Protesting Helps Me Cope

 protesting today in Hudson, MA, rainy but what a great turnout!

Being together with people who care about each other and this country helps me with the PTSD that the abuse by the catholic church did to me.

CATHOLICS HOLD A DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE OF DODGER STADIUM

 

My friend Dwayne James Mitchell sent the following:

LOS ANGELES: ---- Catholics hold a demonstration outside of the DODGER stadium. They were holding signs stating "Stop anti Catholic Hate," and "God will not be mocked." ------ The protesters surrounded the main entrance to the Dodger Stadium on Friday, just hours before "The Sister of Perpetual Indulgence" were to receive an award on LGBTQ Pride Night.

I  (Dwayne) find this protest / demonstration to be very interesting, and one sided. The Catholic Faithful gathered to protest this issue and this group, but 17,000 + boys in the United States alone were sexually molested by Catholic Priests, and we have not seen any protests outside of Catholic Churches over this issue. If the Catholic Faithful want to hold the religious line, let them start by cleaning out their own religious closet. ---- The Catholic Faithful should be outraged over this issue, but they are silent! ---- 

The question is why? Are they afraid of the Church? Are they afraid of the Priests? Are they afraid of excommunication? Are they afraid for their soul if they speak out? ----- I think that there is a double standard. If they go after the LGBTQ community over this issue, they should also be willing to hold their Priests to the same standards. Children in the Church were sexually abused, and the membership of the Church does not seem to care? This proves that the Catholic Church is totally corrupt, or at least, at best, it has a double standard! The Catholic Church has been in the past, and is now, in the here and now, being directed by fakes, frauds, phonies, con-artists, and corrupt individuals. The only truth about the Catholic Church is that it has no truth, ethics or morals. ---- It is the Used Car lot of the Christian faith. ---- All "shiny on the outside," but no substance of "quality on the inside."

TOXIC PEOPLE AND TOXIC ORGANIZATIONS: Example – the Catholic Church

This is an essay written by my friend Dwyane James Mitchell who has had his experiences with the Catholic Church. It also applies to psychopaths and narcissists – many of which inhabit the Catholic Church and other organizations and political parties: 

QUESTION: ---- What is a toxic person, and / or a toxic organization? 

ANSWER: ---- A toxic person / organization is someone or some group, who brings negativity into your life and / or the lives of others. They are draining. They make the people feel bad about themselves, and they are simply not good for a person's over all mental health. 

Common characteristics to be aware of when you are dealing with toxic people and / or organizations. They: 

1.) Are in constant need of attention. 

2.) Are manipulative. 

3.) Demand that you accommodate them, and their organization. 

4.) Like to play the role of the victim. 

5.) Do not like to listen to you, but rather, they want you to listen to them. 6.) Drama follows them wherever they go. 

7.) Never apologize and / or own up to their own actions and / or mistakes. 8.) Play mind games with you. 

9.) Try to control you, and your perceptions of reality and situations. 

10.) Do not respect your time, and / or you as a person. 

11.) Demand that you accommodate them 24 / 7 / 365. 

12.) Use money to control you. 

13.) Like to bring you down when you are happy. 

14.) Are bullies. 

15.) Push their beliefs on to you. 

16.) Expect loyalty, but are not loyal themselves. 

17.) Are judgmental and critical. 

18.) Guilt trip you. 

19.) Are very negative. 

CONCLUSION: ---- This describes the Criminal Catholic Church, and the Catholic Clergy.

