(I offer this soul wrenching "news" not only to break hearts, but as a locus of prayer. When is SOME man of God going to SPEAK AGAINST this whole hellish scarlet whore of rome?!?.....when?!?...."queers", "jihadists".....easy targets to WRITE about, WHAT ABOUT these demoniacs and demonic "system/institution of rome" with their minions RIGHT NEXT DOOR?!?....and I am NOT speaking of the "hapless and helpless" saints who love Jesus TRAPPED in tis wicked and foul institution...oh no! God SAVE THEM from this demonic institution, and would to God, MEN of God grow some stones to speak LOUD AND CLEAR about this wickedness RIGHT NEXT DOOR!)
article excerpt and link follows:
'He was a monster': how priest child abuse tore apart Pennsylvania towns
A grand jury report issued last week details abuse by dozens of Catholic leaders in the small communities of Altoona-Johnstown from the 1950s to the 1990s"
"One of Brian Gergely’s fellow altar boys had a code he would use to signal danger in the room where they and the priest prepared for mass.
"He would say ‘red buttons’, and that was the alert that the priest was coming up behind you, and we would try to get away from him, running around the desk in the middle of the room where he kept the chalices, the host and the wine,” said Gergely, 46.
Gergely was 10 at the time.
The priest was Monsignor Francis McCaa, a commanding figure in the small Pennsylvania town of Ebensburg in his black cassock with the red buttons, and one of dozens of Catholic leaders named in a devastating report issued last week by a state grand jury detailing appalling child sex abuse in his diocese and a systematic cover-up by the church.(http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/01/pennsylvania-catholic-bishops-cover-up-priest-sexual-abuses-of-children )
"I was standing in the sacristy and he pinned me to the desk. I was just a little guy,” Gergely said. McCaa assaulted him there and also while the boy gave confession, at the Holy Name church where his family worshipped."
"My parents were patrons,” Gergely said. "They were going door to door raising money for the church. The community put Monsignor McCaa on a pedestal.”
Other priests named in the report worked in the past at the school, where Gergely recalls being subjected to tough corporal punishment.
With a population of just 3,300, Ebensburg has been jolted by the horrifying details of past abuse in its midst. The grand jury report issued by Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane describes sex crimes committed on children from the 1950s through the 1990s all across the sprawling Altoona-Johnstown diocese that lies between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, involving more than 50 church leaders and hundreds of victims. And it reveals previously concealed church documents showing lists of secret payouts made to victims in the diocese."........
rest of article:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/08/catholic-priest-child-sex-abuse-ebensburg-pennsylvania
last note: just ponder, what Jesus said He WILL do to those who stumble the little ones......millstones fitted around necks?....cast where?....in the deepest part of the ocean, and when the body drowns......ANY ecclesiastical ABUSE, uncover it, speak out, bring it to light, expose it, and let the Lord deal with it, as well as the secular courts!