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The perfect solution to stopping Roman Catholic Pedophiles: Arm the Childen and Pedophile Crucifixion and other deaths
December 28, 2021 atheistmilitantsrising Leave a comment
ONE PART OF THE PERFECT SOLUTION TO STOPPING ROMAN CATHOLIC PEDOPHILES, ARM THE CHILDREN. WHEN ENOUGH KIDS BLOW THE HEADS OFF OF THESE PEDOPHILE SCUMBAGS OF THE UNHOLY ROMAN CATHOLIC CULT OF PEDOPHILES? THEN MAYBE THEY WOULD GET THE HINT AND STOP RAPING CHILDREN.
The scumbag pieces of shit of the Unholy Roman Catholic Cult? Just cannot stop raping kids. And their fucking shitstains on the underwear of humanity, their Popes, Cardinals, Bishops and Archbishop Pedophile Pimps? Just cannot stop shuffling these scumbags around so they can rape even more children.
And they still play their fucking shit with victims and survivors, attacking us, shitting on us, denying us justice by hiding behind the statutes of limitations and their fuckin pimps get away with their crimes by hiding under their sovereign immunity protections.
They just cannot get the fucking hint after decades and decades of being exposed for this shit that they stop raping kids, brutalizing kids, terrorizing kids. And their actions? Have also caused a whole lot of victims to commit suicide and they do not give a flying fuck about that because to them? A dead victim tells no fucking tales.
We know these scumbag demonic shitstains will never stop. They will keep raping kids with impunity and their fucking leaders will keep protecting them and covering up for them.
So what is the fucking solution to all of this? Well I cannot really take credit for the following, I credit the comedian Christopher Titus for it. I heard him talking about this in one of his specials and I said, motherfucker you are right. A real solution to ending these fuckers raping kids. He said arm the children and use pedophile crucifixions. I add thee more brutal types of execution for them, and we give them a choice. Pedophile Crucifixions, Drawing and Quartering, the Rat Torture or the Judas Chair. And? We take their fucking heads afterwards and put them on pikes in front of the church they raped kids in as a warning this is what is now going to happen to your pedophile ass should you ever touch another kid.
Maybe if we start doing this? These fuckers will finally get the hint to leave children the hell alone.
First off?
ARM THE CHILDREN
We arm all children. We teach them gun safety, we teach them how to use their guns. And give them to them each and every time they enter a Roman Catholic Pedo Cult Church or School.
Maybe if kids who are being fucked with start blowing the fucking heads and dicks off of these fucking scumbags? They will finally get the hint. And their knowing these kids are armed and will fucking shoot to kill them should they try to fuck with them? That will scare the shit out of these fucking pedophiles enough to not put their fucking hands onto kids.
Second off?
PEDOPHILE CRUCIFIXIONS OR OTHER TORTUROUS DEATHS
ANY priest, brother, sister or nun, any laymen or others of this cult of fucking pedophile pimps and pedophiles touch a kid? Immediately? No mercy, no compassion, and true Justice.
Give them a fucking choice.
Pedophile Crucifixion
Drawing and Quartering.
Rat Torture
Judas Chair
If we crucify these sons of a bitches, right inside their churches, so everyone can see the warning what will happen to you you fuck with a child; or draw and quarter them and put their fucking heads in front of these churches as warnings this is what the fuck will happen to you should you touch a child like this? This is the immediate and swift fucking punishment you will get.
Drawing and Quartering
We hang them until almost dead, then take them down and draw them to the church where they raped the children. We then quarter them, throwing those parts into a dumpster, and save the head, and put it on a pike in front of the church they raped kids at as a warning this is what will happen to you should you rape a child.
The Unholy Roman Catholic Cult used these two torture devices during their Inquisitons. So we take their tortures and use them to put them to brutal deaths.
For the Rat Torture, instead of putting the rat on their stomachs? We put the rats on their fucking junks. Let the rat eat their dicks and balls. Then that rat will tunnel into them and finish the the job of putting them to a justly deserved brutal deaths. Then cut their fucking heads off and put them on pikes in front of the church their raped children in.
And last, but certainly not least? The Judas Chair, which is appropriate for how they were Judases to us children. Strap these fuckers in, place a crock of hot coals under the seat and have them rip their flesh from their bodies as they try to escape. And? They will fucking die doing so. Then? Like all the rest? Behead these fuckers and put them in front of the church as a warning.
PERFECT SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM
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Plaintiffs in second Próvolo sex abuse trial demand 'end to delays'
By Maximiliano Ríos & Liliana Samuel, AFP
From the Link https://www.bishop-accountability.org/2021/04/plaintiffs-in-second-provolo-sex-abuse-trial-demand-end-to-delays/
Victims and relatives complain defence lawyers for two nuns and several other women are stalling trial into historic child sex abuse at Próvolo Institute in Mendoza Province.
Victims and relatives have called for an "end to delays" in the trial of two nuns and seven other women accused of complicity in the sexual abuse of deaf children at the Antonio Próvolo Institute for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children in Mendoza Province, which was postponed last week due to a case of coronavirus.
The second trial in this case, which has shaken up the Catholic Church in the homeland of Pope Francis and which has already seen two priests sentenced to 40-year prison terms in 2019, was postponed last Monday for a fortnight when the defence lawyers pleaded that one of them is in isolation due to Covid-19.
"The defence lawyers of the nuns have been playing their little tricks for 18 months now. They have no other way of delaying the trial because they have nothing in their favour. If it's a case of Covid, OK, we'll wait until May, but then let's not have one case of Covid and then another," warned Ariel Lizarraga, the father of Daiana, the first to denounce the abuses at the Mendoza centre, speaking to AFP.
The accused nuns are Kosaka Kumiko, a Japanese under house arrest, and Asunción Martínez, born in Paraguay. Also in the dock are the Próvolo Institute's legal representative, a psychologist, a cook and four directors during the period between 2004 and 2016 when the abuses and rapes of children aged between four and 17 years occurred.
We understand the context of pandemic but it's time to put an end to the delays. We need this trial to begin and be resolved so that we can carry on with our lives, restoring their rights to the victims," adds Érica Labeguerie, the sister of Claudia, another of the victims who today is 27 years old and the mother of a boy.
The trial, with around 100 witnesses due to testify, "is highly important because it will mark closure for a great deal of pain and re-victimisation."
"The nuns were those in charge of housing the girls, imparting great terror and an essential part of everything happening in the institution," affirms Erica Labeguerie.
The accused will have to answer in court for not having denounced the abuses. Kumiko is also accused of fondling some of the 14 victims who testified in Cámara Gesell courthouse.
Permanent damage
"I know we're going to win this trial but for my daughter the damage is permanent, irreparable. The accompaniment of the family is small anaesthetic for this pain. The trauma suffered, the atrocities inflicted on them will never be forgotten," warned Lizarraga.
Daiana's father maintains that the accused "knew everything which was going on. If they had denounced them, the rapes would have stopped."
"We're talking about children and adolescents who bled and screamed in pain. A conviction with a severe sentence is really to be expected," adds lawyer Sergio Salinas representing nine victims.
Carlos Varela Álvarez, who is defending the two nuns of the Hermanas de la Huerta congregation, deplores what he considers his clients being convicted in advance by public opinion.
The evidence has been "manipulated and twisted," he assured AFP, insisting that he is defending "people who are pleading their innocence in the face of a public opinion which has convicted them in advance and a court system prepared for that."
This new trial is unfolding after in November, 2019, the court sentenced 61-year-old Argentine priest Horacio Corbacho and 85-year-old Italian priest Nicola Corradi to 45 and 42 years imprisonment respectively for the sexual abuse and rape of children at the Próvolo Institute. The convictions have been upheld.
Also sentenced were gardener Armando Gómez and former altar boy Jorge Bordón to 18 and 10 years respectively after pleading guilty in an abbreviated trial in 2018.
Corradi arrived in Argentina in 1970 from the Próvolo Institute in Verona, Italy, where the order for teaching the deaf and dumb originated and where abuse has already been denounced, taking charge of the La Plata branch of the institute and then from 1998 in Mendoza where he was remanded in custody on November 26, 2016.
Abuse has also been denounced at the Próvolo Institute in La Plata where the charges are being investigated without yet coming to trial in the Buenos Aires provincial capital.
"The Catholic Church is covering up. Not only do they not supply evidence but they hide it. The Vatican keeps demonstrating that they want to keep covering up," affirms Salinas.
If we arm the children? This is what will happen to the pedophile priests of the Unholy Roman Catholic Cult of Pedophiles and maybe if victims started blowing the heads off the heads of these scum? They might finally get the message to leave the kids the fuck alone and stop raping them.
