Sung to the tune of House of the Rising Sun by Santa Fe Raging Grannies "We must expose this cover up of wealthy powerful men
Their cruelty, depravities in the house of the Epstein sins"
Sunday, June 28, 2026
House of the Epstein Crimes by Santa Fe Raging Grannies
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Watch: 45 compromised billionaires named in Epstein files now influencing Trump's USA
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Friday, June 19, 2026
Editorial: Epstein-compromised men now run USA; his survivors are casualties of War; if goal was to bring down the United States, It worked
So many men in the Epstein files are now in the Trump Administration that I'm convinced Jeffrey and Ghislane were working for some foreign agency, with the goal of collecting compromat on guys they identified as easy targets to turn against usa. They https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/2026/06/editorial-epstein-list-men-run-usa.html
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Thursday, June 25, 2026
Pedophile Priest & Epstein survivor similarities
to be continued shortly
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Wednesday, June 10, 2026
I feel a real affinity for Virginia Guthrie; thank God my molester was a Catholic priest [Update Saturday June 13th, the book is still on the way taking a long time to get to me but I do plan to write about the similarities between pedophile priest victims and the Epstein victims in the coming weeks.]
Pedophile-Priests, Epstein Zorro Ranch neighbors in Santa Fe County New Mexico. paracletes 1 "Catholic bishops kept Via Coeli and its work with problem priests secret from the parishes. Meanwhile bishops were touring the Northern New Mexico
Monday, June 15, 2026 Paracletes 2
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
PippiLeak: Hospital for Sick Priests who are then sent out to parishes on weekendsAnother document found during the Discovery process in lawsuits against the Catholic Church re pedophile priests known as the Clergy Cases in Southern California, 2003-2007, a 1956 news article in a Catholic
Paracletes 3 Epstein's Zorro Ranch a 40-min drive on 1-40 to Via Coeli treatment center in 1950-60s; 'Kids Swimming With Pedophile Priests' Series continued: Google Maps screenshot
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Likely in same zip code as Epstein's, pedophile priests were sent to Tortola in the Caribbean in 1950s. Their island was to isolate predators, his was apparently to snare and blackmail them [Scanned here is letter to the Bishop of Virgin Islands to begin the process of removing pedophile priests back to New Mexico in November 1960.]
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Executive immunity today like Holy Office doctrine 1962; Why pedophiles don't get prosecuted in USA Both had Islands in the Caribbean for Pedophiles, both had isolated ranches in New Mexico 40 minutes away from each other, and NOW I even found a Catholic version of Executive immunity in the form of a 1962 document "Crimen Sollicitationis" reported on here at CofA
Pedo- priests & Epstein: Similarities abound and I've only just begun; today under oath "they perjure themselves"; a while back bishops would just say, "I don't recall I don't recall" "When Catholic priests got away with pedophilia, Predators all over the world watched and became enabled, and that includes Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell." The same pattern of abuse/ crime from one victim
Friday, June 19, 2026 Editorial: Epstein-compromised men now run USA; his survivors are casualties of War; if goal was to bring down the United States, It worked So many men in the Epstein files are now in the Trump Administration that I'm convinced Jeffrey and Ghislane were working for some foreign agency, with the goal of collecting compromat on guys they
Sunday, June 21, 2026 Epstein Maxwell Mossad Connection, turns out it's all true- Stephanie Harlowe spells it out Epstein's use of young girls to snare politically influential men in the USA was a covert Act, the Epstein files themselves reveal Mossad connections, as much as it sounded like rumor and conspiracy,
Tuesday, June 23, 2026 Reprint 1 The tine I got kidnapped by two guys in Paris 1966; they were going to sell me to two Arabs but I overheard and escaped; this is a true story As I read her book, memories enter my mind The similarity of my life to Virginia Giuffre's is child sex assault and the effect it has on a person for the rest of their life; how even though she and I came
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Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Reprint 1 The tine I got kidnapped by two guys in Paris 1966; they were going to sell me to two Arabs but I overheard and escaped; this is a true story
As I read her book, memories enter my mind
The similarity of my life to Virginia Giuffre's is child sex assault and the effect it has on a person for the rest of their life; how even though she and I came from completely different times and places, the pattern of re-traumatization is the same. The blog post copied below is from 2007 January, one of the first I ever put up. Reprint 1 in this series Is about the time I got kidnapped by two guys in Paris who were going to sell me to Arabs and how I escaped and it is a true story from Summer 1966 my life.
At age 17 I was wandering around unsupervised and alone in Paris France and ended up almost getting sold to the Arabs, a memory I have as I read about Virginia at age 14 joining the Brunel modeling agency using the name Baby. Virginia's book opens with her in Paris to testify
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
Now remember it was 1966 and in California if someone had long hair and jeans you automatically identified them as a fellow traveler in the counter culture. I was 17 and thought things would be the same in Paris so I may even have been the one who struck up a conversation with them. I know I asked if they knew where to score some LSD and they pretended to know what that was but didn't know where to get some, but we could get some lalalalala, don’t remember the name of it, a drug they said was like LSD and I said, great let’s go.
Somehow in my high school French and their enthusiasm as they explained their house was out in the suburbs I agreed to go to the hotel and get my stuff and take it with us. We rode the train out of Paris to their house, this big empty house in a town up the train line. We walked about a block from the train to this huge brick house surrounded by a 10 foot brick fence. Inside the gate were trees and gardens before you got to the front door.
I was a 17 year old girl hooked up and ready to party. I was no virgin. I was a 17 year old Southern California natural blond tanned girl with a dancer’s anorexic body but Polish curves -- I was hot and probably some kind of fantasy come true for these French guys, who already thought all American women were whores but a girl from Southern California! But I was unaware of that. I was just natural in a sundress and sandals and little else sitting in this kitchen outside Paris drinking wine and eating something home cooked with these two French guys and then taking this drug. . .
