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More PippLeaks: Letters from 1957 and 1960 reveal cavalier handling by Catholic Church of its pedophile priests
At City of Angels Blog today:
If you still doubt that Catholic bishops knew, as far back as 1957, that a lot of their priests were pedophiles, and if you doubt the Catholic Church used Servants of the Paraclete as a kind of laundry service for dirty priests, here is a letter from the Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, to the New Mexico rehab center, about John T. Sullivan, a priest who liked little girls. In the one page September 23, 1957, letter scanned here click to elarge and read, to Gerald Fitzgerald, Superior General at Via Coeli, Matthew Brady, the Bishop of Manchester, writes for help with errant priest Sullivan. “His problem is not drink but a series of scandal-causing escapades with young girls.” At the end of the letter the Bishop of Manchester suggests: “I would hesitate to write to a bishop myself without giving him all the details of the past life of this priest. Perhaps if he went to Via Coeli for a while you might be able and willing to recommend him to some bishop on the grounds of his good conduct there and his promise for the future.” (Continue reading here at City of Angels Blog.)
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Next Servants of Paraclete Document here at PippiLeaks*: Letter about withdrawal from Tortola, remote island where SOTP once ran a retreat to house pedophile priests as far away from civilization as possible. Upon orders from “ecclesiastical superiors,” Gerald Fitzgerald writes in this November 10, 1960, letter to the Bishop of Virgin Islands to begin the process of removing the priests back to New Mexico. We see that the founder of SOTP did not want to give up the island in the Caribbean that was being used to isolate pedophile priests, in the letter from Gerald Fitzgerald to Bishop Edward Happer of Our Lady or Perpetual Help in Brooklyn, NY, scanned here “re our foundation in your Diocese in the Virgin Islands.” Before starting closing procedures in Tortola, Fitzgerald writes, “I thought it prudent to consult His Excellency, Archbishop Byrne (of Santa Fe) who soon expressed “his decision that we give up Tortola. This leaves me nothing else to do but to carry out the desires of my ecclesiastical superior and… (Continue reading here at City of Angels Blog)
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“Jesus preached love one another, but it seems the priests just want to bugger one another.” From video watch here at CofA Blog, Open Video Letter to the Pope on YouTube from a non-Catholic “chap who thinks some of the Pope’s actions stink”
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[Posted by Kay Ebbtide reporting from the City of Angels, which is everywhere.]
PippiLeaks is a project of City of Angels Blog, releasing documents that prove the Catholic Church knew full well its prieshood was festered with pedophiles and left them in service with no concern for the well being of children for decades, in the spirit of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Freedom of Information Forever.
Kay Ebeling pioneered internet journalism by creating City of Angels Blog, where she reports on the Pedophile Priest epidemic in the Catholic Church as one of the victims. Today CofA Blog continues its muckraking tradition on several topics, producing stories that are overlooked by mainstream media. Ebeling's day job is all done online, so she is currently traveling the country while producing City of Angels Blog, which started at http://cityofangels3.blogspot.com in 2007.
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