The first story comes from a June 6 story in the Stockton RecordNet.com. The second comes from a February 3 on the same website by Michael Fitzgerald.
The Diocese of Stockton is considering filing for bankruptcy after years of paying millions of dollars to settle child sex abuse lawsuits.
“We pretty much have depleted the resource funds that we have,” said Sister Terry Davis, a spokeswoman for the diocese that oversees Catholic parishes in San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Calaveras and Tuolumne counties.
“And at this point, everything is on the table for consideration,” she said.
Talk of bankruptcy surfaced during negotiations of a lawsuit that was settled Monday for $1.75 million involving notorious defrocked priest Oliver O’Grady.
The plaintiff in the case, known as John J.S. Doe, filed suit in 2009 in Stanislaus County Superior Court. He was a victim of O’Grady in the 1980s, according to the diocese.
O’Grady, who has admitted to sexually abusing 25 children, has left a path of legal claims against the diocese since being criminally convicted in 1993 for molesting two Turlock brothers.
The diocese paid $7 million to the brothers, John and James Howard, in a subsequent civil suit and millions more in settling complaints that followed.
Davis said the diocese is not disclosing the total amount of damages the diocese has paid in settling sex abuse cases at this time….
To read entire bankruptcy story, click here.
Mahony the very rot at core of Church
By Michael Fitzgerald
In my time, I have met killers, swindlers, perverts, corrupt politicians and all manner of toads. How ironic I met one of the worst on an altar.
I was a Catholic student and altar boy who served high Mass in Annunciation Cathedral with then-Bishop Roger Mahony. Oh, the majesty! The spiritual authority!
Mahony, retired head of the Diocese of Los Angeles, was stripped of any administrative and public church duties last week. Newly released Catholic sex abuse files show His Excellency covered for molesters and lied like a rug.
Mahony was bishop of Stockton from 1980 to 1985. Years during which omnivorous hyenas such as Father Oliver O’Grady were using Stockton diocese children for sex toys.
When foot-dragging lay authorities finally investigated O’Grady, wide-eyed Mahony said he had no idea O’Grady was a pedophile – though the diocese had a sub secreto confidential personnel file on him as thick as a phone book.
Mahony knew. He knew O’Grady had molested children in Lodi. So he transferred him to Presentation Parish in Stockton. He turned that abomination loose here.
In 1984, O’Grady confessed to his counselor that he’d had sex with yet another child (in reality, he was molesting a host of others with a freakish appetite). The counselor, doing what Mahony lacked the moral fiber to do, turned him in.
Stockton police investigated. They had the goods on O’Grady. But the genuflecting saps dropped the case after Mahony promised to keep O’Grady away from children.
So Mahony transferred O’Grady to San Andreas. No children there, right?
Just as O’Grady’s outrages were becoming undeniable, Mahony was promoted to bishop of Los Angeles. He got away. His last order of business was to come back for O’Grady’s trial in Stockton and lie on the stand….
To read entire Fitzgerald piece, click here.
In a list of the worst men alive today, where would Mahony be placed? How would Mahony stack up against Charles Manson? Which one destroyed the most souls?
that is something too chilling to ponder…please, it really shocks my sense of decent shame and sensibility…thanks Skai, good point
Skai,
That is any easy one to answer. Manson killed bodies, Mahony killed souls! How do you think God will view the two?
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
These stories are extremely difficult to take in … A lot of intense and angry emotions well up inside me … I begin to have visions of a hangman’s knot being tied, then it fades away.
I agree Skai. Don’t fret my brother in Christ. Your feelings are reasonable because what had occurred can not be taken lightly. Wondering why these men did not take proper action, what conditioned them to take things so lightly? I try to look at the root. Maybe the watering down of Catholicism in the Church has made many weak of Character. Maybe the way they were raised. Something deeper but we can’t try to figure those things out because we hold little power over those things but the church needs to re-examine how it handles things and how watering down the faith has contributed to that.
The scandals through out the years have kept showing us over and over that things have not really changed, mankind has not taken full responsibility for the mistakes. It’s probably easier to just brush it under the rug. We have had a wonderful Pope and now a new Pope. There is hope, there is always hope and our prayers done in love, setting aside anger and other mixed emotions but praying with our heavy hearts to our loving God. All done with love and humility.
