Monsignor William Lynn – Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Six Million Dollar Man

This is one of those I was looking for something else and found this instead kind of thing.

I was looking for the possible digital archives of the defunct Catholic Standard and Times for reference to articles of Msgr. Hawks of Saint Joan of Arc Parish in Harrowgate Philadelphia, its doors recently locked under the new Denver bean counter regime of Charles Chaput.

I also found the beginnings of a story about the Standard and Times announced shutting down, getting the axe for budgetary reasons and that 40 employees would lose their Jobs. As far as I can see about 25 full time employees got the sack. 

Being a tax free religious institution, the Archdiocese, employer at the Standard and Times is not liable to pay unemployment compensation to the 25 canned employees. There were also 20 freelance employees who more or less I would assume were self-employed contractors.

Through the transition, the old General Manager of the Standard is Matthew Gambino who probably handed out the pink slips and a holy card to departing fellow employees when the Standard was more or less put on line under the Catholic Philly site label.

Have seen a few headlines of Matthew Gambino who now is the Philly Archdiocese equivalent of one man with a computer a la Bill Donohue over at the Catholic League who being the PR man and gatekeeper to the Archdiocese of NYC.

And not to forget Gambino's many many articles at National Catholic Reporter and Catholic News Service.

Here is a sample of Matthew Gambino’s writing style and bedside manner that no doubt was one reason for the demise of the Catholic Standard and Times in Philly.

http://thomnickels.blogspot.com/2011/06/fear-and-loathing-at-philadelphia.html

A candidate for the Knight of Saint Gregory for his writing skills or merely keeping the secrets of the Devil’s Tower at 222 N 17 th Street, in his corner office, one or several floors below the Cardinal’s Penthouse Executive Suite on the top 13 th floor?

Well to get to the point, apparently the Archdiocese does expose or disclose what it calls a financial disclosure statement that admits to spending close to six million dollars on the Child Abuse Trial of Monsignor William Lynn in the following article.

http://catholicphilly.com/2013/07/local-news/local-catholic-news/archdiocesan-financial-report-shows-complex-factors-leading-to-huge-deficits/

The supplemental report indicates $534,000 was spent investigating the fraudulent actions of former archdiocesan CEO Anita Guzzardi, convicted in 2012 and currently serving a two-to-seven year sentence; $4.6 million spent on an investigation related to scores of archdiocesan priests placed on administrative leave from their duties as a result of the second Philadelphia Grand Jury on clergy sexual abuse; and $6.7 million spent on the criminal trial of a priest, and an independent legal and financial review of archdiocesan operations.

Of course, none of this keeps any of the inner city churches of Harrowgate or Frankford in Philly open. Those closings were not financial as they were more due to attendance and probably more so than that to the fact of the lack of priests to go around. 

Whatever.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/22/justice/pennsylvania-priest-abuse-trial

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Cardinals Dolan - Rigali - Burke Call in Favors to Save Bobby Finn’s Little Pink Ass – Opus Dei (non-media) Event

Cardinals Dolan Rigali Burke Memorial Media Award Goes to…

It is obvious that St.Louis Archdiocese Church Mafia Alumni Cardinals Dolan, Rigali and Burke were on the phones in a constant marathon, telethon recently calling in Missouri favors, reminding pols and judges of the dirty little perverted secrets of the ruling elites as a reminder and a request to cut Bishop Bobby Finn some slack in this Child Abuse Hearing, not a trial, no jury needed to hear the evidence etc. 

God only knows what skeletons are buried or killing fields are hidden in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis Missouri.  But then again Cardinal Dolan is a renowned expert on the Catholic Cemetery Racket thing.

Two years of unsupervised probation for whatever it is that they found him guilty of regarding his friend Father Ratigan and his penchant for taking photos of naked little girls’ private parts.

As for the last minute change and in what I consider one of the most cynical acts of Goebbels style media manipulation I have seen in years, Cardinal Dolan gives a benediction at the Democratic Convention in Charlotte, a backdrop of which, made part of the last minute change of judicial venue in the Bishop Finn of Kansas City case that virtually disappeared from public attention within 24 hours.  

I almost called the same manipulation thing on the Friday afternoon guilty verdict of Monsignor Lynn, a Rigali Protege, that got drowned out in the media storm surrounding a very quick guilty verdict of Jerry Sandusky at Penn State.  A coincidence then?  If I had called it contrived, I would be called paranoid and out of touch. 

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on - not this time media boys. 

American Bishop found Guilty…a Non-Media Story. Justice-Lite. Justice Missouri style. A magic trick almost.

But more than likely Opus Dei Operative, Fox Media Consultant, Greg Burkes at the Vatican on the phone to Roger Ailes at the "Ministry of Truth" (Fox News) in New York City being advised by Roger Baby that the best cover for the conviction of an American Bishop of Child Abuse Related Charges would be the Dem Convention.  

