Victims of paedophile priests urge action from pope

Pope Francis has called for ‘zero tolerance’ of abusive priests

• AFP
• Published: 14:07 February 17, 2015
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Mexico City: 

Victims of sexually abusive priests from across the Americas joined forces on Monday to urge Pope Francis to allow civilian justice to punish paedophiles and those who covered up their crimes.

From the United States to Argentina, Chile, Mexico and other nations, victims issued a letter made public in Mexico City telling the Argentine pontiff that “words are not enough.”

The letter said that only civilian trials and Church reform will put an end to the “great holocaust of thousands of boys and girls who were sacrificed to avoid scandal and salvage the image and prestige of the Catholic Church’s representatives in the world.”

The victims said the pope’s recent admonishments of sex abuse in the Church are “ambiguous and contradictory” because they do not lead to any “institutional process toward truth and justice.”

The letter was read by Jose Barba, one of the victims of Marcial Maciel, the Mexican founder of the ultraconservative Legion of Christ order who died in 2008.

Pope Francis has called for “zero tolerance” of abusive priests since his election in March 2013.

He has asked victims for forgiveness, pledged to combat paedophilia and formed a Church child protection panel.

This month, he issued a strongly-worded letter to bishops warning Roman Catholic clergy they must never try to cover up sexual abuse.

He has also intervened in cases like one in Spain that saw 10 priests accused of sexually abusing an altar boy.

While the pope voiced “great pain” and ordered a church investigation into the case, a Spanish court dropped charges against nine of the clergymen because the accuser waited too long to bring the charges.

At the press conference in Mexico City, some of the victims questioned the pope’s commitment to fighting paedophilia in the Church.

“We demand that the pope, at the very least, live up to his word because we can all make headlines. Enough with the headlines,” said Juan Carlos Cruz, a Chilean victim who said he felt “deeply betrayed” by the pontiff.

Julieta Anazco of Argentina said that when Francis was known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, he “never received anybody,” despite requests by victims to meet him.

“We are all very sad and losing hope. We have asked for something effective to be done. We want (abusive priests) to be removed and tried” in criminal court, said Anazco, who was abused by a priest at a Church-sponsored summer camp in the 1980s.

The network of victims from the Americas said that the pope’s predecessor, Benedict XVI, secretly suspended 400 priests for abusing children, and that they faced Vatican justice without the testimony or knowledge of the victims and their lawyers.

Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said via video conference from the United States that Pope Francis should follow the recommendations of the United Nations, which said last year that the Church violated the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Pope Defrocks Irish Pedophile Priest

Pope Francis defrocks Irish Catholic priest convicted of abus

Pope Francis has dismissed a former priest convicted of child sexual abuse. Photo by: Getty Images

The Pope has formally dismissed a former priest convicted of child sexual abuse.

James Donaghy, who is originally from Lady Wallace Drive in Lisburn and served as priest in the west Belfast parish of Corpus Christi in Ballymurphy,  was convicted of several sex abuse charges following trials in 2011 and 2013 and is currently serving a 10-year jail sentence, UTV reports.
Although Donaghy stepped down from his duties in March 2004, Pope Francis has now officially banned him from the ministry.

At his 2011 trial. Donaghy was found guilty of 23 sex abuse charges committed against three teenagers. In 2013, he was convicted of abusing a fourth victim. the court heard he told his young victim he could get his grandfather into heaven as he sexually abused the boy, the BBC reports.

In a statement, Bishop of Down and Connor Noel Treanor said: “The Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith has informed the Diocese of Down and Connor that His Holiness, Pope Francis has dismissed James Donaghy from the clerical state on his own authority and for the good of the Church.
“This means that Mr Donaghy is not permitted to function as a priest under any circumstance, public or private.”

“On behalf of the priests and people of the Diocese of Down and Connor, I again extend my deepest sorrow and apologise to survivors who suffered such pain at the hands of someone in whom they had placed their trust.

“I hope that this decision will assist those affected on their journey towards healing.”
He added: “I assure all that the Diocese remains fully committed to protecting children and vulnerable adults with comprehensive structures of safeguarding in place throughout the diocese supported by specialist personnel and thousands of trained volunteers.

“The Diocese is also committed to bringing healing to the victims of abuse and is conscious of the right to privacy of the victims and will make no further comment.

1-Where do all the Legion of Christ Pedophiles go?

1-Where are the Legion of Christ pedophiles?

J. Paul Lennon at When a loved one is involved with the Legion of Christ or Regnum Christi Movement - 3 weeks ago

It begins with a C Now Fr. Maciel abused about one hundred of his seminarians. Could have been less but probably more. He was at it from the age of 21 -when he founded the Legion, abusing De la Isla 10-11 year old in the first ESCUELA APOSTOLICA, in Mexico City. Maciel continued on abusing seminarians, Mexicans, Spanish such as Fernandez Amenabar and Irish such as Michael Caheny. Dont have info on Americans. Would not be unusual as Maciel was insatiable and sought variety Will continue later -after I vomit...

Pastor Sexually Assaults woman in congregation

Wayne Marlon Jones

Wayne Marlon Jones, 53, of Ajax is charged with sexual assault and three counts of fraud over $5,000.

Ajax News Advertiser

By Jeff Mitchell 

DURHAM -- An Ajax man has been charged after a woman was sexually assaulted during church-related counselling, including exorcisms, police said.    

Toronto police said that between May of 2011 and May of 2013 the suspect, a pastor at the United Spiritual Baptist Church on Midland Avenue in Scarborough, exploited a woman to whom he provided spiritual counselling. The sessions included performing exorcisms, police said.    

