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A nun testified Monday in a landmark church sex-abuse trial that she was fired from a southeastern Pennsylvania parish for reporting concerns to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia about explicit mail that a priest had received.
Sister Joan Scary said she lost her job as director of education at St. Gabriel’s in the rural Montgomery County town of Stowe, near Pottstown, after she complained to then-Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua about the Rev. Edward DePaoli shortly after his arrival in 1995. She said she was concerned about mail DePaoli began to receive, including computer disks from Denmark and magazines containing “deplorable” content, none of which included DePaoli’s clerical title or indicated that his address was a rectory.
DePaoli, who was defrocked in 2005, is not a defendant in the trial but prosecutors are using the testimony about him and others to build a case against Monsignor William Lynn, who was the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s secretary of clergy from 1992 to 2004 and entrusted within investigating complaints against priests.
Lynn is the first Roman Catholic official in the U.S. charged with endangering children for allegedly moving priests suspected of molestation from parish to parish without warning anyone of previous sex-abuse complaints. He is on trial with the Rev. James Brennan, who is charged with the attempted rape of a 14-year-old boy in 1996. Both have pleaded not guilty. [more]
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Of course it is horrible how some good people have been treated during the course of this scourge known as the “sex abuse scandal.” Unspeakable things have been done and said and unfathomable damages have been inflicted. But to wonder why you remain a Catholic? You would consider leaving God’s Church because some people did really, really horrible things? How does that make sense? The Church needs every GOOD person she can count. Remember the dude named Judas? Who can measure the sin of betraying our Lord and Savior? But Jesus chose him and even loved him. Judas made his choice. What the Judases do should never cause you to question your faith, nor the faith of so many good and truly pious clergy. But it should cause you to spend a lot of time on your knees praying for forgiveness for the perpetrators and for all of us too.
I know of a similar story, only in the case I’m familiar with it was visiting clergy who found pornographic videos in a pastor’s possession. One of the parishioners on staff also had him dead-to-rights on even more nefarious things but when the material was presented to the bishop the only question was if he (the pastor) was molesting children. Since there was no evidence of this the matter was ignored and the parishioner not only lost her job but had to leave the parish. Even then the priest harassed and badgered the woman’s daughter until she transferred to another school. After that the priest went after the woman’s mother until she resigned her position in the school. In the end the priest was made a Dean and put on the personnel board. Sr. Joan can be thankful she doesn’t have any family for a vindictive cleric to savage. Still, she has my sympathies, prayers and support.
If the Catholic Church is to survive, the laity MUST get well organized and involved in clearing out the thieves, rats, psychotics and power hungry monarchists who control everything. Our Catholic Church belongs to us, the people — NOT to these psychotic, power-hungry control freak creeps who are bringing it down.
This is a disgusting article about the scum ordained to be ‘another Christ.” I don’t know how or why a remain a Catholic………How deplorable.
You’re right Tony and Recovering Catholic, it is deploreable. I can only say that Jesus would never abandon us in our time of need and we must support the thousands who serve our faith with their. heart and soul. This is the power of our faith.