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 Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua died in his sleep, his former diocese is at the center of a major sex scandal.
February 1st, 2012
07:22 AM ET
Cardinal in scandal-hit Philadelphia dies at 88By Sarah Hoye and Dan Gilgoff, CNN Philadelphia's Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua has died at the age of 88, the city's Catholic archdiocese announced. The announcement Tuesday comes as the archdiocese faces one of the most sweeping sex abuse scandals in America. The allegations date from the time when Bevilacqua was archbishop. He was not himself accused of abuse, but one of his top officials has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child in a ground-breaking prosecution. He gave testimony in November for the upcoming trial to ensure that his evidence would be considered despite his age and illness.
Judges had ruled that he was competent to testify, despite his lawyers' argument that he no longer recognized Monsignor William Lynn, a key defendant. Bevilacqua testified 10 times before grand juries in 2003 and 2004 and was criticized severely in both grand jury reports. The Philadelphia scandal could open a historic chapter in the abuse crisis, church watchers say, changing the way the American criminal justice system deals with church abuse. A grand jury last year charged four priests and a parochial school teacher with raping and assaulting boys in their care. The charges were unusual because they went beyond accusations against priests. A church higher-up was charged with covering up the abuse, which church experts say had never happened in the United States before. All five pleaded not guilty to sexual abuse and conspiracy charges in April. Edward Avery and Charles Engelhardt were charged with assaulting a 10-year-old boy at St. Jerome Parish in Philadelphia from 1998 to 1999. Bernard Shero, a teacher at the school, is charged with assaulting the same boy there in 2000. Avery was defrocked in 2006. James Brennan, another priest, is accused of assaulting a different boy, a 14-year-old, in 1996. Monsignor William Lynn, who served as the secretary for clergy under Bevilacqua, was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the alleged assaults. From 1992 until 2004, Lynn was responsible for investigating reports that priests had sexually abused children. Bevilacqua served as archbishop of Philadelphia from February 11, 1988 to October 7, 2003, the archdiocese said in announcing his death. He was elevated to the College of Cardinals on June 28, 1991. He died in his sleep, the archdiocese said in a statement. It did not disclose the cause of death.
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I hope the DEVIL HIMSELF is," Running a train ",on Bevilacqua AND Paterno right now!
In the United States one is presumed innocent unless (beyond a reasonable doubt) one is proven guilty. We can't think with our spleen or other organ – but our brains.
If there is such a thing as hell then this hypocritical enabling conspirator will be subject to eternal damnation. This story sickens me.
You all are just as terrible as you claim he is. Hate doesn't help anything, but all you haters continue to hate on things YOU CANT UNDO? Get real
In Fatima Portugal in 1917, Our lady said, " In the end days priests need to become very pure , others will lose faith do to their sins "
are the "last days" defined as the last 1700 years of priests?
Prayer causes small kids to get hit by buses when they aren't paying attention.
Prayer takes people away from actually working on real solutions to their problems.
Prayer wears out your clothes prematurely.
Prayer contributes to global warming through excess CO2 emissions.
Prayer fucks up your knees and your back.
Prayer can cause heart attacks, especially among the elderly.
Prayer reveals how stupid you are to the world.
Prayer exposes your backside to pervert priests.
Prayer prevents you from getting badly needed exercise.
Prayer makes you post really stupid shit.
Prayer makes you hoard cats.
Prayer makes you crave the smell of kitty litter and leads you on to harder drugs.
Prayer wastes time.</b
Prayer changes things
Prayer changes lives
~The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs.
You're a believer, right? Haven't you ever been taught that you will go to hell for lying? In reality, you won't; as there is no such place. Nonetheless, lying isn't becoming of anyone.
Too bad he didn't die in prison.
Rest in piss, cockroach.
Yea! Now he knows the Truth. Wait, his brain died when he died, so I guess it just got dark and really quiet.
If what you are implying is correct, their would be no darkness or even quiet. Those are states of being that require something else to exist for context.
@Rick, ever have surgery or have your heart stop? I've experienced both. That's the last thing you remember – darkness and quiet.
Blame religion all you want but anywhere men can be put in positions of responsibility around young children, there will always be this risk. Just look at the whole PSU scandal. Unfortunately, ever single church has this situation. Pedophile's know this so they are willing to become men of the cloth. The church is a pedophile's paradise. It doesn't help that the higher-ups know this and do nothing to help stop it or have justice done on these creeps.
I was raised a Jehovah's Witness. This is a serious problem in the JW church. There are so many cases that you never hear about because they get swept under the rug. The big problem is their policy. You have to have two witnesses to the events. If the pedophile doesn't confess, there will never be two witnesses. They also tell the parents of the abused not to go to the authorities, that they will take care of it. If any action is even taken, it's certainly not with the police.
much worse with the cath church than the jw's
Joe the problem is that society has given a free pass to religion for so long and adherents to them are in positions of power and decision making , so the church leaders still exercise great power, and hide behind there god delusion and hope it scares folks from asking the touch questions. Which in the Catholic case is working and still causing grief to society. This will continue for some time I think, as religion has lost, and is loosing influence with society as a whole and can only maintain its dominance by political means.. look at Islam pushing for its own laws to make it easier to control , the push by republicans to get a "real christian" into office.
George got a 69 %. He flunked.
I hope the pig suffered massive agony before he went.
He was an enabler who is directly complicit in child buggery.
Given half a chance I would very much enjoy desecrating his corpse.
Philadelphia is on the east coast of the United States in Pennsylvania, just below New York city. Interstate 80 will get you there.
Yup, right by my summer place.
Any idea where the plant his corpse?
My dog needs some new bones, and some midnight shovel work might provide a touch or real justice.
The meat stays for the magotts.
I'm sure it will be in the Philadelphia papers. As will be your desecration arrest, look forward to reading about it all.
Just might have to make a trip to do a number 2 there myself.
And, Demuth, while your deficating on the cardinal's grave, save some for the child diddlers themselves. Or have you forgotten about them?
seems fair
shameful and devil to think that way.
Saw this on another blog:
From a Philadelphia Inquirer's report on Cardinal Bevilacqua's testimony to a grand jury investigating the pedophilia coverup in the Philadelphia Archdiocese during the Cardinal's tenure:
"Bevilacqua insisted he needed "evidence in order to ask someone to step down."
And not just any evidence. Anonymous reports, Bevilacqua said, had "no value at all to me."
"Secondhand information," he added, lacked credibility.
That puzzled the jurors, who then asked Bevilacqua if he believed in the Gospels.
"Yes," assured the cardinal.
"But," Spade pressed, "it's the jurors' understanding that the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were written many years after the actual events," by those not present at the time.
"Yes," Bevilacqua agreed.
So, using the cleric's own logic, wouldn't that make the Gospels "secondhand information"?
good one
that is funny
Right this way, your Eminence. Mind the steps on your way down.
Prayer changes things
Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things....evidently neither is Catholicism
Catholics are not true Christians. They parted ways with God a long time ago. I fear for their immortal souls. A Christian Amendment would explicitly exclude Catholicism.
"Catholics are not true Christians. They parted ways with God a long time ago. I fear for their immortal souls. A Christian Amendment would explicitly exclude Catholicism."
lol it appears you cannot read. Note, I said "Catholicism" not "Christianity". What is really scary is that you make mass assumptions based on nothing but opinion and speculation. And what christian amendment are you talking about? Amendment to what?
George is no true Christian. He is either a troll or a moron. In either case, his schtick has gotten old
The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs.
George, look up the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. Have a nice day.