious life).