AArrggh!!!

Bad news for the pedophile priest "survivor" community today.  

When the Vatican says it's going to give new priority to the pedophile priest crisis, it means for the priests, not the victims. 

First the announcement of a new commission to handle priests' appeals today showing what the tack from the Vatican will be to show that priests are innocent. Pope Francis shows his true colors:

Pope establishing commission to hear appeals of accused priests.

UNITED STATES
dotCommonweal - Grant Gallicho May 19, 2014 In a brief note this morning, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Jose Luis Mollaghan of Rosaria, Argentina, to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, where he will have "responsibility for" a commission to examine appeals by clergy accused of “delicta graviora"--a canonical term that includes the crime of sexual abuse. The Vatican statement provided no further details about this new commission.

As Catholic News Service notes, over the past decade, the Holy See has laicized 848 priests for abusing minors or vulnerable adults. Over the same period, another twenty-five hundred priests were ordered not to have contact with minors, and to live our their lives in prayer and penances, usually for reasons of advanced age.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:49 PM

And this comes out same day in David Pierre's Media Report 

Church-Suing Lawyer Garabedian Apoplectic As Diocese of Fall River Stands Firm Against Unfounded Abuse Claim

Last week, leading contingency lawyer Mitchell Garabedian dramatically claimed that the Catholic Church is "once again acting in the most immoral way by allowing the wholesale sexual abuse of children."  Wow! "Allowing the wholesale sexual abuse of children"? What exactly could have prompted Garabedian's shocking claim? ... [Read more]

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The Catholic Church's new direction will be, blame the victims, poor priests, why don't the "survivors" just forgive and forget. And the Church has numerous structures in place to pull this off. 

Plus I'm persona non grata and most victims won't return my phone calls. 

How did this happen? 

-ke

Wow! Major Lawsuit Filed in Albuquerque

This is a big one

Lawsuit against the Archdioceseof Santa Fe

NEW MEXICO BishopAccountability.org
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT. COUNTY OF BERNALILLO. STATE OF NEW MEXICO - JOHN DOE “B”, Plaintiff, v. ARCHDIOCESE OF SANTA FE, and OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE PARISH, Albuquerque, NM, Defendants - COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES FOR CAUSING SEXUAL ABUSE BY PRIESTS, FAILURE TO PREVENT SEXUAL ABUSE BY PRIESTS, FOR THE SEXUAL ABUSE ITSELF, AND RELATED CLAIMS
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According to publicly available documents, the Archdiocese created, fostered, developed and protected a culture that during the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, employed over 40 pedophile priests out of a total of about 150 employed parish priests over those years. This figure is one of the highest ratios in the United States of ‘number of pedophiles to total priests employed’.

more TK
Priest accused of sexually abusing 10-year-old 50-80 times

NEW MEXICO - KOAT - [with video] ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —New lawsuits have been filed against a New Mexico priest.

more TK
Fresh allegations of child sex abuse by priests

NEW MEXICO - The New Mexican By Uriel J. Garcia - The New Mexican - Two men filed lawsuits Tuesday against the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and two of its Albuquerque parishes, saying they were sexually abused as boys by parish priests in the 1960s and ’80s.  In the complaints, the men allege the priests were among dozens who were part of a “culture of sex abuse.”

more TK
-ke

News Update

Thanks to Abuse Tracker at BishopAccountability

101 priests in single diocese accused of abuse in 40 years

IRELAND Irish Examiner By Caroline O’Doherty - The number of priests formally accused of sexually abusing children in the country’s biggest Catholic diocese over the past 40 years has topped 100, according to the latest figures.  The cost of compensating victims of paedophile priests in the diocese has exceeded €20m, with €14m paid out in settlements and €6.4m spent on legal bills.  The review of the Dublin Archdiocese by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church found that allegations were made against three more priests in the last year, bringing to 101 the total of diocesan priests accused of abuse since 1975.

-ke

They can't win because of the Internet, yay

Posted today at Abuse Tracker:

