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Suit Says Jesuits Ignored Warnings About Priest
New York Times ^ | March 28, 2011 | ERIK ECKHOLM

Posted on 03/29/2011 6:19:53 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg

Jesuit leaders in Chicago largely ignored or kept secret numerous reports, spanning four decades, that a prominent priest was sexually abusing teenage boys, lawyers for victims charged on Monday in a motion for punitive damages in a Chicago court.

Included in the motion were more than 65 recently obtained church documents and depositions that, the lawyers said, demonstrated “a reckless disregard for the safety of others in the face of repeated reports of sexual misconduct” on the part of Chicago Jesuit leaders.

The former priest, Donald J. McGuire, now 80, was convicted on several counts of sex abuse in state and federal courts in 2006 and 2008, and is serving a 25-year federal sentence.

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1 posted on 03/29/2011 6:19:55 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg
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Well good, he’s in jail. Right where he needs to be! His Superiors need to be lined up for a butt kicking!


2 posted on 03/29/2011 6:22:05 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: TSgt; RnMomof7; Alex Murphy; HarleyD; wmfights; Forest Keeper; the_conscience; Dutchboy88; ...
From the article...

For about two decades, starting in the early 1980s, he was a spiritual adviser to Mother Teresa, who put him in charge of retreats for the nuns in her worldwide order, Missionaries of Charity. Several times each year, in India, the United States, Russia and other countries, he led retreats for the sisters.

In these travels he routinely took along a teenage boy as an assistant, saying he needed help administering his diabetes treatment...

So here we learn this pederast priest was a "spiritual adviser to Mother Teresa" who took young boys with him on his trips around the world with her.

3 posted on 03/29/2011 6:22:55 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Hang the molesters and those that protected them. No ifs or butts.


4 posted on 03/29/2011 6:27:35 PM PDT by mewykwistmas
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To: SuziQ
His Superiors need to be lined up for a butt kicking!

His superiors are probably roasting in the afterlife, which is where they belong if they knowingly kept this guy stocked with young boys.

5 posted on 03/29/2011 6:29:28 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: mewykwistmas

Especially no the latter.

Been far too much of such in these situations for decades, if not centuries.


6 posted on 03/29/2011 6:34:34 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Yep, that, too. I shudder to think what THEY experienced when they met the Lord, at the time of their deaths.


7 posted on 03/29/2011 6:44:23 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

I’m glad that the case is so well documented. Flags on this guy were raised from the get go. Honestly he should never have made it through seminary. The Chicago Province dropped the ball to put it mildly. To put it harshly yes they should be held grossly negligent and pay whatever civil and criminal penalties are levied against them.


8 posted on 03/29/2011 6:50:49 PM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Here is a link to a transcript from a 2007 NPR program. I think it is about the same case.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15683354


9 posted on 03/29/2011 6:56:49 PM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Therei s a timeline in the article I posted the link to which is a bit easier to read if others don’t want to wade through the court docs from the Bishop Accountability site.


10 posted on 03/29/2011 6:59:42 PM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Former priest, Donald J. McGuire, later convicted of sexual abuse, above with John Doe 129 at his First Communion in 1985, in a photograph provided by John Doe 129.

11 posted on 03/29/2011 7:15:11 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Eckleburg



The
Anima
Christi


The Anima Christi is a prayer from around the 14th century.

It is still widely used after receiving the Body and Blood of Our Lord,
Jesus Christ in Holy Communion
.

Soul of Christ, sanctify me
Body of Christ, save me
Blood of Christ, inebriate me
Water from Christ's side, wash me
Passion of Christ, strengthen me
O good Jesus, hear me
Within Thy wounds hide me
Suffer me not to be separated from Thee
From the malicious enemy defend me
In the hour of my death call me
And bid me come unto Thee
That I may praise Thee with Thy saints

and with Thy angels
Forever and ever
Amen





"I love You, O my God, and my only desire is to love You until the last breath of my life. I love You, O my infinitely lovable God, and I would rather die loving You, than live without loving You. I love You, Lord and the only grace I ask is to love You eternally....My God, if my tongue cannot say in every moment that I love You, I want my heart to repeat it to You as often as I draw breath."

- Saint John Vianney.



12 posted on 03/29/2011 9:26:43 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

I hope that prayer was for the children raped by the priest in this story.


13 posted on 03/29/2011 9:54:47 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

It was for all people, including you.


14 posted on 03/29/2011 10:21:12 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: SuziQ

Most of the Jesuits need to be excommunicated.


15 posted on 03/30/2011 4:57:11 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

My guess is that his close association with Mother Theresa helped some in his order say, “No, not HIM! He’s DIFFERENT!” Mother Theresa was naive, a kind of spiritual naivete stemming from a caritas of spirit. The downside, though, is that people tended to create saints-by-association, such as Charles Keating, who is referred to by the monicker, the “Keating 5.”


16 posted on 03/30/2011 5:09:47 AM PDT by dangus
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Having read the lawsuit, there’s no way the order did not KNOW of problems.

FURTHER, Father Joseph Fessio was the whistle-blower at the USF. THIS is the bombshell. We Catholics who are fighting to improve the American Catholic Church know that name: he was squeezed out of the very heretical USF, where he then helped found another college (the name escapes me) in SF, before becoming founding provost at Ave Maria University. Was Fr. Fessio squeezed partly because of his whistle-blowing, not just his efforts at combatting heresy?


17 posted on 03/30/2011 5:32:55 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

The Jesuits have become notorious for their modernism. In truth the order should be suppressed. The problem is that they have many powerful friends in the Church, fellow modernists, including many in the Vatican, so we hear. John Paul II did not dare confront them because schism is not something beyond them. Pederasty is the least of their crimes against God. Yet among them are many good priests, though as rare as Republicans in the Massachusetts legislature.


18 posted on 03/30/2011 8:54:13 AM PDT by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Oooh, what I wouldn’t give to knock that smug, evil look off that creep’s face.


19 posted on 03/30/2011 11:26:40 AM PDT by mockingbyrd
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To: dangus

Interesting.

And wasn’t the other school Fr. Fessio tried to start The John Paul Insistute? Not to be confused with John Paul the Great college in San Diego.


20 posted on 03/30/2011 11:29:35 AM PDT by mockingbyrd
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