MD--Supporters to leaflet at Catholic Community at Relay
Supporters to leaflet at Catholic Catholic Community at Relay
They challenge pope to demote bishops
SNAP: “Church officials refuse to do aggressive outreach”
So group asks parishioners to “search for wounded survivors”
“Post names of proven predators on church websites,” victims say
What:
On the cusp of Pope Francis’ first-ever visit to the US, as parishioners enter mass, abuse victims will hand out fliers urging church goers. The leaflets list the names of 66 publicly accused child molesting child molesting Catholic clerics in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and urges the local bishop to
--disclose the names of other proven, admitted or credibly accused predators, and
--post all church predators’ names on his diocesan website and in church bulletins (like 30 US bishops have done).
The fliers also urge Catholic church members to
--question loved ones about these child molesting clerics (“Did any of these clerics ever hurt you?”) and
--prod anyone who has “seen, suspected or suffered clergy sex crimes of cover ups to call law enforcement.”
WHEN
Sunday, Sept. 13 at 9:10 a.m. for 9:30 Mass.
WHERE
On the sidewalk outside the Catholic Community at Relay, 5029 Cedar Avenue, Relay, MD 21227
WHO
A support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org).
WHY
While Catholic officials pretend that the on-going clergy sex abuse and cover up crisis is waning, thousands of proven, admitted and credibly accused predator priests are living among unsuspecting neighbors with little or no supervision. (Several hundred are on sex offender registries but most are not. And most have not been defrocked.)
Some, in fact, are still in church jobs:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/10/pope-francis-remove-the-usas-predator-priests/
For the safety of parishioners, SNAP wants Pope Francis to “defrock, demote or discipline” bishops who continue to “protect predators and endanger kids,” especially by keeping names of child molesting clerics secret.
For more than 25 years, SNAP has repeatedly urged bishops to “aggressively seek out and help” the thousands of victims “still trapped in silence, shame and self-blame.” But bishops refuse to do anything but the most minimal moves, the group contends.
So now, SNAP is prodding rank-and-file Catholics to take this step. Specifically, the organization is asking parishioners to circulate lists of publicly accused predator priests in their dioceses and ask loved ones if any of them were hurt by any of the priests.
SNAP also wants church-goers to push bishops to post these names on church websites. More than two dozen prelates have done this:
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AtAGlance/lists.htm
According to BishopAccountability.org (an independent on-line archive of the church abuse and cover up crisis), the publicly accused child molesting clerics in this diocese are:
1. William Steven Albaugh
2. James Avant
3. Michael Lowell Barnes
4. Thomas J. Bauerfeind
5. Thomes R. Bevan
6. Maurice J. Blackwell
7. Louis A. Bonacci
8. Frederick C. Brinkmann
9. Gerard Bugge
10. John Carney
11. Douglas Carroll
12. Brian Cox
13. Fernando Cristancho
14. Robert Cullen
15. John Danilak
16. Richard Deakin
17. Alfred Dean
18. Donald Dimitroff
19. James Dowdy
20. John H. Duggan
21. Frederick H. Duke
22. Kenneth Farabaugh
23. Joseph P Gallagher
24. Joseph Gerg
25. Steven R. Girard
26. Marion Francis Helowicz
27. Robert F. Hopkins
28. Paul Knapp
29. Michael Kolodziej
30. William Earl “Jay” Krouse, IV
31. Joseph Kruse
32. Thom Kuhl
33. Xavier Langan
34. Ross A. LaPorta
35. Thomas B. Lee
36. Francis J. Lefevre
37. Robert F. Lentz
38. John L. Lippold
39. Anthony Lorento
40. George B. Loskarn
41. Ronald Mardag
42. A. Joseph Maskell
43. Arthur Maurer
44. Francis McGrath
45. Ronald N. Michaud
46. John Joseph Mike, Jr.
47. Timonthy Murphy
48. James Glenn Murray
49. Robert Victor Newman
50. Henry O’Toole
51. Brian Keith Olkowski
52. Thomas Rochacewicz
53. Chalres O. Rouse
54. Thomas Rydzewski
55. William Q. Simms
56. David G. Smith
57. Richard E. Smith
58. Thomas W. Smith
59. Michael J. Spillane
60. Edmund F. Stroup
61. Francis Sweeney
62. Jerome “Jeff” F. Toohey
63. James J. Toulas
64. Gerald Tragesser
65. William C. Wehrie
66. John Wielebski
Contact:
Frank Dingle 410-744-2398, [email protected]
David Clohessy 314 566 9790, [email protected],