Pope to apologize to Canadian indigenous peoples

How does one apologize for the unforgivable? Pope Francis will visit a handful of First Nations communities in Canada, during which he is expected to personally atone for abuses. The full text of the suggested apology crafted by the National Indian Residential School Circle of Survivors is below: "On behalf of the Catholic Church, I acknowledge and accept responsibility for the grave harms that were caused by our participation with Canada, in implementing Canada’s Indian Residential School assimilation policy. In its implementation of Canada’s assimilation policy, the Catholic Church adopted practices and procedures designed to prohibit First Nation, Métis and Inuit children from speaking their languages, practicing their cultures and learning about their rights by separating them from their families and communities. Most children in the care and control of the Catholic Church Indian Residential Schools endured malnutrition, neglect, trauma and substandard education. Many died under questionable circumstances, many from diseases, especially tuberculosis, which disproportionately infected children at Indian Residential Schools due to negligence by our Catholic Church employees. Many of these children were buried in unmarked graves at the school sites and their parents were not notified of their deaths and never given the opportunity to bring their children home for proper burial. Other children suffered physical abuse, psychological abuse, spiritual abuse and sexual abuse by Catholic Church caregivers and other Indian Residential School employees. When these abusers were exposed, the Catholic Church failed to report them to the proper authorities, and instead, transferred them to other schools. The belief underlying the policy of assimilation was that First Nations, Métis and Inuit cultures and spiritual beliefs were inferior to that of Europeans. This Eurocentric view can be traced to the Papal Bulls of 1455 and 1493, when my predecessors, of those times, denied all sovereignty to non-Christian First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. In implementing the Papal Bulls, the colonizers seized all property, claimed ownership of “discovered” “new” lands, and enslaved and eliminated all the original owners of the land, which history confirms were First Nations people. The Catholic Church now acknowledges that the consequences of its participation in implementing Canada’s assimilation policy upon First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were profoundly damaging and had a lasting impact on First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples and their communities. The Catholic Church accepts that its role in Canada’s assimilation policy which removed children from their homes in order to separate them from their families and communities with the objective of destroying their languages, traditions and cultures was wrong, and I apologize. In moving towards a better, more productive and respectful relationship, I commit the Catholic Church to support the co-development of processes with First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples for the renunciation of the Doctrine of Discovery, reparations, restitution, repatriation, and real conciliation and the reconciliation of their respective rights. On behalf of the Catholic Church, I apologize for the role it played in carrying out Canada’s policy of assimilation through its Indian Residential School system. On behalf of the Catholic Church, I extend my profound remorse and sincere apology to each and every survivor, your families and communities. I humbly ask for your forgiveness.” This is what he should say but will he say it? Up to now he only apologices for “a number of Catholics” who were abusers when in fact it is the whole institution. Read the whole great article: https://tinyurl.com/3tkwsfts

PEOPLE ARE LEAVING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH!

Here is a post written by my friend Dwayne James Mitchell PEOPLE ARE FINALLY SEEING THE LIGHT, AND THEY ARE LEAVING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH! The faithful of the Catholic Church are finally fed up with the lies of the Priests, Bishops, Cardinals and the Pope! They are deciding to leave the Church, because they have lost trust in the Catholic Church Corporation, and the clergy who is a part of that corrupted scam corporation! It is comforting to see the Catholic Church, and their Catholic Schools slowly sink below the waves, and the beautiful part, is that they destroyed themselves through their own arrogance. I am a happy camper, when I see a Catholic Church and a Catholic School closing. This means that another child has been saved from the Criminal Catholic Church Clergy and their sick philosophy of life! The faithful are leaving the Criminal Catholic Church because of the staggering amount of sex abuse crimes that have been committed against children since the 40’s, and maybe even earlier. Many of the faithful were victims of physical, sexual and mental abuse by the nuns in Catholic Schools. ---- Yes, nuns also abused children. The time has come for the faithful to speak out against the Criminal Catholic Church Clergy, and to stand firm as a group with those people who have suffered at the hands of these religious criminals. In the past, the Catholic Clergy taught the children “not to question the Catholic Church.” They told the children that to “question the Church was a grave sin!” This seed was put into the minds of the children to intimidate and bully people, and to keep people quiet. This concept was later used to keep adults silent when the sexual abuse issues hit the media. As people with ethics, faith and morals, the Faithful of the Church now feel that it is VERY important to speak out against the sex crimes, and to hold the Criminal Catholic Clergy accountable for those crimes, and the cover up of those crimes by the Criminal Management of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Faithful cannot look the other way any longer. The clergy must be held accountable for their crimes, and it is up to the Faithful to make that happen by pulling their financial support from the Church. If the faithful continue to supply financial support, then that makes them complicit with the sex crimes of the Priests, because they are making it possible for these criminals to continue the crimes. To hand over 5, 10, 15, or 20 dollars in the collection basket, would then make the individuals part of the crimes of the Priests by financing a corrupt institution. The Faithful need to take a stand, and in the process, cut off all financial support to this criminal organization that has destroyed lives. While leaving the Catholic Church might be painful, --- continuing to support a criminal organization would be unethical, and detrimental to your physical, social, and mental health. People no longer trust the Catholic Church Clergy to do the right things when dealing with the parishioners and their children. A responsible person who has ethics, dignity, and morals cannot sit by idly while the management of the Criminal Catholic Church ignores the demands of the Faithful for justice under both Church and Civil Law!

