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Gerald T. Slevin, Update–Criminal Charges of Vatican Child Abuse Cover-Up
From the link: http://bilgrimage.blogspot.com/2012/04/gerald-t-slevin-update-criminal-charges.html
Jerry Slevin continues to be vigilant about what's happening with Catholic church officials and the child abuse cover-up, from a legal standpoint. He has just sent another outstanding statement, this one about SNAP's filing last week of new charges updating their previous filing of criminal charges against the Vatican with the International Criminal Court, for the Vatican's internationally orchestrated cover-up of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy.
Here's Jerry's statement:
SNAP, the international victims advocacy network, filed on April 11, 2012 with the International Criminal Court (ICC) a 19 page letter ("New Charges"), plus supporting documentation, updating SNAP's prior September 2011 original charges ( "Original Charges").
The New Charges, include additional evidence supporting SNAP's allegations against Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) and three top Vatican subordinates, Cardinals Bertone, Levada and Sodano. SNAP alleges this Vatican clique for years has been, and still is, orchestrating a worldwide criminal cover-up by Catholic bishops of priest child sexual abuse, including acts involving systemic rape, sexual violence and torture, of hundreds of thousands of defenseless children. These collectively would constitute "crimes against humanity" under the ICC treaty.
After SNAP filed the Original Charges, almost 500 additional victims from over 60 countries contacted SNAP with new allegations that SNAP has added to the Original Charges. The New Charges (accessible by clicking here) also contain brief and clear updates, with citation links, concerning other recent relevant developments since the Original Charges, including:
(1) September 2011: The issuance of the scathing and devasting report, "In Plain Sight", by Amnesty International Ireland, concerning the recent history of priest sexual abuse of children in Ireland and of the Irish government's "hands off" approach until recently to the Catholic Church hierarchy's and priests' appalling misdeeds;
(2) October 2011: The indictment of Cardinal Justin Rigali's protégé, Opus Dei Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City, for failing to report a child pornographer priest, and the April 5, 2012 court decision denying Finn's motion to dismiss the criminal charges;
(3) November and December 2011: The issuance in Ireland of the sordid remainder of the Cloyne Diocese Report and the results of governmental audits in six additional Irish dioceses, all confirming in varying degrees a familiar pattern of abuse and bishops' cover-up;
(4) December 2011: The issuance in the Netherlands of the massive Deetman report indicating tens of thousands of Dutch children had been sexually abused by priests over several decades, supplemented by reports of several children being castrated following their reporting that they were sexually abused by clerics;
(5) January 2012: The publication of several articles highlighting the escalating reporting of priest abuse of children in Poland and the special difficulty of getting governmental officials to confront the entrenched Polish Catholic hierarchy on priest abuse issues;
(6) March 2012: The publication by a former Legion of Christ priest of evidence of special canon law favoritism by the Pope and Cardinal Bertone towards admitted sexual deviant, Fr. Maciel, of Mexico;
(7) March-April 2012: The unprecedented ongoing Philly criminal trial of a former top aide to Cardinals Bevilacqua and Rigali and the almost daily revelations of a decades-old cover-up, including document shredding by bishops and another bishop's admission under oath that the important priest personnel decisions were always made by the Cardinals. The trial is establishing that a similar cover-up pattern was followed over a half-century by three different Cardinals with episcopal experience from five dioceses in four states, as well as in Rome. Each of the three Cardinals had close ties to the Vatican. The common cover-up pattern is indicative of at least policy coordination with Rome and, in some instances even, of direct coordination, as SNAP has alleged to the ICC generally with respect to the Vatican clique. This is discussed in more detail in my April 13, 2012 article about the Philly trial, accessible here.
(8) February-April: In New York, District Attorneys in the State Capitol, Albany, area have banded together to tighten up significantly the handling of claims of child sexual abuse by priests. In Milwaukee, a Federal bankruptcy judge has to date ruled against releasing massive records relating to priest child abuse in the Milwaukee Archdiocese. Generally, the US bishops' latest annual report confirms a rise in overall priest child sexual abuse claims, including some additional new claims, as well as the continued failure of some bishops to follow even the weak US bishops' child protection guidelines.
