wayback machine altoona abuse

I am reposting the old FR links for Altoona:


Bishop Adamec Goes ... into Retirement last January [Catholic Caucus] 4/11/2011, 10:32:23 AM · by Brian Kopp DPM · 17 replies Eponymous Flower Blog ^

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Persecuted Priests: A Growing Problem in US 6/14/2006, 10:50:30 PM · by marshmallow · 43 replies · 1,178+ viewsCatholic Citizens.org ^ | 6/9/06 | Mary Ann Kreitzer - Catholic Media Coalition

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Kiddie porn priest guilty 10/27/2003, 11:49:48 AM · by Land of the Irish · 10 replies · 106+ viewsTribune Democrat ^ | October 25, 2003 | SANDRA K. REABUCK

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 Adamec Takes On Rod Dreher In Wall Street Journal 3/20/2003, 12:45:03 AM · by Maximilian · 39 replies · 830+ views Wall Street Journal (via Diocese Report)^ | March 18, 2003 | Rod Dreher

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Altoona-Johnstown bishop defends actions on accused priests3/12/2003, 1:57:34 AM · by Land of the Irish · 1 replies · 108+ views Post-Gazette.com ^ | March 11, 2003 | Tom Gibb

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FOR THE GOOD OF THE HOUSEHOLD3/9/2003, 6:27:36 AM · by Land of the Irish · 2 replies · 118+ viewsAltoona-Johnston Diocese ^ | March 10, 2003 | Bishop Joseph V. Adamec
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New church shocker 2/24/2003, 2:47:08 AM · by Land of the Irish · 9 replies · 122+ views The Tribune Democrat ^ | 2/23/03 | SUSAN EVANS

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New sex-abuse bombshell: Time bishop [Adamec of Altoona-Johnstown] comes clean6/24/2002, 9:53:00 PM · by Polycarp · 57 replies · 4,066+ views The Tribune-Democrat ^ | June 23, 2002 |


Susan Evans The Tribune-Democrat June 23, 2002 Johnstown, Pennsylvania

New sex-abuse bombshell-- 10 local priests tied to cases By Susan Evans THE TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT Officials of Altoona-Johnstown Roman Catholic Diocese have known of at least 10 priests implicated in sex abuse cases involving hundreds of young boys, according to public records reviewed by the Tribune-Democrat. But the offenders remained in the priesthood, and the diocese meted out such mild punishments as transfers, therapy or “rest and recreation.” Not one criminal report was made. Not one priest was arrested. Only one offender was defrocked Francis Luddy and that came only after a trial and... RSS 

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and today's report: Catholic news service

ALTOONA, Pa. (CNS) -- Hundreds of children were sexually abused over at least 40 years by priests and other religious leaders in the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, a statewide grand jury found.

At least 50 priests or religious leaders were involved in the abuse and diocesan leaders systematically concealed the abuse to protect the church's image, according to a grand jury report released March 1 by Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane.

The report identifies priests and other leaders by name and details incidents going back to the 1970s. Kane said that much of the evidence revealed in the report came from secret archives maintained by the diocese that was only available to the bishops who led the diocese over the decades.

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This 2002 article from the Johnstown Tribune Democrat is partly available at FreeRepublic about the problem.

Some dioceses, such as Philadelphia, will not accept homosexuals as priests, and the Vatican bans homosexual priests.
But the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese does not. Adamec’s position is that homosexuals may be priests as long as they are celibate.

But the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese does not. Adamec’s position is that homosexuals may be priests as long as they are celibate.

I had mentioned about Penn State being gay friendly (and might be one reason that no one thought it was important to report Sandusky).

Well, the newsaper noticed that too:

The homosexual lifestyle has been the subject of an ongoing debate at Penn State University in State College. Foster voiced his conservative views and was chastised by the diocese.That debate began in October 2000, with a Penn State ceremony titled, “A Service of Affirmation of the Human Dignity of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People.”
The Rev. Joseph Hlubik, Penn State Roman Catholic Community campus minister, said that although some Bible passages speak negatively of homosexuality, there are positive images as well.Hlublik then wrote an essay saying:
“Fortunately, with a few positive thought-provoking images of gays portrayed on television and movies and maybe even encounters with gays in our own lives, it is becoming common enough to be a topic of discussion.”
Conservative Catholics, including priests like Foster, were outraged. Foster wrote a response calling Hlubik’s statements “false teaching.”Then Parks wrote back, rebuking Foster:“It is highly inappropriate for a Catholic priest to criticize publicly one of his brothers. [but its OK for a feminist nun to publicly criticize a priest--Polycarp] It is canonically inappropriate for a priest to suggest publicly that the diocese (ergo his Bishop) is somehow colluding to lead souls astray.”

here is the part about the pedophilia coverup:

Foster’s brother, George, who is president of the Lay Stewardship Foundation, since has been engaged in a public war of words over the way the diocese has handled sex scandals.Both Parks and Adamec declined to discuss James Foster’s future as a priest,or any other transfers that might be made.

and lots of stuff in the comments, if you don't mind going to a right wing website.

coverup

IGNORING EVIDENCE

Professor Podles asks:

The United States may have made some progress in curbing abuse, but I know that bishops are still playing games and hiding abusive priests. Nor are they willing to engage in fraternal correction of other bishops. Has Barron ever commented on Mahoney, who should probably be in jail, not lecturing to Catholics? Third world countries, where most Catholics live and which send many priests to the United States, have abysmal standards.
Nor do I have any confidence that the bishops of the United States really want to reform any more than they have to to keep the lawyers out of the pocketbooks. I am a board member of BishopAccountability, which has amassed millions of pages of documents on sexual abuse on the Church. It is no doubt the largest such archive in the world, the library from hell, as my wife calls it. We have never received a request from the hierarchy for information. The bishops do not want to know what happened. Why?

the Bishops accountability organizatino has this latest addition:

2019 USCCB meeting:pdf

not a lot of penalties discussed (the equivalent of "if you do that I'll tell mommy).

And not much about repentance, holiness, or Jesus.

Crux report: