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24 A.D. = approx.:=20 Jesus Christ said: "But anyone who is the downfall of one of these = little=20 ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him that a millstone = were hung=20 about his neck, and that he were drowned in the deep sea. ... alas for = that man=20 who provides the causes of falling." (Bible, Matthew 18:6, 7; and see = Mark 9:42;=20 Luke 17:2)
2nd Century A.D. book: The Didache, the oldest = existing=20 commentary on the gospels, early second century, commands in item 2.2: = "Thou=20 shalt not seduce young boys." (pronounce Didache "di dah KAY".) -- = adapted from=20 Barry Coldrey book, Religious Life Without Integrity, 2002, P = & B=20 Press, Como (W.A.), page 27.
A list of online translations of = the=20 Didache is at www.earlychri= stianwritings.com/didache.html=20 . Some variant translations found on the Internet are: "You will not = sodomize=20 young boys" at http://reluctant-mess= enger.com/didache.htm=20 , "you shall not seduce boys" http://bswett.com/1998-01D= idache.html=20 , "thou shalt not corrupt boys" www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/didache-lightfoot.html=20 and http= ://wesley.nnu.edu/noncanon/fathers/ante-nic/didache.htm=20 , "thou shalt not corrupt youth" www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/St.Pachomius/Liturgical/did= ache.html=20 , and "you shall not commit pederasty" at www.newadvent.org/fath= ers/0714.htm=20

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FOR=20 GOOD TEACHINGS TO BE HEEDED, A BIG CLEAN-UP IS NEEDED =
Series=20 starts: www.multil= ine.com.au/~johnm/ethicscontents.htm=20 Visit http://www.ncrnews.org/abuse/ =
If=20 the original heading or name of an article or newsitem is not used at = the start=20 of an entry, the original heading or name will be found elsewhere in the = entry,=20 or in a few cases by returning to the original source. 309=20 A.D., Council of Elvira, expulsion proposed: The earliest Church = council=20 after the Council of Jerusalem for which records exist took place at = Elvira in=20 309 A.D. This council proposed irrevocable* exclusion for those who = sexually=20 abuse boys (Canon 71). That is, they were not to receive the Sacrament = of=20 Communion even at the point of death. (Based on Religious Life = Without=20 Integrity, p 27, Barry Coldrey, 2001, ISBN 0-9586413-1-5, $17.95, P = & B=20 Press, PO Box 81, Como, WA, 6952 Tel 08 9450 2513, Fax 9226 4346 pbpress@iinet.net.au http://members.iinet.net.au= /~pbpress=20 . See www.thelinkup.com/in= tegrity-toc.html=20 )
* People who doubt permanent exclusion is = authentic=20 Christianity could check Matthew 12:32 "shall not be forgiven in this = world nor=20 in the world to come," Hebrews 6:4-6 "impossible to renew them to = repentance,"=20 and 1 John 5:16-17 "there is a sin that means death, no prayer for = that."=20
Middle Ages: Father Thomas Doyle, a canon lawyer who = has=20 testified on behalf of plaintiffs in some 200 sex-abuse lawsuits, states = that in=20 the Middle Ages Irish monks published penitential books for handling=20 confessions. Several of the tomes, according to Doyle, refer to sexual = crimes=20 committed by clerics against boys and girls. One widely-used volume, = known as=20 the Penitential of Bede, advises clerics who sodomize children to repent = their=20 sins by subsisting on nothing more than bread and water for anywhere = from three=20 to 12 years. "The reason sexual abuse of minors is in these books," says = Doyle,=20 "is because it was a problem." Refer Kristen Lombardi, "Failure to Act," = part 1,=20 The Phoenix, 126 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A., October = 4 - 11,=20 2001, http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/t= op/features/documents/01847611.htm=20

