Posted on 05/08/2025 12:25:51 PM PDT by CaptainK
The Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops is charged with overseeing investigations into bishops accused of negligence, cover-ups, or improperly handling clerical sexual abuse allegations.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported Feb. 26 that in September 2000, Fr. James Ray was permitted to live at St. John Stone Friary, a house of the Chicago province of the Augustinian religious order. The friary is half a block from a parish elementary school.
According to diocesan records, the move required approval by now-Bishop Robert Prevost, who was then an Augustinian provincial superior.
Prevost, now a diocesan bishop in Peru, was received in a private audience by Pope Francis last month. He is widely reported to be a likely candidate for a senior position in Rome, or for a major archdiocese in the United States, in a slate of personnel changes expected from the pope in coming months
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According to diocesan records reviewed by The Pillar, Ray had been restricted in ministry for nine years by 2000, and had been accused multiple times of sexually abusing boys, at least one of them for years. He had admitted to bringing at least one boy to sleep in his rectory bed, but said of one allegation that he “did not recall” having sexually assaulted a child with whom he admitted to having “cuddled.” Ray did admit to diocesan officials that in 1993 he engaged in sexual activity with a man while on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a supposed Marian apparition site in Croatia.
Trying not to feel surprised by this story and today’s disappointments.
Francis damaged so much that this choice just echoes that damage. Remember when the RCC was led by a great man who helped defeat The Soviet Union and Warsaw pact just by being a servant of Christ?
The woke pope...don’t drop the soap.
Doesn’t the church know this can’t be hidden. Ugh.
I wonder how much the Vatican was paid to elect an American pope from a deep state gangster city?
So this story is not true?
it seems 100% true to me....
Ok, I misread your post. I wasn’t sure what context you were pointing to.
The party line is the priest is in therapy and in our prayers. Nothing to worry about about.
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