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• Mediators say agreements reached in 37 of 93 abuse reports -- Roman Catholic Church.

   Duluth News Tribune, www.duluthsuperior.com/ mld/duluthsuperior/news/ politics/9672159.htm , By JOHN HARTZELL, Associated Press, Posted on Wed, Sep. 15, 2004
   MILWAUKEE (WI) - Mediators said Wednesday they have resolved 37 claims of clergy sexual abuse in the Milwaukee Roman Catholic Archdiocese.
   The archdiocese's independent clergy sexual abuse mediation system had received a total of 93 reports of abuse since it started in January. Mediators said 13 cases are in the mediation process and 14 others are under investigation.
   Eva Soeka, the mediation system's administrator, said confidentiality provisions in the agreements prohibited church officials from saying how the archdiocese resolved the claims.
   Peter Isely, Milwaukee spokesman for the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests [SNAP], said some settlements ranged from $20,000 to $50,000. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 06:16 PM] (This is the first of the Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse , for Wed September 15, 2004.)

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   INCOMPLETE LINKS: Refer back to "References 61" for methods of obtaining the URLs. • Catholic Activists Demand Release Of National Audit -- RCC.
   TheWMURChannel.com ; www.thewmurchannel.com/ news/3732191/ detail.html , POSTED 10:47 am EDT, September 15, 2004
   MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Catholic activists are calling for the Manchester Diocese to release a 2003 audit of the church's compliance with child protection policies.
   New Hampshire Catholics for Moral Leadership [NHCML] said the Manchester Diocese has refused to publicize the results of the national audit commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The results were sent to Manchester 10 days ago.
   The audit reports that 90 percent of the nation's Catholic churches -- including Manchester -- were in full compliance with sexual abuse prevention policies set down by the Conference of Catholic Bishops.
   A spokeswoman for the church said the bishop will release the results after consulting with the diocesan review board.
   In a separate case, the attorney general and the Manchester Diocese go to court this month to settle a dispute over another audit. That audit was ordered two years ago as part of the church abuse settlement. It hasn't begun yet because of arguments over oversight and who should pay for it.
• Closing arguments in priest's molestation trial [1994-95 Superiaso] -- RCC. Girl.
   San Francisco Examiner, www.sfexaminer.com/ article/index.cfm/ i/091404n_priest , By Ethan Fletcher, Tuesday, September 14, 2004
   CALIFORNIA: The fate of former Daly City priest Jose Superiaso, arrested last year and accused of 21 counts of child molestation, is now in jurors' hands.
   Jurors heard attorneys' closing arguments Monday and began deliberation on a verdict for the 50-year-old priest, accused of committing sexual acts, including intercourse, with a Filipino immigrant girl over the course of one year beginning when the victim was just 12 years old. Superiaso, who allegedly committed the acts from July 1994 until November 1995, could face a maximum of 54 years in prison.
   Prosecuting Deputy District Attorney Sharon Henry focused on the now-22-year-old alleged victim's emotional testimony. Known only as Jane Doe to protect her identity, the victim testified that Superiaso performed sexual acts with her once or twice a week over the course of more than a year, ranging from fondling to sexual intercourse.
   "The truth in the case is that the defendant took this child and robbed her of her innocence and plunged her into an abyss of shame, fear, anger and unimaginable trauma," Henry told jurors Tuesday afternoon. "Ladies and gentlemen, we will never really know the depths of Jane Doe's pain, but you got a glimpse of it during her testimony when she recounted the despicable acts committed against her by this man -- this man who was a priest."
• Victims' group calls for direct reporting of abuse allegations -- RCC.
   Beacon Journal, Associated Press, Wed, Sep. 15, 2004
   CLEVELAND (OH) - A national group representing victims of sexual abuse by priests asked the Roman Catholic bishop of Cleveland on Wednesday to expand abuse reporting methods.
   A law-enforcement abuse hot line number should be posted in churches and parochial schools, said David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests [SNAP].
   "It needs to be treated as a crime," Clohessy said.
   SNAP also wants one of its members appointed to the Cleveland diocesan clergy abuse review panel, Clohessy said in a sidewalk news conference outside the office of Bishop Anthony M. Pilla.
   A spokesman for Pilla, Bob Tayek, said abuse allegations referred to a church hot line are promptly forwarded to law enforcement.
• Former Milwaukee Priest Pleads Guilty To Sexual Assault [1990s Palathingal] -- RCC. Boy.
   TheMilwaukeeChannel.com ; POSTED 4:41 pm CDT, September 15, 2004
   MILWAUKEE (WI): A former Milwaukee priest will likely go to prison for molesting a boy.
   Simon Palathingal pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child.
   The assault happened in the early 1990s while Palathingal was studying at Marquette University.
   He is scheduled to be sentenced in November.
   Mediators said they've resolved 37 claims of clergy abuse in the Milwaukee archdiocese.
• Episcopal lay leader received counseling: Bishop details actions church took years ago when man was accused of child molestation [1990s Swafford] -- Episcopal Church. Boy.
   The Post and Courier, BY MICHAEL GARTLAND, Wednesday, September 15, 2004
   SOUTH CAROLINA: Two weeks after a former Episcopal lay leader's arrest in a child-molestation case, the South Carolina diocesan bishop said the man received psychiatric counseling at least twice when he was accused of misconduct previously.
   In a written statement released Tuesday, Bishop Edward Salmon listed the steps the church took in 1994 after one child accused Mack Swafford of sexual assault and another accused him of inappropriate touching at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in West Ashley.
   The penalties included Swafford's removal as a lay leader, a prohibition against him having any direct contact with children, and a stipulation that other church leaders would be notified of the accusations if he decided to move to another parish.
   "Although we have a painful situation at Holy Trinity, it is my judgment that parish and diocesan leaders have sought to act with compassion and sensitivity toward all parties," Salmon wrote. [...]
   When a Holy Trinity staff member made accusations that Swafford inappropriately hugged a teenage boy at church in 2001, the church had a psychiatrist evaluate Swafford, and the boy's parents were contacted, Salmon wrote in his Tuesday statement.
   Beverly Moore, a former parishioner and staff member, complained about Swafford verbally and in writing to church officials from May 2001 until she was excommunicated in October 2002. She said she was removed from the church after openly refusing to take communion wine from Swafford. Salmon responded that Moore had been removed from the church because her behavior and that of other members caused nearly half the congregation to leave.
   Other members of the congregation have confirmed that Swafford served wine at the time, but Salmon said he would not have been allowed to under the terms of the 1994 censure.
   The diocese alerted all Holy Trinity clergy since 1994 that Swafford would not be allowed to serve communion wine as part of his punishment, Salmon said.
   Members say Swafford served it in 2001. #
• Jury deliberates fate of Daly City priest accused of sexual abuse [1994-95 Superiaso] -- RCC. Girl.
   Contra Costa Times, Associated Press
   REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Jurors deliberated all day Tuesday without reaching a verdict in the case of a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl a decade ago.
   Jurors were set to return for deliberations Wednesday.
   Jose Superiaso is accused of molesting a girl between July 1994 and November 1995 when he served at St. Andrew Church in Daly City. He has pleaded not guilty to 24 counts of child molestation.
   The accuser, who was 12 when the abuse allegedly began, testified against Superiaso last week.
   Superiaso was arrested in June 2003 after he was lured back to California from Santa Fe, N.M., where he had moved in 1998 and was serving as a priest. After his accuser reported the alleged abuse, police arranged for her to contact Superiaso by telephone in New Mexico.
• Hispanics resist plan for diocesan fingerprinting -- RCC.
   The Washington Times, By Julia Duin
   UNITED STATES: Catholic dioceses across the nation that have installed strict policies on who is allowed access to their children are wrestling with a new headache: how to deal with Hispanic church members who refuse to submit to background checks.
   At issue locally is the Diocese of Arlington's new policy mandating the fingerprinting of priests, seminarians, nuns, church employees and lay volunteers who work with children. Half of the 394,000-member diocese may be Hispanic, including thousands of undocumented immigrants.
   "We could lose many volunteers," said the Rev. Ovidio Pecharroman, director of the diocesan Office of Spanish Ministry. "Most of the people working in the Catholic Church are volunteers; whether legal or illegal, I don't know."
   Many immigrant volunteers affected by the new policy work in a range of church duties, such as nursery care and chaperoning high school youths, at the 29 churches in the diocese that offer Spanish-language Masses.
• Judge denies diocese attempts to dismiss suits -- RCC. Males.
   Quad-City Times, By Todd Ruger
   IOWA: An Iowa 7th Judicial District judge again denied attempts by the Catholic Diocese of Davenport to dismiss two more of 16 civil lawsuits alleging decades-old sexual abuse by priests.
   The diocese has argued that the plaintiffs - Don Green of DeWitt and a man identified only as John Doe IA - failed to file the suits before a statute of limitations expired.
   Diocese attorney Robert McMonagle said the diocese has asked the Iowa Supreme Court to review Judge C.H. Pelton's ruling on those lawsuits.
   That request will join an existing request for the state's highest court to review a parallel ruling by Pelton in July on two other lawsuits, James Wells and a man identified only as John Doe III, McMonagle said.
• Diocese Of Tucson Continues Extensive Background Checks -- RCC.
   KGUN 9, by Maria Neider, Sep/14/04)
   TUCSON (AZ): Last year, in an effort to prevent any new cases of sexual misconduct with minors or adults, the Diocese of Tucson started an extensive screening program for clergy, parish employees and even volunteers. And after a year of screening *anyone* who has contact with children--- the diocese *did* end up eliminating people after the background check caught some red flags.
   All day long, Irene Felix types form after form into a computer to run criminal background checks at the Diocese of Tucson Headquarters. To date, the diocese has screened more than two-thousand people who work and volunteer in its 75 parishes and schools. More than 1,500 ID forms have not been cleared yet.
   Dr. Paul Duckro, Director of the Office of Child, Adolescent & Adult Protection for the Diocese of Tucson says many parishes are a little behind in finishing up their background checks. "I believe we're getting there. I remember I'd been here some months and somebody asked me, "What will you do if this doesn't work?" And I looked at him a long time and I said, "That's not an option."
• Police probe opens in priest abuse case [1998 Deyo] -- RCC. Boy.
   Press-Citizen, By Mike McWilliams Iowa City Press-Citizen, Wednesday, September 15, 2004
   IOWA: Johnson County Attorney J. Patrick White announced Tuesday that a formal criminal investigation will be conducted into allegations of a priest sexually abusing a boy in 1998 while serving at an area parish.
   After about a month of gathering information, White said a more formal investigation was needed to assess the matter. Local parishes learned three weeks ago that the Rev. Paul Deyo had been accused of sexual abuse of a minor.
   No criminal charges have been filed against Deyo, who lived in Iowa City from 1991 to 2000. The diocese released Deyo's name Aug. 28 in an attempt to urge others who may have been abused by him to come forward.
   Diocese lawyer Rand Wonio said there have been no other allegations of abuse by Deyo made to the diocese.
• Church faces more sexual abuse suits [1971 Paulin, Paquette] -- RCC. $US150,000 cost of one priest's sins. Boy.
   Times Argus, Associated Press, September 15, 2004
   BURLINGTON (VT) - After spending more than $400,000 to settle claims of sexual abuse by its priests in the last year, The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington faces at least two more lawsuits.
   Lawyer Jerome O'Neill has filed civil cases against the statewide diocese; George Paulin, formerly a pastor in Ludlow; and Edward Paquette, formerly a priest in Burlington.
   O'Neill, the chairman of the Burlington Police Commission, is filing a third case against a third unnamed priest, "and there are more coming, probably a half a dozen more," he said Monday.
   O'Neill sparked the diocese this spring to settle a case against Alfred Willis, a former priest in Burlington, Milton and Montpelier, for $150,000 - the largest such payment in state history - and a lawsuit against former Rutland priest James McShane for $120,000.
   In the first of O'Neill's latest cases, Neil Morrissette, 45, of Newport alleges that Paulin sexually abused him when he was a 13-year-old member of his hometown St. Mary Star of the Sea Church in 1971.
• Former priest will no longer play organ [1971 Paulin] -- RCC / Methodist.
   WCAX -TV 3
   ARLINGTON, Vt.: A former priest who resigned last year amid sexual abuse allegations will no longer play the organ at Arlington's Catholic church.
   George Paulin has played the organ at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Arlington and First United Methodist Church in nearby Shaftsbury.
   But news reports about two misconduct lawsuits filed against Paulin prompted the Catholic Church to end the organ arrangement.
   The Methodist Church will continue to pay Paulin for music, but he will not be involved in any of the congregation's programs.
   In a civil lawsuit publicized this week, a 45-year-old Newport man has accused Paulin of sexually abusing him when he was a 13-year-old member of his hometown church in Newport in 1971.
• Board mum on paroling priest [1962 onwards Holley] -- RCC. Former Benedictine. 8 boys.
   Telegram & Gazette, By Kathleen A. Shaw, kshaw@telegram.com , Telegram & Gazette Staff,
   WORCESTER (MA) - The New Mexico Adult Parole Board met yesterday morning to determine whether the Rev. David A. Holley, a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Worcester, should be released after serving 11 years of a maximum 275-year sentence for raping and sexually abusing boys in that state.
   Ella Frank, parole board director, said the board reached a decision but will not make it public until next week, after Rev. Holley is notified.
   Rev. Holley, who has been confined to the Los Lunas correctional center, attended the hearing. Three victims also testified at the hearing in Albuquerque, which lasted about an hour-and-a-half, she said.
   The parole board in May agreed to release Rev. Holley, 77, to a state in-patient sexual offender treatment program, but was awaiting a placement when it was discovered victims had not been notified. The priest also wrote a letter to the parole board stating that he did not want to comply with the conditions they set for his release, such as attending the sex offender program, wearing an electronic monitoring device and refraining from dressing as a priest.
   Ms. Frank said because of "irregularities" in the May hearing, a new hearing was scheduled and victims were notified. Two parole board members who participated in the first hearing recused themselves and three new people heard Rev. Holley's appeal for release at yesterday's hearing, Ms. Frank said.
   Although members of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests [SNAP] were not allowed to testify at the hearing, they sent a letter to Tim Kline, parole board chairman, stating they believe Rev. Holley "is still a dangerous threat to children."
   Phil Saviano of Jamaica Plain, a founder of the SNAP New England chapter and an alleged victim of Rev. Holley, signed the letter.
   Rev. Holley was ordained in 1958 but not for the Worcester Diocese. He was ordained a Benedictine priest in Milwaukee, Mr. Saviano said. "His first contact with the Worcester Diocese was not until May 1962, when he wrote to Bishop (Bernard J.) Flanagan about the possibility of transferring from the Benedictines. He wanted to leave the religious life to become a diocesan priest," Mr. Saviano said.
   Bishop Flanagan accepted him on a trial basis and assigned him to St. Philip Parish, Grafton, in November, 1962. He was not incardinated into the Worcester Diocese, which means he became a priest of that diocese, until May, 1967, Mr. Saviano said. "By then, he had served in parishes in Grafton, East Douglas, Boylston and Worcester, and had molested children in all of them," he said. Mr. Saviano has alleged he was sexually abused by Rev. Holley when the priest was assigned to East Douglas.
   The SNAP leadership said it has supported victims of Rev. Holley who were molested as far back as 1962.
   Rev. Holley went to New Mexico in 1969 under orders of Bishop Flanagan to undergo sex offender treatment at a center operated by a religious order called Servants of the Paraclete. He was assigned to parish work in the area. He pleaded guilty in 1993 to sexual abuse and rape of eight boys in that area.
• Accused had been named, diocese says [McLaughlin] -- RCC. Not stood down after previous report. Adult abuse different, says spokesman. Men.
   Boston Globe, www.boston.com/news/ local/articles/2004/09/15/ accused_had_been_named_ diocese_says ; By KEVIN CULLEN, September 15, 2004
   BOSTON (MA): The Archdiocese of Boston said it has reviewed its files and found that all the priests accused in 140 new claims of sexual abuse filed since last year's $85 million settlement with abuse victims have been publicly identified and removed from ministry.
   On Sunday, the Rev. Christopher J. Coyne said that one of the priests who was the subject of new allegations had not been accused by any of the 541 plaintiffs in last year's settlement, but that the name of that priest was not available when he was contacted Saturday by the Globe.
   But Coyne said that upon review, the priest he was referring to, the Rev. John E. McLaughlin, had been named publicly and stepped down as pastor at St. Benedict Church in Somerville in May after he was accused of engaging in sexual misconduct with a minor nearly 20 years ago.
   McLaughlin was also named in a 2002 lawsuit that alleged he sexually abused two men on two occasions. No action was taken to remove McLaughlin from his position at that time, Coyne said, because the archdiocese handled allegations of sexual abuse of adults differently from allegations involving minors.
   Carmen L. Durso, the lawyer who represented the two men who accused McLaughlin, called the explanation about the timing of McLaughlin's removal from ministry "nonsense." # [Emphasis added] [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 07:32 AM]
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• Abbey selling land to pay for settlements -- Benedictines. RCC