1908: Did Chesterton warn early in 20th century? The Catholic = convert=20 and apologist, essayist, critic, and novelist, Gilbert Keith Chesterton=20 (1874-1936) linked protection of children (prophetically?) and his = doubts about=20 celibacy in a 1908 book. He also noted the connection between = "virginity"=20 beliefs and paganism: "I have not myself any instinctive kinship with = that=20 enthusiasm for physical virginity, . . . Paganism . . . Greeks . . . = Artemis . .=20 . Romans . . . vestals . . . (p 269) For any man who loves children will = agree=20 that their peculiar beauty is hurt by a hint of physical sex. . . . It = takes all=20 sorts to make a church; she does not ask me to be celibate. . . . I have = no=20 appreciation of the celibates . . ." (p 270) -- Orthodoxy, = Gilbert K.=20 Chesterton, 1949 (first edition 1908), Bodley = Head,=20 London, pp 269-70.
1920: Christian Brother sentenced in = Perth: In=20 December 1920, Brother Philip Carmody was sentenced by the Supreme Court = in=20 Perth to nine years gaol on three charges of "indecent dealing beyond = the course=20 of nature" at Clontarf. -- Barry Coldrey, book The Scheme: The = Christian=20 Brothers and Childcare in Western Australia, pp 385-388, 1993, = Argyle=20 Pacific Publishing, O'Connor, Western Australia, cited in Bruce Blyth, = book=20 In the Shadow of the Cross, p 73, (1997 P & B Press, PO Box = 81, Como,=20 WA, 6952, ISBN 0646337741, $24.95)

MODERN ALERTS -- 1947 W.=20 Australian Government, 1954 W. Australia Brothers, 1967 U.S. bishops = invited to=20 hear at Notre Dame University, 1971 R.C. worldwide Synod of Bishops, = 1975 and=20 1988-89 Newfoundland R.Cs., 1983-84 Protestant Clergy, 1984-85 then 1993 = U.S.=20 R.Cs., 1987 West Australia Protestants and R.Cs., 2001 world and U.K. = R.Cs.=20

1947: Western Australian Government told child immigration = had=20 undesirable effects: In 1947 the Secretary of the Child Welfare = Department=20 of Western Australia wrote to his Minister about the proposal to resume = bringing=20 child migrants to Catholic institutions: "The 1938-39 scheme in many = ways was=20 disastrous. Children brought out under this scheme became anti-social,=20 anti-Australian and anti-Christ, and some of them unfortunately have = returned to=20 the Old Country, not at all satisfied with the treatment received at the = hands=20 of the authorities here. This at all costs must be avoided in the = future." Refer=20 Bruce Blyth (pp 10-11), book In the Shadow of the Cross, (1997).=20
1954: Australian Christian Brothers' leaders knew: In 1954 = Brother=20 P.L.Duffy, an assistant to the Christian Brothers' Superior-General in = Ireland,=20 wrote to Brother Carroll, a member of the local council in Melbourne: " = ... I=20 think you would be well advised to let Brother L. O'Doherty know during = the next=20 visitation of the desirability of keeping Brother Lambert Wise away from = all=20 supervision of the boys except, perhaps, when they are in the field. His = relations with boys have given rise for concern before and for = everybody's sake=20 the greatest care should be taken to protect both him and the boys." = Brother=20 O'Doherty, one-time principal of Castledare and Clontarf in Western = Australia,=20 was asked during a Melbourne court case in 1994 if he had received this=20 direction, but he said he had not. Refer Bruce Blyth (pp 100-01), = (1997), In=20 the Shadow of the Cross

