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A growing number of Catholics are blasting Cardinal Timothy Dolan for launching a multi-million dollar annual stewardship appeal amid scathing new findings that he is making New York parishioners unknowingly fund actively-ministering accused sex abusers. Slamming Dolan’s request for more than $21 million as a “shameless money grab,” Catholics are vowing to defund the New York Archdiocese until the Vatican defrocks the scandal-plagued prelate.
Donors who have funded the New York Archdiocese are now discovering that Dolan has made them uninformed accomplices in his sexual cover-ups owing to a new investigation identifying multiple cases where he is keeping accused sex abusers in parishes and schools and hiding their alleged predation from the public. Until now, Catholics have been unaware that the beneficiaries of Dolan’s lucrative fundraisers include clerics named in abuse legal filings due to their status as actively-assigned Pastors. Catholics are outraged that Dolan has made them finance the salaries and benefits of high-ranking Archdiocesan officials like Vocations Director, Father George Sears, who is the subject of a corroborated criminal police complaint alleging that he repeatedly sexually assaulted a seminarian; Monsignor Thomas Derivan, whom Dolan is allowing to head a Bronx parish and elementary school despite a lawsuit reporting that he performed oral sex on a minor; or Vicar for Clergy, Bishop Edmund Whalen, who has been serially covering up sex abuse reports and re-assigning priests after they were named in abuse complaints. Without the knowledge of donors, Dolan and other bishops compensate high-powered defense attorneys from diocesan funds at rates that can exceed $1,000 an hour. In exchange for four-figure hourly fees paid from the wallets of unsuspecting Catholics, Dolan tasks these attorneys with explaining away secretly-retained accused priests’ sex scandals and re-victimizing victims in courtrooms.
Dolan is also pledging to funnel some $2 million of revenue into New York’s plush St. John Vianney Center for Retired Priests, a facility that has been dubbed “Dolan’s retirement spa” for accused clergy. Contributions to the Cardinal’s Annual Stewardship Appeal will support scandal-ridden clerics who frequent the Center like Father Robert Henry, who resides at the retirement home following a sentence of five years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to stealing $270,155 from his parish; accused serial predator, Father Thomas Devery, who resigned in disgrace as Pastor of one of the Archdiocese’s largest parishes and schools after being named in two sex abuse lawsuits; and retired Auxiliary Bishop John O’Hara, who was found to have attempted to interfere in abuse litigation by pressuring potential witnesses from testifying against Dolan and the Archdiocese. Dolan’s Appeal rewards members of the clergy with comfortable lives after they sexually, financially, and morally preyed upon the Faithful. While Dolan himself occupies a lavish 15,000-square-foot Manhattan mansion valued at no less than $30 million, he sentences victims to a lifetime of trauma and even the prospect of suicide as a result of the abuse.
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Donors who have funded the New York Archdiocese are now discovering that Dolan has made them uninformed accomplices in his sexual cover-ups owing to a new investigation identifying multiple cases where he is keeping accused sex abusers in parishes and schools and hiding their alleged predation from the public. Until now, Catholics have been unaware that the beneficiaries of Dolan’s lucrative fundraisers include clerics named in abuse legal filings due to their status as actively-assigned Pastors. Catholics are outraged that Dolan has made them finance the salaries and benefits of high-ranking Archdiocesan officials like Vocations Director, Father George Sears, who is the subject of a corroborated criminal police complaint alleging that he repeatedly sexually assaulted a seminarian; Monsignor Thomas Derivan, whom Dolan is allowing to head a Bronx parish and elementary school despite a lawsuit reporting that he performed oral sex on a minor; or Vicar for Clergy, Bishop Edmund Whalen, who has been serially covering up sex abuse reports and re-assigning priests after they were named in abuse complaints. Without the knowledge of donors, Dolan and other bishops compensate high-powered defense attorneys from diocesan funds at rates that can exceed $1,000 an hour. In exchange for four-figure hourly fees paid from the wallets of unsuspecting Catholics, Dolan tasks these attorneys with explaining away secretly-retained accused priests’ sex scandals and re-victimizing victims in courtrooms.
Dolan is also pledging to funnel some $2 million of revenue into New York’s plush St. John Vianney Center for Retired Priests, a facility that has been dubbed “Dolan’s retirement spa” for accused clergy. Contributions to the Cardinal’s Annual Stewardship Appeal will support scandal-ridden clerics who frequent the Center like Father Robert Henry, who resides at the retirement home following a sentence of five years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to stealing $270,155 from his parish; accused serial predator, Father Thomas Devery, who resigned in disgrace as Pastor of one of the Archdiocese’s largest parishes and schools after being named in two sex abuse lawsuits; and retired Auxiliary Bishop John O’Hara, who was found to have attempted to interfere in abuse litigation by pressuring potential witnesses from testifying against Dolan and the Archdiocese. Dolan’s Appeal rewards members of the clergy with comfortable lives after they sexually, financially, and morally preyed upon the Faithful. While Dolan himself occupies a lavish 15,000-square-foot Manhattan mansion valued at no less than $30 million, he sentences victims to a lifetime of trauma and even the prospect of suicide as a result of the abuse.
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Donors Giving To Dolan Shocked To Learn Where Their Money Went
A growing number of Catholics are blasting Cardinal Timothy Dolan for launching a multi-million dollar annual stewardship appeal amid scathing new findings that he is making New York parishioners unknowingly fund actively-ministering accused sex abusers. Slamming Dolan’s request for more than...
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