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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They don't have cities here.
I remember it, but that was written in 1882 - 80 years before the 1960s.
Well, I'm obviously not as old as you. But the 60s is when communism went mainstream in the US.
“They don’t have cities here.”
How many “cathedrals” are NOT located in cities? Earlier you said, “This area has beautiful old Catholic cathedrals and churches...empty, nearly empty and “repurposed””.
Make up your mind. Are there “cathedrals”? Cathedrals are commonly located in cities.
“Well, I’m obviously not as old as you.”
You might be much older than I am. I just can make a logical argument and could do that when I was young too.
“But the 60s is when communism went mainstream in the US.”
And the 1950s and 60s is when people moved to the suburbs. So?
Try the LCMS (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) You will not find any of that garbage.
Well, we have two cathedrals in Portland. We have a Basilica in Lewiston Maine.
“Well, we have two cathedrals in Portland.”
And that’s a city. See how that works? Also, you have exactly one actual Catholic cathedral in Portland, Maine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_the_Immaculate_Conception_(Portland,_Maine)
Here’s how the population dropped from 1950 until 1980:
1950 77,634
1960 72,566
1970 65,116
1980 61,572
Although the population has increased since 1980 it is still not as large as it was in 1950.
“We have a Basilica in Lewiston Maine.”
Irrelevant. A basilica isn’t necessarily a cathedral and a cathedral isn’t necessarily a cathedral.
61,572 (our biggest population center)
Big whoop, it's a town.
Don't much care, I'm not a Catholic, but they are all pretty empty, wherever they are.
My grandmother left "the church" in the 1940s, in Germany, because of the faggot boy-raping priests.
Well there you have it.
“Big whoop, it’s a town.”
City. Dropped by many thousands in population - just like I said.
“Don’t much care, I’m not a Catholic, but they are all pretty empty, wherever they are.”
Nope. Where I live they are packed to the rafters. Every pew full for at least 4 out of 5 Sunday Masses. The last Mass is about one-third to one-half full, but since it’s a 5PM Mass on Sunday that’s not much of a surprise.
“My grandmother left “the church” in the 1940s, in Germany, because of the faggot boy-raping priests.”
I doubt it. Maybe she liked the Nazis better.
Not every cathedral is a basilica. But everything you said was incorrect. That’s how it will stay.
They murdered some of my family in the concentration camps.
“They murdered some of my family in the concentration camps.”
But not your grandmother.
Just WHICH lies are you referring to?
Is it time for the 'naughty' pope list?
Any hooky?
Your doubts and assumptions are pretty insulting; even for a member of the One True Church.
Nope, just hockey. Actually, the city of Crookston, mentioned in the thread, is 23 miles from Grand Forks, ND. There is a Catholic high school there, called Crookston Cathedral. As far as I know, it is still there. I went to a catholic high school in Grand Forks. We played them in hockey. We hated them, and they hated us, or at least on the hockey rink.
My Catholic high school went defunct in 1969. I went "defunct" in 1970, if you catch my drift. 😀😄😆😇😊😃
I don't know if this priest had anything to do with Crookston Cathedral high school.
That's between him and God. He has proven to be dangerous to children and that's not something that goes away. Anyone who is willing to rape a child once WILL do it again. For the safety of the flock wolfs can not be permitted to run free.
Remember the Coyote and the Scorpion. It in is his nature.
But you said, “Let no one speak his name, shun him and let God smite him on judgement day.”
Is that what is supposed to be done to a man who repents? I have no problem with never allowing him to work as a priest again. I have no problem with keeping him away from minors forever. But what you’re recommending - “Let no one speak his name, shun him and let God smite him on judgement day” - is not what comes with sincere repentance.
God will judge his sincerity. The fact that he still wants to be a priest and have the access to kids that comes with it implies that his contrition is less than complete.
Note I said "let" God smite him. I did not "will".
Anyway he is not the problem it is the authorities in the church who are accepting the risk to the kids. They have no right to do so. I guess prudence is not longer a virtue.
Would any answer I give really prompt you to question your assumptions? I doubt it.
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