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Catholic Charities "Companions" program

And to think that Dr. Doolin claims that Catholic Charities is in line with the Church teaching !

From the Editor of Faithful Voice.com

Those with responsibility for the overall integrity of the Church should be aware that in the Archdiocese of Boston there are parishes and other more general chapels and places of Catholic worship that are actively and aggressively recruiting homosexual congregations. The membership drives are usually carried out under the guise of an "outreach program" to victims of discrimination or people afflicted by the aids virus, even though no one keeps anybody out of churches and all are invited. These

campaigns often form part of a whole program including a more or less ambiguous catechisis concerning sexual ethics marked at times by a clear disregard or even noticeable hostility toward the guidance and

teaching which Rome provides in matters of morality. The Diocese is aware of these specialized and concentrated apostolates based on a sexual criterion.

Dear Editor@FaithfulVoice.com

I thought you might be interested to see the article I'm sending you from Bay Windows about what

Fr. Richard Lewandowski is up to. Remember, he was one of the planners of the Catholic Charities "Companions" program that Dr. Doolin supported.

The other planners and participants :

Fr. Phillip Earley, St Thomas ,Wilmington,MA. Member Board of Catholic Charities

Paul Merullo ,Pastoral Asst St Thomas, Wilmington ,MA. [ later convicted of sexual assault against a Woburn teen and served 2 1/2 years sentence),

Fr. John J. White (co-owner of gay bed and breakfast, in CA. ,with Fr. Paul Shanley ),

Fr. Walter Cuenin, OLHC ,Newton , MA.

Fr. Robert Congdon instructor atSt. John Seminary ,Boston, MA.

Charles Connors pres. of Boston PFLAG in 1999),

Pat Dunn (Catholic Charities Social Worker)

Vivian Soper (Catholic Charities Social Worker) and

Jean Proia ,leader of Catholic Parents Network/New Ways Ministry at Immaculate Conception parish, Stoughton, MA.(Fr. John J. White often helped her in her "ministry").

And to think that Dr. Doolin claims that Catholic Charities is in line with the teachings of the Catholic Church!

I still wonder whether Catholic Charities Family Services at the Joseph Center on the grounds of St. Patrick parish, Natick, still recommends that parents join PFLAG!!

They certainly aren't recommending Courage/EnCourage!! --Alice

A 1971 Boston Globe file photo of Shanley at Rivendell Farm, a retreat house for youth workers in Weston, Vermont (Photo: AP)

Paul Richard Shanley

Summary of Cases: Shanley's career had four stages. He spent the 1960s as a junior parish priest at St. Patrick's in Stoneham (a suburb north of Boston) and at St. Francis of Assisi in Braintree (a working class suburb south of Boston). In the 1970s he was a "street priest" designated as the Boston archdiocese's minister to "alienated youth." In the 1980s he was a priest and pastor at St. Jean's in the working class Nonantum section of Newton, west of Boston. And in the 1990s he was a fill-in priest in the San Bernardino diocese and an acting director of Leo House, a Catholic hostel in the New York archdiocese. He is accused of sexual abuse in each decade. His alleged victims were mostly male, but some women have come forward. Ages of the alleged victims at the time of the abuse range from 6 to 26, and the alleged offenses range from fondling to forced oral sex and anal rape. Shanley is now free on $300,000 bail, awaiting the Commonwealth v. Shanley criminal trial.

We first present a table that correlates Shanley's assignments with selected accusations made against him and with relevant archdiocesan documents and news reports. Then we offer links to key discussions of his career and to more than 70 key documents.

Born: 1/25/31 in the Dorchester section of Boston MA

Seminary: St. John's Seminary in Brighton MA, class of 1960

Ordained: 2/2/60 at Holy Name church in West Roxbury MA

Incardinated: Boston MA

Former Priest Shanley Convicted of Child Rape

By Greg Frost | February 8, 2005

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) - Defrocked priest Paul Shanley was convicted on Monday on all counts of raping a boy in the 1980s in one of the most high-profile cases to stem from a U.S. Catholic Church clergy abuse scandal.

The case had hinged on a 27-year-old firefighter who said Shanley raped and molested him at a Boston-area church years ago. The man said he had forgotten about the abuse, but that the memories came flooding back in 2002 as a pedophile priest scandal rocked the Archdiocese of Boston.

Flanked by his wife and family members, the fireman wept openly as the verdict was read out in court. Shanley appeared to show no emotion.

After the verdict, Judge Stephen Neel revoked Shanley's bail and he was taken into custody. The former priest, now 74, could be sentenced to life in prison. Neel scheduled the sentencing for February 15.

The jury took nearly 15 hours to find Shanley guilty of all charges: two counts of child rape and two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child.

Shanley's attorney, Frank Mondano, said he would appeal.

"It appears that the absence of a case is not an impediment to securing a conviction," Mondano said.

During the trial, Mondano subjected the accuser to hours of stinging interrogation and questioned whether the man fabricated the allegations as a way of getting out of the United States Air Force.

VICTIMS FEEL RELIEF, VINDICATION

Massachusetts prosecutors commended the victim for coming forward and sticking it out on the witness stand.

"He never doubted himself," prosecutor Lynn Rooney said of the fireman.

The accuser, who received $500,000 last year as a settlement of his civil lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Boston, left the courthouse without speaking to reporters but Rooney said the man was "overjoyed."

Clergy abuse victims present for the verdict said they felt vindicated, with some saying their pursuit of justice had been stymied by the statute of limitations.

"So many of us had to count on this case because we could not go to court," said Ann Hagan Webb, the New England coordinator of SNAP, a group of people who say they were abused by priests.

John Harris, who said Shanley raped him in 1979 when he was 21 and went to the priest for counseling about his homosexuality, told journalists that it was a "release of emotion" to witness the verdict.

Paul Shannon, a friend of Shanley's, called the verdict a "catastrophe," and accused the media of distorting Shanley's record and image.

"The story told by the four original accusers is a preposterous story," he said.

Shanley was indicted in 2002 on charges of child rape and indecent assault and battery on a child. Prosecutors dropped most of the charges because three of the original four accusers either would not testify or could not be found.

The Vatican defrocked Shanley last year, more than two decades after his superiors received complaints about the priest's views on sex between men and boys.

Internal church documents released in 2002 showed the Boston Archdiocese knew in 1979 that Shanley had attended a meeting of men involved in sexual relationships with male youngsters -- a meeting that gave rise to NAMBLA, the North American Man Boy Love Association.

The abuse scandal forced the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law as Archbishop of Boston in late 2002.

TIME MAGAZINE:

In Plain Sight

by Amanda Ripley, Boston

Father Paul Shanley didn't hide his interest in pedophilia. So why didn't the church recognize him as a problem?

Monday, Apr. 22, 2002

In this season of relentless scandal in the Roman Catholic Church, there has been much hyperbole -- sweeping condemnations of the priesthood, predictions of the end of a 2,000-year-old religion. Many Americans watched, sighed and waited for it to pass. But then came the story of the Rev. Paul Shanley. Last week, after all the adjectives had already been used, the details of his sordid career became public -- and suddenly there truly were no words too strong.

"It's incomprehensible," says the Rev. Robert Bullock, who has been ministering in Boston for nearly half a century and who has known Shanley just as long. "The revelations have been so staggering and so shocking that there is no way to integrate this material into some kind of orderly narrative of events."

Shanley, now 71, didn't just have sex with children; he publicly endorsed the concept. He didn't just use his collar to get access to minors; he ran a special ministry for the most vulnerable among them. And he didn't fly below the radar of the church hierarchy; the 818-page archive released by the Boston Archdiocese under court order shows that two Cardinals and a phalanx of deputies knew about allegations of his abuse going back more than 30 years. But instead of handing Shanley over to police or at least defrocking him, they ignored, protected or promoted him. More than 40 alleged victims have now claimed abuse.

If any scandal can bring down the most powerful Cardinal in the country, it could be this one. The steady drumbeat for the resignation of Bernard Cardinal Law grew louder last week, with the Boston Globe and some of Law's staunchest former defenders saying he must go. Several major donors to the diocese's Catholic Charities are withholding funds. Law issued a statement on Friday saying he intends to stay -- but this drama is not over.

To begin to understand how this implosion came to pass, it is necessary to learn another language. Church officials have responded to Shanley in the dialect of the Roman Catholic bureaucracy -- which is fluent in the language of forgiveness and secrecy. "I am sure that all the legal activity will add to your stress," wrote one of Law's top officials to Shanley. "I will do all I can to make sure that you are cared for and supported." But it is also necessary to understand the unique allure of Shanley.

Paul Shanley was a media darling, a nationally known "hippie priest" who busted out of the Catholic stereotype at a time when the country was craving just such a novelty. "There was something highly seductive about him," says Bullock, who attended seminary with Shanley. In the 1970s Shanley grew thick sideburns and wore overalls. He gave irreverent lectures about the foolishness of the drug war and the normalcy of bisexuality. And most of all, he made it his lifetime pursuit to help wayward children, running a special ministry for teenagers who had run away or were confused about their sexuality. In a 1970 letter to the Archdiocese, one thankful parishioner wrote: "They flock around him as if he is the Pied Piper...[It's] a feeling of, 'When I am with Father Paul, I am somebody.'" And according to alleged victims, once Shanley had their trust, he molested them.

It can't be the case that the Church was just looking to avoid scandal by putting up with Shanley, because he already was a scandal. In 1978 he was present at the founding meeting of the North American Man-Boy Love Association. He was quoted in GaysWeek, a short-lived New York publication, as questioning the morality of pedophilia laws, praising the "deep love" possible in a man-boy relationship and bemoaning the pain that moral condemnation of such liaisons can cause youngsters. "We have our convictions upside down, if we are truly concerned with boys," he said. "The 'cure' does far more damage." This was not Shanley's only endorsement of pedophilia. Two other times, in 1977 and 1985, laypersons reported similar comments to the Archdiocese. Even the Vatican inquired about Shanley -- writing in 1978 to Boston's then Cardinal, Humberto Medeiros, to complain about Shanley's endorsement of homosexuality. In response, the Cardinal ordered Shanley not to minister to gays anymore. Shanley's unfettered access to children continued, however.

