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

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GOOD TEACHINGS TO BE HEEDED, A BIG CLEAN-UP IS NEEDED
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starts: www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethicscontents.htm
Visit http://www.ncrnews.org/abuse/

If
the original heading or name of an article or newsitem is not used at the start
of an entry, the original heading or name will be found elsewhere in the entry,
or in a few cases by returning to the original source. 309
A.D., Council of Elvira, expulsion proposed: The earliest Church council
after the Council of Jerusalem for which records exist took place at Elvira in
309 A.D. This council proposed irrevocable* exclusion for those who sexually
abuse boys (Canon 71). That is, they were not to receive the Sacrament of
Communion even at the point of death. (Based on Religious Life Without
Integrity, p 27, Barry Coldrey, 2001, ISBN 0-9586413-1-5, $17.95, P & B
Press, PO Box 81, Como, WA, 6952 Tel 08 9450 2513, Fax 9226 4346 [email-masked]   http://members.iinet.net.au/~pbpress
. See www.thelinkup.com/integrity-toc.html
)
* People who doubt permanent exclusion is authentic
Christianity could check Matthew 12:32 "shall not be forgiven in this world nor
in the world to come," Hebrews 6:4-6 "impossible to renew them to repentance,"
and 1 John 5:16-17 "there is a sin that means death, no prayer for that."

Middle Ages: Father Thomas Doyle, a canon lawyer who has
testified on behalf of plaintiffs in some 200 sex-abuse lawsuits, states that in
the Middle Ages Irish monks published penitential books for handling
confessions. Several of the tomes, according to Doyle, refer to sexual crimes
committed by clerics against boys and girls. One widely-used volume, known as
the Penitential of Bede, advises clerics who sodomize children to repent their
sins by subsisting on nothing more than bread and water for anywhere from three
to 12 years. "The reason sexual abuse of minors is in these books," says Doyle,
"is because it was a problem." Refer Kristen Lombardi, "Failure to Act," part 1,
The Phoenix, 126 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A., October 4 - 11,
2001, http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/01847611.htm

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

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

1947: Western Australian Government told child immigration had
undesirable effects: In 1947 the Secretary of the Child Welfare Department
of Western Australia wrote to his Minister about the proposal to resume bringing
child migrants to Catholic institutions: "The 1938-39 scheme in many ways was
disastrous. Children brought out under this scheme became anti-social,
anti-Australian and anti-Christ, and some of them unfortunately have returned to
the Old Country, not at all satisfied with the treatment received at the hands
of the authorities here. This at all costs must be avoided in the future." Refer
Bruce Blyth (pp 10-11), book In the Shadow of the Cross, (1997).

1954: Australian Christian Brothers' leaders knew: In 1954 Brother
P.L.Duffy, an assistant to the Christian Brothers' Superior-General in Ireland,
wrote to Brother Carroll, a member of the local council in Melbourne: " ... I
think you would be well advised to let Brother L. O'Doherty know during the next
visitation of the desirability of keeping Brother Lambert Wise away from all
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
the greatest care should be taken to protect both him and the boys." Brother
O'Doherty, one-time principal of Castledare and Clontarf in Western Australia,
was asked during a Melbourne court case in 1994 if he had received this
direction, but he said he had not. Refer Bruce Blyth (pp 100-01), (1997), In
the Shadow of the Cross

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1964: Father James Porter (U.S.). In March 1964,
Monsignor Humberto Medeiros -- later archbishop of Boston, and later again a
cardinal -- admitted to Bishop Connolly that Porter had molested 30 or 40
children during his years at St. Mary's. (Some published estimates place the
number at more than 100.) Still, no action was taken, until Porter embarrassed
the church with his arrest for molesting a 13-year-old boy in New Hampshire.
State police obliged the church by escorting Porter to the Massachusetts border
and setting him free. -- The Crime Library, "Father James Porter: Pedophile
Priest," Michael Newton, www.crimelibrary.com/serial11/porter/3.htm
.
Month
the abuse was advised by Mons. Medeiros to Bishop Connolly was March 1964

