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https://abc13.com/texas-catholic-leaders-to-release-sex-abuse-list/5113709/

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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The 15 Catholic dioceses in Texas have promised for months to release the names of clergy accused of sexually abusing a minor from 1950 until present.

This list is being presented as part of an effort to bring about the restoration of trust, according to the website hosted by the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.

Diocesan Priests

Nicholas Cornelius Antle
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1934
Ordained: 1959
Status: Retired 1990
Removed from Ministry 2011
Deceased 2016

Robert Ralph Barzyk
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1932
Ordination: 1958
Status: Retired 1993
Removed from Ministry 1994
Deceased 2007

David Emmett Burn
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1935
Ordained: 1961
Status: Retired 1992
Removed from Ministry 1992
Deceased 2003

Moises Cabrera
Diocesan: Tuguegarao, Philippines
Incardinated Galveston-Houston 1985
Incardinated Manila 1994
Birth Year: 1946
Ordained: 1969
Status: Removed from Ministry 1988

Allen Ray Doga
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1925
Ordained: 1949
Status: Deceased 1999

George Patrick Dougherty
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1925
Ordained: 1967
Status: Removed from Ministry 1996
Deceased 2002

Richard Edelin
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1953
Ordained: 1979
Status: Removed from Public Ministry 2013

Carlos (Charles) Guerra
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1953
Ordained: 1981
Status: Removed from Ministry 1984
Left Priesthood 1987

Rodrigo J. Guillermo
Diocesan: Manila, Philippines
Incardinated Galveston-Houston 1979
Birth Year: 1928
Ordained: 1965
Status: Retired 1994
Removed from Ministry 1994
Deceased 2015

Alphonse Rodrigue Hemond
Religious: La Salette Fathers
Incardinated Galveston-Houston 1986
Birth Year: 1916
Ordained: 1949
Status: Retired 1990
Deceased 1990

Stephen R. Horn
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1944
Ordained: 1973
Status: Removed from Ministry 2008

William Jimenez
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1927
Ordained: 1953
Status: Removed from Ministry 1959

Joseph Giles Leduc
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1929
Ordination: 1955
Status: Deceased 1981

Jesse S. Linam
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston

Birth Year: 1935
Ordained: 1961
Status: Retired 1998

Denis O. Lynch
Religious: Discalced Carmelite
Incardinated Galveston-Houston 1972
Birth Year: 1930
Ordained: 1957
Status: Removed from Ministry 1993
Deceased 2015

Christopher J. Martin
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston, Victoria
Birth Year: 1900
Ordained: 1924
Status: Deceased 1989

Donald A. Neumann
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1946
Ordination: 1972
Status: Removed from Ministry 2013
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Lawrence O. Peguero
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1921
Ordained: 1947
Status: Retired 1993
Deceased 2000

Dennis L. Peterson
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1947
Ordained: 1973
Status: Laicized 2005
Deceased 2007

Robert C. Ramon
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1949
Ordination: 1982
Status: Removed from Ministry 2002
Resigned from Priesthood 2002
Deceased 2014

Charles Kevin Schoppe
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1925
Ordained: 1949
Status: Removed from Ministry & Retired 1992
Deceased 2014

Anthony G. Stredny
Diocesan: Nashville
Incardinated Galveston-Houston 1971
Birth Year: 1929
Ordination: 1957
Status: Removed from Ministry 1993
Deceased 2018

Ivan Turic
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1940
Ordination: 1968
Status: Faculties Removed 1977

Religious Order Priests
Antonio Gonzalez, OMI
Religious: Oblate
Birth Year: 1927
Ordained: 1957
Status: Left Priesthood 198

Jack Hanna, CSB
Religious: Basilian Fathers
Birth Year: 1944
Ordained: 1974
Status: Faculties Removed 2013 (Galveston-Houston)

Anthony Keil (Kyles), SSJ
Religious: Josephite Fathers
Birth Year: 1894
Ordained: Check OCD
Status: Deceased 1969

Dennis Laroche, MM
Religious: Maryknoll
Birth Year: 1946
Ordained: 1974
Status: Left Priesthood 1987

Pius Lawe, SVD
Religious: Divine Word Fathers
Birth Year: 1976

Ordained: 2005
Status: Removed from Ministry 2009

Raphael O'Loughlin, CSB
Religious: Basilian Fathers
Birth Year: 1916
Ordained: 1942
Status: Deceased 1998

