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 Monsignor William Lynn was responsible for investigating reports of sexual abuse by priests in Philadelphia.
March 26th, 2012
03:05 PM ET
Sex abuse trial opens for archdiocese official, priestBy Sarah Hoye, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) - Opening arguments started Monday in the first case in which a Roman Catholic archdiocese official is accused of covering up evidence of suspected sexual abuse of children. Monsignor William Lynn and the Rev. James Brennan appeared before Common Pleas Judge Teresa Sarmina inside a nearly filled Philadelphia courtroom. The attendees had to pass through a metal detector and surrender all electronic devices before entering the courtroom. Commonwealth prosecutor Jacqueline Coelho told jurors in her nearly hour-long opening statement that Lynn's role was to protect priests, the church and privacy "at any cost." Lynn, dressed in all black and wearing a priest collar, listened intently as Coelho argued that he knowingly covered up incidents of sexual abuse, including alleged acts by Brennan, and "ignored common sense and placed children at risk." FULL STORY
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Amazing!!! thanks for siharng your vision with others to pray for Mexico. I believe this is a wonderful opportunity for each of us as a human being to love each other no matter what our race, skin color, or status we are in, if we really try to plant a seed about knowing who GOD is and the amazing things he can do when people get together and pray. God bless you .Sincerely,Rosie
Prayer really changes things
Lying is a sin, you've been proven a liar over and over again on this blog. A great example of prayer proven not to work is the Christians in jail because prayer didn't work. For example: Susan Grady, who relied on prayer to heal her son. Nine-year-old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested.
An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children, who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.
Plus don't forget. 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.!
That's like saying the truth hurts..
Well religious people love to tell fairy tales and myths. So I'm waiting for someone to dig up a book about Mickey Mouse in 4000 A.D. and proclaim it a religion....
You do realize you're following the crazed thoughts of 2000 year old primitive people. They didn't know there was a universe out there, they didn't know about bacteria... they knew nothing. Their entire world was so very tiny. They believed natural ocurring events like a volcano were a "sign" from the heavens.
You are dull witted to believe all that mumbo jumbo.
Prayers are a waste of time – Proven truth!
That's funny, because there are dozens of peer reviewed studies showing that religious people are happier, healthier and generally better off than non-religious.
Ask the religiously persecuted people or victims of religious war/torture if they're happy
Ask Salem "witches" if they enjoyed being burned alive or drown
Ask the religious young men that this sicko molested if they're happy
Ask the Jehovah witnesses who have been excommunicated and who have lost their families due to crazy religious practices if they are happy. Wait isn't it make believe Scientology that practices effective human slavery by this excommunication practice? Nope, Jehovah's witnesses do it too. They also don't want you to go to school and earn an education. Because then you might be able to decide on things for yourself, or have money to not be shackled to the church.
Need I go on?
Yeah religious people are so peaceful, well intented, and happy. Thanks for the advice wack job.
Ask the religiously persecuted people or victims of religious war/torture if they're happy
Ask Salem "witches" if they enjoyed being burned alive or drown
Ask the religious young men that this sicko molested if they're happy
Ask the Jehovah witnesses who have been excommunicated and who have lost their families if they are happy. Wait isn't it make believe Scientology that practices effective human slavery by this excommunication practice? Nope, Jehovah's witnesses do it too. They also don't want you to go to school and earn an education. Because then you might be able to decide on things for yourself, or have money to not be shackled to the church. They want POOR people, because being POOR means uneducated and you need to rely on the church – further "slavery".
Need I go on?
Yeah religious people are so peaceful, well intended, and happy. Thanks for the advice. You're a paragon of virtue.
Ask religiously p3rsecuted people or victims of religious w4r/t0rture if they're happy
Ask Salem "w1tches" if they enjoyed being burned alive or drown
Ask the religious young men that this s1cko m0lested if they're happy
Ask the Jeh0vah witnesses who have been excommunicated and who have lost their families if they are happy. Wait isn't it make believe Sc1entology that practices effective human sl4very by this excommunication practice? Nope, Jeh0vah's witnesses do it too. They also don't want you to go to school and earn an education. Because then you might be able to decide on things for yourself, or have money to not be shackled to the church. They want POOR people, because being POOR means uneducated and you need to rely on the church – further "sl4very".
Need I go on?
Yeah r3ligious people are so peaceful, well intended, and happy. Thanks for the advice. You're a paragon of virtue.
