“So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.”(Matthew 18:14)(Bold added)
“Finding young candidates for the priesthood, meanwhile, who support Francis and want to be celibate is like looking for Catholic unicorns, and if you were to find some, they aren’t likely to be welcomed by conservative seminaries . . .“ by Thomas Reese, The beginning of the end of the Francis papacy, 07/13/2021.
“Report: 330,000 children sexually abused in French Catholic Church since 1950” by Cain Bordeaux, Courthouse News Service, 10/05/2021
“(CN) — An independent commission on Tuesday estimated at least 330,000 children within France’s Catholic Church institutions were sexually abused since 1950, a finding that left the deeply Roman Catholic nation in shock and anger.”(Bold added)
“The report by the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church is the culmination of two and half years of work. The commission was created upon the request of Catholic authorities in France, who were facing heavy criticism for their handling of sexual abuse scandals.”(Bold added)(Italics added)
“The 2,500-page report estimated that in the past 70 years there were between 2,900 and 3,200 sexual abusers within the church’s clergy and associations.”(Bold added)(Italics added)
“It estimated that at least 216,000 children were abused by priests, deacons and other clergy and that the number of abused minors climbs to at least 330,000 when church lay members – such as teachers, catechism supervisors and youth movement leaders – are included. The estimates were based on an in-depth review of archives and demographics.”(Bold added)(Italics added)
“These numbers are more than worrying, they are overwhelming and can in no way go unanswered,” said Jean-Marc Sauve, the commission’s president, at a news conference on Tuesday.”(Bold added)
“Sauve, a respected high-ranking civil servant, said the church disregarded the complaints of victims for far too long. He called the abuse systemic and said the church repeatedly failed to take action against perpetrators. Most of the victims were boys, the report said.”
“Until the early 2000s the Catholic Church showed a profound and even cruel indifference towards the victims,” he said, according to the Guardian newspaper.”
“Pope Francis felt “immense sorrow” for the victims and expressed his “gratitude for their courage to speak out,” according to Matteo Bruni, a Vatican spokesman.”
“BUT IF YOU DO WHAT IS EVIL, BE AFRAID; FOR IT DOES NOT BEAR THE SWORD FOR NOTHING; FOR IT IS A MINISTER OF GOD, AN AVENGER WHO BRINGS WRATH ON THE ONE WHO PRACTICES EVIL.” (ROMANS 13:4)
“In May 2019, Francis issued a new church law requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-ups by their superiors to church authorities.”
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you. For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.
“FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, YOUR SANCTIFICATION, THAT IS, THAT YOU ABSTAIN FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY . . . BECAUSE THE LORD IS THE AVENGER . . .”(1 Th 4:3-6)
“Church leaders in France said they felt “shame” over the report’s findings and asked for forgiveness.”
“My desire today is to ask your forgiveness,” said Archbishop Eric de Moulins- Beaufort, the president of the Conference of Bishops of France. He called the number of victims overwhelming.”(Bold added)(Italics added)
“Francois Devaux, co-founder of a victims association called La Parole Liberee, or The Liberated Word, said at the news conference that the Catholic Church as an institution must take responsibility and he called for sweeping changes. He decried the church for covering up what he called “mass crimes for decades.”(Bold added)(Italics added)
“You are a disgrace for our humanity,” Devaux said, speaking directly to church leaders. “You must pay for all of these crimes.”
FOR YOU KNOW WHAT COMMANDMENTS WE GAVE YOU BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE LORD JESUS. . . THAT YOU ABSTAIN FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY; THAT EACH OF YOU KNOW HOW TO POSSESS HIS OWN VESSEL IN SANCTIFICATION AND HONOR, NOT IN LUSTFUL PASSION, LIKE THE GENTILES WHO DO NOT KNOW GOD. . . “(1 Th 4:2-5)
“Devaux’s association represents victims of Bernard Preynat, a defrocked priest who was convicted last year on charges of sexually assaulting dozens of Boy Scouts from the 1970s to the 1990s.”
“Cardinal Philippe Babarin was convicted, and then acquitted on appeal, of covering up his abuse.”
