Posts tagged abuse of power

• Message to Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann: Leave Gov. Kathleen Sebelius Alone

  Paul Kiesel | March 10, 2009 4:15 PM | 4 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City has been spewing his vile opinions in regards to President Obama's selection of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as the Health and Human Services...

• CBS News: Father Craig Takes the Stand in Fresno Clergy Sex Abuse Trial

  Paul Kiesel | March 27, 2009 7:59 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  From CBS47: On Thursday, attorneys for the church called a key witness to the stand. Father Rod Craig grew up in Wasco and attended the church where two brothers claim they were sexually abused by...

• The Catholic Church Still Doesn't Want You to Know Its Secrets

  Paul Kiesel | July 23, 2009 4:42 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  From the Associated Press: NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Roman Catholic diocese in Connecticut sought Friday to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep under wraps sex abuse documents that could shed...

• Fresno Diocese Continues to Let "Accused" Child Molester Work with Children

  Paul Kiesel | March 19, 2009 7:20 PM | 12 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A little over two years ago, a Fresno jury found Father Eric Swearingen guilty (9-3) of molesting a former altar boy, however, Bishop John J. Steinbock has continued to allow this man to work with...

• Cardinal Mahony's Effort to Block Iraq War Veteran's Sexual Abuse Claim

  Paul Kiesel | February 27, 2009 7:49 PM | 19 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Below is a story that details Los Angeles Archbishop Roger Mahony acting in typical Cardinal Mahony fashion: As a suppresser of truth and a promoter of impostures and mistruths. From Los Angeles...

• Bishop Madera: People Came to Him with Complaints of Priest Abuse and He'd Suggest They Write and Send a Letter to the Abuser

  Paul Kiesel | March 25, 2009 9:06 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  From CBS 47 in Fresno: MISTRUTHS WATERED-DOWN The former Bishop of the Fresno Archdiocese takes the stand in the sexual abuse trial against the Catholic Church. Bishop Joseph Madere told jurors...

• America's Worst Bishops

  Paul Kiesel | March 09, 2009 8:26 PM | 5 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  There are obviously many more pedophile-priests than what is listed below, however, these vignettes are from a 2002 blog, right before the news media caught on to the clergy sex abuse...

• AP: Catholic Hierarchy was Aware of Pedophile Priest Problem in the 1950s

  Paul Kiesel | March 30, 2009 8:10 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  From The Associated Press: The founder of a religious order that treats Roman Catholic priests who molest children concluded in the 1950s that offenders were unlikely to change and should not be...

• Bishop Steinbock Continues to Blur Belief and Fact in Fresno Clergy Sex Abuse Trial

  Paul Kiesel | March 24, 2009 6:57 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  BELIEF: Bishop Steinbock continues to give seemingly contradictory statements in the Fresno Clergy Sex Abuse Trial, like I have never returned anyone to ministry that I believe was guilty of sex...

• Closing Arguments at Fresno Clergy Sex Abuse Trial

  Paul Kiesel | April 01, 2009 6:54 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  From CBS 47: An emotional sexual abuse trial is nearing the end. Closing arguments are underway in the case against the Fresno Catholic Diocese. Wednesday morning, the alleged victims' attorneys...