Too Little, Too Late: a priest's opinion on the Catholic Church

Thomas Patrick Doyle is an American Catholic priest. Doyle was one of the first people in the Catholic church to bring attention to sexual abuse by clergy. In 1985, Doyle authored a report on medical and legal issues raised by pedophilia in the priesthood, and "warned of a national scandal if the hierarchy did not adopt a sound policy". They still have not cleaned up their act or stopped abusing children. Here is his latest opinion on the Church in his words. "Over the past few months I have been trying to organize and catalogue the vast collections of files I have on clergy sex abuse. They go back to when I first got involved, 1984 and are in both paper and electronic form. As I continue I am struck by the man, attempts of the institutional Church to respond. The most recent trend has been the emergence of Catholic higher education from the shadows. The entire phenomenon needs deep, fearless academic research and dialogue. Now that Catholic higher education is in the act, is there a chance this might evolve from the dedicated work of a tiny minority and motivate some of the best Catholic scholars to take up the challenge. This tragic reality has been a known part of Church life and culture since the first century. The momentous change in direction that started in 1985 was based on public revelations of behavior that had been deeply and intentionally buried in a thick blanket of secrecy for centuries. 1985, not 2002! Thirty-five years ago, plenty of time to start trying to figure it all out! Between 1985 and 2002 the public knowledge of sexual abuse by clergy steadily grew. The bishops were in a state of defensive denial, still claiming it was only a “few bad apples” but knowing full well it was far more than a few and deathly afraid to face the fact that the main problem was not the apples, no matter how many, but the barrel itself. The so-called Catholic intellectual elite were either totally silent or arrogantly defensive. The late John Richard Neuhaus proclaimed that he had reached moral certitude that the accusations of sex abuse leveled against Marcial Maciel-Degollado and coverup by the once mighty Legion of Christ were all false. The brave victims who spoke out were not only vilified by Neuhaus and the Legion bosses but some had their careers and lives altered because of the attacks by the Legion. This outfit and Maciel, its bizarre, psychopathic leader for life, were the darlings of John Paul II and of some prominent members of the Catholic laity who happened to be the elite at the time. I recall criticizing them to John Allen one day and he replied: “by their fruits you will know them.” He was right but in ways he never expected! They seemed to have it all. Large numbers of new priests every year, universities and colleges in several countries and the leader who proved to be one of the most successful fund raisers in Church history. They had it all, except for one ingredient that certainly seemed missing from the leadership, namely, a clear understanding of and commitment to Christianity. Then after Josef Ratzinger was elected pope it all changed. The veil of deception crumbled and not only was Maciel exposed but the world began to get an inside look at the weirdness of the Legion. One prominent woman leader in the fight for justice for survivors, attended a meeting at the Legion university in Rome and said to me later that the seminarians and young priests reminded her of Stepford Wives. Between 1985 and 2002 the bishops gave clergy abuse token attention. The victims on the other hand, were organized and not buying any of the public relations nonsense generated by the various dioceses or by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The other arena where things were happening was the secular courts. Between 1986 and 2002 there were several hundred cases filed in courts throughout the U.S. This raised the overall public awareness but even more crucial, through the legal discovery process, the secrets were coming out. This was hardly an unknown issue for the bishops, the clergy, the Catholic press and the Catholic higher educational establishment. The bishops did basically nothing but dodge and weave. The few, and I mean few priests and women religious who publicly stood with the victims and cut through the official church’s conventional non-wisdom