It was not anything at all like LSD. In fact I just fell asleep. When I woke up I was locked in a bedroom upstairs, groggy, they came in and fucked me over and over and then gave me more of the drug and that went on for a few days, I really don’t know how long. They came after me in the bathtub, they made me take the drug when I didn’t want it. The sex the first night may have been consensual but after a few days of being locked in the upstairs bedroom except when I was let out to take a bath and then they’d be in there with me -- it was beginning to be a bad experience. I don't think I even thought of the word rape. I was groggy.
I just wished they’d quit fucking me, as it was hurting.
Finally one day strangely my door wasn’t locked so I was able to come to the tof the stairs, then tiptoe down a few steps, and listen to the two French guys having this animated conversation with two men with what seemed to be Arab accents. I peaked and the two new men were dark, wearing Arab robes. The French guys were doing their Parisian French which was really hard for me to follow but I got it that they were describing me, how it felt to touch my skin, the Skin! They kept repeating it, “le peau le teint.” And they talked about money. I shivered there on the stairs hoping they didn’t hear me, realizing “They’re going to sell me to the Arabs.”
So I freaked. Got to get outta here. I listened longer, understood little more but enough to know the deal was done and I was going to Saudi Arabia in a few hours. Then they all left, without even checking on me, which was weird. Thinking back now I realize maybe they’d been up in the bedroom earlier while I was drugged and knocked out looking at me and didn't realize they hadn’t locked the door when they left, then didn't want to make the Arab guys wait, so the French guys left without checking. Anyway, my door was unlocked, and I had to get out of that house now.
I still had my big white suitcase and I still had to take all of my stuff with me. I lugged the suitcase down the stairs. Every window on the ground floor was nailed shut. I ran to the kitchen and all the doors of course were locked, except one, the door that led to the basement. So I dragged the huge white suitcase behind me down the narrow basement staircase in that old French country house.
In the basement there was one small window just at ground level near the high ceiling. Beneath the window were these huge laundry basins like for washing sheets by hand a century ago. I could climb up these sinks and then crawl through the window. It was a tiny opening. I pulled myself through and then went to pull the suitcase through and get us to freedom. But the suitcase was too large. Remember I was a 17 year old girl from L.A. and I wasn’t going to leave behind all my clothes for these French freaks to keep so I pulled and pulled and pulled and the suitcase was just plain larger than the window.
Then there was a BLLLLLLNNNNNNGGGG sound. It came with the wind through the trees. There are even angelic voices in the moment as I remember it today. Whatever happened the suitcase came through the window. The solid 1960s pre-plastic quality suitcase came through the old window which was surrounded by brick wall surrounded, and I was able to get out of there. I had to climb a tree and throw the suitcase over the fence then jump down myself. I scrambled in the direction I remembered the train station to be and got out of there before the French guys came back with the Arabs and probably would have sold me into some kind of white slavery and I wouldn't have lived a lot more years.
Later in life I wondered if because I’d been raped by a priest at age five and had thus gone out into the world with a shitload of confusion and sexual compulsions, always thinking I was doing some holy thing when I was having sex so in no way sinning, just being this fantasy female for men like I was supposed to be.
God, or whatever is in charge of this planet, looked down at me at age five being raped by that priest in the rectory of a Catholic Church and realized, this girl is going to have a lot of trouble in life. So he dispatched a couple of extra angels, or whatever you call them, down to watch over me my whole life. And that's how I got out of that situation, how the suitcase came through the brick-surrounded window so I could get away, and also so many other situations later in life, but this story, the “time I almost got sold to the Arabs as a sex slave at age 17” story, is the main reason I say it’s a miracle I made it to age 19.
There was a man at the train station that day when I escaped. I must have looked pretty disheveled, drugged, scared, shaking, but trying to act cool. The older guy sat next to me and I didn’t tell him at all what happened. He asked if I needed help and I asked something like how can I find a hotel. He was amazed I had money on me, and stopped reaching for his wallet. He said, well then go to the Hilton, hmm, the Paris Hilton, and I thought yeah good idea.
I went downtown Paris checked into the Hilton paid with a couple of my checks, my parents had sent me with a wad of American Express checks, which for some reason the Parisian men had not taken, the checks were still there in the suitcase. I was raised in benevolent neglect. It felt so good to feel the American-ness of the Paris Hilton, and as I walked through the lobby I stopped to get a magazine. About all there was in English was an edition of Playboy. I went to my room and was finally safe and free, took a private bath and luxuriated in the bed with room service for a couple of nights, recovering from the “trauma” as we’d call it today, alone at age 17, achy from several days of involuntary sex.
I found nurturing and comfort in the pages of Playboy Magazine that night....
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This Story starts about 2/3 of the way down in this blog post from 2007 January one of the first blog posts I ever put up.
https://cityofangels1.blogspot.com/2007/01/i-was-teenage-slut.html
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Sunday, June 21, 2026
Epstein Maxwell Mossad Connection, turns out it's all true- Stephanie Harlowe spells it out
Epstein's use of young girls to snare politically influential men in the USA was a covert Act, the Epstein files themselves reveal Mossad connections, as much as it sounded like rumor and conspiracy, YouTube AutoPlayed this video of Stephanie Harlowe speaking when I was napping yesterday. She is so intelligent and coherent here it sparked me awake, as she gives the history of Ghislaine Maxwell's family global influences dating back to the birth of Robert in Eastern Czechoslovakia to his escape from the Nazis and rise mysteriously to so much power. The connection in New Mexico with Los Alamos scientists and the Manhattan Project is whack me over the head astounding. As much as it sounded like rumor and conspiracy, it really is true that Epstein's use of young girls to snare politically influential men in the United States was a covert Act to bring us down like I wrote about here couple days ago. Meanwhile, Virginia's book has arrived and I wish it was a larger, more Gothic font but I will start reading it shortly.