   TheWorldLink.com ; www.theworldlink.com/ articles/2004/09/16 /news/news14.txt , Thursday, September 16, 2004
   SALEM (OR) (AP) - Confronted with sexual-abuse lawsuits totaling several million dollars, Mount Angel Abbey is selling long-held Willamette Valley farmland and cutting into priests' salaries and retirement benefits, said Abbot Nathan Zodrow.
   Zodrow is the spiritual leader of the abbey, a hilltop community of Benedictine monks 20 miles east of Salem. Insurance is expected to cover the bulk of the projected settlement costs, Zodrow said. But the century-old abbey also is making financial sacrifices.
   Zodrow said that the abbey is selling a rural property purchased in 1886 and bankrolled by the Swiss religious order that founded the abbey. Zodrow said that the land formerly was leased to agricultural interests. He declined to identify the buyer or specify a sales price. # [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 05:26 PM]
• Crouching Preacher, Hidden Sex? [Crouch] -- Trinity Broadcasting Network. Male.
   Story Hunters, September 16, 2004
   CALIFORNIA: Paul Crouch doesn't seem happy nowadays. Well, what televangelist would be happy with a former drug-addict accusing him of a homosexual encounter that could possibly destroy his career? Crouch's accuser, Lonnie Ford, has written a manuscript about the encounter. For eight years Trinity Broadcasting kept it quiet, until the LA Times broke the story last weeked.
   No, I would not want to be Paul Crouch right now...
   For eight years, Mr Ford has been threatening to go public with the story and has written a lengthy manuscript detailing his allegations. The two sides have been in and out of court, money has changed hands and each has accused the other of acting in bad faith.
   Mr Crouch has denied everything, as well he might, since homosexuality is a big no-no in the Christian fundamentalist world which he inhabits and which has provided him with a lifestyle of striking lavishness over the past 31 years. In fact, the star evangelist on TBN, Benny Hinn, once announced that "God will destroy the homosexual community of America ... with fire". (The Independent , Britain, September 14, 2004) [NOTE: The headline is based on the name of the accused preacher woven into the film title "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."]
• Paul Crouch Denies Accusations; Christian Leaders Rally in Support of TBN Founder [Crouch] -- Trinity Broadcasting Network. Male.
   Business Wire, September 16, 2004
   TUSTIN, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 2004--TBN President and founder Paul Crouch has emphatically denied the accusations leveled at him by former disgruntled TBN employee, Enoch Lonnie Ford.
   In a show of solidarity, Christian leaders from around the world have sent e-mails, faxes and have called in their support and prayers for Dr. Crouch, reports Susan Zahn, WDC Media, TBN's publicist. "This heartfelt outpouring of support has been nonstop from both ministry leaders and the public at large," announced Zahn.
   Supporters have included: Publisher Stephen Strang; Pastor Benny Hinn; and Daystar's president Marcus Lamb; as well as author Josh McDowell; Doug Wead; an advisor to the former President Bush; and singers Pat Boone and Carmen, to name but a few, reported Paul Crouch Jr., the eldest son of Dr. Crouch. "People see this for what it is, a malicious, false claim designed to harm Dr. Crouch and TBN with the intent to extract money. But the prayers of the TBN family are being answered," said Paul Crouch Jr.
   Much of the media attention has focused on the settlement made out of court to former TBN employee, Ford, who became involved with the ministry though a drug rehabilitation program conducted on TBN property. Ford threatened to sue TBN by alleging wrongful termination and sexual harassment, directing his most salacious allegations toward Dr. Crouch personally and stating he had been promised his job back by TBN's director of Telephone Ministry when he got out of prison.
• Austrian bishop says he's not resigning [2003-04 Krenn] -- RCC.

   Catholic World News, www.cwnews.com/ news/viewstory.cfm? recnum=32183 , Sep. 16, 2004
   VIENNA, AUSTRIA (CWNews.com) - Austria's controversial bishop at the center of a scandal involving his seminary on Thursday denied reports that he would soon resign. A spokesman for Bishop Kurt Krenn of St. Poelten said media reports of Vatican pressure on Krenn to resign on health grounds were wrong.
   The Austrian Catholic news agency originally reported Krenn's impending resignation last week and Vatican sources confirmed to Catholic World News on Monday that while Krenn's resignation was not yet office, an announcement was expected soon. At the time, Michael Dinhobel, a spokesman for the bishop, told Austrian reporters that he was not aware of any plans for Krenn's departure, but that "if the Pope tells Bishop Krenn that he should resign, he will."
   But now Dinhobel says the resignation reports are wrong. He said on Thursday, "Bishop Krenn has certainly not offered his resignation." Krenn also told an Austrian magazine that he was being mistreated. "I am suffering great injustice," Krenn told the weekly Die ganze Woche. "Our beloved Savior was also not well treated." The greatest level of public outrage concerning the scandal occurred when Bishop Krenn dismissed photos of seminarians and priests in compromising positions as "boyish pranks." [Emphasis added]
   [See if this covers it in German: http://salzburg.com/sn/nachrichten/artikel/1116721.html ]
• Church abuse group offers healing ideas to Pilla -- RCC.

   Plain Dealer, by Brian E. Albrecht, Thursday, September 16, 2004
   CLEVELAND (OH): The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests [SNAP] urged the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland to place greater reliance on victims and outside law enforcement in combating sex abuse.
   In a letter delivered by David Clohessy, SNAP executive director, to diocese offices after a news conference Wednesday, the national support group for abuse victims asked Bishop Anthony Pilla to "take three simple steps to make your diocese safer and to help victims heal."
   SNAP asked that the state abuse hotline phone number and those of similar local law enforcement resources be posted in every church and parochial school in the eight-county diocese and that those numbers also be listed on the diocese's Web site, in its weekly newspaper and other publications.
   Clohessy said posting those numbers and making law-enforcement the first contact in abuse investigations would provide more openness, objectivity and experience than the church alone can offer in handling such matters.
• Middlesex priest admits sex crimes in Wisconsin [1990-91 Palathingal] -- RCC. Boy.
   Star-Ledger BY JEFF DIAMANT, Thursday, September 16, 2004
   NEW JERSEY: A Roman Catholic priest -- who worked in South Amboy and Old Bridge Parlin for the Diocese of Metuchen from 2001 through last spring -- pleaded guilty yesterday in Milwaukee to two counts of first-degree sexual assault on a child.
   The Rev. Simon Palathingal, 62, admitted in court to charges that he sexually abused a 9-year-old boy in 1990 and 1991 while living in Milwaukee.
   "He said it was true ... that he did do the things alleged," said Gale Shelton, the Milwaukee assistant district attorney prosecuting the case.
   Palathingal, who said little else in court, faces up to 40 years in prison when he is sentenced Nov. 9. As part of the plea negotiations, Shelton recommended to the judge that he receive a 20-year sentence.
   "To see him plead guilty today is a relief," said Nick Janovsky, 23, the victim in the case, who expressed concern that Palathingal may have abused others over the years. "It's great for me. He should have done this in 1993 when it was originally reported."
• Sarcoxie pastor waives hearing [1992 and 1996 Peckham] -- Christian Fellowship Church. Boys.
   The Joplin Globe by Jeff Lehr, Sep/16/04
   MISSOURI: Sarcoxie minister Donald Peckham on Wednesday waived his right to a preliminary hearing on the two sodomy charges that have been filed against him in Associate Division of Jasper County Circuit Court in Joplin.
   Peckham, 71, appeared briefly Wednesday afternoon before Associate Judge Richard Copeland, who set Sept. 24 as the date for his arraignment on the charges in the upper division of the court.
   The pastor of Jubilee Christian Fellowship Church in Sarcoxie has remained in custody at the Jasper County Jail on $15,000 bond since being charged in July with second-degree sodomy based on a complaint alleging sexual abuse of a 14-year-old boy eight years ago in Sarcoxie.
   A second charge of sodomy in the first degree was filed against him in late August. It alleges that he'd had deviate sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old boy about 12 years ago in a rabbit shed behind Peckham's former home in Sarcoxie.
• Church settles 37 abuse claims; others in process -- RCC.
   Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, By TOM HEINEN, theinen@journalsentinel.com , Posted Sept. 15, 2004
   MILWAUKEE (WI): The independent mediation system that Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan commissioned to address claims of clergy abuse of minors has achieved mediation agreements with 37 victims and is investigating or mediating 27 other cases, officials said Wednesday.
   "I am thankful that so many victims/survivors of clergy sexual abuse have benefited from the system and used it to achieve resolution," Dolan, who was in Washington, D.C., said in a statement.
   "The information shared by individuals during the process continues to be very helpful to me as we look to improve the outreach of the church to victims/survivors and their families," he said.
   Local leaders of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, who say they have spoken with about 10 agreement signers, have been critical of the individual mediation. SNAP has accused the archdiocese, among other things, of stalemating a separate large-group mediation with about 75 claimants to get more advantageous terms in individual settlements.
• Sex abuse case goes to criminal investigation [Deyo] -- RCC.
   Quad-City Times, By Todd Ruger, Wednesday, September 15th, 2004
   IOWA: The Johnson County attorney has opened a criminal investigation into an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor by a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Davenport.
   J. Patrick White said he requested investigative assistance from the Iowa City Police Department regarding an allegation of sexual abuse in 1998 against the Rev. Paul Deyo, who served in the Quad-City region during the 1970s, '80s and early '90s.
   The diocese notified parishes Aug. 28 of the allegation of sexual abuse against Deyo. A more formal investigation was needed to assess the case, White said in a press release.
   "I'm not going to elaborate," he said. The investigation comes almost a month after White started a less formal "information-gathering" process after hearing about the allegation. It also comes more than 13 months after the diocese reported the allegation to an assistant in the Johnson County Attorney's office in Iowa City.
• Priest who left treatment center lives near school [1970s-80s Wiebler] -- RCC.
   Post-Dispatch, BY TIM TOWNSEND, Sep/15/2004
   MISSOURI: An admitted pedophile priest from Davenport, Iowa, whose diocese sent him to a treatment center for priests in Jefferson County has left the residence and is living in an apartment in University City about 750 feet from an elementary school.
   The Rev. William Wiebler, 72, "is beyond our power," said Rand Wonio, an attorney for the Davenport Diocese. "It's our understanding that he didn't want to live there anymore, and he's living on his own."
   Wiebler entered St. John Vianney Renewal Center in Dittmer in 2002, after admitting abusing several minors during the 1970s and '80s.
   Wonio said that although officials at the Davenport Diocese did not know where Wiebler was living, they believed that it was somewhere near the treatment center and that Wiebler was "still visiting the center for outpatient treatment."
• Ex-pastor ousted as organist [Paulin] -- RCC / Methodist.
   Bennington Banner, By CHRIS PARKER, Thursday, September 16, 2004
   ARLINGTON (VT) -- The Rev. George Paulin has played his last organ chord at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, but his future remains uncertain at Shaftsbury's First United Methodist Church.
   Paulin, a former Ludlow pastor accused in two separate lawsuits of sexual misconduct, had been volunteering as an organist at the two churches and performed at the Arlington church this past Sunday.
   But news reports about the lawsuits prompted the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington on Tuesday afternoon to order the Rev. George Dupuis to end the arrangement in Arlington.
   "They weren't aware of the situation, they said," said Dupuis, referring to the Rev. Wendell Searles, vicar general for the diocese, who made the decision. "I'm not disappointed. I expected it."
• Sex-abuse settlements are costing abbey -- R.C.C. Benedictine.
   Statesman Journal, By ALAN GUSTAFSON, September 16, 2004
   MOUNT ANGEL (OR): The price tag for settling sexual-abuse lawsuits against priests with ties to the Mount Angel Abbey eventually will reach several million dollars, Abbot Nathan Zodrow said.
   He is the spiritual leader of the abbey, a hilltop community of Benedictine monks 20 miles east of Salem.
   Insurance is expected to cover the bulk of the projected settlement costs, Zodrow said. [Continues, similar to other newsitem.]
• Accused priest will no longer play church organ [1971 Paulin] -- RCC / Methodist. Boy.
   Times Argus, Associated Press, September 16, 2004
   ARLINGTON (VT) - A former Ludlow pastor charged with child sexual abuse no longer will volunteer as an organist at Arlington's Catholic church.
   George Paulin played the organ this past Sunday at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Arlington and First United Methodist Church in nearby Shaftsbury.
   News reports about two misconduct lawsuits filed against Paulin prompted the Catholic Church to end the organ arrangement Tuesday, according to Arlington Pastor George Dupuis.
   The Methodist Church will continue to pay Paulin for music, although Shaftsbury minister Deborah Estey said he won't be involved in any of the congregation's programs.
   In a civil lawsuit publicized this week, a 45-year-old Newport man alleges that Paulin sexually abused him when he was a 13-year-old member of his hometown St. Mary Star of the Sea Church in 1971.
• Priest pleads guilty in sexual abuse of boy at Milwaukee [1990s Palathingal (Salesian)] -- RCC. Boy.
   Duluth News Tribune, Associated Press
   MILWAUKEE (WI) - A religious order Catholic priest has pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child in exchange for having two additional counts dropped.
   Simon Palathingal, 62, a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco religious order, entered the pleas Wednesday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court.
   He had been accused of sexually abusing a boy in Milwaukee during the 1990s while he was studying at Marquette University.
   Assistant District Attorney Gale Shelton said that while two counts were dropped, they would be read into the record at Palathingal's sentencing Nov. 9.
   Prosecutors have recommended that Palathingal be sentenced to 20 years in prison, Shelton said. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 07:19 AM]
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#### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse, Fri September 17, 2004 edition follows:-
• Why didn't they publicly deny allegations when first made? [Crouch] -- Trinity Broadcasting Network.

   Story Hunters, "Catch-Up Friday" newsitems, www.storyhunters.com/ godandcon/archives/ 001330.html , September 17, 2004
   CALIFORNIA: Trinity Broadcasting now says it regrets paying off Paul Crouch's accuser. Crouch, a big man over at TBN, is accused of wrongful termination and sexual harassment by a former drug addict and TBN employee, Lonnie Ford.
   "He has made a charge that he had a homosexual encounter with Dr. Crouch -- and of course that is utterly untrue, utterly false," May says. "When you're a public figure in this modern age, people can say almost anything and, quite honestly but sadly, people want to believe the worst."
   The attorney says although the allegations were false, Crouch -- who according to May was about 66 at the time -- was advised to settle the matter out of the public spotlight. "His natural inclination is to fight like you-know-what at the moment," he says. "But at the time, there were others who were advising him, and he said, 'Alright, fine, have it ended.'"
   But as the attorney explains, Crouch now realizes that one can never allow such charges to go unrebutted. "You've got to fight tooth and tong -- and certainly that's the effort that's been ongoing now." (AgapePress http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/162004b.asp, Sep 16, 2004 )
   This doesn't sound quite... right. Why would TBN lack the acumen to see they're setting themselves up for a fall? If there's anything TV evangelists are smart about, it's money; setting themselves up to lose a big chunk of change through extortion and loss of viewers doesn't sound like the TBN we know and love.
   Are we really supposed to believe they would be so stupid about the cost-effectiveness of a particular course of action? It would have made far more sense to air the allegations publicly, scoff at them, and conduct a character assassination on Lonnie Ford. Which they may still do - but the time when that course of action was efficacious has now passed. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 06:48 PM]
• Slaying hotline producing tips -- RCC.
   Republican, By AZELL MURPHY CAVAAN, acavaan@repub.com , Friday, September 17, 2004
   CHICOPEE (MA): Since R.C. Stevens began investigating the 1972 unsolved murder of Springfield altar boy Daniel Croteau in August, more than 40 calls have flooded a tip hotline he established, and a national news outfit has expressed interest in the sleuth's progress.
   "The movement forward has been substantial," Stevens said yesterday. "Many heroes have come forward to disclose what they know about the case."
   Stevens said that as he suspected, many of the anonymous tips have come from people who withheld information in the past out of fear of revealing shameful information about themselves.
   Stevens said the tips, coupled with close scrutiny of crime scene records compiled in 1972 by the Chicopee Police Department, have propelled his investigation.
The findings have allowed Stevens to complete a fresh crime scene diagram, with substantial emphasis on a 100-foot section.
   "That's where we see two areas of violent confrontation," Stevens said of the area that stretches southward from the banks of the Chicopee River.
   Croteau's murdered body was found April 15, 1972, in the Chicopee River in Chicopee.
   No one has been charged in the murder of 13-year-old Croteau. Richard R. Lavigne, a defrocked priest and convicted child molester, has been the only publicly identified suspect.
• Archdiocese seeks to force insurance reimbursement -- RCC.
   The Register-Guard, The Associated Press
   PORTLAND (OR): The Archdiocese of Portland is petitioning for a jury trial to force its insurance companies to reimburse part of the $53 million it has paid out in clergy sex-abuse settlements.
   The complaint was filed this week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, where the archdiocese sought protection from creditors in July. Nine insurers are named, plus a number of so-far unidentified insurers that sold the archdiocese policies between 1941 and 2000.
   The archdiocese is also asking the bankruptcy court to find that the insurance companies are obligated to cover future claims, as well as help pay for legal defense against the sex-abuse lawsuits.
• Mission eases pain of church scandal [DeLorenzo] -- RCC.
   Flint Journal, By George Jaksa, gjaksa@flintjournal.com , 810.766.6332, Friday, September 17, 2004
   FLINT (MI) - Area Catholics will gather at The Whiting next week for three nights of meetings focused on healing from scandals involving priests abusing children.
   "We recognize many Catholics were hurt and felt a sense of loss through the sexual abuse scandal," said the Rev. Timothy Nelson of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Mt. Morris Township.
   Nelson was put in charge of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Burton after the Rev. Vincent DeLorenzo resigned in 2002, admitting to inappropriate sexual contact with a minor. It was one of a number of sexual abuse cases involving priests to come to light locally and nationwide in recent years.
   Nelson said priests in Genesee and Shiawassee counties decided to respond with a mission - a time of prayer, talks, reflection and reconciliation.
   The last gathering at The Whiting in Flint's Cultural Center, a millennium celebration in 2000, drew about 1,500 people. Nelson hopes for another large turnout.
• Priest to Face Investigation in Austria [1980s Paterno] -- RCC. Youths.

