'Swim' by Madonna theme song of City of Angels Blog since 2009

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The words still apply today. Listen.

The passion to write about runaway pedophilia in the Catholic Church is a need to "carry this train off the track, swim to the ocean floor, then crash to the other shore."



But also:

"I can't carry these sins on my back, don't want to carry anymore."
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Single Biggest Scandal Ever to Hit Catholic Church is Changes to Missile -Colbert

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New wording for the Catholic Mass is "biggest scandal over to hit the Catholic Church" in video below from November 29, 2011 Colbert Report on Comedy Central.

Stephen Colbert is youngest of 11 kids in a big Catholic family, or he would make a lot more jokes about pedophile priests, I bet...

-ke

Raw Notes? Why that title for CofA 12?

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The header at the top of City of Angels Blog in 2012 says "Raw Notes" and people may wonder why.

As I wrote this blog for four years, things went real fast. Often I’d begin work on a story, more would happen, and I’d get sidetracked, then never get back to that interview or research. Those notes full of information then languished in my files for as much as four years.

In 2011 I stopped to catch my breath and so had time to look through four years of notes. The results will be posted at CofA12 starting in January

I found in my files hundreds of stories, most with information that has never been published before about the pedophile priest crisis in the Catholic Church. So the Header for City of Angels Blog in 2012 is "Raw Notes" because next year I'm publishing all my unfinished stories from the past four years of doing City of Angels Blog, along with coverage of current events on the issue, with the unique inquisitive perspective CofA readers have come to expect.
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Catholic Scandal Much Worse than Penn State- Greta Christina on AlterNet

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Dear Greta Christina:

Thank you for your piece Child Rape, Penn State and the Catholic Church: Is Religion Especially Bad? on AlterNet.

You perceive what we victims are going through better than most writers, especially with this paragraph:

Catholic priests who were raping children weren't just seen as heroes, or as people with real-world authority and power who could improve or screw up your life. They were seen as the Earthly representatives of a perfect, all-powerful God, which made those victims far more vulnerable to their abuse.

Thanks, Greta, for writing in the 11/22/11 piece what no other news person has stated since the Penn State Sandusky Paterno story broke. The Catholic pedophile priest epidemic was much worse than Penn State, the two are not really even comparable.

I watch the current news repetetion of the day's Penn State news byte and think, why didn't anyone respond like this as thousands of pedophile priest crimes were uncovered in the past 20 years.
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-kay ebeling

Woody Allen Catholic School Girl Joke...

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"Those are the ones that are always incredible in bed, the ones who were raised in a convent."

Wonder why...



(From Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, by Woody Allen).

-Kay Ebeling

Raped in an orphanage himself, priest now imprisoned for pedophilia

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A lot of priest pedophilia was passed down through generations.

"Prosecutors said Flores' ordination was twice delayed, beginning in 2008 when he alleged he was abused years earlier in the Bolivian orphanage."

Read Questions surface in Joliet Diocese handling of priest now imprisoned for child abuse in Chicago Tribune today

Regarding: Rev. Alejandro Flores of Bolivia and Joliet, age 38, serving a four-year prison term in Illinois for criminal sexual assault.

"Flores was sent for treatment at least twice, including three months before his ordination for viewing pornography on a parish computer... images of young males engaged in sex acts... the computer's hard drive had disappeared when [police} sought it months later."

The priest said in 2008 that he was abused years earlier in the Bolivian orphanage...

"At his Sept. 8, 2010, guilty plea, Flores admitted abusing the youngest boy from 2005 to 2010, beginning when the child was 8, usually in his car or the family's St. Charles apartment. He faces deportation to Bolivia upon his release."
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Paterno a martyr for the Philadelpia Archdiocese

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Paterno is a martyr in the true Catholic sense, giving up his career and reputation to help divert attention from the Philadelphia Archdiocese upcoming criminal trials for pedophile priest crimes:

Construction continues on the Suzanne Pohland Paterno Catholic Student Faith Center in State College, adjacent to the Penn State Campus. Named in honor of Sue Paterno, wife of legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, the center will serve Catholics in the Penn State University family. Joe and Sue Paterno are honorary chairs of the Capital Campaign for the center.

