Episcopal Predator Priest's Written Confession is Released - UPDATED
Episcopal Predator Priest's Written Confession is Released
Four top Catholic prelates and an Episcopal Presiding Bishop kept silent
Sixteen church officials knew Fr. Bede Parry had molested
Cleric kept getting parish jobs until six months ago
By David Clohessy
November 7, 2011
A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is releasing today, for the first time, a detailed, typed, two page admission by a recently "outed" predator priest who spent time in Minnesota.
Leaders of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org) are also handing out flyers urging current and former church officials and members to give police any information they may have about clergy sex crimes and cover.
In May of this year, Fr. Bede Parry was named for the first time in a civil child sex abuse and cover up lawsuit. At that time, Parry admitted his crimes, which took place in western Missouri in the 1980s.
But today, for the first time ever, a two page, single spaced typed confession by Parry is being made public. In it, he says that four men who are now Catholic prelates knew of - but kept silent about - his crimes. They are Bishop Daniel Walsh of Santa Rosa CA, Bishop Joseph Pepe of Las Vegas NV, Dubuque Archbishop Jerome Hanus of Dubuque IA, and Archbishop Robert Sanchez of Santa Fe NM.
The confession names at least ten other Catholic and Episcopal officials in California, Nevada and Minnesota who were told of Parry's crimes, including high ranking church authorities two prominent Benedictine abbeys - Conception in northwest MO and St. John's in St. Cloud MN. The current or former St. John's staffers named include Fr. Anthony Gorman, Fr. Roman Paur, Fr. Rene McGraw, Abbot Jerome Theisen, Fr. Finian McDonald, and Abbot Greg Polan.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Four top Catholic prelates and an Episcopal Presiding Bishop kept silent
Sixteen church officials knew Fr. Bede Parry had molested
Cleric kept getting parish jobs until six months ago
By David Clohessy
November 7, 2011
Leaders of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org) are also handing out flyers urging current and former church officials and members to give police any information they may have about clergy sex crimes and cover.
In May of this year, Fr. Bede Parry was named for the first time in a civil child sex abuse and cover up lawsuit. At that time, Parry admitted his crimes, which took place in western Missouri in the 1980s.
But today, for the first time ever, a two page, single spaced typed confession by Parry is being made public. In it, he says that four men who are now Catholic prelates knew of - but kept silent about - his crimes. They are Bishop Daniel Walsh of Santa Rosa CA, Bishop Joseph Pepe of Las Vegas NV, Dubuque Archbishop Jerome Hanus of Dubuque IA, and Archbishop Robert Sanchez of Santa Fe NM.
The confession names at least ten other Catholic and Episcopal officials in California, Nevada and Minnesota who were told of Parry's crimes, including high ranking church authorities two prominent Benedictine abbeys - Conception in northwest MO and St. John's in St. Cloud MN. The current or former St. John's staffers named include Fr. Anthony Gorman, Fr. Roman Paur, Fr. Rene McGraw, Abbot Jerome Theisen, Fr. Finian McDonald, and Abbot Greg Polan.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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