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Clergy abuse cases refocus attention on LA cardinal's time as Stockton bishop Gillian Flaccus, 7/2/04 Los Angeles (AP) "The case of a notorious molester from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton has come back to vex Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, who testified at a 1998 civil trial involving the former priest. Six lawsuits accusing ex-priest Oliver O'Grady of abuse were filed last year, under a California law that lifted for one year the statute of limitations in old sex-abuse cases. Now plaintiffs' lawyers want to discover what Mahony knew about the activities of O'Grady, a former Stockton priest who pleaded guilty in 1993 to molesting two brothers and served seven years in prison before being deported to his native Ireland. Mahony was bishop in Stockton from 1980 to 1985, during part of O'Grady's tenure there." http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/07/02/national1724EDT0659.DTL
Oregon Archdiocese Files for Bankruptcy 7/7/04 by Rukmini Callimachi, AP Portland, Ore. "Being molested by a priest left James Devereaux with nobody to confess to. What he could not find at the confessional as a boy, Devereaux hoped he would find in court as a man. But just as Devereaux and his lawyer were preparing to sue the late Rev. Maurice Grammond, the Portland Archdiocese announced Tuesday it was filing for bankruptcy. The archdiocese took action because of the steep costs from clergy sex abuse lawsuits, halting the trial of a lawsuit against Grammond, accused of sexually abusing more than 50 boys in the 1980s. Devereaux said he would persevere despite the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, an unprecedented step that could open the Roman Catholic archdiocese to new levels of court scrutiny." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=5&u=/ap/20040707/ap_on_re_us/archdiocese_bankruptcy
Suing Vatican Bank, Insurance Official Charges Racketeering Jackson, Miss.--(AP) The torching of financier Martin Frankel's $3 million mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut, was meant to destroy evidence of an insurance scam that cost Mississippi and other states millions, police said....The financier, who initially fled to Europe, was extradited and pleaded guilty in 2002 in Mississippi to stealing $208 million in five states. But that did not end the case for Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale. While unraveling Frankel's web of trickery, Dale found a thread that led into the secretive halls of the Vatican....In a lawsuit Dale filed, which is moving toward a jury trial in U.S. District Court in Jackson, he claims Vatican officials violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Damages, if Dale prevails, could be more than $600 million. A Vatican spokesman denies the Roman Catholic church profited from business dealings with Frankel or accepted funds he stole. The church has filed a motion to dismiss the suit for lack of jurisdiction, and a ruling is expected this summer." http://www.beliefnet.com/story/148/story_14872_1.html www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
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