Read more about the tight connection of Paterno to the Philadelphia Archdiocese at this link: http://www.ajdiocese.org/node/422 Paterno and the Catholic Church are part of the one percent of the one percent in Philadelphia.

In the current media chaos about Penn State, don't forget there is a criminal trial coming up in March in Philadelphia regarding four Catholic priests and pedophilia, and right now Catholic bishops are likely loving this diversion of our attention to another pedophile predator coverup by a powerful and adored institution.

-kay ebeling

For Philly Archdiocese, Penn State scandal timing convenient

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Does anyone else think it's strange timing that the Jerry Sandusky case is breaking now at Penn State just as the criminal trial of four priests is coming up in March or soon after in the same city?
The two news stories concern similar crimes by Penn State coaches and Philadelphia Archdiocese bishops, coverup of child sex abuse for the betterment of the institution.
Now the Penn State story will likely dominate the news while the Philadelphia priest cases go to trial...
I, with my paranoia inclining brain, think Sandusky's case is a convenient way to drown out media and public interest in the Philadelphia Archdiocese cases, which are going through pre-trial motions right now as the coaches are getting torn apart in the media... The Sandusky case even makes the priests look, well, not as bad, to the onlooker. Maybe the Church isn't so guilty, considering Penn State protected a child molester too.

I'm just wondering what conversations went on behind closed doors that may have led to Sandusky's arrest at this moment in time... Anyone have any of their own ideas?

With Sandusky, it was a case of the predator's bosses not reporting the molestation to authorities.

Sandusky ran a non-profit that gave him access to children. He named it "Second Mile" after the reference to Matthew 5:41 "If a man needs you to go a mile, you go two miles."

Wonder if someone in Philadelphia decided to prosecute this case to take attention off the priests.

Just more paranoia from my brain that tends to see plots and schemes everywhere...
Anyone have any thoughts on the Sandusky case, which as you read about it here in one of the gazillion stories in the news today about him, the similarities between the Penn State crimes and the Archdiocese are almost eerie.

If nothing else, did Sandusky develop his inclinations as an altar boy in Philadelphia by any chance?

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Added Nov. 10, 2011:

Penn State Coach Joe Paterno could be a martyr in the true Catholic sense of the word, giving up his career and reputation to help divert attention from upcoming criminal trials regarding the Philadelphia Archdiocese:

Construction continues on the Suzanne Pohland Paterno Catholic Student Faith Center in State College, adjacent to the Penn State Campus. Named in honor of Sue Paterno, wife of legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, the center will serve Catholics in the Penn State University family. Joe and Sue Paterno are honorary chairs of the Capital Campaign for the center.

Read more about the tight financial connection of Paterno to the Philadelphia Archdiocese at this link: http://www.ajdiocese.org/node/422 and

Don't forget there is a criminal trial coming up in March in Philadelphia regarding four Catholic priests and pedophilia, and the Catholic Church would love a way to divert your attention to another pedophile predator coverup by a powerful and adored institution.
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In 2012 CofA Blog will be at City of Angels 12 http://cityofangels12.blogspot.com

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In 2012 CofA Blog will be at City of Angels 12 http://cityofangels12.blogspot.com/ previews coming at that site soon.
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Imagine Truth of Pedo-Priests Coming Out in Spite of Church PR

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I am going through all the notes from 4 years of doing City of Angels Blog and finding gems, many will be posts in 2012.

In process I'm also going through the blog from the beginning in January 2007.

Just found this in April 27, 2008 post at City of Angels 4 2008.

IMAGINE: The true story comes out, including whatever the church is covering up so desperately that they allowed these pedophiles to get at us. Imagine the truth of the total damage to the victims comes out, in spite of the power of PR, pseudo-advocacy, and media control, whatever tactics the church has used, from the start, to shoot down the crime victims and keep the true felonies performed on children from ever being public.

Finding Gems

In my notes from last five years are dozens of posts that never got written, need only a few tweaks before publishing. So when City of Angels Blog returns full speed in January 2012, we will publish those gems from 2007 to 2011.

