a little late, don'tcha think? We lay folks knew about this in the early 1990s but no one would listen.
I don't know the details about Wuerl, except for rumors, but I do know that the corruption of the local bishops in Altoona went deeper than the church covering up abuse of children: they had links to the mob, and to crooked judges.
UKMail discusses the links between the Altoona bishops and the local judicial establishment.
but if they want to look into child trafficking, maybe they should extend their investigation.
Did the people in Penn state not think fondling a young boy in a shower was serious because the local church didn't take this type of behavior seriously and the boy didn't seem upset? i.e the Sandusky scandal at Penn State... he abused boys from the charitable organization he founded. link2
a local priests promoted the normalization of homosexuality in the Penn State area, as did the psychologist who screened applicants for the diocese.
there is a link between Sandusky, Judge O'Kicki and the disappearance of an attorney investigating them.
and a story of how O'Kicki and others in the local legal profession let the bishops off the hook.
and the court system was also corrupt. O'Kicki escaped to Slovenia (how convenient).
not a Slovenia link, but a Slovokian organization helped Adamec get his job. from the bishops accountability org:
In 1996, The Wanderer published a six-week series on Bishop Adamec’s “reign of terror” in the diocese...
In the course of the series of articles, allegations were made that Bishop Adamec had purchased his bishopric, with a multi-million dollar donation to the building of the U.S. bishops’ new headquarters in Washington, D.C. near the campus of the Catholic University of America. Allegedly, Adamec obtained the funds through the Slovak Federation.
The allegations published by The Wanderer received no official response, but at that year’s meeting of the conference of bishops, the bishops spent most of their executive session discussing punitive actions against The Wanderer for publishing the expose on Adamec.
and I haven't even gotten into the Pittsburg mob links, the drug pipeline in the area, or the corruption in the UMW union link2
a lot of corruption out there, and even when the locals complained and the newspapers documented the problems, no one listened.
Joseph Yablonsky call your office.
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