Italian victims of priest sex abuse appeal to pope

VATICAN CITY
Miami Herald
BY NICOLE WINFIELD
ASSOCIATED PRESS
VATICAN CITY -- Italian victims of priestly sex abuse appealed directly to Pope Francis for justice Friday, calling for a commission of inquiry into the problem in the Vatican's backyard.
In letters and a video posted online, 17 survivors denounced the treatment they have received by the Italian Catholic Church and the Vatican itself. Half of them are former students of a notorious school for the deaf in Verona where hundreds of children are believed to have been sexually assaulted over the years by two dozen priests and religious brothers.
The "Abuse Network" organization, one of the most active in Italy, said it sent a copy of the video to the Vatican's deputy secretary of state, Monsignor Angelo Becciu, addressed to the pope. There was no comment Friday from the Vatican on whether it had been received or viewed.
In a letter to Francis sent last month, the Verona deaf victims called for a commission of inquiry to be set up as has been done in Ireland and Australia to investigate the depths of the scandal in Italy.
The Abuse Network has posted online the names of some 150 Italian priests it says have been convicted by Italian courts since 2000 for abuse-related crimes in a bid to show that the problem is very real in Italy. Yet the Italian bishops' conference has been slow to respond to the problem and only this year released Vatican-mandated guidelines for how to protect children.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:10 PM

AND

Abuse survivors still haunted decades on

AUSTRALIA

Echo Netdaily

Eoin Blackwell, AAP

For the past 70 years, Gordon Grant has rarely slept more than two hours a night.

It isn’t the memories of his two tours of Vietnam that keeps the former soldier awake in the dark.

It’s the nightmare he lived while in the care of the Christian Brothers at St Joseph’s Farm and Trade School, in Bindoon, Western Australia, that won’t let him rest.

AND

Priests with ties to Carol Stream area named in Diocese of Joliet sex abuse documents

ILLINOIS
My Suburban Life
By ED MCMENAMIN - emcmenamin@shawmedia.com
Thousands of pages of documents released April 30 by a Chicago law firm detail decades of sexual abuse by DuPage County priests, including priests with ties to Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, Itasca and Roselle, and the protection they allegedly received from the Diocese of Joliet.

Now in Australia, something always stinks in coverup of Pedophile Priests

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The Australian’s Premature Reporting on the NSW Special Commission of Enquiry (Or: Support for Peter Fox Needed NOW)

Posted on May 8, 2014by lewisblayse

At the end of the month, the NSW Special Commission of Enquiry is due to release its final report. The full title of the special commission of enquiry is the “Special Commission of Inquiry into matters relating to the Police investigation of certain child sexual abuse allegations in the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle.”

Many people have latched on to what they see as the core issue at stake. At the core of the enquiry, for many people, is the existence of a ‘Catholic mafia’ within the ranks of the NSW police force. A Catholic mafia that, if it exists, is responsible for protecting accused Catholic clergy from investigations and convictions in NSW. A Catholic mafia, that, if it exists, represents a serious blight on the Australian system of justice. A Catholic mafia that, if it exists, needs to be rooted out quickly before more children are harmed by predators potentially protected at high levels of the NSW system of justice.

While the existence of a Catholic mafia within the ranks of the NSW police is indeed an allegation made by whistleblower police officer, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox, whose fearless stance sparked the NSW enquiry (and indeed gave the necessary impetus for establishment of the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse), and may be what most concerned people really want to know about, this is not in fact the focus of the NSW enquiry. Even if it should be.  (Continue reading at Lewis Blayse http://lewisblayse.net/2014/05/08/the-australians-premature-reporting-on-the-nsw-special-commission-of-enquiry-or-support-for-peter-fox-needed-now/ dot net

False News Almost All You Hear

Kay Ebeling

about a minute ago · Edited

Who is paying to put all this false information out? Every news story I am going what? That's not true, but there they are repeating it, literally rewriting history. Worse yet, along with the false info, they accuse everyone else of lying, so the people telling the truth end up defending themselves more than telling the truth.  It is bizarre watching this happen, does anyone else see it? Who the f-- is doing this, filling the whole country with all this fake information, it's almost too hard to hold onto the truth even for me, YIKES!

'Both basic morality and the nature of the Church teach that she should never desire to evade her jurisdictional responsibilities... In the old days, the Church used to “relax” heretical clergy to the “secular arm” for prosecution. Today, there would be no punishment for heresy, but there would be for sexual abuse....' (Read entire article here at Catholic Culture Commentary) -ke

Thank you, Reality Check

I'm not just talking off top of my head when I say these numbers:
The Catholic Church in the United States has spent an estimate of at least $2.2 billion on litigation costs related to sexual abuse, with as many as 100,000 victims in this country alone, according to a presentation made to a Vatican summit in 2012 by Michael Bemi and Pat Neal.
Thank you, Reality Check for reporting
-ke

I see now the goal of this UN hearing, sheesh

How convenient
I guess we can see now the purpose of putting the international investigation of pedophile priest abuse at the UN instead of The Hague.  At the UN the Vatican can release false numbers and have them published everywhere, with no one challenging them:

848 priests defrocked, 2,572 disciplined in 10 years: Vatican

GENEVA The Globe and Mail (Canada) JOHN HEILPRIN AND NICOLE WINFIELD, GENEVA — The Associated Press Published Tuesday, May. 06 2014
The Vatican released comprehensive statistics for the first time Tuesday on how it has disciplined priests accused of raping and molesting children, saying 848 priests have been defrocked and another 2,572 given lesser sanctions over the past decade.

