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Three Philadelphia priests removed over child sex abuse scandal after victim killed himself
Daily Mail ^ | Monday, April 8, 2013 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 04/08/2013 9:42:13 PM PDT by Jyotishi

Three more priests were permanently removed from ministry by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on Sunday, including one whose accuser killed himself after his allegation was dismissed by church officials.

The Revs. Joseph Gallagher and Mark Gaspar were suspended following a scathing 2011 grand jury report that ultimately led to the landmark conviction of a high-ranking archdiocese official on child endangerment charges. Two other priests and a Catholic school teacher were also convicted.

The February 2011 grand jury report prominently named Gallagher as a priest who remained in ministry despite apparently credible allegations of abuse. The grand jury said the archdiocese had found the allegation against him unsubstantiated despite the accuser's 'obvious credibility.'

Kicked out: The Archdiocese of Philadelphia removed the priests after an ongoing sex abuse investigation

'Our only problem is that it took so long,' Marci Hamilton, the attorney for the family of Daniel Neill, said Sunday. Neill committed suicide in 2009, less than a year after being told his allegation of couldn't be substantiated.

Hamilton, who also represents two others who claim to have been abused by Gallagher, said the archdiocese's failure to act means Gallagher will never face criminal charges.

'Gallagher belongs in prison, but because of the Archdiocese's cover up, the criminal statutes of limitations for these victims expired long ago,' she said.

In a statement, Archbishop Charles Chaput said he made the decisions he felt were "right and just" after the allegations against Gaspar and Gallagher were investigated and reviewed by an archdiocese board.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: abuse; archdiocese; catholic; priest; sex
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Complete title: Three Philadelphia priests removed over child sex abuse scandal after 'victim' killed himself when church dismissed the allegations
1 posted on 04/08/2013 9:42:13 PM PDT by Jyotishi
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To: Jyotishi

Chaput is one of the new breed of bishops.


2 posted on 04/08/2013 9:53:35 PM PDT by RobbyS
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To: Jyotishi

Push trash. Never praise the great things they do.


3 posted on 04/08/2013 9:54:28 PM PDT by Lumper20 (`)
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To: Jyotishi

What to expect if they are allowed into the Boy Scouts of America.


4 posted on 04/08/2013 9:55:08 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, IÂ’m a conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: Jyotishi

Once again, homosexuals behaving badly.


5 posted on 04/08/2013 10:02:07 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Read the Fr. Oko report to find out what happens when homosexuals infiltrate an organization....they intimidate young seminarians-—force sexual encounters and if they are “denied” they harass the “victim” and chase them out or blackmail them. They are fascists, who only think of lust===number one concern-—they do not believe in God. They are Satanists/Atheists.

Bella Dodd wrote about the Marxist homosexuals who infiltrated the Catholic Church in the 30’s and 40’s to take it down from within since it criticized Marxism and had schools to educated children with that anti-Marxist belief. The Marxists infiltrated everything-—universities, public schools, US government, Hollywood, newspapers, publishing companies...etc. Their organizational skills are their greatest asset and they are brutal to their enemies-—won’t hesitate to kill.


6 posted on 04/08/2013 10:07:26 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: Jyotishi

Though the criminal statutes of limitations for these victims expired long ago, we can rest assured that there is NO statute of limitations with Almighty God. With Him, there are no secrets, hidden sins or rationalizations - ALL are laid bare before His eyes and He WILL exact justice. One would think that alone would be reason enough for “men of God” to abstain from their evil deeds. That they don’t, or won’t, speaks to their own personal faith or lack of it. Those who allowed such men to continue in their heinous crimes will answer to God for their complicity, as well. Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.


7 posted on 04/08/2013 10:10:09 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: Jyotishi
I've said it before and I'll say it again....take this to criminal court....do not wait a yr or 5 or 30 to make complaints....call the cops....make them pay in court....

these types of allegations need to see the light of day when they first happen....

8 posted on 04/08/2013 10:13:26 PM PDT by cherry
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To: savagesusie

If that is true, it sure explains alot.


9 posted on 04/08/2013 10:13:40 PM PDT by diamond6 (God is good.)
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To: Jyotishi
They call is pedophilia because most people don't know what it means, and it implies that the victims are both male and female.

In truth the victims are almost exclusively male and the perpetrator is homosexual.

Why don't they just call it what it is: Homosexual child rape? (or would that hurt someone's feelings and/or agenda???)

10 posted on 04/08/2013 10:52:23 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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To: savagesusie
I read a book years ago called "AA-1025: Memoirs of the Communist Infiltration Into the Church." It is a stunner.

What better way to destroy something in people's eyes than to equate something most despicable with the Church?

I know many holy priests who are painted with this awful brush simply because they wear a collar.