   Newsday, www.nynewsday.com/ news/nationworld/ world/wire/sns-ap- austria-church- sex-abuse,0,7110492. story?coll=sns-ap- world-headlines ; September 17, 2004
   VIENNA, Austria -- Roman Catholic officials at a southwestern diocese said Friday they are investigating a second priest accused of molesting youths, deepening a series of sex scandals that have rocked the church in Austria.
   Bishop Klaus Kueng, dispatched by the Vatican to investigate the discovery of a vast cache of child pornography at a seminary in another diocese, told the Austria Press Agency that an internal probe of alleged abuse within the Feldkirchen diocese now included a second priest.
   Kueng's disclosure came a day after police said they had closed a separate criminal investigation into allegations that a prominent priest, August Paterno, molested at least 10 youths in the 1980s.
   Church officials said Thursday that Paterno, a well-known churchman who has hosted a television series on religion, had asked to retire. Authorities said a prosecutor was reviewing police findings to determine if there is sufficient evidence to press charges against him.
• Pressure mounts for Austrian bishop to step down [2003-04 Krenn] -- RCC.

   Catholic World News, Sep. 17, 2004
   VATICAN (CWNews.com) - Although an embattled Austrian bishop has not yet agreed to submit his resignation, the Vatican still expects him to step down soon.
   Bishop Kurt Krenn of St. Pölten, whose diocese exploded in scandal this summer when police uncovered a homosexual network at the seminary, has "certainly not offered his resignation," a spokesman said on September 16. But the Austrian bishop had earlier indicated, through the same spokesman, that he would submit his resignation if the Pope ask for it.
   Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, has asked Bishop Krenn to resign, in the name of Pope John Paul.
• California jury acquits priest of sex abuse [1994-95 Superiaso] -- RCC. Girl.

   The State, Associated Press
   REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - A Roman Catholic priest was found not guilty Friday of three charges that he sexually abused a 12-year-old girl, and the jury deadlocked on 18 similar charges.
   The judge declared a mistrial on those counts and it was not immediately clear whether prosecutors would seek a new trial for Jose Superiaso.
   Telephone messages left for prosecutors and Superiaso's attorney were not immediately returned Friday.
   One of the counts against Superiaso included a special allegation that he engaged in oral copulation with the minor. The jury, which had been deliberating since Tuesday, found that to be untrue.
   Superiaso was accused of molesting the girl between July 1994 and November 1995, when he served at St. Andrew Church in Daly City. He had pleaded innocent to all counts.
• Sex-offender priest stays in prison [Holley] -- RCC. Boys.
   Albuquerque Tribune, By Joline Gutierrez Krueger
   NEW MEXICO: The anguish of young boys and "additional pertinent information" convinced a parole board to keep a convicted pedophile priest locked away.
   At 77, it likely means the Rev. David Holley will die in prison.
   In a 3-0 decision made public Thursday, the state parole board denied Holley's request for parole. The board also rescinded a May 26 decision by a previous board to grant parole, calling it "improvidently issued."
   "I'm very pleased," said Robert Curtis, an Albuquerque lawyer and one of Holley's victims in the 1970s. "I feel the parole board had the information they needed to make an educated decision."
   That information included what Curtis and two other victims had to tell the board about the betrayal and shame they felt falling prey to Holley and the peril more young boys could face should Holley be allowed to prey again.
• W'chester Probe Of 'Molest' Priest [Wilson] -- RCC.
   New York Post, Dan Mangan, September 17, 2004
   NEW YORK -- The Westchester County District Attorney's Office is investigating whether a former Catholic priest, who long has been accused of molesting children, also sexually abused kids at a treatment center where troubled New York City youths are housed, it was revealed yesterday.
   The probe of 58-year-old ex-priest Dozia Wilson's decade-long tenure at St. Christopher's Inc. in Dobbs Ferry was disclosed in a letter dated Monday from DA Jeanine Pirro's top sex-crimes prosecutor to a lawyer representing six adults who claim Wilson molested them as children.
   Pirro, while refusing to confirm the investigation, told The Post that "I would urge anyone with any information relevant to this to call my office."
• Boy abused at swimming -- RCC. Christian Brother. Boy

   One in Four, by Barry Roche, Southern Correspondent - Irish Times
   IRELAND: A former Christian Brother has been remanded for sentencing after he pleaded guilty yesterday to sexually assaulting a nine-year-old while drying him after a swimming class more than 30 years ago.
   The 56-year-old defendant, who has since left the order, was teaching in a primary school in Cork when he committed the offence in the early 1970s, when the injured party was in fourth or fifth class.
   Yesterday, the injured party, now aged 42, told Cork District Court that he had so dreaded having to face the same brother every day in school he would soil himself.
   "I didn't know what I had done to deserve this. I felt an immense sense of terror at having to go to this class. I have not been able to live a normal life. I have had difficulties with people in authority, difficulties with alcohol. I found it difficult to hold down a job.
• TBN Regrets Decision to Buy Silence of Paul Crouch's Accuser [1996 Crouch] -- Trinity Broadcasting Network. Man.

   Agape Press, By Allie Martin, September 16, 2004
   CALIFORNIA (AgapePress) - Officials with the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) say they now regret reaching a financial agreement with a former employee seven years ago who threatened to go public with scandalous allegations against the network's founder.
   Forty-one-year-old Lonnie Ford claims that in late 1996 he had a sexual encounter with TBN founder Paul Crouch. Ford was hired by TBN in the early 1990s after meeting Crouch at a ministry-affiliated drug treatment center in Texas.
   Although Ford had a number of run-ins with the law, TBN repeatedly took him back. However, after Ford was not re-hired after serving a drug-related jail term in 1998, he threatened to sue for wrongful termination and sexual harassment.
   TBN attorney Colby May says the network reached a $425,000 settlement with Ford, who agreed not to discuss his claim about the alleged sexual encounter with Crouch at a TBN-owned cabin near Lake Arrowhead, California. May says the allegations are false and that Ford has broken the terms of his settlement by attempting to publish a book detailing the alleged encounter.
• Wangaratta bishop still pondering Adelaide job -- Anglican Church.

   Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Friday, 17 September 2004
   AUSTRALIA: The Anglican Bishop of Wangaratta says he is unsure if he wants to become the Archbishop of Adelaide.
   David Farrer has been the Bishop at Wangaratta, in north-eastern Victoria, for the past seven years, and has been short-listed for the job in Adelaide.
   Bishop Farrer says concern over the church's handling of sexual abuse allegations make the archbishop's job a difficult one.
   "It's a very difficult thing and I'm not at all convinced that I want to get too close to having to deal with it," he said.
• Archdiocese files complaint against insurance companies -- RCC. $US53m wasted.

   KATU, www.katu.com/ news/story. asp?ID=71133
   PORTLAND, Ore. - The Archdiocese of Portland is petitioning for a jury trial to force its insurance companies to reimburse part of the $53 million it has paid out in clergy sex-abuse settlements.
   The complaint was filed this week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, where the archdiocese sought protection from creditors in July. Nine insurers are named, plus a number of so-far unidentified insurers that sold the archdiocese policies between 1941 and 2000.
   The archdiocese is also asking the bankruptcy court to find that the insurance companies are obligated to cover future claims, as well as help pay for legal defense against the sex-abuse lawsuits.
   The complaint did not say why the insurers withheld payments.
• The link between homosexuality and child sex abuse -- 1 in 5 children abused

   Scoop, Press Release: Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc., Friday, 17 September 2004
   NEW ZEALAND: "The link between homosexuality and child sex abuse" is the title of a report in the latest issue of LIGHT (August-October 2004) published by Festival of Light, Australia [see Special note below]. In answer to the question: "Is there any evidence that homosexuals have a greater risk of being a paedophile?" it states:
   The risk is well-documented. The May 2004 report on child sex abuse in the Adelaide Anglican church by former SA Supreme Court judge Hon Trevor Olsson and child protection expert Dr Donna Chung noted that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys have been sexually abused - i.e. 60% of victims are girls [ref. 1].
   Since the vast majority of paedophiles are male, the 40% of victims who are boys have been homosexually abused. This is out of all proportion, since only 2.5% of Australian men identify as homosexual or bisexual [ref. 2]
• Parish 'betrayed' over sex priest [Hofton] -- RCC. From gaol to parish. Boys.

   BBC News
   BRITAIN: Members of a Roman Catholic parish church have accused their diocese of betraying their trust by moving there a priest known to have abused a teenager.
   Parishioners in Kentish Town, north London, say the Westminster diocese took an unacceptable risk.
   They are angry the lay volunteer given responsibility for child protection was not told the priest's history. He has been jailed for abusing two other boys.
   The diocese has said it will review its child protection procedures.
Forbidden contact
   It has also promised to tighten its policy if necessary in light of the complaint.
   Despite once admitting indecently assaulting a 17-year-old boy, Father William John Hofton was allowed to return to ministry, albeit under supervision and forbidden contact with children.
   He was later moved to Kentish Town but only the other priest was told of his history.
• Attorney asks that priest be assigned outside Q-C [Janssen, Bass, Martinez, +] -- RCC.

   Quad-City Times, By Todd Ruger
   DAVENPORT (IA): An attorney representing men who allege sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic Diocese of Davenport said he has asked church leaders to assign the Rev. James Janssen to a monastery outside of the Quad-Cities.
   Attorney Craig Levien said he's concerned about Janssen - the priest sued most often in the Davenport diocese - and other accused priests living in the general population of Davenport.
   Janssen, the Rev. Francis Bass and the Rev. Frank Martinez, three of the five priests the diocese has formally asked the Vatican to remove from the priesthood, live at the diocese's 2706 N. Gaines St. headquarters with other retired priests, the diocese said Thursday.
   "I saw Father Janssen and Father Bass at the local grocery store," Levien said. "I'm very concerned about the safety of children they come into contact with."
   Meanwhile, another diocesan priest who admitted abusing several children during the 1970s and 1980s and faces four lawsuits in Iowa is now living just a few hundred feet from a St. Louis-area grade school, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Thursday.
• Downstate DA investigating ex-Albany priest [Wilson] -- RCC.
   Troy Record, By: Robert Cristo , Sep/17/2004
   ALBANY (NY) - A local defrocked priest is now the subject of two criminal investigations, one in Boston and the other downstate.
   The Westchester County District Attorney's Office is in the preliminary stages of launching an investigation into former Albany priest Dozia Wilson, who spent nearly 10 years as a counselor at a Dobbs Ferry treatment center for at-risk children.
   According to a letter sent from the Westchester DA's office to John Aretakis, an attorney for alleged victims of clergy sex abuse, the Special Prosecutions Division is "anxious" to review any material the attorney might possess related to Wilson.
   Wilson landed a job at the St. Christopher Residential Treatment Center in the early 1990s. There, he had daily access to hundreds of children from dysfunctional backgrounds.
• Room at the Inns -- RCC.
   Orange County Weekly, by Gustavo Arellano
   CALIFORNIA: Brown just doesn't get it. Plans for the not-yet-built $100 million Christ Our Savior Cathedral - or, as some church critics call it, the "Tod Mahal"-include a rectory to house priests, yet the Catholic Diocese of Orange continues to defend its purchase of a multimillion-dollar home in a gated Santa Ana community near the cathedral that sources say will serve as the bishop's personal residence (see "Movin' on Up," Aug. 13).
   "Its purchase is but one expression of the decision of the bishop to no longer remain 'frozen in time' by the threat of the civil suits against the diocese," Father Mike Heher wrote to Orange priests in a confidential Sept. 3 memo. "
   Yes, we want a prompt, fair and compassionate resolution of these suits . . . but that's not all we're doing."
• Lifestyles of the Rich and Pious -- RCC.
   Orange County Weekly, by Gustavo Arellano
   CALIFORNIA: Would you like to work for a company that, when facing millions of dollars in lawsuits, buys you a multimillion-dollar house? How about an employer who adds a second story to your already-massive abode even while the government forces it to pay $5.2 million to settle a lawsuit?
   Think it can only happen at Halliburton? Well, think again: you can enjoy all of this if you're a priest for the Catholic Diocese of Orange!
   Yes, when Bishop Tod D. Brown became the spiritual head of Orange County's 1.2 million Catholics in 1998, he abandoned the Church's millennia-old practice of housing priests in humble rectories on parish grounds and began shacking up clergy in fancy digs few of the faithful could afford: quaint Balboa Island bungalows, beachside manses and other high-class abodes featuring three-car garages, walk-in closets and in-ground spas.
   In a confidential Sept. 3 memo written by Father Michael Heher to diocesan priests, Heher defended this practice by citing Brown's policy of allowing priests "to live off-site, affording them more privacy and a place away from their work environment."
   And just last month, Brown admitted to purchasing a gated-community lot on which he plans to have built a multimillion-dollar mansion for himself near the proposed site of the $100 million Christ Our Savior Cathedral in Santa Ana (see accompanying story "Rooms at the Inn").
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#### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse, Sat September 18, 2004 edition follows:-
• Two on top job list -- Anglican.

   The Advertiser, Adelaide, S. Australia, www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/ common/story_page/0, 5936,10809476% 255E2682,00.html , for Sep 19, 04
   AUSTRALIA: Adelaide's new Anglican Archbishop is likely to be announced today, ending weeks of speculation surrounding the new appointment.
   Rev Canon Ray Cleary, chief executive officer of Anglicare in Victoria, who is on a short list to become Adelaide's next archbishop, said yesterday he would "seriously consider" the position if it were offered to him.
   Also on the short list is former Adelaide resident and Bishop of Wangaratta, David Farrer.
   The 280-member Synod of the Anglican Diocese may have flagged other candidates at its meeting at Walford Girls School, Hyde Park, yesterday.
   Dr Cleary said any decision to accept the role, should it be offered, would "not specifically" be influenced by past controversy surrounding the church's handling of child sexual abuse claims. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:13 AM]
• Ex-priest is sentenced on sex abuse; DA a victim [1980s Burns] -- RCC. Boys.