“But Devaux praised the commission for its work and called the report “a turning point in our history.”
“YET A LITTLE WHILE AND THE WICKED MAN WILL BE NO MORE; AND YOU WILL LOOK CAREFULLY FOR HIS PLACE AND HE WILL NOT BE THERE. BUT THE HUMBLE WILL INHERIT THE LAND AND WILL DELIGHT THEMSELVES IN ABUNDANT PROSPERITY.” (PSA 37:10-11)
TENTH STEP: “WE CONTINUE TO TAKE A PERSONAL INVENTORY AND WHEN WE WERE WRONG PROMPTLY ADMITTED IT.”
“A million children abused by Italian priests, and it barely makes the news,” by Matthew Syed, The Times, 02/20/2022.
“On Wednesday a Vatican insider estimated that up to a million Italian children had been abused over seven decades. We do not know the true number because the clergy enjoy various immunities in Italy and the nationhas never confronted, let alone fully investigated, the evil that has taken place within its borders. This should have led the news worldwide.” (Syed, The Times, 02/20/2022)(Bold added)(Italics added)
“Italian priest allegedly stole church funds for drugs, gay sex parties, “ by Patrick Reilly, New York Post, 09/22/2021.
“An Italian Roman Catholic priest,”[Rev. Francesco Spagnesi, 40, of Prato, Italy] has been placed under house arrest for allegedly stealing over $117,000 in church funds and parishioners’ donations for drugs and lavish gay sex parties in his home . . . after police were tipped off that his roommate had imported a liter of the common date rape drug GHB from the Netherlands . . . the two men are alleged to have used online dating sitesto invite guests to their home, where drugs were used and sold . . . Officers reportedly found homemade crack pipes from bottles during a raid on the apartment . . . Police are interviewing 200 people who’ve attended hisparties in the last two years.” (Bold added)(Italics added)(Reilly, NY Post 09/22/21)
“Spagnesi had withdrawn over $117,000 from the parish’s bank account . . . police suspect was used to purchase drugs . . . When the bishop halted access to the priest’s funds, he began stealing money from the Mass collections and asking parishioners for money, telling them he was raising aid for poor families . . . He quickly raised thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting churchgoers. They have since begun to take legal action against Spagnesi, demanding their money back, according to the Times.”
Spagnesi’s lawyer, Costanza Malerba, told the Times the priest had confessed to supplying drugs to others at parties and is expected to admit stealing church funds.
No charges have been filed at this time.
TENTH STEP: “WE CONTINUE TO TAKE A PERSONAL INVENTORY AND WHEN WE WERE WRONG PROMPTLY ADMITTED IT.”
“Dear Pope Francis: ‘A year after John Paul II came, I was raped by a priest” by Colm O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland, 08/11/2018.
Dear Francis,
“I won’t lie. It has been a tough few months. I hadn’t imagined that your visit to Ireland would cause me any upset, but to my surprise it has.” (O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland 08/11/2018)
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“It started when the media here began to recall the iconic moments of John Paul II’s visit back in 1979. I was 13 years old then and, like most children of my generation, heavily involved in the church. I had been an altar server; I sang at Mass every Sunday.”(O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland 08/11/2018)
“I went to a Christian Brothers School and the youth group I attended every week was a Catholic group that met in a convent. The church was a massive influence in my life back then, and central to every part of it.” (O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland 08/11/2018)
“I didn’t get to see Pope John Paul II when he was here. My older sister and brother did, and I remember envying them as I watched the visit unfold on TV. The ecstatic crowds that lined the streets everywhere the Pope went, him beaming from his Popemobile and blessing the crowds as he wove his way though them, and above all that moment in Galway when he looked out across 300,000 young people and proclaimed in his accented, booming voice, “Young people of Ireland, I love you!”(O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland 08/11/2018)
“My heart nearly burst when I heard him say that. It was a time when people didn’t often tell us that we were loved, not in that way, and I believed him. I believed every word he said.