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'The Pope Ignored Them': Alleged Abuse of Deaf Children on Two Continents Points to Vatican Failings
The only good Roman Catholic pedophile is a dead one.
From the link https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/the-pope-ignored-them-alleged-abuse-of-deaf-children-on-two-continents-points-to-vatican-failings/2019/02/18/07db1bdc-fd60-11e8-a17e-162b712e8fc2_story.html
When investigators swept in and raided the religious Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf, they uncovered one of the worst cases yet among the global abuse scandals plaguing the Catholic Church: a place of silent torment where prosecutors say pedophiles preyed on the most isolated and submissive children.
The scope of the alleged abuse was vast. Charges are pending against 13 suspects; a 14th person pleaded guilty to sexual abuse, including rape, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The case of the accused ringleader — an octogenarian Italian priest named Nicola Corradi — is set to go before a judge next month.
Corradi was spiritual director of the school and had a decades-long career spanning two continents. And so his arrest in late 2016 raised an immediate question: Did the Catholic Church have any sense that he could be a danger to children?
The answer, according to a Washington Post investigation that included a review of court and church documents, private letters, and dozens of interviews in Argentina and Italy, is that church officials up to and including Pope Francis were warned repeatedly and directly about a group of alleged predators that included Corradi.
Yet they took no apparent action against him.
"I want Pope Francis to come here, I want him to explain how this happened, how they knew this and did nothing," a 24-year-old alumna of the Provolo Institute said, using sign language as her hands shook in rage. She and her 22-year-old brother, who requested anonymity to share their experiences as minors, are among at least 14 former students who say they were victims of abuse at the now-shuttered boarding school in the shadow of the Andes.
The Head Pedophile Pimp Pope Francis allowed hundreds of deaf/mute children to be brutally raped and abused by the very pedophile priests he and the Vatican again protected and moved around. This fucker needs to pay.
Vulnerable to the extreme, the deaf students tended to come from poor families that fervently believed in the sanctity of the church. Prosecutors say the children were fondled, raped, sometimes tied up and, in one instance, forced to wear a diaper to hide the bleeding. All the while, their limited ability to communicate complicated their ability to tell others what was happening to them. Students at the school were smacked if they used sign language. One of the few hand gestures used by the priests, victims say, was an index figure to lips — a demand for silence.
"They were the perfect victims," said Gustavo Stroppiana, the chief prosecutor in the case.
And yet they may not have been the first. Corradi, now 83 and under house arrest, is also under investigation for sexual crimes at a sister school in Argentina where he worked from 1970 to 1994. And alumni of a related school in Italy, where Corradi served earlier, identified him as being among a number of priests who carried out systematic abuse over five decades. The schools were all founded and staffed by priests from the Company of Mary for the Education of the Deaf, a small Catholic congregation that answers to the Vatican.
The Italian victims' efforts to sound the alarm to church authorities began in 2008 and included mailing a list of accused priests to Francis in 2014 and physically handing him the list in 2015.
It was not the church, however, but Argentine law enforcement that cut off Corradi's access to children when it shut down the Provolo school in Lujan. Argentine prosecutors say the church has not fully cooperated with their investigation.
As Francis prepares to host a historic bishops' summit this week to address clerical sexual abuse, the lapses in the case — affecting the pope's home country of Argentina and the home country of the Roman Catholic Church — illustrate the still-present failures of the church to fix a system that has allowed priests to continue to abuse children long after they were first accused.
Corradi's lawyer declined multiple interview requests for this article and did not respond to emails seeking to speak with the priest. Attempts to reach Corradi through his family were unsuccessful. The Vatican declined to comment on a detailed list of questions.
But Anne Barrett Doyle, co-director of the abuse-tracking site BishopAccountability.org, said the Provolo case "is truly emblematic."
"The church failed them abysmally. The pope ignored them, the police responded," she said. "It's a clear example of the tragedy that keeps playing out."
Local church authorities are skeptical
As in Argentina, deaf students from the Provolo schools in Verona, Italy, kept their experiences of sexual abuse to themselves for years. But after they started opening up, they worked from bottom to top to inform the Catholic church, according to letters and other documents.
They wrote to the local bishop in 2008. Soon after, they provided a list of accused priests and religious figures to the local diocese. By 2011, a list of names was with the Vatican. By 2015, a list was in the hands of the pope.
The rumblings started with Dario Laiti, a former student who came forward in 2006 after noticing a new children's facility in the town and worrying that abuse might be happening there, as well.
"I was the first," said Laiti, who for years had made excuses when his wife asked why he hadn't wanted children.
Soon, more than a dozen other former students were telling their stories, using an improvised mix of sign language and limited speech. Their accounts ranged in time between the 1950s and 1980s. As adults, they had become woodcutters, delivery men, factory workers. Some were unemployed. Few had sustained relationships. One of their schoolmates had committed suicide.
One student, Alda Franchetto, said she had tried to confide in her parents years earlier — running away from the school as a 13-year-old in a burst of euphoria and explaining to them what was happening to her there. Her parents, she said, didn't believe her and returned her to the institute.
"They said, 'You need this to learn how to speak and write,' " Franchetto said.
By the time the adult former students started reporting their abuse, it was too late to press criminal charges. But it was not too late for accountability through the church. They wrote to the local bishop in 2008, informing him of their claims. Soon after, at the request of a journalist from the Italian news magazine L'Espresso, 15 former students took another step: writing sworn statements describing sodomization, forced masturbation and other forms of abuse. The statements named 24 priests and other faculty members, including Corradi. The student association said dozens of others had experienced abuse but did not want to come forward publicly.
The bishop, Giuseppe Zenti, was dismissive. In a news conference, he called the allegations "a hoax, a lie, and nothing more," and he noted the association for former students was involved in a property dispute with the Provolo Institute. The former students filed defamation charges against Zenti and included their statements as part of the lawsuit — essentially handing the names of the accused priests to the diocese.
The case caught the notice of the Vatican, which in 2010 asked Zenti to look more deeply into the claims, according to church letters. The local diocese brought in a retired judge, Mario Sannite, to investigate.
"That's how I found myself in the middle of this story," Sannite said.
Sannite became the on-the-ground representative of the Holy See, asked to relay his findings — and his analysis — to the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In December 2010 and January 2011, Sannite interviewed 17 former students from Provolo, with the help of a sign-language interpreter. He said the accounts were harrowing, and he later wrote that there was no reason to doubt the "majority" of the accusations. In the report sent to the Vatican, though, Sannite wrote that he had doubts about one former student, the only one who happened to name Corradi as an abuser — even though some of the others interviewed had overlapped with Corradi's time at the school.
Gianni Bisoli, a then-62-year-old ski instructor, accused 30 religious figures and other Provolo faculty members of abusing him — a number far beyond the others. And his allegations were particularly explosive; one of those he accused was Giuseppe Carraro, the bishop of Verona in the 1960s and 1970s, who after his death was on the path to canonization.
"Bisoli's statements were likely deemed quite dangerous," said Paolo Tacchi Venturi, a lawyer who at the time was representing the victims.
With the help of a sign-language interpreter and Tacchi Venturi, Bisoli spoke with Sannite for 12 hours, over the course of three days, according to records. Others who were in the room told The Post that Bisoli described the abuse in detail.
In interviews with The Post, Bisoli recounted that he was abused by Corradi several times, including once when he had been corralled along with two other children into a bathroom reserved for priests. In that instance, Bisoli said, he was ordered against a wall by Corradi and two other religious figures. Bisoli remembered Corradi sodomizing him with his finger.
Sannite assessed that Bisoli was certainly a victim of abuse. But in the report he wrote, which was sent through Verona's diocese to the Vatican, the former judge said it was implausible that Bisoli could have been abused by so many — that the institute he described was akin to an "infernal circle." Sannite noted that some of Bisoli's dates did not match, and some of the accused did not appear to be at the institute in the years Bisoli described. Sannite also offered another theory: that Bisoli "repackaged his overflowing allegations by drawing from the collection of his own experiences as a homosexual" adult.
In an interview at his home last month, Sannite read from the report, though he did not share a copy with The Post. When asked why a gay man might be less likely to accurately describe abuse, Sannite said, "It's not as if I can say there are differences." Then he asked why he was being asked such a question. Later, Sannite wrote in an email that he did not mean to draw a connection between Bisoli's credibility and his sexuality.
Bisoli, in an interview, said it was "offensive" and a "provocation" that anybody's sexuality in adulthood might figure into an assessment.
Following church guidelines, Zenti wrote a letter to accompany the report to the Vatican, according to the Diocese of Verona, which declined to share it with The Post. But Zenti remained skeptical about the claims and said in 2017 testimony — conducted as part of a separate lawsuit — that even a word like sodomization would be "hard to convey for a deaf-mute." The bishop also reported hearing a theory that the Veronese victims were behind the claims in Argentina, as well, perhaps as a way to "gain possession of the nice properties of the institute in those places."