with their statements were ignored, written off and even vilified. Where was Catholic Higher Education, especially the more renowned Catholic universities back then? Nowhere to be seen or heard! Some of us were invited by various groups to speak at Catholic institutions, including colleges or universities. In my case and in that of the others, the local bishop almost always got into the act and forced a change of venue because in their words, our presence at such an event and in a Catholic environment, would confuse the faithful! Now, 18 years after the pivotal Boston revelations, Catholic higher education started to act as if they suddenly had a major revelation and were therefore going to rise to the occasion and provide the Church with the answers. Georgetown University, for which I have an otherwise very warm spot in my heart for personal reasons, issued a report on Nov. 4 titled “Lay Leadership for a Wounded Church and Divided Nation.” It was based on a two-day event held at the GU law school on June 14 and 15. The report provides ten strategic directions that emerged from the June meeting. What is so significant about the report or even the June meeting for that matter? Nothing! The “strategic directions” have all been repeatedly articulated by victim/survivors, their advocates and supporters and many of their attorneys not for years, but decades. The authors of the report may think they have cooked up something revolutionary and opened new doors for the Church but they haven’t. One thing is certain. The report is an insult to the dedicated and battle-scarred victim/survivors who have been speaking out since the sex abuse tragedy was uncovered in the mid-eighties. It gives the impression that no one has been on top of this issue until this year. It’s true that G.U. and the other universities that are on the bandwagon have included one or two survivors, and to my knowledge, the ones they have included are outstanding choices and here I am referring for example, to Juan Carlos Cruz. But most of the others lack the historical perspective and more important, the in-depth involvement with the victims. Nothing said by any of the big names in lay Catholic culture is new by any stretch of the imagination and no one has yet ventured into the minefield of the systemic causes. Some of the remarks of the newly endowed experts have not only been embarrassingly superficial but downright ridiculous. To stand up at a university and lay the blame on diabolical influence is on the same level as claiming the dog ate my homework. Other equally off-the-wall attempts at explaining the issue: blaming it on gays or the gay culture which makes as much sense as blaming adultery on heterosexuality, and claiming it was the influence of the free-love culture of the sixties. At this point I have to point out that Georgetown University sponsored one of the most significant events I have ever been involved with, a panel discussion that took place in April 2016 and filled the largest venue in the university. It was organized by the students, led by then-freshman Aiden Johnson. They did not worry about political correctness and the university to their credit, gave full support. The speakers were those ordinarily verboten on Catholic turf: Richard Sipe, Martin Baron former editor of the Boston Globe, Mike Rezendes, key player with the Globe Spotlight team, Bob Bennet, one of the original members of the National Review Board and me. This venture came from the students, not the theology department or the law school. It seems as if some of the universities were and are looking for prominent names to populate their programs. Some of the speakers have more than superficial experience with the issue and have made significant contributions. But unfortunately most lack the experience of having been in the trenches. They are saying things that have already been said many times over. For years those who were speaking out before it was “safe” to do so were ignored, shunned and written off because what they had to say was way too threatening to the hierarchical establishment. The bishops finally started waking up to the fact that all their defenses and excuses were rapidly crumbling and everyone knew it. Now it’s “politically correct” for the bishops to at least say some of the right things even though their behavior still has a long, long way to go. Catholic