Vincent Orlando, SJ
Religious: Jesuit
Birth Year: 1941
Ordained: 1974
Status: Removed from Ministry 2002

Walter Dayton Salisbury, SSJ
Religious: Josephite Fathers
Ordained: 1959
Status: Removed from Ministry 1993
Retired 1993

Christopher Joseph Springer, CSSR
Religious: Redemptorist Fathers
Birth Year: 1925
Ordained: 1952
Status: Laicized 1990

Donald Stavinoha, OMI
Religious: Oblate
Birth Year: 1943
Ordination: 1970
Status: Removed from Ministry 1986
Convicted 1988

Gerard Martin Weber, OMI
Religious: Oblate
Birth Year: 1936
Ordination: 1962
Status: Removed from Ministry 2011

John Benedict Weber, O.Carm.
Religious: Carmelite
Status: Removed from Ministry 2011

Andrew Willemsen, CM
Religious: Vincentian
(Later Incardinated Austin)
Birth Year: 1928
Ordained: 1954
Status: Deceased 2012

Extern Priests (from other dioceses)
Luis (Eugenio) Eugene DeFrancisco
Diocesan: Cali, Colombia
Birth Year: 1908
Ordained: 1931
Status: Removed from Ministry 1960

Fernando Noe Guzman
Diocesan: Morelia, Mexico
Birth Year: 1951
Ordained: 1979
Status: Removed from Ministry 1987

Francisco Ordonez
Diocesan: Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
Birth Year: 1930
Ordained: 1995
Status: Removed from Ministry 2003

Joseph Tully
Diocesan: Rockford
Ordination: 1925
Status: Retired 1971
Deceased 1982

**Special Category
Recent Allegations currently under investigation

** John T. Keller
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1948
Ordination: 1974
Status: Removed from Ministry 2019

Criminal Charges Pending
**Manuel La Rosa Lopez
Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1957
Ordination: 1996
Status: Removed from Ministry 2001, 2018


MORE STORIES:
TIMELINE: Sex abuse allegations mount against Conroe priest
Archdiocese accused of withholding documents in priest sex case
Conroe priest accused of sex abuse of teens makes court appearance
Search warrant executed at Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston

lot of dead guys on that list. way to go, good job, good effort, catholic church.

 

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https://abc13.com/texas-catholic-leaders-release-list-of-accused-clergy/5113709/

by the way, that list was only the one diocese. there are 14 more at the link, including austin:

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Aguilar, Ricardo     Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Austin
Current Status:  Laicized
Birth:  1959
Ordination:  1995
Removal from Ministry:  2011
Laicization:  2017
 
Clogan, Paul M.    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Portland, Maine
Current Status:  Deceased
Birth:  1931
Ordination:  1999
Death:  2012
 
Delaney, Daniel Joseph    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Austin
Current Status:  Deceased
Birth:  1946
Ordination:  1973
Death:  2008
 
Drinan, Daniel Michael    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Congregation of Missionaries, Sons of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Current Status:  Laicized
Birth:  1948
Ordination:  1977
Removal from Ministry:  2002
Expulsion:  2006
Laicization:  2014
 
Eggerling, Milton     Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Oakland, previously of the Diocese of Sioux Falls
Current Status:  Deceased
Birth:  1921
Ordination:  1954
Death:  2008
 
Faust, Claude     Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Austin
Current Status:  Deceased
Birth:  1914
Ordination:  1939
Death:  1973
 
Gallagher, James     Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Austin (Deacon)
Current Status:  Deceased
Birth:  1932
Diaconate Ordination:  1984
Death:  2005
 
Garcia, Jim Castro (a/k/a Santiago)    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Archdiocese of Kingston, Jamaica
Current Status:  Priest for the Archdiocese of Kingston, Jamaica
Birth:  1968
Ordination:  2017
Additional Information:  Dismissed from seminary for the Diocese of Austin in 2011. Later ordained for the Archdiocese of Kingston, Jamaica.
 