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Friday, June 19, 2026
Editorial: Epstein-compromised men now run USA; his survivors are casualties of War; if goal was to bring down the United States, It worked
So many men in the Epstein files are now in the Trump Administration that I'm convinced Jeffrey and Ghislane were working for some foreign agency, with the goal of collecting compromat on guys they identified as easy targets to turn against usa. They found American businessmen making billions without doing much work, and with a devious knucklehead
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Friday, June 19, 2026
Editorial: Epstein-compromised men now run USA; his survivors are casualties of War; if goal was to bring down the United States, It worked
So many men in the Epstein files are now in the Trump Administration that I'm convinced Jeffrey and Ghislane were working for some foreign agency, with the goal of collecting compromat on guys they identified as easy targets to turn against usa. They found American businessmen making billions without doing much work, and with a devious knucklehead bent. Now those compromised men have cushy Ambassador jobs or are running agencies that they know nothing about. So all they do is what their leader tells them to do.
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With almost every member of Trump's Administration and cabinet being compromised and blackmailed for child sex assault caught on tape by Epstein, what a great way to bring down the USA.
This operation will surely go down in Espionage history and the Epstein victims can think of themselves as Casualties of War as well.
I just hope I live long enough to find out who Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell were working for, in other words what nation is running USA now. There are a lot of rumors, I'm waiting for the truth to come out.
I think whoever ran this operation did see how the Catholic Church handled its child sex assault crimes, as I've documented in great detail in the previous eight or so blog posts.
Epstein's scheme was built on borrowing from the Catholic Church business model, so to speak.
So Epstein, I think, in history will be remembered as a very successful agent working for whoever he was working for.
Because if the goal was to bring down the United States, It worked.
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That's it.
From now on I'm just going to say blank Maxwell and leave it whatever voice typing makes it into. I'm tired of having to type in her stupid pseudo French British upper class bitch name over and over so from now on whenever you see something weird like Julie Maxwell you'll know that K is on voice typing and is not going to bother typing her name one more time.
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Thursday, June 18, 2026
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Pedo- priests & Epstein: Similarities abound and I've only just begun; today under oath "they perjure themselves"; a while back bishops would just say, "I don't recall I don't recall"
"When Catholic priests got away with pedophilia, Predators all over the world watched and became enabled, and that includes Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell."
The same pattern of abuse/ crime from one victim to another for both pedophile Catholic priests and Jeffrey Epstein, is another similarity I've already seen as I start this project. That repeated pattern was the theme of the pedophile priest True crime series that I tried to get produced in 2008, showing that in one archdiocese after another the pattern of crimes was the same; and no one In Hollywood wanted to even hear the word pedophile, not that long ago; 18 years ago no one would listen to my pitches to produce a series about the pedophile priests;
and I ended up just dropping out and moving to South Lake Tahoe and gazing out my window as an old lady.
Another SIMILARITY
Epstein Survivor Dani Bensky on Legal AF channel below says, "we finally get them to testify and then they just perjure themselves."
After years of effort, Pedophile Catholic priest survivors finalll got hierarchy into courtrooms and then all they would say under oath is, I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall,
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2009 to 2019 are the years Epstein preyed on young girls in Palm Beach, the years right after survivors like me were telling our stories in the news about pedophile priests in the Catholic Church,
TO ALL NEWS MEDIA
In the legal AF video above he keeps repeating a lie.
Epstein is not the biggest child sex trafficker in American history. The Roman Catholic Church was for decades possibly centuries.
Yet, I keep hearing that lie over and over from American on air pundits as they cover the Epstein story and keep repeating that.
Epstein was not the worst as bad as he was.
Apparently, he learned from the worst.
To me our "news" reporters are showing they don't know any history from before IPhones.
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When I ordered Virginia's book last week, I did not realize how much the story of the Epstein victims ties in with the stories of the pedophile priest victims that I covered for 20 years Including on message boards for survivors only.
When Catholic priests got away with pedophilia, Predators all over the world saw that, and that includes Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell. I was saying that 20 years ago and have continued to say that ever since;
By not going after the priests the way a legitimate society would, we opened the door for Jeffrey Epstein and who knows what other sex crimes against children that are going on now everywhere.
The Catholic Church from the Vatican down is responsible for Epstein and so much more, and it won't stop until the Catholic Church from the Vatican down takes accountability and starts to do penance for its crimes.
Wow I had no idea I was going to end up saying that when I started writing this.Wow I had no idea I was going to end up saying that when I started writing this.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Bishop Steinbock testimony TRANSCRIPT Santillan vs Bishop of Fresno, rerunning from 2010, CofA Coverage part 1
(CofA Blog coverage of Santillan vs Bishop of Fresno coverage, rerunning from 2010 bk it needs revisiting, I think, part 1, UPDATING from 2010 continued here). Q Bishop, when did you first realize or learn that when an adult lays his hands on the genitals of a child and manipulates the genitals of a child and places them on the body of a child for sexual purposes, it was a crime? When did you first realize that? A You know, it's really hard for me to say. I think society-
Q No, you. A Me? Q You. A I think I thought, along with society, for so many years it was- Q Bishop, I'm going to ask you to focus on the question. (From Santillan v. Bishop of Fresno transcript of March 18, 2009, testimony of Bishop John Steinbock, questioned by Jeff Anderson, copy and pasted in this post in full below.) 