In addition to the foregoing, the New Charges also spell out clearly the long standing directives to the bishops from the Vatican to resist adopting mandates that Catholic bishops must promptly report priest child abuse claims to the police.
Finally, the New Charges crisply summarize the effort of senior US bishops and their highly paid apologists and attorneys to retaliate against SNAP, apparently for filing criminal charges against the Vatican clique with the ICC. The recent appointment of a woman and a mother as the new ICC lead prosecutor may be giving the Vatican clique some sleepless nights about SNAP's ICC case. The New Charges will likely only increase the retaliatory efforts against SNAP.
The protections from prosecution surrounding the pope have been extensive to date, but they may eventually prove to have been in vain. The pope runs a tight ship, perhaps a throwback to his teenage German military service in the dangerous days at the end of World War II. For more infomation on this, please read the comments under, "An Opportunistic Pope," "The Pope at the Masters" and "Kids, Women and Bishops Beware," accessible by clicking here.
The International Criminal Court, or the ICC, is structurally independent of the United Nations and the World Court, and was established as a permanent tribunal at the Hague, Netherlands, a decade ago by an international treaty now ratified by over 120 nations that are annually assessed to support the ICC's staff of over 500 professionals, as described here.
The ICC's special focus is on handling crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes that, for various reasons, cannot readily be tried elsewhere, as in this case involving the Vatican. Given the geographical and chronological scope of the Vatican clique's alleged crimes against humanity, there appears to be clear ICC juridiction over the Vatican clique if the ICC prosecutor decides to pursue the criminal case fully. Decisions to pursue criminal prosecutions frequently take a long period to evaluate, given the voluminous facts and documents, etc., sometimes taking over a year just for the decision to prosecute.
A new lead ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, presently Deputy Prosecutor, takes office in a few weeks. She has been an advocate on behalf of African victims of violence, including those in Rwanda, and is a mother with two sons, one of whom reportedly lives currently in the United States. For more on Mrs. Bensouda, please see this recent Irish Times article.
Ironically, as the pope is increasingly engaged in a war against women's rights as part of his US efforts to replace Barack Obama, the pope's fate may now be decided initially by a woman ICC prosecutor in a case led by a woman, Pam Spees, a no-nonsense and very competent international human rights attorney, with her excellent professional colleagues and experienced staff at SNAP's legal advocates, the Center For Constitutional Rights, an exceptionally successful and highly regarded human rights advocacy group based in New York City and described more fully here.
For 300 years, the early Church generally prospered and grew under and obeyed Roman law applicable to all Romans, including bishops. For most of the next 1,700 years after Constantine's virtual takover of the Church hierarchy, the imperial Church hierarchy have mostly made their own rules as an unaccountable hierarchical monarchy and frequent player in European power politics. The power politics ended substantively in 1870 when the Papal States were lost to Italian populists, but the pope still clings to the fantasy that the Vatican is a sovereign nation and player yet in power politics. Of course, the hierarchy has personally benefited, and continues to benefit, greatly from the monarchical structure, which is mainly why it fights so fiercely to maintain its power and wealth.
Almost 150 years later, the pope is still resisting becoming accountable to the international rule of law that applies to almost all other world leaders and nations. The ICC and European financial regulators will likely soon change that permanently.
Cross-posted on Open Tabernacle, 16 April 2012.
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Los Gatos Priest Beating Case Trial Date Now Changed to June
from the link: http://losgatos.patch.com/articles/los-gatos-priest-beating-case-trial-date-now-changed-to-june
Pretrial motion Friday postponed until May 3, with jury selection taking place May 14 and presentation of evidence June 19.
By Sheila Sanchez April 7, 2012
Friday's scheduled pretrial motions in the case against a San Francisco man accused of beating a priest at the Los Gatos Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in May of 2010 have been postponed until 9 a.m., May 3.
William Lynch, 44, has been arraigned on one count of felony assault with intent to cause great bodily injury and one count of elder abuse under circumstances likely to produce great bodily harm or death. He has pleaded not guilty to both charges.
The scheduled hearing was changed since presiding Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge David Cena is tied up with a homicide trial that is running longer than expected.
The pretrial motions hearing, a time for any legal issue that will arise during the high-profile trial to be addressed by the prosecution and the defense, will be followed by jury selection May 14
The presentation of the evidence is expected to start on or around June 19, instead of the earlier reported date of May 29, said Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Gemetti.