That is maybe 20 percent of the number of pedophile priests in the United States alone. And what will happen from here?  The UN has no subpoena power, no indictments follow, we'll never even know if the Vatican really defrocked 848 priests.  We would have been able to file subpoenas at The Hague, which is what this UN weirdness started out as.  But here instead we have a convenient place, a UN hearing, for the Vatican to put out these false numbers of priests, and it does not jibe with Bishop Accountability's numbers for the USA alone.  Remarkable.
(Thanks to Kathy Shaw, who posts Abuse Tracker and lets us all keep up with stories above when I'm at work, and I know Kathy does not agree with some of the things I say, but she still works with me. . . love her)
From Reality Check May 6
Much is at stake. Many countries have statutes of limitations on the prosecution of criminal sexual assault, but not torture. The Center for Constitutional Rights, which advocates on behalf of victims, claimed in a report submitted to the hearing that the Vatican had refused to cooperate with law enforcement and moved predatory priests from country to country to help them avoid prosecution.
So you give up on getting them for all the criminal conspiracy that allowed the pedophilia to happen, instead go after them for "sexual torture" by priests, as it has a better SOL. Notice this moves blame back to the priests and away from the bishops. 
Good luck with that. 

You read it here and then it happens there...

I wrote here  April 14 that the new UN filing adding "violence" and "torture" to pedophile priest crimes opened the door for the Vatican to walk in and wipe out the entire filing.  Now the Huff Post here and many others report the Vatican is walking through that door,  saying pedophilia by priests was not violence and torture, so the international prosecution that a group tried to get going at The Hague in Spring 2011 has now been totally usurped by SNAP and turned into something that will not accomplish anything. That's their MO, take over anything real activists are doing, make it a SNAP project, then defuse it. 

MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014

WTF is SNAP doing now?

Why exaggerate when the truth is so bad itself?  Like we could not find a legitimate argument, so we stretched out someone else's?  
It started here on April 7, 2011  
Write Hague Criminal Court Prosecutor re Crimes Against Humanity by Pope  
Here is Huff Post yesterday 
Vatican Urges U.N. Not To Equate Sex Abuse With Torture 

What next? For me, it's back to work this AM on my job in reality TV. 

Hmm.
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UPDATE: Monday May 5

What baffles me is why the UN thing was outsourced to the CCR in New York, who knew NOTHING about the history of this issue, had to trust just what SNAP told them.  Relied entirely on Bishop Accountability to write the brief, apparently got no new info from SNAP as the brief only references stories that have been reported in the news. 

Was there really no one in all the survivor community including SNAP's 15,000 members who could have handled the criminal prosecution filing at The Hague, which is what today's UN stuff started as, so instead SNAP hired the Center for Constitutional Rights?  
And the Hague filing ended up at the UN, making it, like everything else, no more than a media event for SNAP, just on a much larger scale. But who will be prosecuted bk of these UN hearings?  Who will suffer other than a little more bad press for the Vatican, which will have no effect at all? 

More empty PR from SNAP this week in L.A.

I published this on Sunday and then SNAP sent out a release Wednesday for an event this Friday in L.A., including an appearance by David Clohessy himself tomorrow so SNAP can give their exec director an award by for his amazing work at SNAP, using a pedophile priest who is now working for the UN in Argentina as an example of SNAP's great work.  The pedophile priest works now for the UN?  After SNAP exposed him only five years after his accusations? Wow, that's real effective work. No wonder the leaders of SNAP are flying into town to give themselves an award.  **Update below

CA--New accused cleric exposed in LA

CALIFORNIA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

New accused cleric exposed in LA
When "outed" in AZ, he was sent overseas
He's now still on the job in Pope's home country
SNAP to archbishop: “You must demand his return”
“Reach out to all possible victims,” support group begs

What: Holding signs and photos of themselves at a sidewalk press conference, victims of sexual abuse will:

--Expose a credibly accused cleric who recently lived and worked in LA,
--Show how he lived with families with kids, and
--Explain how he was sent overseas when he was publicly accused of child sex crimes in Arizona.

