[Angelas]

I wish we had known!

When I did my taxes, I had many canceled checks made out to Newman House as proof that any requests for masses or novenas went into his pockets, not the parish's.

When some parishioners gave Brother Joshua (a seminarian that resides at Newman House when school is out)a Christmas gift, there was a scathing announcement in the bulletin that all gifts need to be made out to Newman House. This kid can't enjoy a Christmas present without Father Stravinskas pocketing the money. If he is guilty, I pray that he will not be sent to another parish to deplete all of their money. That is what the church did during the "first scandal", just move priests around. We have him and the Archbishop that brought him here from PA to thank for the loss of our parish if this happens. All of his lavish improvements will be for naught.

[Petskelis]

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[Palladin]

This is only the tip of the iceberg of the "new" scandal, which is a financial scandal to equal the sexual scandal.

For thirty years of the sexual scandal, the offenders were "treated" and sent on to other parishes or other dioceses where they were unknown and could find new victims.

Now a pattern is emerging similar to that one, where embezzlers are allowed to set up their own cozy little "fraternities" and "oratories" and "societies" --of course, with all checks made out to them, not the parish, not the diocese--and after they milk one place dry, it's on to the next.

Many of these embezzlers embrace the homosexual lifestyle and use their church funds to indulge in vacations in the Bahamas, weekends in Vegas, buying trinkets for their "boys"--like new cars and gold jewelry-- and when anyone in the parish objects, the whistleblowers are smeared by the Lavender gangs and their flunkies.

This happened recently to my brother-in-law's parish in Queens, New York. It is the new scam--the new disgrace of the Church.

Wherever ther's a Bishop dopey enough, or senile enough, or corrupt enough, to let them in.