Here is the transcript, verbatim, with only hard returns and page and line numbers removed for easier reading, of the first half of Bishop John Steinbock’s testimony, March 18, 2009. BISHOP JOHN STEINBOCK, called as a witness by and on behalf of the Plaintiffs, having been first duly sworn, testified as follows pursuant to Evidence Code Section 776: THE COURT: Have a seat up here, please. And would you state your full name and spell your last name, please. THE WITNESS: John Steinbock, S-T-E-I-N-B-O-C-K. THE COURT: All right. Will you be examining Bishop Steinbock? MR. ANDERSON: I will, Your Honor. Thank you. BY MR. ANDERSON: Q Bishop, good morning. A Good morning. Q How long have you been Bishop of the Diocese? A I came in November of 1992. Q How long have you been a priest? A Forty-six years in another two months. Q And it is correct to say that at all times while a priest, you and every other priest operate under a rule called the promise of obedience to your superior? A Yes. Q And that is a rule of the church. You must obey your superior in all matters of life and faith; correct? A No. Q Well, you must obey the superior in what matters? A Okay. There's a difference between a diocesan priest and a religious priest. Q Okay. Well- A Now- Q Go ahead. I'm sorry. 
A religious priest takes a vow of obedience, and he is meant always to be obedient to his superior no matter what. The diocesan priest, when he takes the promise, not the vow, the promise of obedience, it's mainly in matters of ministry, where he is assigned, things that are related to his ministry as priest. It's not like a religious superior. Q Got it. And you are a diocesan priest? A Yes. Q And a Bishop and the shepherd of this Diocese currently; correct? A Yes. Q And this promise of obedience that runs from a priest to his Bishop, every priest of this Diocese is required to obey their promise of their Bishop of obedience; correct? A In matters of ministry. Q And that promise of obedience is actually first made at the diaconate before ordination; correct? A Yes. Q And then at ordination, when the Bishop allows you and another priest like you to be ordained, it is repeated; correct? A Yes. Q And it continues to that Bishop and all the Bishops that follow him; correct? 0 A Yes. Q And that promise of obedience continues as long as that priest is in the priesthood; correct? A Yes. ********************************* You say he "hinted," that is Monsignor Herdegen? A Yes. Q Hinted to you? A That he was indiscreet with two boys. He did not admit the abuse. Q Well, you use the word here "abuse," don't you? A Well, I think it would be- I have no idea ********************************** Q And there is a mechanism for removal of that priest from the priesthood; correct? A For a very grave cause. Q Yes. And that- that mechanism for removal of that priest from the priesthood is called laicization, is it not? A Laicization. Q Yes. And the Bishop can laicize or remove that priest from the priesthood and petition Rome for that, in other words? A The Bishop cannot laicize him. The Bishop can petition Rome for laicization. Q That's what I meant to say. Thank you. The Bishop can petition the Holy Father, the Vatican, to remove the priest from the clerical state; correct? A Yes. Q The priest also can petition Rome to be removed from the clerical state; correct? A Yes. Q Okay. Monsignor Herdegen is still a priest of your Diocese, this Diocese; correct? A Yes, but he does not have faculties to exercise his ministry. Q And it's correct, is it not, Bishop, that at no time have you as his Bishop attempted to petition Rome for the removal of him from the holy state of the priesthood? A There would be no reason for me to do that. Q Isn't the sexual abuse of minors a reason to remove him from the holy state of the priesthood? A It would be not to allow him to exercise his ministry as priest. You do not necessarily go through a – a form of Laicization. Q Why not, Bishop? Why not? MS. McGUIRE: Objection. Argumentative. THE COURT: Overruled. THE WITNESS: Well, first of all, you won't hear anything from Rome for about three or four years, because they process very slow over there. You know, to laicize a priest, you have to - continue reading
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Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Executive immunity today like Holy Office doctrine 1962; Why pedophiles don't get prosecuted in USA
Virginia Giuffre's book arrived in the mail yesterday and I'm about to read it and look for more coincidences/ similarities in the experience of survivors of Epstein and Survivors of pedophile Catholic priests.
I'm amazed at how much I found just by diving into my own blog posts from 15-20 years ago.
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1962 Holy Office doctrine shows Church Policy was aiding and abetting, coverup, and secrecy, from the Vatican to Bishops, re sex crimes among priests
(Orig June 2007 post
https://cityofangels3.blogspot.com/2007/06/1962-holy-office-doctrine-shows-aiding.html )
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(This is a double length post:) Since so many sex crimes that will come up in jury trials the next months in civil cases against the LA Archdiocese took place from 1962 to 2001, plaintiff attorneys may want to enter the 1962 document Crimen Sollicitationis, the hierarchical blueprint written in Latin from the Pope to all bishops.
Directly underneath the title are instructions to hide the document in secret places and tell no one of its contents.
American Catholic bishops handled Sex Crimes in the American Catholic Church for the next decades as laid out in the 1962 Crimen Solicitationes document. The document makes it clear that the Catholics' mishandling of sex crimes was official policy and the result in Southern California was a network of pedophiles that operated free and unfettered within church confines. These 1962 “instructions” to bishops are at the heart of the Catholic Church’s nationwide mishandling of sex crimes among its priests.
California Was the Nation's Rural Grounds
So it bred generations of pedophiles within the church
In the 1960s and 1970s Southern California was like the nation’s rural district. As a result, the entire archdiocese, or the entire Southern California region was flooded with pedophiles. Indeed active predators worked as recruiters at Seminaries, so the pedophilia developed into a second generation network.
A quick read of documents regarding cases coming to trial in the next months shows that throughout Southern California, pedophilia took place out in the open in rectories and seminary dormitories. There are likely thousands of damaged people walking around California and the West. With the number of predator priests already identified in and around Los Angeles, it’s a good guess there are thousands of victims of predator priests who have never come forward.
In California priests raped children in the church behind the altars, in pre-Mass altar boy ceremonies, openly in the rectories -- and secrecy and covering up the crimes became standard operating procedure, as outlined in these instructions to the bishops Crimen Solicitationes.