Abeca,
The Magisterium needs to re-examine how it chooses men for the Episcopacy!
Sanctity should be number one, perhaps ability to organize number 10!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Abeca,
As She commanded, Russia must be Consecrated to Her Immaculate Heart. Nothing else will work!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
I once told the TV anchorman who was interviewing me that if Mahony did indeed cover up for child molesters, he should be in prison. My estimation of the situation has even grown more intent.
For those who actually still think Gomez actually took action against Mahony. learn to think more about it!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Is this the same Cardinal Roger Mahony who still has priestly faculties ?
Is this the same Cardinal Roger Mahony who traveled to Rome to help select the new Pope?
Is this the same Cardinal Roger Mahony who orchestrated the largest “educational” congress in the world every year and invited mostly dissident speakers?
Is this the same Cardinal Roger Mahony who is happily bedded down in luxury this week at the Loew’s Bay Resort in Coronado for the American bishops’ meeting?
That he is still a welcome member of the Catholic hierarchy and that he is still a functioning priest, tells you everything you need to know about the integrity of the American Catholic bishops and Archbishop Gomez in particular. they have not merely lost their moral authority, they have abandoned it.
When Mahony dies, he will be given a glorious funeral and his revered remains will be entombed in the basement crypt at Our Lady Queen of Angels.
That is the one.
Well, yes, John C, about Mahony someday being entombed in a spectacular funeral and outrageous obsequies @ Our Lady of Angels Cathedral, but what a perfect monument to a perfectly awful record of a man: a cold, angular, entirely unsympathetic structure rising up like Nimrod’s Tower out of a post-modern nihilist-atheist city. Well done, good and faithful servant Mahoney! Well done, 21st century Pharoah!
Excellent comment!
John,
Yes, phoney baloney Mahony will be buried in the Crypt he built right along side of several pro-abortion, pro-sodomite public figures. You could not pay me to be buried in that Hell whole! If somehow I were to be buried there, I would ask Our Lord and His Mother for permission to haunt those responsible for it!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Bishop Stephen Blaire was installed as Bishop of Stockton in 1999 – 14 years ago.
A Bishop’s first responsibility is his own Diocese.
Instead of Blaire running around heading some USCCB Committees and putting forth his own liberal political ideas which are NOT a matter of Catholic FAITH or Doctrine,
his speaking at Commencement ceremonies of unfaithful Universities outside his Diocese (latest being – University of San Francisco 2013),
meeting and siding with the heretical LCWR leaders and NETWORKS Nuns on a Bus, etc., etc.,
he should have been paying more attention to what was happening within his own Diocese – unless he did not care.
Obviously there are enough Catholics who have left the Church in his Diocese that the Bishop is having trouble pay his Diocese debts. So much for shepherding activities and adhering to Church teaching.
CCC: ” 2411 Contracts are subject to commutative justice which regulates exchanges between persons and between institutions in accordance with a strict respect for their rights.
Commutative justice obliges strictly;
it requires safeguarding property rights, PAYING DEBTS, and fulfilling obligations freely contracted.
Without commutative justice, no other form of justice is possible.
One distinguishes commutative justice from legal justice which concerns what the citizen owes in fairness to the community, and from distributive justice which regulates what the community owes its citizens in proportion to their contributions and needs. “
Exactly what I was thinking, Matt. Good Bishop Blaire. Poor Bishop Blaire. I don’t see the good poor Bishop running to the interviews and the cameras for this issue.
US Cardinals Roger Mahony, Joseph Bernardin, and Abp Rembert Weakland are all a disgrace.
They each have caused the loss of Souls, and caused great Scandals, and continue to afflict our Church through their actions even though two are deceased.
Rather than teaching and adhering to the Doctrine of our Faith, they always did their own thing – and actively promoted liberal/marxist politics (Democratic Party) which was more important than Saving Souls as far as they were concerned.
Pope Francis, please start disciplining evil leaders within the Church.
We need discipline in the USA.
