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Monday, August 27, 2018
Pope Francis Response to Archbishop Viganò's Testimony: I'm Taking the Fifth. All Lechers Shelter in Place
Has anyone made heads or tails out of this?
Do I have this right?
He has commissioned secular journalists to figure out if its true, because they are "mature". Once he reads the spin in the newspapers he will make a decision on whether he should..make a statement. Meanwhile, all lechers will shelter in place.
Am I missing anything?
The recurring theme in his policies seems to be, when faced with wrongdoing and error, I shall choose to be obstinate and protect the status quo with omissions.
This is exactly how the perverts are given the space to terrorize, groom and abuse.
I highly recommend reading actual contents of +Vigano's actual letter, Don't just read articles. Taking the time to read it needs to be on the top of everyone's priority list.
His testimony is embedded in this article.
Even if you were unaware of Archbishop Vigano's hands on work while US Nuncio, anyone reading it that's been involved in evangelism or catechesis of our families and people has already deliberated. The verdict is in: guilty, beyond all reasonable doubt.
Our families have been victimized by these people. We've all written hundreds of letters ourselves about the fruit of their poisonous tree.
I can't state enough how important the past 20 years of sending letters to chanceries and up the chain of command has determined where the camps are, who is in them , who is enabling them, who is scared of them and who is doing what they can to fight against them.
The Holy Father needs to come to terms with the truth. As US Nuncio, when all avenues with cronies at the chanceries was exhausted, we followed protocol and sent the information on serious theological problems to Archbishop Viganò. His credibility has already been tried and tested. It is impeccable.
He's named names and events which people are now on the hot seat to man up and verify.
The wheels are coming off of the bus. Monsignor Lantheaume has verified factual information in +Vigano's testimony.
It is critical that each one of us, at this moment, give public witness. Whether a mother, a father, a priest, a bishop, a cardinal, anyone and everyone mentioned in the testimony -- the time has come to make a public statement.
Cardinal Wuerl issued a denial yesterday. But as the parties start to come forward, he is backtracking and sheltering in place.
Archbishop Vigano added names to the list. As the network participants are revealed, its important to keep the roll call updated. I'm working on an updated list which will be added to this post.
Immittet angelus Domini in circuitu timentium eum, et eripiet eos; gustate et videte, quoniam suavis est Dominus. (The angel of the Lord shall enamp around those who fear him, and shall deliver them. Taste and see how good is the Lord.)
Do I have this right?
He has commissioned secular journalists to figure out if its true, because they are "mature". Once he reads the spin in the newspapers he will make a decision on whether he should..make a statement. Meanwhile, all lechers will shelter in place.
Am I missing anything?
The recurring theme in his policies seems to be, when faced with wrongdoing and error, I shall choose to be obstinate and protect the status quo with omissions.
This is exactly how the perverts are given the space to terrorize, groom and abuse.
I highly recommend reading actual contents of +Vigano's actual letter, Don't just read articles. Taking the time to read it needs to be on the top of everyone's priority list.
His testimony is embedded in this article.
Even if you were unaware of Archbishop Vigano's hands on work while US Nuncio, anyone reading it that's been involved in evangelism or catechesis of our families and people has already deliberated. The verdict is in: guilty, beyond all reasonable doubt.
Our families have been victimized by these people. We've all written hundreds of letters ourselves about the fruit of their poisonous tree.
I can't state enough how important the past 20 years of sending letters to chanceries and up the chain of command has determined where the camps are, who is in them , who is enabling them, who is scared of them and who is doing what they can to fight against them.
The Holy Father needs to come to terms with the truth. As US Nuncio, when all avenues with cronies at the chanceries was exhausted, we followed protocol and sent the information on serious theological problems to Archbishop Viganò. His credibility has already been tried and tested. It is impeccable.
He's named names and events which people are now on the hot seat to man up and verify.
The wheels are coming off of the bus. Monsignor Lantheaume has verified factual information in +Vigano's testimony.
“Viganò said the truth. That’s all,” he wrote to CNA.