It’s alleged that during the sessions the woman was sexually assaulted. The suspect also convinced the woman to give him money and property, police said.    

Wayne Marlon Jones, 53, of Ajax is charged with sexual assault and three counts of fraud over $5,000.    

Mr. Jones is identified on the United Spiritual Baptist Church website as “Bishop Wayne Jones”. A biography on the site said Mr. Jones was born in Trinidad and Tobago and immigrated to Canada in 1984. The site says he was ordained as a minister in 1987 and the following year “pastured” his own congregation, called the Mt. Ararat Spiritual Baptist Church. He was consecrated as a Bishop in 1990, the site says.    

According to the website the church’s services include baptisms, weddings, Bible studies, programs for first-time offenders and Sunday services. There is no mention of exorcisms.    

The church is described as a “non-profit charitable organization whose main goal is to promote Christianity”.

A woman who answered a phone number listed on the site Wednesday refused to comment.    

Mr. Jones was charged with the offences he now faces in late August of 2014, but police said Wednesday they are concerned there may be more victims.    

Call police at 416-808-1400 or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-8477.

Jeff Mitchell is the justice reporter for Metroland Media Group in Durham Region, Ontario.

Rounding up the pedophile priests

News tells us thar police in Spain are acting

A Thought on "Victims of Legion awarded $20,000.00 for Sexual Abuse"

One thought on “Victims of the Legion Awarded $20,000 For Sexual Abuse”

• irishmexican43

January 14, 2015 at 12:37 pm Edit
 

Seems like outdated article. 

But anyway, what is 20 thousand dollars to compensate for sexual abuse by the Founder of the Millionaires of Christi? A pittance! read my ´Fr. Marcial Maciel, Pedophile, Psychopath and Legion of Christ Founder´.

• To have your youth destroyed,
• to be plagued by guilt the rest of your life, 
• to be psycho sexually damaged -to be confused about your sexuality, 
• not to have received proper psychological treatment, 
• to have your abuse denied for decades and 
• to be called a liar and calumniator, 
• to have lost your faith in the Legion, in priests, in the Catholic Church, in Christ, in God…?
• To have your experience dragged before a commission to prove that you were really abused by Fr. Maciel, the commission not being impartial because there are Legionaries of Christ sitting on the tribunal, to have to be interviewed by members of Fr. Maciel´s order and perhaps by LC´s who were his close aides….who may have known about the abuses and did nothing? 
• And to call this charade justice and charity?

Thank you, Mother Legion, for your belated twenty pieces of silver

See base article on REGAIN, regainnetwork.org

Legion of Christ

Victims of the Legion Awarded $20,000 For Sexual Abuse

January 12, 2015 ReGAIN 1 Comment Edit

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The Legionaries of Christ will pay more than $20,000 apiece to at least four victims sexually abused by the order’s Mexican founder, Father Marcial Maciel, three years after his death, a spokesman said on Thursday.
Maciel was an influential figure in the Roman Catholic Church who had the ear of the late Pope John Paul II.
But he died in 2008 at the age of 87, disgraced by allegations he sexually abused men and young boys, including a man who said he was Maciel’s son.
The Maciel scandal is just one in a series of revelations about priest sex abuse to rock the Catholic Church.
Founded by Maciel when he was in his early 20s, the Legion is a priestly order that runs private Catholic schools and charitable organizations in 22 countries via its network of 800 priests and 2,600 seminarians.
Accusations that Maciel lived a disturbing double-life, fathered children and was addicted to morphine-like drugs, have weakened the powerful order that boasted members of some of Mexico’s wealthiest families.
Despite years of allegations, Maciel was spared official condemnation until 2006 when Pope Benedict obliged him to retire to a life of “prayer and penitence.”
The payments of between $21,000 and $28,000 will be given to four or five victims and more compensation could follow, said Andreas Schoggl, a spokesman for the Legionaries of Christ in Vatican City.
“It’s a way to repair damage and hopefully it’s a way of healing,” Schoggl said.
The compensation payments are a result of a commission set up in 2010 by the Vatican to probe abuses by Maciel. The sums are modest compared to million-dollar payouts awarded to victims of priest abuse in the United States.
In the largest settlement of its kind, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2007 agreed to pay $660 million to 500 victims of sexual abuse dating as far back as the 1940s. The U.S. church has paid $2 billion to victims since 1992.
Schoggl declined to provide details on how many people the commission has interviewed but said at least one of Maciel’s victims is from Mexico

 

The Resistence of the Bishops of Ireland to Investigate Clergy Sex Abuse - Mary Mc Aleese, former President of Ireland

                                          

A recnt address given by the former President of the Republic of Ireland, Northern Irish Catholic Mary Mc Aleese where she speaks of a senior Irish cleric who went to her for advice re the clergy abuse scandal but would not hear of a Church Investigation!

Here is a link to the audio

Remember Sex Abuse in the Legion of Christ described by author in
Marcial Maceil, Pedophile, Psychopath and Founder of the Legion of Christi 
 on Amazon & Kindle

http://www.amazon.es/Marcial-Pedophile-Psychopath-Founder-Benedict-ebook/dp/B009ZKEA2A/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=

and what he described in his memoir,
Our Father Maciel, who art in bed, A Naive and Sentimental Dubliner in the Legion of Christ
written before Maciel died and the whole truth about him was revealed.

http://www.amazon.com/Father-Maciel-Sentimental-Dubliner-Legion-ebook/dp/B00519TUQU/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1&qid=1411163955