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Posted on 03/07/2011 7:23:40 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
WILLIAM LYNN FIRST HIGH-RANKING CHURCH OFFICIAL TO FACE CHILD ENDANGERMENT CHARGES; DOZENS ACCUSED OF ABUSE REMAIN IN ACTIVE MINISTRY
(CBS News) Phil Gaughan can't bring himself to talk about it in detail, but said when he was a teenager, he was sexually abused by a catholic priest, reports CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano.
"It just can't happen to anybody else," Gaughan said. "Nobody should have deal with what I've dealt with for 15 years, the way that I felt and no child should ever have to go through this again."
After years of silence, Gaughan is publicly filing suit against top officials in the Philadelphia archdiocese, who he said failed to protect him from a predator priest. One of those named in his civil lawsuit is Monsignor William Lynn.
Lynn is already facing charges in a separate criminal case. For 12 years, Lynn was in charge of recommending work assignments for priests in the Philadelphia archdiocese. The district attorney believes Lynn knowingly recommended abusive priests be reassigned, without ever warning the parishes.
"They did in fact re-offend," said Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams. "They did in fact rape and sodomize other children."
Lynn has now become the first high-ranking U.S. church official ever to face criminal child endangerment charges for allegedly covering-up abuse. But prosecutors said there are other problems.
Allegations against Lynn resulted from a 124-page grand jury report that concludes, "Apparent abusers - dozens of them, we believe - remain on duty in the Archdiocese, today, with open access to new young prey."
For now, the archdiocese has suspended three priests, but according to the report, 34 others accused of abuse or inappropriate behavior with minors remain in active ministry.
The archdiocese has hired a former prosecutor to re-examine past cases.
"I will not turn my back on evidence of a cover up," said Gina Smith.
The archdiocese is not commenting on recent legal action, but church officials have vowed to do better.
"We have now taken action and we hope that our actions speak to our resolve," said Bishop Daniel Thomas with the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
That's little comfort to Gaughan, who hopes by coming forward he's giving children the protection he never had.
Well said.
Hoss
None of those were FReepmails; all were comments made under various threads, though most were from the thread ‘Sola Fide’.
I would think that people who claim to be concerned about children would show at least a little outrage about the secular groups.
You are not a mod and the reaction is due to your constant haranguing about Church scandal. It is sad that so many are not reacting to the facts which as I stated before are disgraceful. You notice that I made clear that the Grand Jury had no axe to grind but only wanted to speak for the victims and have justice done.
So then you changed it. Editing article titles is dishonest.
Though shalt not bear false witness.
I had a dream last night. There was this Dark Presence and he was presiding over a meeting of his subordinates and I heard him say:
“Things are going better than than I expected. This cyberspace era has given a real boost to our endeavors. The people we’re working on can assume an identity different from their real one and in this manner they can (falsely, of course) feel free to throw those stones at each other but no one knows who’s doing the stoning because their faces are covered.
We have to hope that they don’t find out that they can also do much good if they want to keep a screen name that isn’t their real name, but use it to speak of good things that all of them really need to hear, but don’t relish in being known by their real name in order to draw credit to themselves.
And this cyberspace has really been a boon to dividing the “brethren”. And dividing the brethren has always been our goal, because division is a very effective tool against spreading the Gospel.
Another thing about this cyberspace advantage is that people can compare themselves to other Christians and other Christian Communities. When we get that comparison theme going, they really lose a lot of ground because they are prone to thinking of themselves in a good light while criticizing their brethren. And of course, all this comparison keeps them from thinking and pondering about the Great One (Who wants so much for them to be centered on Him and on the Love that never fails)
Yes, this has been working out much better than I thought it would in the beginning.”
Hardly, an argument for the superiority of Rome.
The good news is that the Jesuits seem to have halted political assassinations for quite a long time now.
"And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven." Matthew 16:19
Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted Peter." John 1:42
Clearly, the Catholic Church (The Church whose leader, The Pope, is clearly in a line of succession from Saint Peter, who was ordained by Christ as the first pope) Is the superior Church.
In others news, the Lutherans have not burned anyone at the stake recently.
Plenty true.
However, I suspect that so many dozens of RC’s would have been parked on their abuse buttons that the things would have shorted out and then they’d have had
‘burn scars’ from their fight in behalf of White Hankys . . . in places a bit awkward to show off.
Can you please explain that comment? I don’t quite understand what you are implying.
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YUP! Sounds like them, alright. Even though their better way is to take one of their White Hankys from Mary, pour a little sugar into the center of it; tie the bit of sugar off into a bulb, and suck on it. That's about the substance of their better way. In Texas, we have a name for that comforter of the flesh.
In terms of the RC’s hereon,
Even “Olyimpic Class Chutzpah”
is a grossly inadequate and anemic term to use.
Keep on laughing. I plan on re-posting it tonight (edited, of course). You are cordially invited to chime in, provided you keep civil.
Naw.
Proddys use sanding grit for our complexion.
And, we rarely bother the mods about such junk.
I’d guess that for every 400 times RC’s wail and whine to the mods, A Proddy complains maybe 2-3 times.
It’s just that some things are so outrageously put by RC’s against Proddys that evidently even the RC favoring mods get embarrased by them and pull them on their own.
Clearly, the Catholic Church (The Church whose leader, The Pope, is clearly in a line of succession from Saint Peter, who was ordained by Christ as the first pope) Is the superior Church.The Matthew verses say nothing about succession. Rome just reads into the verse a succession.
None of the early church fathers interpreted these verses that way. If I recall roughly 20% of the time the early church fathers saw Peter as the rock, the vast majority saw Peters confession that Jesus was the Christ, as being the Rock.
All other verses mentioning the Rock, indicate that it is Jesus Himself and not Peter.
Augustine leaves it up to the reader what the Matt 16:18 means! 400 years after the resurrection, Augustine knows nothing of a Pope's supremacy described by today's RCC.
Historically, there is no evidence of a universal papacy being recognized for the first 5 or 6 centuries by anyone. The Eastern Church never recognized a universal papacy.
The papal claims are a later innovation, like many other traditions of men.
Wow, you sure are tough people. By the by, could you please substantiate that claim?
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