It is critical that each one of us, at this moment, give public witness. Whether a mother, a father, a priest, a bishop, a cardinal, anyone and everyone mentioned in the testimony -- the time has come to make a public statement.
Cardinal Wuerl issued a denial yesterday. But as the parties start to come forward, he is backtracking and sheltering in place.
Archbishop Vigano added names to the list. As the network participants are revealed, its important to keep the roll call updated. I'm working on an updated list which will be added to this post.
Immittet angelus Domini in circuitu timentium eum, et eripiet eos; gustate et videte, quoniam suavis est Dominus. (The angel of the Lord shall enamp around those who fear him, and shall deliver them. Taste and see how good is the Lord.)
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Church Militant Going Crazed Vigilante
Over the past couple of days, Church Militant has been running videos of an individual confronting people like a crazed vigilante.
Here's todays:
This lunatic conduct needs to be condemned. Swiftly condemned.
Yesterdays was some poor priest who breathed the same air as McCarrick. The priest showed remarkable virtue. When he reached out to the Blessed Mother in prayer, he was mocked.
Listen, owning an iphone does not make you a reporter.
This guy needs to get himself into a state of sanctifying grace and sit in front of the Blessed Sacrament for a couple of hours to cool his jets. And there is nobody at Church Militant who has the wherewithall to do it.
I tried to speak to CM staff and was appalled by their conduct and defense of the indefensible. This is not the first time.
A few weeks ago, they were trying to claim Bill Donohue was guilty of protecting McCarrick's pedophilia. There's enough substance to gripe about Bill Donohue without resorting to the bizarre claim that people privy to rumors about McCarricks consensual orgies are culpable for McCarrick's misdeeds.
Ladies and gentlemen - we cannot go down this rabbit hole.
No Catholic of good will should have anything to do with any apostolate who advocates and carries out assaults on women, children and priests - or for that matter, bishops or popes.
If this is where this movement is going, I'm out. I wan't nothing to do with a movement that treats Catholic priests and lay people like this.
They've lost their ever-loving minds!
UPDATE: The comments from Church Militant staff on Christine Nile's Facebook page advocate lunatic aggressive and threatening confrontations based upon the rash presumption employees of the Church and priests are all pimps involved in cover ups for perverts.
Every Catholic of good will should condemn this insidious strategem and disassociate themselves from the apostolate. We need this like we need a hole in the head.
This lunatic conduct needs to be condemned. Swiftly condemned.
Yesterdays was some poor priest who breathed the same air as McCarrick. The priest showed remarkable virtue. When he reached out to the Blessed Mother in prayer, he was mocked.
Listen, owning an iphone does not make you a reporter.
This guy needs to get himself into a state of sanctifying grace and sit in front of the Blessed Sacrament for a couple of hours to cool his jets. And there is nobody at Church Militant who has the wherewithall to do it.
I tried to speak to CM staff and was appalled by their conduct and defense of the indefensible. This is not the first time.
A few weeks ago, they were trying to claim Bill Donohue was guilty of protecting McCarrick's pedophilia. There's enough substance to gripe about Bill Donohue without resorting to the bizarre claim that people privy to rumors about McCarricks consensual orgies are culpable for McCarrick's misdeeds.
Ladies and gentlemen - we cannot go down this rabbit hole.
No Catholic of good will should have anything to do with any apostolate who advocates and carries out assaults on women, children and priests - or for that matter, bishops or popes.
If this is where this movement is going, I'm out. I wan't nothing to do with a movement that treats Catholic priests and lay people like this.
They've lost their ever-loving minds!
UPDATE: The comments from Church Militant staff on Christine Nile's Facebook page advocate lunatic aggressive and threatening confrontations based upon the rash presumption employees of the Church and priests are all pimps involved in cover ups for perverts.
Every Catholic of good will should condemn this insidious strategem and disassociate themselves from the apostolate. We need this like we need a hole in the head.