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Brother Richard Suttle, a member of the Claretian Missionary order, was accused in 2008 of sexually abusing a child in the Phoenix Diocese in the 1980s. Church officials said the allegations were credible. When SNAP exposed this allegation in 2013, Claretian officials admitted that they sent Suttle to Argentina. They say the cleric is being monitored and has been "removed from any ministry with children."

But he is still on the job, SNAP says, with a Claretian UN team. Now living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he's almost certainly among vulnerable and unsuspecting families who know nothing of the accusations against him.

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That's kind of like the Golden Globes giving themselves a Golden Globe.

The priest now works at the UN? The place where the survivors' filing ended up instead of The Hague?

What is there in the press event announced above that will result in  action, other than to point? Will any bishop be prosecuted, will any policy change, will anything be accomplished except news coverage of SNAP?

One thing I criticized them for Sunday was they never reveal any new stories, so here they are reminding people that they "exposed" this priest in 2013 (after he was first accused in 2008) and now he works for the UN in Argentina. Wow, that's real effective activism. 

I give up on Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. They are all PR, nothing real

SNAP will be in L.A. Friday (tomorrow) for something they put together so they could have a reason to appear in L.A. and so they could appear to be working for survivors. That's what they do, they appear.

Appear and point and then get their names in the news.

I have a feeling if I hadn't criticized them so much here last Sunday, they would not even be coming to L.A., but we'll never know that, bk they never communicate with anyone.

How can people still fall for this stuff?

ASK SNAP TO TURN OVER THEIR FILES and you will see, they act exactly like the Church.
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UPDATE MAY 2, The award is from the Feminist Foundation, not SNAP.  

http://feminist.org/globalwomensrightsawards/AwardRecipients.asp

As someone informed me by email. That does not refute the fact that this trip was just a PR event, it had nothing to do with advocacy, bk all SNAP does is promote themselves and garner news stories, and there IS NO SUBSTANCE AT ALL BEHIND THEIR ACT and is there a reporter out there anywhere who will investigate and write this story and get themselves all kinds of investigative journalism awards?  SNAP IS A FRAUD, a front by the American Bishops, and a hundred thousand pedophile priest victims got screwed all over again by SNAP.  HELP.  WRITE THIS STORY, so this little old lady can rest. Please.  

A real groundswell of supporters went to their press event today (what, three?) with two TV reporters from foreign countries the only press.  Doesn't anyone notice that no victims show up for SNAP events, yet SNAP leaders stand in front of cameras and say they are doing a good job and that's all the media reports, what they say to the cameras and microphones.  

DIG!  

IS THERE A REPORTER OUT THERE WILLING TO DIG AND BREAK THIS STORY!!!??? 

If SNAP were a genuine organization, they would have connected with survivors such as myself and with Jim Robertson and mended fences, explained how we are seeing things wrong, made friends.  Instead they respond to criticism in the same way the Catholic Church responds, with secrets, media control, and diversion.  

SNAP needs to turn over its files, open its documents, reveal who they are and where they get their money, and come clean as to who is in charge. 

-Kay Ebeling 

Woke up Sat AM thinking: Since I did this blog, I learned a lot more than most survivors who deal with SNAP.  If I could learn what I did as a little old lady with a blog, where are the real journalists out there who have resources to actually do investigate how the pedophile priest victims were manipulated and re-screwed by this fake advocacy organization.  

I bet it would be the story of the year for someone brave enough to dig. 

They Are Watching Us, now in Europe too

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Yup, SNAP is doing the same thing in Europe they did in the U.S., so you can expect zero results.  See here, they doing all demonstrations outside churches and Catholic corporate properties in Europe as they got us to do in the U.S., which assures that Catholic security people can see who shows up and get all the information they want on the new victims coming forward. 

Geneva- Victims to leaflet outside cathedral

GENEVA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Victims to leaflet outside cathedral
Two child molesting clerics worked in Switzerland
Group urges church members & staff to report abuse
SNAP: “Catholic officials should do more to protect kids”

"Do more to protect kids"? No, the bishops should be federally indicted.  This is not advocacy SNAP does, it is backhanded damage control.  Same exact formula they did in the U.S. they are now doing in Europe. It makes me sick go watch it, makes me even more sick watching the media and victims fall for it. 
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ke

Think About It

Kay Ebeling

1 min · Edited ·

Who does not believe that the Catholic Church would resort to espionage type tactics to infiltrate and if possible run any efforts among the pedophile priest victims, from the time we first began to emerge in the 1980s? Only one group knew there were hundreds of thousands of us back then, the American bishops, and so they got it all under control real fast.
ADDED April 26

And Kilroy shows up again

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/04/26/360146/sex-abuse-victims-hold-vigil-in-vatican/

There in the beginning of the news clip is Barbara Blaine lighting a candle outside the Vatican. 