I believe that it is more appropriate for us to keep “liberal” church positions seperate from marxist positions. While there are many who believe in keeping the church on a very narrow “conservative” or orthodox road, there are many others who believe in keeping the church on a very narrow “liberal” or orthodox road. Neither should be mixed with either branch of national politics. I have many friends who say that you can’t be Catholic and Republican. I also have many friends who say that you can’t be Catholic and Democrat. Both miss the point. Both point out the divide rather than the wholeness of the church in America. It is a divide that is not good for the church and drives away good people on both sides. Our faith calls us to be orthodox in our beliefs. That means that we support well conducted NO masses and TLM masses and we support social justice for the marginalized. We need to do both and not think that one is better than the other or the enemy of the other. We are about saving souls. You can’t do that without doing both.
Bob One,
For once, I can agree with you! Although there is a strong connection between “liberal” and Marxist! I witnessed it first as an Officer in the California Young Democrats where I was the personal delegate of the late Congressman Clyde Doyle, D., then Ranking Member of the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Tell your Friends that to be Catholic one must adhere to the Doctrine of the Faith, as stated in the Bible, and the “Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition”, and from the Magisterium.
Otherwise they may be listening to false teaching and inaccurate media statements.
(Remember that the Magisterium is not individual Bishops, nor Bishops’ Conferences. The Magisterium is the Pope and those Bishops in communion with him.)
You are correct that both Forms of the Mass are Holy.
However, ORTHODOXY of FAITH is REQUIRED.
QUOTE – – – CCC: ” 2518 The sixth beatitude proclaims, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”
“Pure in heart” refers to those who have attuned their intellects and wills to the demands of God’s holiness, chiefly in three areas:
charity;
chastity or sexual rectitude;
love of truth and ORTHODOXY of FAITH.
There is a connection between purity of heart, of body, and of faith:
The faithful must believe the articles of the Creed “so that by believing they may obey God, by obeying may live well, by living well may purify their hearts, and with pure hearts may understand what they believe. ” – – – UNQUOTE.
(caps are mine)
Matt,
No one asked those of us who suffered under Blaire about his appointment. Had they done so, they would have gotten an ear full!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Matt,
I was close to both Fr. Charles Fiore and Fr. Malachi Martin. The stories I could tell you that they told me about Bernadin and Mahony would make you lose your hair.
Regarding Rembert, his evil record is now public!
I must say that Bernardin was a demonic person from everything I’ve read, Kenneth. Wasn’t it he that introduced taking communion in the hand? And girl altar servers? And undermining the TLM and introducing drums etc. ? That was nothing compared to his behind the scenes activities and having watched an older Michael Voris video just now on the paper by the Polish priest exposing the terrible homomafia that is destroying the Church around the world I would ask, when is enough enough? When are men going to start being men and fighting back against this evil? I know you have all your life, Kenneth, but how do we wake up the average man in the pew? If the Knights of Columbus, for example, would become involved, it would change the imbalanced nature of these homoheretics and the truly frightening agenda they’re perpetuating. It is truly satanic. Crdl mahony was a follower of bernardin, wasn’t he? If you haven’t watched Michael Voris today, or read the report given to Pope Benedict Emeritus, you should.
Michael Fitzgerald is simply pointing out sad truth. He does it forcefully and without respect for the cardinal, who obviously deserves little or no respect from anyone. The damage he did to the Church was far more than the dollars paid to victims of the priests Mahony mismanaged. His being stripped of duties and then allowed to confirm children is nothing short of a disgrace, and the new archbishop has, in allowing that, proven himself to be irresponsible and unfit to lead. Evildoers by commission or omission on the scale of the cardinal should not be allowed to serve in any capacity.
Common sense demands the archbishop to stay with his original policy and retire Mahony for good. He still has not accepted the full measure of responsibility for the harm done to the victims through his negligence.
Roger Mahony should be in prison.
Bwangi Kilonzo,
I second, third and fourth the Motion!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
His ring needs to be broken … both rings, maybe all three of them: his pedo ring, his episcopal ring, and his masonic ring (if he is a mason).
