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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Is there no end to this ???
The picture in the articles gives me the willies.. a little altar boy being hugged by his abuser
I do not think so..I think the practice was so wide spread there was no reason not to ordain him ...he was one of the guys
That SOUNDS right.
>> John Paul the Great College <<
It would be totally wrong to compare that to UCLA the Over-rated College, right?
I think you are referencing the Ignatian Institute at USF. I think it is also now unreliable because the Jesuit superiors in California would not tolerate even a minor restoration of actual Catholic scholarship at USF.
Smarmy bunch, aren't they?
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