'nuff said.  No matter where the story breaks, there is Blaine or Clohessy doing some inane thing that tells you nothing about thousands of victims of pedophile priests. You'd think someone in the press would see how weird that is and dig a little but. . 
UPDATE: April 29 Every opportunity they have, they drop the ball. In front of international media, they never mention felony aiding and abetting committed by bishops. They never mention a hundred thousand victims of seven thousand known priests in the USA alone.  Instead it's, "the bishops never punished the priests," as in this week's reporting on two popes becoming saints. Everywhere, the person who is always on camera, Barbara Blaine, repeated that message, that the bishops were too nice to punish the priests.  
NO. 
The U.S. Bishops Should Be Federally Indicted. 
But you never hear SNAP say anything that strong, 
and all you ever hear in the news speaking for us is SNAP. 
IS THERE A REPORTER OUT THERE with a soul who will write this story and expose this scam that was played on a hundred thousand pedophile priest crime victims in the USA and now they are probably going to do in Europe and the rest of the world?  Please!!!

More Drive-By Press Releases from SNAP

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I live in this population of pedophile priest victims, about 80 percent men 20 percent women, all of us probably the most sexually dysfunctional people on Earth.  Among us we've lived horribly damaged lives, some are in prison because they became sexual predators themselves. But don't expect the Catholic Church to admit to any of the real damage they caused when they make another public apology about clergy abuse. 

You'll also never hear SNAP admit to how badly we are damaged or any details of the crimes committed by priests and bishops.  In fact, if you look closely at any press statement from SNAP about 80 percent of the time, the release could apply to any pedophile priest crime in any city.

One survivor friend describes it as, “When news breaks of another pedophile priest, David Clohessy drives by and throws press releases out the window.” And that's it.  That's about all SNAP does.

I'm sitting here on Good Saturday realizing once again I have to go through a holiday where everybody in the world is repeating Catholic lies, so I have to stay shut in and quiet to avoid arguments with my neighbors.

I go to my gmail where I have news alerts and in rolls Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests with about seven links to media around the world, then before I can set down my coffee cup, in rolls an equal amount of stories for David Clohessy, and I think, yep, even on Easter Weekend.  David’s doing more drive-by’s. 

What the press and everybody else doesn't realize is that's all SNAP does.  Oh, and also, make sure none of us do anything else.  That's SNAP. 

They're over there calling out, me- me, look at us, here here.  Don't look over there, just look at us.  Then they announce all the great stuff they're doing for "survivors, not victims, survivors," and Not One Reporter bothers to follow-up and see if any of it's true. 

Meanwhile, since starting City of Angels Blog in January 2007, I have had a very unique perspective, as in I Witnessed It Happening All Across the Country.

The year 2008 was amazing, jaw-dropping.  No matter where this story broke, from Alaska to Alabama, as soon as there was word that another pedophile priest had been revealed, within hours, Clohessy was on a plane, and on the scene, conducting. . . damage control.

That's all SNAP is. 

They show up, suck up all the names of survivors and press, then leave.  Locally we can't even find out who the other people were at our own press events.  SNAP takes the information and leaves. 

There is plenty of evidence of this massive betrayal of vulnerable people conducted by the Church through SNAP.  Writing blog stories, I discovered by accident dozens of examples of SNAP damage control, back in the years when CofA Blog was going strong, before SNAP managed to derail me.  

Dozens of victims across the country related their weird SNAP experiences to me as first person accounts, and I'm just one sick old lady with a blog.  Any reporter willing to risk his paycheck would follow up on this story, because anyone with a brain can see that a bunch of bishops aided and abetted thousands of pedophile priests, let them prey in American neighborhoods, and created hundreds of thousands of really screwed-up victims. 

And yet not one bishop went to prison, or even suffered a blemish on his reputation, outside of our small cloistered insulated group, people who have communicated through SNAP. 

Out there in the world, they do not know there are a hundred thousand victims and seven thousand verified pedophilepriests identified in the USA alone.

Because the church did this great job of damage control, usurping any grass roots movement among the victims, and keeping as little of the story from coming out as possible.

The bishops knew the victims wouldn't talk to them, so they created SNAP.

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My words are my only asset, please click my PayPal button.

-ke

ADDED LATER: Oh and they work for civil SOL reform so victims with the most evidence and proof can be paid off and the crimes can remain secret. Sorry, folks, but that's why SNAP steers everyone they can find to lawyers, so they can shut us up. That's what the stream of lawsuits produced. More secrecy, more silence. 
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It's my destiny to write this, even though it does mean I have to hide in the desert and be a hermit. 
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WTF is SNAP doing now?