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1964: Father James Porter (U.S.). In = March 1964,=20 Monsignor Humberto Medeiros -- later archbishop of Boston, and later = again a=20 cardinal -- admitted to Bishop Connolly that Porter had molested 30 or = 40=20 children during his years at St. Mary's. (Some published estimates place = the=20 number at more than 100.) Still, no action was taken, until Porter = embarrassed=20 the church with his arrest for molesting a 13-year-old boy in New = Hampshire.=20 State police obliged the church by escorting Porter to the Massachusetts = border=20 and setting him free. -- The Crime Library, "Father James Porter: = Pedophile=20 Priest," Michael Newton, www.crimelibra= ry.com/serial11/porter/3.htm=20 .=20 Month=20 the abuse was advised by Mons. Medeiros to Bishop Connolly was March = 1964=20
1967: Public discussion in U.S.A.: "The first [U.S.] public=20 discussion of priest sexual abuse of minors was at a meeting sponsored = by the=20 National Association for Pastoral Renewal held ... [U.S.] Notre Dame = University=20 in 1967. All American Catholic bishops were invited to that meeting." -- = A. W.=20 Richard Sipe, psychotherapist (member Benedictine order 1953-70), in the = Sipe=20 Report, paragraph 22, www.thelinkup.com/sipe.html
1971: United States RC bishops were = told that=20 big percentage of priests needed character development; Church in = Crisis; Bishop=20 Gumbleton remembers
National Catholic Reporter, = "Church in=20 Crisis," http://www.natcath.c= om/crisis/gumbleton.htm=20 , spoken by Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton, on May 25, 2002, at Lexington = MA, posted=20 June 17, 2002
LEXINGTON ( MA): . . . [Small extract of = long=20 speech] I can remember very clearly the meeting we held in 1971 when the = chief=20 authors of the sociological and psychological studies made a = presentation to the=20 Catholic bishops. That psychological study should have been an = exceptionally=20 helpful eye opener for the Catholic bishops. It categorized, from a=20 psychological development perspective, what the priesthood in the United = States=20 looked like. At one end of the spectrum are maldeveloped priests. And = according=20 to the study, there were about 7 or 8% of the priests in the United = States who=20 were seriously maldeveloped. Then there was a very large category -- = 65-66% of=20 the priests in the United States who were described as underdeveloped. = And then=20 another category of about 13-14% or so that were developing persons. At = the=20 other end of the spectrum about 7 or 8% of priests who would be termed = developed=20 persons. [Apologies for not recording this sooner - jcm 25 Jan 04. For a = long=20 summary of his points, "visit" at the publication date, June 17, 2002]=20
(Check 1972.) He said that the US bishops' conference he referred to = was in=20 1971.
1971: Baars tells global R.C. bishops in Rome: "In = 1971,=20 psychiatrist Conrad Baars traveled to the Vatican, where he presented = the first=20 of two studies about the US priesthood to the Synod of Bishops, an = assembly of=20 bishops from around the world. Baars based his research on 40 years' = experience=20 treating 1500 priests. He found that 20 to 25 percent of American clergy = members=20 had serious psychiatric problems, while 60 to 70 percent suffered = emotional=20 immaturity -- by which Baars meant 'an insufficiently developed or = distorted=20 emotional life.' According to his report, The Role of the Church in = the=20 Causation, Treatment, and Prevention of the Crisis of the = Priesthood, these=20 priests often exhibited a 'psychosexual immaturity expressed in hetero- = or=20 homosexual activity,' as well as in 'masturbation, sexual impotence or = frigidity=20 ... or sexual exploits.' " Refer Kristen Lombardi, October 4 - 11 2001 = www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/feat= ures/documents/01847612.htm=20
1972: Kennedy tells U.S. bishops: = Twelve=20 months later, Baars's findings were mirrored in an exhaustive study = about the=20 state of mind of American priests, The Catholic Priest in the United = States:=20 Psychological Investigations, which the NCCB had commissioned in = 1969.=20 Eugene Kennedy, a former priest and psychologist reported that 66 = percent of=20 priests were underdeveloped psychologically and emotionally, while = another eight=20 percent were maldeveloped. In a separate interview, Kennedy says his = work=20 pinpointed priests with major psychosexual development problems. Kristen = Lombardi, October 4 - 11, 2001, www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/feat= ures/documents/01847612.htm=20
1972: In U.S., Paraclete staff = training to=20 deal with child sex-abuse priests. Kristen Lombardi, "Failure to Act," = part 3,=20 The Phoenix, Boston, October 4 - 11, 2001, www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/feat= ures/documents/01847613.htm=20
1975: Newfoundland 1975 cover-up;=20 Christian Brothers Mount Cashel orphanage in St John's, Newfoundland, = had been=20 the subject of a formal 1975 cover-up of explicit allegations of = widespread=20 abuse at that time. Refer Dr Barry Coldrey (p. 4), book Religious = Life=20 Without Integrity, (2001) http://www.thelinkup.co= m/integrity1.html=20
1976: Paracletes, New Mexico, launched two programmes for = paedophilic=20 priests; Kristen Lombardi, October 4 - 11, 2001, www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/feat= ures/documents/01847613.htm=20
1978: Melbourne priest Father Michael=20 Glennon in 1978 served seven months of a two-year sentence for = indecently=20 assaulting a ten-year-old girl. (See 1985 and 1991 for the facts on his = resuming=20 priestly office, and then being charged and convicted again for child = sex. See=20 2003 for end of news blackout, and total of offences rising to 50.) =
1978:=20 Priest alerted Australian RC bishop about sex-abusing priest from = 1978 but=20 he was not stopped. Phil O'Donnell, for 24 years a priest, said his = Church=20 superiors let the priest continue, and the perpetrator kept doing it, = and Fr=20 O'Donnell kept alerting the Church authorities. More kids got abused. = The Church=20 had a strategy of denial and rejection, he said. See June 9 2002 = screening of=20 "60 Minutes," Richard Carleton, TV Channel 9 http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/= 2002_06_09/story_610.asp=20