The first document accusing Shanley of molestation is dated 1967. A priest at another church near Shanley's wrote that a boy had told him he had been abused by Shanley at a cabin in the woods. In 1983, according to two lawsuits recently filed against Law, Shanley began repeatedly molesting two 6-year-old boys in his parish, St. John the Evangelist, in Newton, Mass. Gregory Ford and Paul Busa both say Shanley would regularly pull them out of catechism class and make them play the card game War. Whoever lost had to perform a sexual act, says Busa, now 24. The abuse lasted for about six years, he says. No criminal charges have been filed yet against Shanley.

In 1990 Shanley moved to California. Even though his personnel file had multiple allegations of child abuse, then Rev. Robert Banks, a top deputy to Law, sent the San Bernadino diocese a letter vouching for him. "I can assure you that Father Shanley has no problem that would be a concern to your diocese," he wrote. There were no restrictions placed on his access to minors. Shanley wrote that he handled all baptisms and youth retreats at St. Anne's in San Bernadino. On the side, he and another priest also owned a hotel for gay guests in Palm Springs, Calif. Last week San Bernadino officials said that there had been no problems with Shanley, but that they would never have allowed him to come had they known of his past.

Banks, now the Bishop of Green Bay, Wis., expressed little remorse for his letter in an interview with TIME last week. He said he had never heard of any abuse allegations, and he doesn't remember if he ever looked in Shanley's file. "If the priest had an assignment in the diocese, my presumption was that he was in good standing, and everything was fine. And that's the way I operate still."

In 1996, when Law granted Shanley's retirement, he wrote, "For 30 years in assigned ministry you brought God's Word and His Love to His people and I know that that continues to be your goal despite some difficult limitations." The next year, after the Church had settled multiple cases filed against Shanley, Law said he had no objection to the priest's bid to become head of a New York City Catholic guest house -- which occasionally housed children and teenagers. Shanley, who had already worked there for two years, didn't get the job. After he returned to California in 1997, he joined the San Diego police department's voluntary senior patrol. Fellow volunteers and neighbors told Time recently that he never mentioned he was a priest. They said they have not seen Shanley for weeks. He has not responded to interview requests.

Twenty-eight years ago this month, Shanley lectured at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. According to a local newspaper account, he railed against the chasm between church teachings and practices. "The sexual morality of the Catholic Church is a shambles," he said. His legacy makes it even more so.

With Reporting by Amanda Bower/New York, Matt Kelly/Boston and Jill Underwood/San Diego

THE NEW YORK TIMES

April 15, 2002

Sent to California on Sick Leave, Boston Priest Bought Racy Gay Resort

By NICK MADIGAN

PALM SPRINGS, Calif., April 12 -- When Boston church officials granted the Rev. Paul R. Shanley a medical leave 12 years ago and allowed him to move here, they saw it as a chance for him to heal various physical ailments, primarily allergies, in the desert air, and to do a little pastoral work if and when he was well enough.

At his insistence, Father Shanley's Boston superiors arranged for regular checks to be sent to him for living expenses and medical bills, and sent laudatory letters of recommendation to their counterparts at the Diocese of San Bernardino, carefully avoiding mention of a swirl of accusations that he had molested more than two dozen young boys in Massachusetts going back to 1967.

What his superiors appeared not to know, however, was that the address to which they were sending Father Shanley's checks for most of his time here was the Cabana Club Resort, one of the many hotels that cater to the town's gays. Father Shanley became an owner of the hotel, along with the Rev. John J. White, another Boston priest who was also on sick leave and receiving money from the Boston Archdiocese. Father White was the sole owner of a second hotel, the nearby Whispering Palms.

Neither remains in business, although the scene they were part of is thriving, with 40 such hotels and bed-and-breakfasts, mostly in the Warm Sands enclave. These clothing-optional places, protected from prying eyes by walls and towering bougainvillea, do year-round business for gay men from around the world.

Interviews with some of his acquaintances in Palm Springs paint a picture of a man who immersed himself in the local gay scene soon after his arrival in 1990, although most people who remember him said he was quieter and less outgoing than Father White. On occasion, he helped out at St. Anne Church in San Bernardino, celebrating a weekend Mass or leading youth retreats.

"My biggest surprise was that Paul was a priest at all," said John Kendrick, 47, co-owner of Inn Exile, a hotel that he expanded after buying the Whispering Palms, next door, from Father White in 1994. "I didn't know you could be a part-time priest."

The disclosures about Father Shanley, 70, who vanished from his San Diego apartment building almost three weeks ago, have added heat to the controversy surrounding Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston, depicted in documents released on Monday as being consistently supportive of priests like Father Shanley and John J. Geoghan.

Both were shuttled from parish to parish, even as evidence of abuses gathered against them, without regard to whether they had further contacts with children. Father Geoghan was later defrocked and convicted of indecent assault. Father Shanley has not been charged with a crime, although the Boston Archdiocese has settled at least three lawsuits against him.

Officials at the San Bernardino Diocese who were supposedly watching over Father Shanley during his sojourn in Palm Springs said last week they had known nothing of his activities in Warm Sands.

Kevin Rice, 46, who has lived in Palm Springs for 14 years, got to know Fathers White and Shanley after he sold them space in Frontier News magazine for advertisements promoting the two hotels.

"I knew Jack was a priest and thought he wasn't practicing," Mr. Rice said. "Jack introduced Shanley as someone he knew from his days in the seminary."

Mr. Rice said that Father White "seemed to be a little off the wall" but that Father Shanley was a "very nice guy, personable." Father Shanley was "more of the business person," Mr. Rice said. "He had his head on straighter. There's no question about it, he's a very charismatic man."

Having once stayed at the Whispering Palms, Mr. Rice described the resort as "one of the friskier places." Nude sunbathing was encouraged, and sex by the pool was permitted, he said.

The two priests sold the Cabana Club Resort for $185,000 in 1997, three years after Father White had disposed of the Whispering Palms for $389,000. It is not clear how much they profited from the sales of the hotels, or at which point they stopped receiving money from the Boston Archdiocese.

Father Shanley seemed unable to understand that he had hurt anyone in his years as an active Roman Catholic priest, and painted himself as a victim.

"I have done nothing wrong," he wrote in a letter dated March 14, 1991, to Father John B. MacCormack, then a senior aide to Cardinal Law and now bishop in Manchester, N.H. In the letter, he also wrote: "Do the decent thing. Allow me, quietly, to retire, or put me on permanent disability. Remove the unpredictability and my health will return. This is cruel and unusual punishment."

Yet diocesan officials went out of their way to help him. In 1995, they transferred Father Shanley to New York, where he became acting director of Leo House, a guest house for students and clergy members. Two years later, he was denied a permanent post there when one of his accusers came forward. Then, with a longtime companion, Dale E. Lagace -- who had been with him for part of his time in both Palm Springs and New York and is 21 years his junior -- Father Shanley moved to Hillcrest, a district of San Diego favored by gays.

Reached at her home in Maine, Mr. Lagace's mother, Mona Stefanik Lambert, said tearfully that she had not spoken with her son in two weeks and did not know where he was. "This is a complete surprise, all of this," Ms. Lambert said. "I'm very hurt inside about the whole matter."

PALM SPRINGS, Calif., April 12 ã When Boston church officials granted the Rev. Paul R. Shanley a medical leave 12 years ago and allowed him to move here, they saw it as a chance for him to heal various physical ailments, primarily allergies, in the desert air, and to do a little pastoral work if and when he was well enough.

Officials at the San Bernardino Diocese who were supposedly watching over Father Shanley during his sojourn in Palm Springs said last week they had known nothing of his activities in Warm Sands.

Kevin Rice, 46, who has lived in Palm Springs for 14 years, got to know Fathers White and Shanley after he sold them space in Frontier News magazine for advertisements promoting the two hotels.

"I knew Jack was a priest and thought he wasn't practicing," Mr. Rice said. "Jack introduced Shanley as someone he knew from his days in the seminary."

Having once stayed at the Whispering Palms, Mr. Rice described the resort as "one of the friskier places." Nude sunbathing was encouraged, and sex by the pool was permitted, he said.

Father Shanley seemed unable to understand that he had hurt anyone in his years as an active Roman Catholic priest, and painted himself as a victim.

Yet diocesan officials went out of their way to help him. In 1995, they transferred Father Shanley to New York, where he became acting director of Leo House, a guest house for students and clergy members. Two years later, he was denied a permanent post there when one of his accusers came forward. Then, with a longtime companion, Dale E. Lagace ã who had been with him for part of his time in both Palm Springs and New York and is 21 years his junior ã Father Shanley moved to Hillcrest, a district of San Diego favored by gays.

Melinda Lee, manager of the mustard-hued three-story Santa Fe Villas building on Albatross Street, where Father Shanley and Mr. Lagace pay $900 a month for a two-bedroom apartment, said the older man had described the younger as his caregiver.

Santa Fe Villas is almost directly across the street from the Florence Child Development Center, where dozens of children frolicked today. "I've been here the longest and I haven't seen him at all," said a teacher, Wanda Singleton, when told that Father Shanley lived close by.

Until last week, Father Shanley was a volunteer with the Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol, a San Diego Police Department program that puts about 500 elderly people to work. "He had no contact with kids," said a police officer who works with the volunteers. The department dropped Father Shanley after the accusations against him became public.

One of the priest's elderly neighbors, Milton D. Turner, said Father Shanley had introduced him to the voice of the British soprano Sarah Brightman. "I know him as a perfect gentleman and a great neighbor," Mr. Turner said.

Down in the manager's officer, Mrs. Lee said she had no idea that Father Shanley was a priest, let alone that he had been accused of molesting children.

"It just goes to show you ã you need to check up on people," Mrs. Lee said. "I told him once he had an ethereal quality. He thought that was a nice compliment."