Previous Attempts to Introduce Crimen Solicitationes as Evidence have been Shot Down.
No city is better than LA for introduction of Crimen Solicitationis as Evidence of Crimes Covered Up for the Sake of the Church
In Boston and Texas, all the way to the Supreme Court in Washington DC plaintiffs have tried to introduce Crimen Sollicitationis as evidence that the general practice of the Catholic Church was aiding and abetting in handling sex crimes committed by priests. It also came up in Louisville, Kentucky cases in 2003.
“A move in 2004 to get the document admitted in Massachusetts failed recently when a Springfield judge ruled the document was irrelevant to a civil lawsuit alleging clergy sexual abuse,” reported Kathleen A. Shaw in the Telegram & Gazette August 24, 2004.
In the case that went from Texas to Washington DC Crimen was ruled out as evidence as the plaintiffs were not Catholic as children when the crimes took place.
But with the rampant out of control pedophilia that festered in Southern California from the 1960s to the 1990s, in no other city could the document Crimen Sollicitatis be more relevant as evidence in the civil trials.
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BACK TO CRIMEN SOLICITATIONIS
When I’m cycling manic narcissist I think the pope and cardinals came up with Crimen Solicitationis in 1962 after the way the Chicago Archdiocese handled the case of me and my sister in 1955.
Don’t let anyone convince you that Crimen Solicitationis applies only to “Sollicitation” in the confessional although Catholic defenders argued that in 2004. The title is, I think, designed to give the impression the document is only about the Confessional, in just one more way to obfuscate the truth from the non-hierarchical Catholic.
The first page of Crimen Sollicitationis, before the text begins and directly underneath the title it reads “On the manner of proceeding in cases of the crime of solicitation,
“This text is to be diligently stored in the secret archives of the Curia as strictly confidential. Nor is it to be published nor added to with any commentaries.
Right in the 1962 document the church admits the permanent damage sex abuse by a priest can do in its own words. Paragraph 15 states in Latin that anyone who knows of such crimes and does not report them should be excommunicated --
"lest [the offense] remain occult and unpublished and always with inestimable detriment to souls." (Source National Catholic Reporter article August 7, 2003).
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A Boston Lawyer Discovers the 1962 Document
Still Rocking the Vatican in 2007
“Crimen Solicitationis” may have forever been a secret except it was referenced in a footnote to a May 18, 2002, in a letter from then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, (now Pope Benedict) head of the Vatican's doctrinal congregation. He was apparently giving direction to bishops of the world on new policy for handling sex abuse cases.
Boston Lawyer Daniel J. Shea unearthed the document and sent a copy to a U.S. Attorney in 2004. Immediately Church Attorneys argued that the document was irrelevant as most bishops didn't even know it existed.
Right. An entreaty from the Vatican in 1962 written in Latin with strictest instructions to store it in a secret place and tell no one about it, and none of the bishops knew it existed….
These are the same Church Attorneys who will try to argue Crimen is only about crimes in the Confessional.
Survivor priest Robert Hoatson’s original lawsuit in New York mentions the Crimen document : “In 1961, the Vatican issued a document entitled "Crimen Solicitationes" which ordered bishops to keep secreted documents and information relating to the sexual abuse of minors. The Church has had a long-standing regulation that crimes are not to be reported or adjudicated so as not to cause the church public scandal.”
Continued from Hoatson’s original complaint: “My attempts to report my own abuse and abuse of children, teenagers, and vulnerable adults were thwarted by a culture of secrecy, cover-up, and lying.”
Since publication in 2001 the document has been copied and posted on websites. In October 2006 the BBC program, "Sex Crimes and the Vatican," aired in England and this May it was finally broadcast in Italy on a show called “The Year Zero.” However in the weeks prior to the official Italian broadcast, Google video ran the show with Italian subtitles. So the truth about Crimen Solicitationis has now even reached residents of Rome.
NOTE: The Google Video of the BBC program with Italian subtitles in linked on the left.
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More on Crimen Sollicitationis:
“Exhibit A is a hitherto secret document called Crimen Sollicationis - Latin for "the crime of solicitation" - issued in 1962 by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), an office attached to the Vatican. Described as a "blueprint for deception and concealment" by lawyers investigating the worldwide sex-abuse scandals, Crimen Sollicationis contains strict instructions for dealing with what the Vatican calls the "worst crimes" - such as allegations of paedophilia and bestiality. Rather than report these offences to the civil authorities, the CDF instructs bishops to investigate them "in the most secretive way" or face the "penalty of excommunication".
From
'Everywhere I Turned, I Ran into Sexual Abuse'
The Guardian
May 4, 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1766941,00.html
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Bishops still referred to Crimen Solicitationis in 2002
And thanks to Boston area reporter we know that about it
Some more reporting from Kathy Shaw this in 2003 from Worchester, Massachusetts: (The same Kathy Shaw who now produces Abuse Tracker as a daily blog for Bishop Accountability dot org.)
"The newsletters of the Canon Law Society show that officers met in Rome in February 2002, a time when the church-wide sexual abuse scandal broke open in Boston with new revelations about the extent of clergy sexual abuse within the Boston Archdiocese.
"In this meeting with representatives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the newsletter said, "Our discussion at the Congregation focused on identification of certain aspects of procedures for clergy sexual misconduct, particularly the 1962 instruction "Crimen Sollicitationes" and the more recent instruction "Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela."
Sacramentorum Sactitatis Tutela "went on the Vatican Web site in 2002, and the English translation clearly shows that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who heads the Congregation for the Doctine of the Faith, indicated that the 1962 directive was in effect "until now." Mr. Shea did not know the 1962 document existed until he saw it footnoted in the Ratzinger document."