Jury selection will be performed using jury questionnaires with potential jurors being called in to court and given the document to fill out and then reviewed by the attorneys.
Counsel will then meet and discuss which jurors need to be questioned for so-called "cause," necessary in every trial to weed down the full veneer of potential jurors to the 12 jurors and alternates who will sit on the case, explained Gemetti.
Attorneys will question the jurors for any biases or any impediments to sit for "cause," such as someone having been convicted of a similar crime or who may have a family member working in the DA's office or law enforcement and their objectivity is compromised.
After the panel has been passed for cause, meaning there are no legal reasons why the jurors can't sit on the case, each attorney will have 10 pre-emptory challenges that can be exercised and they'll go back and forth to determine which jurors will be sworn in, Gemetti added.
The proceedings are taking place in Judge Cena's courtroom, department 34 of the Santa Clara County Hall of Justice in San Jose.
"Once we've sworn the jury in … we're going to stick to that schedule to the best of our abilities," Gemetti said about the delays in the trial start date. "Obviously trials are fluid and things may change and emergencies do happen, but … once we have those 12 people and they're told the dates, things won't change too much."
The questionnaire presented to the jurors will probably be several pages long containing a list of questions and topics, some inquiries from the court and some submitted by the defense and the prosecution.
Lynch is being represented by Pat Harris and Mark Geragos, with the Los Angeles-based law firm of Geragos & Geragos.
Authorities say he walked into the center's reception area the afternoon of May 10, 2010 and asked to speak to Father Jerold Lindner. He said he had a death notification about a member of the priest's family and then allegedly assaulted him.
The case is being closely watched by critics of the Roman Catholic Church who allege Lindner raped and sodomized Lynch and his brother when they were small boys in the '70s while on camping trips.
If a jury convicts Lynch, he's could serve a maximum of four years in state prison. The court, however, could grant him probation and give him up to one year in county jail, Gemetti said.
"We have been ready for trial for quite some time," Gemetti said. "I'm quite anxious to get the matter proceeding."
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Vatican approach to child abuse in Ireland absolutely disgraceful, says PM
from the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/14/vatican-child-abuse-ireland?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Enda Kenny says laws being drawn up making it impossible for anyone to avoid obligation to report abuse allegations
Henry McDonald in Dublin
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 14 July 2011 13.52 EDT
Enda Kenny has called on the Vatican to repeat its commitment to always following civil law in matters relating to child abuse. Photograph: Isopix/Rex Features
Ireland's prime minister has denounced the Vatican's approach to allegations of child abuse in the republic as absolutely disgraceful.
Enda Kenny said new laws are being drawn up that will make it impossible for anyone – even those high up in the Roman Catholic church – to avoid their obligations regarding reports of child abuse.
"The law of the land should not be stopped by crosier, or by collar," Kenny said.
He added that he hopes the response from the Irish government to the Cloyne report will clarify to everyone that the law of the land applies in situations where appalling actions took place.
Kenny called on the Vatican to repeat its commitment that civil law should always be followed. The Irish Catholic church and the Vatican have faced severe criticism over repeated attempts to deal with incidents of abuse behind closed doors rather than by handing over suspects to the Garda Síochána.
The Irish deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Eamon Gilmore, met with the Vatican's ambassador to Ireland to discuss the report's findings.
"There's one law in this country. Everybody is going to have to learn to comply with it. The Vatican will have to comply with the laws of this country," Gilmore said after the meeting.
Gilmore said the report would be debated in the House next Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on the availability of ministers and spokespersons.
He said the failure of the church to co-operate with the law was one of the greatest problems and that the coalition government was determined that there would be consequences for any institution which failed to work with the legal authorities of the state when it came to child abuse.
The Socialist party's Joe Higgins said people were "throwing their hands in the air" at the revelations in the Cloyne report.
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Catholic church weighs up response to criticism from Ireland
from the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/29/catholic-church-response-criticism-ireland?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Vatican officials claim Enda Kenny may be using report into sexual abuse by priests to divert attention from euro crisis
John Hooper in Rome
guardian.co.uk, Friday 29 July 2011 12.41 EDT
Pope Benedict XVI fears further fracturing of the Catholic church in Europe. Photograph: Riccardo De Luca/AP
Next month, as every year since he was chosen to lead the world's Roman Catholics, the scholarly Pope Benedict XVI will preside at a meeting of his Schülerkreis — a group of his former doctoral students.