Archbishop Viganò Just Flushed the Throne
Yesterday, the internet was buzzing when the Holy Father used the word 'sh*t' to describe people who cover up abuse.
A few things before the substance of +Viganò's letter.
It's a fair estimate to say that in the US, at minimum, a hundred thousand Catholics have been writing letters about theological shenanigans of gay prelates in their diocese for over two decades.
Each one of us has written an average of a hundred letters to various people in the hierarchy, all the way to Rome. Some of us have written much more than a hundred.
Consequently, we are very familiar with all the characters.
We have first hand experience in the identification of whose actions protected gay priests by omission and commission and whose responses and actions ended something scandalous.
As someone who reached out to Archbishop Viganò at least 50 times during his tenure as Nuncio for theological and ethical problems, he was a hands-on Nuncio who appropriately responded to complaints and acted on corruption. He did not stop to pat every dog that barked, but his intercession could be counted upon when serious situations developed. He took his job seriously, followed through and did everything within his ability to stop bad behavior.
And all one hundred thousand of us know it. We have all worked with him. He's proven, beyond all reasonable doubt, that his loyalty is to Truth and Christ.
So, any attempt by the gay cabal and their enablers to smear +Viganò's reputation with lies will convict such persons as either part of the network of gay sexual abusers or an enabler. If one is an enabler, there is a reason for it.
So, a word to the wise: Upon such identification, laity will zealously pursue the reasons why such persons have an interest in mitigating truth by lying about Archbishop Viganò's credibility or testimony.
Let's all pray that this starts the avalanche of others who made personal efforts and informed the Holy Father of the sexual and theological debauchery of the people and ideas he was foisting upon the Mystical Body of Christ.
As to the substance of +Viganò's report, the most compelling thing is, all of US nuncios had been informing Pope Benedict and Pope Francis of McCarrick's sexual lechery. Pope Benedict XVI had imposed sanctions on McCarrick, stripped him of faculties and moved him from his plumb location for hand-picking victims at the seminary. The sanctions were not enforced by the corrupt people around Pope Benedict XVI, but Pope Benedict did attempt to do the right thing.
When Pope Francis was made aware of McCarrick's vile sexual depravity, including sacrilegious celebration of the Eucharist, Pope Francis REVERSED Pope Benedict XVI sanctions, appointed him as counselor and adviser.
Archbishop Viganò implicates others in the coverup, including Wuerl, whose denials he called "laughable".
This is devastating:
Thus, the question "why" Pope Francis surrounded himself with gay bishops and cardinals and purged faithful ones from Rome is finally answered. Our worst suspicions are confirmed.
Pope Francis was aware the people he was empowering were connected to a network of gay prelates who groomed victims, theologically and physically, for sexual abuse. For five years, he has been promoting these prelates and their ideas to our children, and telling them our warnings about these individuals is vicious. He sought the counsel of the most sexually perverted prelate in the US see to help him stack his see with like-minded people.
More on this developing story later as I'm heading to the 10:45 Mass, but mark my words: The day has arrived when all the sh*ts at the synod will wish they used Amoris Laetitiae as toilet paper.
UPDATE as I'm walking out the door...Bishop Strickland of the diocese of Tyler, called +Vigano's testimony "credibile" and is calling for an investigation of Pope Francis and others named in +Vigano's report.
Next steps may be forcing each of the bishops of our see to take a side?
The question I keep asking myself is, really, how active was McCarrick in Pope Francis elevation to the See of Peter? In light of what is now being exposed, this is a legitimate question of the validity of his papacy.
According to victims who took part, Francis condemned corruption and cover-up within the Church, using the Spanish word caca that was translated by a papal interpreter as “filth one sees in a toilet.” A literal translation would be “shit.”Last night, just about the time everyone in the US was settling into bed with their pajamas, Archbishop Viganò flushed the potty.
A few things before the substance of +Viganò's letter.
It's a fair estimate to say that in the US, at minimum, a hundred thousand Catholics have been writing letters about theological shenanigans of gay prelates in their diocese for over two decades.