Cardinal Mahony allowed an unrepentant serial child killer, James McMahon, to receive a Catholic funeral and respectable internment at Mahony’s Holy Cross Cemetery in the section called Field of Martyrs. McMahon had paid the $5000 so that got him in.
After this great hypocrisy, I knew that Mahony was calloused and indifferent to the plight of children. I kept hoping that District Attorney Steve Cooley would prosecute him for criminal conduct and that Abp Gomez would defrock him.
This is the pervert pederast priest that was the “downfall” of Cdl Mahony…opened up the floodgates to ALL the other pederast’s in Mahony’s stable of perverts!
Fairly soon, the Catholic bishops will no longer depend upon the Pew People to finance their protected empires. They will depend on government and as a consequence, they will genuflect to the corrupt secular money holders.
The catechized 1950’s generation will die. The next generation, uncatechized, won’t care and won’t come to Mass. Churches will be empty and more dioceses will go into bankruptcy.
Yes, Ted…just like European bishops, who make Crd. ‘the’ Mahoney look like the veriest amateur. The really sad thing is, some bishops have become so worldly and ‘ugly’ that it takes a great deal of personal effort to want to pray for them, but that is what we are called to do, more than ever! I would rather see them repent than go to hell. As it is, they have no regret, no understanding of their callous disregard of the Jesus’ flock. When we hurt someone through our own sin we are hurting God’s loved creatures…how sad they apparently don’t see this. They’re enabling satan’s expansion of power to bring despair and evil to even more people.
Ted,
You are wrong! Just visit a Traditional Mass and you will witness a Church full of young, vital, Catholic families ready to take up the cry “Viva Cristo Rey!
I strongly recommend that you look up “The Siege of Czestochowa” on the TFP Website, and you will see that when it comes to Our Lord and His Mother, superior forces mean nothing!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
The TLM Mass attenders in the USA and Canada are a very small (but usually a faithful) group of Catholics – on a percentage basis.
Pope Benedict told us that the Church would be getting smaller (but more faithful).
Jesus told us about many falling away, betraying one another, false prophets, wickedness being multiplied, etc Mt 24:9-14.
Faithful Catholics attend both the Ordinary and/or Extraordinary (TLM) Forms of the Mass – Body and Blood of Christ.
It is common knowledge in Los Angeles that Cdl. Mahony made it fairly easy for many Catholic men and women to secure quickie “annulment’s…most annulment’s should never happen, this is another form of divorce…Mahony never preached against divorce or premarital sex, or how insidious and evil pornography and homosexuality was…my question is, why didn’t he?…this man is so steeped in corruption and worldliness that he was incapable against preaching against these horrific sinful activities…he was knee deep in protecting pedophiles and senseless immigration issues, and promoting the “gay” agenda in the Archdiocese…He has never once spoken publicly about the necessity of praying the rosary, never has he mentioned a single word about the merit’s of praying this superlative devotion!…again , why?… this is the most shameful and shocking excuse for a priest, in recent memory… and Cardinal no less! Sadly, he is just is another glaring symbol of the heresy of modernism…it’s perniciousness in the Church is well documented…it is like cholera…unseen and terribly destructive, and unless treated swiftly…it’s systemic effects become swift and grave…the only sure fire cure are the sacraments…this is a known antidote for curing this “spiritual disease”, that is much worse than cholera, aids or all the cancer cells combined…shocking, positively shocking
Check this one out…this degenerate O’Grady…actually receives a “PENSION” from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles…they send him his monthly check to his address in Ireland…gee, ain’t life grand folks!…(dripping with sarcasm)… Mahony and his wonderful powers of discernment were instrumental in helping push this diocese to the brink of bankruptcy…by letting monsters like this run amok, assaulting children…O’Grady is an ambulatory pile of “offal”…and I’m being charitable…