   The Independent, www.gallupindependent.com/091704expriest.html , By Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola, Friday, September 17, 2004
   HOLBROOK, Ariz. - A former Roman Catholic priest from the Diocese of Gallup was sentenced to a brief prison term after pleading guilty to two felony counts of sexual conduct with a minor.
   Navajo County Superior Court Judge Gloria J. Kindig sentenced James M. Burns, 71, of Wickenburg, Ariz., to the Arizona Department of Corrections for 1.5 years for each Class 6 felony count, with the prison terms to be served concurrently. Burns will also now be listed as a registered sex offender.
   According to court documents, Burns could have received a brief term of probation as a minimum sentence, or he could have received two consecutive 1.87 year prison terms as a maximum sentence.
   On Sept. 2, 2004, Burns signed a plea agreement in the case. Charges were filed against the former priest earlier this year after a Winslow, Ariz., man told the Winslow Police Department that Burns, his former pastor at St. Joseph's parish, had sexually abused him in the early 1980s.
   The victim in this criminal case is also a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit pending against the Diocese of Gallup. The Roman Catholic diocese covers much of northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico, including the city of Winslow.
   The final court hearing for Burns was a dramatic event, complete with last-minute legal skirmishes between the prosecution and defense, a surprising letter introduced into the case, a rambling final statement by Burns, harsh criticism from the judge, the former priest being led off to jail, and the tearful reaction of a number of Burns' supporters.
Candelaria's letter
   Prior to Thursday's sentencing, Navajo County Deputy Attorney Rob Edwards sought to introduce sentencing testimony and a letter by Criss E. Candelaria, the County Attorney for neighboring Apache County. In his letter to the court, Candelaria stepped forward as another victim of Burns.
   According to Candelaria's letter, when he was 11 and 12 years old, he served as an altar boy under Burns. It was during the early 1970s when the former priest served as the pastor at St. Peter's in Springerville, Ariz. During trips to celebrate Mass at St. Helena's in Alpine, Ariz., Candelaria stated, Burns showed him pedophile pornography and masturbated in front of him. Although Candelaria stopped making the trips with Burns and the priest never physically assaulted him, he believes Burns' actions were "grooming" techniques used to prepare him for "more serious sexual conduct."
   Years later he began his career as a prosecuting attorney in Arizona. "I choose not to seek Burns' prosecution for felonies he committed against me," Candelaria wrote. Instead he notified Bishop Donald E. Pelotte of the Diocese of Gallup, he said, and he alerted Maricopa County authorities to Burns' presence in Wickenburg.
   Paula D. King, Burns' defense attorney, fired back with a motion to exclude Candelaria's testimony and letter. In the document, King included numerous statements about Burns' years as a priest that are in conflict with published Diocese of Gallup records, diocese statements to the media, and information included in the Winslow Police reports.
   Regarding actions by the Gallup Diocese, King's motion stated that contrary to news articles in The Independent, Burns was not "defrocked" by the diocese, and he has not had "multiple accusations" against him.
   Deacon Timoteo Lujan, the chancellor of the Gallup Diocese, was contacted by The Independent on Thursday. According to Lujan, in June of 1993, Burns was "not merely defrocked, which means no garb or title permitted," but he had his faculties removed, which means Burns is not able to function in priestly ministry, as well as having no priestly garb or title.
   Although the diocese does not release the names of any victims of clergy abuse, Lujan provided The Independent with a list of dates that detail when seven individuals (five males and two females) came forward to the diocese with allegations against Burns. The first two were in 1989 and the most recent allegations were in July of 2004. Lujan said the diocese considers at least six of the allegations to be credible.
Kindig's criticism
   Kindig agreed to allow Candelaria's letter be entered into the court file, but she granted King's motion to exclude the Apache County Attorney from testifying. Kindig also stated that she would not take into consideration any undocumented reports of unnamed victims. However, she added, if other victims of Burns do exist, they should report their allegations to law enforcement officials.
   Although in his initial remarks to the judge, Burns expressed a willingness to accept whatever sentence she ordered, in his final statement to Kindig, Burns recited a litany of complaints about his own hardships in life but made few references to the victim.
   He left Connecticut to work with the poor in the Diocese of Gallup, he said, and he accepted assignments that no one else would take. He described life as "hell" since his retirement from the priesthood.
   "I was a good priest...," he said. "I failed a few times."
   After a long pause, Burns concluded his statement. "I would just as soon be put to death," he told Kindig.
   Edwards represented the victim, who chose not to attend the hearing, by reading a brief statement by the victim. "While it is too painful to go into the details of this case or the affect Mr. Burn's actions have had on my life," the victim wrote, "I would like it to be known that it is my wish that Mr. Burns receive the maximum sentence possible."
   In announcing the sentence, Kindig castigated Burns for his apparent lack of remorse and his statements that seemed to shift blame on the victim. "... I can't quite get my head around what you're sorry about," she said.
   "That's not very convincing," she added, referring to statements Burns made in the pre-sentence report that indicated the sexual contact began accidentally after a friendly wrestling match with the victim.
   Kindig described the victim as suffering from "pretty severe" emotional damage. "We all must remember, Mr. Burns, this was a child."
   The judge also leveled some criticism at church authorities. Although she admitted that other religious institutions have also covered up for child abusers in their ranks, she noted that in this case it was Catholic authorities. "How dare they take the law into their own hands," she said, asserting that church leaders protect perpetrators when they fail to protect children. "How dare they," she repeated.
   "This victim, a Catholic as a youth, is no longer a Catholic," Kindig noted.Diocese's apologyAfter the hearing, King expressed some frustration with the "last-minute maneuvering" of Candelaria's letter being introduced into the case. However, King added, she characterized the sentence as offering some satisfaction to both Burns and the victim.
   Edwards' frustration centered around Burns' final statement to the judge. "They were very troubling," he said about Burns' comments. "Now it seems he's trying to minimize what's happened."
   He expressed the hope that Burns' sentencing would offer the victim some emotional relief. "I just hope the victim can heal from the experience," Edwards said.
   In an interview after the sentencing, Candelaria agreed he was also frustrated with Burns' comments to Kindig. "My biggest disappointment in this thing was the priest's refusal to accept responsibility in this case," he said.
   Describing himself as a "Catholic who hasn't lost his faith," Candelaria expressed concern over Burns' soul. "I was hoping he would accept responsibility," he said. "He's still concerned about this life, not the next."
   Candelaria said it was important to him to be at the sentencing when his letter was discussed in front of Burns. He wanted Burns to understand something by his presence. "I'm not afraid of him," he explained, "and I'm not shooting at him from a distance."
   Deacon Lujan of the Diocese of Gallup issued the following statement on behalf of Bishop Pelotte and the diocese in response to Burns' sentencing: "We repeat our sincere regret and express our heartfelt apology to the victims of juvenile sexual abuse by clergy. We remain steadfast in our efforts to prevent this from occurring ever again. We continue to encourage victims to come forth in order to give us an opportunity to be a part of the healing and reconciliation process. We stand by our solemn promise to the Catholic people of Northwestern New Mexico and Northeastern Arizona that we will continue to do all we can to protect our children." # [Emphasis added]
• Marshfield priest, 89, will appeal sex abuse case to the Vatican [1971 Bornbach] -- RCC. Girl.
   Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, By ELIZABETH PUTNAM For the Daily Tribune
   WISCONSIN: An elderly priest plans to challenge a decision made last month by the Diocese of La Crosse that bars him from performing Roman Catholic rites because he had sexually abused a girl more than 30 years ago.
   The priest, the Rev. Raymond H. Bornbach, 89, of Marshfield, must appeal his case to the Vatican, according to canon, or church, law.
   Bornbach was barred from performing any priestly duties in mid-August after the La Crosse diocese substantiated a claim by Brenda Varga, 42, of Plover, who had accused Bornbach in 2003 of molesting her repeatedly in 1971. Bornbach was then a priest at St. Michael's Church in Hewitt.
   Attorney J. David Rice, who represents Bornbach, said the priest will hire a lawyer who specializes in canon law to help him with the appeal. "It's our belief that this is a he said she said case," Rice said. "It has to be beyond a reasonable doubt. (Varga) wouldn't win a case like this in the court of law."
   The Rev. Larry Dunklee, director of the diocesan office of clergy, said he was not aware of an appeal, and that if Bornbach did appeal, the Vatican would play a role in any decision.
• Age doubts clear priest on molestation counts [1994-95 Superiaso] -- RCC. Girl.
   Monterey County Herald, Posted on Sat, Sep. 18, 2004
   REDWOOD CITY (CA) (AP) - A Catholic priest was found not guilty Friday on three counts of sexually molesting a girl a decade ago after his attorney raised doubts about her age at the time of the alleged offenses.
   The jury deadlocked on 18 additional charges against Jose Superiaso, leading Judge Robert D. Foiles to declare a mistrial on those counts. Prosecutors now will consider whether to refile those charges, said San Mateo County Deputy District Attorney Karen Guidotti.
   Superiaso, 50, had pleaded not guilty to 21 counts of lewd and lascivious conduct against a child under 14. Prosecutors claimed he carried on a 17-month relationship with the unidentified girl that began when she was 12 and included kissing, fondling, oral sex, intercourse and taking baths together.
   The acts were alleged to have occurred between July 1994 and November 1995 while Superiaso served at St. Andrew Church in Daly City.
   The jury, which had deliberated since Tuesday, acquitted him on one count of hugging and kissing the girl, one count of oral copulation and another alleging that he touched the girl during a visit to the archdiocese office in San Francisco. It also found that a special allegation of substantial sexual conduct was not true.
• Mistrial in priest's underage-sex case [1994-95 Superiaso] -- RCC. Girl.
   San Francisco Chronicle, by Peter Fimrite, Saturday, September 18, 2004
   CALIFORNIA: A mistrial was declared Friday in the case of a Roman Catholic priest who acknowledged on tape that he had sex with an underage girl a decade ago but insisted she was no younger than 14.
   A San Mateo County jury acquitted the Rev. Jose Superiaso, 50, of three counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 but could not agree on 18 other counts. Superior Court Judge Robert Foiles then declared a mistrial.
   Superiaso, a former priest at St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Daly City, acknowledged in taped conversations with the alleged victim that he had a sexual relationship with her in the mid-1990s.
   He was arrested last year after the woman, now 22, reported the alleged abuse. Her age at the time of the alleged contacts was crucial because penalties are more severe when molestation victims are under 14.
• Rev. Holley stays in prison [Holley] -- RCC. Suspected since 1970s but not removed. 8 boys.
   Telegram & Gazette, by Kathleen A. Shaw, T&G STAFF, kshaw@telegram.com
   WORCESTER (MA) - The Rev. David A. Holley, a priest of the Worcester Diocese serving a jail term in New Mexico after pleading guilty to sexually abusing and raping eight boys there, has been denied parole and will remain behind bars.
   Ella Frank, executive director of New Mexico's parole board, said the three people who heard Rev. Holley's plea for release all voted to keep him in prison in Los Lunas, N.M., where he has served 11 years of a 55- to 275-year jail term.
   The decision was not to be released until Monday, but the parole board decided instead to release its findings Thursday.
   At a parole hearing Tuesday, three of Rev. Holley's New Mexico victims testified against releasing the priest.
   The national leadership of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests [SNAP] and its former New England leader, Phil Saviano - an alleged victim of Rev. Holley in the Worcester Diocese - sent a letter to the parole board asking that he not be released.
   Rev. Holley left Worcester in 1969 when he was sent to a treatment center operated by the Servants of the Paraclete in New Mexico; however, he was not laicized and remains a priest of the Worcester Diocese.
   While with the Servants of the Paraclete, allegations surfaced that he sexually abused boys in the Alamagordo, N.M., area. He pleaded guilty to abusing the boys in 1993 and was sent to prison.
   A series of letters released by Mr. Saviano, obtained during his civil suit against the diocese, show that the diocese had continued contact with Rev. Holley at least until the early 1990s.
   The letters show that the Worcester Diocese had serious misgivings about Rev. Holley as early as 1970, but later told the archdiocese of Denver that Rev. Holley was a priest in good standing with the Worcester Diocese.
   The late Bishop Timothy J. Harrington told a psychiatrist on July 27, 1970, that "Bishop (Bernard J.) Flanagan and I have had such serious doubts about Father (Rev. Holley) continuing in the priesthood that, at one time, it was suggested that he seek a dispensation and return to the lay state."
   His last three parish assignments in the Worcester Diocese were what priests would consider "ideal," Bishop Harrington said. "In each place, Father's difficulty came to the fore and caused us to give him leave of absence."
   Bishop Flanagan, in one letter, indicated that getting Rev. Holley involved with the Servants of the Paraclete in New Mexico or elsewhere would make it easier for Rev. Holley to receive approval to be a priest in another area of the country.
   "I hope Holley's victims and their families feel some comfort knowing that he remains behind bars," said David Clohessy, national SNAP director. "I know that innocent children are safer because of the parole board's wise and compassionate decision."
   Rev. Holley, 77, almost did go free. The parole board voted on May 26 to release him. He was awaiting placement in an in-patient sex offender treatment program run by the state when word got out that victims had not been notified of the parole hearing, as required by New Mexico state law.
   New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson rescinded the parole last month, fired Robert Martinez, then the executive director of the parole board, and ordered a new hearing. The two parole board members who had voted to free Rev. Holley recused themselves, and three other members conducted the hearing Tuesday.
   Mr. Saviano, who received a settlement from the Worcester Diocese several years ago after he alleged sexual abuse by Rev. Holley when he was assigned to St. Denis Church in East Douglas, said yesterday he was "greatly relieved" to hear Rev. Holley's parole was denied.
   "What seems to have made the difference is that this panel was allowed to consider the victims' perspective, in addition to Holley's," he said. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 08:40 AM]
////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker www.ncrnews.org/abuse , Sat September 18, 2004
Abuse Chronology, visit: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont97.htm
• Pastor avoids prison over sex abuse diary. [Ensbey] -- Baptist.

   The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Australia, www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10800863%255E26462,00.html , By Mark Oberhardt, September 18, 2004
   BRISBANE, Queensland:
   A Baptist pastor who shredded the diary of a child parishioner who was sexually abused escaped being jailed yesterday but not before he was blasted by a senior judge.
   The Court of Appeal yesterday unanimously agreed Douglas Ray Ensbey, 53, should have been convicted under a new Queensland law relating to destroying evidence.
   However, the Court of Appeal was divided 2-1 on whether Ensbey should have been sent to jail instead of receiving a wholly-suspended six-month sentence when he was convicted in the District Court last March.
   Justice Geoff Davies and Justice John Jerrard said it was a case where a period of actual jail to be served was a fine point but Ensbey's previous unblemished character had to be considered.
   In dismissing an Attorney-General's appeal to jail Ensbey, Justice Davies said the sole question on the sentence appeal was whether Ensbey should have the benefit of a wholly-suspended sentence.
   "On that question minds may differ but I do not think it was outside the range to wholly suspend the sentence," he added.
   Justice Jerrard agreed with Justice Davies' comments on sentence.
   However, Justice Glen Williams launched a scathing criticism of Ensbey and said he would have imposed six months of actual jail.
   Justice Williams said Ensbey had "no property in the diary" and had no right to destroy it regardless of whether or not it was potential evidence in legal proceedings.
   "The conduct of the appellant was appalling. It was an aggravating circumstance that he was a minister of religion and in a sense a position of trust existed between him and the lawful owners of the diary," he said.
   Justice Williams said Ensbey had shown no remorse and the only mitigating factor in his favour was that he had no previous convictions.
   "But that is of minor significance when the court is dealing with a serious offence against the administration of justice. The destruction of evidence is a serious offence which calls for a deterrent sentence," he said.
   Justice Williams said the fact Ensbey did not stand to benefit personally from his actions should not be allowed to deflect attention from the serious nature of the offence.
   "It is said he is unlikely to reoffend in similar circumstances but that is only because he is not likely to again be in a similar position," he added.
   Ensbey had appealed against his conviction, while Attorney-General Rod Welford appealed against the sentence imposed by Judge Nick Samios.
   In the trial a jury was told the pastor guillotined pages from an exercise book kept by the girl that detailed how a married father of three fondled her breasts, touched her genitals and forced her to touch his during 1994 and 1995.
   The man later pleaded guilty and was sentenced on charges of sexually abusing the girl when she was aged between 14 and 15.
   The Court of Appeal dismissed both appeals. Ensbey was unavailable for comment.
   General superintendent of the Baptist Union of Queensland, David Loder, refused to comment on whether he would take action against Pastor Ensbey. # [Sep 18, 04]
Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont97.htm
#### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse, Sun September 19, 2004 edition follows:-
• Hear Their Voices [Murphy]

