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!      

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CORPORATION / ORGANIZATION!

This article was written by a friend, Dwayne James Mitchell who, like myself and many others was abused by the Catholic church.  Dwayne says, “When I was a young person in NYC, my life was almost destroyed in a Catholic grammar school, staffed by the Sisters of Charity! ---- They were human garbage!”

Dwayne:

       So, you think that the Catholic Church Corporation / Organization, (not the Christian Religion), is a moral, ethical organization that is dedicated to truth, justice and human dignity, and who really cared about the welfare of the faithful and their children since the late 40’s in their Catholic Schools, Institutions and Churches. -- This written piece is NOT about the Christian Religion, but it is about the Catholic Church Corporation / Organization, and the criminal activities that were allowed to go on unchecked by management for years!

       It seems like every week we pick-up a newspaper, turn on the TV, and / or read a news article on the computer about Catholic Child Abuse. --- We are constantly coming “face to face” with a news article dealing with Catholic Priests abusing boys in Catholic Schools, Churches, and Catholic run institutions.

QUESTION: ---- When will it end?

ANSWER: ---- Never, ---- because it is built into the DNA of the Catholic Church Corporation / Organization, and their corrupt clergy, (not the Christian Religion).

       The next scandal that is going to hit the media about the Catholic Clergy is the abuse of children by nuns in Catholic Schools, and Catholic run institutions where children lived. This is going to open up another fire storm of activity. There are thousands of children who were abused by nuns in Catholic Schools and Catholic run institutions just waiting to come forward.

       I believe that the Catholic Church Corporation / Organization is a totally corrupt criminal organization that should be investigated by the FBI, and if found guilty of crimes against humanity, (children), their tax exempt status should be removed from its income and holdings. They cannot be considered a Church if they have committed crimes against children, and covered up those crimes. By their actions, they have defined the organization as a fraud! If it is a fraud, it cannot enjoy the perks of a Church!

       The “high ranking members,” who were in power when the crimes were committed, or who allowed the crimes to continue, or who covered up the crimes after the fact, should be arrested, tried in a court of law, and if found guilty in a court of law, they should be sent to prison!

       The Catholic Church Leadership has deliberately tried to avoid getting law enforcement involved in crimes against children by their clergy. This has hindered justice for the individuals which is a crime in and of itself, and it has delayed compensation for the victims.

       The Catholic Church has a dark history, and has been known to intimidate the victims of their crimes. Their clergy likes to threaten people with excommunication if the people speak to the police about child abuse. They claim that the church should be allowed to handle the problem internally. Well, we all know that the problem was never handled in a professional manner, which not only makes the Catholic Clergy criminals, but also liars. This is a good combination for a corrupt organization. The clergy does not want the police involved, so that they can continue to have sex with children. Just look at Pennsylvania. Three hundred criminal priests molested 1,000 boys. I would think that being excommunicated from a criminal organization would be a “badge of honor” for any Christian in good standing. It would demonstrate that the person being excommunicated had ethics and morals and he / she stood up for morals, justice, and ethics.

       The “history of the Catholic Church Corporation / Organization is sprinkled with murder, intimidation, lies, double talk, illogical logic, and the silencing of free speech. In addition, they helped the Nazis get out of Europe after WW2 to avoid prosecution for war crimes. The word corruption does not fully describe the corporation!

The Catholic Church Corporation / Organization does not like to talk about these events. To me, their actions are the hallmark of an organized criminal organization just like the mafia in the United States. They are “slick used car salespeople” selling a distorted form of the “Christian religion!”

       For the above listed reasons, I believe that the end of the Catholic Church Corporation / Organization is near. The people are starting to see through the veil of smoke and mirrors. Their true colors are showing through. The high-ranking church officials should be arrested throughout the world, and charges filed against them for “obstruction of justice!” All over the world the Catholic Priests and Nuns have abused children.

       Three hundred, (300), Pennsylvania Catholic Priests sexually abused over 1,000 boys. Senior church officials knowingly reshuffled the offenders from parish to parish, allowing them to continue their abuse of children unchecked because the management of the church DID NOT CARE, and it was the “good old boy’s network!” The corporation is being managed by disgusting / criminal individuals.

       The Vatican’s response to this scandal has been inconsistent because they DO NOT CARE about the faithful and the children. They believe that the faithful are there to be used and abused. The church hierarchy has systematically defended and protected the criminal offending priests. They choose to treat these crimes as sins that simply demanded repentance and forgiveness, rather than crimes that required criminal prosecution in the courts.

       Here is the reality of the corruption of the Catholic Church Corporation / Organization. While most of the priests, who were guilty of crimes against children, were simply sent off to other parishes, -- or -- to a life of prayer and contemplation, it appears that most were NEVER excommunicated from the church, or even forced to leave the priesthood. ---- The big question is “WHY?”

       The United States Catholic Church spent more than ten million dollars on lobbyists over seven years to delay “statute of limitations reforms” from going into effect in eight states.

       Pennsylvania.

       New York.

       Connecticut.

       New Jersey.

       New Hampshire.

       Massachusetts.

       Maine.

       Rhode Island.

       I think that it is incredibly troubling that the faithful who on Saturday or Sunday contributed to the Church collections may have been inadvertently funding lobbying efforts against victims of sex abuse, who are seeking legal redress. The priests already used the children, now the church is using the faithful’s money to cover the crime.

       The issue does not stop with the use of church money to hide the criminals and the crime. Now the Catholic Church Corporation / Organization is allegedly telling newly ordained Bishops that they have NO OBLIGATION to report child sexual abuse allegations to law enforcement officials, saying instead that the decision to take such claims to the authorities should be left to the victims and their families. What they are really saying is that this delay would give the church the opportunity to harass, intimidate and bully both the victim and the families if paying hush money does not work!

       I no longer trust the Catholic Church Corporation / Organization. I no longer trust the Catholic Clergy to do the right things for the parishioners of a parish. The whole organization is corrupt.

   A REASON TO BOYCOTT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH!

       Throughout the world, Catholic Bishops have engaged in a systematic, organized effort, going back decades to cover up for both priests and nuns who molested children in Catholic Schools, Catholic Churches, and Catholic Run Institutions. When they were discovered, they pressured the victims to accept “hush money” in exchange for signing a confidentiality agreement. Then the corrupt organization quietly assigned the criminal predator to a new parish, where he / she could go on to molest and destroy the lives of more human beings. Tens of thousands of children have been raped and tortured as a result of this conspiracy of silence. The time has come for the faithful to cut the funds from the Catholic Church, and force them to become accountable for their crimes against humanity! These criminals need to be put into prison for their crimes, and the Church needs to pay compensation to the victims and their families for the stress suffered at the hands of these devils! These are not the actions of a religion that is based on love, respect, morals and ethics, but rather, it is a “criminal organization” based on greed, manipulation, lies, and sexual pleasure! ---- It is time to let the “Religious Titanic” sink below the waves because it is a damaged organization, that cannot recover the respect of the faithful! It is finished! Just let it die!