This year, the issue for debate in the pontifical summer palace, overlooking a volcanic lake near Rome, is the one he was elected to tackle: how to reverse the galloping secularisation of Catholicism's European homeland.
The discussion could scarcely be more timely, coming in the midst of a crisis in relations between the Holy See and Ireland, a country where, until a few years ago, official defiance of Rome was unthinkable.
The reaction in the Vatican to Enda Kenny's impassioned denunciation on 20 July has been one of astonishment. But, as the Holy See's temporary recall of its ambassador, or nuncio, five days later showed, it is also laced with indignation.
The pope's deputy spokesman, Father Ciro Benedettini, gave the move a positive gloss, saying the Holy See needed the nuncio back in Rome so it could frame its reply to the Cloyne report "with objectivity and determination". But his temporary withdrawal also reflected what Benedettini tactfully called "surprise and disappointment over some excessive reactions".
In diplomacy, the recall of an envoy for consultations is a clear signal of disapproval and L'Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian bishops' conference, was unable to find a precedent for it in the vast annals of Vatican diplomacy.
The pope's aides feel they have been unfairly attacked, and some suspect a political motive. One high-ranking cleric who spoke on condition of anonymity noted Ireland was caught up in the euro crisis and speculated that Kenny might have been seeking to distract public opinion.
Others stressed the Vatican response, promised by the end of August, would seek to heal the breach. But the signs this week were that it would also include a vigorous defence of the Vatican's position.
No one in Rome disputes that allegations of the sexual abuse of minors in the Cloyne diocese were grossly mishandled by the bishop, John Magee. But Vatican officials argue they are being pilloried for the actions of a pastor who disregarded their instructions.
Ireland's prime minister claimed that judge Yvonne Murphy's report contained evidence of an "attempt by the Holy See to block an enquiry … less than three years ago".
Vatican officials say they can find no such evidence. What the report does contain, they say, is criticism of the papal bureaucracy's actions 14 years ago. In 1997, the Congregation for the Clergy, the department responsible for the priesthood, sent a message to the Irish bishops criticising their attempts to create a framework for dealing with sex abuse cases.
In particular, it objected to a clause that went beyond the requirements of Irish law at the time and proposed that: "In all instances where it is known or suspected that a priest … has sexually abused a child, the matter should be reported to the civil authorities." The Vatican said that could be at odds with the church's own laws.
Murphy's commission concluded that Rome's objections gave individual bishops – including Magee – freedom to ignore the bishops' guidelines. But speaking on Vatican Radio on 19 July, the pope's spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, argued there was "no reason to interpret the letter as aimed at hiding cases of abuse. In fact, it was warning of the risk of taking measures that could then turn out to be challengeable or invalid from a canonical point of view".
In any case, say other Vatican officials, even if the Congregation's response was misguided, it was made before 2001. That is when, in their view, there was a sea change.
Pope John Paul II ordered all cases of alleged sex abuse to be dealt with in Rome by the department then headed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, as he was known then. As he read the paperwork, the future pope became increasingly appalled by what he saw, and put in place an altogether more effective policy. "Not to recognise that there has been a learning curve and that things have changed is stupid", said a senior Vatican official.
That may not be the whole story, however. In an interview with the website Vatican Insider, the archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, said he believed Kenny was not only referring to the 1997 exchange, but also "to interactions – which I was unaware of – which took place with the Vatican while the Cloyne report was being prepared". He did not elaborate.
• This article was amended on 2 August 2011. In the original Diarmuid Martin was described as also having the status of cardinal. This has been corrected.
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Priest apologises for likening Irish PM to Hitler over attack on Vatican
from the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/28/priest-apologises-enda-kenny-hitler-vatican?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Cleric says he regrets leaflet berating Enda Kenny over accusation that the Holy See downplayed child sex abuse scandals
Henry McDonald
Enda Kenny: parliamentarians from his Fine Gael party complained over the leaflet issued by Father Thomas Daly. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA
A Catholic priest in the Irish Republic has been forced to apologise for comparing the country's prime minister to Adolf Hitler because the taoiseach had dared to criticise the Vatican.