Based on the investigation in Verona, the Vatican punished only one priest, Eligio Piccoli, who was ordered to a life of prayer and penance away from minors. Three other priests were given admonitions — essentially warnings that the Vatican was watching future behavior.
A church official in Verona said the allegations against Corradi were not looked at closely in large part because of the assessment about Bisoli. "We acted on the broad premise that Bisoli wasn't deemed reliable," Monsignor Giampietro Mazzoni said. "In this case, perhaps, making a mistake — since we didn't know then what would later happen in Argentina."
One of the other former students who Bisoli said was in the priests-only bathroom, Maurizio Grotto, has offered conflicting accounts of what happened. He told Sannite he was not abused by Corradi and said in an interview with The Post that he was. Another former Provolo student, Franchetto, said in an interview that she was molested by Corradi but had tried for years, "as a measure of self-defense," to forget his face. She did not tell the Vatican investigator about her experiences. The president of the association representing the Italian victims, Giorgio Dalla Bernardina, said he knows of other Corradi victims who have been unwilling to speak publicly.
Lawyers involved in the case and experts on clerical abuse say the church failed to examine whether the pattern of abuse in Italy was playing out at the overseas Provolo locations where Italian priests had been sent. Some dioceses in the United States report abuse accusations to law enforcement no matter what — even if the accused priest is deceased or if the statute of limitations has expired — and suspend priests from ministry as accusations are being investigated. The Diocese of Verona said it did not contact law enforcement.
Tacchi Venturi, the lawyer who had represented the victims during the hearing, said the Vatican made one other error — a "logic contradiction" — by acknowledging that Bisoli was abused but not looking into who might have abused him.
"If you say he suffered abuses, and you believe he was a victim, and he says he was abused by people, then you hear them all," Tacchi Venturi said, noting that the task was easier because only some of the accused were still alive. "You go on and interrogate all of them."
Pope Francis asks the victims to pray for him
The Italian victims believed that if anybody could better handle abuse cases, it was Francis, who was selected as leader of the church in 2013 — two years after the Verona inquiry — and who announced the creation of a new commission on child protection. The former Provolo students wrote to Francis in late 2013, giving a broad timeline of their case. They said they didn't hear anything back. In 2014, according to postal receipts, they tried again, with more direct language — mailing to the pontiff's Vatican address a list of the 14 alleged abusers they felt had gone largely unpunished. They received no response from Francis or others in the Vatican.
So, in October 2015, 20 people from Verona — most of them victims of abuse — boarded a train to Rome. They had no certainty of meeting the pope, but they targeted a day the Vatican was recognizing people with disabilities. And indeed, after Francis held Mass at St. Peter's Square, a Vatican official invited two of the people from Verona to a small event with the pontiff. Paola Lodi Rizzini and Giuseppe Consiglio took their place near the stage of Paul VI Audience Hall holding a letter — later reviewed by The Post — listing the same 14 names.
Consiglio, now 29, was the youngest of the victims from Verona. He'd attended school in the late 1990s, and he had come forward in 2012 — after the Vatican's investigation. But he was upset with the Vatican's response. He said he wanted the Vatican to "open its eyes" and "close the schools." He told The Post that his own childhood had unraveled because of abuse. He said he was raped hundreds of times by a priest who was "rough" but careful not to get Consiglio's blood on his cassock. Consiglio tried to jump out a school window when he was 12 but was stopped by a nun. He was treated with antipsychotics. Into his adulthood, he lived at home, with few friends. He was so terrified of being locked into rooms that he hoarded his family's keys.
Then, inside the Vatican, he was eye to eye with Francis.
Lodi Rizzini recalls speaking first and telling the pontiff they were there representing a victims' group from Verona.
"I said, 'Giuseppe is a victim of sexual abuse, and he has a letter from all victims,' " Lodi Rizzini said.
Consiglio handed Francis the envelope. A Vatican photographer documented the moment.
The letter inside appealed to the pontiff by saying the church's behavior in their case was "absolutely not aligned with the zero tolerance of Pope Francis." It said the church had let priests and other religious figures who had abused them go on to live "normal lives."
Then a paragraph listed 14 priests and lay brothers that the victims believed were still alive. The list included Consiglio's own alleged abuser, a handful of figures who had not been punished in Italy and four said to be in Argentina — including Corradi.
Lodi Rizzini and Consiglio remember Francis receiving the letter and handing it off to a deputy without opening it. Photos show Francis blessing both Lodi Rizzini and Consiglio by touching them on the head. Both of them remember Francis, before walking away, saying, "Pray for me."
People involved in the case say the former students' plea did not appear to prompt the church to take a closer look at any of the named priests.
Four months later, in February 2016, a letter arrived in Verona from one of Francis's close lieutenants, then-Bishop Angelo Becciu, who held a key position in the Secretariat of State. Becciu wrote that His Holiness "welcomed with lively participation what you wanted to confide in Him."
"He wishes to remind you," the letter continued, "of what the Holy See has done and keeps on doing with unwavering commitment on clerical sexual abuses, operating in support of the victims' tragedies and to prevent the sad phenomenon."
Law enforcement responds
In the early 1960s, the Provolo Institute in Verona dismissed one priest and another faculty member for "moral inadequacy," church officials say. But there is no evidence, according to church records, that the Company of Mary knew of the allegations against Corradi when it transferred him from Italy to Argentina in 1970. Even if something had been known, "I doubt there would have been an explicit mention in the archive," said Mazzoni, the chief judicial figure in the Diocese of Verona.
In Argentina, Corradi initially taught at a Provolo Institute for the Deaf in La Plata, a provincial city an hour's drive from the belle époque buildings of Buenos Aires. Following the disclosures of widespread abuse in Lujan de Cuyo in 2016, La Plata authorities launched an investigation that has uncovered allegations of sexual abuse and mistreatment, dating back to the 1980s, against at least five men who worked at the school, including Corradi and another Italian cleric.
The other Italian — Elisio Pirmati — was also named by Verona students in the letters sent to the pope. Maria Corfield, the prosecutor in the La Plata case, said Pirmati has returned to Italy and is living in retirement at the Verona Provolo — which is no longer active as an institute for the deaf but rents space to another school. Efforts by The Post to contact him were unsuccessful.
Thus far, Corradi has been accused of sexual abuse by two alumni of the school in La Plata. Prosecutors received a report of another alleged Corradi victim who killed himself as an adult. While in total 10 alleged victims from the La Plata school have come forward, Corfield said she has spoken to other apparent victims who have resisted getting involved.
"They say they have families now and don't want to explain," she said.
Lisandro Borelli, now 40, entered the La Plata Provolo as a student in 1989 after becoming clinically deaf due to severe beatings from his parents. In an interview, he recalled Corradi placing him on his knee and fondling his genitals during lessons when the priest would also insert fingers into his mouth to try to teach him how to pronounce words.
Once, he said, he was punished at the school by being locked in a cage for two days without food. In a separate incident, he said he was thrown down a staircase in an act of intimidation after catching a priest at the school raping his roommate.
"When we found out this started in Italy, we were surprised," Borelli said in sign language. "Now I think about it and say, was this happening at other Provolo institutes?"
In 1994, Corradi's religious congregation sent him to set up a new Provolo Institute in western Argentina. The school — a sprawling brick compound surrounded by high walls that served as both a boarding and day school for dozens of deaf children — opened in 1998, with Corradi as spiritual director.
In the fluorescent-lit halls lined with polished tiles, Corradi first lured one boy to his room when he was around 7 years old, according to the alleged victim, who today is a shy and delicate 22-year-old. In an interview with The Post, the man recalled his confusion as Corradi undressed him, followed by the searing pain of rape. Afterward, Corradi gave him a toy — a small blue pickup truck. "I couldn't look him in the eye," the man said, using sign language. "It scared me. It disgusted me."
He said he was raped regularly for the next five years. He recalled that during the ordeals, he would stare at a statue of the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus not far from Corradi's bed. He said he could see Corradi speaking words he could not hear or understand.
The school did not teach sign language — instead embracing a methodology that sought to teach deaf children to read and speak like the hearing. That system, prosecutors say, was also ideal for hiding abuse. Abused pupils say they learned sign language in secret from older students, but even that was of little help.
The 22-year-old man and his sister — the 24-year-old who wanted Francis to come to Argentina and see what happened there, and who said she was raped as a child by another Provolo employee — came from a poor family whose parents had limited knowledge of sign language.