1967: Public discussion in U.S.A.: "The first [U.S.] public
discussion of priest sexual abuse of minors was at a meeting sponsored by the
National Association for Pastoral Renewal held ... [U.S.] Notre Dame University
in 1967. All American Catholic bishops were invited to that meeting." -- A. W.
Richard Sipe, psychotherapist (member Benedictine order 1953-70), in the Sipe
Report, paragraph 22, www.thelinkup.com/sipe.html
1971: United States RC bishops were told that
big percentage of priests needed character development; Church in Crisis; Bishop
Gumbleton remembers
National Catholic Reporter, "Church in
Crisis," http://www.natcath.com/crisis/gumbleton.htm
, spoken by Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton, on May 25, 2002, at Lexington MA, posted
June 17, 2002
LEXINGTON ( MA): . . . [Small extract of long
speech] I can remember very clearly the meeting we held in 1971 when the chief
authors of the sociological and psychological studies made a presentation to the
Catholic bishops. That psychological study should have been an exceptionally
helpful eye opener for the Catholic bishops. It categorized, from a
psychological development perspective, what the priesthood in the United States
looked like. At one end of the spectrum are maldeveloped priests. And according
to the study, there were about 7 or 8% of the priests in the United States who
were seriously maldeveloped. Then there was a very large category -- 65-66% of
the priests in the United States who were described as underdeveloped. And then
another category of about 13-14% or so that were developing persons. At the
other end of the spectrum about 7 or 8% of priests who would be termed developed
persons. [Apologies for not recording this sooner - jcm 25 Jan 04. For a long
summary of his points, "visit" at the publication date, June 17, 2002]

(Check 1972.) He said that the US bishops' conference he referred to was in
1971.
1971: Baars tells global R.C. bishops in Rome: "In 1971,
psychiatrist Conrad Baars traveled to the Vatican, where he presented the first
of two studies about the US priesthood to the Synod of Bishops, an assembly of
bishops from around the world. Baars based his research on 40 years' experience
treating 1500 priests. He found that 20 to 25 percent of American clergy members
had serious psychiatric problems, while 60 to 70 percent suffered emotional
immaturity -- by which Baars meant 'an insufficiently developed or distorted
emotional life.' According to his report, The Role of the Church in the
Causation, Treatment, and Prevention of the Crisis of the Priesthood, these
priests often exhibited a 'psychosexual immaturity expressed in hetero- or
homosexual activity,' as well as in 'masturbation, sexual impotence or frigidity
... or sexual exploits.' " Refer Kristen Lombardi, October 4 - 11 2001 www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/01847612.htm

1972: Kennedy tells U.S. bishops: Twelve
months later, Baars's findings were mirrored in an exhaustive study about the
state of mind of American priests, The Catholic Priest in the United States:
Psychological Investigations, which the NCCB had commissioned in 1969.
Eugene Kennedy, a former priest and psychologist reported that 66 percent of
priests were underdeveloped psychologically and emotionally, while another eight
percent were maldeveloped. In a separate interview, Kennedy says his work
pinpointed priests with major psychosexual development problems. Kristen
Lombardi, October 4 - 11, 2001, www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/01847612.htm

1972: In U.S., Paraclete staff training to
deal with child sex-abuse priests. Kristen Lombardi, "Failure to Act," part 3,
The Phoenix, Boston, October 4 - 11, 2001, www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/01847613.htm

1975: Newfoundland 1975 cover-up;
Christian Brothers Mount Cashel orphanage in St John's, Newfoundland, had been
the subject of a formal 1975 cover-up of explicit allegations of widespread
abuse at that time. Refer Dr Barry Coldrey (p. 4), book Religious Life
Without Integrity, (2001) http://www.thelinkup.com/integrity1.html

1976: Paracletes, New Mexico, launched two programmes for paedophilic
priests; Kristen Lombardi, October 4 - 11, 2001, www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/01847613.htm

1978: Melbourne priest Father Michael
Glennon in 1978 served seven months of a two-year sentence for indecently
assaulting a ten-year-old girl. (See 1985 and 1991 for the facts on his resuming
priestly office, and then being charged and convicted again for child sex. See
2003 for end of news blackout, and total of offences rising to 50.)
1978:
Priest alerted Australian RC bishop about sex-abusing priest from 1978 but
he was not stopped. Phil O'Donnell, for 24 years a priest, said his Church
superiors let the priest continue, and the perpetrator kept doing it, and Fr
O'Donnell kept alerting the Church authorities. More kids got abused. The Church
had a strategy of denial and rejection, he said. See June 9 2002 screening of
"60 Minutes," Richard Carleton, TV Channel 9 http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2002_06_09/story_610.asp