Each one of us has written an average of a hundred letters to various people in the hierarchy, all the way to Rome. Some of us have written much more than a hundred.
Consequently, we are very familiar with all the characters.
We have first hand experience in the identification of whose actions protected gay priests by omission and commission and whose responses and actions ended something scandalous.
As someone who reached out to Archbishop Viganò at least 50 times during his tenure as Nuncio for theological and ethical problems, he was a hands-on Nuncio who appropriately responded to complaints and acted on corruption. He did not stop to pat every dog that barked, but his intercession could be counted upon when serious situations developed. He took his job seriously, followed through and did everything within his ability to stop bad behavior.
And all one hundred thousand of us know it. We have all worked with him. He's proven, beyond all reasonable doubt, that his loyalty is to Truth and Christ.
So, any attempt by the gay cabal and their enablers to smear +Viganò's reputation with lies will convict such persons as either part of the network of gay sexual abusers or an enabler. If one is an enabler, there is a reason for it.
So, a word to the wise: Upon such identification, laity will zealously pursue the reasons why such persons have an interest in mitigating truth by lying about Archbishop Viganò's credibility or testimony.
Let's all pray that this starts the avalanche of others who made personal efforts and informed the Holy Father of the sexual and theological debauchery of the people and ideas he was foisting upon the Mystical Body of Christ.
As to the substance of +Viganò's report, the most compelling thing is, all of US nuncios had been informing Pope Benedict and Pope Francis of McCarrick's sexual lechery. Pope Benedict XVI had imposed sanctions on McCarrick, stripped him of faculties and moved him from his plumb location for hand-picking victims at the seminary. The sanctions were not enforced by the corrupt people around Pope Benedict XVI, but Pope Benedict did attempt to do the right thing.
When Pope Francis was made aware of McCarrick's vile sexual depravity, including sacrilegious celebration of the Eucharist, Pope Francis REVERSED Pope Benedict XVI sanctions, appointed him as counselor and adviser.
Archbishop Viganò implicates others in the coverup, including Wuerl, whose denials he called "laughable".
In his written statement, Viganò then outlined his understanding of how, despite the allegations against him, McCarrick came to be appointed Archbishop of Washington D.C. in 2000 and how his misdeeds were covered up. His statement implicates Cardinals Angelo Sodano, Tarcisio Bertone and Pietro Parolin and he insists various other cardinals and bishops were well aware, including Cardinal Donald Wuerl, McCarrick’s successor as archbishop of Washington D.C.
“I myself brought up the subject with Cardinal Wuerl on several occasions, and I certainly didn’t need to go into detail because it was immediately clear to me that he was fully aware of it,” he wrote.
This is devastating:
At a private meeting a few days later, Archbishop Viganò said the Pope asked him “‘What is Cardinal McCarrick like?’” to which the archbishop replied: “He corrupted generations of seminarians and priests and Pope Benedict ordered him to withdraw to a life of prayer and penance.” The former nuncio said he believes the Pope’s purpose in asking him was to “find out if I was an ally of McCarrick or not.”Insight on the Pope's reaction to incriminating news at WaPo.
He corrupted generations of seminarians and priests and Pope Benedict ordered him to withdraw to a life of prayer and penance,” Viganò says he told Francis. “The Pope did not make the slightest comment about those very grave words of mine and did not show any expression of surprise on his face, as if he had already known the matter for some time, and he immediately changed the subject.”Very incriminating.
Thus, the question "why" Pope Francis surrounded himself with gay bishops and cardinals and purged faithful ones from Rome is finally answered. Our worst suspicions are confirmed.
Pope Francis was aware the people he was empowering were connected to a network of gay prelates who groomed victims, theologically and physically, for sexual abuse. For five years, he has been promoting these prelates and their ideas to our children, and telling them our warnings about these individuals is vicious. He sought the counsel of the most sexually perverted prelate in the US see to help him stack his see with like-minded people.