"We didn't want to go to school, but our parents were convinced it was the best for us," said the sister. "So we were mistreated at home. We were hit because our parents just thought we didn't want to go to school."
Prosecutors say that as spiritual director of the school, Corradi not only took part in abuses, but facilitated access to children for other sexual predators working at the school.
Prosecutors and victims allege that under Corradi's direction, a Japanese nun, Kosaka Kumiko, would groom the most docile children. She would touch them, and have them touch themselves and each other. Kumiko has maintained her innocence in court.
Also among the alleged abusers in Lujan is a deaf and mentally challenged man, now in his 40s, who prosecutors say had been abandoned as a child at the Provolo Institute in La Plata. They say the man told other victims he had been abused by Corradi there. And when Corradi made him a gardener at the new Provolo school in Lujan, the man is alleged to have begun to abuse other children.
The worst cases of abuse documented by prosecutors at Lujan occurred between 2004 and 2009. During those years, Francis served as Cardinal Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, a diocese some 700 miles southeast of Lujan de Cuyo, and would not have been accountable for actions at the school. However, the allegations in Argentina of abuse and corruption of minors stretch beyond when the church was warned and well after the Italian victims sought to alert Francis directly in 2013. The most recent incident involving Corradi is alleged to have involved the distribution of pornography to children in 2013. Other suspects also allegedly touched students inappropriately in 2015 and 2016.
The church's inaction allowed the alleged abusers to remain in daily contact with children — until a distraught former student went to Argentine authorities.
The rail-thin 27-year-old, who, like other victims, spoke on the condition of anonymity, said she had been raped by an Argentine priest who served under Corradi. In an interview, she said that for years she considered killing herself — even writing a suicide note to her parents before standing on a bluff by a river and weighing whether to jump.
"I felt like water, as if I was nothing," she said in sign language in her lawyer's office in Mendoza, Argentina. "I wanted to kill myself, but I had to keep living with it, every year."
A friend, she said, convinced her that what she and other victims really needed was justice. So, in November 2016, she walked into a state center for people with disabilities and requested a sign-language interpreter. They would later go together to the state parliament, where, on Nov. 24, 2016, they met with a state senator who sounded the alarm.
Rapidly acting on her testimony, prosecutors raided the school two days later — finding pornography and letters that implicated one of Corradi's associates, Father Horacio Corbacho, a 58-year-old Argentine priest. In court filings, one sexually suggestive letter, apparently written by someone familiar with the abuse, asks Corbacho "how much more silence can you ask of a deaf mute?
Jorge Bordon, Corradi's 62-year-old driver, last year pleaded guilty to 11 counts of abuse. His confession effectively implicated some of the other defendants, though Corbacho, Kumiko and others have denied the accusations. Corradi — under house arrest at an undisclosed location in Argentina and facing six counts of aggravated abuse — has yet to enter a plea.
The Rev. Alberto Germán Bochatey, a bishop appointed by the pope to oversee the Provolo schools in the aftermath of the scandal, said Corradi believes himself to be innocent.
"He feels destroyed," said Bochatey, who last met with Corradi two months ago. "He built that school."
After Argentine authorities shut down the Lujan school in November 2016, the Vatican appointed two priests to conduct an internal investigation that is still ongoing. Prosecutors say church officials in Argentina have declined their request to share the findings.
Bochatey, who is not involved in the investigation, denied a lack of church cooperation. He said he received a request for the report and replied in a letter to prosecutors that it needed to be submitted directly to the Vatican. He said he did not forward the request. Stroppiana, the prosecutor, said he has no recollection of receiving a response from Bochatey or any other church authorities.
Bochatey blamed prosecutors and victims' lawyers for overstating the scope of the allegations. He suggested Freemasons — members of a fraternal order known for secret rituals and community service that the Catholic Church has long viewed as antagonists — were somehow behind the accusations, although he acknowledged the church had no "proof."
"We think the Masonic order was behind it," he said. "We cannot understand why [the accusations] are so direct and intense. They try to build a big case that [it was a] house of horrors, 40 or 50 cases, but there are little more than 10."
He added, "I spoke with many parents who said their kids were happy. They didn't want their school to close." He continued, "I think something happened, but not the way they're trying to show."
He defended the school's approach to teaching the deaf, saying the point was for them to read and speak. Perhaps some teachers had been too strict, he said.
"Maybe sometimes a teacher did wrong," he said.
The church, he said, has not only been forced to close the school in Lujan but also sell the land it sits on.
"We're paying expensively for our mistake," he said.
Harlan and Pitrelli reported from Verona, Italy. Rachelle Krygier in Caracas, Venezuela, and Natalio Cosoy, in Buenos Aires, contributed to this report.
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The Only Good Roman Catholic Pedophile Pimp or Priest is a fucking dead one
April 28, 2021 atheistmilitantsrising Leave a comment
Yes, the Unholy Roman Catholic Cult of Pedophile Pimps, Pedophile Priests and the Pew Polishers who suck their shriveled dicks in unholy love. A bunch of fucking perverted, degenerate pedophiles who believe they got a fucking right to tell everyone else how to fucking live, while they cannot keep their disgusting dicks out of young kids assholes.
If I had had a gun that night at St Thomas More parish in Durham NH? All three of those degenerate, disgusting pedo priests, Fathers Leon Gaulin, Joseph Desmond and Paul McHugh would have ended up just like this.
Yes, Pope Francis, you disgusting Head Pedophile Pimp, yes Pope Emeritus Benedict you disgusting Pedophile Pimp, the both of you deserve to have a fucking Pedophile Crucifixion upon your fucking Pedophile Pimps asses, right in the middle of St Peter's Square.
Yes, Cardinals Timothy Dolan, George Pell, Bernard Law and all the rest of you scumbag pieces of shit Cardinals, Bishops like NH Bishop Peter A Libasci, and Archbishops who covered up for your fucking pedophile priests and hid behind laws like the statutes of limitations and sovereign immunity to get away with your crimes? You all deserve to be fucking drawn and quartered and your fucking heads put on pikes in front of St Peter's Square with the warning that this is what we will now do to Roman Catholic leaders who protect their fucking pedophiles.
This, Bishop Peter A Libasci and Pope Francis is what should be done to all you Pedo Pimps and Pedo priests of your cult of pedophile scumbags.
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Bishop Peter A Libasci New Hampshire Diocese
April 27, 2021 atheistmilitantsrising 12 Comments
This is Bishop Peter A Libasci, pedophile pimp of the New Hampshire Diocese and over all piece of shit scumbag who is going to burn in his Roman Catholic hell for eternity being gang raped by the big dicked demons of hell cause he loves having his faggot asshole reamed out by big dicked demons.
Scumbag Piece of Shit, Bishop Peter A Libasci of the New Hampshire Diocese of the Unholy Roman Catholic Cult of Pedophile Pimps, Pedophiles and the Pew Polishers who suck their unholy dicks.
So Bishop Peter A Libasci, you cock sucker for demonic pedophile scumbags of your cult of Pedophile Pimps, Pedophiles and the Pew Polishers who suck your nasty, unholy dicks in religious fevor, thinks we who were raped, tortured, brutalized by your fucking scumbag pedophile priests, especially by Fathers Leon Gaulin, Joseph Desmond and Paul McHugh of St Thomas More parish in Durham NH should bow down and kiss your pedophile ass and treat you with decency and respect? Really you fucking low life piece of shit? YOU think that I should speak to you in respect? Fuck you. You deserve no fucking respect. What you deserve from me, if you were in front of me right now? Is for me to kick your pedophile loving faggot ass all up and down the streets of Manchester NH, starting right in front of your fucking pedophile cult church.
A big fuck you Bishop Peter A Libasci from me and Eddie.
So Bishop Peter A Libasci, you got your pedophile panties all in a huge bunch over how I speak about your disgusting degnerate Pedophile Pimps and Pedophile priests of your cult of Pedophile scum huh? You cried and cried at the disrespect and hate I show towards your current Head Pedophile Pimp Pope Francis, your former Head Pedophile Pimp Pope Benedickless? And you got pissed at me for calling out you and all your fucking scumbag, pieces of shit Pedophile Pimp Cardinals, Bishops and Archbishops too huh? And demanding they all be rounded up and put to the most brutal fucking death we can think of for your Pedophile Pimp Popes, Cardinals, Bishops and Archbishops. Well go fuck yourself Bishop Peter A Libasci. Go take a fucking Jeebus Jackhammer Dildo and shove it up your fucking pedophile loving and defending asshole and go fuck yourself for your pedophile god, your pedophile Jeebus and your fucking unholy Patron Saint of Pedophiles Pope John Paul.
I am willing to bet there Bishop Peter A Libasci you lean more towards the black dildos huh?