Father Thomas Daly issued the apology on Thursday after he likened Enda Kenny's denunciation of the Vatican's handling of clerical child sex abuse scandals in the republic to one of Hitler's speeches.
In a leaflet titled Heil Herr Kenny given to members of the Togher parish in Drogheda, County Louth, the priest wrote that the last European leader to issue such a blistering attack on the pope "was the ruthless German dictator Adolf Hitler".
Daly said, like Hitler, the taoiseach "had to face reality. A cautionary tale."
The parish priest also drew a comparison between the Irish prime minister's remarks to those of anti-Catholic loyalists in Northern Ireland.
"Perhaps we might try and find a way to build new with bridges with the Shankill Road people. A 'No Pope Here' sign would definitely be a draw for Shankill Road people and marchers from Portadown," he wrote.
Parliamentarians from Kenny's Fine Gael party complained over the priest's leaflet. Daly said: "I regret the headline and for the misunderstandings that might have arisen out of it. I am not comparing Enda Kenny to Hitler."
In an unprecedented attack on the Vatican last week, Kenny accused the Holy See of "downplaying the rape and torture of children". He told the Dáil that the recent Cloyne report "revealed an attempt by the Holy See to frustrate an inquiry into child sex abuse just three years ago".
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Irish PM's attack on Catholic church a 'wake-up call', says archbishop
from the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/21/archbishop-vatican-kenny-abuse?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Diarmuid Martin, archbishop of Dublin, speaks after Enda Kenny accuses Vatican of downplaying abuse of Irish children by clerics
Irish prime minister Enda Kenny told parliament that the recent Cloyne report has exposed the Vatican's 'dysfunction' and elitism. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA
The archbishop of Dublin has said the Irish prime minister's attack on the Catholic church following a report on child sex abuse in the country should be a wake-up call for clergymen.
Enda Kenny launched his unprecedented attack on the Vatican in the Irish parliament, accusing it of downplaying the rape and torture of Irish children by clerical sex abusers.
He said the recent Cloyne report had exposed an attempt by the holy see to frustrate the inquiry into child sex abuse just three years ago and illuminated the "dysfunction" and the elitism still dominant in the Vatican.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin – close to tears in an interview on RTE Television – said the only way all allegations, abuse and cover-ups could be exposed was through invasive audits of each diocese. "I'm very disappointed, annoyed," he said.
"What do you do when you've got groups, whether in the Vatican or in Ireland, who try to undermine what is being done or simply refuse to understand what has been done?"
The archbishop said the diocese of Cloyne had ignored Vatican policy issued in 2001 by the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict.
"What does that say? What sort of a cabal is this that is in there [Cloyne]?" He added: "If they think that by not getting at the truth they are helping the church, the statement in today's Dail should teach them a lesson."
Kenny had told the parliament that the Vatican seemed more interested in upholding the power and reputation of the Catholic church than in confronting the abuse of Irish children by its priests and religious orders.
He said that the Vatican's attitude to investigations in Cloyne, which covers county Cork, was the "polar opposite of the radicalism, the humility and the compassion that the church had been founded on".
He said the rape and torture of children had been downplayed, or managed, to uphold instead the institution with its power and reputation.
One of the most damning findings of the report was that the diocese failed to report nine out of 15 complaints made against priests, which "very clearly should have been reported".
This latest report, coming after a string of inquiries into Catholic clerical sex abuse across Ireland, has set the present Irish government on a collision course with the church not only in the republic but at its global headquarters in the Vatican City.
Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi, speaking in a personal capacity, had said that there was nothing in the advice given by the papal nuncio to Ireland in 1997 to encourage bishops to break Irish laws.
He said that the Vatican's advice to Irish bishops on child protection policies could not be interpreted as an invitation to cover up abuse cases.
This drew sharp criticism from Ireland's justice minister, Alan Shatter, who described the Vatican spokesman's argument as disingenous. Some Irish parliamentarians have called on the Fine Gael-Labour coalition to expel the papal nuncio from Ireland in protest at the Vatican's attittude to the allegations in the Cloyne diocese.