So, this is a surprise? The Catholic Church in America, and especially in CA, is a playground for homosexual sex by the clergy. (Yes, it is homosexual sex, not sex by any other name — only the self denying Church hierarchy refuse to say this. Of course, this same administration is heavily homosexual to begin with, so why the surprise?) The homosexual movement — not the change in sexual mores, generally — will be recorded as the ruination of the Catholic Church. Christ only promised that Hell will not “prevail” against the Church, not that its clergy would be holy. In fact, one needs be carefuly today around much of the clergy. Not only might they be homosexual, but they often know little about Catholicism! No wonder the CA bishops and American bishops hate Tradition. There have always been sexual priests, including homosexual sexual ones. But the Church today is simply a Lavender Palace, full of intrigue and assaults on the Faith by such practitioners. Much current literature suggests that the homosexual supporters are increasingly coming out of the closet, so to speak, advocating that “homosexual arrangements” are “acceptable” (so soon reversing Cardinal Ratzingers’s refutation of this principle, under Bl. John Paul II). Stockton likely deserves to go into bankruptcy. It already has a bankrupt bishop, who does little but attack political issues. Most bishops, in fact, are likely homosexual supporters (or at least not “offenders”). But, where is Pope Francis in all of this? It is nice to kiss babies, but he needs to sweep away so much rot — is he up to the task? The Holy Ghost will keep him from serious “Faith and Morals” error, but this sort of administrative power is something else indeed. He is a Jesuit, and has already shown himself to be very light regarding the liturgy, even giving the Papal blessing (which seems more like a simple waive). No, in 10 or 20 years there will simply be no more Church in many places; perhaps then the sodomites can succeed in gaining acceptance of a “Gene Robinson” type of Order. Yet, there is no alarm, no hue and cry. But, as a local VA pastor very recently ordered, there is not to be any genuflecting — this time at confirmation — as it is awkward and others may trip. If that is true, I have a bridge in NYC that needs a new owner.
” But the Church today is simply a Lavender Palace”: Pope Francis, according to UPI, just announced that there is a gay faction in the curia, and we need to get rid of it. Will sufficient souls rise to the occasion, one can only wonder at this point in popes saying the right thing but not much ever happening?
Yes Skai…you are correct…the “lavender lads” that sport a roman collar or religious habit need to be excised from the ministerial priesthood and religious communities forthwith! These low-life degenerates are the spiritual cancer that has become a scandalous blight within “holy mother church”…Mahony has been the ringleader of much of this “horror”…he continues to lend his odious presence to social media, as he spouts off in his clerics with about immigration and the “joys” of being a gay Catholic which is subtle code for his embrace of the sodomites and putrescent filth that continue to contaminate the Church… this man is the most vile, scandalous excuse for a priest since Urbain Grandier…in fact he looks saintly compared to Mahony!
Where do I begin?
YFC writes, “Where do I begin?”
Well for starters, how about a good confession for completely rejecting God’s Natural Law and for publicly supporting homosexual lifestyles and homosexual adoptions on a faithful Catholic website.
Catherine, do have training in spiritual direction?
Anonymous, you apparently do not know what spiritual direction consists of. All Catherine posted was common sense. But she certainly can post good spiritual things as well.
A deeper problem pops up in your post, Anonymous: Training in spiritual direction. That is the problem in a nutshell. Training in practical terms has fallen to simply robotic assembly line production. And consequently it has separated from its talent, from its gift. Cookie cutter priests or DREs or others are basically not worth much. Without the divine inspiration, no amount of “quality” of training is worth much. With divine inspiration, no training is ultimately needed. How many saints had poor training and yet accomplished almost inconceivably great spiritual works? The novus ordo branch of Catholicism is a cookie cutter type affair; the TLM produces holy individuals.
There is no such thing as a novus ordo branch of Catholicism. And a lot of people get really screwed up by people who think they are divinely inspired when they really are not.
If it is a faithful Catholic website, how come it ran an editorial supporting gay marriage?
God bless you Catherine. Pray tell, how do you know I didn’t do exactly that this morning?
I bet you didn’t YFC you are non servium
Amen!
BINGO!
I pray this has no effect on Central Catholic High School in Modesto!!!
A truly CATHOLIC high school in all ways.
Proud to say I’m a graduate of the school :)
Melo,
To confirm your above statements, let me tell you that the late Bishop Mark Hurley once told me that under Mahony you could get an annulment under “coffee grounds”! Bishop Hurley wanted nothing to do with Mahony and neither did my other late friend and spiritual father, Bishop Austin Vaughan. They told me so!