Greenwell, James H.    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Third Order Regular of St. Francis, previously of the Order of Friars Minor
Current Status:  Deceased
Birth:  1924
Ordination:  1954
Death:  2012
 
Hand, Jr., Chester Culver    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Austin
Current Status:  Deceased
Birth:  1920
Ordination:  1986
Death:  2002
 
Kinder, Conrad     Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Society of the Divine Word
Current Status:  Deceased
Birth:  1891
Ordination:  1921
Death:  1978
 
Krol, Michael Francis    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Austin
Current Status:  Deceased
Birth:  1919
Ordination:  1945
Death:  1996
 
Muller, Gerald     Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Congregation of Holy Cross (Religious Brother)
Current Status:  Restricted
Birth:  1927
Vows:  1946
Removal from Ministry:  2017
Restricted:  2017
 
Nowery, C. Richard    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Congregation of Holy Cross
Current Status:  Deceased
Birth:  1938
Ordination:  1968
Death:  2018
 
O'Connor, James R.    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Austin
Current Status:  Laicized
Birth:  1942
Ordination:  1969
Removal from Ministry:  2004
Laicization:  2018
 
Ozuna, Rafael Rendon    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Austin (Deacon)
Current Status:  Laicized
Birth:  1944
Diaconate Ordination:  2007
Removal from Ministry:  2010
Laicization:  2013

Reyes, Longinus Juventius (a/k/a Lonnie)    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Austin
Current Status:  Removed from Ministry, Retired
Birth:  1942
Ordination:  1969
Removal from Ministry:  2004
Retirement:  2004
 
Robles, Victor G.    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Austin, previously of the Society of Jesus
Current Status:  Removed from Ministry, Retired
Birth:  1953
Ordination:  1986
Removal from Ministry:  2002
Retirement:  2009
 
Tijerina, Alberto Matta    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Austin, previously of the Diocese of San Angelo
Current Status:  Removed from Ministry
Birth:  1954
Ordination:  1980
Removal from Ministry:  1993
 
Waiches, Vincent     Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of San Diego, previously of the Society of the Divine Word
Current Status:  Deceased
Birth:  1919
Ordination:  1946
Death:  1995
 
Willemsen, Adrianus Johannes (a/k/a Andy, Andrew, Andre)    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Austin, previously of the Congregation of the Mission of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Current Status:  Deceased
Birth:  1928
Ordination:  1954
Death:  2012
 
Wozniak, Louis J.    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Austin
Current Status:  Removed from Ministry, Retired
Birth:  1926
Ordination:  1951
Removal from Ministry:  2015
Retirement:  1999

 

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I'm no Jesuit, but my maths seem to indicate that if you rape kids, you die early.  And apparently, with you, so dies the monumental sins of the Catholic Church.  'Cause things seemed to have just quieted down conveniently after most of those guys left the cloth/planet.   

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I was not the least bit surprised to see the name of the creepy old priest that spent a few years at my childhood parish/school on the list from the Diocese of Beaumont. There were always rumors about him and he suddenly disappeared and was replaced one day. Looks like he was de-frocked back in 1996 and died a few weeks ago.

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Wozniak was the priest at St. Louis parish in north Austin for years. Two of my kids attended school there.

I went to school at St. Louis while he was there. No funny business with me...that I remember. Glad I wasn't an altar boy.

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Good ol' Father Lonnie, this ought to liven up my FB feed.

Reyes, Longinus Juventius (a/k/a Lonnie)    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Austin
Current Status:  Removed from Ministry, Retired
Birth:  1942
Ordination:  1969
Removal from Ministry:  2004
Retirement:  2004

Yep, my FB feed is blowing the fuck up. 

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30 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

Would Infant Jesus Catholic Church in Lumberton be included in this release?

They're part of Diocese of Beaumont so that would be where to look. 

https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/local/13-clergy-named-by-diocese-of-beaumont-as-credibly-accused-of-sexual-abuse-in-last-52-years/502-11f9e518-3753-4d3a-82f3-5660b41e5f98

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The problem is each bishop/diocese did their own format on their own site.

So for Beaumont the Bishop didn’t give any assignment info. He’d have to know the names of each of the attending priest and resident clergy for the parish from 1950 to present to know if he was around that parish.

Amarillo Diocese listed the parishes and assignments for each in chronological order, but only indicates when or where the allegations occurred for a few. (David Holley is now rotting in hell, but bonus points to the Diocese for noting that he was sentenced to 275 years! in prison in Alamogordo, sounds like a real Shepard of Christ’s flock)

Austin has assignment info, but in a separate tab.

Houston-Galveston has assignment info in a drop down, so you can recognize a name, or open them all and search for parishes you attended.

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After reviewing numerous parishes I think I only recognize 2 names. Attended mass at a lot of different small town parishes in the panhandle over the years.

