Judge Rudolph Randa, the lame duck Republican judge for the Eastern
Federal District of Wisconsin signed off on Archbishop’s Burial Insurance
Perpetual Care Cemetery shell game Scam recently.
I say lame duck as Judge Randa resigned his
seat in 2008 on condition of it being filled only by a Bush 43 appointment
before 2009. The appointment never happened, so Republican Hack Toady Federal
Judge gives lives on in federal court to give a figurative free bl*wj*b to his fellow Republican friend and fellow Catholic Archbishop Timmy Dolan as well as a potential free get out of jail card protecting him from federal prosecution, helping him to continue to screw for a
second time Milwaukee’s Catholic Clergy abuse and rape victims.
A federal judge in Wisconsin handed down an opinion yesterday granting
the Catholic Church — and indeed, potentially all religious institutions — such
sweeping immunity from federal bankruptcy law that it is not clear that it
would permit any plaintiff to successfully sue any church in any court. While
the ostensible issue in this case is whether over $50 million in church funds
are shielded from a bankruptcy proceeding triggered largely by a flood of
clerical sex abuse claims against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Judge Rudolph
Randa reads the church’s constitutional and legal right to religious liberty so
broadly as to render religious institutions immune from much of the law.
Tim Dolan was
giving depositions just as he was borrowing a billionaire’s jet to hop the
Atlantic and take Rome by Media Storm. But not to worry. The cemetery deal was
about burying cash and not bodies – ha ha.
Then again I
can remember Governor Fife Syminton III of Arizona running for Governor not to be governor but solely to
avoid prosecution in the Savings and Loan fraund scandal in Phoenix and let’s not
forget Governor George W. Bush of Texas about to be indicted in the Enron Fraud
thing. Seeking and holding a higher office can keep the dogs of justice at bay sometimes.
Now would be a good time for Tim
to move on to bigger and better things.
God knows
that Benedict was not Rock Star material.
And if the modern papacy is to be of
the John Paul II model, the Rock Star PR Media fantasia thing, then Tim Dolan
is the next pope coming from the PR, BS Media Capital of the Planet, New York City.
Seems like
yesterday I had never heard of Tim Dolan from Milwaukee and he shows up
unannounced to become the instant favorite son of Gotham City. Wow. Instant local media celebrity. Don't bother to check to see how dirty his laundry coming from Milwaukee is - his drawers etc. - (nasty business - the truth)
Hiding Assets in a Graveyard to Cheat Victims is both a Crime and a "Sin"
Mafia King Benedict XVI’s chief henchman in the United
States gets some push back from the federal court on his infamous attempt to
hide assets and cheat victims of child abuse in Milwaukee.
When he was Archbishop of Milwaukee, Timothy Dolan chose
the dead people, placing $55 million into cemetery trust funds and out of the
reach of local abuse victims suing the Church. (They want compensation for the
suffering caused by childhood sexual trauma.) Dolan left Milwaukee to take the
most visible post in Catholic America -- cardinal of New York City - but he could
not escape his choice. The victims asked a federal bankruptcy judge to reverse
him, and on Friday she did. For now the $55 million is available to settle
hundreds of well-documented cases in which priests raped and sexually molested
children and adolescents.
Bankruptcy Judge Susan V. Kelley discussed her decision
in court on Friday, explaining that neither First Amendment protections for
religion nor federal law protect the archdiocese from her authority. She sided
with creditors in the bankruptcy proceedings, who said the main purpose of the
2008 transfer was to place it out of their reach. In fact the archdiocese had
managed the task of mowing the grass and otherwise maintaining cemeteries for
generations without a $55 million trust generating income for that purpose.
Pedophile Bonus Paying
Archbishop Timmy Dolan to Bless the GOP Convention.
Dolan has been
curiously silent since his Bonuses to Perverts Program in his salad days in
Milwaukee scandal broke in the Press recently.
Off to Ireland for an official Church conference and not a peep since in the media
until present when he announces his love of the property party – Angry White
Man’s Party – the GOP.
While he has not
officially given the Papist Seal of Approval to the Romney Ryan Ticket, Timmy
has expressed his approval of Catholic Paul Ryan as his kind of “boy”.
With Dolan away on vacation in Ireland, William Donohue over
at Catholic League can relax, get a pedicure, toe paint and write the odd
interview piece about women not fit to be nuns, the usual bully he-man woman
haters club stuff he and the Cardinal famously get off on.
FOKS NEWS, fairly unbalanced is complaining that the librul
press is ignoring Catholic Institutions suing the Negro Administration over
forcing healthcare on its employees who are happy to live in the fourteenth
century under the wisdom, love and guidance of the Medieval Bishops Guild or
USCCB.
But seriously folks, "Big Bill" Donohue, over at the "Catholic" League, is trying to use Secular events to gauge and justify Timmy Dolan’s
Bonus program for Pedophiles in Milwaukee which was definitely religious in
origin and not secular.
Secular is not Religious! Religious cannot be Secular.
One has to wonder what sort of cash has already been paid
out in bonuses to perverts using the bottomless resources of the Archdiocese of
New York with the New York City News Media afraid to print any truth about the local
Prince Bishop since hick from the sticks (Milwaukee) Timmy arrived in the big city.
