Joseph Jeyapaul who served as a priest in the Crookston city of Minnesota in 2004 and 2005
Posted on 04/24/2016 7:07:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
ROME — Just what is it that the Vatican does not get about predator priests? Apparently a lot.
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.
After being 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 heinous crimes and entered a plea bargain in which, in exchange for a lighter sentence, he copped to molestation of one of the girls.
Jeyapaul was suspended from the priesthood and served a year and a day in prison in Minnesota, then was deported 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.”
How much more proof would one need that the man cannot be trusted with minors?
Apparently, Jeyapaul’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 new parish in India. That parish even made him the diocesan head of its commission for education.
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Daily beast doesn’t get that a priest removed from ministry is actually still a priest. Sacraments like ordination are indelible.
That said, he shouldn’t be on any assignments that even remotely have children there.
Agreed. Can’t believe he can be back working with children or adolescents in any capacity.
~ he admitted his heinous crimes and entered a plea bargain ~
Any person who admits to such acts should be serving life without the possibility of parole. Shame on that judge!
This convicted rapist will one day be sentenced by THE Judge, and receive an eternal sentence!
https://letmetellyouthis.wordpress.com/tag/list-of-christian-evangelist-scandals/
the list is yuge!
the answer is because men run these institutions and God does not because of free will.
Every religion has a scandalous side, and it’s a shame.
But the Catholics do need to reign this nonsense in.
I thought that a priest could be laicized.
Priests can be laicized for serious offenses. He should have been given a choice between being defrocked or spending the rest of his life in a very strict monastery.
It has long been my opinion that the Catholic Church is nothing but a criminal organization that gets tax free status.
“That said, he shouldn’t be on any assignments that even remotely have children there.”
That said, he should be removed from the priesthood altogether. I’m all for forgiveness, but this is about protecting innocent people from a bad man who - even if he could change his behavior - can’t really be trusted ever again.
Does not mean what you think it means. Laicised means that certain promises are lifted and obligations relieved so that they return as if to the lay state.
But they are still a priest forever “in the line of melchizadek”-ps 110:4
In an emergency a “Laicised” priest still has to hear confessions.
Technically no, although they can be granted or declared to be in a loss of clerical state for certain matters.
Or, you know, prison. Why not prison?
Real "whore of Babylon" stuff, this is.
“But the Catholics do need to reign this nonsense in.”. Pretty sure you meant rein not reign. But I completely agree. My guess is this man will have clerical duties that will never include his service to or presence around young people.
Upon conviction resulting from the plea bargain, he should have been laicized. Suspension inappropriate beyond that point. Light sentence presumably so he could be deported quickly. Wrong for the Church to leave him as clergy. Although, there is now a radical Leftist as its leader, so maybe rape & sodomy committed by priests are OK.
Did you notice that whenever the Pope comes out with a new liberal position liberals call him Pope Francis, but whenever it’s something shameful, it’s suddenly “the Vatican”?
“...the Catholic Church is nothing but a criminal organization that gets tax free status.”
A ‘criminal organization’ founded by Christ then? One that runs hospitals, schools, orphanages, cares for the poor, the sick, the homeless. I’m a member of the Church and I’m involved in no crime (other than occasional speeding) and pay taxes through the nose.
I agree about trustworthyness. But He is still a priest. And for that matter obliged to carry out a ministry. Really they goofed up here somewhere. If they wanted him to do something he should be reduced to a simplex peiesthood and required to say masses for religious or something.
“Did you notice that whenever the Pope comes out with a new liberal position liberals call him Pope Francis, but whenever it’s something shameful, it’s suddenly “the Vatican”?”
Look at your own question: “whenever the Pope comes out with a new liberal position liberals call him Pope Francis” —— So, in other words, the liberals say Pope Francis is responsible for what Francis does? Yeah, and? Don’t assume the pope approved this action. He may not even know about it.
“Or, you know, prison. Why not prison?”
He was in prison.
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