   The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/opinion/LIdiocese.html , Published: September 19, 2004
   LONG ISLAND (NY): After decades of sexual crimes by priests erupted in the ghastly scandal of the last three years, the Roman Catholic Church has taken some decisive steps to repair the damage. Abusers have been removed, victims compensated and church assets sold. A few badly scarred dioceses have received new leaders chosen for their sincerity, humility and willingness to be tough on bad priests and gentle with victims and their families.
   Long Island hasn't been so lucky. Its leader is Bishop William F. Murphy, who arrived in the Diocese of Rockville Centre in 2001 after spending years as No. 2 in Boston to Cardinal Bernard Law, who resigned in disgrace in 2002. Bishop Murphy stoutly denies ever having shielded abusive priests, and obviously had no role in the abuses that occurred in his current diocese, which by some accounts acted as badly as any other. But he clearly has work to do to heal the morale of parishioners and priests and to restore the shattered psyches of victims.
   It doesn't seem to be working. Relations between the bishop and an array of accusers appear to have deteriorated under a dismal but familiar cloud of legal hardball and mutual hostility. The diocese, for example, which is facing more than 40 sexual-abuse lawsuits in state court, contends that nearly all of them are barred by the statute of limitations, which requires that a juvenile plaintiff file suit before turning 21. The diocese intends to have those cases thrown out, despite strong evidence that many victims of sexual abuse do not come forward until their 30's. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 09:21 PM]
• Christian History Corner: The Roots of Pentecostal Scandal - Romanticism Gone to Seed [Crouch] -- Trinity Broadcasting Network. Man.
   Christianity Today, www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/137/52.0.html , By Chris Armstrong, Posted 9:00 a.m. Sep/17/2004
   UNITED STATES: The sordid 1980s scandals of Pentecostal ministers Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart will incline some to presume that Paul Crouch, president of Pentecostal-linked television network TBN, did engage in the alleged homosexual liaison.
   But whether the allegations in this case are eventually substantiated or not, the question arises again: why does the Pentecostal ministry seem particularly susceptible to sexual scandal?
   It may turn out, in fact, that statistically, Pentecostal ministers fall in this way no more often than do other ministers. I'm sure we make this connection at least partly because of the long cultural shadows of Bakker and Swaggart.
   But I don't think the connection is accidental.
   It all started in the time when Pentecostalism's parent, the holiness movement, was born: the 19th century, the Victorian period. In that warm-hearted, dewy-eyed era, both marriage and the Christian life promised to satisfy all emotional desires and meet all emotional needs.
   In the 18th and early 19th centuries -- the time of the First and Second Great Awakenings, both marriage and revivalistic conversion were communal events. They were fostered, supported, and celebrated by friends, family, and church members. Courting in the colonial era involved the couple's whole social network. It took place under the watchful eye of all who knew the young people involved. Communal customs and ceremonies marked every stage of the relationship, through the wedding and beyond into the couple's early married life.
   Similarly, in the mid-18th-century Great Awakening or the early 19th-century Second Great Awakening, friends and loved ones brought you to the evangelistic meeting. They "prayed you through" to joyous conversion. They received you into the church family with open arms -- announcing your rebirth all around town. And they pledged to help you, over the long years, become the best Christian you could be.
   But then came the transatlantic 19th-century cultural movement called "romanticism." Romantic philosophers, writers, musicians, and artists -- facing the rationalist Enlightenment destruction of the old traditional, communal values of Christendom -- turned inward in their search for spiritual meaning. If you were of the leisured class, you found meaning by diving to the depths of your own heart with the help of art, music, and travel. What you hoped to find there was a personal connection to the Spirit of things -- a Spirit many among the secular romantic elite preferred to call Nature rather than God.
   Plain folks without the leisure or inclination to pursue rarified experiences through travel, symphony, the opera, and so forth turned to a more obvious source for meaning -- and a more obvious (and, as it turned out, longer-lasting) translation of the term "romantic." They plumbed their hearts to "find themselves" in a spiritual connection not with some nebulous spirit of nature but with another person -- specifically, a soul mate and life partner of the opposite sex.
   Victorian courtship represented a tectonic shift from the old, communal modes of wooing. In the newly intense, individualistic post-Enlightenment environment, courting lovers separated themselves from family and friends. They sequestered themselves to write and read long, intense, soul-searching correspondence. They avowed total, exclusive love to each other. They no longer, as had been the custom, sought the blessing of their parents or consulted with friends. Since the prospective mate would be, as popular romantic philosophy had it, the source of all spiritual meaning and support -- of all that was good and true and beautiful -- courting lovers poured all their time and affection into each other, to the neglect of other relationships.
   One must wonder, in that still vaguely Christian era when divorce was simply not countenanced, how many miserable couples lived and died in marriages that had long since ceased to fulfill the overblown promises of the romantic ideal. Certainly when, in the 20th century, the romantic expectations for marriage continued at white heat and the proscription on divorce began to be loosened, countless couples fled such misery.
   This tortuous emotional longing and loss represented the unpaid bills of a society that had overthrown the communally held sacred beliefs and traditions of Christendom, replacing them with the romantic individualism of the Enlightenment. No longer did each person find meaning by walking with a community of believers down well-worn paths of Christian belief and practice. Now each young man and woman had to work out their own romantic salvation -- find Ultimate Meaning in the beating of two hearts as one.
   But of course, not everyone in the Victorian period actually left the church. And not all those who stayed had only a nominal faith. For the era of the romantic was also the age of the evangelical.
   So what of those evangelicals? In America, especially within the warm-hearted ranks of John Wesley's Methodists, they continued to worship and live in community. But a subtle shift took place, as romanticism morphed into an intense Christian version. This was a high-powered "heart religion" whose script for the fulfilled Christian life followed, line-by-line, the plot of the age's blockbuster sentimental novels.
   The shift happened in the intense revivalism of the Methodist "holiness movement." If you were a holiness believer, you understood conversion as, yes, an experience of being forgiven and made right before God. But it was also an experience that left your sinful nature -- your bad emotions -- intact. Like the wandering, seeking young person of a sentimental novel, you had to push on to full redemption -- through an experience of pure, whole-souled romantic love. This experience was called "entire sanctification." Only through this emotional cleansing could you reach your true goal: a heart filled with perfect love for God -- with no affection stinted or spared for lavishing on anyone else.
   Sound intense? It was. Believers wrestling for sanctification often reported that God challenged them in the manner of Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac: Would they, God seemed to thunder, give up that (idolatrous) affection for their wife, their husband, or their child, giving their whole heart to Jesus alone? Only when they made this "entire consecration" could the holiness folk receive the desired heart-cleansing and the new level of romantic union with God.
   This hyper-vertical version of the Christian life -- bequeathed from the holiness movement to the Pentecostal movement -- assumes that God has made us so that all our emotional needs and all of the meaning of our lives comes through a direct, mystical relationship with Him. Almost accidentally, it turns out that no human relationship can hold a candle to this romantic God-tryst.
   A pause for theological reflection: God created human beings to have relationship not only with Him but with each other. A man who finds a wife, Scripture insists, finds a good thing -- for many reasons. Children around the table are a blessing. Same-sex friendship, such as that between David and Jonathan, can be as important and rewarding as romantic love.
   And just as important, the church -- the community of believers -- exists not only to glorify God but also to uphold each member spiritually and emotionally: you pray together, says Paul, but you also laugh together, you weep together. No Christian is saved alone. To enter relationship with God is to be adopted into a human body of Christ.
   Anchoring it all -- the "sum" of the whole Law, Jesus said when asked -- is a two-part law of love. This law does not stop at "Love the Lord your God with all your heart … " but continues " … and your neighbor as yourself."
   But against all of this biblical evidence, "Christian romanticism gone to seed" loads everything into the central spiritual, emotional relationship with God. Worship -- in the prayer closet; or in the eyes-shut, hands-raised solitude of the Pentecostal service -- absorbs all one's time, energy, and attention.
   Now in fact, many Pentecostals and charismatics (and no doubt holiness believers) do experience some of the rich communal "body life" mandated by Scripture. I did, myself, for many precious years in a Pentecostal assembly in Nova Scotia -- the church into which I was converted. Small group prayer, communal worship, and the support of those whose hearts were also given to God -- all helped me to grow and thrive as a young Christian. And I slowly learned how to give of myself to others in the community.
   But the isolation caused by intensive romanticism -- focused on God -- still prowls Pentecostal church culture like a lion. And nobody is more isolated than the Pentecostal preacher/celebrity. Let's review a short list of Pentecostal preachers dogged by relational dysfunction.
   Maria Woodworth-Etter, a fiery holiness (later Pentecostal) evangelist at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, launched into evangelistic "signs-and-wonders" ministry soon after her 1879 conversion in a revival meeting. She went into this ministry against the will of her husband, who eventually, grudgingly, accompanied her on the circuit. Left behind, however, in the dust of her whirlwind ministry, he began to speak publicly against it. She divorced him in 1891 on grounds of adultery.
   The founder of Pentecostalism himself, Charles Parham, was brought up on charges of sodomy (finally unproved).
   Flapper-era Pentecostal super-preacher Aimee Semple McPherson went through serial marriages during her life and ministry. It is suspected (though unproved) that, between marriages, she concocted a kidnapping story to cover a tryst with the man who ran her evangelistic radio station.
   Though these and the more recent failures have complex causes, I point towards the same cultural root that I believe is largely responsible for the soaring divorce rates of the past hundred years: Romanticism gone to seed. And this is not simply a Pentecostal problem. Indeed, the kind of intensive Jesus-romanticism I have described can be found today in many churches with no "Pentecostal" label on the door.
   This is a simple matter: We can't load of all of our need for emotional sustenance and spiritual meaning into a single relationship. God didn't make us that way. Whether we focus all our need for affection and support on a spouse or even on God himself, we are bound to be disappointed -- and the temptation may be irresistible to turn elsewhere, to unsanctioned human relationships, to fill the void.
   This is not because God cannot meet our emotional needs. Rather, he has designed us to have them met in a range of human relationships.
   In short, his "law of love" is cross-shaped. Without either the vertical or the horizontal beam, its structure fails.
   God help us attend to both.
Chris Armstrong is managing editor for Christian History & Biography magazine. More Christian history, including a list of events that occurred this week in the church's past, is available at ChristianHistory.net . Subscriptions to the quarterly print magazine are also available. # [Emphasis added]
• A lonely lot -- RCC.

   The Age (Melbourne), September 20, 2004
   AUSTRALIA: The sex abuse scandals that have plagued the church have made life difficult for the hardworking parish priest, writes Barney Zwartz.
   They are only passing remarks, but they are acutely painful. "All priests are sexual abusers," Father Terry Kean has been told and, "you all live in palaces, you wouldn't know what it is to live in the real world". Kean, parish priest at Elwood and St Kilda West, recalls standing in line at the lunch that his Sacred Heart Mission provides to 400 people every day, when one of the regulars started sounding off.
   "I just had to grin and bear it, listen to it and try not to be too defensive." As a young seminarian in the 1960s, Terry Kean anticipated many difficulties that would come to pass: the hard work, the high expectations, the loneliness. What he could never have foreseen was the sexual abuse scandal, the dearth of priests, and especially the loss in esteem and credibility that Catholic priests have suffered in the past 15 years.
   "When I was first in parish life it was natural for me to go into the playground and meet and greet children in a warm and affectionate way. They'd always be wanting to tell you something, hold your hand, get you to join their games.
   "When all this abuse stuff happened, I became very much more careful and I felt somewhat watched. I wondered, what's happening in people's minds? So I chose not to go to the playground for a number of years." Kean was devastated when this came up at a school board meeting and one member said, "I'm glad we don't have a priest in the playground". [...]
   Kevin Dillon, the much-respected parish priest at Geelong, agrees. "It's raised the bar in terms of our general integrity. We can't expect the institution to carry us any more and - while it's a heck of a way to do that - it's not a bad thing."
   Dillon says priests feel it even more deeply because of their sense of shame that these things have happened in direct contradiction to what they stand for.
   But leaders in every sphere - politics, business, sport - are under the microscope, he says. "The weaknesses of people in leadership positions are being exposed as never before. The bigger they come the harder they fall. Whether it's Rene Rivkin or Wayne Carey, the sins of us all are exposed on the front page. We might ultimately be stronger for it in the future, but it's painful at the time."
   Three factors have accelerated priests' loss of credibility, according to Melbourne's Vicar-General, Monsignor Les Tomlinson. First is the abuse scandals; second, the general decline in religious adherence in the community; and third, the general preoccupation with sexual expression. "We are seen as a curiosity, that we would commit to this sort of life, a celibate life.
   "It makes our work more difficult. People's mistrust of clergy makes it more difficult to win their confidence. Also, it becomes demoralising for the priest himself to be regarded suspiciously when he does live a virtuous life." ...
• Church's child-abuse group disbanded over procedures -- RCC.

   One in Four, www.oneinfour.org/news/news2004/goupdis , by Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent
   IRELAND: The Catholic Church's Working Group on Child Protection has been disbanded after a heated row with church representatives over whether professionals or church leaders should decide how sex-abuse complaints are handled.
   It is understood the church representatives believe such control must rest with church leaders.
   The working group, chaired by Ms Maureen Lynott, was set up in May 2003 by the Irish bishops, CORI and the Irish Missionary Union "to develop a comprehensive and integrated child protection policy for the Irish Catholic Church". She had previously chaired the body which prepared State guidelines for child protection.
   The working group had prepared a draft of recommendations by May last. Serious differences arose over these with the church steering committee, representing the sponsors. On Thursday the working group agreed to disband. In a letter to the church steering committee they said they were "greatly dismayed and disappointed that we have arrived at this point".
• Church in conflict over new policy on sex abuse -- RCC.
   One in Four
   IRELAND: A Major row has broken out between the Catholic Church and its own advisory committee over who should decide what happens when clerics are accused of child abuse.
   The Irish Independent understands that the row centres on whether it should be experts in child protection or the religious superiors and bishops who decide whether an allegation is serious enough to pass on to state authorities, including the gardai.
   Historically, the Church has been extremely reluctant to cede any control over what happens to its priests and religious.
   A comprehensive new child protection policy was presented to the bishops and religious orders over the summer.
   The draft policy now sits with a steering committee consisting of three bishops, three members of CORI (the Conference of Religious of Ireland), and one member of the Irish Missionary Union.
• Lawsuits increase pressure on polygamist sect -- Fundamentalist LDS.

   Provo Daily Herald, by Patty Henetz, Associated Press, Sun, Sept 19, 2004
   SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- Law enforcement agencies in three states and Canada attempting to solve a myriad of problems in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the empire controlled by its prophet, Warren Jeffs, are getting help from an unlikely pair of allies.
   Dr. Dan Fischer, a former polygamist who turned a dental practice into a multimillion dollar company that develops and sells advanced dental equipment and materials worldwide, and Joanne Suder, a crusading attorney from Baltimore, are working together on lawsuits against Jeffs and the church alleging child sexual abuse, abandonment and financial fraud.
   Suder, well known for taking on decades-old, multimillion-dollar sexual abuse lawsuits as well as medical malpractice and financial fraud cases, has hinted more legal action is to come that would focus on the financial trust that controls the FLDS church's estimated $100 million in assets.
   Fischer, president of Ultradent of South Jordan, Utah, employs more than 600 people and has spent millions on charitable dental work through his nonprofit organization Smiles for Diversity and a pledge to the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. Besides continuing his company's quest for the cure for tooth decay, he now has turned his philanthropy toward hundreds of boys and young men aged 13 to 21 who've been forced out of the twin border cities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz.
• Blame, authority are elusive in case of priest [Wiebler] -- RCC.
   St. Louis Post-Dispatch, By Tim Townsend, Sep/18/2004
   MISSOURI: When you discover an admitted pedophile priest is living in your neighborhood - near your kids' school - the first question you might ask is, "How did that happen?" The answer turns out, at least in the case of the Rev. William Wiebler, to be buried beneath layers of legal peculiarities and institutional blame dodging.
   In 2002, after Wiebler admitted to the sexual abuse of children in the 1970s and 1980s in Davenport, Iowa, Bishop William E. Franklin of the Davenport diocese asked the priest to check into the St. John Vianney Renewal Center in Jefferson County. The Vianney center is one of a handful of such facilities in the U.S. and Canada that treat priests with emotional and chemical problems.
   Wiebler, 72, retired from the priesthood in 1991. He agreed to move to Missouri and live in the Vianney center, but last spring he decided to move to an apartment building in University City about 750 feet from an elementary school.
   Wiebler was never charged with a crime. The statute of limitations in Iowa had run out when he was accused of abuse. He is the responsibility of the Davenport bishop, but that diocese has no legal way to force Wiebler to do anything against his will, including return to the Vianney center.
• Diocese could learn from others' responses [Deyo] -- RCC.
   Quad-City Times, Saturday, September 18th, 2004
   DAVENPORT (IA): Our hope and prayer is that episodes of sexual abuse by Davenport diocese priests are rare occurrences of the past and the church properly regards them for what they are: crimes against children, not spiritual or personnel matters.
   When new allegations occur, it hurts even more for faithful church members and the rest of the community whose experience with the diocese mainly reflects a strong tradition of faith, community service and education.
   So it is bitterly disappointing that more allegations surface and the church and some prosecutors still seem reluctant to act as if these are felonies. The diocese learned in July 2003 of a new allegation against priest Paul Deyo and immediately reported it to authorities in Iowa City.
   Johnson County Attorney J. Patrick White, for an unknown reason, waited a year to announce a formal investigation. The diocese waited a year to notify parishioners. It still has declined to tell investigators the victim’s name, claiming the man asked that police not be involved.
   That may be the case. But the diocese has squandered its credibility on these matters over the last decade by behaving in ways that would make them co-conspirators if this were any other felony or involved any other organization.
   The diocese practice of moving, rather than prosecuting, admitted pedophiles threatens the public. Friday’s editions of the Times disclosed that former Quad-City priest Rev. William Wiebler is living near a St. Louis elementary school. The diocese sent Wiebler to that city for treatment when he admitted sexually abusing children.
   We’d like to think that at age 72, Wiebler no longer is a threat. But Thursday’s editions reported the arrest of an 84-year-old Davenport man for child sexual abuse. That man isn’t a priest. He wasn’t sent to St. Louis. He went to jail first and now faces trial.
• Diocese weighs finances -- RCC.
   Quad-City Times, By Todd Ruger, Saturday, September 18th, 2004
   DAVENPORT (IA): The financial impact of sex abuse lawsuits on the Catholic Diocese of Davenport depends mainly on three things - the size of any settlement or damages awarded in court proceedings, the insurance it has to cover any claims and its ability to cover the rest.
   All three are up in the air.
   As the diocese spends four days this month discussing out-of-court settlements with 37 men alleging a priest in the diocese sexually abused them decades ago, the attorney representing the men has yet to tell the diocese how much money they seek.
   If those talks fail, verdicts could go either way in any case argued before a jury.
   Meanwhile, the diocese has hired an insurance archeologist to find out what the church’s insurance coverage was during those years, and what part of settlements or claims insurance companies might pay.
   Bishop William Franklin has already said - in a letter to parishioners addressing the manner in which the diocese is defending itself in court - the diocese has a legal right and obligation "to defend itself from bankruptcy."
• Former priest sentenced in sex abuse [Burns] -- RCC.
   The Arizona Republic, Associated Press, Sept. 19, 2004
   ARIZONA: A former Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to two felony counts of sexual conduct with a minor in Winslow was sentenced last week to a year and a half in prison in New Mexico.
   James M. Burns, 71, of Wickenburg, was sentenced as part of a plea agreement. The charges stem from incidents that occurred two decades ago, when he was assigned to the Diocese of Gallup, which oversees northeastern Arizona.
   "I was a good priest," Burns told Navajo County Superior Court Judge Gloria J. Kindig. "I failed a few times."
   In announcing her sentence, Kindig castigated Burns for a lack of remorse and statements he made that she believed tried to shift blame on the victim.
   "I can't quite get my head around what you're sorry about," she told Burns.
   Burns was originally charged with four counts stemming from incidents alleged to have occurred in 1983 and 1984 at St. Joseph's in Winslow, where he was a priest.
• BC clergy abuse program becoming permanent -- RCC.
   Times-Picayune The Associated Press, Sep/19/2004
   BOSTON (MA) (AP) - A program launched two years ago at Boston College examining the issues raised by the Roman Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal will become a permanent part of the Jesuit university's academic landscape, the school's president says.
   The school is searching for a director and a staff for its "Church in the 21st Century" program, which has explored the increasingly strained relationship between church hierarchy and laity, the divide between church teachings on sexuality and the sexual activities of Catholics, and the challenge of bringing the church's message to young people.
   "There are still vestiges of anger and frustration, and the hurt remains, but now people want to move on - they're trying to figure out ways of renewing the church," university president William P. Leahy told the Boston Globe in Sunday editions.
   The program has proved popular, not just with students, but with alumni and laity interested in the church's future. In two years, 25,000 people have attended the program's lectures and other events, and 160,000 have subscribed to its publications.
• BC plans permanent study of abuse issues
   Boston Globe By Michael Paulson, September 19, 2004
   BOSTON (MA): Boston College, which two years ago launched a short-term effort to examine issues raised by the clergy sexual abuse crisis, now says those concerns about the Catholic Church are complex enough that it is making its effort permanent.
   The Jesuit university plans next month to begin testing a pair of online courses about what it means to be Catholic, and the college is searching for a director and staff for a new academic center institutionalizing its Church in the 21st Century program.
   The initiative is exploring the strained relationship between bishops, priests, and laypeople, the divide between the sexual behavior of Catholics and the sexuality teachings of the Catholic Church, and the challenge of transmitting Catholicism to young people.
   "Two years ago there was a great deal more anger and frustration," Boston College president William P. Leahy said in an interview. "There are still vestiges of anger and frustration, and the hurt remains, but now people want to move on -- they're trying to figure out ways of renewing the church."
   The appetite for engagement with the issues confronting Catholicism is large, at least as measured by participation in Boston College's program, which appears to be more ambitious and sustained than that at other Catholic colleges. Over the last two years, the college says, 25,000 people have attended the program's lectures and other events, and 160,000 are subscribing to its publications. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 07:53 AM]
////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker www.ncrnews.org/abuse , Sun Sept 19, 2004
Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont97.htm
• Police snaring Net predators. -- No religion link reported.

