Posted on 07/13/2004 8:55:25 PM PDT by Coleus
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Eighty-eight year old Rose Pale was a devoted parishioner. She attended mass every day. The lawsuit says the monsignor at Saint John The Martyr Church on the Upper East Side betrayed her trust.
The lawsuit says that Monsignor John Wolsey had Pale sign over $495,000 dollars in cash and stocks over three years. He also advised her on her stock portfolio, convincing her to drop her broker of 20 years and use his brokerage firm. All the while, he allegedly told Pale not to tell family and friends.
The suit alleges Wolsey received $100,000 dollars for a Jersey Shore condo. It also says that he took church donations and used them for personal use.
Pale died last year and the executive of her state is trying to recoup some of those funds back into her estate. So far, the archdiocese has no comment.
I'll bet you are jealous at the size of the Roman Catholic Church -- 1 billion followers.
I'll bet that, statistically speaking, when you have the largest Church in the United States, you will have one or two bad apples.
Are you implying that all Catholics are naturally born saints and therefore must always be saints?
I'll bet you don't know that there are 60 million Catholics in the US, which is why Senator John Kerry, who is Jewish by background, converted to the Catholic faith, in name only, for political reasons.
I'll bet you don't know that the next largest group of people in the US are fallen away Catholics.
I'll bet you don't know that is was revealed before Pope John Paul II died that the KGB had a hand in the assassination attempt on his life in 1981. And that he and Ronald Reagan, were both staunchly opposed to Communism and aligned during the 1980's.
According to my folks, no one has seen or heard from Monsignor Wolsey since he was spirited away last year.
I wonder where he is? I bet he was probably released to another diocese until the investigation is over.
I wonder how much of the stolen money, if any, was donated to bill donohue of the catholic league
'Sins' of the Msgr. on trial, Fr. Time, Now Rev. Rolex may Have a lot more of it on his Hands - DA
NY Daily News ^ | 07.27.05 | BARBARA ROSS
I wonder how much of the stolen money, if any, was donated to the catholic league, I just hope this is a misunderstanding.
'Sins' of the Msgr. on trial, Fr. Time, Now Rev. Rolex may Have a lot more of it on his Hands - DA
NY Daily News ^ | 07.27.05 | BARBARA ROSS
Thanks for the links, Coleus.
I have said on here before that when the extent of the financial scandals in the Church come to light, they will make the pedophile priest scandals look like a Sunday School picnic.
I agree, and the first thing we should do is to write checks instead of giving cash. At least there will be a paper trail.
We Are Now In:
[ORANGE] >>> HIGH POSIBILITY OF SPONTANEOUS JACK CHICK TRACT APPEARANCES.
Wrongo!!!
Cleus and I are lifelong Catholics.
That should be Coleus.
"I'll bet we see no "Catholic Ping!"'s on this thread. Another shining moment for the Catholic church."was written.
But if I had looked I would have realized it was a three month old post and probably wouldn't have written a reply.
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