TheBostonChannel.com

Priest Due In California Court For Extradition

Paul Shanley Arrested On Child Rape Charges

POSTED: 6:19 am EDT May 3, 2002

UPDATED: 7:16 am EDT May 3, 2002

BOSTON -- Father Paul Shanley is due in California court Friday morning for extradition to Massachusetts on child rape charges.

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He was arrested Thursday on a Massachusetts warrant.

NewsCenter 5's Gail Huff reported that if Shanley, 71, does not fight extradition at the court hearing he will be returned to Massachusetts as soon as possible to face the three new charges of child rape.

He was arrested at his San Diego apartment, where he had not been seen for weeks and no one seemed to know where he had gone.

Shanley hid his face from a news cameraman as was brought into custody. It was believed he had skipped the country after stunning personnel documents were released by the archdiocese of Boston that detailed years of allegations that Shanley had sexually assaulted young boys while he served at parishes in the Bay State. The documents indicated the church had covered up the allegations for years.

Thursday, Shanley was subdued as he was handcuffed and taken away by police. He'll face a judge Friday morning in San Diego Superior court for an extradition hearing and arraignment on a felony fugitive warrant.

He's accused of assaulting boys at St. Jean's Church in Newton, Mass. Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley talked about the Massachusetts case.

"Father Paul Shanley, who was the pastor at the time, would come to take [the alleged victim and] others from the class, for talks. The priest would take them to one of three locations. To the bathroom, often across the street to the rectory, or to the confessional, and that is where the sex abuse would occur," alleged Coakley.

The charges outline allegations similar to those brought by Greg Ford, 24, also of Newton, whose family is suing the archdiocese over alleged sex abuse. His family was relieved that Shanley has been arrested.

"I'll be there every step of the way. And I want to see him be removed, and taken to jail," said Ford's father, Rodney.

Arthur Austin, 54, says Shanley abused him over a six-year period three decades ago. He said it took him awhile to process that Shanley had been taken into custody, but then he was elated.

"It was just this incredible sensation of, 'At last, he didn't get away with it. He didn't escape. The church didn't win," said Austin.

Thursday night the Boston archdiocese released a statement saying it hopes his arrest will bring to those who say they were abused by Shanley.

Here are some key dates in the case of the Rev. Paul Shanley, who has been arrested on charges of child rape.

Feb. 2, 1960 - Rev. Paul Shanley ordained and assigned to St. Patrick's Church in Stoneham, where he serves until June 20, 1967.

1967 - First report of child abuse by Shanley made by the Rev. Raoul Cabot about an encounter at LaSalette Shrine in Attleboro.

June 20, 1967 - Shanley assigned to St. Francis Church in Braintree where he serves until June 18, 1969.

1960s-1970s - Shanley develops a reputation as a popular and well-known "street priest," working with gays, addicts and runaways.

Nov. 14, 1978 - Vatican asks Boston Cardinal Humberto Medeiros about Shanley.

Dec. 2, 1978 - Shanley attends meeting believed to have led to founding of the North American Man-Boy Love Association. He is quoted in Feb., 1979 article of "GaysWeek" forwarded to the archdiocese.

Feb. 12, 1979 - Medeiros writes to Rome: "I believe that Father Shanley is a troubled priest."

April 12, 1979 - Medeiros writes letter to Shanley ending his Ministry to Alienated Youth based at St. Philip's in Roxbury and makes him associate pastor at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Newton.

Dec. 20, 1982 - Jacqueline Gravreau of Newton begins calling archdiocese to say Shanley is abusing a boy. Monsignor Frederick Ryan tells staff to 'let her stay hanging on the phone' whenever she calls.

Sept. 1, 1983 to Jan. 31, 1990 - Shanley assigned to St. Jean's Parish in Newton.

Dec. 7, 1989 - Cardinal Bernard Law writes to Shanley about his departure from the Newton parish, and praises his "impressive record."

Jan. 16, 1990 - Rev. Robert J. Banks of the Archdiocese of Boston writes to Rev. Philip A. Behan of the Archdiocese of San Bernardino, saying Shanley is a priest in "good standing" and recommending he be given a position in the diocese, after Shanley was granted medical leave for one year.

December 1990 - Shanley and another former priest, John L. White, buy the Cabana Club Resort.

Dec. 9, 1991 - Letter from the Rev. John McCormack stating, "It is clear to me that Paul Shanley is a sick person," suggesting he return to Boston for psychiatric counseling and be put on disability.

1993 - Shanley leaves the San Bernardino Diocese and moves to San Diego.

Feb. 29, 1996 - Law writes glowing letter to Shanley granting him senior priest/retirement status.

June 12, 1997 - Law endorses Shanley as executive director of Leo House in New York.

Friday, April 5, 2002 - Archdiocese releases documents showing officials received reports of the former priest's attendance at a 1979 meeting in Boston at which the North American Man Boy Love Association was apparently created.

On April 8, 2002 - Documents released to Gregory Ford, 24, of Newton, who claims he was raped as a child by Shanley.

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - Shanley's own writings released by the archdiocese describing how he signed up for treatment of a sexually transmitted disease at multiple clinics.

Thursday, May 2, 2002 - Shanley arrested in San Diego on charges of raping a child in Massachusetts.

Friday, May 3, 2002 - Shanley to undergo extradition hearing and arraignment on a felony fugitive warrant in San Diego Superior Court.

Previous Stories:

Ä May 1, 2002: Judge Orders Church To Turn Over Shanley Documents

Ä May 1, 2002: Shanley Trying To Keep Records Private

Ä April 29, 2002: Cardinal: Boy's Negligence Caused Sex Abuse

Ä April 26, 2002: Lawyer: Records Show Shanley Had Long History Of Abuse

Ä April 25, 2002: More Documents In Shanley Case Turned Over

Ä April 25, 2002: Church To Turn Over More Documents In Shanley Case

Ä April 9, 2002: Documents: Priest Attended Man-Boy Love Meeting

Ä April 8, 2002: Alleged Victim Awaits Release Of Priest Documents

Ä April 5, 2002: Lawyer: New Documents Shine Light On Abuse In Church

The Rev. Paul R. Shanley, who was recently returned to Massachusetts to answer an indictment for sexual abuse of a child, has enjoyed an unusual religious vocation. While being paid by the Boston archdiocese, he became owner, along with another Roman cleric, the Rev. John J. White, of the Cabana Club Resort in Palm Springs, Calif., described by Nick Madigan of The New York Times as "one of many hotels that cater to the town's gays." Whispering Palms, another hotel owned by White, is described by a guest as "one of the friskier places," featuring nude sunbathing and sex by the pool. But don't think piety was totally neglected amidst the frolic. "On occasion," reports Madigan, "[Father Shanley] helped out at St. Anne Church in San Bernardino, celebrating a weekend Mass or leading youth retreats."

Police Arrest Former Priest On Sex Abuse Charges

Investigators Say Crime Committed Over 30 Years Ago

AP -

05/29/03 - A former Catholic priest was arrested Thursday on charges of sexually abusing a child more than 30 years ago.

Harold Charles Depp, 72, was taken into custody without incident at his home in Palm Springs, according to police in Oceanside. Search warrants were also served at Depp's workplace at the Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment in Los Angeles.

Investigators say Depp began molesting an 11-year-old boy in 1971.

At the time, Depp was a visiting priest from Detroit staying at the Prince of Peace Abbey in Oceanside. Police said the molestation continued until the following year, when Depp left Oceanside, located 35 miles north of San Diego.

The alleged victim, now in his 40s, contacted authorities two months ago to prevent other children from becoming victimized. He reported that he had learned that Depp had failed to register as a sex offender and was working around children, police said.

On Thursday, the California Attorney General's office filed a 42-count complaint against Depp in San Diego County Superior Court, charging him with child molestation, sodomy and oral copulation of a child, identified in court papers as Joseph M.

Depp also was charged with failure to register as a sex offender.

He will be brought to Oceanside for questioning and then jailed, police said.

After leaving Oceanside, Depp moved to Arizona and then to Alaska, where he was convicted in 1982 of oral copulation, sodomy and masturbation of a child, according to the complaint.

He served eight years of a 13-year sentence and then returned to California around 1990, said Oceanside police Lt. Sheila Potkonjak.

In 1990, the Rev. Paul Shanley, a central figure in the sex abuse scandal in the Boston Archdiocese, and another former priest, John L. White, bought the Cabana Club Resort in Palm Springs, which catered to gays.

Shanley, 71, was arrested one year ago in San Diego. He has pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of child rape in Massachusetts and remains free on bail.

Potkonjak said she was unaware of any connection between the two men.

Prominent in the shameful child abuse scandal that has humiliated U.S. Catholic bishops are several priests who spent significant parts of their careers working with troubled youth. Igniting the current exposÈ was a defrocked Boston priest, John Geoghan, who was convicted of fondling a 10-year-old boy in the Waltham Boys & Girls Club swimming pool.

Now attention has shifted to the alleged serial molesting career of 70-year-old Paul Shanley, who spent much of the π70s in charge of the Boston Archdioceseπs ≥ministry to alienated youth.≤ Thanks to reporting by The New York Times and the Boston Globe here is some of what we know:

Beginning in 1967, Shanley was the subject of 26 complaints to church authorities about his conduct with children. Nevertheless, by 1971 Shanley (then a celebrity ≥street priest≤) had established a retreat for youth workers in Weston, Vt. Like other clergy of all faiths, Shanley was not required to undergo a criminal background check, nor were church officials required to notify civil authorities when they received allegations of child abuse.

At no time, reveal some 800 pages of records released as the result of a lawsuit, did church officials seek to keep Shanley away from children or express concern for the welfare of dozens of boys he is accused of abusing. In 1979 Shanley is reported to have been a speaker at the founding conference of, shall we say, a youth-focused organization: The North American Man-Boy Love Association, a mysterious group that does double duty as a favorite whipping boy in the titillating national direct-mail campaigns of conservative children and family groups.

There was ≥a cult around Father Shanley,≤ recalls Joe Leavey, himself a former seminarian. Until 1976 Leavey was the Massachusetts commissioner of youth services and has since been president of a multi-service youth agency, Communities for People. Shanley, says Leavey, ≥was someone who came in and globalized the situation≤ of runaways flocking to Boston Common. Shanley was constantly charging that ≥no one else≤ was helping runaway and homeless youth. He did ≥a disservice to other programs≤ and ≥a terrible disservice to those kids.≤ Leavey says Shanley would ≥pick the weak,≤ but not to help them. ≥He was in there as a predator.≤

In short, Shanley was a knock-off of New Yorkπs Father Bruce Ritter, founder of Covenant House. But the late Ritter had superior public relations skills and direct-mail marketing savvy. Even today the international agency brings in about $100 million in donations every year.

After his street priest phase, Shanley allegedly spent the π80s molesting his way through several Boston-area parishes. In 1991, one priest wrote in an internal memo, ≥It is clear to me that Paul Shanley is a sick person.≤ No matter. Bostonπs Cardinal Bernard Law foisted Shanley off to San Bernardino, Calif., where his duties included running youth retreats. Law wrote Shanley in 1996 to thank him for his ≥impressive record.≤ Most of Shanleyπs time in Southern California was spent as the owner/manager of Cabana Club Resort, a hotel that caters to gays in Palm Springs.

Shanleyπs next hunting ground was Leo House in New York City, a guest home for visiting clergy and students. A complaint from a nun about Shanleyπs behavior blocked his permanent appointment to that post. Until recently, Shanley was living in San Diego across the street from the Florence Child Development Center and serving as a member of the Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol sponsored by the police department. Shanleyπs whereabouts now are unknown.

It did not take much in the way of divining talent to see this scandal coming. And thanks to another pillar of American life, the Boy Scouts of America, one part of the solution is also clear. From 1984 through 1992, the Irving, Texas-based Boy Scouts were sued at least 60 times by the families of children abused by Scout leaders, and more lawsuits are working through the courts today. The settlements and judgments during that time alone totaled at least $16 million.

Facing catastrophic financial losses and a pummeling by the media, the BSA instituted some reforms: It urged background checks of volunteers, weaved educational material about sexual abuse into its materials for youths and leaders, and declared that there be at least two adults on all Scout trips. Many (although not the Supreme Court or Congress) think that, if anything, the Scouts went too far in zealously purging avowed gays from the organization for simply being gay ≠ not for illegal sexual behavior towards boys from its adult ranks.

Leading the loyal opposition to the embattled Cardinal Law is Mary Jo Bane, a U.S assistant secretary for children and families from 1993 to 1996, now a professor at Harvardπs Kennedy School of Government.

Accused Priest Waives Extradition

SAN DIEGO, May 3, 2002

A priest at the epicenter of the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic church agreed Friday to return to Massachusetts to face charges that he repeatedly raped a boy ã sometimes in a church confessional ã over a seven-year period.

The Rev. Paul Shanley, one of the most notorious figures in the sex scandal engulfing the Boston archdiocese, waived his right to fight extradition at a brief court hearing.

The defendant, who has been publicly silent since the allegations surfaced, did not make any statements in the appearance, except to say, "Certainly," when asked to sign the extradition documents.

Police officers from Massachusetts are expected to fly to San Diego to collect Shanley in the next couple of days, said Emily LaGrassa, spokeswoman for the Middlesex district attorney's office. Shanley, 71, is being held without bail.

He is accused of repeatedly raping a boy over a seven-year period in St. Jean Parish in Newton, Mass., where he served as a priest until the church transferred him to California.

He faces a possible life sentence if convicted.

Newton residents reacted with anger at the former pastor, but also with relief that he was in custody.

"I'm excited no one else will be hurt by him," said Maria Leo, a 36-year-old Catholic mother of two who knows two people who have accused Shanley of abuse.

According to a source close to the case, the criminal charges against Shanley stem from allegations made by Paul Busa, 24, a former Air Force military policeman. Busa went public with allegations last month, saying he had repressed all memory of the abuse until hearing about a childhood friend who accused Shanley of molesting him.

Neither Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley nor Busa's attorney, Roderick MacLeish, would confirm that Busa's allegations were the basis for the criminal charges.

Gregory Ford, 24, and Ford's parents also have filed a suit claiming Shanley repeatedly raped Ford when he was a child.

Busa, who declined to comment on the charges, has said previously that he quit his job in the military after suffering a physical and mental breakdown.

"In the beginning, I questioned myself a lot," Busa said. "I thought, 'Was I making this up?' The way my body was reacting, I knew it had happened."

Shanley surrendered Thursday at an apartment overlooking San Diego's Balboa Park. His arrest was the latest development in a scandal that has tarnished Boston's highest-ranking Catholic leader, Cardinal Bernard Law.

In a statement, archdiocese spokeswoman Donna Morrissey said the church hopes the arrest would "contribute to the healing" of victims and their families.

Documents from Shanley's personnel files detailed Shanley's advocacy of sex between men and boys as well as his transfer to several parishes by the archdiocese, despite allegations of abuse.

Coakley said the alleged victim, who is now 24 years old, said Shanley abused him from 1983 to 1990, when he was between 6 and 13 years old.

The victim, whom Coakley did not identify, told police Shanley took him out of his church instruction class on an almost weekly basis and took him to the bathroom, across the street to the rectory or to the confessional at St. Jean Parish Newton, where the sexual abuse took place.

The victim told police that Shanley told him, "if he told, no one would believe him," the prosecutor said.

Coakley's office is looking into several other "credible" allegations of abuse by Shanley from victims who came forward after widespread media reports in the last few weeks.

Documents released a month ago show archdiocese officials had received reports of Shanley's attendance at a 1979 meeting in Boston at which the North American Man Boy Love Association was apparently created. Despite receiving dozens of allegations of abuse, officials did not warn a California diocese when Shanley moved there in 1990.

Shanley and another former priest, John L. White, bought a gay-themed resort in Palm Springs in December 1990. Shanley left the San Bernardino Diocese in 1993.

In 1997, Shanley and White sold the four-room Cabana Club Resort. A neighboring hotel owned by White ã the Whispering Palms ã was sold in 1995.

Shanley moved to San Diego while White returned to Boston.

Shanley had not been heard from since the molestation allegations against him surfaced in March. He was fired from his volunteer job at the San Diego Police Department after the sex abuse allegations surfaced in Boston.

Cardinal Bernard Law, head of the Boston Archdiocese, was aware of the allegations against Shanley, according to documents released by the Massachusetts attorney general.

Coakley said in response to a question that she hadn't ruled out filing charges against anyone who had assisted or overseen Shanley, but she added: "I still can't see it (happening)."

Last week, the archdiocese released an additional 1,600 pages of records in the case. They included Shanley's own writings on his life as a street priest, including how he frequently visited clinics for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.

Gregory Ford, 24, and his parents Paula and Rodney, are suing the archdiocese and Cardinal Law for negligence for allowing Shanley to be posted to the Newton parish where Ford was allegedly repeatedly abused and raped as a child.

The family is seeking the release of still more records: Shanley's psychiatric and other medical assessments that were ordered by the Roman Catholic archdiocese during his tenure.

Attorney Frank Mondano, who represents Shanley, said Wednesday that his client never waived his right to keep psychiatric and other medical assessments private. He also said the archdiocese never had the records, though they are referenced in archdiocese correspondence.

In other developments:

The Archdiocese of Boston said Thursday it has backed out of its settlement agreement -- estimated to be worth $15 million to $40 million -- with 86 victims of defrocked priest John Geoghan because the deal would essentially strip the archdiocese of resources.

The members of the finance committee rejected Cardinal Bernard Law's request to sign off on the deal, and said the settlement would "leave the Archdiocese unable to provide a just and proportional response to other victims," according to a statement from the archdiocese.

The Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kan., has placed a priest on indefinite leave because of "issues of possible sexual impropriety."

A fifth-grade teacher in New Jersey returned from a paid leave he took after reports surfaced that he had impregnated a 15-year-old girl while he was a Catholic priest in Connecticut.

Joseph Michael DeShan, a teacher at the Eleanor Rush Intermediate School in Cinnaminson, N.J., was allowed to return after the school district learned that no charges could be filed against DeShan in Connecticut, and that he had violated no administrative rules, Cinnaminson Schools Superintendent Sal Illuzzi said.

Forty men now say they were abused by the Rev. Joseph Birmingham, a Boston priest known for his flashy black convertible. He died in 1989.

A priest who served prison time last year for trying to entice an underage boy into sex via the Internet was accused in a lawsuit filed Tuesday of molesting an altar boy at a Connecticut church in the late 1980s.

A chaplain at a Catholic hospital in St. Louis resigned after the Illinois diocese that recommended him for the job revealed he was accused of sexually abusing a minor years earlier, the Archdiocese of St. Louis said.

Seven men sued the Archdiocese of Louisville, claiming they were sexually abused as children by priests two decades ago or before. The men claim the archdiocese knew three priests engaged in a pattern of sexually abusing children. Cecelia Price, a spokeswoman for the archdiocese, said they had not seen the lawsuit.

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"Pedophile" Priest Also Ran Gay Hotel Complex

by Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles

A PRIEST at the centre of the pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church in America had a second career as the manager of a clothing-optional gay resort hotel in the Californian desert even while he remained on the payroll of the archdiocese of Boston.

Father Paul Shanley, accused of molesting more than two dozen boys over the past 35 years, moved to California on sick leave in 1990 with another Boston priest, John White. Together they ran the Cabana Club Resort in Palm Springs, one of a number of hotels attracting gay men from around the country, which encouraged nude sunbathing and even tolerated sex by the swimming pool.

According to a report in yesterday's New York Times, the Boston archdiocese sent regular cheques to Father Shanley at the hotelãwithout, apparently, realising what it wasãand went out of its way to recommend him for part-time pastoral work in letters to the local diocese of San Bernardino. The authorities in San Bernardino were instructed to keep an eye on him but apparently failed to make the most basic of checks on his activities.

The hotel is no longer in business, and Father Shanley subsequently moved to San Diego, where he disappeared three weeks ago as the allegations about his abuse of children in his ministry made international headlines.

The latest revelations have brought further embarrassment to Cardinal Bernard Law, the Archbishop of Boston, who has so far resisted strident demands for his resignation. Official documents released last week show the Boston archdiocese was aware of Father Shanley's record of alleged abuse but did nothing about it.

More Calls For Cardinal To Resign

BOSTON, April 10, 2002

New disclosures relating to the transfer of Catholic priests accused of sex crimes have prompted new calls for Cardinal Bernard Law to resign as the leader of the Archdiocese of Boston.

Tuesday, Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates Warren Tolman and Robert Reich, along with New Hampshire's largest newspaper, The Union Leader of Manchester, called for Law to resign.

Their appeals to Law to step aside and make way for new leadership in the Archdiocese came a day after newly released property records showed that a priest accused of molesting children in Boston more than two decades ago bought a hotel that catered to gays after he was transferred to Southern California in 1990.

The Rev. Paul R. Shanley and another former priest bought the four-room Cabana Club Resort in December 1990. Shanley left the San Bernardino Diocese in 1993 and sold the hotel two years later.

In Boston, several lawsuits have been filed against Shanley, including one by Gregory Ford, 24, who alleges the priest repeatedly raped him in the 1980s.

Documents released Monday by Ford's attorney show Shanley spoke in favor of sex between men and boys at a 1979 meeting where a national group advocating the practice - the North American Man Boy Love Association - apparently was formed.

The hotel owned by Shanley and John J. White was located in the Warm Springs area of Palm Springs, known for its businesses catering to gays.

"We were neighbors. We were in the same business together," said John Kendrick, who owned the Inn Exile which also served a gay clientele. "As far as Paul goes, it never occurred to me that he might have been a priest.

"He was a quiet background person whenever I was around him. He was John White's friend. That's how I knew him," Kendrick said.

In 1997, Shanley and White sold the Cabana Club. A neighboring hotel owned by White - the Whispering Palms - was sold in 1995.

Shanley, 71, now lives in San Diego. White later returned to Boston where he lived in retirement quarters at St. Mary's Church.

Shanley has not been heard from since molestation allegations against him surfaced late last month. The manager of his apartment said she had not seen him for weeks, and messages left for him were not returned.

In San Diego, Shanley was fired last week from a volunteer post with an auxiliary police force after authorities learned of the sex abuse allegations. Shanley did not work with children and was always assigned with a partner, a police spokesman said.

The papers released Monday indicate Shanley had a long history of sexual misconduct allegations. Yet when Shanley moved to California after a medical leave, another church official wrote the San Bernardino Diocese to assure them the priest was no threat.

After the papers were released, Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly raised the possibility of criminal charges against church officials who shift accused priests from parish to parish.

Cardinal Bernard Law, head of the Boston Archdiocese, has apologized for shuttling another former priest, John Geoghan, between parishes in the mid-1980s, even after he learned Geoghan molested children.

The newly released documents also show Law was aware of the allegations against Shanley.

The archdiocese hasn't directly addressed the Shanley case, but released a statement Monday saying: "Whatever may have occurred in the past, there were no deliberate decisions to put children at risk."

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Told Calif. parish record was clean

By Michael Rezendes and Matt Carroll, Globe Staff, 4/8/2002

he Archdiocese of Boston arranged the transfer of a known child molester, the Rev. Paul R. Shanley, to a California parish in 1990 with a top-level written assurance that Shanley had no problems in his past, according to a spokesman for the San Bernardino diocese.

The letter, which cleared the way for Shanley to work for three years at St. Anne's in San Bernardino, without restriction on his contact with children, was written by Bishop Robert J. Banks, who was then the top deputy to Cardinal Bernard F. Law.

Shanley signed an affidavit at the time, requested by the California diocese as a matter of course, asserting under oath that there had been no allegations of wrongdoing against him, including sexual misconduct.

During most of the time Shanley was at St. Anne's, he and another priest from Boston owned and operated a bed-and-breakfast for gay customers 50 miles away in Palm Springs, according to interviews and property records reviewed by the Globe.

Shanley and the Rev. John J. White, his co-owner of the B&B, were both technically on ''sick leave'' from the archdiocese and were being paid by the Boston Chancery. It was unclear last night whether Law or his aides were aware of the two men's business interest.

The disclosure last night that the Boston Archdiocese may have deliberately misled another diocese came on the eve of the public release today of hundreds of pages of documents about the archdiocese's knowledge of Shanley's sexual abuse and his advocacy for sexual acts between men and boys.

''In light of these records, I am appalled that Cardinal Law allowed Paul Shanley to go to San Bernardino, given the level of knowledge about his behavior that is in the archdiocese's files,'' said Roderick MacLeish Jr., the attorney for an alleged victim of Shanley who went to court to get the records, in an interview last night.

''It appears there was a purposeful intent to keep Shanley in California to avoid further embarrassment to the Boston Archdiocese,'' said MacLeish, who represents a Newton family, Rodney and Paula Ford, whose son, Gregory, was allegedly molested by Shanley over a six-year period in the 1980s.

During the 1980s, Shanley, a former street priest in Boston, was pastor of the now-defunct St. John the Evangelist parish in Newton. He left abruptly for California in 1990, ostensibly for health reasons.

MacLeish said he would not discuss or disclose the documents until today. But he confirmed that another of the cardinal's deputies, the Rev. John B. McCormack - now the bishop of the Manchester, N.H., diocese - visited Shanley and White in California in 1991.

Calls to a spokeswoman for Law went unreturned last night.

Tony Kuick, a spokesman for Banks - who is now bishop of Green Bay, Wisc. - said the bishop could not be reached for comment.

A spokesman for McCormack, a seminary classmate of Shanley, said he could not respond to questions.

Yesterday, the Globe reported that one of Law's advisers believes the Shanley files will be ''quite damaging,'' with further indications last night that they may be as embarrassing to the cardinal as the January disclosure of the records about the serial pedophilia of former priest John J. Geoghan.

Law, who arrived in Boston in 1984, transferred Geoghan from one parish to another despite knowing about his record of molesting young children.

But the Shanley documents appear to involve decisions that were made - or endorsed - more recently, during the 1990s, by Law and several other bishops.

The Globe reported yesterday that the now-retired Rev. Lawrence F. Grajek, who was pastor of St. Anne's at the time, was unaware that the Boston Archdiocese had a record of allegations of sexual abuse against Shanley that dated back to the 1960s.

Both Grajek and Bishop Phillip F. Straling, who is now bishop of Reno but was bishop of San Bernardino at the time, said they would not have permitted Shanley to serve in their diocese had they known about his history.

In an interview yesterday, the Rev. Howard Lincoln, a spokesman for the San Bernardino Diocese, said Banks wrote to assure officials in San Bernardino in January 1990 that Shanley was a priest in good standing.

''In his letter he assured us that Father Shanley had no problem that would be of concern to our diocese and that Father Shanley had resigned from his parish of his own volition and would be placed in parish ministry when he returned'' to Boston, Lincoln said.

Lincoln said San Bernardino Diocese officials had carefully reviewed Shanley's file two weeks ago after receiving a telephone inquiry about Shanley from a Massachusetts police detective.

In his letter, Banks said Shanley had been granted a one-year medical leave by Law and that Law would be appreciative if Shanley were given ministry work in San Bernardino.

Lincoln also said that Shanley submitted an affidavit required by the San Bernardino Diocese in which he said he had ''no record of any prior accusations or convictions for sex, violent, or felonious drug crimes.'' Shanley signed the affidavit under penalties of perjury.

San Bernardino records show that Shanley worked as a ''supply priest'' at St. Anne's, meaning that he said weekend Masses as needed without the full responsibilities of an associate pastor, Lincoln said.

He added that there were no accusations against Shanley while he was in San Bernardino.

On Saturday, Grajek told the Globe that Shanley was a full associate pastor. But Lincoln said yesterday that the information provided by Grajek was not correct. MacLeish, however, said it appears from the Boston records that Shanley was involved in ''youth retreats'' at St. Anne's.

Shanley's term at St. Anne's, like his assignment in Newton, ended abruptly.

In October 1993, Lincoln said, church officials received a second letter from Boston, this one from McCormack, who was then secretary for ministerial affairs, stating that Boston officials had received information about alleged sexual misconduct by Shanley that had occurred 20 years earlier.

After that, Lincoln said, San Bernardino officials informed Shanley that he could no longer function as a priest in the San Bernardino diocese.

Neither Shanley nor White has responded to past requests for interviews. In January, when the Globe reported Shanley's long history of allegedly molesting teenage boys, White denied that he owned property with Shanley - until the Globe confronted him with property records.

In the last few weeks, both Shanley and White appear to have departed from their places of residence - Shanley from an apartment in San Diego; and White from his retirement quarters at St. Mary's Church in Billerica.

Lincoln said he did not know where Shanley was living when he was at St. Anne's. But property records and interviews show that he and White owned one property and White owned another within a block of each other in Palm Springs. Together, the two lots held about 10 motel cabins that were rented to gay patrons and advertised in gay publications.

The Palm Springs neighborhood where the B&B was, called Warm Sands, has been transformed over the past two decades into a booming gay resort area, said several resort owners in the neighborhood.

John Kendrick, the president of Inn Exile, a larger gay lodging adjacent to the Shanley-White property, said the two properties, the Whispering Palms and Cabana Club Resort, were a thriving gay bed-and-breakfast business. If there were too many people at the Whispering Palms, which had about six units, the overflow would go to the Cabana, which was a block away and had about four units, said Kendrick. Neither is in business today.

The owner of a nearby gay lodging place, who asked that he not be identified, described the Whispering Palms as a ''very nice-looking, romantic place, with lots of lush foliage.''

White and Shanley sold the Cabana Club Resort, the property they owned jointly, in 1997 for $185,000. It could not be immediately determined when they acquired the property.

In 1994, White sold Whispering Palms to Kendrick's Inn Exile for $389,000. White had purchased the property in December 1990. Kendrick said he still sends a monthly check to White in Billerica as part of the purchase price.

Walter V. Robinson, Stephen Kurkjian, and Sacha Pfeiffer of the Globe Spotlight Team contributed to this report.

This story ran on page A1 of the Boston Globe on 4/8/2002.

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Vaticano. Pedofilia, ex prete Shanley si proclama innocente in aula

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6/5/2002 - New York

Vaticano. Scandalo pedofilia, il Cardinal Law deporr‡ mercoledÏ

June 29, 2002Dear Brothers and Sisters,

This week the archdiocese announced that Fr. Jim Nyhan of St. Mary Parish in Billerica and Fr. Ron Bourgault of St. Zepherin Parish in Wayland had been placed on administrative leave pending investigation of allegations against them concerning the sexual abuse of minors.

The language of these announcements is obviously coached by archdiocesan attorneys and, sadly, the phrasing is becoming recognizable and predictable. But, for me, there was something different about this press release. One of the two priests, Fr. Jim Nyhan, is a classmate of mine from the seminary. For eight years at Cardinal OπConnell Seminary in Jamaica Plain and St. John Seminary in Brighton (college and graduate school), Jim and our classmates and I lived in the same buildings, attended the same classes, ate the same food, participated in the same liturgies, made fun of the same professors - we even dressed alike: first in cassocks and then in clerical shirts and collars.

I have known Jim Nyhan for 37 years. We are not best friends but we are classmates and brother priests. Nothing I know about Jim would have led me to think that he was capable of what he stands accused of doing.

Iπm not altogether sure why Iπm writing this to you... Perhaps itπs because Jimπs name is not simply a name in the news to me but rather the name of someone who shared in my eight long years of preparing for ordination to the priesthood. Perhaps Iπm writing because this tears me up - and I simply need to share it with you.

As you have read in the papers, Jim was accused of abuse some years ago but the accuser recanted and apologized. That happened in the days of silence about such things and the first I heard of it was this past week. Jim is the pastor of St. Maryπs in Billerica where Fr. Jack White lived for a time and you will recall that Jack Whiteπs name is often linked with that of Fr. Paul Shanley. The circumstances are certainly unhappy ones on many sides... If I did not know Jim as I do, I would probably jump to the same conclusions Iπm sure some people have already reached. And now I have to ask myself if I really know a man I never had any reason to doubt.

I pray for Dennis LaCorte, the man who has made the allegation against my classmate. If the allegation is proved to be true I will pray for Mr. LaCorteπs healing and recovery, and for Jim whose ministry as a priest will be terminated. And if the allegation is proved to be false? The archdiocesan press release states: ≥Should the allegation prove to be groundless, efforts will be made to restore the priestπs reputation.≤ Efforts will be made...

Please pray with me for all victims of sexual abuse.

And please pray with me for all priests.

Sincerely,

Fr. Fleming

P.S.

Many have asked for a copy of the prayer of Archbishop Desmond Tutu which I used in my homily last week:

Goodness is stronger than evil; love is stronger than hate;

light is stronger than darkness; life is stronger than death.

Victory is ours, victory is ours through him who loved us.

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Durante meses, el padre Paul Shanley acosÛ a sus superiores del arzobispado de Boston (Massachusetts) para que le enviaran a las tierras soleadas de Palm Spring (California) para recuperarse de sus alergias y problemas de salud. Lo que no contÛ fue que allÌ le esperaba el padre John White, con quien comprarÌa despuÈs el hotel 'Cabana Club', uno de los m·s famosos entre la comunidad 'gay' de aquella zona.

El padre Shanley llegÛ a la diÛcesis de San Bernardino en 1990 con cartas de recomendaciÛn de sus superiores en las que, por supuesto, no se mencionaba que en 1967 habÌa sido acusado de 'molestar' sexualmente a dos docenas de niÒos de Massachusets a lo largo de diferentes parroquias, a las que fue trasladado para evitar los esc·ndalos.

Cheques de la diÛcesis

En California, el sacerdote catÛlico recibÌa los cheques de su diÛceses para su mantenimiento personal en la direcciÛn del hotel 'Cabana Club Resort' que adquiriÛ con el padre White, que a su vez era el propietario exclusivo de otro hotel vecino, el 'Whispering Palms'.

AllÌ, recuerda Kevin Rice, que vendiese publicidad de la revista 'Frontier News' al hotel del sacerdote, ´se alentaba el nudismo y se permitÌa el sexo en la piscinaª. En 1997 ambos sacerdotes vendieron el 'Cabana Club Resort' por 185.000 dÛlares y el padre White hizo lo propio hace dos aÒos con el 'Whispering Palms', que vendiÛ por 389.000 dÛlares.

El diario The New York Times, que sacÛ ayer la historia a la luz, no ha logrado averiguar quÈ beneficio obtuvieron ni durante cu·nto tiempo estuvieron cobrando los cheques de manutenciÛn de la archidiÛcesis de Boston.

La diÛcesis de San Bernardino, que se suponÌa a cargo de la supervisiÛn de los sacerdotes, asegura que ignoraba sus actividades en la playa de Warm Sands (Arenas Calientes). Pese a que ocasionalmente el padre Shanley participaba en los servicios religiosos de la iglesia de Santa Ana en San Bernardino, impartÌa misa los fines de semana y dirigÌa el retiro espiritual de los jÛvenes, quienes le conocÌan ignoraban que fuese sacerdote.

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New York, 7 maggio 2002

Il sacerdote cattolico Paul Shanley si Ë dichiarato innocente dell'accusa di aver ripetutamente abusato di un minore, qualche volta anche all'interno di un confessionale.

Paul Shanley, un prete in pensione accusato di pedofilia, Ë comparso oggi in tribunale a Cambridge in Massachusetts, Usa, per rispondere a tre imputazioni di violenze sessuali su un minore. Secondo l'accusa, le molestie risalirebbero agli anni Ottanta: Shanley avrebbe usato violenza su Paul Busa, che oggi ha 24 anni, a partire da quando Busa aveva aveva appena sei anni.

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In attesa del processo il tribunale ha concesso a Shanley la libert‡ vigiliata dietro pagamento di una cauzione di 750.000 dollari - circa 820.000 euro - in contanti, oltre al ritiro del passaporto. L'avvocato di Busa aveva fatto presente che l'ex prete "pone un potenziale rischio di fuga", e ha citato a questo proposito documenti recenti ottenuti dalle autorit‡ thailandesi, secondo cui Shanley si sarebbe recato lo scorso marzo in Thailandia per passare un mese con un altro prete in pensione, John White, a Pattaya, una cittadina a 80 chilometri da Bangkok celebre per i bordelli destinati a ogni gusto e perversione sessuale.

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White e Shanley avrebbero passato a Pattaya un mese. Idue preti si conoscono dagli anni Sessanta: assieme hanno servito nella stessa parrocchia di San Patrizio a Stoneham e pi˘ tardi, negli anni Novanta in California, hanno gestito un 'bed and breakfast' per clienti omosessuali a San Bernardino. Shanley ha 71 anni: dopo quello di John Geogham, l'ex prete accusato di abusi su centinaia di ragazzini e condannato a dieci anni di prigione, il suo caso Ë il pi˘ grave motivo di imbarazzo per l'arcidiocesi di Boston, ed una delle cause delle ripetute richieste di dimissioni che arrivano da pi˘ parti al cardinale arcivescovo di Boston, Bernard Law.

Domani Law depone in tribunale

Secondo quanto Ë emerso da documenti ufficiali dell'arcidiocesi, Law era a conoscenza da anni delle accuse contro Shanley, ma si limitÚ a spostarlo da una parrocchia ad un'altra, prima di farlo trasferire nel 1990 in California. Lo stesso Law domani deporr‡ in tribunale in una causa civile intentata da 86 vittime di padre Geogham. Il giudice Constance Sweeney ha detto di aver fissato una data cosÏ ravvicinata per la deposizione nel timore che il cardinale possa essere prossimamente richiamato a Roma.

Four alleged abuse victims of former priest settle with Boston church

Boston-AP -- The Archdiocese of Boston has agreed to settle a civil suit involving four alleged sexual abuse victims of former priest Paul Shanley.

Attorney Roderick MacLeish says the settlement was reached late last night. He isn't saying how large it is. The lawyer's office and church leaders are expected to release a statement later today.

The four alleged victims decided to sue as a small group -- rather than sign onto an 85 (m) million dollar settlement with the church this past fall.

MacLeish stresses the settlement is only in the civil case and that Shanley still should go to jail. Shanley has pleaded innocent to charges of raping boys in the 1980's.

MacLeish's law firm won a key court ruling ordering the archdiocese to turn over the personnel files for all priests who'd been accused of sexual abuse.

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And one morning I read in the Bangkok Post that the Rev. John White of Boston -- a friend of the Rev. Paul Shanley, one of the priests embroiled in the sexual abuse scandal -- had died in Bangkok.

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The shame of Father Shanley: he appeared to be a pioneer for gay liberation in the 1970s, but it seems Father Paul Shanley's compassion was just part of a scheme to abuse vulnerable boys and young men - Cover Story

John Gallagher

It's not often that the Roman Catholic Church finds common ground with the gay and lesbian community. But when it comes to Paul Shanley, the two antagonists find themselves in the same uncomfortable position. For more than three decades Shanley made his home in both worlds. During that time Shanley is said to have abused his position as a priest to have sex with prepubescent boys, troubled adolescents, and young men confused about their sexuality, all while presenting himself as an advocate of gay rights. Since the Catholic abuse scandal erupted at the beginning of this year, Shanley has emerged as perhaps the most notorious of the priests accused of sexual abuse.