No, Bishop Peter A Libasci, pedophile scumbag of the New Hampshire Diocese of the Unholy Roman Catholic Cult of Pedophiles, like you scumbags? I will give you no respect. I will give you no decency. I will give you nothing but hate. For I fucking hate scumbag pedophile shitstains like you and your fucking cult of pedophiles. I fucking hate scumbag Roman Catholic pieces of shit like you, who rape children and then call them a fucking liar. I hate Roman Catholic scumbag pieces of shit like you who proclaim people like me were lying about what your fucking disgusting, degenerate, pieces of shit priests Fathers Leon Gaulin, Joseph Desmond and Paul McHugh did to me at St Thomas More Parish in Durham New Hampshire the night I was bought there by the Durham Police Department.
And tell me you fucking shitstain on the underwear of humanity, where the fuck is the first floor blueprint plans for your St Thomas More parish of pedophiles? Funny how when you all did a rehab on that pedophile church that you all had the basement floor plans but not the first floor plans, I wonder why? I know why you fucking piece of shit, you had those blueprints disappear because you fucking piece of shit knows that I was telling the truth about that bedroom where your perverted pedo Leon Gaulin started the pedophile rape fest of me that night.
Go fuck yourself Bishop Peter A Libasci. I hope that you get fucking cancer, of the dick, of the asshole and of the mouth and you fucking die a slow, painful death. I hope you fucking die horribly there Libasci you fucking piece of shit. Yeah Libasci, I fucking hate you. I fucking hate your face, your nasty, ugly, demonic face of fucking pure evil. I fucking hate you with every ounce of my being. And I send all that fucking hate I have for you, I have for your pedo priests Leon Gaulin, Joseph Desmond and Paul McHugh and all the fucking hate I have for all your pedophile pimps and pedophile priests upon your fucking evil head.
Die Bishop Peter A Libasci, so I can go to your grave and fucking do to it what I do to Desmonds and McHugh graves, shit and piss all over them.
Yes Bishop Peter A Libasci, this is what each and every one of your fucking Pedophile pimps, your Pedo Pimp Pope Emeritus, Pedo Pimp Pope Francis, all your fucking Cardinals, Bishops and Archbishops and each and every one of your fucking pedophile priests deserve, a full frontal lobotomy with a 50 cal Desert Eagle right between their pedophile fucking eyes. YOU included there Bishop Peter A Libasci.
How you fucking like those apples you fucking degnerate pedophile scumbag?
It is far past time Bishop Peter A Libasci to round up all your Pedophile Pimps, all your pedophile priests and nuns, all your degnerates of your unholy cult of Roman Catholic Pedophiles, put them on trial for Crimes Against Humanity and Crimes Against the Children of the World. Then upon conviction? Fucking execute them.
First? We shove red hot, coal filled Popes Pears up your fucking pedophile asses and fuck your brains out with them.
Then? We put you scumbags in the Judas Chair and torture your asses.
Next? You scumbags have a choice. Drawing and Quartering or Pedophile Crucifixions.
Yeah motherfucker. Each and every fucking one of you deserve to be put to the most brutal fucking deaths one can imagine, for your scumbags raping hundreds of thousands of children all throughout the world. For your enslaving children, for your murdering children. Fuck you, give you scumbag pieces of shit of your pedophile cult any decency or respect. In prison? We fucking kill pedophiles. Time to start doing so in the fucking free world. Time to teach you fucking scumbag Roman Catholic Pedophile Pimps, Pedophiles and Pew Polishers, no more raping of our children, or you will be fucking hunted down and fucking executed as all fucking degenerate pedophiles should be.
So go fuck yourself Bishop Peter A Libasci of the New Hampshire diocese of the Unholy Roman Catholic Cult of Pedophiles. Give you any decency or respect? Give you any mercy or compassion? Really? Go fuck yourself. The only mercy or compassion any of you Roman Catholic Cunts deserve is a fucking cigarette before we fucking execute you pedophile pricks.
No you fucking piece of shit scumbag. I will NEVER give you any fucking decency, never give you any fucking compassion, never give you any fucking mercy, because you scumbags do not deserve it. And I do not give a flying fuck you scumbag piece of shit. I will continue until the fucking day I take my last breath, calling you fucking demons exactly what you are and demanding your fucking death sentences for your fucking Crimes Against the Children of the World.
Drop dead you fucking cunt pedophile scumbag piece of shit.
Especially a Pedophile Pimp or Pedophile Priest of your fucking cult of pure evil pedophiles.
BISHOP PETER A LIBASCI, MY FUCKING HATE FOR YOU AND YOUR FUCKING CHURCH OF PEDOPHILES SHALL BE NEVER ENDING, MY CURSES UPON YOUR FUCKING HEAD AND YOUR CULT OF PEDOPHILES WILL ALWAYS LAST, AS LONG AS YOU, BISHOP PETER A LIBASCI CALLS ME A LIAR AND DENIES ME JUSTICE FOR THE CRIMES OF PEDOPHILIA COMMITTED AGAINST ME BY YOUR FUCKING SCUMBAG PIECES OF SHIT PEDOPHILE PRIESTS FATHER JOSEPH DESMOND, FATHER PAUL MCHUGH AND FATHER LEON GAULIN AT ST THOMAS MORE PARISH IN DURHAM NH.
UNTIL YOU ADMIT WHAT FUCKING HAPPENED TO ME AND GIVE ME JUSTICE? I WILL IN FACT? CONTINUE TO ATTACK YOU AND ST THOMAS MORE PARISH ON MY BLOG AND YOU WILL REMAIN CURSED AND IN MY HATEFUL MIND AND HEART.
YOU DENY ME JUSTICE AND CLOSURE AND TO GET ON WITH MY LIFE. SO FUCK YOU, I AM GOING TO BE A LIVING FUCKING NIGHTMARE TO YOU UNTIL YOU ADMIT THE TRUTH, THAT I WAS IN FACT, GANG RAPED AT ST THOMAS MORE PARISH BY YOUR FUCKING PEDO PRIESTS.
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Australian cardinal won't fight sentence if he loses appeal
By Trevor Marshallsea AP
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-oceania/2019/05/australian-cardinal-wont-fight-sentence-if-he-loses-appeal/
Disgraced Australian Catholic cardinal George Pell will not fight for a reduced jail sentence if he fails in his appeal of his conviction for molesting two choirboys in the 1990s, a court spokesman said Monday.
The 77-year-old Pell — the most senior Catholic official convicted of sex abuse — was sentenced in a Melbourne court in March to six years in prison. He must serve at least three years and eight months of the term.
Pell will appeal his conviction next month. His lawyers have filed an application arguing it should be overturned on three grounds.
But the application does not include an appeal of the length of the sentence, Andre Awadalla, a spokesman for the Court of Appeal in Victoria state, told the Associated Press.
"The only appeal application filed on the matter is an appeal against conviction," Awadalla said. "His lawyers haven't filed an appeal in relation to sentence."
In sentencing Pell in March, Victorian County Court Chief Judge Peter Kidd acknowledged that there was a real chance that Pope Francis's former finance minister could die in jail.
Pell was convicted by a unanimous jury verdict in December on one charge of sexual penetration of a child and four charges of committing an indecent act with or in the presence of a child.
He was found guilty of raping a 13-year-old choirboy and sexually molesting his 13-year-old friend in the sacristy of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne in 1996, months after he became archbishop of the city. He molested the first boy again about a month later. One of his victims later died of a heroin overdose at the age of 31.
Pell's appeal application is set down for hearing on June 5 and 6, with three judges to first decide whether he should be granted leave to appeal.
His legal team will first argue that the verdicts were "unreasonable" since the jury could not have been satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Pell was guilty based on the word of the surviving victim against "unchallenged exculpatory evidence" of more than 20 prosecution witnesses.
Pell's lawyers are also expected to argue that Judge Kidd erred in not allowing them to use a video graphic in their closing arguments, which they said would demonstrate the offending that was alleged would have been impossible.
The third ground details an alleged "fundamental irregularity" in the trial in that Pell was not arraigned — asked if he pleaded guilty or not guilty — in front of the chosen jury.
If the judges accept the first ground, Pell's conviction will be overturned and he will be released.
A new trial could be ordered if they accept the second or third grounds.
While Pell remains Australia's highest-ranking Catholic, the Vatican has launched its own investigation into his convictions.
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Catholic priest sentenced to prison for molesting teenager
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2019/09/catholic-priest-sentenced-to-prison-for-molesting-teenager/
A Catholic priest who pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting a Northern California teenager for more than a year has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison.
KPIX-TV reports that Father David Mendoza-Vela, was sentenced Friday.
Prosecutors say Mendoza-Vela began molesting the boy in June 2016 when the victim was 14.