While I don’t believe these victims are entitled to become instant millionaires on the backs of the faithful in the pews, they certainly do deserve compensation.
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Maybe compensation could come out of the pockets of the bishops involved in the coverups, and not out of Church funds?
Elizabeth
Have you checked on Central Catholic High School in Modesto lately? Is it still what you remember it as?
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Cdl Mahony has been in denial for years…a truly tragic, pathetic and loathsome figure… a grim visage of maleficence…
“Denial”? You mean the same Cdl Mahony who evidence indicates has been running a temple prostitution ring with minor boys? And of whom the current Abp Gomez said that he had no excuse whatsoever? “Denial”?
Yeah, denial…he denies almost everything that he has been accused of doing, or not doing, that could cast him and his years as Archbishop under a “cloud of suspicion”…his obvious denial that he did everything possible to make the Archdiocese safe for children, is pretty ridiculous, in light of the fact he shuffled a number of known pedophiles around this archdiocese as well as one up north, AFTER it was admitted to him by the offending priest (s), that they in fact were guilty of child molestation!…you need to read the files that have been disclosed by court order…this should clear up any and all ambiguity senor…
Koh, I think you missed my point, which agrees with yours. Legally Mahony is denying; but he is not denying on any other level. Otherwise, Abp Gomez would not have said he has no excuse. “Denial” often means a psychological condition where a person reflexively denies something. “In denial” means such a condition. On the legal level, I think a more clear term would be “claiming ignorance”, or claiming the Fifth Amendment. In my view, Mahony was and may continue to be operating a temple prostitution ring. Other such rings have operated with high level church people involved with civic leaders and other powerful people. Why would such a thing be shut down without being forced to shut down? Odds seem it would be continuing in operation. Although it is possible that such a pedo ring could have been going on only within the clerical circle run by Mahony, don’t you think the likelihood would be more expansive? If so, then since the DA investigation over a couple years, how might the ring have morphed? How might it have hidden itself even more?
Denial is a defense mechanism one of the 8 primaries…I was stating that he was in “denial”…defense mechanism denial!…people will often insulate themselves from particularly traumatic information/knowledge as it may lead to a narcissistic injury, that would be psychologically overwhelming, leading to a “mental breakdown”…manifested by excessive anxiety, depression or worse…I have believed for a very long time that Cdl Mahony has strong antisocial traits…manifested by a “true” lack of empathy for the victim’s of sexual assault by his clergy…
Shades of Jerry Sandusky, Skai? All of this is so sordid and depressing.
Koh, there are others who would agree with you on the anti-social traits demonstrated by Mahony.
Good point, Dana. The Sandusky operation seems to have involved more pedos than Sandusky. Also a decade ago there was a TV docudrama about a large pedo ring with ground zero at a Christian Brothers orphanage in NY and or Montreal … city officials apparently were clients. Hope you didn’t miss my remark on another thread or elsewhere on this one about the Bohemian Grove … check it out.
Cardinal Mahoney should have turned Oliver O’Grady over to the police when he first found out. It seems that he was more interested in avoiding scandal and protecting his good name than he was in protecting children from a sexual predator. If he had turned in Oliver O’Grady he probably would have paid a price. If he had done that it is very likely that he wouldn’t have been sent to Los Angeles and named a Cardinal. But he would have saved a lot of people from pain.
Mahony, PA, was running the show … What don’t you get about the documents he eventually turned over to the DA? What don’t you get about Abp Gomez saying the next day that there is not excuse whatsoever for Mahony? What don’t you get about “temple prostitution”, PA?
Skai, your comments about Cardinal Mahoney operating a “temple prostitution ring” is outrageous and over the top. While it is clear that Mahoney covered up for child abusers and moved these men around to protect them (the priests not the children), what he did was pretty much common practice in many dioceses. If he had been doing what you said, he would have long ago been defrocked. What Cardinal Mahoney allowed was bad enough you don’t have to make up stuff to juice up the story.
Cdl Roger Mahony allowed sexual child rape (abuse) to continue on an ongoing basis. He was an enabler. He had it in his power to discipline and even defrock Priests and did NOT do so.