It’s different now, though. Now when I hear that same voice say those same words I don’t feel that joy. Instead I feel terribly sad. Sad for that 13-year-old me, heartbroken and sick for him.”(O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland 08/11/2018)
“You see, just over a year after that, I was raped for the first time by a priest. A priest who used my blind faith in the goodness of your institution to get into my home, take me away and repeatedly assault me.”(O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland 08/11/2018)
“That priest had been ordained just four months before the visit, and your church knew then that he was a child abuser. He had sexually assaulted a group of boy scouts while a seminarian. The scouting association had barred him for life as a result, but your church made him a priest and then sent him off and let him abuse for years with impunity.”(O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland 08/11/2018)(Bold added)
“He made it along to the papal visit. He was in the Phoenix Park for the Mass, at the Papal Cross beneath which you will celebrate Mass when you arrive here soon. After he was ordained he was sent to a parish in Belfast, where he immediately began to cause havoc. He worked his way around the ban from the boy scouts by founding a troop of his own. I was told he had some of them with him at that Mass in 1979. I wonder if those boys were abused during that trip?”(O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland 08/11/2018)
“The impact of what he did to me nearly killed me. I won’t go into the detail now, but it led to me fleeing my home when it finally ended almost three years later because I was so broken that I was finding it difficult to stay alive. If I hadn’t run, I don’t think I would have survived. I spent six months on the street, and was estranged from my family for nearly four years as a result of it all.”(O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland 08/11/2018)(Bold added)
“That, perhaps, is worth thinking of in the context of your trip here for the World Meeting of Families: those of us who were abused by the church have families, and they suffered alongside us. Many are still suffering.” (O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland 08/11/2018)(Bold added)(Italics added)
“Those families matter too. They may not be there waving flags as you drive by, but shouldn’t you reach out to them at long last and do them the respect of finally telling the truth?” (O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland08/11/2018)
“My own family were a big part of me finding the strength to come forward and report the abuse in 1995. What was done to me was tough for them to bear. My Dad in particular was shattered by it. He was a massive support to me, and his love and concern for me was just incredible back then.”(O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland08/11/2018)
“Dad died later that same year, but he has always been part of this journey for me. He taught me that the truth matters, that integrity and the courage to stand for what I believe in matters. So, 23 years later, I still stand for truth. I think it’s time that you did the same.”(O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland 08/11/2018)(Bold added)
“Some people will tell you that you need to do this to save the church from further collapse. That may be true, but I hope you will finally do so not to save the institution, but because it is quite simply the right thing to do. Tell the truth. Admit the cover-up. Please.”(O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland 08/11/2018)
“Colm”
TENTH STEP: “WE CONTINUE TO TAKE A PERSONAL INVENTORY AND WHEN WE WERE WRONG PROMPTLY ADMITTED IT.”
Judge rules it’s fine for priest to call co-workers ‘pieces of s—t,” by Julia Marsh, New York Post, 05/11/2016.
“He may be a priest with a potty mouth — but that doesn’t mean he should be sued over it.”
“The Rev. Michael Reilly, who serves as principal at a Staten Island Catholic school, allegedly trashed his colleagues as “tw-ts,’’ “b–ches’’ and “pieces of “s–t,’’ prompting three of them to sue him and the archdiocese for discrimination.”
“But a Manhattan judge has ruled that while the slurs might have been highly offensive, they were otherwise just your run-of-the-mill generic trash talk . . . When a colleague suggested he “go easy on her,” the priest allegedly replied, “F–k crusty, she’s a vodka s–tting b—h we don’t need.”
“While another teacher was out sick receiving chemotherapy treatments, Reilly allegedly said, “Doesn’t he know life is over? What’s he going to do next? Come in on a gurney with an IV? I’ll have to kick him to the f—ing curb.”
The suit said, “Kicking someone to the ‘f—ing curb’ was one of Father Reilly’s favorite expressions.”
Reilly also called women ‘tw–ts’ and labeled multiple women a ‘tw–eria,” according to court papers.
He once referred to an African-American teacher “as one whose black ass he would kick back to the jungle,” the suit says.
Reilly’s lawyer, Mark Goidell, applauded the judge’s decision to toss the case.
“The judge recognized that the case was both factually and legally without any basis,” Goidell said.
He added that his client “did not use the language that was attributed to him.” The priest is still the head of the school.
