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The Work of Activists in New Jersey and New York, a National Appeal: Why Go to the Federal Government?

More than a hundred thousand victims of pedophile Catholic priests and their families cannot get justice in local jurisdictions.  Independent investigators have identified five thousand credibly accused priests so far.  The crimes were the same in every archdiocese in the USA with the same Modus Operandi, or patterns, from commission of the sex crime against a child, to systematic cover-up and protection of the perpetrators.  The pedophile epidemic in the Catholic Church is a national law enforcement issue. 

Petition To U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder

We, The Undersigned, request that an in depth criminal investigation be made concerning the numerous convictions, prosecutions, allegations and accusations made against the Catholic Church (i.e.: dioceses, priest, bishops, cardinals, etc.) relating to the sexual abuse of minors in a number of States, Territories and Jurisdictions.

SIGN THE PETITION HERE

Copy from Petition Continued:

The volume of outcry by victims alleging abuse, the continuous defense and repudiation by the Catholic Church and the intensive reporting by the media warrants a careful; and plenary, review of these most serious charges.

In the interests of justice; and as a matter of National interest, it is imperative for the sake of this Nation’s greatest resource (our children) that the issue be investigated in an appropriate and complete manner. There is no greater threat than the operation of an organization that harbors, fosters, enables, aids or abets pedophiles and/or similar criminal activity within or nation.

It is because of these alleged criminal activities by the Catholic Church (i.e.: dioceses, priest, bishops, cardinals, etc.) that we request a full investigation.

Respectfully submitted.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

Petition

Posted by Kay Ebeling, The City of Angels Is Everywhere
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I Just Wanted a Place to Sit Down.  Some Shade. 

Out among the growing number of  pedestrians in L.A., I hadn’t been to the Farmers Market at Ivar between Sunset and Hollywood in years, so wandered over there on a recent Sunday. 

Isolation by Sharon Loper, Chicago Sculpture Park

Isolation by Sharon Loper, Chicago Sculpture Park

I thought I’d buy a tomato or two with the handful of change in my pocket.  But in an L.A. Farmers Market it’s more like nine dollars will buy you a  sack of organically grown tomatoes manured by happy cows, or something like that.

Our Farmer’s Market has brand new high rise “luxury” apartment and office buildings all around it, and the blocked off streets were jammed with pedestrians who had driven there.  The proprietors of the stands selling produce were not very friendly to me at all, probably because it was obvious I wasn’t there to spend money.  My shoes, my hair, hands, all show I don’t have “disposable income.”

Around me was a bustle of people, young New Republican types, buying gallons of raw milk, with nine dollar sacks of produce bulging from their designer shopping bags. 

Soon I just wanted a place to sit down, some shade.

There was nothing there for me.

Well, there was a 3-piece jazz combo, a guy with wrinkles, so he must be my age, there singing sleazy blues-jazz songs with another guy leaning over a keyboard and a drummer between them.  They were set up in one of the farmer blocks with parking space lines, and they had a hat on a speaker in front of them to collect dollar and coin tips. I tried to lean on a pole and watch them perform a song and almost pulled down the Santa Barbara Pistachio Farm stall.

When the singer finished his song, he got more aggressive about wanting coins and dollars in the hat. I wandered a few feet out of range, and his amplified voice called out, “Well if you don’t have any coins, why don’t you just take me home with you?”

Stunned.  I had a little PTSD reaction. 

I’m an adult victim of a pedophile priest and it affects your life until you die, it seems.  Thirty years ago I would have taken the singer up on it, in fact I would have been eyeing him and his microphone stick blatantly from the sidelines. That Sunday standing there in the heat, I felt the remnants of my old life left all over me in my sweat, residue from a hundred or so men like the skinny bony singer flirting with the audience now from his makeshift stage.

I shivered, turned, and walked away.

My sister would have stayed until the market closed and taken the singer home.

She and I are two adult victims of Father Thomas Barry Horne, pedophile priest from Chicago, 1940s-1950s, and we both have led unusual, intertwined but disconnected, oversexed lives.  Today we both are old ladies living alone in neighborhoods that are known for being part of the sex industry, me in L.A., my sister in S.F.

Leaving the Farmers Market, I walked up the slight grade of hill between Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood, and it almost felt like San Francisco topography I was getting so tired, but at least there’s shade up on the Walk of Fame.

Still no place to sit for blocks. I walked, I walked.

Then at last, comfort: A wrought iron bench.  When I finally sat down, the metal almost felt soft, it was cool, pain relieving.

In the shade, with the wind massaging me, I gazed up at the Capitol Records building, remembering that time, another incident from my Annie Fannie days….  I could sit here for hours, I thought, just continue to discretely smoke, using my visor to hide the pipe and block the wind. Gaze at people walking by, enjoy the day, gaze at the Capitol Records building, see what else I remember.

Then three recent arrivals from a Southeast Asian nation squeezed onto the bench next to me and asked about the Metro. I was friendly, tried to be hospitable, but on a Sunday, them waiting for a bus, they could be there for hours.

So I left the bench, left the memories of Capitol Records 1968 buried on one of those round floors, and wandered on to Argyle and Hollywood, to catch a ride home myself.

At the Armenian grocery in my neighborhood, I noticed they really are trying to keep the floors clean now and make the store more hospitable, the fruit isn’t rotting there anymore. I bought some Chocolates with vodka and liqueurs in them and spent the rest of the day at home. The closest I’ll ever get to a park and shady place to sit in this city is probably the small square of yard in front of my apartment building, where some prophetic manager decades ago planted a handful of palm trees.  Today they connect together at the top and make several square feet of shade in the grass.

As long as I live in L.A., I have to accept it.  If you want greenery, or anything resembling a park, you have to have your own piece of real estate.

Blogged by Kay Ebeling, where this post originally appeared a little longer Thursday, May 27, 2010 here:

The Isolation Comes with Aging, then Add On having lived a weird life like mine…

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(Here are the first responses to our quest for answers yesterday. First this all started last weekend I got this in my email and thought it must be a mistake:)

Obama Administration Kisses Vatican’s Ass

Apparantly the Obama Administration decided to kiss the Popes Ass instead of his ring last week, as federal civil service lawyers told the U.S. Supreme Court, cowardly and predictably, that the Oregon case against the Vatican should not go forward.

The spineless lawmakers in the Obama administration were unable to overlook the fact that there are approximately 60 million potential Catholic votes in this country, enough to buy any US Presidents dignity and conscience.

So what if tens of thousands of children were abused, violated, sodomized, raped, and devastated for decades by the largest criminal syndicate of child molestation known to mankind. There’s voters out there!

Pope Benedict, the Prada wearing Kingpin of sex abusers was ecstatic at the news last week, and I am sure his expectations in the decision were granted according to Canon Law. Confusingly enough, the the Court would have to quote several passages from the Code of Catholic Canon Law, instead of the US Constitution, when delivering their “decision.”

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Oh well. I guess the molestations and cover-ups can now continue, as planned.

Joey Piscitelli
Clergy Abuse Victim

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(After reading Joey’s email, I was swamped at work, so sent out an email to everyone on my lists asking for more comments, only I got it wrong at first. It was not Supreme Court decision yet, last week, it was our President, using his civil servant lawyers, to argue against the adult victims of pedophile priests in the Court in favor of The Vatican.)

Greg Bullough was first to respond to the email:

As an Obama supporter, I feel betrayed.

My response will be to ask my senators to quash the President’s latest Supreme Court nominee. She is, after all, the Solicitor General responsible for advancing this unthinkable position.

The Administration has chosen political expediency and international relations (with what, a pseudo sovereign state?) over the interests of crime victims. So much for the advocate of the down-trodden!

This is not the Administration I voted for; as I told them, November 2010 is coming up, and the next Presidential election isn’t that far off, either.

I won’t forget.

Greg

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(TIM HALE attorney in Santa Barbara helped me understand what was going on:)

With regards to to the Obama administration brief, any argument that makes it more difficult to hold entities accountable when they protect pedophiles reflects a failure to prioritize the welfare of today’s children.

Allowing the Oregon plaintiff to attempt to prove his claim against the Vatican does not change the fact he will carry the burden of proof to show the Vatican’s authority over church leaders who protected pedophile priests. If he fails to carry that burden the lawsuit should be dismissed. However, if he has the evidence necessary to meet that burden, depriving him of the right to prove his case is is a travesty for today’s children, and a lost opportunity to send a clear message that such conduct will not be tolerated.

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(A Reader Responded From Tennessee:)

Under the definitions, wouldn’t the Vatican be considered a “Terriorist State?” They have total disregard for women and children’s rights. It is definitely not a Democracy, and is antithesis to freedom of religion.

Mike Coode

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From Arthur Baselice
in Pennsylvania:

When the bishops wanted to move perps the bishops engaged in a scam entitted “bishops helping bishops.” Now that the U.S. has sided with The Vatican, it is now “criminals helping criminals.”