This also allowed sexual deviants to continue inside the Church in the USA.
CCC: ” 1868 Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them:
– by participating directly and voluntarily in them;
– by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them;
– by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so;
– by protecting evil-doers. ”
Mahony purposely violated Jesus teaching in Sacred Scripture: Mark 9:42-50 ” But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea. ”
There are no excuses.
Then after Mahony got caught, the government forced him to pay retribution (using faithful peoples’ diocese money and assets). In LA alone it was approx. $660 MILLION, some of which he took from the dead – contractual money paid for the perpetual maintenance of cemeteries.
PA, here is how that temple prostitution ring worked (or continues to work): the priests involved were shuffled around to keep them producing money for the archdioce. Also, Mahony (the archdiocese) had to pay 660 million dollars, quite a steep price for running a ho house, wouldn’t you think, PA?
Skai, your characterization of the Catholic Church in your post of 6/13 3:12 PM strikes me as anti-Catholic.
PA, perhaps you should open your mind to facts, and how badly the Church has been corrupted by the gay mafia, as hard as that may be for you to accept
Hey, the financial bankruptcy of Stockton is small beans compared to the possible bankruptcy of Oakland. We’re talking perhaps $100 mil. Better get the popcorn as the financial meltdown of AmChurch outlets follow their moral degradation. What fruitless appeals to chanceries, papal nuncios, and Vatican congregations were unable to do, the green eyeshades shall accomplish! Blessed be the Name of the Lord!
Thank you Fr. Michael – Many individuals in Oakland have attempted to inform the the Bishops of this for several years but they seem not to listen – What a shame as several older and beautiful Church’s have been closed –
You may be interested in reading: “WITH THE POPE AGAINST THE
HOMOHERESY” by Polish Priest, Fr. Dariusz Oko, Ph.D.
Just two brief quotes that do not do the 38 page document justice – –
.
” We are dealing not only with the problem of a homoideology and a
homolobby outside the Church,
but with an analogous problem within it as well, where homoideology takes the form of a homoheresy.”
” In order for such evil to be concealed and tolerated, it is
necessary that the right people hold key positions, and that not only
a homolobby, but a homoclique or a homomafia is created. “
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In addition, we must not forget about the confidential 300+ page document that Pope Benedict left in a safe for Pope Francis.
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And when you read the USCCB’s “John Jay Report” – The Causes and Context
of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010
the graph clearly shows that the vast majority of those abused were BOYS OVER AGE 11.
” The majority of victims (81 percent) were MALE “.
– – – – –
It’s well past time to clean house. Start excommunicating.
(Both documents can be found on the internet.)
Guilty Priests mostly picked on physically weaker males whom they could intimidate and CONTROL.
The “USCCB John Jay Report”report clearly states the vast majority of abused were between the ages of 11 and 17, between 1950 and 2010,
This is not only child abuse, but HOMOSEXUALITY at its worst.
Yessir!…the pedophile problem is really a “HOMOSEXUAL” problem that the clergy was loathe to admit…many bishops, are gay, as are many priest’s…it’s pretty obvious why they don’t want to “out” the HOMOSEXUAL clergy for sexual molestation…then they have to ADMIT A PROBLEM…The problem of accepting and ordaining “flaming” homosexual’s for DECADES!
This is just not factually correct, Adamantine. You must be blind to the dozens of priest sex abuse cases committed against girls.
Dozens vs thousands … good point, YFC.
The sodomites who have poisoned the Church for years have been outed…deal with it YFC…they are an evil, insidious cancer…that has caused irreparable harm to thousands of church-members…Mahony is evil…pure and simple…accept it, you’ll sleep better at night…
YFC – in the USA, 81% of all sexual abuse cases committed by Priests – were against MALES aged 11 through 17.
This is clearly a HOMOSEXUAL practice, in addition to a sin against minors.
On the USCCB web site, search “John Jay Report” for known statistics.
Nan, 81% of the abuse was against males, this includes those under the age of 11. For children under the age of 10, the number of male and female victims was nearly equal. Many of the victims were 11 and 12 years of age. In my opinion, men that sexually abuse 11 and 12 year old children are pedophiles. Also, I think that in the John Jay Study, girls were under-represented. But sadly, a large percentage of the children that were abused were altar boys.