THE TONGUE DEFILES THE ENTIRE BODY ! . . . “GOD RULES, ONE GOD AND FATHER OF ALL WHO IS OVER ALL AND THROUGH ALL AND IN ALL.”(EPHESIANS 4:5-9; ROMANS 11:36)(Bold added)(Caps added)(Italics added)
WHAT DOES GOD HAVE TO SAY ABOUT CURSING . . .(JAMES 3:1-12)
“TEACHERS WILL INCUR A STRICTER JUDGMENT . . . “(JAMES 3:1)
“Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment. For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well. Now if we put the bits into the horses’ mouths so that they will obey us, we direct their entire body as well. Look at the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, are still directed by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot desires. So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things.”(James 3:1-5a)
“THE TONGUE DEFILES THE ENTIRE BODY . . .”
“See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell. For every species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race.”(James 3b-7)
“THE TONGUE IS A RESTLESS EVIL FULL OF DEADLY POISON . . . “(JAMES 3:8)
“But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God; from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way. Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water? Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.”(James 3:8-12)
“Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamorand slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.” (Ephesians 4:29-32)
TENTH STEP: “WE CONTINUE TO TAKE A PERSONAL INVENTORY AND WHEN WE WERE WRONG PROMPTLY ADMITTED IT.”
“The Vatican Just Put a Convicted Rapist Back in a Parish,” by Barbie Lanza Nadeau, The Daily Beast, 04/24/2016
“ROME—Just what is it that the Vatican does not get about predator priests? Apparently a lot.” (Bold added)(Italics added)
“Father Joseph Jeyapaul is a priest from India who admitted to raping two adolescent girls in Minnesota when he served the Crookston diocese from 2004 to 2005.” Once “charged with the abuse, which included rape and forcing at least one of the girls to perform fellatio on him, he fled home to India, where he was eventually arrested on an Interpol warrant. He was then extradited back to Minnesota, where he admitted his heinouscrimes and entered a plea bargain in which, in exchange for a lighter sentence, he copped to molestation to oneof the girls.”(Bold added)(Italics added)
“Jeyapaul was suspended from the priesthood and served a year and a day in prison in Minnesota, then wasdeported back to India after his release last July. The Minnesota diocese where he worked also settled a civil lawsuit with the victims in which one accused him of systematic abuse in the confessional of the Blessed Sacrament Church in Greenbush, Minnesota, where he would then tell the girl it was her fault, that she had made him “impure.”(Bold added)(Italics added)
“How much more proof would one need that the man cannot be trusted with minors?”
“Apparently, Jayapaul’s rap sheet is not enough to kick him out of the priesthood for good. In February, the Vatican approved lifting his suspension from the priesthood and agreed that he could be reassigned to a newparish in India. That parish even made him the diocesan head of its commission for education.”
“We are not only disgusted and alarmed, but we realize there is a serious danger,” Minnesota attorney Jeff Anderson said during a press conference last week. “Pope Frances has broken a pledge. This priest is a predator who needs to be stopped, and they have chosen not to stop him.”
“Anderson, who has been at the forefront of the legal battle for victims of clerical sex abuse in Minnesota, is involved because he represents one of the victims Jeyapaul went to prison for abusing. Megan Peterson, now 26, has stepped forward to tell her story to protect children. She asked Anderson to file a public danger (nuisance) federal lawsuit against the Ootacamund diocese in Tamil Nadu, India.”
Standing by Anderson this week at the press conference, she said that when she heard that the Vatican had lifted Jeyapaul’s suspension for crimes against her, she felt “abused, degraded and re-victimized all over again.”
Peterson is asking the Indian diocese for more than $75,000 in damages for making her relive her trauma by forgiving her abuser in what is seen as a legal attempt to get the Indian diocese to rethink allowing Jeyapaul to start his new job.
“Children deserve to be protected in India and nobody is doing this at this point,” Peterson said at the televised press conference . . . “
The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) says this is the last straw. “It may be the most irresponsible Vatican move we’ve ever seen: Catholic officials in Rome have lifted the suspension of a recently convicted predator priests,” SNAP’s outreach director Barbara Dorris said in a statement. “We are stunned and saddened by such blatant recklessness and callousness.”