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QUOTES FROM THE DOCUMENT ITSELF
Translated and available all over the internet today
==========
Here are direct quotes from a PDF File of Crimen Solicitationis translated from Latin into English. Since the Boston public uncovering of this document in 2001 it’s been copied and translated all over the web.
PDFs are available at bishop accountability dot org of course.
Centered
From the Supreme and Holy Congregation of the Holy Office
Centered
For all Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops, and Other Diocesan Ordinaries “Even of the Oriental Rite”
Centered Underlined:
Instruction:
Centered
On the Manner of Proceeding In Cases of Solicitation
Centered
The Vatican Press 1962
Instruction
Then the text begins:
‘On the manner of proceeding in cases of the crime of solicitation,
“This text is to be diligently stored in the secret archives of the Curia as strictly confidential. Nor is it to be published nor added to with any commentaries.
“the crime of solicitation takes place when a priest tempts a penitent.
It then specifies in several lines whether in the confessional or any number of other places
“The object of this temptation is to solicit or provoke the penitent toward impure or obscene matters.”
Whether by words, nods, touches, a three line list of ways --
Paragraph 2. The right or duty of addressing this unspeakable crime --
First and foremost the responsibility of the “ordinaries of the place”
“not to mention through proper law but also through a special delegation of the Apostolic See;
. . . “that they as soon as possible take care to introduce, discuss, and terminate these cases with their proper tribunal. . .
Hmm doesn't seem like the bishops stuck to that part. . .
“HOWEVER, because of particular and serious reasons these cases can be directly deferred to the Holy Congregation of the Holy Office or be so ordered.
Oh there it is in Paragraph 2, if it’s a really horrible crime, you can bypass the proper law and report it and deal with it at the level of the Holy Office. . . .
There are then several paragraphs explaining the hierarchy. . . to whom these crimes can be -- buck passed up and ways to avoid public knowledge of the crimes.
By paragraph 6 we're still talking about the “judges”
“6. Although as a rule, a single judge, by reason of its secrecy is prescribed for cases of this type.. .
In the middle of Paragraph 9:
“Because of the special nature of these procedures, however, it is necessary for the Ordinary to dispense from the presence of the notary.”
Paragraph 11:
“11. Because however, what is treated in these cases has to have a greater degree of care and observance so that those same matters be pursued in a most secretive way. And after they have been defined and given over to execution, they are to be restrained by a perpetual silence.”
Anyone who knows about these crimes is to “observe the strictest ++7++ secret, which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office."
“. . . Under the penalty of Excommunication."
Several more paragraphs on why and how these crimes need to be “executed” and maintained in secret.
Paragraph 15.
“15. Since the crime of solicitation takes place in rather rare decisions, lest it remain occult and unpublished and always with inestimable detriment of souls. . .
Yes the Catholic Church admitted even then the permanent damage from this crime.
“19. The duty of denunciation is a personal one and is to be fulfilled regularly by the person himself who has been solicited.
Report it to the Holy Office. Don’t be anonymous.
RE PENALTIES conferred on priests
By this Internal Judiciary
The document goes on to Paragraph 62:
“penalties decreed against priests convicted of the crime of solicitation, with an equal regard for the mind of CANON 2218. . . for estimating the gravity of the crime, -- and their condition, as for example they are minors in age or especially consecrated. . .
64. c: Those who are in danger of falling back into their former ways and therefore becoming greater recidivists should be submitted to particular vigilance.
65. As often as it seems “necessary for the amendment of the delinquent, for the removal of the near occasion of soliciting in the future, or for the prevention of scandal or for the reparation for it, there should be added a prescription for the prohibition of remaining in a certain place.”
This is the part that Boston’s Daniel Shea said lead to the priests being sent places like The Servants of the Paracletes in New Mexico, what Shea described as “vacations"
The more I learn about this whole subject the more it seems it will take a federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) investigation to bring the whole story out into the open and finally get justice.
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More to Come. . .
By City of Angels lady
(This is a double length post:) Since so many sex crimes that will come up in jury trials the next months in civil cases against the LA Archdiocese took place from 1962 to 2001, plaintiff attorneys may want to enter the 1962 document Crimen Sollicitationis, the hierarchical blueprint written in Latin from the Pope to all bishops.
Directly underneath the title are instructions to hide the document in secret places and tell no one of its contents.
American Catholic bishops handled Sex Crimes in the American Catholic Church for the next decades as laid out in the 1962 Crimen Solicitationes document. The document makes it clear that the Catholics' mishandling of sex crimes was official policy and the result in Southern California was a network of pedophiles that operated free and unfettered within church confines. These 1962 “instructions” to bishops are at the heart of the Catholic Church’s nationwide mishandling of sex crimes among its priests.
California Was the Nation's Rural Grounds
So it bred generations of pedophiles within the church
In the 1960s and 1970s Southern California was like the nation’s rural district. As a result, the entire archdiocese, or the entire Southern California region was flooded with pedophiles. Indeed active predators worked as recruiters at Seminaries, so the pedophilia developed into a second generation network.
A quick read of documents regarding cases coming to trial in the next months shows that throughout Southern California, pedophilia took place out in the open in rectories and seminary dormitories. There are likely thousands of damaged people walking around California and the West. With the number of predator priests already identified in and around Los Angeles, it’s a good guess there are thousands of victims of predator priests who have never come forward.
In California priests raped children in the church behind the altars, in pre-Mass altar boy ceremonies, openly in the rectories -- and secrecy and covering up the crimes became standard operating procedure, as outlined in these instructions to the bishops Crimen Solicitationes.
Previous Attempts to Introduce Crimen Solicitationes as Evidence have been Shot Down.