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Irish prime minister attacks Vatican
from the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/20/irish-prime-minister-attacks-vatican
Enda Kenny says Cloyne report on child sex abuse by priests highlights dysfunction and elitism in Rome
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 20 July 2011 11.46 EDT
The Irish PM, Enda Kenny, said the Vatican seemed more interested in upholding the church's reputation than confronting sexual abuse. Photograph: Isopix / Rex Features
Ireland's prime minister has launched an unprecedented attack on the Vatican, accusing it of downplaying the rape and torture of Irish children by clerical sex abusers.
Enda Kenny said in parliament that the Cloyne report, released on 13 July, had exposed the Vatican's attempt to frustrate the inquiry into child sex abuse.
During a debate on the fallout from the Cloyne findings, the taoiseach said the report had illuminated the dysfunction and elitism still dominant in the Vatican.
Kenny told the Dáil on Wednesday that Rome seemed more interested in upholding the church's power and reputation than confronting the abuse of Irish children by its priests and religious orders.
The Vatican's attitude to investigations in Cloyne, which covers County Cork, was the "polar opposite of the radicalism, the humility and the compassion that the church had been founded on", he said.
Kenny said the rape and torture of children had been downplayed or "managed" to uphold the institution's power and reputation.
The all-party motion being debated in the Dáil "deplores the Vatican's intervention which contributed to the undermining of child protection frameworks and guidelines of the Irish state and the Irish bishops".
One of the most damning findings of the Cloyne report was that the diocese failed to report nine out of 15 complaints made against priests, which "very clearly should have been reported".
The report, coming after a string of inquiries into Catholic clerical sex abuse across Ireland, has set the Irish government on a collision course with the church.
Earlier on Wednesday a Vatican spokesman, Fr Federico Lombardi, speaking in a personal capacity, said nothing in the advice given by the papal nuncio to Ireland in 1997 encouraged bishops to break Irish laws.
The Vatican's advice to Irish bishops on child protection policies could not be interpreted as an invitation to cover up abuse cases, he said.
Ireland's justice minister, Alan Shatter, described the Vatican spokesman's argument as disingenuous.
Some Irish parliamentarians have called on the Fine Gael-Labour coalition to expel the papal nuncio from Ireland in protest over the Vatican's attitude to the allegations in the Cloyne diocese.
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Vatican announces silencing of Irish liberal priest Father Tony Flannery
From the link: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Vatican-announces-silencing-of-Irish-liberal-priest-Father-Tony-Flannery-146402545.html
Criticisms of Vatican on abuse, birth control, women priests, leads to inquiry
ANTOINETTE KELLY,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Friday, April 6, 2012, 6:09 AM
Updated Friday, April 6, 2012, 6:59 AM
Father Tony Flannery, a Catholic priest who has been outspoken in his criticism of the abuse crisis in Ireland, has found himself under investigation by the Vatican for his liberal views.
Founder of the Association of Irish Priests, Father Flannery told TheJournal.ie that the Vatican has contacted him to inform him of the investigation.
The effect of the investigation was immediate. This week The Irish Catholic newspaper reports that Father Flannery had to cease writing his monthly column in the Redemptorist Reality magazine in response to news of the investigation.
The Irish Catholic writer Michael Kelly reported that, "It is understood that while Fr Flannery has the support of his superiors in the Redemptorist Order, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in Rome has expressed disquiet about some of his articles and publications.
"It is believed that the views which have come under most scrutiny are Fr Flannery's opposition to the Church's ban on artificial birth control and his support for the ordination of women."
Last year, Father Flannery welcomed Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny's hard hitting criticism of the Church's decades long mishandling of the child sex abuse scandals in Ireland.
The investigation is seen by critics as a crackdown on the association, which has been described as a 'dissident group' by more conservative members of the Church.
In recent months, the association has called for changes in the Church, including its theology on sexuality. Some of the association's priests contend that priests should be allowed to marry and that the Church should permit the ordination of female priests.
A Redemptorist, Flannery is a native of Attymon, Athenry in County Galway, Ireland. He is the youngest in the family of four. He has two brothers: Peter, who is a fellow Redemptorist at Esker Monastery in Athenry, and Frank, the Fine Gael Director of Organisation and Strategy.