While it is the "family value" Republicans that want to give full 14^th amendment rights to zygotes, it is the Dems who are more than likely to really care about your local priest taking naughty pictures of their little girls.

I hope Timmy Blew a kiss to Bobby last night at the his closing Hypoctitical Benediction in Charlotte. Mission accomplished.

A kiss blown to Bobby and also to all his sisters in the RC criminal sorority "ATO", Alpha Twunta Omega, aka the USCCB.

The Saint Louis Religious Criminal Mafia Alumni had a good day yesterday.

What a crock, chamber pot full of RC hierarchy, Fox News and Opus Dei goo!  Shit! - for short.

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Ju$tice at Bi$hop Finn Child Abu$e Trial Expected in Kan$a$ City Tomorrow (Wink, Nod)

The fix is in boys and girls. 

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Parents. Hide your children!

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/09/05/3798102/bishop-finns-trial-moved-to-thursday.html

“---Almost a year after Bishop Robert Finn and his diocese were charged with failing to report child-abuse suspicions, they will appear in court today to lay their case before a judge and not a jury.

In a surprising move made public Wednesday in a court filing, the bishop and the church have agreed to have a judge decide in a bench trial whether they are guilty. The move avoids a lengthy jury trial, which was set to open Sept. 24.

Prosecutors and lawyers representing Finn and the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph are sorting through a series of facts about the case, a spokesman for Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said.

“This means that all the parties in the case — the diocese, Bishop Finn and the prosecutor’s office — are negotiating what the facts and testimony will be,” said Mike Mansur. “Those will be presented to the judge.”

Jackson County Circuit Judge John Torrence is expected to issue verdicts today.

Finn and the diocese each face two misdemeanor counts of failing to report suspicions of child abuse involving their handling of hundreds of lewd photographs found on the Rev. Shawn Ratigan’s laptop computer.

Each charge against Finn carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. The diocese faces a fine of up to $5,000 for each charge.---“

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Material Witness in Lynn Child Abuse Trial Msgr. Quirk under Protection of Bishop Bransfield in W. Va Diocese – Sanctuary!

You can't touch me. I am in West Virginia.
Sanctuary!!!

Out of state witness Monsignor Michael Quirk is not available per West Virginia judge who does not think that Philly Child Abuse trial has anything to do with West Virginia.  Duh!

http://articles.philly.com/2012-04-18/news/31361900_1_west-virginia-judge-landmark-trial-trial-session

According to Blessington, an unnamed West Virginia judge has balked at honoring the district attorney's "material-witness petition" for Msgr. Michael Quirk, one of three church judges who heard the 2008 canonical trial of Brennan on child sex-abuse charges.

Brennan is a defendant in the Philadelphia criminal trial for the rape of a 14-year-old boy in 1996, an assault he has denied.

On trial with Brennan is Msgr. William J. Lynn, who as secretary for clergy of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from 1992 to 2004 was responsible for investigating allegations of sexual abuse of minors by priests. Lynn is the first church official to be criminally charged with enabling or covering up the allegations.

The prosecution in the trial, now in its fourth week, maintains that the Philadelphia Catholic Church had a long-standing pattern of trying to avoid scandal at the expense of the priests' past or future victims.

As part of the trial, Blessington has said he wants to present testimony from Quirk about Brennan's testimony during the 2008 canonical trial.

Although the canonical trial was in Philadelphia, Quirk is assigned to the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va., where he is judicial vicar and assistant to Bishop Michael J. Bransfield.

A week ago, prosecutors approached Sarmina at the end of a trial session and asked for her to write asking the West Virginia judge to honor the petition from a Pennsylvania Common Pleas Court.

Although state court subpoenas usually have no effect on other state's courts, they are often honored as a matter of courtesy among judges.

The West Virginia judge has apparently decided that Quirk's testimony would not rise to the level of being a "material witness" and has not honored the petition.

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Timing of Bevilacqua Death “Peculiar” – Montgomery Country D.A. Risa Vetri Ferman

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120211_Montgomery_County_district_attorney_explains_her_calling_for_Bevilacqua_exam.html?cmpid=124488489

“…Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman asked the county coroner to examine the body of Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua last week because the timing of the 88-year-old prelate's death struck her as "peculiar," she said Friday.

Ferman acknowledged that she enlisted county Coroner Walter I. Hofman because the cardinal died one day after a Philadelphia judge said Bevilacqua could be called to testify at the child sex-abuse and endangerment trial of three current and former priests.

"I had the same reaction that many people had and that many people communicated with me," Ferman told reporters at a news conference in Norristown. "It struck many of us as odd, as peculiar, that the cardinal passed away so suddenly after the court ruling. . . . I just thought that someone should make sure that nothing happened that was inappropriate."

Ferman said she had no information to suggest that the cardinal was the victim of foul play or an unnatural death. She said her office had not opened an investigation…”




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