"Shanley is a terrible person for what he's done to these people," says Carmen Durso, a Boston attorney who is representing four men who say Shanley abused them. "I've been dealing with abuse cases for 20 years, and I think he's just about the worst of a bad bunch."

Shanley--who was indicted June 20 on 10 counts of child rape and six counts of indecent assault and battery and has been accused of raping boys as young as 6--has predictably become a flash point in the battle over gays in the clergy.

Conservative Catholics point to Shanley as an example of the dark underside of homosexuality. "The fact that most of his sexual relations were with adult men and not prepubescent boys demonstrates how ludicrous it is not to label him both a pedophile and a homosexual," says William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

Gay activists are quick to point out that they too are repelled by the accusations against Shanley. "There certainly have been folks who have tried to make Shanley the [representative] icon of gay Catholicism and gays in the priesthood in the face of every evidence [to the contrary]," says Marianne Duddy, executive director of Dignity USA, a gay Catholic group. "It wasn't Shanley [who] put the issue of homosexuality on the agenda [in the sex abuse scandal]. It was our cardinals and the Vatican."

Indeed, as hundreds of pages in documents released in Shanley's case indicate, the Catholic Church (in the form of the archdiocese of Boston, where Shanley was stationed) knew all too well just what Shanley was doing. Shanley's entire career as a priest appears littered with numerous allegations of sexual abuse and emotional manipulation. The first allegation against him dates to 1961.

The claims against Shanley often echo the charges that fervent opponents of gay rights like to level against gay men as a group: He is characterized as a sexual predator and pedophile who was promiscuous, hedonistic, and completely out of control and who abused his position of trust and authority to recruit troubled and confused youth into a destructive lifestyle.

Yet among Shanley's fiercest critics--and those who would have suffered the most because of what they say he did--are gay men and supporters of gay fights. "Paul Shanley didn't rape me because he was gay," says Arthur Austin, who alleges Shanley manipulated him during an emotionally fragile time in his early 20s to make him Shanley's sex slave. "He raped me because he was a sociopath who was encouraged and nurtured by the archdiocese of Boston. They let it happen."

On the surface at least, Shanley was a courageous and vocal advocate for gay rights at a time when few people, let alone priests, were willing to put themselves on the line. Ordained in 1960, Shanley, who is now 71, worked in parishes through the '60s until he started a street ministry for "sexual minorities" in 1970. In that position Shanley worked with homeless gay youth and runaways.

Dressed in jeans instead of clerical garb, he seemed the quintessence of the post-Vatican II liberal clergyman. "People have wild ideas about sexual minorities," Shanley said at the time. "They think they rape children, cause venereal disease. Dispelling myths is a full-time job." At the same time, Shanley became involved in Dignity, ministering to gay and lesbian Catholics. But a run-in with an increasingly hard-line Vatican led to Shanley' reassignment to parish work in 1979, although he still continued to counsel gay youth.

For many gay people at the time, Shanley was a hero. "He certainly was someone who was looked up to," Duddy says. "There are not a lot of folks from then who are still around, but my sense in talking to them is that they feel shock and betrayal that someone who was hailed for progressive and courageous thinking may have been involved in something so absolutely horrific."

Indeed, based on the allegations that have emerged this year, Shanley's public stance for gay rights seems to have been a mask for his sexual opportunism. "From the get-go with these kids he was engaging them in sex under the guise of `I want to help you understand your sexuality,'" Durso says. "What he clearly did was seek his own self-gratification."

In 1979, when John Harris was 21, he says he turned to Shanley for counseling in coming to terms with his sexual orientation. "I was very isolated," Harris says. "I had not come out as a gay man yet." At their very first meeting, Harris says, the counseling took an inappropriate turn, with Shanley suggesting they massage each other in order to help Harris relax around other men. "I was naive, so I agreed to do it," he says. "We stripped off our tops, and he turned off the lights except for a red light on the mantel." Then, Harris says, Shanley told him he wanted to have anal sex. "That didn't appeal to me, but he said it would be all right," Harris says, adding that when the experience became too painful for him, he told Shanley, "I don't think I can do this anymore." Shanley allegedly responded, "It's all right. I'm almost done." But as Harris remembers today, "It wasn't all right, and he wasn't almost done."

The aftermath was difficult for Harris, who has only recently come to describe the experience he had with Shanley as rape. "I remember thinking to myself, It's almost like going back into a closet again," he says. "I can't tell anyone." Confused and with no one to talk to, Harris says he returned to Shanley. This time, Harris says, Shanley showed him a few gay bars in Boston and "told me that's where gay men meet." Then, he says, they went to a local porn theater.

Harris says Shanley took him to one of the bathrooms in the theater, where a group of men were having sex. "He told me, `You have to be careful here because sometimes cops raid the place.'" Eventually, Harris says, Shanley recognized his discomfort, and the pair departed. "He said, `I know your type,'" Harris remembers. "`You want the suburban house and the picket fence.'"

Accounts from other accusers indicate that Shanley presented his "sexual aggression" as part of his pastoral response. Austin says that in 1968, when he was 20 and struggling to come to terms with his orientation, he sought help from Shanley. What Shanley offered instead, Austin says, was the option of having sex with him so that Austin wouldn't end up having sex in back alleys. "He told me, `I care what happens to you,'" Austin says. "He said, `I will allow you to have access to my body to ease your pain.'"

William McLean was 20 and a junior in college when he answered an ad in the Boston Phoenix in 1973. "It said, `Gay? Bi? Confused? Need someone to talk to?'" McLean recalls. "The ad hit where I was at the time." Knowing that he would be talking to a priest, McLean thought he would get a lecture in morality. Instead, he says, he met Shanley and was greeted by a sign above his desk that read, HOW DARE YOU PRESUME I'M HETEROSEXUAL.

"He was a smart guy," McLean says. "At the time he seemed very sophisticated, with-it. This was the beginning of gay liberation, and it was amazing to have tiffs coming from a priest."

McLean found his time with Shanley to be "incredibly helpful." But, like Austin and Harris, he says the counseling quickly turned into a sexual situation, during their second meeting. "I was asking him how I would know I'm gay if I'd never had sex," McLean says. "He said, `Well, you need to try it.' And finally he said, `We could try something here.'"

Taken aback, McLean asked how Shanley squared the offer with his vow of celibacy. "He said that the definition of celibacy involved sex with women and that he didn't have sex with women," McLean says. "At the time I thought, That's convenient, but then I thought, Maybe that's the church's definition."

McLean says he and Shanley ended up having sex on that occasion and again a year later, when McLean returned to Shanley for more counseling. "I remember after one time saying to myself, I want a boyfriend; I don't want to have sex with this older guy. He's a priest," McLean says.

While McLean says he enjoyed sex with Shanley, he adds, "in retrospect, part of me wishes I didn't have it. I would have gained a lot from just talking to him. And then I could have gone off on my own. I would rather he had not been the first person I had sex with." And McLean now sees the ad that led him to Shanley in a different light as well. "Maybe some 15-year-old kid answered the ad," he says.

At the same time that Shanley was establishing himself as a minister to gay youth, he spoke favorably in several forums about man-boy relationships. In a 1979 interview with a now-defunct gay publication, Gays Week, Shanley called into question the wisdom of age-of-consent laws, saying that opposition to relationships between boys and men was based on misplaced concerns. "We have our convictions upside down if we are truly concerned with boys," he said. "The `cure' does far more damage."

Indeed, Shanley's alleged connections to the North American Man/Boy Love Association, a group that questions age-of-consent laws and is a pariah to most gay activism, are among the most heated of all the controversies surrounding him. Shanley spoke about age-of-consent laws at a 1978 convention, from which some attendees later met to form NAMBLA.

Bill, who spoke on condition that his real name not be used, says that an older man in his neighborhood--who later became a NAMBLA leader--referred him to Shanley for counseling in 1974, when Bill was 15. Instead of counseling, however, the first session turned, at Shanley's suggestion, to strip poker and eventually sex, Bill says, adding that at one point the two of them stood naked, looking in a mirror. "He said, `You're a boy, and I'm a man. This is a beautiful thing,'" Bill recalls. "He said, `If I can help you with your homosexuality, let me know.'"

Bill says he continued to go to Shanley for counseling sessions that included sex. Meanwhile, he says, Shanley introduced him to a series of men in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. "He said being a man meant having lots of sexual experience," Bill says. "When I would go back for another session, he would ask for a detailed account of the sex, and he would become excited and we would have sex again."

Bill says the relationship was halted when his mother found his journal with details of his visits to Shanley and called Humberto Medeiros, then the cardinal of Boston, who in turn called Shanley. When Bill next talked to Shanley, "He cried, `You ruined my life. I may be excommunicated,'" Bill says.

Bill says that after a four-month hiatus, he went to see Shanley again. "He was very cold," he says. "I didn't want to have sex with him, but I didn't want him to be angry with me." Nevertheless, Bill says, the two of them did have sex and continued to do so off and on for several years.

Bill says he later became an alcoholic--he claims Shanley took him to bars when he was underage and bought him drinks--and that around 1982 he sought Shanley out as part of his Alcoholics Anonymous recovery. He says that when he went to Shanley to share his fifth step in the program--telling someone your character defects--the two of them ended up talking so late that Shanley suggested he stay over, in a separate bedroom. "I woke up with his penis outside my mouth," Bill says. "I know it sounds naive, but that was the first time I felt completely used by him." Now, Bill says, he sees Shanley as a "monster." "He used me for his own desires," he says. "He set up scenarios where gay kids and young men would come to him for counseling."

The phone call from Bill's mother wasn't the only tip-off the church hierarchy had regarding Shanley's activities; they were well-aware of Shanley's statements about age-of-consent laws. Shanley himself was hardly shy about making his opinions known. Among the documents released this year was a 1972 diary entry the Boston archdiocese had in its possession. In it Shanley writes of his bouts with sexually transmitted disease: "[M]y name is to be found in the files of countless VD clinics across this fair land.... One of the first things I do in a new city is to sign up at the local clinics for help with my VD."

