Mod: Chris O'Leary, who coaches Major League ballplayers on hitting, was raped by a priest as a child. He blogs about this, and I've included some of his writings below. In particular he writes of the deceit and cruel treachery of Timothy Cardinal Dolan, who today rules a considerable Roman Catholic roost out of New York City. It is the kind of painful wisdom that is borne out of scalding personal experience.Timothy Cardinal Dolans Sins (
Chris OLeary.comlink): Despite his being one of the most prominent, powerful, and longest-serving members of the hierarchy in the
United States— and the well-publicized failings of his peers, including
Cardinals McCarrick,
Wuerl,
Law, and
Rigali, among others — the press is strikingly incurious when it comes to the direct, historical involvement of
Timothy Cardinal Dolan in the sex abuse crisis that has imperiled the
Catholic Church.
The press, both secular and religious, isn't afraid to ask
Cardinal Dolan what should be done, and what he's doing, with respect to the crisis. But nobody seems interested in what
Dolan himself did during those dark days. Where he was and what he did. And did
NOT do.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan turned a blind eye to my abuse and the abuse of others by
Fr. LeRoy Valentine while a parish priest at
Immacolata in
St. Louis.
Dolan then gaslighted me while he was working directly for the
Archdiocese of St. Louis as an auxiliary bishop.
I've recorded my testimony about what happened at Immacolata and St. Louis, and Cardinal Dolan's involvement in it, in multiple forms, including as an MP3 (Dolan, Immacolata, and Valentine MP3) and a video overview. This piece is a high-level linear telling of the sins of Timothy Cardinal Dolan.
1976: I've known
Cardinal Timothy Dolan since he was a priest fresh out of the seminary and I was a third grader at the
Church of the Immacolata in
Richmond Heights,
Missouri, a suburb of
St. Louis.
I'll never forget the day, during third grade religion class, that then Father Timothy Dolan came to our class to teach us the lesson of Mark 8:22-26 — the story of Jesus healing the blind man at Bethsaida, but in two steps — and chose me to play the role of Jesus. What an incredible privilege and unforgettable honor that was.
But, what I also can't forget is that, while a diocesan priest,
Father Tim Dolan saw, and turned a blind eye to, our abuse by
Fr. LeRoy Valentine at
Immacolata. Abuse that continued and escalated during the time
Fr. Dolan and
Fr. Valentine overlapped at
Immacolata from
Summer 1977 until
Summer 1979.
Even worse, in
March 2002 by then auxiliary
Bishop Timothy Dolan then lied to and gaslighted me when I called the
Archdiocese of St. Louis for help and
Dolan called me back. Without any investigation, and despite the conflict of interest — remember,
Dolan lived with
Fr. LeRoy Valentine, the (acknowledged) abuser in question, at Immacolata for two years —
Dolan told me nothing happened.
1977-1979: Then
Fr. Timothy Dolan knew — he saw with his own eyes — at least testing and grooming, if not the sexual exploitation and abuse, of me and others by
Fr. LeRoy Valentine at the
Church of ImmacolataFather Dolan knew and saw that Valentine was having boys over for parties and wrestling. He also knew and saw that Valentine was taking boys up to his room alone. Two other guys — at least — can attest to this.
2002 EARLY MARCH:
Dolan was asked to investigate
Fr. Valentine and accepted the assignment despite the conflict of interest. And, in early
March 2002,
Dolan immediately, without any investigation, and despite his conflict of interest, told me nothing happened.
Mod:
More at the link. The following article, which details Cardinal Dolan's willingness to throw political stones at the current President of the United States, comes at us from a reactionary publication supporting just that agenda. The Scandal of Joe Biden (Crisis Magazinelink): “Day to day pours forth speech,” we read in the Psalms; and so it does. Having read the news these past few mornings, and listened to some of the broadcasts, I’ve since been preoccupied by two questions. The first concerns Hillary Clinton: Why is the lady not in jail, or at least in the dock? The second has to do with her former colleague, Joe Biden: Why hasn’t he been widely refused Communion by the Church of Rome?
Biden has gone mostly unchallenged over the years by the priests to whom he has presented himself for
Holy Communion. Last October,
Timothy Cardinal Dolan of
New York City defended the parish pastor of
St. Anthony Catholic Church in
Florence,
South Carolina, for having refused the sacrament of the
Eucharist to
Biden. “Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of
Church teaching,”
Father Robert E. Morey explained afterward.
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