-ke
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Catch 22 for Church, early insight at City of Angels

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Just found this in a January 2008 post at City of Angels 4

Don’t sue us, says the Church, we'll pay out of court. Then only data on pedophile priests that Church counts is from lawsuits.

By Kay Ebeling, Monday, January 14, 2008

Only an omnipotent organization operating outside the law like the Catholic Church can carry out a Catch 22 like this: Archdioceses offer victims help with therapy as a way to "heal" without having to file lawsuits. Then when it cooks up its statistics on pedophile priests, the Church only counts successful lawsuits.

Catch 22.

The Jan 2008 post is here and references: "For example Sr. McNiff's chart in the LA Times, see January 8 post."

Reading my own stuff, trying to catch up with myself...
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If I am a Catholic basher, what are bishops who protect pedophile priests?

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From Wisconsin State Journal today quoting James Carroll who was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969, served s a chaplain at Boston University, then gave up the priesthood five years later. He was a self-described "radical priest"

"If I'm a Catholic basher, what are the bishops who have been protecting pedophile priests?"

Read more: In the Spirit: Ex-priest's take on matters of faith
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Ordaining Female Priests OK with Vatican

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Since they say ordaining women is "on a par with clergy abuse," the Catholic Church must think female priests are okay, as the Vatican has barely responded one way or the other about its pedophile priests. -ke

From Huffington Post story linked below:

"Last year, the Vatican made ordaining a woman one of the gravest canonical crimes, on par with sexually abusing a child."

They call both priest pedophilia and ordaining women "grave canonical crimes" but then let pedophile priests remain in the clergy. In fact, a Catholic priest has the power to forgive all crimes, so any criminal activity involving a priest is forgivable, so go ahead and start ordaining women...

Circular Reasoning
from Kay Ebeling

RE Pic at left:

From Lance's Blog:

"Designer Camelle Ilona Daley has a line of stylish clerical clothing. The picture at left of a model wearing female priestly garments provoked some controversy on Facebook. Some were offended, I saw one comment that said, "these are the END TIMES..." Some objected to female priests; others objected not to a female priest, but to this particular picture, which seems to them to be suggestive."

See Clergy Collection, fashions for the female priest, at House of Filona

Read story that sparked this blog entry at Huffington Post:

Roy Bourgeois, U.S. Priest Who Backs Women's Ordination, Detained
VATICAN CITY — A U.S. Catholic priest who supports ordination for women was detained briefly by police Monday after marching to the Vatican to press the Holy See to lift its ban on women priests. The Rev. Roy Bourgeois and about a dozen supporters had marched down the main boulevard leading to the Vatican holding a banner "Ordain Catholic Women" and chanting outside St. Peter's Square ...
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50+ year old cases filed re pedophile priest in Montreal

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Seeking justice, nothing more, two women publicize crimes of pedo-priest fifty years later.

Read about it here:

Decades later, victim of pedophile priest demands justice

From Montreal radio station CJAD.
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Eddie Murphy: Kill My Landlord from old SNL tape

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I was having SO MUCH trouble with a slumlord landlord that this performance by Eddie Murphy would run through my brain, when I started doing City of Angels Blog in 2007. Back then I could only publish the "lyrics" but today I found this video on YouTube, Eddie Murphy as Tyrone performing his poem "Images" from SNL, if anyone knows the year this performance took place, please let me know:



Kay Ebeling Email: cityofangelslady@yahoo.com reverberating...

Here are the "lyrics"

Images by Tyrone Greene
Performed by Eddie Murphy (date unknown)

Dark and lonely on a summer's night
Kill my landlord
Kill my landlord
Watchdog barking
Do he bite?
Kill my landlord
Kill my landlord
Slip in his window
Break his neck
Then his house
I start to wreck
Got no reason
What the heck
Kill my Landlord
Kill my landlord
C-I-L-L
my l a n d l o r d

EVENT: Jan 2012, Boston

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Tenth anniversary of Boston Globe stories that broke the Catholic pedophile priest scandal nationwide.

