In a move that I wish had come earlier so that perhaps some of the Catholic sheeple in Maine might have been repulsed enough to ignore the calls for ant-gay bigotry by the Diocese of Portland, the United States Supreme Court will not block the release of more than 12,000 pages of sexual abuse files involving clergy in the Diocese of Bridgeport. I suspect that these files contain some horrific details and will show a thorough corrupt and morally bankrupt Church hierarchy. Among the wrong doers with the hierarchy are now retired New York Archbishop Egan who clearly should have been force from the Church rather than elevated to an even higher Church office. Here are some highlights from the Hartford Courant that look at the story:*
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport's appeal of a state court decision to make public more than 12,000 pages of sexual abuse files involving clergy.
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The appeal to the nation's highest court likely was the diocese's last legal effort to keep secret documents from 23 sexual abuse cases involving clergy that were settled in 2001. Four newspapers — The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and The Courant — have been fighting for eight years to get the documents unsealed.
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Among the court documents are three depositions by former Bishop Edward Egan, who was in charge of the Bridgeport diocese when most of the lawsuits against priests under his control were filed and adjudicated. Egan retired last year as the archbishop of New York. The Courant obtained copies of Egan's depositions, which show that he knowingly transferred to different parishes priests who had been accused of sexually molesting boys, and rarely removed an alleged pedophile priest from service.
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A status conference on how the documents might be made public will be held Nov. 9 at Superior Court in Waterbury.
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport's appeal of a state court decision to make public more than 12,000 pages of sexual abuse files involving clergy.
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The appeal to the nation's highest court likely was the diocese's last legal effort to keep secret documents from 23 sexual abuse cases involving clergy that were settled in 2001. Four newspapers — The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and The Courant — have been fighting for eight years to get the documents unsealed.
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Among the court documents are three depositions by former Bishop Edward Egan, who was in charge of the Bridgeport diocese when most of the lawsuits against priests under his control were filed and adjudicated. Egan retired last year as the archbishop of New York. The Courant obtained copies of Egan's depositions, which show that he knowingly transferred to different parishes priests who had been accused of sexually molesting boys, and rarely removed an alleged pedophile priest from service.
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A status conference on how the documents might be made public will be held Nov. 9 at Superior Court in Waterbury.
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The general public and the Catholic laity need to understand fully just what a foul institution the Roman Catholic Church has become and that the Church should no respect or financial support until ALL of the morally bankrupt monsters like Egan are removed - a move that likely would require Pope Benedict XVI to resign as Pope as well. The rot and corruption goes all the way to the top of the hierarchy.
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