The 42-year-old priest was originally charged with 30 counts of lewd acts on a child. Twenty-five counts were dismissed as part of a plea deal.
Mendoza-Vela, who has since apologized to the boy, must register as a sex offender and stay away from his victim for at least 10 years.
Ordained in 2013, he was most recently assigned to the ministry at Fremont's Corpus Christi Catholic Church.
He was placed on administrative leave after his March arrest.
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Louisiana priest convicted of molestation released on bond
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2020/04/louisiana-priest-convicted-of-molestation-released-on-bond/
OPELOUSAS, Louisiana — A former Louisiana priest convicted of molesting an altar boy was released from jail on bond over coronavirus safety concerns.
Michael Guidry, 77, was released Friday nearly a year after he pleaded guilty to molesting a 16-year old boy after giving him alcohol in Guidry's home, The Advertiser reported. The victim said in a civil lawsuit that he woke up one day in 2015 after doing chores in Guidry's home and found the former priest molesting him, The Advocate reported. The victim told authorities about the molestation when he was an adult, four years after it happened.
Guidry, who served as the priest of St. Peter's Church in Morrow, was then sentenced to 10 years in prison in April 2019, KATC-TV reported.
His release on bond from St. Landry Parish jail comes amid objections from state prosecutors after his defense attorney, Jane Hogan, requested an emergency appeal hearing because of the virus outbreak. Guidry had been awaiting another sentencing hearing after a request to reconsider his 10-year sentence was denied by a judge in September, KATC-TV reported.
Kevin Bourgeois, a volunteer at a New Orleans nonprofit group for survivors of clergy abuse, told KATC-TV Guidry's release on bond sends a message to survivors that "their life is not as important as this sex offender's life."
Judge Alonzo Harris, the same judge who sentenced Guidry last year, had set the bond for Guidry. During that sentencing, the judge said "there are some things in life you just can't tolerate and one is sexual abuse on our children by priests."
Guidry will be placed on house arrest with an ankle monitor while on bond, and the court has also instructed him to not make contact with the victim.
Tommy Guilbeau, a defense attorney that is not involved in the case, said while it's "highly unusual" for a felon convicted of child molestation to be on house arrest, not releasing them at this time would be "condemning them to die in a petri dish of COVID-19."
The victim's parents and siblings told the court last year that the abuse caused chaos and pain in their family. The family declined to comment to KATC-TV due to a gag order.
The AP does not usually name victims of sexual assault.
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Buffalo Diocese files for bankruptcy after hundreds of sex abuse claims
Buffalo Diocese files for bankruptcy after hundreds of sex abuse claims. Albany Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger has led the diocese since December.
By Cayla Harris
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Buffalo-Diocese-files-for-bankruptcy-after-hundred-15091849.php
The Buffalo Diocese, temporarily headed by Albany Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger, filed for bankruptcy Friday morning as it grapples with hundreds of lawsuits alleging decades of child sexual abuse and cover-ups.
It is the second New York diocese to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy – which allows for reorganization of assets instead of liquidation. The Diocese of Rochester filed for bankruptcy in September. The decision was largely anticipated as the Buffalo diocese, facing more than 250 lawsuits over the past six months alleging sexual abuse, has emerged as the most-named defendant in all Child Victims Act cases.
The state's Child Victims Act in August opened a one-year window temporarily eliminating the statute of limitations for civil cases involving sex crimes. Since then, more than 1,600 cases have been filed statewide, many of them resurfacing decades-old allegations.
In a filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Western District of New York – first reported by The Buffalo News – the Buffalo Diocese identified $10 million to $50 million in assets and $50 million to $100 million in liabilities. In court filings, Scharfenberger asserted that the filing was necessary "in order to respond to claims stemming from the Child Victims Act in an equitable and comprehensive manner, and to reorganize the financial affairs of the Diocese in order to permit it to continue to fulfill its ministries to the Catholic faithful of the Diocese."
"We have no more urgent work than to bring about justice and healing for those harmed by the scourge of sexual abuse," Scharfenberger said in a Friday statement.
The decision puts all lawsuits against the diocese on pause as leaders determine how best to address the allegations and compensate accusers. It does not affect the daily operations of local parishes.
Scharfenberger, who is temporarily leading the Buffalo Diocese after the resignation of its former Bishop Richard Malone in December, will address the media in Buffalo at a 1 p.m. news conference. He had been weighing the decision for months, repeatedly telling reporters that a decision would come "soon."
"Whatever we do has to be done in a way that puts victims first," Scharfenberger told Albany reporters in December, acknowledging that bankruptcy could freeze litigation but may also offer more equal payouts to survivors who have filed claims. "We want to look at all of those things, and then that might be the best way to go."
He said at the time that the Albany Diocese is not considering a bankruptcy filing, and likely would not for "the next year or so." The Albany Diocese has also faced its share of Child Victims Act cases, though far fewer, at about 65. The Albany Diocese serves about half the number of Catholics as the Buffalo Diocese.
"The decision in Buffalo does not affect the Diocese of Albany in any way," Albany Diocese spokeswoman Mary DeTurris-Poust said in an email. "Until we know the full financial scope of the CVA as it relates to the Diocese of Albany, we cannot and will not make any decisions. We have nothing to announce, other than that we continue to respond in justice to survivors of abuse and urge anyone who has suffered such abuse to come forward."
Survivors and attorneys, reacting to Friday's filing, criticized the decision as a roundabout way of denying victims their day in court. They noted that bankruptcy allows the diocese to avoid releasing certain information and files about priests and clergy accused of abusing children – documents that would typically be unearthed during the discovery process.
Manhattan-based attorney Jeff Anderson, who represents dozens of survivors suing the Buffalo Diocese, said the diocese "is using bankruptcy to continue to conceal the truth about predator priests."
State Sen. Brad Hoylman, D-Manhattan, a sponsor of the Child Victims Act, said the filing could help reveal "how deep the pockets are of the institution" – but at the expense of preventing survivors from speaking out in front of a judge in a public courtroom.
"It's despicable that an institution that was responsible for the abuse of thousands of young people across the state of New York would try to hide behind the bankruptcy laws to prevent these individuals from receiving the entirety of the claim due to them," he said.
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Judge dismisses Buffalo Diocese's attempt to get $1.7M Covid-19 loan
By Jay Tokasz
https://buffalonews.com/business/local/judge-dismisses-buffalo-dioceses-attempt-to-get-1-7m-covid-19-loan/article_c01d9be2-8123-5dc4-a4ae-9e3a7e1f7a49.html
A federal judge in Rochester has ruled against the Buffalo Diocese's efforts to secure a $1.7 million loan through the Small Business Administration's national Paycheck Protection Program.
U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford on Wednesday dismissed the diocese's lawsuit against the federal agency that runs the loan program and refused to grant a preliminary injunction that would have forced the SBA into considering the diocese's loan request.
Wolford said in a written summary judgment the "SBA did not exceed its statutory authority" in adopting a policy that excluded entities in bankruptcy from qualifying for the loans.
The diocese's lawyers had argued that the SBA illegally excluded the diocese from applying for a share of the $659 billion Congress made available to businesses that keep employees on their payrolls during social distancing shutdown measures prompted by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Buffalo Diocese joined with the Rochester Diocese in asking the U.S. District Court for a preliminary injunction that would prohibit the SBA from denying the loan based on their bankruptcy statuses.
The Rochester Diocese sought $1.1 million from the SBA's Paycheck Protection Program and was ineligible because it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last September. The Buffalo Diocese filed for bankruptcy in February.
Government lawyers explained in court that the SBA adopted the bankruptcy exclusion to speed up loan processing and to ensure lenders that it wasn't approving unacceptably high-risk loans.
Without the PPP loans, the dioceses argued that they "will be forced to lay off or furlough essential employees which will have a permanent effect" on how their Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases are administered.
The Buffalo Diocese in March eliminated the jobs of 21 employees, a fifth of its workforce, due in part to the "anticipated financial impact of the pandemic." The cutbacks followed a 2019 fiscal year loss of $5 million for the diocese.
With Catholic Masses suspended during the pandemic, area parishes have been unable to bring in offertory collections. In turn, the parishes have been unable to meet their financial obligations to the diocese, the diocese's lawyers said in court papers.
With stay at home directives in effect, the diocese "will struggle to continue making payroll payments," which is the main eligibility requirement for the Paycheck Protection Program, lawyers argued.
Wolford said in her ruling that she was not convinced. She called the diocese's explanations about the financial impact of the pandemic ban on church gatherings "vague."
