Miss_Fit

Bishop apologizes for priest's actions
Letter sent to St. Pius X, where parishioner reported she was abused

Bishop Leonard Blair, in an unprecedented public letter, apologized to hundreds of members of a West Toledo Catholic parish for the actions of a former priest removed from ministry for allegedly sexually abusing young girls in the 1970s. The letter was mailed this week to parishioners at St. Pius X Church as part of a legal settlement between the diocese, the parish, and Teresa Bombrys, 43, who accused former associate pastor Chet Warren of molesting her when she was a student at the parish's grade school.

The bishop wrote that Ms. Bombrys' complaint was investigated by the diocese and "determined to be credible."

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Though the letter doesn't mention other accusations against the former priest, now 77, at least five other women have complained to the diocese about Mr. Warren, who was removed from ministry by the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales in 1993 after sexual abuse complaints, according to church documents.

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Mr. Warren, who could not be reached for comment, was accused two years ago by a 41-year-old woman of raping her in ritual abuse ceremonies with other priests in the 1970s and arranging an alleged abuse session with the Rev. Gerald Robinson in 1977, according to police and diocese records. The woman's complaint eventually prompted the Lucas County Prosecutor's Office last year to reopen the 1980 murder case of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, in which Father Robinson was a suspect.

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This apology comes on the heels of a murder case involving a nun. The accused is also a priest. There are people coming forward with stories of ritual sexual abuse when they were children by priests. It's going to be a rough ride for the Catholic diocese here in Toledo for quite a while.

iLoveKnowledge

I'm beginning to wonder jsut how far back the histories of of people like this go.

With every new case that starts, i'm actually more than glad i've removed myself from the Christian scene. Though i do feel sorry for the priests who haven't done such things and have been pretty decent people.

loose cannon

Let's go back a few centuries and see what we find.

a snip...

"Karen Liebreich, a historian, claims: "The contemporary Catholic church's practice of moving a suspected pedophile away from the original scene of the crime for fear of ensuing scandal and the backlash clearly has long antecedents.""

iLoveKnowledge

*Is now 100x as glad that she left*

360 years?

i think now i'm kinda beginning to see why some would want Christianity to become a thing of past. Well, one reason for it anyway.