Posted on 02/06/2021 11:39:36 AM PST by ebb tide
NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Crisis Hits America’s Seminary at the Vatican and New York Archdiocese
Shocking Clerical Sexual Misconduct and Cover-Up Exposed in Major Lawsuit
NEW YORK, February 3, 2021 An explosive $125 million Complaint was filed in a lawsuit on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 by Manhattan attorney Raymond W. Belair of Belair & Associates P. C. in New York State Supreme Court on behalf of former seminarian Anthony Gorgia. The lawsuit names New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan; the Archdiocese of New York; the Pontifical North American College (NAC), the U.S. seminary in Vatican City; the NAC rector, Illinois-priest Father Peter Harman; the NAC vice-rector, Washington D.C.-priest Father Adam Park; and others as shocking allegations of clerical misconduct and cover-up are revealed in graphic detail.
A press-release video explaining the lawsuit is available at: https://youtu.be/2k_C6Ij2-9U
A press-release video explaining the lawsuit is also available in Italian at: https://youtu.be/G2C6f21xdvA
The Complaint can be accessed at:
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=VQhEtLkS/cF_PLUS_a4QyW6Ba_PLUS_g==
In addition to alleging misconduct toward subordinates on the part of Fathers Park and Harman, both of whom have ties to disgraced and accused-predator U.S. bishops; the lawsuit recounts reprisals Gorgia suffered as a result of not being complicit with misconduct by the vice-rector. The lawsuit also implicates Cardinal Dolan in a massive cover-up for these defendants and a career-long pattern of covering up abuse and retaliating against whistleblowers.
While Boston’s Cardinal Seán O’Malley and other U.S. bishops responded by reporting the accusations against Dolan and NAC officials to the Washington-based Apostolic Nuncio as early as May of 2020, it appears that the Vatican is covering up the bombshell allegations about to be exposed.
Gorgia is only one of hundreds of other seminarians retaliated against for not being complicit with misconduct permeating their seminaries. Until today, many of these seminarians left quietly without ever revealing what they suffered. Gorgia and his attorneys become among the first to hold accountable Church leaders who have victimized seminarians through a landmark case-in-the-making.
As scandalous revelations surround America’s Vatican-based seminary and the New York Archdiocese, many closeted bishops and priests about to be named may be outed, with graphic descriptions of gay clerical sex contained in the evidence that has been compared by some to the shocking details of abuse of minors found in the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report.
While Spotlight achieved colossal results by exposing clerical abuse of minors, experts are confident that the lawsuit filed today marks the beginning of “Spotlight-II,” with scores of victimized seminarians and priests about to come forward with overwhelming accounts that will shatter the long-standing “culture of silence.”
Please direct all media inquiries to Raymond W. Belair, Esq., Belair & Associates, P.C. via telephone, 212-344-3900, or via email, rwbjd@aol.com
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I was boiling, the only reason I didn't walk out in the middle of that letter was because my wife would have been embarrassed. Up until then I kept feeling like the church could be changed from within if good people worked to save it but that letter broke me. It was clear to me that the hierarchy in the church cared only about making sure the party never ended. I didn't walk out but I haven't been back since. Or rather, barely. I feel out of communion with the RC Church. I just don't know if I'll ever truly feel it's my home again.
Then the Father showed Him all of the people who would suffer for Him in the future. He saw a parade of regular people and saints that we know. It was then that He agreed to go through with the suffering.
It is a very difficult thing to watch supposed men of God do evil things, but we have to remember that we are only called to be faithful to Him, not to a priest who has lost his way.
Can you imagine how difficult it was for Jesus to face His torture and death knowing that it would all be lost on his priests who turned their backs on Him?
I guess I’d like to see more evidence than a claim from some lawyer.
ML/NJ
Who’s the other goofball?
He looks vaguely familiar.
Lots of sensationalism, bombshell, etc, and not a single fact.
You obviously did not read the Complaint.
I did read it. Basically this guy was scandalized, not abused, but all this is hearsay. Could be all true, but millions when he resigned of his own accord?
I’m not so quick to throw people under the bus as you are, with knee jerk reactions to anyone hinting “gay” based on inflammatory language by a lawyer and LifeSite admitting
“LifeSiteNews was unable to find corroboration for this story.”
You seem to feel the need to criticize anything I post, with or without reason.
Oh, you’ve given me plenty of reasons. Don’t undersell yourself.
He didn’t resign of his own accord. He was unjustly refused readmission to the NAC after an excused medical leave.
This article is from the Remnant Newspaper, not LifeSite News. Nor is LifeSite News mentioned in this article.
Somebody has a chip on her shoulder.
He’s the one who brought the pot to the party.
The same story is posted here on FR from LifeSite.
Yet you carry grudges across threads. Not unusual for you.
Not sure why you keep making personal attacks? I don’t think my comments merit your accusative put-downs.
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