The diocese's lawyers "point out that offerings have dropped off precipitously, but they do not state what percentage of their funding comes from parish assessments versus other sources," Wolford wrote. "Plaintiffs further have not claimed that they need PPP funds in order to make payroll—indeed, there is no indication in plaintiffs' papers that they have not paid their employees' salaries or that failure to obtain PPP funds would somehow cause Plaintiffs to cease to operate."
Lawyers for the dioceses also said that the SBA added the bankruptcy rule arbitrarily, even though nothing in the CARES Act passed by Congress and signed by President Trump limits the diocese's eligibility for the funds.
Wolford's decision said the CARES Act was "silent regarding the eligibility of debtors in bankruptcy to participate in the PPP" and nothing in the legislation required a bankrupt debtor be eligible.
"This detail was left by Congress for determination by the SBA," she wrote.
Small businesses and other entities – including churches and religious organizations – that employ up to 500 people are eligible for the Paycheck Protection Program, which provides loans to cover payroll costs, rent, mortgages and utilities.
The loan, which requires no fees or collateral, is fully forgiven as long as at least 60% of it is used for payroll. If that requirement isn't met, the loan must be repaid over five years at a 1% interest rate.
Several other dioceses around the country and some Catholic parishes in Western New York have applied for and received loans through the Paycheck Protection Program.
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After a 2 week successful trial, and a little time back stateside, Gale Agbossoumonde has officially joined Swedish First Division team, Djurgarden, on a 6 month loan. Djurgarden has the option to purchase, through Gale's contract owners Traffic (a Brazilian company that likes to buy up player contracts), at the end of the loan period.
This is a good move for Gale, because for the last 6 months he really only got practice time with Portuguese 2nd division Estoril as he was ineligible to play there. If he can produce, Sweden tends to be a great stepping stone to playing for bigger clubs throughout Europe. Hopefully, though, he does take the Gooch route and jump to a bigger club than he will start with as that tends to hamper development.
If you jump over to Djurgarden's page, you can get a decent look at Gale getting some practice time with his new club (it's about a minute in). Djurgarden sits 9th out of 16 currently.


Reflexology can be beneficial for your child whatever age they are, and any positive knock-on effects are good for parents too! As with adults, reflexology helps young people rest and recharge, which in turn calms the body and mind, helping both to function better.
Our little ones often struggle with digestion/wind problems, sniffs and snuffles, teething pain and sleep. Reflexology may help to calm your young child and improve symptoms – a Danish study found that reflexology helped reduced the amount of crying colicky babies experienced. Babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers usually only need a few minutes of reflexology, so their treatment is incorporated into a session with mum or dad. I'll also share a few simple reflexology techniques with you so you can support your little one at home.
Children of primary school age can experience growing pains, tummy aches and headaches. Emotional issues may also come to the fore as they learn the complexities of friendships and navigate family dynamics. Reflexology aims to help your child relax and unwind in a gentle, welcoming space – they can bring a favourite toy or magazine with them for extra reassurance. I'll also give your child a colourful, laminated hand reflexology chart to take away, so that they can practice some hand reflexology at home.
Reflexology can be hugely beneficial during the adolescent years. Treatments help teens unwind, switch off from their friends and the pull of technology, and recharge their batteries. I've found that even the most nervous teenagers relax and get a lot from their treatments. Introducing your teenager to the benefits of a complementary therapy like reflexology can help encourage them to take an active role in their own physical, mental and emotional well-being, a really positive approach to carry into adult life.
We all know that just because your baby is at university it doesn't mean that you stop worrying about them! Student life can be exciting and a time of positive change and personal growth. But the flip side is that studying, adjusting to a new way of life, and dealing with friendships and relationships can sometimes feel overwhelming. My aim is to provide treatments that offer a welcome respite from life's pressures, and a safe haven for students when they're away from home.
* Please note that children under 16 years of age must be accompanied by a parent/legal guardian.
I love my reflexology treatments. They help me relax when my mind gets too busy, and calm me down if I'm upset. I always sleep really well afterwards too!


Flu outbreaks in schools are common as students gather in close proximity. Of course you teach your students to wash their hands regularly and to shield their mouths when coughing and sneezing, but this may not be enough to protect them from seasonal flu. Another way to prevent them from getting sick is to bolster their immune systems. To this end, make sure that they take a regular vitamin supplements and make sure that they also eat lots of these immune system-friendly foods.
This is the good kind of bacteria that aids in digestion and with the absorption of nutrients in the body. Probiotics are available in fermented foods like natural yoghurts and probiotic drinks. Supplements are available too. Probiotics reinforce the strength of intestinal walls and boost immune systems.
Ginger has anti-viral and anti-bacterial properties and also helps to settle stomach and prevent nausea. Ginger has the same pain-relieving properties as over-the-counter pain medications. You can add ginger to fruit salads, soups and stir-fries or slice it thinly and steep in warm water to make a tea. Add honey for added anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties.
This really does work! Studies have shown that chicken soup has other benefits beyond rehydration and nutrition. Not only does chicken soup have mild anti-inflammatory properties, it is also thought to improve the ability of cilia, the tiny hair-like parts of the nasal passages, to protect the body from bacteria and viruses. Add garlic to your chicken soup to improve its healing powers. Garlic stimulates your immune system and has anti-microbial properties.
Spinach, kale, collards, Swiss chard and other leafy greens are excellent flu-preventers. Packed with vitamins A, C, D, K, B1, B2, B6, and minerals such as zinc, iron, selenium, magnesium and copper, leafy greens are a great option for improving the immune system.
These tasty tubers are packed with beta carotene which can also be found in carrots. When absorbed into the body, its converted to vitamin A which helps neutralize toxins and combats respiratory infections. Sweet potatoes also combat free-radicals and this helps to boost the immune system.
Enjoy an orange or a grapefruit, or sip juice if you are not up for eating. The vitamin C in citrus fruit helps to boost the immune system. It's a great preventative measure too as vitamin C helps to boost cell integrity so that they are more able to withstand germs and viruses.
To improve your immune system, avoid sugary or processed foods and always include seven fruits and vegetables in your daily diet. Drink fruit juices and green tea to boost your system and combat free radicals. Preventing illness is easier than you think and is just one of the plethora of positive benefits of eating well and exercising regularly.


We are now in Master Artist terrain. As this is an advanced course I will be a bit more strict and will be judging and commenting on a much higher level than with the other normal lessons. The reason for this is that I want you all to move to a higher level of expertise than you have been in the past. All comments will be of a constructive nature that will of mutual benefit to each other.
WE ALL learn by our our mistakes and by mistakes of others as well Also please don't add anything more to the painting than what is in the lesson painting itself - anything else will detract from the final painting and will NOT be commented on.
Most of all - don't try to rush and finish the race at top speed! You have a whole week in which to finish the painting. Plan it in sessions so that you can take your time to study and take in the techniques given. You have nothing to gain and a lot to lose if you rush and try to match my speed. I'm not teaching you how to paint - I'm teaching you techniques. Some of these paintings took me up to 3 times longer than the normal 2 hour class - and I'm a fast painter with years of experience behind me!
Wow, challenging lesson. I had a hard time because a lot of my template around the purple flowers got all dull on me so I had to wing it.
I almost gave up, but once I went through the pdf, I got back on track.
Nice addition of the watercolor pencils, Dennis. Sure added the "advanced" touch. I didn't have the watercolor brush, though.
Glad I saw it though. Not great, but better than I expected it would look.
Happy I signed up for this advanced work. Looks like we'll learn a lot.
Good thing I had the leftover turkey - needed the stamina.
Time for bed; will check in the morning for your critique.
The rush comment also applies to the flowers. There is an unfinished area in the center where the two flowers overlap. Tone down the one highlight on the left bud. The sepals could be much stronger red - they are what make the flowers pop.
Wow, Mea, I can see the signs of "maturity" if I can put it that way. A HUGE improvement. Your painting is FANTASTIC and I can't wait to get started on mine. Flowers are my worst so I am eager to improve and I am SO PLEASED that I signed up for this course too. Looks like we will learn a lot. Great job. I am excited for sure.
Really nice Mea, you sure are improving your skills, way to go girl.
Dennis your quote "you have a whole week in which to finish the painting" The course will stay there for always no?
PS I am glad you are going to be tough on us, I like constructive criticism.
I see now what ADVANCED means. Yes, I did rush through it. Really appreciate that you will be doing a higher level of critique - that'll benefit all of us.
I will go back over the painting today and try to make adjustments where I can.
Three leaves at the top - yikes, I guess I was half asleep on those. Will do better.
Now that I know the level you expect of us, I will rise to the challenge.
Danielle and Patricia- thanks for the comments - you are really going to feel special doing this painting. It's like getting the inside scoop on being a better painter.
Wow Mea! This is great work!