In 1990 Shanley took a medical leave from the priesthood and moved to Palm Springs, Calif. There his career took a startling turn: He and another priest, John White, owned the Cabana Club Resort, which catered to gay men. All the while he was receiving payments as a priest from the archdiocese.

By 1997 Shanley and his business partner had sold their interest in the resort. At the time of his arrest he was living quietly in San Diego and working as a volunteer for the San Diego police department. There are now at least 30 men who have come forward to say that they were abused by him in the past four decades.

In retrospect, Durso says, Shanley's behavior was more than a violation of trust; Durso adds that it ruined what could have been a courageous and helpful mission. Without the allegations of sexual abuse, Shanley would have been seen as a pioneer in the gay rights movement and an early advocate for gay youth.

"At the time he was it," Durso says. "There was nothing else. If he had done what he said he was doing, which was creating a bridge between the church and kids who realize they are gay, he would have been one of my heroes." Instead he resides in a jail in Cambridge, Mass., awaiting trial on the mounting sexual abuse charges against him.

Gallagher is coauthor of Perfect Enemies: The Religions Right, the Gay Movement, and the Politics of the 1990s.

Posted on Wed, Apr. 10, 2002

Priest co-owned Palm Springs hotel

By Chelsea J. Carter

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A priest accused of molesting children in a Boston diocese was co-owner of a gay-themed hotel in Palm Springs after he was transferred to Southern California in the early 1990s.

The Rev. Paul Shanley, who lives in San Diego, spoke in favor of sex between men and boys at a 1979 meeting that apparently led to the founding of a national group advocating the practice, according to court documents released earlier this week.

Shanley has not been heard from since molestation allegations against him surfaced late last month. Several lawsuits have been filed against Shanley, including one by Gregory Ford, 24, who alleges the priest repeatedly raped him in the 1980s.

The news of the allegations came as a surprise this week to those in Palm Springs who knew the priest as co-owner of the Cabana Club, a hotel catering to a gay clientele. He and his partner, also a priest, helped conduct business for another such hotel.

"We were neighbors. We were in the same business together," said John Kendrick, who owned the neighboring Inn Exile and later purchased one of the hotels. "As far as Paul goes, it never occurred to me that he might have been a priest."

Kendrick said Shanley and the Rev. John J. White, who represented himself as a former priest, were recognized business associates in the Warm Springs neighborhood of Palm Springs, known for its predominantly gay clientele.

"He was a quiet background person whenever I was around him. He was John White's friend. That's how I knew him," Kendrick said of Shanley.

Property records show Shanley and White purchased the Cabana Club Resort, a four-room hotel, in December 1990. White purchased the Whispering Palms in 1988.

Kendrick said the hotels thrived. If there were too many people at one hotel, the overflow would go to the other.

White sold the Whispering Palms to Kendrick in 1995, records show. In 1997, Shanley and White sold the Cabana Club, which was closed and turned into apartments.

Shanley was released from the San Bernardino diocese in October 1993 after it received a letter alleging possible molestation allegations. He left Palm Springs in 1995. White later returned to Boston, where he lived in retirement quarters at St. Mary's Church.

Messages left for Shanley were not returned. Shanley had lived in an apartment in the San Diego neighborhood of Hillcrest, the center of the city's gay community.

A message on the phone said Shanley was out of town and the manager of his apartment said she had not seen him for weeks.

Newly released documents indicate Shanley had a long history of sexual misconduct allegations and publicly defended sex between men and boys.

In 1979, the cardinal of the Boston archdiocese was concerned enough that he reassigned Shanley from a youth ministry.

When Shanley moved to California in 1990 after a medical leave from Boston, another official wrote the San Bernardino diocese to assure them the priest was no threat.

Shanley has lived in the San Diego area for two years, working as a member of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program or RSVP.

He had been issued an RSVP badge and used a marked squad car, but did not work with children and was always assigned to work with a partner, department spokesman David Cohen said.

Shanley was fired from that volunteer post April 3 when San Diego police were notified by Boston-area authorities and media outlets about the allegations of sexual abuse against Shanley. Police were unable to reach him and left word of his dismissal by e-mail.

Police were not aware Shanley was a Catholic priest. The manager of his apartment building, Mel Lee, told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Shanley was a "lovely person."

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MEMORANDUM

FROM: Father McCormack

DATE: December 11 1990

~~.

RE: Reveremd Paul Shanley

Attached to this memo is a letter I received from Paul Shanley and my response to him.

I would appreciate it if you would bring this to the attention of Cardinal Law with the following recommendation:

1. That Father Shanley be given an extension of his sick leave for one year.

The reasons for recommending this are:

a) He still-appears not to be well. XXXXXXXXXXX

b) He is angry at the administration of the Archdiocese.

c) He is not ready to return to the Archdiocese.

d) If he came back, I do not know what we would do with him

Secondly, I recommend that in January, February or March I arrange with Paul to make a visit to him to see how he is doing. What would you think if I coaxed him to seek a pastoral assignment out there when he got better?

I would also use this occasion to visit Rev. John White who is living on his own in Palm Springs, California, and suffers from depression: I have a concern about whether Father White is taking care of himself and whether he really needs the funds that he keeps seeing from the Archdiocese. At present, he is on sick leave. Thirdly, I have attached a letter which is a draft for Cardinal Law to consider sending to Father Shanley.

<<<<Hand-written note reads:

Fr. McCormack:

Jack:

Cardinal supports your plan completely.

He signed letter to Paul Sh.

Good work!>>>>

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CRECE EL ESC¡NDALO SEXUAL - ABUSOS: EL PAPA CIT” A LOS TRECE CARDENALES DE ESTADOS UNIDOS.

JUAN PABLO II condenÛ enÈrgicamente los casos descubiertos en EE.UU.

La reuniÛn fue en el Vaticano esta semana. Las denuncias de abusos sexuales a chicos por parte de sacerdotes se han multiplicado.

Varias de ellas involucran a obispos.

del Matutino CLARÕN - CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (DPA, AP, EFE y AFP)

El Papa Juan Pablo II convocÛ a una reuniÛn a todos los cardenales de Estados Unidos (trece en total), tras los esc·ndalos sexuales en los que est·n implicados sacerdotes de ese paÌs.

Los casos de abusos sexuales a chicos por parte de sacerdotes catÛlicos se han multiplicado en los ˙ltimos tiempos en los Estados Unidos.

Entre ellos se destaca el del obispo de Palm Beach, Anthony J. OπConnell, quien se vio obligado a presentar su renuncia ≠aceptada por el Papa el pasado 13 de marzo- tras reconocer que habÌa abusado de un seminarista.

Juan Pablo II le encargÛ la semana pasada a monseÒor Wilton Gregory, presidente de la Conferencia Episcopal de Estados Unidos, que se ocupe de los ≥graves delitos contra los sacramentos y contra la misiÛn educativa de los sacerdotes hacia los jÛvenes, entre ellos la pederastÌa≤.

En Nueva Hampshire hay 14 sacerdotes acusados de este delito, en Arizona otro y en Boston, 70 sacerdotes han sido acusados en los ˙ltimos aÒos.

En Pensilvania 58 sacerdotes est·n acusados de haber cometido abusos sexuales durante dÈcadas.

El diario Boston Globe dijo por su parte que en la diÛcesis de Boston hay unos 500 casos de abusaos sexuales denunciados desde enero.

Se estima que, hasta ahora, los costos en resarcimientos por estos abusos de parte de la Iglesia podrÌan elevarse a 300 millones de dÛlares.

Las nuevas acusaciones al cardenal y arzobispo de Boston, Bernard Law, 71 aÒos, uno de los dirigentes m·s conocidos del catolicismo norteamericano, cercano al papa Juan Pablo II.

El arzobispo fue acusado de haber ≥encubierto≤ durante unos 30 aÒos a un sacerdote pedÛfilo reincidente, acusado de agresiones sexuales a no menos de 26 niÒos.

El padre Paul Shanley, de 70 aÒos, defendÌa p˙blicamente la pedofilia y afirmaba que las relaciones sexuales entre adultos y menores eran inofensivas.

Seg˙n publicÛ ayer The New Cork Times, el padre Shanley, que desde hace 12 aÒos reside en California, ≥convive desde hace mucho tiempo≤ con otro hombre, adem·s de haber sido copropietario junto a otro sacerdote de un hotel para homosexuales en la zona de Palm Springs, California.

El otro sacerdote, John White era a su vez propietario de otro hotel para homosexuales.

Los sacerdotes vendieron los hoteles en 1977 y 1994 respectivamente.

Ambos sacerdotes habÌan dejado la diÛcesis de Boston por razones de salud y recibÌan cheques de aquellos de aquÈlla para cubrir sus gastos cotidianos y mÈdicos.

El aÒo pasado saltÛ, tambiÈn en Boston, el caso del sacerdote John Geoghan, juzgado y condenado en enero por abusar de un niÒo, pero que abusÛ al menos de 130 en 30 aÒos de carrera sacerdotal.

Las presiones para que el obispo Law renuncie se hicieron m·s evidentes despuÈs de que se conocieran la semana pasada 800 p·ginas de documentos que acusan a Shanley de abusos sexuales.

En varios lugares de Estados Unidos se ha relevado de sus funciones a sacerdotes sospechosos.

Nueve fueron destituÌdos la semana pasada en la diÛcesis de Cleveland (OhÌo), tras el comienzo de una investigaciÛn por abusos sexuales.

El arzobispo de Nueva Cork hizo lo mismo, relevando a diez curas de sus funciones debido a acusaciones de la misma naturaleza.

En Estados Unidos hay poco m·s de 61 millones de catÛlicos y 47.200 sacerdotes repartidos en 190 diÛcesis.

Shanley and the Rev. John J. White,

his co-owner of the homosexual B&B 50 miles away in Palm Springs.

Told Calif. parish record was clean

By Michael Rezendes and Matt Carroll, Globe Staff, 4/8/2002