Saint Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host -
by the Divine Power of God -
cast into hell, satan and all the evil spirits,
who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.

11 posted on 04/08/2013 11:35:31 PM PDT by Slyfox (The Key to Marxism is Medicine ~ Vladimir Lenin)
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To: savagesusie
Do you have links?

I didn't realize that it had started that early, thought the 60s-70s.

They've done it with all organizations that promote Western Judeo-Christian culture. Some are already lost such as some so called "Christian" denominations like obama's ucc, Presbyterians, government education.

Boy Scouts tossed the sodomites out after an untold number of damaged lives and millions of dollars and now everyone from the PRESidENT to the united way is trying to for the Scouts to let faggots go camping with young boys in the woods away from parental supervision.

12 posted on 04/08/2013 11:41:21 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Ding ding.. you are right on target.... sad state of the world isn’t it?


13 posted on 04/08/2013 11:42:45 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: Jyotishi

Pleaze let me ave 5 dayz wit dem...

I make film at 11...

you seize whut humanity iz....


14 posted on 04/09/2013 12:06:23 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Eagles6
everyone from the PRESidENT to the united way is trying to for the Scouts to let faggots go camping with young boys in the woods away from parental supervision.

The republican presidential candidate supported this too.

15 posted on 04/09/2013 4:31:37 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: savagesusie

I’ve been telling people this for the longest.

They’ve been pushing them into seminaries by the thousands even before the 1920’s. I have a good friend that left due to your exact scenario; He got hit on, reported it, he was treated as the problem. He skipped the chain of command, then really caught hell. It really crushed him.

When this hit the fan I went to all the priests in my parish and let them know... You don’t have to worry about the cops, these two hands will make sure you get carried out by the handles.


16 posted on 04/09/2013 5:55:20 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Pray. Penance.)
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To: diamond6

Of course, it is true. Do you really believe that anyone but Satanists could sexually molest boys and cover it up and do it for years? Destroying children is the most hideous sin of all.

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/02/fr-dariusz-okos-major-article-with-pope.html

http://www.savethemales.ca/160303.html

The Communists/Marxists infiltrated everything which directs policies and “thinking”-—Whittaker Chambers wrote about this in “Witness” and since he was in the communist party for decades he understood their ideology and the depravity and evil-—he also had “homosexual” “experiences”. it is the sickness of the Bolsheviks-—and Brownshirts-—very brutal, vicious, godless people. It mocks God’s Design....and is a Satanic/Luciferan Rite.


17 posted on 04/09/2013 9:03:56 AM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: AliVeritas

It is all in Fr. Oko’s report and Bella Dodd’s book (and the Pink Swastika).

And Whittaker Chamber’s book, “Witness”-—how Marxists are great at infiltration and destroying things from within.

Many other books also, but they don’t make it to the top ten-—(Leftists control most “polls” and “Top Book” lists to steer “opinion”. I choose to read what they hate and try to hide.

http://www.savethemales.ca/160303.html

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/02/fr-dariusz-okos-major-article-with-pope.html


18 posted on 04/09/2013 9:10:39 AM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: Cowboy Bob
In truth the victims are almost exclusively male and the perpetrator is homosexual.

Correct.

It's not 'pedophilia', it's homosexuality. The perpetrators are homosexuals.

One cannot address the problem of homosexual rape by organizational leaders except by the organization eliminating homosexuals from its leadership. The problem is queers.

Rule One: No Poofters.

Despite these facts being obvious to even the most casual observer, I have been accused of 'protecting pedophiles' ON THIS FORUM when I point them out.

I'm glad to see the truth of HOMOSEXUAL ABUSE becoming more widely known.

19 posted on 04/09/2013 9:17:15 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Eagles6

The Catholic Church knew it was being targeted in 1907-—and before. Of course, anything with the truth will be targeted by Satan. If the Church wasn’t about the truth, then Satan wouldn’t need to infiltrate.

Read Pascendi. The Catholic Canon and Theology is brilliant. Vatican II was the slippery slope to hell-—the infiltration went all the way to the curia.

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_x/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis_en.html

From the brilliant encyclical: “ We allude, Venerable Brethren, to many who belong to the Catholic laity, nay, and this is far more lamentable, to the ranks of the priesthood itself, who, feigning a love for the Church, lacking the firm protection of philosophy and theology, nay more, thoroughly imbued with the poisonous doctrines taught by the enemies of the Church, and lost to all sense of modesty, vaunt themselves as reformers of the Church; and, forming more boldly into line of attack, assail all that is most sacred in the work of Christ, not sparing even the person of the Divine Redeemer, whom, with sacrilegious daring, they reduce to a simple, mere man.”


20 posted on 04/09/2013 9:19:15 AM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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