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The Vatican Just Put a Convicted Rapist Back in a Parish
Daily Beast ^ | 04/23/2016 | Barbie Latza Nadeau

Posted on 04/24/2016 7:07:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

ROME — Just what is it that the Vatican does not get about predator priests? Apparently a lot.

Father Joseph Jeyapaul is a priest from India who admitted to raping two adolescent girls in Minnesota when he served the Crookston diocese from 2004 to 2005.

After being charged with the abuse, which included rape and forcing at least one of the girls to perform fellatio on him, he fled home to India, where he was eventually arrested on an Interpol warrant. He was then extradited back to Minnesota, where he admitted his heinous crimes and entered a plea bargain in which, in exchange for a lighter sentence, he copped to molestation of one of the girls.

Jeyapaul was suspended from the priesthood and served a year and a day in prison in Minnesota, then was deported back to India after his release last July. The Minnesota diocese where he worked also settled a civil lawsuit with the victims in which one accused him of systematic abuse in the confessional of the Blessed Sacrament Church in Greenbush, Minnesota, where he would then tell the girl it was her fault, that she had made him “impure.”

How much more proof would one need that the man cannot be trusted with minors?

Apparently, Jeyapaul’s rap sheet is not enough to kick him out of the priesthood for good. In February, the Vatican approved lifting his suspension from the priesthood and agreed that he could be reassigned to a new parish in India. That parish even made him the diocesan head of its commission for education.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: crookston; epa; globalwarminghoax; india; josephjeyapaul; minnesota; parish; popefrancis; rapist; romancatholicism; vatican
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

“Actually they kicked all the parisioners out of “The Church”. This area has beautiful old Catholic cathedrals and churches...empty, nearly empty and “repurposed” When?
Starting in the 60s, when the Soviets began the American “cultural revolution” and subsequently won.”

No doubt Leftism infected the members of the Church, but parishes shut down in America for two reasons:

1) Inner city parishes shut down because the parishioners moved to the suburbs in the 1950s onward. No people = no parish.

2) Contraception. If Catholics had not adopted contraception, there would be tens of millions more than there are now and all the parishes would be filled to overflowing.

“Do you not remember “God is dead”?”

I remember it, but that was written in 1882 - 80 years before the 1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead


61 posted on 04/24/2016 12:17:37 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: DesertRhino

Jesus never promised his church would be full of sinless people.


62 posted on 04/24/2016 1:07:02 PM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: Jarhead9297

And without true contrition and an intent to amend your life, your confession would be invalid and worthless. So you’re wrong.


63 posted on 04/24/2016 1:07:53 PM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: metmom
"Men with moral issues" are the only kind there are in this life.

Unless you're speaking in coded terms of homosexuals, in which case I agree with you. Men with *that* particular set of moral issues don't belong in the priesthood.

64 posted on 04/24/2016 1:09:28 PM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: SeekAndFind
The Vatican Just Put a Convicted Rapist Back in a Parish

What's this got to do with correct theology??

Catholic_Wannabe_Dude(Hail Mary!!!)

65 posted on 04/24/2016 1:25:28 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: NRx
Priests can be laicized for serious offenses.

Galatians 5:12 New International Version (NIV)
As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

66 posted on 04/24/2016 1:27:22 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: NRx
He should have been given a choice between being defrocked or ...

...detached.

67 posted on 04/24/2016 1:27:48 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Campion
Jesus never promised his church would be full of sinless people.

No He didn't but God gave us clear instructions in His word on what to do with immorality in the midst of the church and what the qualifications for leadership should be.

The Catholic church is not following the instructions that are in the Bible they claim they wrote.

It's rank hypocrisy.

They are disobedient to God and will have to answer for it.

And the cavalier way Catholics dismiss the reprehensible behavior of their priests is disgusting.

68 posted on 04/24/2016 1:28:43 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: irish guard
Pretty sure you meant rein not reign.

Sometimes a cigar IS a cigar!

69 posted on 04/24/2016 1:28:44 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: shelterguy

Go back - speak UP!


70 posted on 04/24/2016 1:30:27 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Poison Pill
Every religion is a criminal organization in the sense that they perpetuate lies for money and get to operate tax free.

They DO?

So you've researched ALL of them and found that EVERYTHING they promote is lies.

HMMMmmm...

Somewhere along the line you've gotten hurt by some 'religion' and have now tarred them all with the same brush.


But; I could be mistaken in my assessment of the situation.

71 posted on 04/24/2016 1:33:14 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Campion
Jesus never promised his church would be full of sinless people.

Jesus never promised a lot of things; but that has not stopped Rome from conjuring them up.

72 posted on 04/24/2016 1:34:47 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
So you've researched ALL of them and found that EVERYTHING they promote is lies.

I didn't say everything every religion promotes is a lie. I said they all perpetuate lies for money, which is true.

73 posted on 04/24/2016 1:40:20 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: SeekAndFind

So it does go all the way to the top...


74 posted on 04/24/2016 1:51:42 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Mrs. Don-o
He and his enablers need to face much more serious consequences. Yes, and his enablers, church and state, all of them.

You're gonna be going up the ladder a pretty good ways.

75 posted on 04/24/2016 2:04:27 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: vladimir998
Don’t assume the pope approved this action. He may not even know about it.

And yet he may...If he is not informed someone should inform him...And if he does not reverse the decision, he's just as guilty as the priest...

76 posted on 04/24/2016 2:05:54 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool

We know.

How could the pope not find out?

As a matter of fact, since he is the head over the organization, he is responsible for the behavior of those under him.

The pope not knowing is NOT an excuse.


77 posted on 04/24/2016 2:42:33 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Campion

There’s a world of difference between struggling with temptation and engaging in sin.

Scripture doesn’t say that men who struggle with temptation can’t fill the office to which they are called.

It DOES say that if they engage, they are disqualified.

Catholic defense of this as *everyone does it*, *they’re just a sinner like everyone else*, etc, is disgusting.


78 posted on 04/24/2016 2:45:16 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom; Campion
Campion:

"Unless you're speaking in coded terms of homosexuals, in which case I agree with you."

Metmom, you don't seem to have noticed that campion was agreeing with you, at the very least to this extent.

79 posted on 04/24/2016 3:10:11 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Do you mean now?" -- Yogi Berra, when asked for the time.)
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To: SeekAndFind; metmom; MHGinTN

I grew up 20 miles from Crookston. Played a lot of hockey there.


80 posted on 04/24/2016 3:43:32 PM PDT by Mark17 (I traded my shackles for a glorious song. I'm free, praise the Lord, free at last.)
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