Ask r3ligiously p3rsecuted people or victims of religious w4r/t0rture if they're happy
Ask S4lem "w1tches" if they enjoyed being burned alive or drown
Ask the r3ligious young men that this s1cko m0lested if they're happy
Ask the Jeh0vah witnesses who have been exc0mmunicated and who have lost their families if they are happy. Wait isn't it make believe Sc1entology that practices effective human sl4very by this exc0mmunication practice? Nope, Jeh0vah's witnesses do it too. They also don't want you to go to school and earn an education. Because then you might be able to decide on things for yourself, or have money to not be shackled to the church. They want P0OR people, because being P0OR means uneducated and you need to rely on the chur(h – further "sl4very".
Need I go on?
Yeah r3ligious people are so peaceful, well intended, and happy. Thanks for the advice. You're a paragon of virtue.
Ask r 3ligiously p 3rsecuted people or victims of religious w4 r/t 0rture if they're happy
Ask S4 lem "w1 tches" if they enjoyed being bu rned alive or drown
Ask the r3 ligious young men that this s1cko m0 lested if they're happy
Ask the Jeh0 vah witnesses who have been exc 0mmunicated and who have lost their families if they are happy. Wait isn't it Sc1 entology that practices effective human sl4 very by this exc0 mmunication practice? Nope, Jeh0 vah's witnesses do it too. They also don't want you to go to school and earn an education. Because then you might be able to decide on things for yourself, or have money to not be shackled to the ch urch. They want P0 OR people, because being P0 OR means un educated and you need to rely on the chu r(h – further "sl4very".
Need I go on?
Yeah r3 ligious people are so peaceful, well intended, and happy. Thanks for the advice. You're a paragon of virtue.
Ask victims of religious war and persecution if theyre happy
Ask religious victims of this priests buggery if theyre happy
Ask J. Witnesses who have been excommunicated and lost their families if they are happy. Yes, the practice of excommunicating you, and then your own family disowns you, is in both Scientology, and the Witnesses.
Ask J Witnesses who are advised to never follow an education so that they can remain poor and shackled to their church if they are happy. Well ignorance is bliss.
Do I really need to go on.
Thanks for the advice, religion is a paragon of virtue…. Not
sorry for multipost
Prayer changes things,
Proven
~Lying is a sin, you've been proven a liar over and over again on this blog. A great example of prayer proven not to work is the Christians in jail because prayer didn't work. For example: Susan Grady, who relied on prayer to heal her son. Nine-year-old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested Friday morning...
An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children, who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.
Plus don't forget. 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.!*
No religion and teaching them to believe in things that are false is wrong then they can never make an unbiased decision in their lives. Religions are more destructive that all the natural events that happen
The "vomit-inducing" ped-ophilia and coverup will simply hasten the decline of all religions as they finally go extinct from their own absurdity.
Pedophiles are aroused by prepubescent children. Nearly all the accused priests were going for post adolescent teenage boys. They are by definition gay. Of course you may be one of the many that attack the church on one hand and the Boy Scouts on the other. The Boy Scouts who dare keep gay men away from teenage boys............
re well..... it appears that you have spent a lot of time wordsmithing that bs to defend the church and its problems with men abusing small kids or large kids,,,,,, or you are one of them....
There is a man who works or worked, in Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen, Scotland. Originally from Lancashire, his name is Tony (He has or had a house in Footdee, which is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland) He is a paedophile who has gained great promotions as a result of the power they can generate amongst themselves. Nearly in charge of the Hospital now. He spends all his holidays at Pluscarden Abbey, Near Elgin, as they all do. Unless they get caught, they always end up running things, and that is a very large hospital.
Belive me things have all ready started to come out jail judgement then hell.Dont put every beliver in the same box because if it was me but am not the lord i would send a lighting bolt right then and there but i thank the Lord Jesus Christ his nothing like man but oh when that time come he said vengence is mines i shall repay its coming sooner then then we think.
I guess I shouldn't do that to my cats any more.
Yeah, they don't like it when you stick your thingy up their butts.
Prayer changes things.
~Lying is a sin, you've been proven a liar over and over again on this blog. A great example of prayer proven not to work is the Christians in jail because prayer didn't work. For example: Susan Grady, who relied on prayer to heal her son. Nine-year-old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested Friday morning...
An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children, who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.
Plus don't forget. 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.!
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Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things .
~Again.... lying is a sin, you've been proven a liar over and over again on this blog. A great example of prayer proven not to work is the Christians in jail because prayer didn't work. For example: Susan Grady, who relied on prayer to heal her son. Nine-year-old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested Friday morning...
An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children, who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.
Plus don't forget. 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.!