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1983-84: Half Protestant clergy at = fault, see=20 "Cease Clergy Sexual Abuse" website at http://www.advocateweb.= org/cease/csa.htm=20 by Frances Park, including a doctoral thesis by Richard Blackmon, saying = that 50=20 per cent of Protestant clergy responding to a survey admitted to having = sexual=20 contact with parishioners (adult as well as child), written in 1983-84 =
1985: The seeming sanctity of the Catholic Church = (U.S.A.)=20 received a huge crack in 1985 with the grotesque revelations coming out = of the=20 swampy Cajun country in rural Louisiana about Fr Gilbert Gauthe who had = molested=20 scores of boys. His story was picked up by the major news wire services, = the=20 television networks, and the print media. See "Survivors of Clergy Abuse = in=20 Catholic Seminaries" at www.arizweb.net/seminary.htm= =20
1985: In Australia, there was huge adverse publicity = regarding the=20 repeat offender Father Michael Glennon when he = faced new=20 charges for sexually interfering with five boys and one girl aged 12 to = 16. The=20 trial was aborted when broadcaster Derryn Hinch publicised Glennon's = previous=20 offence/s (see 1978 above). Hinch was gaoled for 12 days and fined = $15,000 for=20 contempt of court. Glennon was eventually tried in 1991, found guilty of = attempted anal penetration and two counts of bu..ery with violence and = without=20 consent, being sentenced to nine years gaol. Refer Bruce Blyth (1997, p = 111),=20 In the Shadow of the Cross; event 1985

1985: Nation= al=20 Catholic Reporter U.S.A. saw the Sex Abuse Crisis in 1985, = and named=20 molesting priests in an attempt to get the bishops to act: "Priest child = abuse=20 cases victimizing families; bishops lack policy response." In cases = throughout=20 the nation, the Catholic church is facing scandals and being forced to = pay=20 millions of dollars in claims to families whose sons have been molested = by=20 Catholic priests. These are serious and damaging matters that have = victimized=20 the young and innocent and fuel old suspicions against the Catholic = church and a=20 celibate clergy. But a related and broader scandal seemingly rests with = local=20 bishops and a national Episcopal leadership that has, as yet, no set = policy on=20 how to respond to these cases. As the articles in this issue show:=20

All too often, complaints against the priest involved are = disregarded by=20 the bishops, or the priest is given the benefit of a doubt.=20
Frequently, local bishops exhibit little concern for the traumatic = effects=20 these molestations have on the boys and their families -- even though = mental=20 disturbances and, in one recent case, suicide, have followed such=20 molestations.=20
Only legal threats and lawsuits seem capable of provoking some = local=20 bishops into taking firm actions against the priests. In some cases = reported=20 here, the priests, once identified for their offenses, have been moved = to=20 other parishes and again placed in positions of responsibility. =