None of these incidents—and there are hundreds like
them—will ever get the goat of those taking cheap shots at Cardinal Dolan. He
inherited a big problem from the disgraced Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert
Weakland, and did what he could to correct matters. Moreover, unlike public
school employers, he didn’t grant lifetime salaries and benefits to suspected
offenders. He should be commended, not condemned, for doing so.
You cannot use secular standards to justify your crimes
against humanity cover up in Milwaukee without it being a direct attack of my “Secular
Liberty” being trampled on by the jack boots of “Religious Liberty” and its proponents,
paid for sycophant media stooges like Bill Donohue.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan's Throne in St. Patrick's Cathedral NYC
“What does it profit a man (or a
bishop) if he gain the whole world and lose his immortal soul”
We lowly peasants are so lucky in
our lifetime to see the death of democracy in America and the rise from the
ashes of the royal priestly order of the Roman Pagan Church.
Above is the royal throne of
Cardinal Dolan in New York City. You can
join the tourists anytime and do a walkthrough of St. Patrick’s Cathedral even
with the ongoing Mass ritual thing on stage.
You’ll have to wait in between performances to get near and take
pictures of His Eminence’s throne.
From the similar throne in
Milwaukee, below, Timothy darling dispensed Church bribe bonuses to child
raping pedophiles for their good work in their church as an offer to leave. Presuming their guilt as abusers of children,
Archbishop Dolan never once thought to call the cops. His has a higher calling to the Pope, the
Vatican Bank and his own corrupt ambitions to become pope.
The pedophile priests were also
offered pensions and health care that included a Viagra medication benefit. Wink. Nod.
Great job boys! (Timmy smiley face.)
The idea and revulsion of a
throne in America, Cardinal Dolan's Throne in particular, was brought up in another blog Slacktivist written by a Baptist who backed down in a future blog and apologized for being anti-Catholic.
Being against evil Catholic clerics, or the obscene anti-humanist Pagan symbols of their office - is no sin. Sorry the power and prestige of men walking
around in $30,000 Cardinal outfits can brow beat down morality among so many milk
toast Protestants.
“The mediocre I vomit them out.”
Archbishop Dolan's Throne in St John the Evangelist Cathedral Milwaukee from whence were distributed the Bishop's Bonus to Pedophiles
"The road to HELL is lined with the skulls of Roman Catholic Bishops." Wink. Nod.
This is all old stuff and perhaps sour grapes and probably a
federal crime if you could find a prosecutor with the balls, using R.I.C.O.
laws, to challenge the creative bookkeeping of Timmy Dolan to hide assets with
the dead in order to cheat child abuse victims out of just compensation for
their suffering and ordeal of having been victims of the RCC's delusional (not of Jesus) Celibacy Sexual Mask practice.
Marek was referring to the Beneficial Interest in
Cemetery Perpetual Care Trust, a pivotal issue in the proceedings.
NCR provided a copy of the hearing transcript to Jack
Ruhl, a professor of accountancy at Western Michigan University who has done
extensive research on diocesan financial statements. Ruhl is also a 1978
graduate of Worsham College of Mortuary Science in Wheeling, Ill., and was a
licensed funeral director in Michigan for several years before earning his
doctorate in accountancy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Referring to the transcript, Ruhl told NCR: “When Marek
says, ‘We don’t own the trust’, I would ask: Then why does the trust appear as
an asset on the archdiocesan balance sheet? The definition of an asset is
something that provides future economic benefit. When the archdiocese
classified the [cemetery] trust account on their balance sheet as an asset,
they acknowledged that the trust provides future benefit. The things we
laypeople call assets -- our homes, cars, investment funds -- means that we own
them, and to say otherwise in this case is misleading.”
On the 2007 archdiocesan balance sheet, Ruhl explained,
the asset account with the largest balance, at $59.9 million, has a specific
title: “Assets designated for future care of cemeteries and mausoleums, primarily
cash and investments.”
In contrast, the 2007 balance sheet shows an asset
account called “Beneficial Interest in Cemetery Perpetual Care Trust” with a
zero balance.
“In other words, they zeroed out one account and
transferred most of the funds to a new account,” Ruhl explained. “From an
accounting standpoint, all Dolan did was rename the assets. It was a shell
game.”
Fat Timmy Dolan’s Simony-ious rise to power in the American
RC hierarchy started in his days of greasing the palms of perverts in Milwaukee
and cooking the books to cheat victims of the much loved and tolerated RC
clergy practice of pedophilia.
Victim/survivors of childhood sexual violence by clergy of
the Milwaukee archdiocese, including leaders of SNAP, the Survivors Network of
those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org/SNAPwisconsin.com) will release and
discuss newly uncovered minutes from a March 2003 Milwaukee Archdiocese Finance
council meeting where former Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Milwaukee auxiliary
Bishop Richard Sklba discuss using church funds to:
–pay off known priest pedophiles and child molesters $20,000
each to quietly leave the priesthood,
–set up a “restorative justice” program to prevent victims
from receiving compensation for injuries comparable to cases being filed
against the archdiocese of Milwaukee in California, and
–move millions of dollars from the archdiocese into a newly
invented “trust” to prevent compensating victims, the first of several such
“trusts” to be set up before the archdiocese declared bankruptcy in 2011.