   The Sunday Mail, Queensland, Australia, www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10811174%255E421,00.html , By Kay Dibben, September 19, 2004
   BRISBANE, Australia: The undercover police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl logs into a Brisbane Internet chatroom and within minutes is talking to sexual predators.
   The officer identifies the first target within two minutes of declaring the girl's ASL – age, sex and location.
   Ten minutes later the man, who says he is 19, commits an offence by exposing the "girl" to indecent material by talking about a sexual act.
   Within five minutes the second male to chat to the girl online is asking about the girl's breasts.
   But it's the third chatroom contact, who says he is a 30-year-old male, who becomes a more serious target for the undercover officer. ... [Sep 19, 04]
Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont97.htm
#### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse, Mon September 20, 2004 edition follows:-
• 750,000 not reported sex abuse, says group -- RCC.

   Irish Examiner, www.examiner.ie/ pport/web/Full_ Story/did- sg92Xh3Z69in Asg0aewFBAD ppk.asp ; By Seán McCárthaigh, Sep/21//04
   IRELAND: The Government has been urged to implement a national strategy to respond to sexual violence on the basis that up to 750,000 men and women have still not reported or sought support for their experiences of sex abuse as children.
   The One in Four charity, which helps the victims of child sex abuse, said the State had so far failed to address the major health and social implications caused by such a large portion of the population experiencing sexual violence.
   Based on the landmark SAVI (Sexual Abuse and Violence in Ireland) report published a few years ago, One in Four estimates that 35% of all adults will experience sexual violence at some stage in their life with 27% of children experiencing such abuse before the age of 17. ...
   "It is no longer enough to respond to individual crises or scandals as they emerge; a more cohesive and well-developed strategy is required."
   Mr O'Gorman said existing services were akin to "bandaging a fracture".
   He also strongly criticised Catholic Church leaders for their insistence on retaining control of how sex abuse complaints against priests are handled. The decision led to the recent disbandment of the church's Working Group on Child Protection, which had recommended that such matters be left to professional care workers.
   Mr O'Gorman, who was a victim of the infamous paedophile priest, Fr Seán Fortune, claimed it was extraordinary that the hierarchy did not seem to recognise that the introduction of best practice on child protection would also benefit members of the clergy. However, he stressed it was incumbent on the Government to enforce best child protection regulations on all authorities operating within the State. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 09:39 PM]
• Second US Catholic diocese bankrupt after child sex scandals -- RCC.

   Inq7.net ; Agence France-Presse, Updated 07:57am (Mla time) Sept 21, 2004
   TUCSON, Arizona, United States of America -- The US Catholic Diocese of Tucson became the second in the country to file for bankruptcy Monday after being hit by a wave of lawsuits and settlements linked to priestly child abuse. In filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Bishop Gerald Kicanas insisted that the move was not aimed at escaping financial responsibility and issued a heartfelt apology to victims of sex abuse by priests.
   "Our diocese submits the reorganization case and the reorganization plan with the belief that this represents the best opportunity for healing and for the just and fair compensation of those who suffered sexual abuse by workers for the Church in our diocese," he said in a letter to parishioners.
   He said the move would protect both sex abuse victims who have already come forward since the scandal broke in the US Roman Catholic church in early 2002, and those who have not yet done so.
• Sexual Abuse Victims React To Tucson Diocese Filing For Bankruptcy -- RCC.
   KGUN, By Deanne Donnelly (9/20/04)
   TUCSON (AZ): Bishop Gerald Kicanas says bankruptcy is the best way to compensate sexual abuse victims. Deanne Donnelly reports, not all victims are convinced.
   This 33-year-old man was sexually abused by a priest when he was a 12-year-old altar boy in Douglas.
   Victim says, "I don't think it's fair that we have to wait longer. We have waited long enough. At least I have waited long enough."
   It took him decades to tell the diocese what happened. Now he has to spend more time waiting for the courts to decide what his abuse is worth. Diocese lawyers say a judge will set a date for outstanding victims to come forward with their allegations if they want to be considered for compensation.
   Lynne Cadigan says, "Unfortunately the bankruptcy may discourage some victims from coming forward because they may feel that they are just putting their name on a list."
• Local Pastor Spared Jail Time [Fincher] -- Baptist. Woman.
   WANE, Monday morning, Sept. 20, 2004
   FORT WAYNE (IN): Rev. James Fincher learned his fate following after being found guilty of sexual battery back in August. The leader of Fort Wayne's Faith Missionary Baptist Church received a 1 1/2 year suspended sentence. He will also have to undergo counseling.
   The conviction centered around a woman who came to Fincher's office, asking for money to help pay debts. The parishioner claimed the reverend sexually touched her and then tried to pay her $40 to keep quiet. Fincher was found not guilty of a criminal confinement charge. He could have received up to a three year jail sentence for the sexual battery conviction, plus fines.
   Yesterday, NewsChannel 15 sat in on Fincher's last sermon at Faith Missionary before today's sentencing. He said from the pulpit, "Let us pray God, blessed, that this holy spirit may lead you and guide you back home to glory." When asked about the court proceeding, Fincher said he thought it would be unwise to speak about the sentencing.
   Several parishioners NewsChannel 15 talked to said they would leave the question of who heads the church during Fincher's jail time to God. Many from the congregation also added they would be lining up at the courthouse tomorrow to show their love and support for Fincher.
• Fincher gets 18 months, suspended [2003 Fincher] -- Baptist. Woman.
   Fort Wayne News Sentinel, By Mike Dooley, mdooley@news-sentinel.com , Mon, Sep. 20, 2004
   FORT WAYNE (IN): A prominent Fort Wayne minister was sentenced to 18 months in prison today after a jury convicted him of sexual battery last month. But he probably won’t spend a day behind bars.
   The Rev. James Fincher, pastor of Faith Missionary Baptist Church, 2717 Gay St., was found guilty of inappropriately touching a woman who came to his office Oct. 6 to borrow $100. The same jury that convicted him of that charge found him not guilty of a count of criminal confinement.
   The victim, who was in the courtroom today as Judge Kenneth Scheibenberger handed down the sentence, said Fincher held her against her will after he fondled her and told her he wanted her to expose herself in return for the loan. The 73-year-old minister restrained her, she said, when she tried to leave his office after the confrontation.
   Fincher continued to insist he is innocent, and told the judge, "If I was guilty I would have said so," and accepted a plea bargain offered by the state. "I don’t know how the jury reached its verdict," the pastor said. "I’m not guilty."
• Facing sex abuse suits, Tucson Diocese seeks bankruptcy protection -- RCC.
   Catholic News Service, By Catholic News Service, Sep-20-2004
   TUCSON, Ariz. (CNS) -- Facing 33 plaintiffs in 22 pending clergy sex abuse lawsuits, the Tucson Diocese Sept. 20 filed for federal bankruptcy protection.
   Tucson was the second diocese in the nation to seek court-supervised reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to resolve multimillion-dollar claims against it by alleged victims of childhood molestation by priests. In July the Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., became the first major church body in history to make a Chapter 11 filing.
   In a letter to his people Tucson Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas said he believed "that this represents the best opportunity for healing and for the just and fair compensation of those who suffered sexual abuse by workers for the church in our diocese -- those who are currently known and those who have not yet made the decision to come forward."
   "We have been struggling to find a way -- the best way -- to respond to those who are seeking compensation for the harm they suffered, a way that also will allow us to continue the mission of the church in our diocese," he wrote. [...]
   The diocese's audited financial report for the 2002-03 fiscal year showed $20.7 million in assets but $21.9 million in liabilities.
   The diocese, formed in 1969, has about 350,000 Catholics in a total population of about 1.5 million in southern Arizona. It has 75 parishes and more than three dozen missions, served by 67 active diocesan priests. There are also 72 religious priests in the diocese, 238 nuns, 10 brothers and 143 deacons. #
• West Side Pastor Charged With Sex Crimes [2000-04 Nixon] -- Church of God in Christ. Boys, Girl.
   WBBM, Sep 16, 2004 10:40 am US/Central
   CHICAGO (IL) (CBS 2): In a disturbing story from the city's West Side, a pastor is in jail charged with sex crimes against three of his young parishioners.
   Fifty-two-year-old Robert Nixon is pastor at the "Risen Valley Mission Church of God in Christ" on West Harrison.
   Police say he's admitted to repeatedly sexually assaulting two 14-year-old boys since the year 2000, and the most recent incident was this past weekend.
   Nixon also faces charges involving a 16-year-old girl.
• Tucson Catholic Diocese Files for Bankruptcy -- RCC.
   Reuters, http://olympics.reuters.com/ newsArticle.jhtml? type=topNews&story ID=6283382 , 02:29 PM ET, Mon Sep 20, 2004
   PHOENIX, ARIZONA (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson, faced with possible multimillion-dollar legal verdicts from sex abuse cases pending against its clergy, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, a church official said.
   Saying bankruptcy was the best option, Tucson Bishop Gerald Kinacas said church attorneys filed for Chapter 11 reorganization Monday morning in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Tucson, Arizona.
   The filing by the 350,000-member institution follows a July bankruptcy declaration by the Archdiocese of Portland.
   Critics have challenged the Chapter 11 filings as a ploy by the church to hide assets and avoid liability for decades of abuse by priests.
• Diocese of Tucson Files for Bankruptcy [Guillen] -- RCC.
   KGUN 9, by Maria Neider, Tuesday September 21, 2004
   TUCSON (AZ): It's the biggest decision bishop Gerald Kicanas has made since he took over the Diocese of Tucson last year- taking the diocese to bankruptcy court.
   By filing for chapter eleven bankruptcy protection, the diocese can now deal with all of it collectors at once- instead of going to court to face each plaintiff individually.
   Bishop Kicanas believes this is the best way to fairly compensate all sexual abuse victims.
   "The debtor files a monthly operating report that talks about income and expense and changes in assets and liabilities. A plan of reorganization is accompanied by a disclosure statement which provides even more financial information." [...]
   "The bankruptcy filing creates an automatic stay which is a congressional mandate under the bankruptcy code that stays all actions pending against the debtor to collect debts." That includes delaying upcoming trials.
   The diocese filed for bankruptcy just nine days before the trial of reverend Juan Guillen, scheduled for September 29th in Yuma.
   Guillen is serving a ten year prison sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of sexual misconduct with minors.
   A bankruptcy judge will decide whether that trial will go on as scheduled. #
• Tucson Catholic Diocese files for bankruptcy reorganization -- RCC.
   Tucson Citizen, By SHERYL KORNMAN, Sept. 20, 2004
   TUCSON (AZ): The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in an attempt to protect its assets from judgments and settlements stemming from alleged sexual misconduct by some of its priests.
   The diocese becomes the second Roman Catholic diocese in the nation, after Portland, Ore., to file for reorganization in the face of millions of dollars in claims alleging sexual misconduct by priests.
   Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas said reorganization will provide the diocese a way to reorganize its debt and protect its assets.
   A bankruptcy judge will appoint someone to oversee a diocese reorganization plan.
   The filing, done electronically this morning, is not expected to disrupt day-to-day operations of the diocese, including its elementary schools, parish churches or its payroll, according to diocese spokesman Fred Allison.
   Those who may have claims against the diocese but who had not filed them before the bankruptcy likely will be given a deadline to file, or forfeit their right to do so.
• Tucson Diocese files for bankruptcy over abuse -- RCC.
   CNN, Posted: 12:40 PM EDT (1640 GMT), Monday, September 20, 2004
   TUCSON (AZ): The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson filed for bankruptcy protection Monday under the weight of debt and pending litigation from clerical sex abuse cases.
   The diocese is only the second in the nation to seek the protection of a bankruptcy court in the wake of extensive and continuing legal action stemming from sexual abuse of children by parish priests.
   The Portland (Oregon) Archdiocese was the first when it filed July 6.
   The decision will subject the Tucson Diocese's financial operations to court scrutiny for the first time, and potentially open the way for non-church interference.
   Tucson Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas had signaled his intent in June, telling parishioners in a letter that bankruptcy protection appeared to be the only option remaining for the diocese, which serves some 350,000 Catholics in 75 parishes.
• Tucson Diocese Bankruptcy -- RCC.
   WHO TV 13, 12:55 PM, Monday,September20,2004,
   TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson has filed for bankruptcy protection.
   The Arizona diocese is carrying millions of dollars in debt -- and still faces costly litigation from nearly 22 sexual-abuse lawsuits. The diocese has already settled eleven lawsuits -- most involving alleged abuse dating as far back as the 1960s.
   The diocese is only the second in the nation seeking bankruptcy court protection. The Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, was the first.
   The decision will subject diocese financial operations to court scrutiny for the first time, and potentially open the way for non-church interference.
   Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas told parishioners in a letter today that filing for bankruptcy offers the best chance for healing -- and for the compensation of those who suffered sexual abuse.
• Tucson Catholic diocese files for bankruptcy protection -- RCC [This might have been an early version of the newsitem]
   Arizona Daily Star
   TUCSON (AZ): The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson at 8:15 this morning took the historic step of declaring bankruptcy in the face of 22 pending lawsuits over sexual abuse of children by priests.
   Tucson is the second Catholic diocese in the country to seek federal Chapter 11 protection - the first was the Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., which declared bankruptcy July 6. The action happened as the Tucson diocese is facing trial in Yuma over allegations that the Rev. Juan Guillen molested two young brothers. Guillen is now serving a 10-year prison sentence for sexual misconduct with two young parishioners, including one of the brothers in the upcoming civil trial.
   Tucson Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas told parishioners in July that he was seriously considering bankruptcy as a way of meeting financial needs associated with lawsuits over sexual abuse by clergy. The diocese paid $155,000 in claims to eight victims of sexual abuse prior to 2002 and then in 2002 reached a $14 million settlement with 10 men who said they were abused by four members of the local clergy. The diocese will not disclose how much of that settlement was paid by insurance.
   A bankruptcy filing means that the local diocese will have to disclose all of its finances, including assets and liabilities, said Thomas J. Salerno, a Phoenix bankruptcy attorney who represented the Baptist Foundation of Arizona when it filed for bankruptcy in 1999.
   "The Baptist religion is not as hierarchical as the Catholic and there are certainly a lot more new and interesting legal issues that will arise," he said, referring to the Portland and Tucson bankruptcy filings.
• Tucson diocese files for bankruptcy after 'embarrassing' years. -- RCC.
   Arizona Daily Star (Tucson), www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/dailystar/39699.php , By Stephanie Innes, Sep.20.2004
   TUCSON (AZ): Calling the past few years "awful, embarrassing and scandalous," Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas added to a sad and painful period in the local church's history this morning by filing for bankruptcy protection.
   "We are in a crisis, but we are not without hope, not without resilience," Kicanas told a crowded room of reporters and clerics who gathered at a Downtown hotel for this morning's announcement. "I pray this process will work in a spirit of cooperation to heal those who have been hurt."
   The Diocese of Tucson, which includes 350,000 Catholics, is the second diocese in the country to seek federal Chapter 11 protection - the first was the Archdiocese of Portland, which declared bankruptcy on July 6, which was the same day it had been scheduled to go to trial in a lawsuit over allegations that a priest had sexually abused children.
   Locally, a declaration of bankruptcy automatically delays 22 civil actions alleging clergy abuse that had been pending against the diocese, though it does not absolve diocesan officials from paying anyone who has been harmed. The diocese in the next few weeks is expected to announce a "claim" period with a deadline for anyone who believes they were molested by a priest to file a complaint.
   "We really don't know how many people have been harmed," Kicanas said. "Our desire is that all who have been harmed will come forward. We've been as public as we could have been."
   Diocesan bankruptcy attorney Susan Boswell estimated the whole reorganization will work itself out in a matter of months, though some experts predict it could take years.
   "Bankruptcy is such a complicated, legal Enron thing and this is turning a case involving moral outrage into a prolonged process," said Lynne M. Cadigan, the Tucson attorney who is representing plaintiffs in 14 of the 22 pending legal actions. "I believe the diocese wanted bankruptcy to turn this into a corporate decision...It is now a huge corporate nightmare instead of a period of pastoral healing."
   The local diocese has already paid out $15.9 million in settlements to people who say they were sexually molested by church personnel - the largest in 2002 to 10 men, represented by Cadigan, who said they had repressed memories of abuse by four members of the local clergy when the men were altar boys during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops says that the crisis involving clergy abusing children since 1950 has cost the American Catholic church $657 million, leaving bigger dioceses unable to loan money to smaller dioceses like Tucson, which would have happened in the past.
   Kicanas maintains the diocese's 75 parishes will not be included in the bankrupt estate. The parishes as a group have retained their own lawyers - local bankruptcy attorneys Michael McGrath and Lowell Rothschild.
   "They need their own advocates in bankruptcy court," McGrath said. "Generally their legal positions will be complimentary [? complementary] to the diocese." ...
• Pastor Accused Of Preying On Women: Romero Allegedly Coerced Women To Have Sex To Fight Off Devil [Romero] -- Self-proclaimed minister. Women.
   TheSanDiegoChannel.com ; September 16, 2004
   SAN DIEGO (CA) -- It's hard to say what kind of church or what kind of religion Carlos Romero ran, but prosecutors say he preyed on some of San Diego's most vulnerable residents by using faith and fear.
   Religion is taking center stage in the case against the self-proclaimed minister. Prosecutor Patrick Espinosa said Romero coerced at least three women in his "congregation" into having sex in exchange for protection from the devil.
   "He taught about the Bible and the text in the Bible, so I trusted him," said one of Romero's victims.
   That victim testified that she and others met with Romero and his wife in their home twice a week to study the word of God. She said last January, Romero told her she was inhabited by the devil. [...]
   She said Romero claimed to be following the orders of Jesus Christ when he offered her protection through sex. Eventually she met him for sex six times in parking lots, his car and at shopping malls.
   "I had to please him in everything he said," the victim said.
   Defense attorney Chip Venie said the case is "beyond silly" and will argue that these women had sex with his client willingly. ...
• Pastor accused of using threat of devil to coerce sex ordered to trial [Romero] -- Self-proclaimed minister.
   North County Times, By North County Times wire services, Saturday, September 18, 2004
   SAN DIEGO (CA) - A pastor accused of using the fear of the devil to induce female members of his congregation to have sex with him must stand trial on three felony charges, a judge ruled today.
   Carlos Romero, 59, faces up to five years and eight months in prison if convicted, said Deputy District Attorney Patrick Espinoza.
   After a two-day preliminary hearing, Judge George W. Clarke ordered Romero to stand trial on two counts of inducing sex by fear and one count of making a criminal threat.
   La Mesa police Sgt. Daniel Willis testified that Romero told him in a phone conversation in June that he felt sorry for telling three women who went to his church that the "devil would physically harm them and he could protect them if they had sex with him."
   "He said he felt sad about it," the sergeant testified.
   Willis said Romero told him he knew his actions toward the women were wrong and "wouldn't do it again."
• Man said to be pastor faces sex assault charges [Nixon] -- Boys, girl.
   Chicago Tribune, Published September 17, 2004
   WEST SIDE, CHICAGO (IL) -- A Chicago man who told police he is a pastor at a West Side church has been accused of sexually assaulting two 14-year-old boys and a 16-year-old girl, police said.
   Robert Nixon, 52, of the 600 block of North Monticello Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood was charged Monday with two counts of criminal sexual assault and one count of predatory criminal sexual assault, said police spokesman Carlos Herrera. Nixon is accused of using his position of authority at his church to perpetrate the alleged crimes, Herrera said.
• Pastor avoids prison over sex abuse diary [Ensbey] -- Baptist.