Arthur Baselice

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From TIM WALSH in New York:

Regarding the Vatican…

When I was in Rome last December, I went to the Coliseum and noticed huge pit marks all over the walls of the structure. I finally found..  (To Continue Reading Go to this post were it was originally blogged at City of Angels on Blogspot:)  First Responses: How Do You Feel About Obama Siding with The Vatican re Sex Abusing Clergy 

BONUS:  Cartoon from Palestian Media Watch:
 
 
The Arabic script reads, “The Pope and those who live under his cloak.”
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I’m slammed on my day job, so invite others to write how it makes you feel to have the President of the United States side with The Vatican instead of hundreds of thousands of crime victims of the pedophile epidemic in the Catholic Church. It was the U.S. Solicitor General, joined by the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Justice Department who filed briefs in favor of The Vatican Friday May 21st, in the lawsuit from Oregon that Jeff Anderson and other plaintiff attorneys are trying to take all the way to the Pope.

Pope Evil Eyes XVI

Pope Evil Eyes XVI

Do you agree that the .17 square miles of real estate that is the Vatican is a sovereign nation? That a mall sized pile of cement populated by leaders of a religion, who go out from that nation all over the globe propagating their message, is a sovereign nation?

Like Italy and Germany?

Am I getting this right?

The Office of the U.S. Solicitor General who wrote the amicus brief is headed by Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.  Hearings confirming Kagan onto the Court are scheduled for June in D.C.

Please comment on the news below: Write to cityofangelslady@yahoo.com Please send editorials and comments, or draw pictures or cartoons, produce videos take photos- about how it makes you feel to read these stories
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Obama Administration Sides With Vatican in Sex Abuse Case
FOXNews – ‎11 hours ago‎
The Obama administration reportedly has sided with the Vatican in a case involving a man who says he was sexually abused decades ago by a priest from Oregon …

Religion News in Brief
The Associated Press – ‎13 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has largely sided with the Vatican in a clergy sex abuse lawsuit that names the Holy See as a defendant and is before …

Vatican sex abuse case at US Supreme Court
AFP – ‎May 25, 2010‎
WASHINGTON — In a brief before the US Supreme Court, the Obama administration has backed the Vatican’s claim of immunity from a lawsuit brought against an …

In Brief to High Court, U.S. Supports Vatican in Sex-Abuse Case
Wall Street Journal (blog) – Ashby Jones – ‎May 25, 2010‎
For the most part, the US government has stayed on the sideline while big-ticket litigation against the Vatican over sex-abuse claims has …

Obama Sides with Vatican in Abuse Lawsuit
Beliefnet.com (blog) – ‎4 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Obama administration has made a rare foray into the Catholic sexual abuse crisis, backing the Vatican’s claim it is immune to lawsuits …

Admin Backs Vatican Immunity in Sexual Abuse Suit
Democracy Now – ‎12 hours ago‎
The Obama administration is backing the Vatican’s claim to immunity from lawsuits over sexual abuse by US priests. In a brief filed with the Supreme Court …

Obama backs Vatican over abuse case
Press TV – ‎19 hours ago‎
The administration of President Barack Obama has taken sides with the Vatican over sexual child abuse lawsuits, saying the Holy See is immune from …

Obama administration supports Vatican over sex abuse lawsuit Independent Catholic News – Dan Bergin – ‎May 25, 2010‎
President Obama’s government has taken the side of the Vatican over a lawsuit that is calling for the Holy See to be held responsible for the sex abuse …

Justice attorney backs Vatican’s claim of immunity from abuse lawsuit
U.S. Catholic magazine – Patricia Zapor – ‎May 25, 2010‎
By Catholic News S… By Patricia Zapor, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — In one of two cases that seek to draw the Holy See into US courts over …

U.S. Supports Vatican immunity from abuse charges.
RantRave Published Opinion. – ‎May 25, 2010‎
The Supreme Court received a letter from the solicitor general in a filing asking them to set aside an appellate court ruling that allowed a case in Oregon …

PopeWatch: Kagan Sides With Vatican on Abuse Lawsuit
Beliefnet.com (blog) – ‎May 25, 2010‎
Some good news for Pope Benedict: the Obama administration, in a brief filed by Solicitor General and Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, has sided with the …

Obama administration asserts Vatican immunity
CathNews – ‎May 24, 2010‎
The Obama administration has taken the side of the Vatican in the US lawsuit that wants the Holy See to be held responsible for the sex abuse crisis in the …

Obama administration asks court to bar lawsuit against Vatican
Catholic Culture – ‎May 24, 2010‎
The Obama administration has weighed in strongly against efforts by abuse victims to bring suit against the Vatican. In a brief filed with the US Supreme …
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VIDEO: Pedophile Priest on the Run, Maryland, South Carolina, or ??? 