More on this developing story later as I'm heading to the 10:45 Mass, but mark my words: The day has arrived when all the sh*ts at the synod will wish they used Amoris Laetitiae as toilet paper.
UPDATE as I'm walking out the door...Bishop Strickland of the diocese of Tyler, called +Vigano's testimony "credibile" and is calling for an investigation of Pope Francis and others named in +Vigano's report.
Next steps may be forcing each of the bishops of our see to take a side?
The question I keep asking myself is, really, how active was McCarrick in Pope Francis elevation to the See of Peter? In light of what is now being exposed, this is a legitimate question of the validity of his papacy.
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Fr. Martin is the bigot
Several years ago, there was a big doctrinal dust up in a Catholic school.
There was nothing extraordinary about the dust up, its like all the others we experience. You know the routine. Somebody who objects to Church teaching had a melt down when it was taught and orders were issued by hierarchs to stop teaching it.
Catholics working two jobs so they can keep their children away from the sexual grooming in government schools and have a curriculum consistent with what the Church teaches and what we teach at home, are robbed. Sending Catholic children to Catholic schools can do more damage than sending them to public schools.
The incident involved two lesbians who didn't want anyone in the school to be taught the lifestyle they've chosen is a habitual state of mortal sin which leads to hell. So they went to the press and Cardinal O'Malley, as he has consistently done in the past, issued orders that the lifestyle the two lesbians were living be affirmed, Church teaching be silenced and all the other children in the school - hundreds - be deprived of Catholic moral teaching.
This one incident affected thousands of practicing Catholics. And there are millions of incidents just like it in every Catholic apostolate, parish and school.
How - and more importantly why, did we let the narrative become gays are being excluded? Practicing Catholics are the people being discriminated against and excluded.
This outstanding article by Robert Royal charitably explains the 'exclusionary' culture inside and outside of the Catholic Church.
Fr. Martin, again from what people told me of the session, was quite brilliant in weaving stories about people feeling pain and rejection because of their sexual desires. But that, too, is a different thing, of course. It’s clever to speak of “feeling excluded” in democratic societies, because one of the modern nation-state’s claims to legitimacy is that it both includes and values all people, is more universal than the Universal Church itself.
That claim is quite doubtful, as numbers of traditional Christians who have been told to keep quiet or lost jobs – in business, the military, even government – might attest. But again, pace Fr. Martin, traditional Christianity is not hate or bias or exclusion of persons. To say that really is a diversionary tactic to avoid facing the main question: Judging whether actsare right or wrong is precisely what it means for us to be beings that are so constituted as to need to make moral choices.
The sentimentality that has entered the Church as a whole, however, combined with the modern obsession with feelings rather than truth simply overwhelms such simple and obvious distinctions.Maybe the trajectory at this point is to mirror their strategy of telling the stories of what gay priests and bishops have been doing to faithful Catholic families. I once had a basement full of letters Catholics sent me describing outrageous conduct. It was overwhelming, especially for my children.
The stories documented papertrail notifications to the Chancery and all the way to Rome, so everyone from Cardinal O'Malley to Pope Francis knows faithful Catholic families are the targets of discrimination.
Heads are spinning in chanceries, wondering why the vigilantes are back banging on their doors. The real answer is, the election of a pope who heralds and advances the bigots. It was the final straw.
We want our faith taught/affirmed in our schools, seminaries, parishes and apostolates. Gays and feminists who reject Church teaching, narcissist priests and bishops focused on money and advancement have been stopping that from happening.
Perhaps having central places on the internet exclusively dedicated to aggregating and re-exposing these stories will be the gasoline we need on the burning fires.
Friday, August 24, 2018
Pope Francis HomoHeresy Family Fest
Maybe I shouldn't be, but I'm really surprised how homosexual the agenda is at Pope Francis World Meeting of Families.
I knew all the homosexual bishops and priests were running it, but never in a million years did I think it would be so openly gay.
Fr. James Marin urges Catholics to 'examine attitudes' towards gay Catholics.