higher education no longer has to worry about incurring the hierarchy’s wrath so they are jumping on the bandwagon whereas for years they acted as if the subject didn’t exist. Now, its “in” for the major universities to sound like they have just made a new and earth-shaking discovery. One irritating trend has been to try, even subtly, to exonerate the hierarchy and point out all that they have done to make it better. This is counter-productive and a waste of time. Anything the bishops have done has been forced on them. The Dallas Charter never would have happened were it not for the anger and even fury of the victims and their supporters and the non-stop embarrassing revelations coming out of the civil legal processes. Too many forces and voices in the Church are still trying to rescue the bishops. But it’s not about the bishops. It’s about the countless people whose lives have been forever altered because of the self-serving narcissism of the leadership of the institution from the Vatican on down. The hierarchy and the Catholic intellectual establishment are either unwilling, unable or both, to move beyond their superficial to mid-level discussions into the forbidden zone of systemic causality. The first question that needs honest and unvarnished answers: why has the institutional Church attracted, nurtured and promoted so many men who are emotionally immature and sexually dysfunctional? The second directly involves the nature of the priesthood. The exaggerated mythology about priests being “other Christs” based on the unexplainable and unrealistic concept of ontological change needs serious and objective excavation. The third and final and most important question is that of systemic causality. The bishops are understandably but regrettably terrified of this because the answers that are emerging and will continue to emerge are a threat not only to their image and power but to the very reasons for their existence. The fundamental glaring hypocrisy needs to be addressed: The Church has presented its doctrine and way of life as the path to salvation in the footsteps of Jesus. It has preached love but also has given its people one of history’s most stringent and restrictive codes of sexual conduct. At the same time those who are the guardians of this lofty way of life have committed and systematically enabled the commission of sexual violations of the most vulnerable that are deemed by all societies as the most horrific and disgusting that can be inflicted on another human being. Who is responsible for this? Not the obedient, devoted laity but the successors of the Apostles and those who take the place of Christ. If the Catholic intellectual elite expect to move beyond the mediocre where they are now stuck, they must look beyond rescuing the ecclesiastical-clerical establishment and tackle this contradiction that looms over the entire Church, both institutional and People of God, like a black cloud. As the answers emerge, and the inevitable threats to the clerical and hierarchical status quo are faced, but not allowed to once again derail the search for truth, only then will we begin to gain mastery over the dark side. For those who still hope to find their true spiritual home in community of Catholic believers, it may well be the moment to embrace the truly foundational concept of Church as People of God and give it a chance. It might just work." Quotes from Doyle: Rev. Tom Doyle has reviewed over 1,000 clergy sexual abuse cases over the past 30-plus years. In a recent interview, Doyle said "I no longer have any trust in the institutional church." “The Roman Catholic Church, the leadership, the bishops, the popes, have been well aware of this issue for the entire duration of the church’s existence,” Doyle said. He’s lost all faith in the bishops’ ability to fix the issue themselves. “It’s like having Hitler take care of the problem of anti-Semitism among the SS. That’s how much sense it makes,” Doyle said. “There is not the will to fix it. The only will there is, collectively, is to protect the image of the institution.” “There have been several wake-up calls,” he said. “The myth is that the institution, the bishops are going to be able to fix themselves. … They haven’t fixed it; they’ve made it worse, because, in trying to fix it, they’ve actually gone deeper into the dishonesty, into hiding and into the lying. It’s systemic.”

