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Originally Posted by tw
From the Cardinal on 10 Feb 2011:
Which is spin for "the Archdioceses has successfully protected pedophiles from prosecution". So that Cardinal is doing his job.
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A Philadelphia priest (Lynn) is on trial for protecting pedophilia. An archdiocese lawyer apparently was fired by the Church because he asked too many questions. He testified that protecting pedophilia may have been known even by former Cardinal Bevilacqua. And known by many top church officials, including other Bishops, when all claimed they knew nothing of that pedophile list. A cover up has been ongoing in the Philadelphia archdiocese for a decade when Philly District Attorney Lynn Abraham was openly trying to prosecute. Back in 2002, investigator notes repeatedly reported rumors of the list that was later found in a Bishop’s safe in 20006. The Cardinal ordered those lists be shredded.
Why are so many other District Attorneys not prosecuting a nationwide pedophile ring? Never forget that the Pope has ordered American Catholic politicians to impose Papal doctrine into American laws.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer of 14 May 2012:
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Archdiocesan lawyer: Church leaders lied to me about secret list
The top lawyer for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia testified Monday that church's leaders lied to him when he asked them a decade ago about a secret list of 35 area priests suspected of sexually abusing children.
"Everyone I spoke to said they didn't know where it was, and they didn't have a copy of it," the lawyer, Timothy Coyne, told jurors at the landmark conspiracy and clergy sex-abuse trial against Msgr. William J. Lynn.
He added: "Somebody lied to me - or a lot of people lied to me." ...
The list, and who knew about it, has become a central mystery as the trial against Lynn begins to wind down.
Prosecutors contend that Lynn, as secretary for clergy, drafted the list in 1994, and that it proves he allowed priests to remain in active ministry around the archdiocese despite knowing or suspecting they would abuse minors. Lynn’s lawyers said it proves he was trying to identify and take action on abusive priests.
At Bevilacqua's direction, all copies of the list were shredded except for one found in a locked safe in the archdiocese’s Center City offices in 2006. A separate memo detailing the shredding was found in another safe in an office previously occupied by now Bishop Joseph Cistone. Both were turned over to investigators this year, weeks before trial.
Not long after, Coyne was suspended from his job as director of legal services.
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Repeatedly noted was a list released by Lynn Abraham and published by the Philadelphia Inquirer of priests known by the Church to be pedophiles. Lynn Abraham made another important point. Pennsylvania laws makes prosecuting of pedophiles all but impossible.
Meanwhile, let's never forget that Joe Paterno was fired because prosecutors did not investigate and prosecute a known pedophile.