Why isn't he asking gay Catholics to examine their attitudes towards Church teaching and those who want their families to hear and practice it?
Instead, he recommends priests stop leading homosexual Catholics to refrain from their sinful desires with the help of the Sacraments and start "listening" to homosexuals who reject Church teaching.
I don't want to give them any ideas, but if that's the case, why isn't Fr. Martin recommending Catholics "examine attitudes" and 'consider' the lived experience of people who enjoy pornography?
After all, there are active Catholics priests who 'live the experience' of giving teens porn and condoms Why isn't Fr. Martin incorporating these 'invitations' into his presentations?
Pope Francis has also given Martin the audience and tools to recommend homosexuals who openly reject Church teaching and live in a habitual state of mortal sin be made Eucharistic Ministers.
Why doesn't Fr. Martin advocate inviting Eucharistic Ministers who masturbate?
Why isn't there a presentation at Pope Francis World Meeting of Families on "Showing welcome and respect for sadomasichists and their families"?
Of course, we all know the answers to these questions. But, the fact that the Holy Father is even going to this homosexual theological orgy shows you how far the devil has advanced in the minds of the episcopal see.
I believe mystery of why Cardinal Sean decided this would be the week he would sit down and read 12 years of mail piled up on his desk has been solved.
An absolute dis-Grace and infuriating.
I knew all the homosexual bishops and priests were running it, but never in a million years did I think it would be so openly gay.
Fr. James Marin urges Catholics to 'examine attitudes' towards gay Catholics.
Why isn't he asking gay Catholics to examine their attitudes towards Church teaching and those who want their families to hear and practice it?
Instead, he recommends priests stop leading homosexual Catholics to refrain from their sinful desires with the help of the Sacraments and start "listening" to homosexuals who reject Church teaching.
Parishes, he said, should strive to listen to LGBT parishioners — “trust that the Holy Spirit will guide them in their formation as Christians and Catholics,” rather than “simply repeating Church teaching without considering their lived experience.”He's asking priests to let the witness of the Church teaching be homosexuals who reject Church teaching and pursue the life of a habitual state of mortal sin.
I don't want to give them any ideas, but if that's the case, why isn't Fr. Martin recommending Catholics "examine attitudes" and 'consider' the lived experience of people who enjoy pornography?
After all, there are active Catholics priests who 'live the experience' of giving teens porn and condoms Why isn't Fr. Martin incorporating these 'invitations' into his presentations?
Pope Francis has also given Martin the audience and tools to recommend homosexuals who openly reject Church teaching and live in a habitual state of mortal sin be made Eucharistic Ministers.
Why doesn't Fr. Martin advocate inviting Eucharistic Ministers who masturbate?
Why isn't there a presentation at Pope Francis World Meeting of Families on "Showing welcome and respect for sadomasichists and their families"?
Of course, we all know the answers to these questions. But, the fact that the Holy Father is even going to this homosexual theological orgy shows you how far the devil has advanced in the minds of the episcopal see.
I believe mystery of why Cardinal Sean decided this would be the week he would sit down and read 12 years of mail piled up on his desk has been solved.
An absolute dis-Grace and infuriating.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Body of Fall River Priest Fr. William Costello Found in Texas, FBI Takes Over Case
Is a RICO investigation already underway?
I've been following this bizarre story for a couple of days, chiefly because Fr. Costello's vocation had been surrounded with gay controversies which the diocese of Fall River swept under the rug.
I was under the impression Fr. Costello had been laicized after Rhode Island police 'investigated' a complaint. Sources indicate the kerfluffle involved a sexual relationship with a young man he met at rest stop which turned sour and parish funds were being used as hush money. But, he apparently was a priest in good standing at the time of his untimely death.
Recent statements from the diocese indicate no charges were filed and the case was not prosecuted.
Are we at the day and age when its acceptable for a diocese to decline to elaborate on misconduct?
Was it sexual misconduct with an adult? Did witnesses become uncooperative? Did victims decide it was not worth the hassle?
