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Unmarked buildings, quiet legal help for accused priests
Miami Herald ^ | July 29, 2019 | MARTHA MENDOZA, JULIET LINDERMAN and GARANCE BURKE

Posted on 07/29/2019 7:39:26 PM PDT by ebb tide

Unmarked buildings, quiet legal help for accused priests

Stripped of their collars and cassocks, they went unnoticed in this tiny Midwestern town as they were escorted into a dingy warehouse across from an elementary school playground. Neighbors had no idea some of the dressed-down clergymen dining at local restaurants might have been accused sexual predators.

They had been brought to town by a small, nonprofit group called Opus Bono Sacerdotii. For nearly two decades, the group has operated out of a series of unmarked buildings in rural Michigan, providing money, shelter, transport, legal help and other support to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Catholic priests accused of sexual abuse across the country.

Again and again, Opus Bono has served as a rapid-response team for the accused.

When a serial pedophile was sent to jail for abusing dozens of minors, Opus Bono was there for him, with regular visits and commissary cash.

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: catholic; churchmilitant; francischurch; homos; hypocrites; opusbonosacerdotii; perrone; voris

1 posted on 07/29/2019 7:39:26 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: Al Hitan; Coleus; DuncanWaring; ebb tide; Fedora; Hieronymus; irishjuggler; Jaded; JoeFromSidney; ..

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2 posted on 07/29/2019 7:42:43 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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To: ebb tide

Even the most vile predatory pervert deserves a fair trial: Not for his protection so much as for the protection of the rest of us. Fair trials, due process, and the presumption of innocence are as much good for the innocent as they are for the guilty.


3 posted on 07/29/2019 7:43:57 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ebb tide

A den of rats.


4 posted on 07/29/2019 7:55:45 PM PDT by wetgundog (CNN is FAKE NEWS ...Just added NBC.)
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To: NorthMountain
Fair trials, due process, and the presumption of innocence are as much good for the innocent as they are for the guilty.

Where was the support from the Catholic Church for Cardinal Pell?

5 posted on 07/29/2019 8:06:26 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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To: ebb tide

“warehouse across from an elementary school playground. “

Well ok then.


6 posted on 07/29/2019 8:08:45 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Yea, I caught that too.

Monsters.

L


7 posted on 07/29/2019 8:11:27 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: NorthMountain
Your remarks are very important and well-stated. All the accused have a right to the presumption of innocence, and all the representation and due process afforded by law; as well as the respect accorded to any human being.

However there seems to be something crooked about this organization in terms of fraudulent fundraising, private appropriation of funds (embezzlement) and shielding known predators (already convicted, or for whom "settlements" with victims have been made) from ongoing legal consequences.

This is the first I've read of this organization, so I don't have any means of comparing it with other, possibly contrasting accounts. But the testimony of the founder's daughter and former co-worker or employee, Mary Rose Maher, seems particularly damaging.

If what this article says and implies is true, it's disgusting and shameful, and they need to accept public exposure and criminal prosecution.

If it's NOT true, they need to defend themselves effectively for their own protection, and for the sake of justice and truth for individuals who have been wrongly accused..

8 posted on 07/29/2019 8:22:16 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("For peace within your gates, speak truth and judge with sound judgment." - Zechariah 8:16)
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To: ebb tide

The lack of support for Cardinal Pell was and is a huge injustice. I dare say it was and is the stuff of mortal sin.


9 posted on 07/30/2019 5:52:21 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

My browser pukes every time I try to visit the Miami Herald, so I can’t read the whole article. The importance of fairness and honest due process doesn’t negate the possibility that evil people may misuse such to protect the guilty from the justice they deserve.


10 posted on 07/30/2019 5:56:07 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ebb tide

I’ve lived in rural Michigan. People are heavily armed, and have a strong sense of justice.

They had better hope their location remains a secret.


11 posted on 07/30/2019 6:16:28 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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"They had better hope their location remains a secret."

That very secrecy implies something underhanded.

I know Louisiana requires convicted sex offenders to publicly announce (publication of photograph and residence address in the newspaper of record) their presence in a community, and repeat the announcement if they change residences. Does not Michigan???

12 posted on 07/30/2019 9:41:16 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: ebb tide

I wonder if they’re offering their services to Fr. Eduard Perrone.

Probably not.

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/traditional-detroit-priest-categorically-denies-abuse-allegations


13 posted on 07/30/2019 10:25:04 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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