Join the die-hard demonstrators who will have been picketing there for ten years, in front of the Cathedral in Boston Sunday Jan. 8, 2012.
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Michael Baker, Child-Molesting Priest, Released From Custody

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They got rid of me, so now I'm not there to cover this:

Michael Baker, Child Molesting Priest, Released From Custody

The former priest, now 63, pleaded guilty in 2007 to 12 felony counts of oral copulation with a person under the age of 18 for abusing two boys he met at parishes in Pico Rivera and Los Angeles. Baker did not plead guilty to any sexually violent offenses when he entered his pleas four years ago and therefore cannot qualify as a sexually violent predator under state law.

Not only do the bad guys win, thanks to a court system that's broken, but bloggers like me get sabotaged so we can no longer speak.

Makes you want to ... ?
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I tried so hard and got so far

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But in the end it doesn't really matter



That's how it all ended.
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Lies Lies Lies, cries out the Bishop...

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(No, Mr. Church Attorney, I'm not blogging. But now and then I see something in the news I want to share, I won't send it out to my lists, or promote it, and that's the damage you are trying to prevent, so don't get riled up over this post...)

You may agree with what the British bishop says in the link below, but it's too late, the Catholic messenger is no longer credible:

Catholic Bishop regales USA government re 9/11 "Lies Lies Lies"

Also here is a another hypocritical tidbit from recent news stories:

Archbishop Timothy Dolan's gay bashing letter to President Obama

re the "unchangeable meaning and nature of marriage as a communion of the sexes."

As my friend who emailed me the latter included:

Matthew 7:3
And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?

Matthew 7:4
Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye.

Matthew 7:5
Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Luke 6:41
And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the plank in your own eye?

Luke 6:42
Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

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But, hey, those Scriptures are in the Bible, man, bishops and cardinals are already educated so why read the Bible, especially when they memorized it in college... Also, Catholic Church leaders have more important things to do, such as preparing for depositions, and meeting with private investigators they've hired to find ways to destroy pedophile priest victims. . .

Back into hiding I go.
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Observations on The Hague document

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I've read the Hague document and over the years I've gone to Bishop Accountability where the Database of Accused Priests lists from A to Z all ten thousand pedophile priests identified in the United States, so far.

I reeled in awe at the media coverage of SNAP at The Hague September 14th, then...

POST NOTE a few days later:

One interesting observation: nothing is new in the 84 pages of the CCR / SNAP Request for the International Criminal Court at The Hague to prosecute the Pope.

The document summarizes information that has already been reported, in news investigations and Grand Jury reports, both in the USA and other countries since 2002.

The 84-page report makes me wonder once again, what has SNAP done with all the new stories of abuse and reports of new priests that it has received, for instance, since the Pope visited New York, and SNAP put itself in the middle of all news coverage, saying it had received hundreds of new reports of clergy abuse?

Is this request to The Hague really an aggressive step to prosecute clergy sex criminals? Or is this a step that SNAP knows will not succeed, as the ICC at The Hague was created to prosecute war crimes such as genocide; and clergy sex crimes against children, while horrific and inhumane, are not really the jursidiction of the International Criminal Court?

Is this report to The Hague more damage control, another way to get the SNAP name and contact information into the news to keep SNAP in the center and in control, in Europe now, as they succeeded in doing over and over again for 20 years in the USA, while keeping any other organization from forming to do advocacy on the pedophile priest issue outside of SNAP?

I think SNAP is once again encouraging new victims to bring their stories to SNAP.

Never to be heard again.

Now in Europe, like they did in the USA.

It's eerie. SNAP certainly has bought themselves a couple years of glory and credibility with its September 14, 2011, international press blitz, but in reality, there still really is no network of support for US victims. Most of us are still isolated, cut off, and in no better place than we were ten years ago.

Several of us feel our attempts to start things on our own were beaten down and prevented by SNAP.

All the bishops are still in place, the guys at The Vatican will probably just ignore the CCR/SNAP request.

But SNAP is riding high.
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Read this work in progress on the SNAP scam here at City of Angels 2