The crackdown comes on the heels of the Vatican ordered Apostolic Visitation, which found evidence of what it called a 'certain tendency' for Irish priests to hold opinions that conflict with those of the orthodox Magisterium, the Catholic Church's teaching authority.
In a sign of hardening attitudes, the Visitation participants underlined that any dissent from the formal teachings of the Church were 'not the authentic path towards renewal.'
Under the current circumstances, Father Flannery has been effectively silenced, with no indication of how long it will last.
On Holy Thursday Pope Benedict issued a very direct statement which slammed those priests who refuse to conform to church teachings.
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Sex Crimes and the Vatican Documentary
Created in 1962, a now infamous document was issued in secret to bishops. Called Crimen Sollicitationis, it outlined procedures to be followed by bishops when dealing with allegations of child abuse, homosexuality and bestiality by members of the clergy. It swore all parties involved to secrecy on pain of excommunication from the Catholic Church.
This document was reissued in 2001 by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and sent to all bishops. Yet rather than ordering more openness and cooperation with the authorities as demanded by both law enforcers and the victims, he reiterated its policies and ensured that the Code of Silence be applied to all cases of child abuse involving a priest. Cardinal Ratzinger also instructed that all cases should now be referred to his office directly and that he would maintain 'exclusive competence' over the handling of allegations. This is the Catholic Church's policy to this day and Cardinal Ratzinger is now Pope Benedict XVI.
The policy laid out in the above document has led to systemic failure by the result that a significant number of priest have, in effect, been allowed to abuse again, and further children have been put at risk.
As the documentary explores, Colm O'Gorman is the man responsible for breaking open decades of abuse by Catholic Priests in Ireland in the BAFTA award-winning BBC special Suing the Pope. He links international 'systemic evidence' to argue the Vatican has a policy to cover up the sexual abuse of thousands of children across the world.
In Sex Crimes and the Vatican O'Gorman explores four separate cases internationally of widespread clerical abuse, putting the Roman Catholic Church on trial for the reckless endangerment of children. O'Gorman raises the question, 'Is the Church in default of its obligation as a signatory to the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child?'
A link to the documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MwOV8QF9d88
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Lake George minister's history of sexual abuse elsewhere follows him
From the link http://www.parkrapidsenterprise.com/event/article/id/32090/
Three decades ago, a district judge suggested Darwin Schauer might be too self-righteous to appreciate the seriousness of his fall from grace.
By: Sarah Smith, Park Rapids Enterprise
Darwin Shauer
Schauer, then principal of a Lutheran elementary school in southern Minnesota, was entering a guilty plea in Nicollet County to having a lengthy sexual relationship with a teenager that started when the victim was in second grade.
Schauer was angry, according to 1983 court transcripts, incensed that authorities had come into his home and hauled him off to jail in front of his family. He thought he'd been "stereotyped" as a sexual pervert. He verbally disagreed with the judge during his arraignment as to the charges he was facing.
Today he is jailed in Hubbard County on 15 charges of criminal sexual conduct with another minor who came forward earlier this month. Bond has been set at $1 million unconditional and $750,000 on the conditions he surrenders his passport, remains law-abiding and stays away from children.
The pious pastor who colleagues said knew scripture like the back of his hand, was dressed in faded jail orange, listening to another judge read the litany of his charges aloud.
It was excruciating to hear.
An omnibus hearing is set for Schauer April 9 in Park Rapids. He left parishes in Lake George and Cass Lake badly shaken in the wake of the charges. The same troubling pattern had repeated itself in another small Minnesota town – and few of them knew anything about his criminal history.
Now as parts of Darwin Schauer's past begin leaking out, parishioners are left wondering what God wrought.
Are the most holy of rituals, the marriages, baptisms and blessings bestowed on them by a sinner, now tarnished?
Early life of hard work, charges
Darwin Frederick Schauer was born in 1941 in the tiny town of Green Isle, in the southern part of Minnesota. He had two brothers, two sisters and hard-working parents. He helped out on the family farm, graduated from high school in Arlington and eventually entered into a farming partnership with his father that lasted about two years. Then he enlisted in the Army, where he specialized in chemical weaponry and prevention.
He returned to the farm following his service and attended Concordia College, earning a bachelor's degree and working summers on the farm.