There were ramifications. Following the incident, the bishop forced him to 'retire' for...'using poor judgment'.
Poor judgment?
If allegations are true, a priest cruising rest stops to have consensual sex with young gay males and using parish funds for hush money when things turn ugly, is hardly the exercise of 'poor judgment'.
Poor judgment is when you use Marty Haugen songs in the Novus Ordo.
Fr. Costello went missing about a week ago.
A suspect led police to his buried body, more arrests are expected and the FBI has taken over the case.
The FBI.
The statements from the diocese are filled with praise for Fr. Costello and bewilderment he met with such a disturbing end. No indication whatsoever that Fr. Costello had history of sexual predation.
Fr. Costello was also involved in a 2010 gay controversy with Fr. John Harrington.
Fr. Harrington is familiar to many in the prolife community. It's my understanding nothing sexual was implied in the stalking discussion. There is no question he's orthodox, faithful and has been a victim of corruption. I think its also fair to say he's intense and that intensity sometimes sabotages his own best interests.
For example, if your pastor asks you to give an individual some personal space, using your Sunday homily to mount a crusade against him is not a 'winner, winner, chicken dinner' strategy.
But, here's the bottom line:
Fr. Harrington has been complaining about the sexually active gay network of priests for decades and they took him out of commission instead of getting to the bottom of what's causing the commotion.
After all is said and done, it seems to me that early retirement packages, coverups, singing praises and feigned surprise that Fr. Costello ended up in a shallow grave with the FBI on the case, is a colossal case of 'poor judgment' that is part and parcel of our never-ending nightmare.
I've been following this bizarre story for a couple of days, chiefly because Fr. Costello's vocation had been surrounded with gay controversies which the diocese of Fall River swept under the rug.
I was under the impression Fr. Costello had been laicized after Rhode Island police 'investigated' a complaint. Sources indicate the kerfluffle involved a sexual relationship with a young man he met at rest stop which turned sour and parish funds were being used as hush money. But, he apparently was a priest in good standing at the time of his untimely death.
Recent statements from the diocese indicate no charges were filed and the case was not prosecuted.
No charges were filed against Costello at any time during the investigation or at its completion, the Diocese said. Kearns declined Monday to elaborate on the nature of the Rhode Island State Police investigation.
Are we at the day and age when its acceptable for a diocese to decline to elaborate on misconduct?
Was it sexual misconduct with an adult? Did witnesses become uncooperative? Did victims decide it was not worth the hassle?
There were ramifications. Following the incident, the bishop forced him to 'retire' for...'using poor judgment'.
Poor judgment?
If allegations are true, a priest cruising rest stops to have consensual sex with young gay males and using parish funds for hush money when things turn ugly, is hardly the exercise of 'poor judgment'.
Poor judgment is when you use Marty Haugen songs in the Novus Ordo.
Fr. Costello went missing about a week ago.
A suspect led police to his buried body, more arrests are expected and the FBI has taken over the case.
The FBI.
The statements from the diocese are filled with praise for Fr. Costello and bewilderment he met with such a disturbing end. No indication whatsoever that Fr. Costello had history of sexual predation.
Fr. Costello was also involved in a 2010 gay controversy with Fr. John Harrington.
Fr. Harrington is familiar to many in the prolife community. It's my understanding nothing sexual was implied in the stalking discussion. There is no question he's orthodox, faithful and has been a victim of corruption. I think its also fair to say he's intense and that intensity sometimes sabotages his own best interests.
For example, if your pastor asks you to give an individual some personal space, using your Sunday homily to mount a crusade against him is not a 'winner, winner, chicken dinner' strategy.
But, here's the bottom line:
Fr. Harrington has been complaining about the sexually active gay network of priests for decades and they took him out of commission instead of getting to the bottom of what's causing the commotion.
After all is said and done, it seems to me that early retirement packages, coverups, singing praises and feigned surprise that Fr. Costello ended up in a shallow grave with the FBI on the case, is a colossal case of 'poor judgment' that is part and parcel of our never-ending nightmare.
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