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1983-84: Half Protestant clergy at fault, see
"Cease Clergy Sexual Abuse" website at http://www.advocateweb.org/cease/csa.htm
by Frances Park, including a doctoral thesis by Richard Blackmon, saying that 50
per cent of Protestant clergy responding to a survey admitted to having sexual
contact with parishioners (adult as well as child), written in 1983-84
1985: The seeming sanctity of the Catholic Church (U.S.A.)
received a huge crack in 1985 with the grotesque revelations coming out of the
swampy Cajun country in rural Louisiana about Fr Gilbert Gauthe who had molested
scores of boys. His story was picked up by the major news wire services, the
television networks, and the print media. See "Survivors of Clergy Abuse in
Catholic Seminaries" at www.arizweb.net/seminary.htm

1985: In Australia, there was huge adverse publicity regarding the
repeat offender Father Michael Glennon when he faced new
charges for sexually interfering with five boys and one girl aged 12 to 16. The
trial was aborted when broadcaster Derryn Hinch publicised Glennon's previous
offence/s (see 1978 above). Hinch was gaoled for 12 days and fined $15,000 for
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
consent, being sentenced to nine years gaol. Refer Bruce Blyth (1997, p 111),
In the Shadow of the Cross; event 1985

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

All too often, complaints against the priest involved are disregarded by
the bishops, or the priest is given the benefit of a doubt.

Frequently, local bishops exhibit little concern for the traumatic effects
these molestations have on the boys and their families -- even though mental
disturbances and, in one recent case, suicide, have followed such
molestations.

Only legal threats and lawsuits seem capable of provoking some local
bishops into taking firm actions against the priests. In some cases reported
here, the priests, once identified for their offenses, have been moved to
other parishes and again placed in positions of responsibility.

In a
decision following considerable internal discussion, the National Catholic
Reporter decided to publish the names of the priests involved, though not
those of the boys and their families. In each case, these priests have already
been named in open court or in legal depositions, and they have been the
subjects of national wire service or national magazine coverage. ... Publication
at this length comes in order to explain the extent of the serious nature of the
problems involved *** The possibility of exorbitant insurance premiums for all
dioceses resulting from the current crop of civil and criminal cases. In April,
Wilfred Caron, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) general
counsel, was in Lafayette, La., to meet with insurance lawyers preparing to
admit liability in that diocese’s suits. Caron has to monitor the pace and
extent of criminal and civil suits filed in other dioceses across the country.
(Caron did not return NCR’s calls.) -- National Catholic Reporter,
Kansas City, MO, "Sex Abuse Crisis: Priest child abuse cases victimizing
families; bishops lack policy response." www.natcath.org/crisis/070585b.htm
, by Jason Berry, Mark Day, Gordon Oliver, and Arthur Jones, June 7 1985

1985: PROBLEM OF SEXUAL MOLESTATION report to US bishops: UNITED
STATES: Because of unease arising out of the publicity, three professionals
decided to help the Catholic bishops understand the problem, with suggestions
for future action. They wrote a confidential report warning of the spiritual,
credibility and financial dangers to the Church. It was sent to every U.S.
Catholic bishop in 1985 and discussed at the bishops' national conference. The
authors were Father Gauthe's solicitor F.R.Mouton, Church law expert Father
Thomas P. Doyle, and Father M. Peterson, the founder of a Maryland institute for
sexually-troubled priests. Father Doyle from 1986 onwards publicised the lack of
action by the bishops, and his career entered the doldrums, but he became a
miliary chaplain. Refer Barry Coldrey (pp 2-3), Religious Life Without
Integrity, (2001); and see Kristen Lombardi, October 4 - 11, 2001, www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/01847612.htm

Read the above-mentioned report on-line,: "The Problem
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
(PDF requires Adobe® Acrobat®
Reader™), Final draft June 8-9, 1985