Why exaggerate when the truth is so bad itself? 
Like we could not find a legitimate argument, so we stretched out someone else's?  
Child molestation by priests is not torture. 
I see this latest UN filing by SNAP as playing right into the Vatican's hands, with a weak legal argument that hurts our cause. I hope I am wrong, but as always, I write here what I see and that is what I see.  A confounding, almost preposterous, stretch when there are hundreds of legitimate criminal charges that could be made against Catholic bishops. 

Shadow Report Prepared for 52nd Session of the UN Committee Against Torture in Connection with its Review of the Holy See

UNITED STATES Center for Constitutional Rights and Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Introduction = Naming is important. Pope John Paul II recognized as much when he observed that “[t]orture must be called by its proper name” upon the Holy See’s accession to the Convention Against Torture, and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.3

Again. SNAP does not speak for me or any victims I've talked to. I doubt they discussed this additional UN filing, or the first one, with any more than five survivors before taking these steps.  I don't see it as positive or accomplishing much.  It's bad PR, I can hear Donohoe and Pierre now. Torture? Sexual violence?  It's too big a stretch.  Plays right into the church attorneys' hands.  Bad move. 
This filing at the UN is not going to make pedophile priest victims look credible at all, it makes us look like we are grasping at straws, like we could not find a legitimate argument. 
-kay ebeling.  
I stand by what I see and read, not what someone tells me to see.
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Continued: 
From their brief: 
There is no mention of acts that have resulted in an astonishing and incalculable amount of harm around the world – profound and lasting physical and mental suffering – with little to no accountability and access to redress

OMG have they ever seen victims of torture? They suffer from more than anxiety.  PLEASE You are hurting the cause more and more every day.  WHO THE FUCK PUT SNAP IN CHARGE OF THIS "MOVEMENT"?????
More: 
Yet nowhere in the Holy See’s Initial Report under the Convention (“Initial Report”) does it make any mention of the widespread and systemic rape and sexual violence committed by Catholic clergy against hundreds of thousands of children and vulnerable adults around the world.4

OH DAMN:  They just lost it for us. They are delegimizing genuine torture at the same time they delegitimize the pedophile priest molestations.  WTF!!!

Another botched opportunity brought to you by SNAP.  And we wonder why the pew Catholics haven't gotten it yet how bad these crimes were?  Look who's been in charge, or rather, look who put themselves in charge.  Or rather, who the F put them in charge? 

Read http://cityofangels2.blogspot.com bk truth is they have not proven me wrong yet. 

Survivors of torture and violence end up dead.  SNAP here makes pedo-priest victims look like whiners and exaggerators.  
We don't need to exaggerate.  
Just show the truth in its real terms for cripes sake. 
-ke

Continued:
The timing on this is TOo ConveNiEnt.  Friday the Pope makes an apology that is repeated every where EVERYWHERE over and over, as if it means something.  Sunday 60 minutes spends 20 minutes of its program salivating over the wonderful Pope so much it caused a nasal e-coli outbreak at CBS. Then Monday SNAP files a brief with the UN [What Happened to The Hague?] and makes the pedophile priest victims look like Idiots.  IS THIS A COINCIDENCE?????

THIS: Pope Francis Part One: 
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/pope-francis-part-one/
Is a product of the same PR machine that gave us SNAP
Come on, people, how much more obvious does this have to be?

The reason no bishops went to prison, the reason there is no real support for the hundreds of thousands of victims who SNAP claims to represent but never talks to, is SNAP is a hologram, created by the Church to control us.  We all trusted them and told them our stories, and SNAP took our stories and hid them from the world, never publishing any more than what has already been published.  What did SNAP do with all those other stories? 

Now the Vatican has not felt any pain over allowing thousands of priests to rape children.  
Go figure.  Hundreds of thousands of pedophile priest victims in the world and yet only 3 people ever get heard.  And they say things like "We are disappointed with the Vatican." 

After screwing up yet another effort that should have brought victory to the survivors, they take off for holidays in places like Paris.  

Wake up. 

Next Day Post Note:
SNAP has given our critics the hook for which they've been looking to hang pedophile priest victims, calling us exaggerators, fiction writers, etc. 
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Only job you can molest children and not get fired is Catholic priest

Peter Isely: "The priesthood is the only profession where you can molest children and still keep your job." ( Watch the video  and read more at Huff Post. )

From Abuse Tracker today:

Report: Twin Cities archdiocese gave too much power to too few in handling sex abuse claims

MINNESOTA,  Daily Reporter THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  First Posted: April 14, 2014 MINNEAPOLIS — A task force examining the way the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis handled allegations of sexual abuse by priests says too much power was given to one or two people to decide how to handle claims.
The task force, which was commissioned by the archdiocese, recommended several changes Monday..