Father Wayland Brown “brutally raped children” in Georgia and South Carolina, and recently stopped reporting to his Parole Officer in Maryland, according to video above, as a result the Predator Priest’s location is now unknown.
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VIDEO: Pope Song, If You Cover for a Kiddie- F—er You’re a F—er Too Hey, don’t blame me, I didn’t create the situation that makes “fuck” the only word people can find to express themselves about the Pope, now that people know the pedophile epidemic  in the Catholic Church is worldwide.

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BONUS:  The Catholic Boat  For A Quick Laugh

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Abandoned Catholic Church in Australia

Abandoned Catholic Church in Australia

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From Herald Sun, Australia
May 22, 2010

Peter Gogarty, a victim of abuse by priest Jim Fletcher, has complained to police about a “conspiracy of silence” because he was preyed on in an upstairs bedroom in the same house in the diocese in which Archbishop Wilson lived at the time

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Short (Opinion of Kay Ebeling)

Our stories mean nothing as long as people continue to treat the perpetrators with respect. Our horror is invalidated when the press continues to follow and quote cardinals and popes, when world leaders take time on their itineraries for a Vatican visit, and when our families and friends continue to don rosaries and float back into that Church.  The way this victim sees it, when knowledgable people commit those acts of continuing respect for the Catholic Church, it invalidates our decades of damages, because to me, you are continuing to honor that church as if all this didn’t even happen.  There are plenty of other Christian churches. It is NOT a sin to go to a different church, someone made that up.
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New Perp Priest Named in Portland OR Lawsuit: Fr. Leonard Plocinski, for late 1970s Altar Boy Rape

From: The Oregonian
May 20, 2010
A man who claims a 2008 suicide attempt caused him to connect a lifetime of misery to a childhood rape by a Catholic priest has filed a $2.8 million federal lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon. The man, identified only by his initials in U.S. District Court papers, accuses Father Leonard E. Plocinski of grooming him for sex and ultimately raping him in the late 1970s, when he was an altar boy of 8 or 9 in Dallas, Ore. The abuse occurred in the changing room at St. Phillip’s Catholic Church, the lawsuit alleges.
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Jesuits in America: Lincoln, Jefferson, also Napoleon, Dostoyevsky. All Agree They Are More Army than Religious Order

Found at Spiritually Smart Dot Com: (after a reader emailed the link. I get the greatest emails these days). Here is what statesmen through history have written about the Jesuits.

President John Adams
(1735-1826; 2nd President of the United States):
“My history of the Jesuits is not eloquently written, but it is supported by unquestionable authorities, [and] is very particular and very horrible. Their [the Jesuit Order's] restoration [in 1814 by Pope Pius VII] is indeed a step toward darkness, cruelty, despotism, [and] death. I do not like the appearance of the Jesuits.”

President Thomas Jefferson:
“I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits…Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gypsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and schoolmasters? If ever

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

A Word of Wisdom from One of Hundreds of Thousands of Victims of Pedophile Priests

How could the pope accept the resignation of a bishop who doesn’t work for him? 

-Arthur Baselice, Jr.
Father of Arthur Baselice III, Deceased

Posted on AlterNet by Kay Ebeling, The City of Angels Is Everywhere
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They won’t let us know what they’re doing or how much oil is pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.  BP is not letting the U.S. Government in to monitor or take any action. The dispersant is actually pouring more toxicity into the Gulf and they refuse to stop using it.

This is War, I think. We are under attack by a foreign entity. They got to us last year electronically with the disappearance of trillions of dollars from the American economy, something people have not yet really grasped.
Now this attack on our coastlines and with full force in the Gulf, and they are using the item that makes them despise us the most to attack us, the oil that fuels our lifestyle, ten times better than anyone else’s in the world.

People, I think we’re being attacked. They’re not letting us onto the place where the attack took place.

In 1980 I joined the Naval Air Reserve, mostly because of a confused compulsion I had to be around people in high places, astronauts on my job in Houston, and Naval pilots on my drill weekends. When I got to Naval Air Station New Orleans, I found about half the units there, drilling and serving fulltime, were doing Intelligence work.