   The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, By Mark Oberhardt, September 18, 2004
   AUSTRALIA: A Baptist pastor who shredded the diary of a child parishioner who was sexually abused escaped being jailed yesterday but not before he was blasted by a senior judge.
   The Court of Appeal yesterday unanimously agreed Douglas Ray Ensbey, 53, should have been convicted under a new Queensland law relating to destroying evidence.
   However, the Court of Appeal was divided 2-1 on whether Ensbey should have been sent to jail instead of receiving a wholly-suspended six-month sentence when he was convicted in the District Court last March. [A fuller version is elsewhere on this Webpage.]
• Pastor's Empire Built on Acts of Faith, and Cash [Crouch] -- Trinity Broadcasting Network. $US425,000 hush money.

   Los Angeles Times, By William Lobdell, Times Staff Writer
   CALIFORNIA: Pastor Paul Crouch looked into the camera and told his flock that Trinity Broadcasting Network needed $8 million to spread the Gospel throughout India and save 1 billion souls from damnation.
   Crouch, head of the world's largest Christian broadcasting network, said even viewers who couldn't afford a $1,000 pledge should take a "step of faith" and make one anyway. The Lord would repay them many times over, he said. ...
   The network, little known outside fundamentalist Christian circles, was buffeted by unwanted publicity last week, when The Times reported that Crouch had paid a former employee $425,000 to keep silent about an alleged homosexual tryst.
   But millions of people needed no introduction to TBN. Its 24-hour-a-day menu of sermons, faith healing, inspirational movies and Christian talk shows reaches viewers around the globe via satellite, cable and broadcast stations. Its programs are dubbed in 11 different languages.
• Church Lawyers Say Abuse Victims Can't Sue -- RCC. "Freedom of religion" used to avoid compensation.
   ABC 7, http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/091904_nwAP_church_abuse.html , Sept. 19, 2004
   CALIFORNIA: (AP) - Lawyers for the Roman Catholic Church of Northern California argued Friday against a tentative order that would allow abuse victims the right to sue over negligent hiring, firing and supervision of troublesome priests.
   In an Alameda County courtroom, church lawyers argued that the damages sought by the victims of decades-old child molestation cases must be limited by the constitutional guarantee of the free exercise of religion.
   Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ronald Sabraw issued a temporary ruling Thursday stating a 2002 state law temporarily lifting the statute of limitation on damage suits against institutions that protected known child molesters gave abuse victims the right to sue.
   Arguing for the church, lawyer Paul Gaspari said the Constitution forbade punishing the church for the standards it sets for the ordination of priests.
   "If a religious institution chooses to ordain a known child molester that it felt had truly repented, it has that constitutional right," Gaspari said. "The government may not second-guess that choice."
• Diocese wanted Rev. Holley out [1960s onwards Holley] -- RCC. 8 boys.
   Telegram & Gazette, by Kathleen A. Shaw, T&G STAFF, kshaw@telegram.com
   WORCESTER (MA): - Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan in 1971 decided that one reason the Rev. David A. Holley should go into the care of Servants of the Paraclete in New Mexico or some other location operated by the order was because they would be able to find a placement for him after he completed treatment, the bishop said in a letter written at the time.
   Rev. Holley, denied parole last week, is now serving a 55- to 275-year prison sentence in New Mexico for sexually abusing and raping eight boys there.
   Although Rev. Holley was taken in as a priest of the Worcester Diocese in 1962 and incardinated in 1967, which means he became a priest of the diocese, he proved to be problematic because of his history of sexually molesting boys. Bishop Flanagan and Auxiliary Bishop Timothy J. Harrington clearly did not want him back in the diocese although no move was made to remove him permanently from the priesthood, the letters show.
   His relationship with the Worcester Diocese is detailed in the series of personal letters obtained by the Telegram & Gazette.
   Bishop Flanagan in a March 15, 1971, letter to Rev. Holley, who was then in Pittsburgh, said he discussed the situation with Bishop Harrington and they agreed to suggest that Rev. Holley go to "one of the houses of the Paraclete Fathers - either Via Coeli in New Mexico or one of their other hospices. They now have some professionally directed programs of therapy, so that you could continue whatever treatment is indicated.
   "Also, by reason of their many contacts with bishops who are in need of priests, they are able to find openings for their guests after a reasonable period of time," he wrote.
   Phil Saviano, now a Boston area resident, released to the Telegram & Gazette a series of letters he obtained during his civil suit against the Worcester Diocese in which he alleged sexual abuse by Rev. Holley.
   Mr. Saviano was an altar boy at St. Denis parish, East Douglas, during the 1960s when he alleged he was sexually abused by Rev. Holley. The Worcester Diocese offered him about $15,000 to settle his suit, but he refused to sign a confidentiality agreement and took about $12,000 instead.
   Bishop Harrington in 1970 told a psychiatrist at the Seton Psychiatric Institute where Rev. Holley was receiving treatment, "People have been so greatly disturbed by his behavior that we would wonder whether he can avoid his reputation going before him in any area of this compact diocese." The bishop, who was a licensed social worker, also questioned where the diocese could "chance the possibility of his having another relapse."
   Yet an Oct. 5, 1987, letter to Rev. Holley from the Rev. Lawrence St. Peter, an official of the Denver archdiocese, said, "I have contacted your Bishop, Bishop Timothy J. Harrington of Worcester, Massachusetts, and he assures me that you are a priest in good standing and that he has given you permission to be a Chaplain at St. Anthony Hospital Central, Denver."
   Bishop Flanagan attempted in 1971 to get him transferred to the Wilmington, Del., Diocese while Rev. Holley was being treated at the Seton Institute. Bishop Thomas J. Mardaga of Wilmington told Bishop Flanagan that request was denied.
   "Despite the unfavorable decision in this particular case, I trust that you will realize that we are still sympathetic to requests regarding the placement of priests who have experienced difficulties in their own communities," Bishop Mardaga said. "Regrettably, Father Holley's case presented a greater problem than we could handle, at least with the present prognosis," he said.
   Bishop Flanagan in a Feb. 11, 1971, letter to Bishop Mardaga, said he did not believe Rev. Holley should continue ministry in Worcester after treatment at Seton Institute for what the bishops called "a homo-sexual problem." He told the Wilmington bishop that there had been "at least two incidents" involving Rev. Holley but "they did not evoke wide public scandal" but did become known to several priests and lay people.
   "In this very compact diocese, it is practically impossible to transfer a priest to a place where his previous history is not known - at least by the priests of the diocese," he said.
   Rev. A. Dixon Hartford of St. Raphael parish in El Paso, Texas, informed Bishop Sidney M. Metzer of the El Paso Diocese in an April 27, 1976, letter that he had to immediately terminate Rev. Holley's assignment in that parish.
   "Of course, Father was deeply humiliated and mortified and very apologetic," he said. Rev. Hartford said he would have Rev. Holley's things "packed and shipped to wherever he wished."
   However, Rev. Hartford proposed that Rev. Holley be transferred to another parish in Texas and that he would work with him on what he called "reality therapy." Rev. Hartford said Rev. Holley had many talents but "his problem must be faced up to. He cannot let this problem ruin the rest of his life."
   Rev. Holley was accepted into the San Angelo, Texas, Diocese, where he served several years until Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza informed Bishop Harrington in a May 25, 1984, letter that "on a few occasions his past problems surfaced." He told Bishop Harrington that he had earlier informed Bishop Flanagan in 1982 that he would give Rev. Holley "one more chance."
   "It is with great regret that I write now to say that Father Holley has made it impossible for us to keep him in this diocese," he said.
   Rev. Holley contacted the Worcester Diocese in 1992 and requested that they cover health and dental insurance. Rev. Rocco Piccolomini, vicar for priests, said his request was being considered. Rev. Piccolomini said in the "charity of the Lord" the diocese accepted his need for money and sent him $500.
• Church plans talks to resolve impasse on child abuse policy -- RCC.

   One in Four
   IRELAND: The Catholic bishops are to meet with the head of their advisory group on child protection in a bid to resolve a row over what should happen when a cleric is accused of abuse.
   The invitation came as Archbishop Sean Brady said it was essential that the rights of everyone, including priests, be respected when an allegation is made.
   He was speaking following a celebration at Clonmacnoise to mark the Pope's visit 25 years ago.
   The row centres on whether the decision concerning the fate of alleged abusers should be made by the bishops and heads of religious orders or a panel of experts in child welfare.
   In May, a detailed new child protection policy was presented to the Bishops and CORI (the Conference of Religious of Ireland) by Maureen Lynott, whose group was appointed to draw up the policy by the bishops and CORI. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 08:35 AM]
////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker www.ncrnews.org/abuse , Mon September 20, 2004
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• The Messengers 12. -- RCC.
   www.themessengers12.net/ index.html , Information sent September 20, 2004 "THE MESSENGERS"
WAS CREATED FOR ONE MAJOR PURPOSE. BELOW IS REASON FOR THAT PURPOSE!    UNITED STATES: To hear the voices from everyone inside and outside the Roman Catholic Church concerning the "Roman Catholic Clergy Abuse Scandal." To record and document these personal testimonials so that the Roman Catholic Church (the Vatican) cannot interpret and rewrite history of its failings for their own advantage To protect the uncountable number of voices that were never heard or discarded by the media and Vatican. (Understanding there are some valid reasons by the media, but, NO VALID REASONS FROM THIS CHURCH) Not to succumb to oppressors and to expose this evil by dragging it out of the dark into the light
   By expressing your personal accounts, opinions, experiences, outrage, anger, observances, challenges, despairs, hopes, demands, disgust, personal losses, protests, depressions, oppressions, reflections, rejections, deceptions, and anxieties brought about by the institution of the Roman Catholic church's handling of the clergy sexual abuse scandal, we are committed to the best of our ability to retain these expressions so that future generations will experience the true realities and feelings of the atmosphere of today. Feel free to respond as many times as you want on any feelings you may have concerning all of the above. Everything goes!!!!! [...]
   Stephen Lewis, Stephen@themessengers12.net
   EMAIL US OR SEND YOUR INFORMATION TO: THE MESSENGERS, P.O. BOX 2240, LYNN, MA., 01903, USA [Sep 20, 04] (By courtesy of Kathy Shaw, Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, e-mail, Sep 20, 2004)
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#### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse, Tue September 21, 2004 edition follows:-
• Parishioners, clergy support bishop's decision on filing -- RCC.

   Casa Grande Valley Newspapers, www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12973213&BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=68561&rfi=6 , Wire Services, Associated Press, September 21, 2004
   TUCSON (AZ) (AP) - Some parishioners say they are getting weary of the time it has taken the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson to resolve its sexual abuse problems involving clergy.
   On Monday, the diocese filed for bankruptcy protection because of the escalating cost of clerical sex abuse cases.
   Tucson Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas told parishioners in a letter that filing the voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization offered "the best opportunity for healing and for the just and fair compensation of those who suffered sexual abuse by workers for the church in our diocese."
   Denise Ferrell, a parishioner at St. Christopher's Catholic Church in Marana, seemed angered at the events.
   "It's like the attorney who is representing the plaintiffs would just like the Catholic Church to leave the face of the Earth. The parishioners did not do this," said Ferrell, 42.
   "I support the bishop 100 percent. How much more can the church do? Maybe the court will want us to tear down all the churches and sell the property, and that is not fair," added Ferrell. "We're a poor diocese, and I just don't think it's fair that all these people struggling to survive in our parishes have to pay large sums of money for these attorneys." [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 06:35 PM]
   [COMMENT: Denise Ferrell, trying to blame everyone else except the clergy culprits, is typical of the people who trust their leaders instead of thinking for themselves. COMMENT ENDS.]
• Our Opinion: Diocese starts move toward solvency, trust -- RCC. 26 priests, 2%.
   Tucson Citizen, Tuesday, September 21, 2004
   TUCSON (AZ): Yesterday's bankruptcy filing by the Catholic Diocese of Tucson was the latest chapter in a tragic litany triggered by 26 priests.
   The diocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization to protect assets from judgments and settlements stemming from priests' alleged sexual conduct.
   It is a sad outcome to years of horrifying abuse - some of which happened after priests who had been accused of abuse were sent to other parishes where they preyed on more unsuspecting victims.
   The bankruptcy filing must be seen as a continuation of the diocese's efforts to rebound from these shameful incidents.
   According to a national study earlier this year, there have been 100 credible allegations of child sexual abuse by 26 priests who served with the Diocese of Tucson since 1950. That's 2 percent of the priests assigned to the diocese.
• Tucson Diocese files for bankruptcy protection
   Yuma Sun, BY MICHELLE KANN, Sep 21, 2004
   TUCSON (AZ): After months of anticipation, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson filed for bankruptcy protection Monday.
   But it is still unclear what effect, if any, this decision will have on the churches and parochial schools in Yuma.
   Tucson Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas announced that the diocese will file for Chapter 11 reorganization during a news conference on Monday morning. Nearly 30 people listened to the announcement in Tucson.
   After the news conference, Kicanas told The Sun there are two main reasons for the decision.
   "First I believe that the court is the best forum through which all victims can be fairly and equitably compensated, and no longer on a first-come, first-served basis," he said.
• Charity Apologises to Victims of Paedophile Priest [1950s-60s Taylor] -- RCC. 10 more cases. Boys.

   Scotsman, By Phil Hazlewood, PA News, Tue 21 Sep 2004
   BRITAIN: A charity that took over a care home where a paedophile priest abused young boys in his care has apologised to his victims, it emerged today.
   Trustees of the Father Hudson’s Society, which now runs the Father Hudson’s Home in Coleshill, Warwickshire, made the apology after all legal action brought by some of the victims came to an end.
   They were abused at the home in the 1950s and 1960s by Eric Taylor, a former Roman Catholic parish priest who was convicted at Warwick Crown Court in 1998 of 18 sexual offences and jailed for seven years.
   Taylor, whom the Pope removed from the priesthood in February 2001, died in prison in September 2001 aged 81.
   Following his conviction, around 10 of his victims launched legal action against the Father Hudson’s Home, claiming they failed in their duty of care to protect them.
• Apology to sex abuse victims [1950s-60s Taylor] -- RCC. 18 offences. Boys.
   Icbirmingham, By Staff Reporter, Evening Mail, Sep 21 2004
   BRITAIN: The Midland charity which took over a disgraced Catholic care home has made a public apology to former residents after it was announced legal claims over sexual and physical abuse that took place there had been settled.
   Trustees of Father Hudson's Society, which now runs the Father Hudson's Home in Coleshill, Warwickshire, said they were extremely sorry for the way children had been treated in the 1950s and 60s.
   Defrocked priest Eric Taylor was convicted in 1998 of 18 sexual offences against young boys at the home. The society said legal claims had been resolved.
   Kevin Caffrey, director of Father Hudson's Society, said trustees wanted to express their sympathy to the victims.
• Victims Of Abuse Say Bankruptcy Filing Is Church's Way Of Pointing Finger Of Blame At Them -- RCC.