In a=20 decision following considerable internal discussion, the National = Catholic=20 Reporter decided to publish the names of the priests involved, = though not=20 those of the boys and their families. In each case, these priests have = already=20 been named in open court or in legal depositions, and they have been the = subjects of national wire service or national magazine coverage. ... = Publication=20 at this length comes in order to explain the extent of the serious = nature of the=20 problems involved *** The possibility of exorbitant insurance premiums = for all=20 dioceses resulting from the current crop of civil and criminal cases. In = April,=20 Wilfred Caron, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) = general=20 counsel, was in Lafayette, La., to meet with insurance lawyers preparing = to=20 admit liability in that diocese=92s suits. Caron has to monitor the pace = and=20 extent of criminal and civil suits filed in other dioceses across the = country.=20 (Caron did not return NCR=92s calls.) -- National Catholic = Reporter,=20 Kansas City, MO, "Sex Abuse Crisis: Priest child abuse cases victimizing = families; bishops lack policy response." www.natcath.org/crisis= /070585b.htm=20 , by Jason Berry, Mark Day, Gordon Oliver, and Arthur Jones, June 7 1985 =
1985: PROBLEM OF SEXUAL MOLESTATION report to US bishops: = UNITED=20 STATES: Because of unease arising out of the publicity, three = professionals=20 decided to help the Catholic bishops understand the problem, with = suggestions=20 for future action. They wrote a confidential report warning of the = spiritual,=20 credibility and financial dangers to the Church. It was sent to every = U.S.=20 Catholic bishop in 1985 and discussed at the bishops' national = conference. The=20 authors were Father Gauthe's solicitor F.R.Mouton, Church law expert = Father=20 Thomas P. Doyle, and Father M. Peterson, the founder of a Maryland = institute for=20 sexually-troubled priests. Father Doyle from 1986 onwards publicised the = lack of=20 action by the bishops, and his career entered the doldrums, but he = became a=20 miliary chaplain. Refer Barry Coldrey (pp 2-3), Religious Life = Without=20 Integrity, (2001); and see Kristen Lombardi, October 4 - 11, 2001, = www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/feat= ures/documents/01847612.htm=20
Read the above-mentioned report on-line,: "The = Problem=20 of Sexual Molestation by Roman Catholic Clergy: Meeting the problem in a = comprehensive and responsible manner," in 4 parts, starting http://www= .natcath.com/NCR_Online/documents/part1.pdf=20 (PDF requires Adobe=AE Acrobat=AE=20 Reader=99), Final draft June 8-9, 1985

1986: Alarming = rise in child=20 sex abuse [in general]. PERTH, W. Australia: State Government = figures showed=20 995 cases of sexual, physical and emotional abuse, and neglect in the = year to=20 June 30. And at least 200 other cases were handled by the police, = resulting in=20 426 charges being laid against 152 people. Dr Barbara Meddin, a US child = protection specialist now working with the Community Services = Department, put a=20 lot of the cause down to defacto partnerships, due to the lack of = commitment. --=20 The Western Mail No. 303, Perth, "Alarming rise in child sex = abuse," by=20 Norm Aisbett, pp 1 and 12, August 23-24, 1986
1986: Jason Berry = wins the=20 1986 U.S. Catholic Press Association Award for his coverage of clerical = sex=20 abuse. 1986
1987: = Protestant=20 television evangelists: In 1987-8, U.S. and world interest in = clerical=20 sexual and financial scandals shifted temporarily to the Protestant=20 'televangelists'. The four major cases of these years concerned Jim = Bakker,=20 Jimmy Swaggart, Tony Leyva and the South African Rev Allan Boesak. Refer = Barry=20 Coldrey (p 3), Religious Life Without Integrity, (2001) =
1987: Austral= ia -- The=20 History of the Sexual Abuse Controversy there: Community = attention in=20 Western Australia was first drawn to child migration, and to the = complaints of=20 abusive behaviour in some of the state's religious residential care, in = an=20 expos=E9 in The Western Mail (Weekend), of August 8-9 1987 p 20, = followed=20 by Aug 15-16 pp 26-27, Aug 22-23 pp 24-25, and Aug 29-30 p 26. A=20 former child migrant, Gordon Grant (Nigel Fitzgibbon), had interested = the=20 editor, Andr=E9 Malan, in the problems child migrants were having as a = result of=20 their earlier experiences. Under emotive headings such as 'The lost = children=20 Britain sent away to Australia,' 'The faceless kids of Fairbridge Farm' = and 'The=20 nightmare at Bindoon' the articles revealed an underside of Western = Australian=20 residential care which had lain dormant for 30 and more years. Some = former=20 inmates denounced child migration as such 'robbing them of their = identity';=20 others claimed horrific physical and sexual abuse in the institutions in = which=20 they were placed. The focus was on the Christian Brothers' St. Joseph's = Farm and=20 Trade School, Bindoon; Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra; and Nazareth = House,=20 Geraldton. See Barry Coldrey, Religious Life Without Integrity, = page 5=20 (2001) http://www.thelinkup.co= m/integrity2.html=20
1988: In Newfoundland there were = criminal=20 prosecutions for repeated molestations committed by two parish priests. = Over=20 time other priests were implicated until some ten per cent of the = diocesan=20 clergy were tainted by allegations, arrest, trial and commonly = conviction. (See=20 cover-up item of 1975.) Refer Dr Barry Coldrey (p 4), book Religious = Life=20 Without Integrity, (2001), http://www.thelinkup.co= m/integrity1.html=20
1989: Newfoundland still, but attention shifted to the long = history=20 of both physical and sexual abuse committed by members of the (Irish) = Christian=20 Brothers Congregation against teenage boys in the Mount Cashel boys' = home in St=20 John's, Newfoundland. In this case, allegations had surfaced originally = in 1975=20 and in a widespread state-church cover-up certain Brothers had been = permitted to=20 leave the Province without facing criminal proceedings. In following = years there=20 was a Royal Commission. Ibid
1989: Australian = "whistleblower"=20 Crocker: In 1989 three men told Fr. Morrie Crocker about their abuse = at the=20 hands of Fr. Peter Comensoli and Br. Michael Evans. Crocker went to = Bishop=20 William Murray and the police. The police and the bishop failed to act, = so he=20 battled for justice, then went to the Press in 1993. The police then = acted, and=20 the Woods Royal Commission inquiry into paedophiles was set up. But he = was=20 ostracised by the Church, his scrapbook with details about three other=20 priest-suspects disappeared , and the whistleblower was found hanged in = 1998.=20 Read http://www.thelinkup.com/c= rocker.html=20
1989: Book Is Nothing Sacred? The Story of a Pastor, the = Women he=20 Sexually Abused, and the Congregation he Nearly Destroyed by Marie = Fortune,=20 published by Harper in San Francisco.
1989: Book Sex in the=20 Forbidden Zone: When Men in Power -- Therapists, Doctors, Clergy, = Teachers=20 and others -- Betray Women's Trust; by Peter Rutter, published by = Mandala,=20 London.
1989:=20 Book Gay Priests. by James G. Wolf, Harper & Rowe, San = Francisco,=20 1989.
1990:=20 Newfoundland RC inquiry issues its report. The Report of the = Commission=20 of Enquiry into the Sexual Abuse of Children by Members of the = Clergy=20 (Winter Commission Report) (St. John's, Newfoundland: Archdiocese of St. = John's,=20 1990)
1990: Webpage including 1989 and some 1990 abuse = newsitems.=20 Various religions, including non-Christian, included the well-known = faiths, plus=20 First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Victory Center Church, = Kent=20 Covenant Church, etc. (Several more pages of newsitem references are on = this=20 website.) -- The Skeptic Tank, "A Safe Heaven for Pedophiles: Section = 2," www.skeptictank.org/hs= /cabuse2.htm=20 , 1990
1990: Book Slayer of the Soul: Child Sexual Abuse = and the=20 Catholic Church by Stephen Rossetti, published by Twenty-Third = Publications,=20 Mystic (a city).