YFC – you refuse to read the “JOHN JAY REPORT” available on the USCCB web site.
It is a real eye opener.
81% of the victims were MALES between ages 11 and 17.
YFC, you can not make up facts according to your own desires.
Young altar boys under age 11 were not in the 81% category.
Girls were not in the 81% category.
Yes there was some pedophilia, but most of it was HOMOSEXUAL Acts.
Ted B, according to the John Jay Report, 22.6% of victims were under the age of 11. Another 10% were 11 years of age and 14.7% were 12 years of age. I consider 11 and 12 year olds to be children and not post-pubescent. Only 53% of the victims were teens, between the ages of 13 and 17, this includes male and female victims. So a majority of the victims were 13 and older but a significant number of the victims were under 13 years of age and the number of victims under the age of 11, 22.6% is not negligible. According to the John Jay Report, most of the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy could be considered “crimes of opportunity.”
Thanks for your excellent contribution, DaveS.
I wrote several posts on my lap top but I don’t know what became of them but I didn’t cover the same topic nearly so well, so it’s just as well mine got lost in cyberspace or on prism;0)
If it got lost on Prism, Dana, you may get it back with your tax return.
These reports are truly depressing. How much longer must we wait before the “powers that be” appoint true Roman Catholic bishops out here on this God-forsaken, sodomite-infested West Coast of North America? Why is Mahoney still active in ministry? Does Rome really care?
Mahony will answer for his spiritual crimes of ignominy…this vile individual is the most shameful example of a priest, Cardinal and Archbishop that I can think of…it’s difficult to pray for so loathsome a figure, but we must…virtue comes in the struggle…
Anton, write to the “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith” at the Vatican.
Praying and writing is all we can do.
Ask for corrective and disciplinary action for urgent need within the Church in the USA to slow the: SACRILEGE, SCANDAL, HERESY, SCHISM and RELATIVISM within the Church.
Code of Canon Law: TITLE I. THE OBLIGATIONS AND RIGHTS OF ALL THE CHRISTIAN FAITHFUL – – – ” 212 §3. According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they possess, they have the right and even at times the DUTY to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church
and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful,
without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons. ”
– – – ” Can. 915 Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion. ”
– – – ” Can. 1399 In addition to the cases established here or in other laws, the external violation of a divine or canonical law can be punished by a just penalty only when the special gravity of the violation demands punishment and there is an urgent need to prevent or repair scandals.”
Go to the Vatican web site; then click on ‘Roman Curia’; then click on ‘Congregations’; then click on Doctrine of the Faith; then English.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and you will find an email address.
* * * * * * (It would be helpful if CCD would publish updated addresses and email addresses at the Vatican.) * * * * * *
Bishop Stephen Blaire has been the Diocese Bishop of Stockton for the last 14 years (since 1999) and must take responsibility for the financial condition of his own Diocese.
Blaire has been way too busy outside his Diocese enjoying being involved in USCCB politics with the Federal Government,
rather than shepherding his own people.
At the USCCB Blaire has been a tireless advocate for social issues while largely ignoring the Five Non-Negotiables of abortion, homosexual “marriage”, human cloning, euthanasia, and fetal stem cell research.
He has recently publically falsely claimed that ‘gun control’ is “Church” teaching. (There is no such thing in the CCC.)
The teachings of Clergy that have nothing to do with Catholic Faith and Morals – is the reason the Bible and CCC is so very important for accurate catechesis.
Thank you Jesus for your Magisterium.
Bishop Blaire inaccurately stating that gun control for individuals is a teaching of the Church, or that its OK for immigrants to break the immigration laws, or that the death penalty is ALWAYS wrong violates Church teaching.
We can discern the truth by reading the Bible and CCC when any Clergy insert their own personal opinions in their public teaching – which they should never do.
The “homosexual” problem in the Church has been a cancer that has escalated since the close of VaticanII…Mahony and his ilk are the primary source of this molestation…pederast priests’s equal Mahony’s buddies…