The Hypocrisy of Cardinal Dolan of NY and Defeating the Child Victims Act

 

Received from Robert Hoatson

 

“Cardinal Dolan: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black”

 

As I sat and watched the interviews of Cardinal Dolan on Tuesday regarding the Vatican’s report on former Cardinal Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, I couldn’t help but notice Dolan’s abject hypocrisy. The report is replete with episodes of incompetent, negligent, and deceptive behavior on the part of members of the Church hierarchy, mainly Popes, Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops. 

 

Did Cardinal Dolan forget that when he referred to Theodore McCarrick as charming, talented, charismatic, friendly, deceptive, and a liar, he was referring to himself and most, if not all, members of the Church hierarchy?

 

Cardinal Dolan, you have never revealed how much money the New York Catholic Conference spent for at least a decade attempting to defeat the Child Victims’ Act, giving childhood victims of sexual abuse their day in court. All those years, you told the faithful of the Archdiocese of New York that the legislation would seriously hamper the charitable efforts of the Archdiocese. That hasn’t happened and you knew it then. Don’t tell us how much money McCarrick misspent unless, Cardinal Dolan, you give us the facts surrounding your efforts to defeat that legislation and apologize to all victim/survivors.

 

Cardinal Dolan, please tell us why you never removed Msgr. John Paddack for years after reports of sexual abuse of children reached your desk. Paddack remained Pastor of Notre Dame Parish in Manhattan for years after you knew. Don’t criticize Theodore McCarrick without looking in your own mirror. 

 

And, Cardinal Dolan, Fr. Dennis Timone was removed only recently despite an allegation being reported in 2002. You allowed him to go from coast to coast (New York to San Diego) every year where children and young people were at risk of being abused. Don’t criticize Theodore McCarrick unless you are willing to admit your negligence.

 

Finally, and most dramatically, Cardinal Dolan, you have continued to allow Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio to remain as Bishop of Brooklyn despite the fact that two men have come forward to report that Fr. Nicholas DiMarzio sexually abused them as children in two parishes in Jersey City, New Jersey. Aren’t you as deceptive as Theodore McCarrick and Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict?

 

Aren’t all you bishops the same? Isn’t it time for the pots to stop calling the kettles black and admit that the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church is corrupt to the core? 

 

Robert M. Hoatson, Ph.D.,

Co-founder and President

Road to Recovery, Inc.

 

Reprinted from: Bishop Accountability News November 16 2020  Vol.1, No. 219`

GROWING UP CATHOLIC: THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL EXPERIENCE

Here is a story of the catholic church educational experience of my friend Dwayne James Mitchell:

"My education started in P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village, New York City. Going to this public school was an enjoyable experience. There were all kinds of activities using art supplies. I always liked to draw pictures of Apartment houses, and later on in life I became an Industrial Arts Teacher. It was a fun place to learn. There was no violence on the playground during lunch recess, and everyone seemed to get along with each other in a harmonious fashion.

       But during the first grade, my parents removed me from that school and put me in Saint Joseph’s Elementary School on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, NYC.

       I noticed immediately was that there were no art supplies, and no friendly atmosphere like there had been in the public school. In the second grade, the religious instruction was handed out hot and heavy: Catechism questions and answers word for word and the concept of Original Sin. First, the nuns painted God as a loving being, but then they informed us that the loving God dumped original sin on us, and because of this we were defective. Since we made our first Holy Communion then, we had to learn about confession, and the concept of telling someone else about our inner most thoughts! Third grade was a positive experience, because I did not have a nun as a teacher, but a lay teacher.  

       The nun who taught the fourth grade got her training from the Nazi SS!  If you asked a question, she got mad. If you were called to the blackboard and said something wrong, she would push your head into the blackboard with force. We went to the public library and it class seemed to be a positive experience in spite of the fourth grade nun. But the next day, the nun asked me. “who was my partner on line walking to and from the library the previous day?” When I identified the other boy, for no reason she grabbed our heads by the hair and banged them together. That night when my mother noticed lumps on my head and I explained what had happened, my parents did nothing.

       I became an altar boy.  We had to learn the Latin,  serve Mass from 5:00 to 7:30AM daily and on Sundays, and attend daily mass at 7:30AM. Then you had to run home, eat and get back to the church for the school’s Mass. It wasn’t easy.

From the 4th grade up we had to attend the Monday afternoon Novenas, and a similar service on Wednesday. If you were an altar boy, you had to return to the church for a similar service in the evening! 

       At Saint Joseph’s there were two schools: mine with 30 students to a class and an academy with 15. The sad part is that my parents could have afforded to send me to the academy!