1986: Alarming rise in child
sex abuse [in general]. PERTH, W. Australia: State Government figures showed
995 cases of sexual, physical and emotional abuse, and neglect in the year to
June 30. And at least 200 other cases were handled by the police, resulting in
426 charges being laid against 152 people. Dr Barbara Meddin, a US child
protection specialist now working with the Community Services Department, put a
lot of the cause down to defacto partnerships, due to the lack of commitment. --
The Western Mail No. 303, Perth, "Alarming rise in child sex abuse," by
Norm Aisbett, pp 1 and 12, August 23-24, 1986
1986: Jason Berry wins the
1986 U.S. Catholic Press Association Award for his coverage of clerical sex
abuse. 1986
1987: Protestant
television evangelists: In 1987-8, U.S. and world interest in clerical
sexual and financial scandals shifted temporarily to the Protestant
'televangelists'. The four major cases of these years concerned Jim Bakker,
Jimmy Swaggart, Tony Leyva and the South African Rev Allan Boesak. Refer Barry
Coldrey (p 3), Religious Life Without Integrity, (2001)
1987: Australia -- The
History of the Sexual Abuse Controversy there: Community attention in
Western Australia was first drawn to child migration, and to the complaints of
abusive behaviour in some of the state's religious residential care, in an
exposé in The Western Mail (Weekend), of August 8-9 1987 p 20, followed
by Aug 15-16 pp 26-27, Aug 22-23 pp 24-25, and Aug 29-30 p 26. A
former child migrant, Gordon Grant (Nigel Fitzgibbon), had interested the
editor, André Malan, in the problems child migrants were having as a result of
their earlier experiences. Under emotive headings such as 'The lost children
Britain sent away to Australia,' 'The faceless kids of Fairbridge Farm' and 'The
nightmare at Bindoon' the articles revealed an underside of Western Australian
residential care which had lain dormant for 30 and more years. Some former
inmates denounced child migration as such 'robbing them of their identity';
others claimed horrific physical and sexual abuse in the institutions in which
they were placed. The focus was on the Christian Brothers' St. Joseph's Farm and
Trade School, Bindoon; Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra; and Nazareth House,
Geraldton. See Barry Coldrey, Religious Life Without Integrity, page 5
(2001) http://www.thelinkup.com/integrity2.html

1988: In Newfoundland there were criminal
prosecutions for repeated molestations committed by two parish priests. Over
time other priests were implicated until some ten per cent of the diocesan
clergy were tainted by allegations, arrest, trial and commonly conviction. (See
cover-up item of 1975.) Refer Dr Barry Coldrey (p 4), book Religious Life
Without Integrity, (2001), http://www.thelinkup.com/integrity1.html

1989: Newfoundland still, but attention shifted to the long history
of both physical and sexual abuse committed by members of the (Irish) Christian
Brothers Congregation against teenage boys in the Mount Cashel boys' home in St
John's, Newfoundland. In this case, allegations had surfaced originally in 1975
and in a widespread state-church cover-up certain Brothers had been permitted to
leave the Province without facing criminal proceedings. In following years there
was a Royal Commission. Ibid
1989: Australian "whistleblower"
Crocker: In 1989 three men told Fr. Morrie Crocker about their abuse at the
hands of Fr. Peter Comensoli and Br. Michael Evans. Crocker went to Bishop
William Murray and the police. The police and the bishop failed to act, so he
battled for justice, then went to the Press in 1993. The police then acted, and
the Woods Royal Commission inquiry into paedophiles was set up. But he was
ostracised by the Church, his scrapbook with details about three other
priest-suspects disappeared , and the whistleblower was found hanged in 1998.
Read http://www.thelinkup.com/crocker.html

1989: Book Is Nothing Sacred? The Story of a Pastor, the Women he
Sexually Abused, and the Congregation he Nearly Destroyed by Marie Fortune,
published by Harper in San Francisco.
1989: Book Sex in the
Forbidden Zone: When Men in Power -- Therapists, Doctors, Clergy, Teachers
and others -- Betray Women's Trust; by Peter Rutter, published by Mandala,
London.
1989:
Book Gay Priests. by James G. Wolf, Harper & Rowe, San Francisco,
1989.
1990:
Newfoundland RC inquiry issues its report. The Report of the Commission
of Enquiry into the Sexual Abuse of Children by Members of the Clergy
(Winter Commission Report) (St. John's, Newfoundland: Archdiocese of St. John's,
1990)
1990: Webpage including 1989 and some 1990 abuse newsitems.
Various religions, including non-Christian, included the well-known faiths, plus
First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Victory Center Church, Kent
Covenant Church, etc. (Several more pages of newsitem references are on this
website.) -- The Skeptic Tank, "A Safe Heaven for Pedophiles: Section 2," www.skeptictank.org/hs/cabuse2.htm
, 1990
1990: Book Slayer of the Soul: Child Sexual Abuse and the
Catholic Church by Stephen Rossetti, published by Twenty-Third Publications,
Mystic (a city).