He married and moved to Baldwin, Ill., than back to Arlington.
By 1978 he was the principal and teacher at a Lutheran school in Courtland, another small town. He was the father of four.
Around that time, according to his testimony, Schauer began sexual activity with a child 10 years old, a student in his school.
In 1983 the child left a letter at home, which was found by the mother.
The letter confessed to a three- or four-year relationship that by then had included sexual penetration. The mother promptly reported the abuse to authorities. Darwin Schauer was arrested in his home following a brief interview.
Schauer was arraigned on First Degree Sexual Abuse on March 18, 1983, in Nicollet County District Court. By this time the victim was 13.
The charge jolted the small town of Courtland. Schauer was forced to resign or be fired.
Because his family lived in a school-owned home across the street, they were evicted at the end of the school year. Schauer's wife applied for welfare and food stamps.
Schauer's case worked its way through the legal system, culminating in a guilty plea to the charge April 27, 1983. But the defendant voiced his disapproval of the way his case was handled at each opportunity the judge gave him to speak up.
"I realize that as it's set-up, maybe before you can help an offender, maybe you need to totally destroy him first…before he can be helped," Schauer told Judge Noah S. Rosenbloom.
"I'm talking about professionally and financially and socially and so on," Schauer continued. "I was taken away, you might say, as a, I suppose, a murderer would be."
"In the nature of things, the law is a rather blunt instrument, and we're in an area in which the community, many members of it, particularly influential members of it, influential as regards the formation of our laws, have very strong and definite emotional reactions to the kinds of problems that are involved in a case of this kind," Rosenbloom said at Schauer's plea hearing April 27, 1983.
A judicial tongue-lashing
By Aug. 1, at sentencing, Rosenbloom had taken a harsher tone. In that interim Schauer had been sent to a sex offenders treatment program at the Minnesota Security Hospital in St. Peter, only to receive an early release because the hospital needed his bed.
"I find a great deal of hypocrisy implicit in the nature of your offense," the judge said. "Somehow I get the feeling from you that the undeniable sacrifice you have made in order to pursue your parochial school educational career – which incorporates some elements of ministry, I am aware of that – plus your strong faith, that all of these things somehow make it different or somehow casts what you did in a different light…
"You would not be the first person with high-minded ideals and good social commitment to be blinded thereby to the fact, like everybody else, you are human and as humans we are all capable of reprehensible conduct at times and under certain circumstances," Rosenbloom continued.
"The delusion is that somehow because of our high-mindedness we haven't done the things that we have in fact done, and I get the feeling, and I have from the beginning, that on your part you still haven't come to grips with what you really did."
The judge mentioned Schauer's clear criminal record, adding, "but there is also this strong strain of hypocrisy. Maybe it's because, given the strict requirements of your faith and your commitment, you can't bring yourself to confront some of your needs…
"I am concerned, incident to all of this, that you seem to have a tendency to manipulate your friends and family to meet your self-perceived needs, without apparent understanding at times of what the impact of those needs were on other people."
With that, the judge sentenced Schauer to 43 months incarceration, staying execution of the time on the condition that Schauer undergo in-patient and outpatient treatment at the St. Peter hospital. The program, then called the Intensive Sexual Therapy Program for Sexual Aggressives, was long before Minnesota had an official sex offender treatment program and registry.
The court file is sketchy about how long he underwent treatment. He entered the facility, which then had a waiting list, Oct. 13, 1983, three months after his sentencing. The court file contained indications he'd been freed in the summer of 1983 on the $5,000 bond his brother posted earlier, to allow him to return to work on the family farm,
By the time of his review hearing July 14, 1986, he was already out in the community and found to have a satisfactory adjustment. St. Peter's staff would not give the dates of Schauer's actual tenure there because of medical privacy laws, said Department of Human Services media relations.
But in that two-and-a-half-year interim, his wife had divorced him in 1985 after spending two years on welfare and leaving town because of the shame.
"She had a pretty rough couple of years," said one woman familiar with the case, who asked that her name not be used.
Rosenbloom acknowledged "you've made good progress… I think, from everything I can see, this is a success story, and I hope it continues to be."
The resurrection of Darwin Schauer had begun.
Part 2 of this story, from principal to pastor, will appear in Wednesday's Enterprise.
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