   KOLD News 13, By Jim Becker, KOLD News 13 Reporter, Posted Sep-21-04
   TUCSON (AZ): Victims who spoke with KOLD News 13 say they care less about financial settlements than they do about emotional healing. What they really want is for the diocese to reach out to them and make them feel welcome.
   Instead, They believe this bankruptcy filing is more about protecting assets than children. While bishop Kicanas has stated the diocese is not trying to avoid its responsibility to victims, the victims have their doubts.
   "They really are putting out two faces," said Jim Parker, Southern Arizona Director of SNAP, or Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. "One face is what they're saying to the public, and the other one is what they're doing now, the tactics to try to get them out of this mess."
   Victims say throughout the sex abuse scandal, the church has aggressively and repeatedly done everything to protect themselves, and this is no different.
• High court will not hear Rochester church abuse case [1975-86 O'Neill] -- RCC. Males.
   Newsday, September 21, 2004
   ALBANY, N.Y. -- The state's highest court Tuesday declined to hear an appeal of the dismissal of a suit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester filed by 10 men who contended they were abused by a priest between 1975 and 1986.
   The Court of Appeals made no comment in denying to hear the case. Two lower courts had dismissed both the diocese and the priest, Robert O'Neill, as defendants, saying the legal clock for court action in the case had expired years ago.
   In New York, juvenile victims of sexual abuse must file suit before they turn 21. Most of the men are now in their 40s.
• Tucson diocese files for bankruptcy -- RCC.
   Catholic World News, Sep. 21, 2004
   TUCSON (AZ) (CWNews.com) - The Diocese of Tucson filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, becoming the second US diocese to take the extraordinary step as a result of the clerical sex-abuse scandal. The Portland, Oregon, Archdiocese filed for bankruptcy in July.
   Bishop Gerald Kicanas said in a letter to local Catholics that Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization offered "the best opportunity for healing and for the just and fair compensation of those who suffered sexual abuse by workers for the Church in our diocese." But lawyers for alleged victims said the filing was an attempt to portray plaintiffs as overly aggressive.
   The bankruptcy filing means that court-appointed officials will now oversee the operation of the Tucson diocese, potentially opening up separation of church and state problems. The diocese serves 350,000 Catholic in about 70 parishes in southern Arizona. According to its financial statement, the diocese had $4.65 million in long-term debt and a $7 million deficit in unrestricted net assets as of June 30.
• Judge refuses to dismiss lawsuit [Wilson] -- RCC.
   Capital News 9, By Capital News 9 web staff, 5:55 PM, Sep/21/2004
   ALBANY (NY): A Massachusetts court ruling is having a big impact on the Albany Catholic Diocese.
   Late last week, a Massachusetts judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed against accused sexual predator and former priest, Father Dozia Wilson.
   Attorney John Aretakis, who has represented several alleged victim's of clergy sex abuse, calls it a landmark decision and a huge blow to the Diocese and Bishop Howard Hubbard.
   Aretakis said, "Now the courts in the commonwealth of Massachusetts have said that Joe Woodward and I can reveal and expose all of Bishop Hubbard's secrets about moving around and hiding pedophile priests like Dozia Wilson and many others."
• Krenn stays, Paterno leaves -- RCC. Boys.

   Wiener Zeitung, Sep.21.2004
   AUSTRIA: Bishop Kurt Krenn denied reports of his imminent resignation after a sex and child pornography scandal in his diocese rocked the Roman Catholic Church in Austria. Catholic news agency Kath-press cited unnamed Vatican sources last week as saying the Vatican had asked him to step down.
   August Paterno, priest in Vorarlberg, who is charged with "sexually harassing" young boys, meanwhile asked the Vatican for his resignation. A commission is currently looking into the case.
• Clergy abuse suit to proceed [Wilson] -- RCC. Male.

   Albany Times Union, By MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON, Staff reports, Tuesday, September 21, 2004
   ALBANY (NY): A Massachusetts judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing Bishop Howard Hubbard and former Boston Cardinal Bernard Law of harboring a predatory priest.
   Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Constance Sweeney's Sept. 16 ruling paves the way for a Fort Ann man's claims -- that he was sexually abused in both states by the former Rev. Dozia Wilson -- to be tried in Boston where longtime church leaders could be required to testify.
   The decision also means the case will not move to Albany, as church officials here had hoped.
   "It makes me feel very optimistic. I know the repository of secrets, if the judge allows me to ask about them," said attorney John Aretakis, who represents Joe Woodward in the $5 million complaint.
   Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany spokesman Kenneth Goldfarb said he had no direct knowledge of Sweeney's decision in the Wilson matter and couldn't comment.
• Nursery, grower buy abbey farmland for $1.7 million -- RCC. Benedictines. 6 complainants still.
   The Oregonian, By RON SOBLE, Tuesday, September 21, 2004
   SALEM (OR) -- Mount Angel Abbey, confronting the costs of sex-abuse lawsuits, sold about 200 acres of farmland in March for about $1.7 million, according to the Marion County Assessor's Office.
   Kraemer Nursery of Mount Angel, bought 133 acres for $1.15 million March 1, according to property records. On the same day, farmer Herman Goschie of Silverton bought about 70 acres from the abbey for $550,000.
   Neither of the parcels is contiguous with the hilltop abbey's considerable land holdings, nursery owner Herman Kraemer said in a telephone interview.
   Abbot Nathan Zodrow was in Rome attending an international meeting of Benedictine leaders and couldn't be reached for comment, said Rita Kester, spokeswoman for the monastery.
   About 30 people alleged that they were sexually abused by abbey priests, some of whom have died, according to court records. The abbey has settled with many of the accusers, but officials have declined to release settlement figures. The abbey continues to face a half-dozen accusers.
• Tucson Catholics keep the faith -- RCC. Octogenarian asks why no action taken.
   Tucson Citizen, by Larry Copenhaver, Sept. 21, 2004
   TUCSON (AZ) - As the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson filed for bankruptcy, parishioners held fast to their faith and prayed for the victims of the sexual-abuse scandal that led church leaders to take Monday's drastic step.
   Manuel Marin, a parishioner at St. Augustine Cathedral for more than 50 years, said the church made the right decision.
   "It gives the church a chance to settle with the people who have been victimized," the 84-year-old retired barber said.
   But he also was unhappy that the church did not deal openly with misconduct accusations against priests as they arose. Some cases go back decades, he noted.
   "Action should have been taken then," he said. "I don't know why (church officials) kept it quiet."
   Marin said he plans to continue giving money to the church and vows he will remain a strong Catholic.
   "I was born a Catholic, and I'll stay a Catholic," he said.
• Priest's Libel Suit Is Thrown Out by Judge [2000s Alzugaray] -- RCC. Female.
   Los Angeles Times, By Jean Guccione, Times Staff Writer, Sep 21, 2004
   LOS ANGELES (CA): A judge Monday threw out the libel lawsuit of a Roman Catholic priest against a lawyer who had named him in a complaint about an alleged decades-old child molestation.
   Attorney Raymond P. Boucher acted within the law when he named Msgr. Joseph F. Alzugaray in the earlier lawsuit and then posted a copy of the sexual abuse complaint on his law firm's website, the judge ruled.
   L.A. County Superior Court Judge Jon M. Mayeda earlier this year had dismissed Alzugaray's related defamation claim against a support group for molestation victims, which had named the priest in a news release. After Monday's ruling, the only remaining defendant in the priest's libel suit is his accuser.
   She has not asked the court to dismiss his claims against her. Instead, her attorneys said, witnesses for her defense will be subpoenaed, including Cardinal Roger M. Mahony.
   Alzugaray's lawyer, Lauren Katunich, said the priest would appeal. Katunich argued unsuccessfully that Boucher had violated a state law that opened a one-year window for lawsuits by victims of older cases of childhood sexual abuse. She argued that the law requires that the names of priests and others who are accused be withheld from public scrutiny until the allegations can be reviewed by a judge.
• More cases expected; some will remain silent -- RCC. $US16m gone so far.
   Arizona Daily Star, By Tom Beal, Sep.21.2004
   TUCSON (AZ): Expect more claims, more legal expenses and smaller payouts to victims of sexual abuse by priests as a result of the decision by the Catholic Diocese of Tucson to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, legal experts say.
   But many victims of priest abuse will still suffer in silence, say some of those who have come forward.
   The diocese already has settled 11 lawsuits and has paid nearly $16 million for those suits and some separate claims.
   Its bankruptcy filing Monday halted lawsuits filed on behalf of individuals and their families in 22 other lawsuits.
   It has said it knows of about 100 credible accusations of abuse by 28 priests, two deacons and a nun.
• Phoenix Diocese maintaining solvency -- RCC.
   The Arizona Republic, by Joseph A. Reaves, Sept. 21, 2004
   PHOENIX (AZ): All indications are the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix is in better financial shape than its sister diocese in Tucson and should be able to avoid filing bankruptcy, church and legal officials said Monday.
   Like Tucson, the Phoenix Diocese faces a series of lawsuits stemming from several decades of sexual abuse by priests and an orchestrated cover-up by its leaders.
   But unlike Tucson, the Phoenix Diocese has been forced to pay only a relatively small amount to settle lawsuits and expects its insurance policies to cover the bulk of claims outstanding.
   "The Diocese of Phoenix has no need to consider bankruptcy," said Joseph C. Anderson, financial officer for the diocese.
   The Tucson Diocese has paid more than $16 million in settlements to 22 plaintiffs and still faces 20 sex-abuse cases.
• Diocese files for bankruptcy -- RCC.
   The Arizona Republic, by Michael Clancy, Sept. 21, 2004
   TUCSON (AZ): The Catholic Diocese of Tucson proposed a bankruptcy reorganization plan on Monday that would compensate victims of sexual abuse while resulting in little or no disruption to the operations of its 75 parishes.
   But attorneys for 34 sexual-abuse victims dismissed the proposal because it does not count parish assets as part of the financial base of the diocese, blocking plaintiffs from millions of dollars in compensation.
   Monday's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing had been expected for months as the diocese sought to shield itself from the effects of a Sept. 29 clergy abuse lawsuit in Yuma County Superior Court. The plan, which includes a complex system to compensate victims, must be accepted by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
   The diocese became the second in the nation to seek bankruptcy protection. The Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., filed for Chapter 11 protection July 6 but has yet to file a reorganization plan.
• Group criticizes church for failure to keep priest in treatment [1970s-80s Wiebler] -- RCC. Five for defrocking.
   WQAD 8, www.wqad.com/ Global/story. asp?S=2326763
   DAVENPORT, Iowa: A victims' advocacy group is charging that the Davenport Roman Catholic Diocese is failing in its responsibility after a 72-year-old priest left a pedophile treatment center and moved near an elementary school in St. Louis.
   David Clohessy, executive director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests [SNAP], says research has proven that a pedophile rarely stops molesting.
   The Rev. William Wiebler, who has been named in four lawsuits as a Davenport diocese priest who molested boys in the 1970s and 1980s, left a St. Louis-area Catholic treatment center in May and is reported to be living in an apartment complex about a block away from an elementary school.
   Wiebler is one of five priests that Bishop William Franklin has recommended be permanently removed from the priesthood because of credible sexual abuse allegations against them.
• Judge rejects libel suit by Napa priest named in sex abuse case [2000s Alzugaray] -- RCC.
   Herald Tribune, The Associated Press
   LOS ANGELES (CA) -- A lawyer representing alleged victims of clergy abuse cannot be sued for libel for naming a priest in a lawsuit involving accusations of decades-old child molestation, a judge has ruled.
   Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Jon Mayeda threw out the libel lawsuit Monday against Raymond Boucher, stating that Boucher did not violate any laws by naming Roman Catholic priest Monsignor Joseph Alzugaray in the sex abuse suit. The suit was also posted on Boucher's law firm web site.
   Alzugaray's lawyer, Lauren Katunich, said the priest would appeal.
   Earlier this year Mayeda dismissed a related defamation suit against the support group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests [SNAP], which circulated pamphlets alluding to the fact that Alzugaray, a pastor at St. Apollinaris Church in Napa, was under investigation for alleged molestation.
• 90-deadline set in diocese sex-abuse claims -- RCC.
   Tucson Citizen By SHERYL KORNMAN, Sep 21, 2004
   TUCSON (AZ): Tucson's Roman Catholic bishop has put future sex-abuse claimants on notice that they have until Dec. 19 to file a claim against the diocese.
   The 90-day deadline was set yesterday as the Tucson diocese filed for federal Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in federal court here.
   The aim of the filing is to limit financial damage by lawsuits stemming from a sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church in Tucson.
   With the filing, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson becomes the second diocese in the nation to file for Chapter 11 reorganization in the face of growing sexual abuse claims.
   "Parishes will operate as normal," Bishop Gerald Kicanas said in a statement released yesterday.
   Lynne Cadigan, a Tucson lawyer who sued the diocese and won an estimated $14 million for 11 sex abuse victims, said the diocese wanted to have a mechanism for cutting off the filing of such claims.
   "They have a very clever corporate solution to a very serious pastoral problem," she said. [Emphasis added]
• Burke fears for priest panel autonomy -- RCC. Nun to squelch freedom?
   Chicago Tribune, By James Janega, September 21, 2004
   CHICAGO (IL): The outgoing head of the U.S. Catholic Church's review board on sex abuse issues said Monday that bishops were planning to appoint a nun to the panel, a move she feared would reduce the board's independence from church hierarchy.
   In a sometimes fiery speech at Loyola University Chicago, Illinois Appellate Court Judge Anne Burke said the plan was more evidence of what she called "mischievers at work" within the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops who are seeking to squelch two years of "freedom and accountability" since the National Review Board was established.
   All previous members of the board have been laypeople, which members say allows the panel to operate more independently.
   It was unclear Monday if the nun being considered, Sister Carol Keehan, had already been selected for the board. Keehan is the longtime president of Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C., and chairwoman-elect of the Catholic Health Association.
   Board members said Bishop Wilton Gregory, head of the bishops conference, had told them in a fax Friday that a decision about new board members had been made.
• Tucson diocese seeks bankruptcy protection -- RCC. $US17m gone already.
   The Desert Sun Gannett News Service, September 21, 2004
   TUCSON, Ariz. -- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson filed for bankruptcy Monday, becoming the second diocese in the nation to move to protect its assets from debts incurred from alleged priest sex abuse cases.
   The Portland, Ore., diocese filed for bankruptcy in July.
   Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas said the filing would give the diocese -- which includes 75 parishes in nine counties serving 300,000 parishioners -- a way to reorganize debt and protect assets from any judgments and settlements.
   "This represents the best opportunity for healing and for the just and fair compensation of those who suffered sexual abuse by workers for the church in our diocese -- those who are currently known and those who have not yet made the decision to come forward," Kicanas said in a letter posted on the diocese’s Web site.
   The bankruptcy filing comes in the wake of a pedophilia scandal that has already cost the diocese an estimated $17 million.
• Tucson Diocese files for bankruptcy protection over abuse claims -- RCC.
   Arizona Daily Sun, Sep/21/2004
   TUCSON (AZ) (AP) -- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson filed for bankruptcy protection Monday under the weight of debt and pending litigation from clerical sex abuse cases.
   The diocese is only the second in the nation to seek the protection of a bankruptcy court in the wake of extensive and continuing legal action stemming from sexual abuse of children by parish priests.
   The Portland (Ore.) Archdiocese was the first when it filed July 6. The Archdiocese of Boston and the Diocese of Dallas both considered filing for bankruptcy protection but avoided doing so.
   The Tucson diocese's decision to file will subject its financial operations to court scrutiny for the first time, and potentially open the way for non-church interference.
• The bishops must yield in child guidelines row

   Irish Independent, www.unison.ie/ irish_independent/ stories.php3?ca= 36&si=1254239 &issue_id=11446
   IRELAND: The Catholic Church has landed itself in trouble again over the issue of clerical sex abuse and at the heart of the current row appears to be the matter of control.
   The scandals that have done so much harm to the standing of the Church have many causes, but one of them has been the extreme reluctance of Church leaders to involve outside agencies in decisions concerning its clergy.
   This is uncontroversial if the decision involves, say, moving a cleric from one parish to another. But when it involves an allegation of child abuse, that is a different matter entirely.
   Slowly and painfully the Church has realised that when a cleric faces such an allegation, State agencies must be informed. This is set out in guidelines in place since 1996.
   However, these guidelines are inadequate. To begin with, they are not mandatory. Secondly, there is no central agency, not even the Church's own Child Protection Office which has no executive power, monitoring how well the guidelines are being implemented. Thirdly, bishops and religious superiors do not have to seek professional advice if they do not wish to. Fourthly, bishops and religious superiors still get to decide whether an accused cleric should have to stand aside from his duties pending an investigation. They also get to decide what happens if a garda investigation runs into the ground but there is still reason to believe the cleric is guilty. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 07:52 AM]
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• '99 Baptist case: similarities, differences: Diocese, unlike foundation, will stay in business. -- RCC / Baptist Church.

   Arizona Daily Star (Tucson), www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/relatedarticles/39814.php , By Stephanie Innes, Published: Sep.21.2004
   TUCSON (AZ): The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson's bankruptcy declaration marks the second time a major nonprofit religious organization in Arizona has sought Chapter 11 protection.
   In 1999, the Baptist Foundation of Arizona collapsed in the largest nonprofit bankruptcy filing in U.S. history, costing investors close to $600 million. About 11,000 mostly elderly investors, including 8,000 Arizonans and more than 2,000 Southern Arizona residents, had $585 million tied up in Baptist Foundation investments when the foundation failed in November 1999. [...]
   But like the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on July 6, the Diocese of Tucson still is entering uncharted territory by declaring insolvency, said the attorney who represented the Baptist Foundation during its bankruptcy proceedings.
   "The Baptist religion is not as hierarchical as the Catholic, and there are certainly a lot more new and interesting legal issues that will arise," said Thomas J. Salerno, chair of the Phoenix-based Squire, Sanders & Dempsey reorganization and restructuring practice and a former director for the American Bankruptcy Institute.
   "One is that the courts grant access to the internal records of the diocese, which is the price you pay," Salerno said. "While that is not unusual, for a business that's not used to having its books and records pried into, it certainly creates some issues. The diocese's financial life becomes an open book, including historical payments to and from other dioceses and church organizations."
   The Baptist Foundation case also was different in that the foundation went out of business. Both the Archdiocese of Portland and the Diocese of Tucson intend to continue operating as normally as possible. But Salerno said the similarities are that both the Baptist and Catholic cases involve religious institutions, which in a bankruptcy filing have dynamics that are not present in regular businesses. " ... FOR GOOD TEACHINGS TO BE HEEDED, A BIG CLEAN-UP IS NEEDED Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker SIGN-UP: www.ncrnews.org/abuse/signup.php for daily e-mails
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