 

What’s kind of frightening is the numerous assignments for the Amarillo Diocese or getting shuffled in and out to different dioceses, I hope that’s a function of the size/geography/rural-ness of the Panhandle and not a case of the Bishop trying to shuffle and hide a pederast. Houston-Galveston has some transfers but it looks like once they were in the diocese they generally stayed there.

 

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Vincent Orlando, SJ
Religious: Jesuit
Birth Year: 1941
Ordained: 1974
Status: Removed from Ministry 2002
Assignments: Strake Jesuit High School, Houston

I went to middle school with some guys that went to Strake for high school and there was a rumor that one of the priests diddled one of them and his dad went up there to kill him, but he was thwarted somehow. If this is the guy, he was there at least another 15 years...wow    

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Good ol' Father Lonnie, this ought to liven up my FB feed.

Reyes, Longinus Juventius (a/k/a Lonnie)    Assignment Information
Diocese or Religious Order:  Diocese of Austin
Current Status:  Removed from Ministry, Retired
Birth:  1942
Ordination:  1969
Removal from Ministry:  2004
Retirement:  2004

Yep, my FB feed is blowing the fuck up. 

So about this, I posted the information with only the comment "Who knew?" on my FB and had several responses from fellow classmates at the Catholic school(s) that we attended.

One person, to paraphrase "doesn't believe everything they see in print". It was made clear to them that this wasn't some hit piece by a journalist with an ax to grind. They persisted in their disdain for the messenger.

When I pointed out that the Pastor, who my parents admired so much that they named me after the Irishman, had to have known, I was told, again paraphrasing, "Well, the Bishop appoints the associate Pastors, they don't work directly for the Pastor". 

The river in Egypt runs deep and wide.

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One thing to remember, the hierarchy is not the Catholic Church. No more than the corrupt political parties are the US Constitution.

But the Pope certainly needs to convene a Vatican III  to begin a real reformation of the worldwide problem, or else the Church will split into regional factions.

Devout parishoners like Mrs. Brat are pretty damned angry that this shit has gone on for so long and is still being enabled by clueless assholes in charge. Here’s looking at you, Bishop Vasquez.

Annd remember, the Austin Dioscese list does not even address the abuse with adults.

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Hang on everyone. Let’s let the dust settle before we pass judgment on the Catholic Church as a whole. 

Just because child/nun rape has been a consistent part of the church for thousands of years does not mean the organization is a morally bankrupt institution wholly incapable of reining in its perverted, sick, and rapey cadre of Padres.

I’d like everyone to join me in the trust tree for a free flowing discussion about how the church can do better from here on out.  

Basic human decency is an overrated concept anyway.

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With the release of the names it's started a discussion on my FB feed among my co-attendees at Catholic schools which I guess is good. We had a good number of "junior" priests come thru the parish over the dozen or so years that we were all in school and more than one was "odd" to us kids. We have been discussing which ones *might* have been gay and sure enough one of our intrepid classmates had done a little digging on the intertrons and found one of our priests had passed away and his obit stated he had left the priesthood some years earlier and was survived by his "partner", Bob.

Which started another whole discussion on how society in general and churches in particular created an environment whereby those with socially aberrant behaviors would join the church/priesthood/nunnery to essentially pray away the gay.

I don't have any way of knowing how many individuals joined because it was a way to get access to those they would eventually abuse and I wonder what number joined because of their hope to curb their urges and simply succumbed.

While the Catholic church surely has a particularly nasty role in protecting the predators among their shepherds I think society at large has in the past with intolerant attitudes and mores created environments that pushed some to seek asylum within the walls of the church.

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9 minutes ago, Not that Bob said:

I am not a Catholic. I think much of their belief system is strange. We will, however, have to be patient while they close down Caritas, a 3-4 billion dollar per year charity, 140,000 schools, 5,000 hospitals, 16,000 clinics,  and 10,000 orphanages.

So, that's the Catholic cost for rape....good to know. 

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Joe Paterno probably did some solid community good over the years too.

But he knew little boys were getting buttfucked in his showers and he did nothing. Fuck him and fuck the Catholic Church.

Gee Little Johnny, we’re sorry you had to suck Father O’Flanagan’s dick so much when you were a kid. But look how many orphans he fed!

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Yeah, when you outlaw abortion...you're gonna have to deal with Orphans.  So yes, they run many orphanages.  Not really a reason to avoid dropping the hammer on one of the most morally bankrupt institutions humanity has ever invented.  And we've created some doozies.  