All wide eyed innocent and Annie Fannie, I asked, why do we need so much intelligence here on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana?

They informed me, there’s a huge amount of oil under the Gulf of Mexico, huge amounts that people don’t even comprehend, and as a result, the Gulf of Mexico was one of our most vulnerable places for attack.

But it was 1980 and everyone knows they will never attack on U.S. land. Right?

The amount of oil in the Gulf and all the intelligence around it was a quiet thing, known to this community that drilled in buildings on the air base that I never got to go into. This humongous amount of oil that-

In the last two decades of privatization Americans have insanely allowed to be drilled, with no real oversight. Huge careless mile deep suction devices stuck into this vast sea of oil under the Gulf that used to be a high priority for Naval Intelligence.

Then, oh what a surprise, one explosion at the bottom of an unmonitored deep drilling device, and toxic oil is pouring into the Gulf and eventually the ocean.

What caused the explosion that caused this well to become the worst disaster in American history? Why did this drilling device explode, when there have been other wells deeper and more dangerous operating from off shore platforms all over the world now for decades?

There are a lot of unanswered questions. I’m beginning to feel eerily that this is too much like a sci fi movie, the part where the government is keeping the people from knowing what is really happening. Only it’s not our government doing it, it’s this foreign oil company.

Uh, Ocean Temperatures?

Has anyone else thought about how much all this oil in the sea is going to cause the temperature of the ocean to rise, when the summer sun starts to beat down on all the oil that’s coagulating in the Gulf of Mexico right now, along with the billions more gallons that are pouring in? In fact, oil spills are a large part of what caused ocean temperatures to get hotter recently, now the temperature of the ocean will be increase tenfold.

It brings to my mind artists’ renderings of the planet Venus, with its boiling oceans of toxic gases.

In California, we’ve had sloppy oil drills and barges pouring oil onto our coastline for decades, most of the leakage owned by foreign oil companies.

The ship that decimated the coast off San Francisco in November 2009 was owned by a company in Dubai. And the press totally snoozed through that disaster.

I think it’s time we all wake up and realize, we have been attacked, first economically and now ecologically.

And the fact that Bobby Jindahl is even waiting for a permit first to build barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana is just another sign of how much our system has broken, that allowed us to be vulnerable and to be attacked in this way.

It’s war, people. We have to start realizing there is an enemy doing this to us.

Meanwhile, I’d say get away from coastlines, if you want to survive.

Posted by Kay Ebeling, The City of Angels Is Everywhere
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Douglas Hughes wants to put convicted child molesters on an island off the Coast of Santa Barbara, and the idea has created a buzz in the crowded Republican primary election for Governor of California.

He is not the first one to get the idea. Leader of Catholic religious order Servants of the Paraclete concluded in 1957, after a decade or so of dealing with priests who went after children, that putting pedophiles off on an island was the best way to deal with them.

“9. Father Gerald thought that such priests — meaning priests attracted to male children, teenagers — should be completely segregated from society, and consequently wanted a remote ‘island refuge’ far from civilization and a monastery would be established and such men could live and try to save their souls.”

Click here to read the entire post with scanned documents at City of Angels 4, where we were posting in 2008.

The Pope Knew Back in 1963 about the Pedophile Problem in the Catholic Church

Fitzgerald and Paul VI 1963

Pope Paul VI and Fitzgerald 1963

ALSO Scanned at link above are documents from meetings between the Pope and the Servants of the Paraclete founder in 1963 (pictured together at right). Gerald Fitzgerald, founder of the Paracletes traveled to Rome to talk about solutions to the pedophile problem. These documents show that the Catholic Church was aware of the pedophile epidemic as far back as the 1950s, as they were treating patients at the Servants of the Paracletes center in Albuquerque, NM, (since 1988, in St. Louis, MO.

Put them on an island with no connection with other humans at all, was the conclusion of the Catholic priest most intimately connected to the problem.

Now a Neo-Republican Californian from Orange County is saying the same thing in his campaign for Governor:

Gubernatorial Candidate Wants To Create ‘Pedophile Island’ To …‎LA Weekly (blog) – Dennis Romero -Chief among the Republican candidates for Governor of California is Douglas Hughes, whose campaign promise is to turn Santa Rosa Island off Santa Barbara into “Pedophile Island” where convicted molesters would be housed…. Hughes, who describes himself as a retired businessman from Fountain Valley, has other unorthodox views: He would implement a green card points reward system for immigrants, build “triple fencing” at the Mexican border, and have the state sell drugs to addicts at half price.’