1991:=20 Article "Soul Stealing: Power Relations in Pastoral Sexual Abuse" by = Pamela=20 Cooper-White published in The Christian Century, Feb 20 1991
1991:=20 Repeat offender Michael Glennon in Australia was eventually tried = (see=20 1985), and was found guilty of attempted anal penetration and two counts = of=20 bu..ery with violence and without consent, being sentenced to nine years = gaol.=20 (But at some time later, arising from the Hinch affair, the courts had = to impose=20 a news blackout, during which time important court cases occurred. The = blackout=20 was lifted around Oct 10 03.) Refer Bruce Blyth (p 111), In the = Shadow of the=20 Cross, (1997). Occurred in 1991
1991: Book Sex in the=20 Parish by Karen Lebacqz and Ronald G. Barton published by=20 Westminister/John Knox Press, Louisville.
1991: Book The=20 Dysfunctional Church; Addiction and codependency in the family of=20 Catholicism, by Michael H. Crosby, 1991, Ave Maria Press, Notre = Dame,=20 Indiana. UNITED STATES: In this book the Rev. Michael Crosby argues that = the=20 Roman Catholic Church is dysfunctional because it is addicted to power = and=20 control plus the unmarried clergified method of working. Using modern = writers'=20 theories as a framework, he then uses parts of St Matthew's Gospel as a=20 corrective. Extracts and comments are in "Religion=20 Clarity Campaign, Dysfunctional"
1992: Glennon's=20 convictions and sentence reinstated by High Court of Australia. = AUSTRALIA:=20 Repeat paedophile ex-priest Michael Charles Glennon, who had been freed = by a=20 court ruling that publicity had prevented his getting a fair trial, = found his=20 convictions and sentence reinstated. His first conviction was in 1978. = (By=20 courtesy of http://www.mako.org.au/ , "Sex=20 monster may get life," By Philip Cullen, Oct 11 03)
1992:=20 U.S. priest James Porter's story became public = during=20 1992. UNITED STATES: Publicity helped to reveal more offending priests, = who were=20 told to repent. Many were sent away for a few months of treatment at = places such=20 as the Servants of the Paraclete Treatment Centre in Jemez Springs, New = Mexico.=20 And many resumed offending. See Survivors of Clergy Abuse = in Catholic=20 Seminaries at www.arizweb.net/seminary.htm= and,=20 The Crime Library, "Father James Porter: Pedophile Priest," Michael = Newton, www.crimelibra= ry.com/serial11/porter/3.htm=20 . On May 7, 1992, Frank Fitzpatrick and seven other survivors appeared = on WBZ-TV=20 in Boston, describing their victimization by Porter. See www.crimelibra= ry.com/serial11/porter/7.htm=20 . Television exposure dated May 7 1992.
!!!: 1992: God's power = called=20 down on the news media! UNITED STATES: Boston Cardinal Law responded = to the=20 increasing number of survivors telling of James Porter molesting them to = television, radio and newspapers on May 23 by raging at the Press, = ignoring=20 Porter=92s crimes and the officials who had covered for him (Police = around 1964-65=20 had taken him to a State border and set him free -- see No 3 in the = series) .=20 "The papers like to focus on the faults of the few," Law declared. = "We=20 deplore that. By all means we call down God=92s power on the media!" = -- The=20 Crime Library, "Father James Porter: Pedophile Priest," Michael Newton, = www.crimelibra= ry.com/serial11/porter/7.htm=20 , curse occurred May 23, 1992
1992: Article "Is the Dam of Sexual = Assault=20 Breaking in the Church?" by Peter Horsfield published in = Australian=20 Ministry, May 1992.=20
1992: Book Lead = Us Not=20 Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of = Children by=20 Jason Berry published. Foreword by Father Andrew M. Greely. Doubleday, = New York.=20 Berry had won the 1986 Catholic Press Association Award for his coverage = of=20 clerical sex abuse.=20

