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MODERN ALERTS -- 1954 W. Australia R.Cs., 1967 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 knew: 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), In the Shadow of the Cross, (1997)
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: 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, P & B Press, PO Box 81, Como, WA, 6952,
ISBN 0-9586413-1-5, $17.95),
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.)
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
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: Bishops warned of religious and financial dangers in U.S.: Because of the publicity, a confidential report warning of the spiritual, credibility and financial dangers to the Church was sent to every U.S. Catholic bishop in 1985 and discussed at their national conference. The authors were Father Gauthe's solicitor F.R.Mouton, Church law expert Father T.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.
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
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 (p 111), In the Shadow of the Cross, (1997)
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.
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
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.
Refer Bruce Blyth (p 111), In the Shadow of the Cross, (1997)
1992: U.S. priest James Porter's story became public during 1992. 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
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.
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.
Read http://www.thelinkup.com/crocker.html or check 1998
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:
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, 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)
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