Collected Quotes
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The diocese offered me $5,000 if I would drop the judgment against Kazmarek and keep it secret.
4
Mark Salmon, a sexual assault victim of Gary Kazmarek at St. John de Nepomuc school in Milwaukee (June 8, 2002)
It took me about 15 minutes on the phone to learn that he had done this in other places.
4
Detective Steve Koecke, of accused child molester Gary Kazmarek in Madison, WI (June 8, 2002)
He kept referring to poor record keeping again. The records were there. They chose not to read them.
5
Paula Ford, on the deposition of Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston in her son's sexual abuse case (June 8, 2002)
We are the ones who worried more about the possibility of scandal than bringing about the kind of openness that helps prevent abuse.
9
Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (June 14, 2002)
I did not, as a matter of policy, in 1984, '85, '86, '87, '88, '89, '90, '91, '92, '93, '94, '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, 2000, 2001, go to parishes on the occasion of dealing with a priest against whom an allegation of sexual abuse of a child had been made. I see now that that should have been done, but we did not do that.
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Cardinal Law (August 13, 2002 release of a June 2002 deposition). Law also testified that he had allowed priests admitting to sexual abuse to return to parishes without informing parishioners, and agreed that the handling of abusive priests was aimed at avoiding scandal in the church.
It's a friendship between two people that has been made into something horrible.
45,46
Father Robert Burkholder, discussing his charge of sexual abuse for fondling and oral sex with a 13-year-old boy (August 28, 2002). Pedophiles do not believe that their actions harm their victims.
That really bothered people here.
81
An unnamed Vatican official, describing Rome's reaction to a suggestion that parishioners withhold financial contributions to the church (October 19, 2002). The suggestion was made by Frank Keating, head of the American bishop's new sexual abuse review board and Governor of Oklahoma.
It compelled them to report any accusation of sexual abuse to law enforcement officials, again depriving them of discretion.
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An objection of Vatican officials to the American bishop's new policy on child sexual abuse (October 19, 2002). The Vatican formally rejected the policy, calling for a commission to rewrite it.
The adult is not the seducer; the kid is the seducer.
95
Father Paul R. Shanley, allegedly in a speech to the Man-Boy Love Association, as reported to Bishop Thomas V. Daily in 1977 (October 28, 2002 release of an August 2002 deposition). The Archdiocese of Boston did not investigate those or subsequent allegations, but promoted Shanley to acting pastor of St. Jean's parish in Newton, Massachusetts. Shanley has plead not guilty to ten counts of child rape and six counts of indecent assault and battery of six boys at that parish, from 1979 to 1989.
In light of the revisions to the policy so hopefully adopted in Dallas, I suggest that anyone abused by a Catholic priest completely circumvent the church's handling of the investigation and go right to law enforcement.
108
Barbara Bellantonio, East Meadow, NY (November 15, 2002)
To all those who have suffered from my shortcomings and mistakes I both apologize and from them beg forgiveness.
118
Cardinal Bernard Law, resigning as Archbishop of Boston (December 13, 2002). Law and other church officials repeatedly transferred priests accused of sexual abuse without informing parishioners or law enforcement officials.
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St. James, Salem
Our Lady of Fatima, Sudbury
St. Michael's, Lowell
St. Ann's, Gloucester
Some of the churches in Massachusetts where Father Joseph E. Birmingham is accused of molesting 50 children over two decades (December 30, 2002). A group calling itself Survivors of Joseph Birmingham has been formed.
Ignoring the victims of abuse grows out of an ideology that holds that clergy are different from ordinary people. Accountability is for lesser mortals.
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Paul E. Dinter, development director of Care for the Homeless and ex-priest, stating that the church hierarchy seeks only silence and deference from subordinates and the laity (January 1, 2003)
My remarks, which some bishops found offensive, were deadly accurate. I make no apology. To resist grand jury subpoenas, to suppress the names of offending clerics, to deny, to obfuscate, to explain away; that is the model of a criminal organization, not my church.
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Frank Keating, former governor of Oklahoma, prosecutor, and FBI agent, on resigning as chairman of the Catholic Church panel on sexual abuse (June 16, 2003). Keating had compared some bishops to "La Cosa Nostra."
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