1991:
Article "Soul Stealing: Power Relations in Pastoral Sexual Abuse" by Pamela
Cooper-White published in The Christian Century, Feb 20 1991
1991:
Repeat offender Michael Glennon in Australia was eventually tried (see
1985), and was found guilty of attempted anal penetration and two counts of
bu..ery with violence and without consent, being sentenced to nine years gaol.
(But at some time later, arising from the Hinch affair, the courts had to impose
a news blackout, during which time important court cases occurred. The blackout
was lifted around Oct 10 03.) Refer Bruce Blyth (p 111), In the Shadow of the
Cross, (1997). Occurred in 1991
1991: Book Sex in the
Parish by Karen Lebacqz and Ronald G. Barton published by
Westminister/John Knox Press, Louisville.
1991: Book The
Dysfunctional Church; Addiction and codependency in the family of
Catholicism, by Michael H. Crosby, 1991, Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame,
Indiana. UNITED STATES: In this book the Rev. Michael Crosby argues that the
Roman Catholic Church is dysfunctional because it is addicted to power and
control plus the unmarried clergified method of working. Using modern writers'
theories as a framework, he then uses parts of St Matthew's Gospel as a
corrective. Extracts and comments are in "Religion
Clarity Campaign, Dysfunctional"
1992: Glennon's
convictions and sentence reinstated by High Court of Australia. AUSTRALIA:
Repeat paedophile ex-priest Michael Charles Glennon, who had been freed by a
court ruling that publicity had prevented his getting a fair trial, found his
convictions and sentence reinstated. His first conviction was in 1978. (By
courtesy of http://www.mako.org.au/ , "Sex
monster may get life," By Philip Cullen, Oct 11 03)
1992:
U.S. priest James Porter's story became public during
1992. UNITED STATES: Publicity helped to reveal more offending priests, who were
told to repent. Many were sent away for a few months of treatment at places such
as the Servants of the Paraclete Treatment Centre in Jemez Springs, New Mexico.
And many resumed offending. See Survivors of Clergy Abuse in Catholic
Seminaries at www.arizweb.net/seminary.htm and,
The Crime Library, "Father James Porter: Pedophile Priest," Michael Newton, www.crimelibrary.com/serial11/porter/3.htm
. On May 7, 1992, Frank Fitzpatrick and seven other survivors appeared on WBZ-TV
in Boston, describing their victimization by Porter. See www.crimelibrary.com/serial11/porter/7.htm
. Television exposure dated May 7 1992.
!!!: 1992: God's power called
down on the news media! UNITED STATES: Boston Cardinal Law responded to the
increasing number of survivors telling of James Porter molesting them to
television, radio and newspapers on May 23 by raging at the Press, ignoring
Porter’s crimes and the officials who had covered for him (Police around 1964-65
had taken him to a State border and set him free -- see No 3 in the series) .
"The papers like to focus on the faults of the few," Law declared. "We
deplore that. By all means we call down God’s power on the media!" -- The
Crime Library, "Father James Porter: Pedophile Priest," Michael Newton, www.crimelibrary.com/serial11/porter/7.htm
, curse occurred May 23, 1992
1992: Article "Is the Dam of Sexual Assault
Breaking in the Church?" by Peter Horsfield published in Australian
Ministry, May 1992.

1992: Book Lead Us Not
Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children by
Jason Berry published. Foreword by Father Andrew M. Greely. Doubleday, New York.
Berry had won the 1986 Catholic Press Association Award for his coverage of
clerical sex abuse.

More than 400 Catholic priests in North America had been caught molesting
children between 1984 and 1992.

The typical molester abuses scores to hundreds of children.

The Church has paid out over $400 million in settlements, and the total is
expected to reach $1 billion before they are done.

The Church tried to cover it all up.

The press has underreported it. The New York Times refused his
stories, saying, "We want to do a child abuse story but not in the context of
the Catholic Church." (any lights coming on?) Subsequent refusals came from
The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The
Nation, and Mother Jones.