Dorris added that the survivors are grateful that Peterson filed the lawsuit, which she referred to as a “novel approach” to trying to protect children from known predators by taking legal action to expose predators the church has reinstated or protected.
Still, it gives pause to think that the Vatican could turn such a blind eye to a case in which the priest admitted to abusing minors and was sentenced in a secular court.
“The Vatican under Pope Francis and the Bishop in India have both made the decision to permit this predatorto continue in ministry after his conviction for child sex abuse and are promoting him as safe and trustworthyand holy,” Anderson said. “And as we speak, there are hundreds of children who we know trust him and believe him to be trustworthy.”
TENTH STEP: “WE CONTINUE TO TAKE A PERSONAL INVENTORY AND WHEN WE WERE WRONG PROMPTLY ADMITTED IT.”
MAN’S SOLUTION . . . RID THE VATICAN OF THE PREDATOR ONCE AND FOR ALL. . .
“Indian diocese removes predator priest in settlement with U.S. victim of sexual abuse,” by Michael O’Keeffe, New York Daily News, 10/04/2016
“A sexual abuse survivor has scored an unprecedented victory against the Catholic Church, with an Indian diocese removing a predator priest who’d been shockingly reinstated after assaulting the woman when she was a teen in the U.S.”
Officials in the Diocese of Ootacamund are removing Rev. Joseph Jeyapaul from the ministry and barring him from working with children. In a legal settlement, the diocese also agreed to provide sex abuse survivor Megan Peterson, formerly of Queens, with annual updates on the whereabouts and activities of Jeyapaul, the priest she says assaulted her when she was a teenager. She’d sued the diocese in federal court upon learning of Jeyapaul’s reinstatement.
The settlement marks the first time a foreign diocese has agreed to take responsibility for a predator priest after he left the U.S., said sex-abuse attorney Jeff Anderson.
“This is such a step forward for the survivors movement as a whole,” Peterson said following a press conference in St. Paul announcing the settlement Monday.
She added that her quest for justice won’t be complete until she learns why Jeyapaul was allowed to return to the ministry even after he pleaded guilty to sexual abuse charges in the U.S.
“The question that is not being answered is, why did the Vatican reinstate him?” Peterson said.
Under the agreement, Ootacamund church officials will provide her with regular updates about Jeyapaul for 10 years or until he is defrocked.
An attorney for the diocese, Thomas Braun, did not immediately return a request for comment.
“This is a testament to Megan’s courage,” Anderson said of the settlement.
GOD’S SOLUTION . . . REJECT A FACTIOUS MAN AFTER A FIRST AND SECOND WARNING. . .
“For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. This is a trustworthy statement; and concerning these things I want you to speak confidently, so that those who have believed God will be careful to engage in good deeds. These things are good and profitable for men. But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. Reject a factious man after a first and second warning, knowing that such a man is perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned.” (Titus 3:3-11)
“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem usfrom every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.”(Titus 2:11-14)
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
GOD’S RESPONSE TO CATHOLIC CHURCH. . .
First, in the Garden of Eden, man committed the ultimate sin . . . He ate the forbidden fruit . . . Because he ate of the fruit he would know “good and evil” . . . consequently, he would surely die.
“But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’ And they will say, ‘Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the LORDhas brought all this adversity on them.’”(1 Kings 9:6-9)(Bold added)(Italics added)
“Also I have sent to you all My servants the prophets, sending them again and again, saying: ‘Turn now every man from his evil way and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to worship them. Then you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your forefathers; but you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.”(Jeremiah 35:15)(Bold added)(Italics added)
“Thus says the LORD, ‘Stand in the court of the LORD’S house, and speak to all the cities of Judah who have come to worship in the LORD’S house all the words that I have commanded you to speak to them. Do not omit a word! Perhaps they will listen and everyone will turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the calamitywhich I am planning to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.’ And you will say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD, “If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My law which I have set before you, to listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have been sending to you again and again, but you have not listened; then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’(Jeremiah 26:2-6)(Bold added)(Italics added)
“You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”(John 4:22-24)(Bold added)(Italics added)
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