Three alleged predators go to San Diego
By David Clohessy
It’s 23 degrees in St. Louis, the coldest day of winter so far. At times like this, my mind wanders to the hundreds of proven, admitted and credibly accused predator priests who’ve quietly been sent or moved to warmer clients.
Today, I think of two who are in San Diego and one who was arrested there:
--Fr. Denis Heames of Saginaw now works for San Diego lawyer Richard McEntyre (619-221-0279). He claims, on his Linked In page, that he moved to California for "family" reasons. But Fr. Heames makes no mention of the pending lawsuit against him which says he sexually exploited a 22 year old student who worked under him. Nor does he mention the findings by officials at Central Michigan University that he sexually harassed that brave young woman,
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2016/01_02/2016_02_15_Sydney_Life_Internal_sexually.htm
https://www.linkedin.com/in/denis-heames-9a9736122
--Fr. Paul E. Hosler of Kansas City Kansas works (as best we can tell) for Catholic Charities of San Diego. https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-hosler-15237ba9
He’s accused of breaking his vow of celibacy and sexually exploiting at least one married adult parishioner back in Kansas. Larry Davis of Lenexa saw his 11 year marriage “wrecked” when his wife was sexually manipulated by Fr. Hosler.
http://www.snapnetwork.org/ks_man_appeals_to_vatican
--Joel A. Wright of Vermont and Ohio (Steubenville and Columbus) is now in prison. In January, he was arrested in San Diego. Why? Because he was trying to buy babies and toddlers to abuse them.
He’s back in the news again, thanks to SNAP leaders Judy Jones, Jeff Koenig, Jeanette Westbrook, Warren Tucker and John Pfeiffer and Cal Pfeiffer.
http://www.wave3.com/story/34009427/snap-takes-list-of-concerns-to-archdiocese
In case you’re curious, here’s where the buck stops with these alleged predators.
The prelate charged with protecting people from Fr. Heames is Saginaw Bishop Joseph Cistone.
The prelate charged with protecting people from Fr. Hosler is Archbishop Joseph Naumann.
The prelate charged with protecting people from Wright is Steubenville Bishop Jeffrey Montforton.
It will surprise no one but, as best we can tell, none of these three bishops has taken a single step to protect others from these clerics (like publicly disclose that they’ve moved, alerting neighbors, friends, co-workers or other unsuspecting families).
And the way, two of these cases involve adult sexual misconduct. Many know about child molesting Catholic clerics. But few realize priests abusing vulnerable adult parishioners is as or more widespread but still deeply hidden. It’s always wrong and hurtful for doctors to have sex with patients, therapists to have sex with clients and ministers to have sex with congregants. That’s especially true in Catholicism, where parishioners are taught, from birth, to respect and trust priests as holy celibate men who can forgive sins and get them into heaven.
(In fact, in 17 states, it’s a crime for a cleric to have sex with a congregant.)
Anyway, we should all be careful, regardless of geography or weather, around priests and ex-priests whose movements seem suspicious.
Winter Appeal 2023
To our friends,
2023 has been a long year with many ups and downs for us all. As we close out the year, we at SNAP hope that you are feeling like you are on your way to being healthy, fulfilled, and happy. This past year has brought both successes and challenges. Thanks to the support you have shown in the past, we’ve been able to celebrate the good days and weather the stormy ones. Now, we are once again asking for your support as we work to support survivors new and old as we ‘Move SNAP Forward.’
At SNAP we are proud to have hosted a very well-attended conference in August 2023. This event allowed us to gather friends, survivors, advocates, and allies for a weekend of camaraderie and connection. We were so happy to be able to welcome many first-time attendees to gather in person and are already looking forward to the next conference.
To strengthen our movement for justice, healing, and prevention, SNAP will be expanding our peer support and providing more volunteer opportunities in the coming year. Through this great work, we are ensuring survivor voices are represented as we work for significant change that will benefit children and survivors.
Right now, survivors worldwide are getting the help they need from SNAP, and more and more reach out to us daily, but we need your help to keep those programs going and get our volunteers the training they need to thrive.
Your tax-deductible gift to SNAP can help offset the cost of our important mission. If you are not in a position to contribute, you can still support us by sharing this letter with those who can. As we continue to fight for survivors across the globe, your donation or sharing the great work SNAP does will help us continue our work to protect the vulnerable, heal the wounded, and prevent abuse.
Your donation ensures SNAP will be there for those who need us more than ever!
Warmly,
Michael W. McDonnell, C.P.S.
Interim Executive Director
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Satanic motivation for harming children:
One final point about the living devil. One of its favorite satanic tactics is to hurt or traumatize someone that learned something about it that it doesn’t want them to remember about it! Something parents all of the world should be aware of concerning when their children are left alone with teachers or supervisors.
It is hard to explain any better than that but it is beast psychology! It sees things through the looking glass of your cognition! And it feels that if it can erase the memory in that cognition through the distraction of traumatizing you that the truth or reality of itself is no longer a valid negative! A simple way to remember it might be, it spills milk and immediately blinds the person who saw it spill the milk? Or rather it is how you show a cat a picture of itself in the mirror and it can’t stand to look at it because that image isn’t what it believes itself to be?
© 2017 Thomas Murphy