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More about Servants of the Paraclete
THE ISLAND LETTERS

(Scanned in at City of Angels to click enlarge and read, see link below)

By 1957 Fitzgerald did not want to treat pedophiles any more at Via Coeli outside Albuquerque, NM, but preferred to buy an island and put them as far away from civilization as possible.  

Quotes: In September 18, 1957 letter: “To Archbishop and Co-Fonder” (Possibly a letter that was reproduced and sent to many different archbishops) (Scanned in at CofA Blog linked at bottom. )

“For the sake of preventing scandal, we will not offer hospitality to men who have seduced or attempted to seduce little boys or girls.”

“It is for this class of rattlesnake I have always wished the island retreat – but even an island is too good for these vipers.”

“When I see the Holy Father I am going to speak of this class to His Holiness.”

Which he did, in the Pope correspondence shown in the letter at the top of this post.

Read the whole story of Servants of the Paracletes and their documents as reported at City of Angels in 2008 here:

PROOF: Bishops knew about pedophile priests as far back as 1950s and worked to keep the problem secret. Documents here, click to enlarge

(Check out the Hughes For Governor website )

Posted by Kay Ebeling, The City of Angels Is Everywhere

See the whole collection of Paracletes Documents here

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The Work of Activists in New Jersey and New York, a National Appeal: Why Go to the Federal Government?

More than a hundred thousand victims of pedophile Catholic priests and their families cannot get justice in local jurisdictions.  The crimes were the same in every archdiocese in the USA with the same Modus Operandi, or patterns, from commission of the sex crime against a child, to systematic cover-up and protection of the perpetrators.  The pedophile epidemic in the Catholic Church is a national law enforcement issue. 

Petition To U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder

We, The Undersigned, request that an in depth criminal investigation be made concerning the numerous convictions, prosecutions, allegations and accusations made against the Catholic Church (i.e.: dioceses, priest, bishops, cardinals, etc.) relating to the sexual abuse of minors in a number of States, Territories and Jurisdictions.

SIGN THE PETITION HERE

Copy from Petition Continued:

The volume of outcry by victims alleging abuse, the continuous defense and repudiation by the Catholic Church and the intensive reporting by the media warrants a careful; and plenary, review of these most serious charges.

In the interests of justice; and as a matter of National interest, it is imperative for the sake of this Nation’s greatest resource (our children) that the issue be investigated in an appropriate and complete manner. There is no greater threat than the operation of an organization that harbors, fosters, enables, aids or abets pedophiles and/or similar criminal activity within or nation.

It is because of these alleged criminal activities by the Catholic Church (i.e.: dioceses, priest, bishops, cardinals, etc.) that we request a full investigation.

Respectfully submitted.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

Petition

Posted by Kay Ebeling, The City of Angels Is Everywhere
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Petition is the Work of Activists in New Jersey and New York, a National Appeal: To: U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder.   More than a hundred thousand victims of pedophile Catholic priests and their families cannot get justice in local jurisdictions.  The crimes were the same in every archdiocese in the USA with the same Modus Operandi, or patterns, from commission of the sex crime against a child, to systematic cover-upand protection of the perpetrators.  The pedophile epidemic in the Catholic Church is a national law enforcement issue.  The Petition:

We, The Undersigned, request that an in depth criminal investigation be made concerning the numerous convictions, prosecutions, allegations and accusations made against the Catholic Church (i.e.: dioceses, priest, bishops, cardinals, etc.) relating to the sexual abuse of minors in a number of States, Territories and Jurisdictions.

SIGN THE PETITION HERE

Copy from Petition Cotinued:

The volume of outcry by victims alleging abuse, the continuous defense and repudiation by the Catholic Church and the intensive reporting by the media warrants a careful; and plenary, review of these most serious charges.

In the interests of justice; and as a matter of National interest, it is imperative for the sake of this Nation’s greatest resource (our children) that the issue be investigated in an appropriate and complete manner. There is no greater threat than the operation of an organization that harbors, fosters, enables, aids or abets pedophiles and/or similar criminal activity within or nation.

It is because of these alleged criminal activities by the Catholic Church (i.e.: dioceses, priest, bishops, cardinals, etc.) that we request a full investigation.

Respectfully submitted.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

Petition

Posted by Kay Ebeling, The City of Angels Is Everywhere
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