No city is better than LA for introduction of Crimen Solicitationis as Evidence of Crimes Covered Up for the Sake of the Church
In Boston and Texas, all the way to the Supreme Court in Washington DC plaintiffs have tried to introduce Crimen Sollicitationis as evidence that the general practice of the Catholic Church was aiding and abetting in handling sex crimes committed by priests. It also came up in Louisville, Kentucky cases in 2003.
“A move in 2004 to get the document admitted in Massachusetts failed recently when a Springfield judge ruled the document was irrelevant to a civil lawsuit alleging clergy sexual abuse,” reported Kathleen A. Shaw in the Telegram & Gazette August 24, 2004.
In the case that went from Texas to Washington DC Crimen was ruled out as evidence as the plaintiffs were not Catholic as children when the crimes took place.
But with the rampant out of control pedophilia that festered in Southern California from the 1960s to the 1990s, in no other city could the document Crimen Sollicitatis be more relevant as evidence in the civil trials.
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KAY: (In NPR Fund Raiser Voice) As you know City of Angels Blog carries no ads and takes no bribes. Just about the only place to find freedom of the press in America today is in blogs.
So in that spirit, help keep the City of Angels Blog alive by putting a high five to five hundred on the Pay-Pal Account. Just click the “Make Donation” button in the top left corner. The money goes directly to me, Kay Ebeling, writer of this blog, and I report it as freelance income to the IRS, so everything is legal and above board.
I’m keeping alive an old American tradition, passing the hat. If I were a balladeer I’d be a street corner with my guitar, playing Beatles songs, then passing the hat for dollars and cents. So please put whatever cash you can on my Donate Button in the top left corner of this blog. If 350 people send me five dollars a month I can cover my rent and bills and work full time on this reporting.
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BACK TO CRIMEN SOLICITATIONIS
When I’m cycling manic narcissist I think the pope and cardinals came up with Crimen Solicitationis in 1962 after the way the Chicago Archdiocese handled the case of me and my sister in 1955.
Don’t let anyone convince you that Crimen Solicitationis applies only to “Sollicitation” in the confessional although Catholic defenders argued that in 2004. The title is, I think, designed to give the impression the document is only about the Confessional, in just one more way to obfuscate the truth from the non-hierarchical Catholic.
The first page of Crimen Sollicitationis, before the text begins and directly underneath the title it reads “On the manner of proceeding in cases of the crime of solicitation,
“This text is to be diligently stored in the secret archives of the Curia as strictly confidential. Nor is it to be published nor added to with any commentaries.
Right in the 1962 document the church admits the permanent damage sex abuse by a priest can do in its own words. Paragraph 15 states in Latin that anyone who knows of such crimes and does not report them should be excommunicated --
"lest [the offense] remain occult and unpublished and always with inestimable detriment to souls." (Source National Catholic Reporter article August 7, 2003).
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A Boston Lawyer Discovers the 1962 Document
Still Rocking the Vatican in 2007
“Crimen Solicitationis” may have forever been a secret except it was referenced in a footnote to a May 18, 2002, in a letter from then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, (now Pope Benedict) head of the Vatican's doctrinal congregation. He was apparently giving direction to bishops of the world on new policy for handling sex abuse cases.
Boston Lawyer Daniel J. Shea unearthed the document and sent a copy to a U.S. Attorney in 2004. Immediately Church Attorneys argued that the document was irrelevant as most bishops didn't even know it existed.
Right. An entreaty from the Vatican in 1962 written in Latin with strictest instructions to store it in a secret place and tell no one about it, and none of the bishops knew it existed….
These are the same Church Attorneys who will try to argue Crimen is only about crimes in the Confessional.
Survivor priest Robert Hoatson’s original lawsuit in New York mentions the Crimen document : “In 1961, the Vatican issued a document entitled "Crimen Solicitationes" which ordered bishops to keep secreted documents and information relating to the sexual abuse of minors. The Church has had a long-standing regulation that crimes are not to be reported or adjudicated so as not to cause the church public scandal.”
Continued from Hoatson’s original complaint: “My attempts to report my own abuse and abuse of children, teenagers, and vulnerable adults were thwarted by a culture of secrecy, cover-up, and lying.”
Since publication in 2001 the document has been copied and posted on websites. In October 2006 the BBC program, "Sex Crimes and the Vatican," aired in England and this May it was finally broadcast in Italy on a show called “The Year Zero.” However in the weeks prior to the official Italian broadcast, Google video ran the show with Italian subtitles. So the truth about Crimen Solicitationis has now even reached residents of Rome.
NOTE: The Google Video of the BBC program with Italian subtitles in linked on the left.
*****Commercial Break*****
KAY: (In NPR Fund Raiser Voice) As you know City of Angels Blog carries no ads and takes no bribes. Just about the only place to find freedom of the press in America today is in blogs. So in that spirit, help keep the City of Angels Blog alive by putting a high five to five hundred on the Pay-Pal Account. Just click the “Make Donation” button in the top left corner. The money goes directly to me, Kay Ebeling, writer of this blog, and I report it as freelance income to the IRS, so everything is legal and above board.
I’m keeping alive an old American tradition, passing the hat. If I were a balladeer I’d be a street corner with my guitar, playing Beatles songs, then passing the hat for dollars and cents. So please put whatever cash you can on my Donate Button in the top left corner of this blog. If 350 people send me five dollars a month I can cover my rent and bills and work full time on this reporting.
Every little bit helps.
Kay Ebeling
END COMMERCIAL BREAK**********
======
More on Crimen Sollicitationis:
“Exhibit A is a hitherto secret document called Crimen Sollicationis - Latin for "the crime of solicitation" - issued in 1962 by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), an office attached to the Vatican. Described as a "blueprint for deception and concealment" by lawyers investigating the worldwide sex-abuse scandals, Crimen Sollicationis contains strict instructions for dealing with what the Vatican calls the "worst crimes" - such as allegations of paedophilia and bestiality. Rather than report these offences to the civil authorities, the CDF instructs bishops to investigate them "in the most secretive way" or face the "penalty of excommunication".
