Kansas City Catholic Sex Scandal Déjà Vu



A tragic tale told to often and once again this morning . . . Check this statement and link regarding yet another glimpse @ Kansas City Catholic FAIL . . .

Kansas City Catholic Sex Scandal Contempt With Familiarity

This may sound familiar. But it’s not what you think.

A priest was found with loads of child porn. Much of it he had produced himself, with children of his parish. Catholic officials waited months before turning over the evidence to police.

One reporter wrote that “the most important controversy involves the church's decision to hang on to (the priest's pornography collection) for three months before turning it over to the authorities.”

The priest was charged with sixty counts of child porn.

This is what Fr. Shawn Ratigan and Bishop Robert Finn did in Kansas City in 2011.

It's also exactly what Fr. Dino Cinel and Archbishop Philip Hannan did in New Orleans - precisely 25 years ago - in 1988.

KC citizens and Catholics have read plenty about the former case. Bone-chilling similarities can be found in the latter case, reported by Vanity Fair:

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news5/1991_12_Bennetts_UnholyAlliances.htm
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  1. catlicks don't give a shit. They keep shoveling money to these guys year after year.

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  2. The DA in that case was Harry Connick father of that Harry Connick Jr.

    Unholy Alliances

    By Leslie Bennetts
    Vanity Fair
    December 1991

    Father Cinel's cache of contraband had been discovered at the end of December 1988, and although he himself was discreetly ousted as a parish priest shortly thereafter, the archdiocese held on to his collection of pornography for three months before turning it over to the district attorney's office, prompting a barrage of later questions about whether the tapes had during that time been purged of sequences involving minors or parishioners. In addition to the resulting charges of a church cover-up, when the news became public the district attorney immediately came under fire for his failure to prosecute Cinel.

    Harry Connick Sr., the father of the singer, is a devout Catholic and a parishioner at St. Rita's as well as the longtime D.A. of Orleans Parish, New Orleans being a town so Catholic its counties are called parishes. Although Connick had lobbied hard for Louisiana's tough new child-pornography statute, he had also entertained Father Cinel in his home, and the sociable priest had even performed the rites at the wedding of Connick's brother-in-law. In a television interview with Angelico, the D.A. admitted that one reason he hadn't prosecuted the case, despite a recommendation by his own investigators that he do so, was his unwillingness to embarrass "Holy Mother the Church." The ensuing outcry drove him from public view, although the D.A.'s office did finally file a single, unspecific charge of possession of pornography against Cinel—a move so halfhearted that it elicited still more criticism, since hundreds of charges could technically have been filed based on the commercial pornography collection alone.


    http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news5/1991_12_Bennetts_UnholyAlliances.htm

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