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Joe Paterno probably did some solid community good over the years too.
 

As did the Mafia, I guess.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ. How can anyone in good conscience be a member of this organization? 

Because the RCC is just a man-made group and belief in god still exists? Really? Find another church. 

This group is pure evil, masquerading as doing god's work. 

Any parent who lets their kid be with a church official is negligent. Hell, anti-vaxx parents care more for their kids.

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You boys are totally tunnel visioning this. The reason I posted was to point out that it is a complex problem and there is good, along with the bad. What you really want is for the CC to go away, and the dumb ass Bishops have given you a powerful weapon. 

There are social organizations on The University of Texas campus that do bad things. Is the only answer to close down The University of Texas? Jesus. Fucking. Christ, indeed. Show some higher level thinking. 

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Lot of regards/bernards here thinking everyone in the hierarchy is corrupt. 

1 minute ago, Not that Bob said:

You boys are totally tunnel visioning this. The reason I posted was to point out that it is a complex problem and there is good, along with the bad. What you really want is for the CC to go away, and the dumb ass Bishops have given you a powerful weapon. 

There are social organizations on The University of Texas campus that do bad things. Is the only answer to close down The University of Texas? Jesus. Fucking. Christ, indeed. Show some higher level thinking. 

^^^^ What he said.

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Lot of regards/bernards here thinking everyone in the hierarchy is corrupt. 

^^^^ What he said.

Funny you bring up bernards.  It's a similar situation.  The "good" ones seem to cover for the "bad" ones.  And the leaders try to bury it all....just like cops.  In my book, that makes them all reprehensible.  

But, hey, I'm sure it's just a few bad apples....

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You are sure they all cover for for the bad apples? What evidence do you have for that assumption?

I did 9 years hard time in Catholic schools from parochial through college and never heard of any sexual abuse at those institutions. Kids know when that shit goes down just like they do today.

using the thin blue line analogy means UT should be shut down because of corruption in the athletic programs.

Not everybody does it is what I am saying.

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23 minutes ago, Not that Bob said:

You boys are totally tunnel visioning this. The reason I posted was to point out that it is a complex problem....

With all due respect, no, it's not a complex problem.

It's a very simple problem. It's a problem that seems to be inherent to the "human condition" (meaning that humans are absolute selfish assholes a lot of the time) but the solution is pretty straightforward: do the right thing. Now, that begs the question: what is the right thing? Reasonable people may differ in their response. But, I think, the edict of  "don't sexually abuse kids" is something that everyone (well, everyone except some Catholic priests) can agree with. Right?

It seems to me, and I could be wrong here, that you're attempting to defend the RCC by framing this as a "complex problem". Bullshit. Don't anally rape young kids. End. Of. Fucking. Story. 

Ireland. Italy. Germany. USofA. 

My god, just do the right thing. You don't even have to be Christian to see how fucked up the RCC is. 

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The church quit killing foreign peoples for their failure to convert.  

The church quit extorting businesses and individuals for operating overhead.

The church quit condoning the hitting kids in schools for not behaving correctly.

Surely, the church can quit letting grown men put their dicks in people's faces.  

And the UT example is bullshit.  If some social organizations do some bad shit, we advocate closing down UT?  The fuck is wrong with you.  Higher Education and Organized Religion...two massive institutions in our society that have done tremendous good for themselves and millions they will never directly meet.  We get it.  The difference, and I cannot fucking believe some of you don't get this, every large institution has bad people that do evil shit and yet we need them to endure.  What's different about the Catholic Church is they just reshuffled the issue for a thousand years.  Not one diocese.  Not one decade.  For a thousand years, a global "empire" moved tens of thousands of child rapists from one area to another.  When a college does it, like Michigan State or Penn State, the hammer is dropped on them.  Criminal charges, jail time, public humiliation, civil charges, terminations, lawsuits, dads beating the shit out of administrators, public vilification, loss of revenue, dilution of the brand, more jail time.  It goes on and on.  When I meet somebody from Penn State at a conference to this day...I still think, "Did this very influential alumni know something about what was going on there?"  And he is forever stained to me.  But somehow, people still advocate that because of a Loaves & Fishes truck in East Austin, that the Catholic Church can't be beaten down. 

The church enabled tens of thousands of clergy and staff to abuse and rape child and adult alike to a millennium.  A full thousand years of fear and anal tearing.  But they are beyond reproach because of orphanages?  Even the Mob draws the line at kiddy rape.  

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