Victims will also be emailing a letter Wednesday to current
Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki demanding:
–full financial disclosure of all payouts and “laicization”
bonuses to sex offender clerics,
–which charitable funds were used to pay-off clergy sex
offenders, and
–the release of the “Dolan Papers”, including all minutes of
the monthly Archdiocese Finance Council chaired by Dolan and auxiliary Bishop
Richard Sklba.
I am old enough to remember when Richard Nixon stonewalled the federal prosecutors and the press over his crimes committed in the Watergate Scandal.
Having recently seen the movie Frost/Nixon, you see that Nixon said something to the effect that anything a President does is not a crime - The Nixon Defense so to speak. Nixon in the role of American King Richard I was a tragic figure worthy of a Shakespearian play.
As I see this VaticanGate sex abuse scandal unfolding at the feet of Benedict XVI, I cannot but help see similarities in the major hubris with which kings treat their crimes against the state and humanity. Benedict is stonewalling. He is running out the clock of his papacy because as a man of his age, he does not have much longer to endure or having to keep the modern world from his Ivory Tower world of fantasy and religion.
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With a mere lengthly papal letter of apology to the People of Ireland for the thousands of sexually abused children over decades of religious institutional authority – it got met with a big Irish YAWN. The Irish problem was that the state outsourced tens of thousands of orphans to slavery workhouse, sweatshop conditions of church institutions and the kids also got buggered as well in that bargain with the devil.
A letter from a lifelong bureaucrat in the Vatican does not hack it for the Irish or for the rest of Humanity as well.
This papal letter post scripts a long, concise and documented account of abuse by Irish clergy that was conducted by present day civil appointed authorities in Ireland. Those recent reports came to light in a secular day just as this sexuality problem, scandal, of celibate priests goes into its second decade, first in the United States and now leapfrogging to Europe.
The Ireland issue has triggered a Eurpopean bursting of the dam of silence over clerical buggery in many countries including the native Germany of the Pope. His deafness while at meetings about a certain German buggering priest that went on until last week was the hallmark of his Archbishop of Munich job done so well that they promoted him to the Vatican in the early 1980’s.
Revelations that the Vatican halted the investigation of a Wisconsin priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys have eerie echoes in Italy, where 67 deaf men and women accused two dozen priests of raping and molesting children for years.
Only now — a year after the Italian case became public — is the Vatican directing the diocese to interview the victims to hear their testimony about the accusations, The Associated Press learned Thursday.
The two cases are the latest in a burgeoning abuse scandal on both sides of the Atlantic that now threatens to tarnish the papacy itself. The office charged with disciplining clergy was long led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, and a church prosecution in the Wisconsin case was stopped after an appeal to Ratzinger.
And:
On Friday, The New York Times reported that the future pope was kept more closely apprised of a German priest's sex abuse case in 1980 than previous church statements have suggested.
The case of the German priest, the Rev. Peter Hullermann, has acquired fresh relevance because it unfolded at a time when Cardinal Ratzinger, who was later put in charge of handling thousands of abuse cases on behalf of the Vatican, was in a position to refer the priest for prosecution, or at least to stop him from coming into contact with children, the Times said.
Cardinal Ratzinger was copied on a memo that told him that a priest, whom he had approved sending to therapy in 1980 to overcome pedophilia, would return to pastoral work within days of beginning psychiatric treatment, the Times said. The priest was later convicted of molesting boys in another German parish.
Three deaf men who say they were repeatedly abused by priests as children have confronted an Italian church diocese about why it has not punished their abusers, saying they want justice.
The three men appeared on a prime-time talk show on Italy's state-run RAI TV, squaring off with the spokesman of the Verona diocese amid a swirling global sex abuse scandal that has inched closer to Pope Benedict XVI.
The spokesman, the Rev Bruno Fasani, said he hoped the confrontation would be constructive and he welcomed meeting the men for the first time.
But the former students of Verona's Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf refused to shake his hand during the show. One of the three, Dario Laiti, 59, said he couldn't bring himself to greet the prelate. …
Advocates for the victims, however, said the diocese investigation was fatally flawed because no one interviewed the former students.
The pope’s handling of German matters perhaps triggered a matter whereby the Vatican guy Joe Ratzinger squashed an investigation of an American priest that abused over two hundred deaf children in an institution of the deaf for many decades in the Milwaukee diocese.
The deaf in Italy are now talking out – out of frustration of not being heard – after the statutes of limitations have passed. The victims want closure and not forgiveness for their sin of tempting good priests to sin – or at least that is the medieval view from the Vatican on all this fuss about the mere abuse of children at the expense of the church’s prestige and “good” name.
Joe Ratzinger was the best of the best that John Paul II could put in charge of keeping the lid on this worldwide, decades - centuries long secret obscene behavior of the clergy.
Joe Ratzinger, the best of the best, has turned out quite mediocre and flat in light of victims who do not want a sacred letter of apology but instead want secular, human justice.
