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  • Friends Amid Scandals [Giuliani and (alleged) Pedophile Priest]

    11/27/2007 3:12:15 PM PST · by calcowgirl · 1 replies · 137+ views
    TIES THAT BIND Against the advice of some of his campaign advisers, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has kept a suspended Catholic priest and childhood friend on the payroll of Giuliani Partners as a consultant. The priest has been caught up in the continuing sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. Msgr. Alan Placa, who was suspended from his priestly duties back in 2002 and who has also served as a practicing attorney, has worked on a consulting basis with Giuliani Partners. In 2003 a grand jury in Suffolk County, New York, accused Placa of sexually abusing multiple victims....
  • Giuliani Defends, Employs Priest Accused of Molesting Teens

    10/23/2007 9:27:58 AM PDT · by BGHater · 135 replies · 191+ views
    ABC News ^ | 23 Oct 2007 | BRIAN ROSS and AVNI PATEL
    Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani hired a Catholic priest to work in his consulting firm months after the priest was accused of sexually molesting two former students and an altar boy and told by the church to stop performing his priestly duties. The priest, Monsignor Alan Placa, a longtime friend of Giuliani and the priest who officiated at his second wedding to Donna Hanover, continues to work at Giuliani Partners in New York, to the outrage of some of his accusers and victims' groups, which have begun to protest at Giuliani campaign events. "This man did unjust things, and he's being...
  • Giuliani Has Connection With Accused Priest

    07/22/2007 3:08:25 PM PDT · by hardback · 335 replies · 7,913+ views
    Worcester Telegram ^ | 7/22/7 | Shaun Sutner
    Republican presidential candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani has close ties to a Catholic priest accused of sexually molesting boys and who also was the lawyer for a now-closed Whitinsville counseling house for troubled priests that has been described as the center of a pedophile sex ring. Monsignor Alan J. Placa, who works for Mr. Giuliani’s consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, was legal adviser in the 1980s to the House of Affirmation, where priests accused of sexual abuse were sent for psychotherapy and other counseling services. The center closed in 1987 amid a financial scandal. Monsignor Placa, who while an active priest arranged...
  • Giuliani has connection with accused priest (Pedophilia)

    07/22/2007 3:41:12 PM PDT · by calcowgirl · 418+ views
    Worcester Telegram ^ | July 22, 2007 | Shaun Sutner
    Giuliani has connection with accused priest Placa was legal adviser for Whitinsville center Republican presidential candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani has close ties to a Catholic priest accused of sexually molesting boys and who also was the lawyer for a now-closed Whitinsville counseling house for troubled priests that has been described as the center of a pedophile sex ring. Monsignor Alan J. Placa, who works for Mr. Giuliani’s consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, was legal adviser in the 1980s to the House of Affirmation, where priests accused of sexual abuse were sent for psychotherapy and other counseling services. The center closed in...
  • No Wafer for Rudy - Giuliani campaigns as a Catholic, but he's on the outs with God

    06/27/2007 12:52:57 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 79 replies · 1,790+ views
    Village Voice ^ | 6/26/07 | Wayne Barrett
    When Pope Benedict XVI attacked Catholic politicians in Mexico who supported abortion rights last month, Rudy Giuliani was asked for his opinion. The presidential candidate replied in the language of the church: "Issues like that are for me and my confessor. I'm a Catholic, and that's the way I resolve those issues, personally and privately." Giuliani has invoked his Catholic heritage on Larry King; he's been described by The Washington Post as a "devout Catholic"; he's appeared on Fox News with the label "Catholic" floating on-screen; and he's handled a CNN debate question about a bishop who denounced him with...
  • Village Voice: No Wafer for Rudy(Giuliani on the outs with God)

    06/27/2007 2:51:49 PM PDT · by Mrs. Don-o · 23 replies · 1,019+ views
    Village Voice ^ | June 26th, 2007 | Wayne Barrett
    When Pope Benedict XVI attacked Catholic politicians in Mexico who supported abortion rights last month, Rudy Giuliani was asked for his opinion. The presidential candidate replied in the language of the church: "Issues like that are for me and my confessor. I'm a Catholic... Married three times, Giuliani simply isn't the Catholic candidate he claims to be. He can't have a confessor. He can't receive the sacraments of penance, the Eucharist, or marriage. While bishops disagree about whether or not a Catholic politician who supports abortion rights can receive the sacraments, there is no disagreement about the consequences of divorcing...
  • Group Wants Giuliani Priest Pal Fired (Priest has been accused of abuse, works for Rudy)

    06/23/2007 9:56:53 AM PDT · by wagglebee · 17 replies · 1,760+ views
    NewsMax ^ | 6/22/07 | AP
    Advocates for victims of abuse by Catholic clergy on Friday urged presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani to fire a priest who was suspended from the church and then hired by the ex-mayor's security consulting business. A spokeswoman for Giuliani said the firm had no plans to fire Monsignor Alan Placa. Placa, a childhood friend of Giuliani's, has defended himself for years over allegations in a 2003 Suffolk County grand jury report that detailed decades-old abuses by priests in the Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y. None of the priests were ever prosecuted or even identified because statutes of limitations had expired long...
  • For Giuliani, 9/11 Led to Riches

    05/13/2007 5:43:49 AM PDT · by Knitting A Conundrum · 7 replies · 463+ views
    Kerry Fox Live ^ | 3/13/07 | Kerry Fox
    On Dec. 7, 2001, nearly three months after the terrorist attack that had made him a national hero and a little over three weeks before he would leave office, New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani took the first official step toward making himself rich. The letter he dispatched to the city Conflicts of Interest Board that day asked permission to begin forming a consulting firm with three members of his outgoing administration. The company, Giuliani said, would provide “management consulting service to governments and business” and would seek out partners for a “wide-range of possible business, management and financial services”...