They are still finding pedophile priests:

16 months prison for priest charged in sexual assault

CANADA Quinte News Rene Labelle, a former Tyendinaga Township priest, is going to prison. Labelle was sentenced to 16 months prison and 30 months probation in a Kingston court room Monday. He will also be on the sex offender registry for 10 years and will have to complete counselling.  The parents of the victim called the incident an extreme breach of trust in their victim impact statement.
They said they witnessed a 180-degree change in their child after the incident on Wolfe Island in 2004

Another Southern California Perp priest:

Assignment Record – Rev. Thomas J. Naughton, s.j.

UNITED STATES BishopAccountability.org Summary of Case: Thomas J. Naughton was ordained a priest of the Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus in 1965. He went on to work in high schools, parishes and retreat houses across the South, as part of the Jesuit's New Orleans Province, with a two-year stint in St. Louis, MO and a year in Berkeley, CA. In the mid-1990s he relocated to southern California where he worked as a visiting priest in a a Mission Viejo parish. 

More from Minnesota:

Report finds 'serious shortcomings' by archdiocese in protecting children from sex abuse

MINNESOTA Minnesota Public Radio Concentrated power, poor oversight and little communication with the faithful are among serious shortcomings inside the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis that opened the door "for some priests to harm children," a panel ordered by the archbishop said Monday.

Barbara Blaine is "disappointed."

Barbara Blaine decepcionada de que Papa Francisco haya permitido continuar a Legionarios

MEXICO Vanguardia [Summary: Barbara Blaine, founder of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, said her organization is disappointed in the Vatican's response to a UN report on how the church handles sexual abuse allegations and is also disappointed that the pope did not take stronger measures against the Legion of Christ.]
México, D.F.- Barbara Blaine estaba a punto de cumplir 13 años cuando el sacerdote de su parroquia comenzó a abusar de ella. “Era verano”, dice hoy esta mujer que ronda los 58 natural de Toledo (Ohio) 

And we all go on wondering WTF.

Yes.  "Again. Another priest, another child, another ugly reminder that supposedly sacred values are situational for some who preach them, that our yardstick for character may be too straight for accurate measurement." (Continue Reading Here: CHRIS KELLY: Trust shattered again by charges against well-known Father Philip Altavilla Published: April 11, 2014,)

This is what's happening

Kay Ebeling shared a link. about an hour ago  More Weird Stuff - I lost my notes. This is third time I've worked on a story, turned computer off normal way and turned it back on and the Word file was gone. It's really weird, all three stories were CofA blog posts in progress. So either I am self destructing them in my sleep or some thing is in my computer or outside doing something. Now I may track all that research down and write it again, or I may not. . . sigh It's especially weird, bk all versions of the files are gone, there's no "original file" as in when computer crashes. One I had started writing last summer and was finishing. It disappeared. Other one I had just started and this morning it's disappeared too. What's a blogger to do. Maybe the Catholics haven't been lying, maybe it's. . . SATAN in my Computer keeping stories about pedophile priests from getting produced. Man, I wanted to link to Church Chat at YouTube but it is hard to find clips online, But I'm joking, I don't really think the devil is screwing with my computer. It is someone evil though... Those who've read this blog and kept in touch through Facebook (click name above) know this is not the first time "someone" has screwed with my computer, and my life, since I started doing this blog. Hmm, who could I be upsetting?

Archbishop draws small crowd at Mass of Atonement

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Do they really think after all they did that we want to go to their Mass, or worse, that we believe their Mass will somehow take care of things?  Clueless bishop sticks his feet in the face of the rest of us there lying prostrate in front of the altar*, as if that helps anything.  Get Up And Do Something, Bishop L, something besides Praying for us. I truly do not believe Your prayers have any value at all.  Do Something REAL!!!
Victims of clergy sex abuse protest outside Mass of Atonement

WISCONSIN WISN [with video]
MEQUON, Wis. —Some victims of sex abuse at the hands of religious clergy attended the Mass of Atonement at Lumen Christi Parish in Mequon on Tuesday. Some joined church leaders in prayer while others protested. Those who protested outside were invited to participated in the Mass, but said they wanted no part of it...
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:39 AM

I had to laugh. Footage in report shows all the empty seats in the church.  Suppose they held a Mass of Atonement and nobody came.  Sorry, but these guys are so clueless. He's prostate in front of an altar in a purple dress, I mean... seriously?
*In this same time period Milwaukee diocese works with lawyers to cut 80 percent of the plaintiffs out of final settlement after dragging the cases out through a bankruptcy that's lasted more than three years.
AARGH I need to get back to work on Faster

Another out-of-state Catholic priest living at the Vianney Renewal Center in Dittmer is in the news. Lawyers for Fr. Richard McCormick, who is accused of raping two Massachusettes minors, were in court this week arguing that the charges against him should be tossed out because they violate the cleric’s freedom of religion. A ruling is pending. The center is described as a “retreat” for accused and convicted pedophile priests.