More than 400 Catholic priests in North America had been caught = molesting=20 children between 1984 and 1992.=20
The typical molester abuses scores to hundreds of children.=20
The Church has paid out over $400 million in settlements, and the = total is=20 expected to reach $1 billion before they are done.=20
The Church tried to cover it all up.=20
The press has underreported it. The New York Times refused = his=20 stories, saying, "We want to do a child abuse story but not in the = context of=20 the Catholic Church." (any lights coming on?) Subsequent refusals came = from=20 The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, = The=20 Nation, and Mother Jones.

See /www.skeptictank.org/h= s/cabuse4.htm=20 and www.press.uillino= is.edu/s00/berryj.html=20 . Published 1992
1993: Australian= priest=20 tells the Press: Father Morrie Crocker, who had battled since = 1989 to=20 expose the abuse of three males at the hands of a priest and a brother, = went to=20 the Press, who splashed the story across the front pages. The Woods = Royal=20 Commission resulted. Check 1998 or read http://www.thelinkup.com/c= rocker.html=20
1993: U.S. R.C. bishops seemed to accept a special report on=20 sex-abuse scandal, but many did nothing, according to Bishop John Kinney = in=20 "Sins of the Fathers" on "Foreign Correspondent", June 19 2002, = Australian=20 Broadcasting Commission radio.=20