I just realized that I did not need to paint the background leaves and flowers at the top and bottom of the page. Guess I got carried away when I copied the template.
It never even dawned on me that they weren't in your painting until I saw it today. I will be more careful next time.
I see now that I have to do a lot more preparation for one of these lessons.
This is going to help me immensely to do better work - every time.
This would look so much better if I had eliminated all the extraneous stuff I included (before I read Dennis' s instructions).
I worked on the top leaves and reddened the flowers, plus added a few little touch ups here and there. Quite a difference from the first one.
I really look forward to doing the next flower in this course, so that I can apply all that I learned from my mistakes on this one.
You will far outdo me on this course, but I will catch up a little with each lesson.
Nice work Mea! Dennis' comments on your work will help me when I work on mine. I'm really looking forward to "stepping it up" in these lessons.
Thanks. This course is really going to make a difference.


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Description: This paper describes the development of incipient yield and subsequent collapse surfaces for a plate containing a large number of small circular penetrations arranged in an equilateral triangular array. The collapse surface developed here is appropriate for formulating a generic elastic-plastic flow theory for perforated materials. A unit cell is defined to characterize the mechanical response of an equilateral triangular array of penetrations. An elastic-perfectly plastic [EPP] finite element analysis [FEA] computer program is used to calculate the EPP response of the unit cell. A sufficient number of load cases are solved to define the complete incipient yield and collapse surfaces for the unit cell. A fourth order yield function is defined by squaring the Von Mises quadratic yield function and retaining only those terms that are required for the symmetry dictated by the triangular array. Curve fitting is used to determine the coefficients of the fourth order function to match the incipient yield and collapse data calculated for the unit cell by FEA. The incipient yield function in the plane of the plate incorporating the penetration pattern is shown to be almost rhomboidal in shape while the collapse curve is more elliptical. The fourth order yield function which passes through the incipient yield data possess regions where the surface is concave--a concern when developing a plasticity theory based on the function. Fitting the coefficients of the fourth order function to the collapse data results in a curve which is shown to be always convex thus having all positive outward normal vectors which is a required property for the development of plasticity flow theories.
Creator: Gordon, J.L.; Jones, D.P.; Hutula, D.N. & Banas, D.
Description: This paper describes the formulation of an elastic-perfectly plastic flow theory applicable to equivalent solid [EQS] modeling of perforated materials. An equilateral triangular array of circular penetrations is considered. The usual assumptions regarding geometry and loading conditions applicable to the development of elastic constants for EQS modeling of perforated plates are considered to apply here. An elastic-perfectly plastic [EPP] EQS model is developed for a collapse surface that includes fourth-order stress terms. The fourth order yield function has been shown to be appropriate for plates with a triangular array of circular holes. A complete flow model is formulated using the consistent tangent modulus approach based on the fourth order yield function.
Creator: Jones, D.P.; Gordon, J.L.; Hutula, D.N.; Banas, D. & Newman, J.B.


There are two options in regards to food ordering in fine restaurants. The à la carte and the degustation menu (which often comes in the short and long edition).
A balanced degustation menu, has to tell a story. This story has a beginning, a middle and an end. The beginning usually includes the teasing Amuse Bouche which are fine little samplers of what the kitchen has to offer.
If you decide to choose the à la carte menu, be careful not to overdo it with heavy items or, contrary, order everything light, because your meal will lack balance. For instance do try a vegetable for starter but go for meat of fish for mains. Don't juggle between categories and items because you may end up with a disaster. And do listen to the waiter's recommendation if they tell you that you made a mistake.
Also keep in mind that in fine restaurants the à la carte menu usually ends up costing you more than the degustation menu, so make some quick calculations before you place your order.


I've been living off about 3 hours sleep a night for the past few weeks, I haven't been in the sun (which anyone who knows me knows I gain my energy and greatest happiness from being in the sun and feeling it's rays against my skin.. Serious heliophelia!) I've worked more in the last month than I have ever worked in my entire life and have been so caught up on priorities and work that I have had NO relaxation or down time. I'm mentally and physically exhausted and today at work I finally reached my limit; my biggest burden is letting other people down - I find I get my happiness and joy from helping others, so if I frustrate someone it really gets to me because I know it gets to THEM. I avoid at all costs. And then someone made the rudest remark at me I have ever received and from then on I played the "don't cry" game with myself for about an hour before I was told my day shift was up and to have a rest before the night (I'm working again tonight). I pretty much ran out and as soon as I was out the door I broke down. I rarely ever cry, I prefer to be strong and act as if nothing is bothering me. But I really couldn't today.. (It probably didn't help that I am completely drained and exhausted) I have other issues and problems and stressors that made it all build up into one huge emotional bubble. So I sat in the fire escape balling for about 20 mins then woke up to myself and realised that I don't have to feel this way. My thoughts create my life. I can decide to let these things continue to build and get to me, or I can simply decide that I don't need the negativity, breathe out, take a step back, look at my situation from a different perspective and learn from it rather than stirring in it. My mind is a garden, my thoughts are the seeds. I want to grow beautiful flowers, definitely not weeds! And not even just in this aspect of my life - in all areas! Our minds are such incredible and powerful things, so I plan on utilising that strength for good not bad - being positive and spreading it! Lighting others lives if I can rather than exerting a negative aura. So I will :) Are you with me? What kinds of difficult, unfair or stressful things are happening in your life? Have you been dwelling on them and possibly magnifying the problem? Making it seem larger or more problematic than it really is? How can you proactively change the situation and your thoughts? How can you benefit others AND yourself by altering your thoughts?
Breathe. Now do it - I'll be doing it too.
Lets grow some amazingly beautiful flowers!


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Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant
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Dr. David Starkey presents the life of infamous British monarch. Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant is a history documentary series on Henry VIII of England presented by David Starkey.
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An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual yet, she said, a virgin, Elizabeth I was to be famed as England's most successful ruler....
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Martin Luther King Jnr`s Day
Posted by Ian Henery at Sunday, January 15th, 2023 8:00am
Let`s celebrate Martin Luther King Jnr`s Day on 16th January.
It`s his birthday and in the US some workers get the day off from work and schools close. What are we doing to remember the Reverend Martin Luther King Jnr - the Baptist minister, activist and hero of the civil rights movement? We should all reflect upon his life, teach our children about the importance of his work as a civil rights leader and reflect on all of his contributions to society.
The campaign for a holiday in his honour began soon after his assassination in 1968. President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983. At first some states in America resisted observing the holiday as such but it was officially observed by all 50 states for the first time in 2000.
Only 2 other figures have national holidays in the United States honouring them and they are George Washington and Christopher Columbus.
The success of the movement to honour Martin Luther King Jnr was cemented when musician Stevie Wonder recorded the single "Happy Birthday" in 1980 to popularise the campaign and hosted the Rally for Peace Press Conference in 1981. Six Million signatures were collected for a petition to Congress to pass the law. The petition became the largest in favour of an issue in US history.
I can`t think of him without remembering his "I Have a Dream Speech" on 28th August 1963 although it was made before I was born. In the speech he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
The speech was a defining moment of the civil rights movement and among the most iconic moments of American history.
"I have a dream" - with that single phrase" Martin Luther King Jnr joined Jefferson and Lincoln in the ranks of men who shaped modern America. The speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century and also has a strong claim to be the greatest in the English language of all time.
We should not give up on hope. ""I have a dream" said the Reverend Martin Luther King Jnr - the lessons from history show us that often at the most dire moments the door opens for change. Climate challenges force us to re-evaluate how the world is run. Cost of living suffering brings questioning and demands. Propaganda reveals its own lies and brings anger to the surface.
There have been many deaths but many births. Many to step up to the battles that lie ahead. Our way of life is changing, pushing us to think creatively about new strategies for living. Out of ashes we will rebuild better. We must live in hope, we must fuel our optimism, resist the pressures to make us afraid and hopeless.
Stand strong, fight division, reach out to others, put one foot in front of the the, accept endings and loss and move towards something different. We can do it.
Picking Up The Pieces
Pick up the pieces and let us make peace;
In God`s name, war and suffering must cease.
When will we become humans of the world
And love, at the politicians, be hurled?
Why is there hatred across God`s own earth?
Why do we torture, maim and kill - in mirth?
The starving, we do not have sympathy:
Humbleness, we have an antipathy.
Giving, beyond our capability
Even if it meant world stability.
"I`m all that matters"! is the often cry
While we hear not the child who screams and dies.
Faith - it moves mountains, the things years have proved:
God`s love revealed, the thorn of doubt removed.
In God, let`s go out and give what He needs
Let`s do it with love - faith is our creed.
In God`s name, war and suffering must cease:
Pick up the pieces and let us make peace.
Ian Henery