From
'Everywhere I Turned, I Ran into Sexual Abuse'
The Guardian
May 4, 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1766941,00.html
---------
Bishops still referred to Crimen Solicitationis in 2002
And thanks to Boston area reporter we know that about it
Some more reporting from Kathy Shaw this in 2003 from Worchester, Massachusetts: (The same Kathy Shaw who now produces Abuse Tracker as a daily blog for Bishop Accountability dot org.)
"The newsletters of the Canon Law Society show that officers met in Rome in February 2002, a time when the church-wide sexual abuse scandal broke open in Boston with new revelations about the extent of clergy sexual abuse within the Boston Archdiocese.
"In this meeting with representatives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the newsletter said, "Our discussion at the Congregation focused on identification of certain aspects of procedures for clergy sexual misconduct, particularly the 1962 instruction "Crimen Sollicitationes" and the more recent instruction "Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela."
Sacramentorum Sactitatis Tutela "went on the Vatican Web site in 2002, and the English translation clearly shows that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who heads the Congregation for the Doctine of the Faith, indicated that the 1962 directive was in effect "until now." Mr. Shea did not know the 1962 document existed until he saw it footnoted in the Ratzinger document."
==========
QUOTES FROM THE DOCUMENT ITSELF
Translated and available all over the internet today
==========
Here are direct quotes from a PDF File of Crimen Solicitationis translated from Latin into English. Since the Boston public uncovering of this document in 2001 it’s been copied and translated all over the web.
PDFs are available at bishop accountability dot org of course.
Centered
From the Supreme and Holy Congregation of the Holy Office
Centered
For all Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops, and Other Diocesan Ordinaries “Even of the Oriental Rite”
Centered Underlined:
Instruction:
Centered
On the Manner of Proceeding In Cases of Solicitation
Centered
The Vatican Press 1962
Instruction
Then the text begins:
‘On the manner of proceeding in cases of the crime of solicitation,
“This text is to be diligently stored in the secret archives of the Curia as strictly confidential. Nor is it to be published nor added to with any commentaries.
“the crime of solicitation takes place when a priest tempts a penitent.
It then specifies in several lines whether in the confessional or any number of other places
“The object of this temptation is to solicit or provoke the penitent toward impure or obscene matters.”
Whether by words, nods, touches, a three line list of ways --
Paragraph 2. The right or duty of addressing this unspeakable crime --
First and foremost the responsibility of the “ordinaries of the place”
“not to mention through proper law but also through a special delegation of the Apostolic See;
. . . “that they as soon as possible take care to introduce, discuss, and terminate these cases with their proper tribunal. . .
Hmm doesn't seem like the bishops stuck to that part. . .
“HOWEVER, because of particular and serious reasons these cases can be directly deferred to the Holy Congregation of the Holy Office or be so ordered.
Oh there it is in Paragraph 2, if it’s a really horrible crime, you can bypass the proper law and report it and deal with it at the level of the Holy Office. . . .
There are then several paragraphs explaining the hierarchy. . . to whom these crimes can be -- buck passed up and ways to avoid public knowledge of the crimes.
By paragraph 6 we're still talking about the “judges”
“6. Although as a rule, a single judge, by reason of its secrecy is prescribed for cases of this type.. .
In the middle of Paragraph 9:
“Because of the special nature of these procedures, however, it is necessary for the Ordinary to dispense from the presence of the notary.”
Paragraph 11:
“11. Because however, what is treated in these cases has to have a greater degree of care and observance so that those same matters be pursued in a most secretive way. And after they have been defined and given over to execution, they are to be restrained by a perpetual silence.”
Anyone who knows about these crimes is to “observe the strictest ++7++ secret, which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office."
“. . . Under the penalty of Excommunication."
Several more paragraphs on why and how these crimes need to be “executed” and maintained in secret.
Paragraph 15.
“15. Since the crime of solicitation takes place in rather rare decisions, lest it remain occult and unpublished and always with inestimable detriment of souls. . .
Yes the Catholic Church admitted even then the permanent damage from this crime.
“19. The duty of denunciation is a personal one and is to be fulfilled regularly by the person himself who has been solicited.
Report it to the Holy Office. Don’t be anonymous.
RE PENALTIES conferred on priests
By this Internal Judiciary
The document goes on to Paragraph 62:
“penalties decreed against priests convicted of the crime of solicitation, with an equal regard for the mind of CANON 2218. . . for estimating the gravity of the crime, -- and their condition, as for example they are minors in age or especially consecrated. . .
64. c: Those who are in danger of falling back into their former ways and therefore becoming greater recidivists should be submitted to particular vigilance.
65. As often as it seems “necessary for the amendment of the delinquent, for the removal of the near occasion of soliciting in the future, or for the prevention of scandal or for the reparation for it, there should be added a prescription for the prohibition of remaining in a certain place.”
This is the part that Boston’s Daniel Shea said lead to the priests being sent places like The Servants of the Paracletes in New Mexico, what Shea described as “vacations"
The more I learn about this whole subject the more it seems it will take a federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) investigation to bring the whole story out into the open and finally get justice.
=========
More to Come. . .
MORE TO COME SHORTLY
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2 comments:
Why do people these days not speak about this issue?!
I am doing the issue of sex-abuse cover-ups in the Catholic Church for my year 12 oral, and I had no idea about any of this scandal until recently. Of course, going to a Catholic school they would try to shelter us from ever hearing bad things about the church, but my english teacher is trying to censor most of my speech. What ever happened to freedom of speech? And the law?!
What is the world coming to :( awesome website by the way. Thanks for the info :)
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