       While in the 4th grade, I noticed that violence was starting to enter the student body. The nuns were using violence toward the children, so the students used violence among themselves.

       The 5th, 6th and 7th grades were similar to the 4th grade in terms of the behavior of nuns. Children were being slapped around and demeaned, in front of the class. If you had a learning problem, there was no help, and no one cared. The nuns took extreme pleasure destroying the self-esteem of boys. 

       After the 7th grade, we moved to New Jersey, and I attended “another school of indoctrination” for the 8th grade. There was less violence but the nuns’ negative behavior permeated the building.

       When I started 8th grade, I had a substandard  education from the New York City Catholic School, plus I had a learning disability. I did not know “how to study” or “how to organize” my educational life. I made a friend by the name of Richard who had the same educational problems, so we struggled together. We took the test to enter the parish high school and both received “letters of acceptance.” While we were happy but surprised because we both knew that we had a difficult time dealing with “timed tests.” 

We found out that we were only accepted because we were in the parish, and that we should tell our parents that we wanted to go to the local public school. As we walked home that day, Richard stopped me and said, “how can I tell my parents that I cannot go to the Catholic High School?” ----- I responded, ---- “We have the letter of acceptance, and if we say nothing to our parents then the school has to accept us!” That is what we did!  

We managed to graduate from that “poor excuse of a High School,” and get accepted to college, but sad to say, Richard never made the transition to the adult world. Both he and his wife drank themselves to death! He was a gentle soul, and he was an outstanding free hand artist. The Catholic Education destroyed him!

       When I told the nun in my junior year of high school “I am going to college!” --- She responded, “What Catholic College or University would every accept you?” ---- I responded, “I do not want to go to a Catholic College or University!” ---- She countered with, “where do you want to go?” --- I said, ---- “A state school!” ---- She commented, “If you go to a state school, you will lose your faith!” ---- At that point in time, I knew that I had her in my gun sights just like a fighter pilot in WW2, and I went in for the kill.  ---- I responded, ---- “before you can lose something sister, you have to have it in the first place!”  --- The year was 1959. In 1967 I met the same nun walking down the street. She asked me, --- “what are you doing with your life young man?” ---- I responded, ---”I am graduating college tonight sister.” ---- She countered with, “what college took you? ---- I countered with, “a state school!” ----- Yes, there is a God, but it is not a Catholic God! ---- Today I have two MA’s,  and Diplomas from schools of technology courtesy of my own efforts, not the efforts of the Catholic Schools and the nuns.

       My abuse by the Catholic Church followed me into my adulthood. When I met the woman of my dreams and we decided to get married, we had to attend the PreCana conferences in order to get “permission to get married in the Catholic Church.” When we attended these meetings, I noticed that there were only two types of couples that were paraded in front of the group. Couples who were expecting a child, and couples who already have children. There were no couples without children. This demonstrates their long term agenda. They want more loyal cool aid drinking followers to continue to finance the corrupt evil organization. 

We were told that we could not have the traditional wedding march! All my life I wanted that to be played at my wedding, and now we could not have the traditional wedding march. NOTE: One year later, in the same church, with the same music director, the traditional wedding march was played, because the groom was part of the “good old boy Catholic Network.”

So in my life, I was physically and psychologically abused by the nuns, deprived of the sponsor that I wanted for my Confirmation, and also deprived of the traditional wedding march. The frosting on the cake occurred on the rehearsal night before the wedding. After the rehearsal was over, the pastor called me into his office, and he hands me a letter to sign. While handing me the letter, he said that if I did not sign it, he would not perform the wedding the next day! The letter dealt with the use of contraception in my marriage. The subject was never brought up prior to that night! That is pure and simple blackmail. Since I did not care, I signed his letter. I cannot take a chance of having children because of a DNA issue that has shown up in the family!  

       The Catholic Church is NOT a user friendly form of the Christian Religion. If you want a happy successful life, stay far away from these fakes, frauds and phonies! They will destroy you with their smoke and mirrors, while taking all your money so that they can save your soul!