8 clergymen are dismissed by the Vatican (Boston - Sex Abuse of Children)

[matcom]

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The Vatican has dismissed eight Boston-area clerics accused of sexually abusing children, including a monsignor who for two decades was the third-most-powerful official in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston in addition to six other priests and a deacon, church officials said yesterday.

Dismissal from the ministry, which takes effect immediately, means that the men will no longer receive financial support from the archdiocese or be allowed to perform most of the public functions of a Catholic priest.

The eight had served for decades across Greater Boston, in schools, jails, hospitals, and churches. Among them was the former vice chancellor of the archdiocese, Monsignor Frederick J. Ryan, who was accused in 2002 of having repeatedly taken two students in the early 1980s from Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury to the chancery and molesting them. He is the highest-ranking priest to be dismissed since the clergy sexual abuse scandal erupted in 2002.

Ordained in 1964, Ryan had a long career, serving in churches in Holliston and Hyde Park and at the chancery from 1974 to 1995, where he served under Cardinal Bernard F. Law. In 2002, allegations surfaced from two victims who said that Ryan had abused them while they were students at Catholic Memorial. He resigned in April of that year from St. Joseph Parish in Kingston, where he was serving as pastor.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/03/18/8_clergymen_are_dismissed_by_the_vatican?mode=PF

[merbex]

1. No matter where you go in Boston the odds are that if you were

Catholic you had contact with one of the priests accused of sexual abuse of children; not just the 8 mentioned but the whole list which I think the chancery admitted to upwards of 80

They moved them around that much. For instance, I received First Communion from John Geoghan and I personally know people who were abused by him. I attended my cousin's son's baptism which was performed by Ryan from the article above. I could go on and on.

The Church's credibility is shot except for those who like to pretend that it never happened.

[gademocrat7]

3. I still do not understand why Cardinal Law is allowed to be free in Rome.

[merbex]

5. Because he was/is a good little soldier for Rome

He used to rake in the big bucks in Boston,and knew how to keep quiet about anything that reflected badly on the 20th Century Catholic Church

It's his golden parachute

What I can't understand is how people still keep on giving and going because despite what you've readnothing has changed

[saigon68]

13. He protected Clerical Molesters who anally raped young boys

What a sleaze ball

[Submariner]

11. I was lucky I guess

I went to Immaculate Conception and North Cambridge Catholic High for my 12 years of catholic brainwashing and my priests were always drunk. I could smell the booze all the time. Maybe they were too much in the bag to try and rape me at the time. Thank the flying spaghetti monster for alcohol I say!

[merbex]

12. I went to a Catholic college - PC; I still remember a priest falling

over completely sh**-faced while he put his microphone on around his neck before starting his lecture

We thought he dropped dead- no- just stumbled over drunk

Another time I witnessed a priest on a Friday night climbing over a chain link fence(in an outfit like a monk would wear) after he had put his alcohol purchase under the same fence

Someone needs to open a window and let some fresh air into the Vatican

[DiverDave]

2. About goddamned time

now get the rest of the pedophile enablers.

[Burried News]

4. Good shepherds don't screw the sheep.

Blessed is the lamb of God. (Said at every mass)

[Zenlitened]

6. Hey, stop this Catholic-bashing!

An online discussion forum is no place for presenting facts then offering commentary!


:sarcasm:

[NoGOP]

7. He resigned in .........

April 2002 and it's taken them 3 years and 11 months to "Dismiss" him.:wtf:

[AngryOldDem]

15. It takes a ridiculously long period of time to get these people....

...out of the priesthood. The Vatican bureaucracy puts Washington to shame. In the meantime, these "suspended" priests are still on the Church payroll and drawing an income for as long as their defrocking processes proceed. Some have been known to drag out close to a decade. The Vatican is notorious for dragging its feet on the defrocking process, but I think there are signs that it is speeding it up somewhat, mainly because of the outcry from the laity, especially Voice of the Faithful.

A priest in my archdiocese (Cincinnati) was also defrocked this week.

[Skittles]

8. you mean they're replacing the tires instead of rotating them?

:puke:

[Ian David]

9. And this is who is telling us what's best for the welfare of children?

[dddem]

10. Oh goodie.

This will more than make up for the homophobia currently being spewed by the catholic church. As a catholic who can't, in good conscience, attend mass anymore because of the sick feelings I get when I listen to crap like the recent decision by Catholic Charities to pull out of providing adoptions in Massachusetts (because the LAW in Massachusetts says you can't discriminate against gays and lesbians adopting children), this is too little, too late. The whole thing makes me sad, and as a person of Faith, I can't help feeling like Jesus is shaking his head and in tears over how after all He sacrificed to teach us, we just don't get it.

[mom cat]

14. Yes, but the Vatican promoted Cardinal Law and gave him a cushy assignment

in Rome.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

16. It's about damn time.

What are the chances of ever getting Law to answer for the mass (no pun intended) coverup? :eyes:

[annofark]

17. And it only took a few dozen children

For them to realize to get rid of these guys. This is sick. ENABLERS