1994: England and Wales: R.C. guidelines adopted to handle = clergy=20 child sex abuse. They proved ineffective. See April 18, 2001 item = "England and=20 Wales, child-abuse representatives ..."
1994: Mission nuns abused = by=20 priests, private report: Medical Missionary of Mary Sister Maura = O'Donohue,=20 a physician, wrote a 1994 report that constitutes one of the more = comprehensive=20 accounts of nuns being tricked into or forced to have sex with priests,=20 particularly in Africa. At the time of its writing, she had spent six = years as=20 AIDS co-ordinator for the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development based = in=20 London. (See years 1995, 1998, 2000, and 2001) Visit www.thelinkup.com/nuns.ht= ml#det=20
1994, Mar.: Boston theology group told of nun abuse: The U.S. = priest=20 who gave a similar account of sexual abuse of women religious is Fr. = Robert J.=20 Vitillo, then of Caritas and later executive director of the U.S. = bishops'=20 Campaign for Human Development. In March 1994, a month after O'Donohue = wrote her=20 report, Vitillo spoke about the problem to a theological study group at = Boston=20 College. Vitillo has extensive knowledge of Africa based on regular = visits for=20 his work. His talk, which focused on several moral and ethical issues = related to=20 AIDS, including priests seeing nuns as preferred sex-partners because = less=20 likely to be infected, was titled, "Theological Challenges Posed by the = Global=20 Pandemic of HIV/AIDS." See www.thelinkup.com/nuns.html March=20 1994.
1994, Mar and Jun: Western Australia, Christian Brother = Gerard=20 Dick pleaded guilty on March 31 1994 to indecently assaulting a boy at=20 Castledare (in a Perth suburb) between January 1960 and December 1965. = He was=20 sentenced to 3 1/2 years gaol in June. Refer Bruce Blyth (p 106), In = the=20 Shadow of the Cross (1997). March 31 1994, and June 1994 =
1994, Oct.:=20 Australia, Father Peter Lewis Comensoli. Age:63 (2002) State:NSW = (Wollongong=20 and Gwynneville). In October 1994 the Priest pleaded guilty to 2 counts = of=20 Indecent Assault on two young boys (10 and 17yrs). Comensoli was = sentenced to=20 2yrs imprisonment. (with picture) Other: Still listed in the Australian = Catholic=20 Directory. -- MAKO/File within the Church, http://www.mako.org.au/tem= pcomen.html=20 (as on WWW 27 Jul 03) [Refer back to 1989 item on Australian = whistleblower Fr=20 Crocker who reported Fr Comensoli unavailingly to his bishop, went to = the news=20 media in 1993, and then followed action by the authorities, but Fr = Crocker on=20 Mar 6 1998 was found hanged, with his notebooks missing.] Conviction of = Fr=20 Comensoli Oct 1994
1994, Nov.: Ireland: (R.C. and Protestant) = The=20 cover-up of the Father Brendan Smith child abuse case , involving the = Attorney=20 General's Office, brought down the Irish coalition government of Fianna = Fail=20 under Albert Reynolds and the Labour Party under Dick Spring. See www.missingpersons-ireland.freepress-freespeech.com/pae= dophilecover-up.htm=20 and www.missingpersons-ireland.freepress-freespeech.com/i= relandthechildabuse.htm=20 , which also has a picture, plus a picture of Fr Fortune, and a picture = of "Born=20 Again" convicted paedophile Lindsay Brown , who was Religious Studies = teacher at=20 Bangor Grammar School in the Ulster Protestant community. November 1994=20
1994, Dec.: New order of brothers abolished in Australia; = Parramatta=20 Bishop Bede Heather just before Christmas 1994 told parishioners that = because of=20 "sexual misconduct and problems of governance" he was going to disband = the=20 Society of Gerard Majella, a small teaching order. A brother had been = convicted=20 the previous year. His own vicar-general, Fr Richard St John Cattell, = had been=20 gaoled two weeks before for sexual offences committed two decades = earlier. --=20 The Australian newspaper, "The Boys' Club," S.Maris and S.Powell, = 23 Dec=20 1994, cited in Bruce Blyth, In the Shadow of the Cross, (1997) = page 142=20 -- December 1994.

1995: Vatican told of nun-abuse: On Feb. 18, 1995, Cardinal = Eduardo=20 Mart=EDnez, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Religious Life, = along with=20 members of his staff, were briefed on the problem of priests sexually = abusing=20 nuns by Sr. Maura O'Donohue. (see 1994, 1998, 2000, and 2001 x 2). =
1995:=20 In Australia, R.C. Marist Brother David Christian, one-time = principal of=20 Newman Junior College in Perth, was fined $10,500 on seven charges of = indecently=20 assaulting boys at the school. Refer Bruce Blyth (p 181), In the = Shadow of=20 the Cross, (1997)
1995: Australian book When Ministers = Sin=20 by Neil and Thea Ormerod was published. It was written from a Christian=20 perspective, covering Catholic and other Western Churches, and sex abuse = both=20 with children and adults. It compared the hiding reaction of Church = leaders to=20 what they ought to have done. It also gave case histories, and listed = some=20 previous books and articles on the subject. The preface was by Dorothy=20 McRae-McMahon, national director for mission, Uniting Church in = Australia.=20

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