From Berger's Beat, St. Louis MO
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April 19: International memory day for Catholic sexual abuse survivors

CANADA
Nunatsiaq Online
In order to never forget the suffering, the dying and seeking for recognition and resurrection, the victims and survivors of sexual abuse and abuse of power by the Roman Catholic Church commemorate this year on Silent Saturday at 3 p.m.
They light a candle at home or wherever they are, not for themselves, but for fellow sufferers, locally and around the world.
This year, Silent Saturday falls on April 19.
Individuals or groups wishing to join this action put a burning candle in a symbolic place, or in their church next to the 13th station of the Way of the Cross, with the text “Esse est percipi, to be is being perceived, survivors of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.”
For more information or to inform us that you want to participate in this action, as a group or as a church congregation, please contact us at:
International initiative, Memory Day for survivors of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church: mensenrechtenindekerk@gmail.com
Rik Devillé
Belgium

Church more concerned with gays than pedophiles

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One of first actions by Pope against clergy sex abuse is to go after one gay bishop in Scotland, rather than deal with ten thousand (10,000) pedophile priests in the USA and dozens of U.S. bishops who aided and enabled the priests. 

Vatican appoints Bishop Scicluna to investigate clergy sexual misconduct in Scotland

MALTA/SCOTLAND
Malta Independent
The Vatican has appointed Bishop Charles Scicluna to take testimony of clergy alleging sexual misconduct in Scotland's archdiocese of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, where Cardinal Keith O'Brien was archbishop until resigning under disgrace in February 2013, The National Catholic Reporter repo

Vatican: chief sex crimes prosecutor will probe Keith O'Brien

SCOTLAND
Glasgow Evening Times
Maltese Auxiliary Bishop Charles Scicluna, who has being investigating clerical abuse for a decade, will visit Scotland next week to take testimonies from those with information about sexual misconduct surrounding the Cardinal. Wider allegations will also be investigated.  In a letter to clergy in the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Cardinal O'Brien's successor Archbishop Leo Cushley said Bishop Scicluna would "listen to and report the testimony offered by past and present members of the clergy ... concerning any incidents of sexual misconduct committed against them by other members of the clergy whomsoever".

Pathetic -ke 

Gary Bergeron talks about his film Basta

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Homeless Slide Show, Sidewalk Style

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A little off topic, although my friends assure me child sex abuse victims often end up homeless as adults, here is a Rerun from CofA11 June 10, 2009 for your Sunday viewing

Homeless Slide Show, Sidewalk Style. Photos by Kay Ebeling

She Stays Near Hollywood and Vine



Says her name is Diana Ross




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Homeless Guy by Pershing Square




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The sun is hot at Melrose and Vine, even in February




Close on Anguished Face




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He Has a Great Spot Close to Transportation:



He used to stand all day behind a bus bench at the corner of Melrose and Vine.

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He Could Be Your Brainy Uncle


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Above
SHE LIVES AT MELROSE & VINE
Close to transportation
In the alley behind the bus stop
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Do You Recognize Him?



He was outside the Oscars February 2009



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This man I've seen a few times, on buses, he sits, takes up eight seats, people shove him and his things aside to take a seat. . .



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She Digs Through Trash for Lunch-

I see the woman below often when going to Civil West courthouse, Dept 308 where Elias sits- she wanders the blocks near Vermont and Sixth, digging through trash for food, perching in wait in doorways....



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Another Pershing Square resident:



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Lenny Sits in front of Political Signs

And shabby rundown apartments that cost at least two thousand to move in, a thousand a month to live in.



Lenny, closer



Lenny, Closer



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People wander day and night
The streets of L.A., all their earthly belongings in a rusty grocery cart



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Across from Federal Courthouse
Downtown L.A., parks and green spots are populated by people with no visible means of hygenic toiletry...



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Snoozing
At Sunset and Normandie on an April 2009 afternoon



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Yes, life goes
Onward...

Here are some more homeless pics from 2010
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