See /www.skeptictank.org/hs/cabuse4.htm
and www.press.uillinois.edu/s00/berryj.html
. Published 1992
1993: Australian priest
tells the Press: Father Morrie Crocker, who had battled since 1989 to
expose the abuse of three males at the hands of a priest and a brother, went to
the Press, who splashed the story across the front pages. The Woods Royal
Commission resulted. Check 1998 or read http://www.thelinkup.com/crocker.html

1993: U.S. R.C. bishops seemed to accept a special report on
sex-abuse scandal, but many did nothing, according to Bishop John Kinney in
"Sins of the Fathers" on "Foreign Correspondent", June 19 2002, Australian
Broadcasting Commission radio.

1994: England and Wales: R.C. guidelines adopted to handle clergy
child sex abuse. They proved ineffective. See April 18, 2001 item "England and
Wales, child-abuse representatives ..."
1994: Mission nuns abused by
priests, private report: Medical Missionary of Mary Sister Maura O'Donohue,
a physician, wrote a 1994 report that constitutes one of the more comprehensive
accounts of nuns being tricked into or forced to have sex with priests,
particularly in Africa. At the time of its writing, she had spent six years as
AIDS co-ordinator for the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development based in
London. (See years 1995, 1998, 2000, and 2001) Visit www.thelinkup.com/nuns.html#det

1994, Mar.: Boston theology group told of nun abuse: The U.S. priest
who gave a similar account of sexual abuse of women religious is Fr. Robert J.
Vitillo, then of Caritas and later executive director of the U.S. bishops'
Campaign for Human Development. In March 1994, a month after O'Donohue wrote her
report, Vitillo spoke about the problem to a theological study group at Boston
College. Vitillo has extensive knowledge of Africa based on regular visits for
his work. His talk, which focused on several moral and ethical issues related to
AIDS, including priests seeing nuns as preferred sex-partners because less
likely to be infected, was titled, "Theological Challenges Posed by the Global
Pandemic of HIV/AIDS." See www.thelinkup.com/nuns.html March
1994.
1994, Mar and Jun: Western Australia, Christian Brother Gerard
Dick pleaded guilty on March 31 1994 to indecently assaulting a boy at
Castledare (in a Perth suburb) between January 1960 and December 1965. He was
sentenced to 3 1/2 years gaol in June. Refer Bruce Blyth (p 106), In the
Shadow of the Cross (1997). March 31 1994, and June 1994
1994, Oct.:
Australia, Father Peter Lewis Comensoli. Age:63 (2002) State:NSW (Wollongong
and Gwynneville). In October 1994 the Priest pleaded guilty to 2 counts of
Indecent Assault on two young boys (10 and 17yrs). Comensoli was sentenced to
2yrs imprisonment. (with picture) Other: Still listed in the Australian Catholic
Directory. -- MAKO/File within the Church, http://www.mako.org.au/tempcomen.html
(as on WWW 27 Jul 03) [Refer back to 1989 item on Australian whistleblower Fr
Crocker who reported Fr Comensoli unavailingly to his bishop, went to the news
media in 1993, and then followed action by the authorities, but Fr Crocker on
Mar 6 1998 was found hanged, with his notebooks missing.] Conviction of Fr
Comensoli Oct 1994
1994, Nov.: Ireland: (R.C. and Protestant) The
cover-up of the Father Brendan Smith child abuse case , involving the Attorney
General's Office, brought down the Irish coalition government of Fianna Fail
under Albert Reynolds and the Labour Party under Dick Spring. See www.missingpersons-ireland.freepress-freespeech.com/paedophilecover-up.htm
and www.missingpersons-ireland.freepress-freespeech.com/irelandthechildabuse.htm
, which also has a picture, plus a picture of Fr Fortune, and a picture of "Born
Again" convicted paedophile Lindsay Brown , who was Religious Studies teacher at
Bangor Grammar School in the Ulster Protestant community. November 1994

1994, Dec.: New order of brothers abolished in Australia; Parramatta
Bishop Bede Heather just before Christmas 1994 told parishioners that because of
"sexual misconduct and problems of governance" he was going to disband the
Society of Gerard Majella, a small teaching order. A brother had been convicted
the previous year. His own vicar-general, Fr Richard St John Cattell, had been
gaoled two weeks before for sexual offences committed two decades earlier. --
The Australian newspaper, "The Boys' Club," S.Maris and S.Powell, 23 Dec
1994, cited in Bruce Blyth, In the Shadow of the Cross, (1997) page 142
-- December 1994.

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

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