Pa. man: 'Callous' church let 3 pedophiles rape me

APBy MARYCLAIRE DALE - Associated Press | AP – Wed, Jul 27, 2011


PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia man at the heart of a groundbreaking criminal case against the Philadelphia archdiocese has filed a related civil suit, charging that the church let two priests and a teacher serially rape him as a young altar boy.

The 23-year-old man accused the Roman Catholic church in Philadelphia of "callous indifference" to his suffering as a 10-year-old schoolboy.

The suit seeks at least $450,000 in damages from the archdiocese and other defendants. The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported Wednesday on the suit, filed this week by a man identified as "Billy" in a February grand jury report.

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His successor, Cardinal Justin Rigali, was sharply criticized for his handling of sex-abuse complaints by the lay chair of the archdiocese's own investigative panel.

The pope last week named Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver to succeed Rigali.


Note: Archbishop Chaput is an Opus Dei rising Star. Interesting that the Pope would have someone of his background sent to deal with this.

http://news.yahoo.com/pa-man-callous-church-let-3-pedophiles-rape-155300021.html

can't stay away from that unrec button.

that many see that the country is being taken over by corporate fascists

and fascism overturning our Constitutional rights --

but they don't want to acknowledge the role played by organized patriarchal religion

in fascist practices -- even though they have the clear example of the role the

Papal Bulls played in the "conquest" of this continent and genocide --

Columbus/Christianity vs the Native Americans! "Enslave them or kill them!"


Not only the Papal Bulls, both the Mormon Church and the Catholic Church benefited from

their alliance with our government in destruction of the Native American in the Church

schools they set up. Every kind of abuse occurred in those schools -- with the Mormon

school being the most notorious -- but both engaged in beatings, kidnappings, murder,

sexual abuse of every kind -- hangings.




Patriarchy -- and its underpinning =

Organized Patriarchal Religion -- and its economic invention =

Capitalism =

The Unholy Trinity

If he can bury this little Travesty, he will probably be promoted to Cardinal. Perhaps Ratzinger is signaling who he wants to succeed him.

He is SO right wing it's scary. Just looking at his wax-like face gives me the heebie-jeebies.

:scared:

Can't be putting some promoter of Liberation Theology in the Papacy. :sarcasm:

Note: Archbishop Chaput is an Opus Dei rising Star. Interesting that the Pope would have someone of his background sent to deal with this.

Obviously Benedict is also either one of them or protecting them --

And -- if you saw the Cloyne Report from Ireland where the sexual abuse of children

has continued, it is clear that the Pope was trying to suggest that civil law would not

be honored by the church re reporting of incidents!!

...perpetrated by an institution that has the audacity to hide behind
religion and spirituality.

There is no sicker or more revolting crisis, in modern day.

with our tax dollars --

and Obama has not only continued those subsidies but increased them!


Until then the Church in America was struggling to pay for the pedophile lawsuits --

selling off church property, real estate -- schools, churches --

and Catholics were out in the streets protesting!!


All quiet now!

:nuke:

Vatican recalls Irish papal envoy after Cloyne report
The Vatican has recalled its special envoy in Ireland after a damning report on the Catholic Church's handling of child abuse by priests. Papal Nuncio Giuseppe Leanza ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14272988 - Cached


Irish Report Finds Abuse Persisting in Catholic Church
The Cloyne Report is the Irish government’s fourth in recent years on ... page A6 of the New York edition with the headline: Irish Report Says Catholic Church ...
www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/world/europe/14church.html

And at age 11, his sixth-grade teacher, Bernard Shero, orally and anally raped him during a car ride, and then put him out of the vehicle to walk home, according to details from the civil and criminal complaints. All three lived or worked at St. Jerome Parish in Northeast Philadelphia, where "Billy" went to school through eighth grade.

The callous indifference manifested by Bevilacqua and Lynn to the safety and well-being of children left in the care and custody of the Archdiocese was a function of their paramount desire to protect the Church, even at the expense of innocent children, who were ravaged, molested, and abused," the civil suit charged.

If you've seen the recent Cloyne Report by Irish investigators, the abuse has continued there.


This is also shattering ...

"How many people would have welcomed information that would have explained why little Johnny is acting so strange and withdrawn and sullen, and knowing it's not something you did as a parent," said Paul Lauricella, one of several lawyers on the case. "All of these secrets prolonged people's suffering, and even exacerbated it."

Signmund Freud knew from what he was hearing from his patients that young people were describing

sexual abuse by adults close to them --

However, Freud betrayed those patients -- in reversing that knowledge in his Oedipus Complex

making the child the aggressor and the parent the victim!

and it doesn't sound like they are buying it.


"If clericalism isn't to blame, how to explain the promotions Cudemo received amid reports of flaunting his sexual liaisons with teenagers?

Bevilacqua contended that he couldn't punish Cudemo, because the priest had "rights" and might "bring action" against the church.

Again and again, baffled grand jurors pressed the cardinal. If Bevilacqua believed the Gospels, why couldn't he believe a 15-year-old reporting that her best friend was the victim of sex crimes by a priest?

"You have to be a member of the faith . . . to understand what I'm about to say," he lectured. "All Scripture is revealed by God himself. . . . It has divine truth. We cannot take that and apply that to secondhand human witnesses.""


http://articles.philly.com/2011-07-27/news/29820932_1_priests-grand-jury-grand-jurors/2