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.
Excellent post and absolutely correct.
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them ina the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28: 18-20
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. Ephesians 2: 19-22
Therefore it is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from John’s baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection.” So they proposed two men: Joseph called Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias. 24Then they prayed, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which of these two you have chosen to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left to go where he belongs.” Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles. Acts 1: 20-26
These quotes provide examples. The first one, Christ gave the apostles authority over the sacrament of confession. The second, baptism. The third, to built up a church. The fourth, (the clincher) shows that te apostles had the authority to choose successors.
While it is certainly stun material . . . there's really no need to be stunned.
All we need to realize is that the RC's use their DAFFYNITIONARY 24/7/365 and all the more so in such matters. It doesn't matter what words the Grand Jury uses from the regular dictionary.
The RC's, just as they have done for 1600 years with mangling and rubberizing history and Scripture, by now it's quite easy to rubberize and mangle the Grand Jury Report. It's probably auto-mangled by their optic nerves before it ever gets to their brains. The compulsion is so genetic by now.
Therefore in terms of the RC DAFFYNITIONARY,
for the agents of Mary . . .
sodomy = Salutatory Ongoing Demonstrable Oscillations Marvelously Youthful in behalf of training proper spiritual vulnerabilities to "FATHER AUTHORITARIAN !!!!CONTROL!!!!" memes.
I'll stop there with the examples from the RC DAFFYNITIONARY. I don't have the stomach to go further.
Or are all these vapid defenses coming from people with no children?
I wonder if some feel that it’s just the usual rites of initiation into the
Marian Agents Of The Order Of The Experienced White Hanky Knights?
Maybe they had to endure such so it feels ‘normal’ to them in their DAFFYNITIONARY sense of things.
Or maybe the terror of the tyrannical Vatican Cult !!!!CONTROL!!!! memes is so palpable that even the safety and health of their own children pales in comparison.
Wellllll
Praise God.
About time some grew up and displayed some integrity on such matters.
Naw.
Hyperbole loses too much in translation.
Naw.
It’s a wild-haired guesstimate.
Do a keyword search for *arth* and check out the Another Reason to Homeschool threads.
You'll find plenty of examples of outrage directed towards public school teachers who sexually abuse children.
To claim or imply that there is none is disingenuous.
Here, just to provide no excuse to not find it, this is the link to the arth articles.
If I caught ANYONE, priest pastor protestant or peasant, doing such things to a child I would knock him through the wall. Catholics do not 'harbor' pedophiles. You are simply making vast generalizations.
WWJD
Somehow I can't imagine Him letting it slide or reassigning His disciples should any of them have been caught molesting children.
It seems that some Catholic AND protestant leaders have fallen down on the job, to say the least.
Look here; I am a Catholic. I do not support the hiding or reassigning of pedophiles. I fully support pedophile priests being tossed into the slammer.
And, by the way, your post should not use the word "you". Your post is making it personal. Please, make sure your posts respects and obeys the rules.
CC: “You protestants have a habit of assigning these actions soley to The Church. I was merely showing that protestant ‘pastors’ are far from innocent. Or rather, that many, but not all, are far from innocent. Because unlike protestants, Catholics don’t assign a blanket charge to an entire organization.”
Catholics don’t? You are Catholic, are you not?
I checked. You were the one who posted post 32 and 36 this thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2685232/posts?page=32#32
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2685232/posts?page=36#36
2) I provided those posts (and one other showing protestant pastors who had been reassigned/rehired), to show that, contrary to what many (but not ALL) protestants would have you believe, this pedophilia is not just a 'Catholic problem'.
"They did in fact re-offend," said Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams. "They did in fact rape and sodomize other children."
DE>Nothing changes.
In the spiritual, it in no way represents YHvH nor His salvation. In the natural i.e. in the flesh,
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
it seems to be a criminal enterprise.
/sarc
And that bit about 'your post'. I did it to make a point; many protestants are always citing 'the rules', while not following them themselves. And as to that thread...I am going to re-post an updated version tonight, and you are cordially invited to participate provided you keep civil.
I don’t believe ALL harbor such.
Clearly SOME in the hierarchy have and do.
How ANY FR RC’s can deny and rationalize that is
well beyond me.
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