Don Bisceliga: Class Warrior, Homosexual, Priest

Don Marco Bisceglia, the founder of the organized gay movement in Italy was a Catholic priest.

(Rome) He was a rebel, was suspended by the Church a divinis, was a supporter of the most radical enemy of the  Church, known as a homosexual and founded together with Nichi Vendola, the Communist-Green Prime Minister of Puglia from 2005 to 2015, the largest sodomy organization in Italy. When all of his ideological "friends" had left him and he was alone and gravely ill in old age, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger picked him up again. This is the in many ways tragic story of a lost priest, which is also an extraordinary story of conversion and reconciliation. It’s one of those stories that testify to God's infinite mercy, but also the horrible confusion that people and even priests can make, and the great harm they can do. The story is retold following the reconstruction of Pino Suriano.

For many who know nothing about it, it may be an absurd invention, but it is simply fact: Arcigay was founded by a priest. In fact, the most influential and numerically significant LGBT association in Italy goes back in its core to a devotee who was himself a homosexual.

It happened in Palermo in December 1980 and the then almost 60-year-old priest, who had been suspended for several years a divinis, was called Marco Bisceglia, for everyone, he was simply Don Marco. His comrades in arms and, in the following months, also a housemate, was a young conscientious objector, Nicola Vendola, called Nichi, who did his civilian service at the ARCI Social and Cultural Association, which is close to the Communist Party of Italy (KPI).

In the biography of the priest, several precipitous breaks can be seen, which are also directly related to his own lifestyle. Pino Suriano speaks of the "three lives" of Don Marco.

At the side of Communists and pro-abortion advocates

In his "first life," Don Marco Bisceglia, in the left-wing ideological current of his time, was a priest of struggle. Born in 1925 in southern Italy, Lucerne, Bisceglia, he was ordained a priest in 1963. Already during his studies, he embraced the Marxist liberation theology, especially the teachings of the unorthodox Jesuit José Maria Diez-Alegria y Gutierrez (1911-2010), who was expelled from his order. When he is entrusted with his home parish church in Lavello, Sacred Heart, he wanted to immediately go to activism. The defense of the weak is for Don Marco the actual content of evangelization. Any Catholic would immediately sign for that if it were not for a definition problem: What is meant by "weak"? Don Marco defies everything he considers unfair. His main opponent is the Catholic Church. His fight is against celibacy, real estate investments, the "rich" Church. Don Bisceglia always finds new ways to rub against the Church with his Marxist world view. He fills his church with the supporters of the Communist Party, who have so far set foot in the church of the "class enemy". In the young priest they find a political comrade. The village church as a metaphysical ally of the local party committee of the KPI.

Don Bisceglia

The comrades applaud enthusiastically whenever Don Marco publicly and vociferously emphasizes his opposition to the Church. It was not long before the differences with his bishop are getting bigger and bigger. Not only because of the politicizing ideas of the young priest, but also because of his urge for action. With the revolution of 1968, Don Bisceglia becomes the organizer and center of workers' strikes. Political forms of struggle that also bring him into conflict with the law. On September 30, 1974, after several calls and personal talks to reconsider his positions and reduce his activism, he is deposed by Bishop Giuseppe Vairo as Pastor of Lavello. The bishop had good reasons for his drastic decision. He was responsible, as the chief shepherd, to protect the herd from confusion, for among them was a wolf who drifted about in the robes of a priest.

The "revolutionary" way

Don Marco Bisceglia had become a class-warrior on the side of the Communists and on the side of the feminists as a pro-abortion advocate. He joined the Radical Party, a radical liberal anti-Catholic movement and supported its socio-political struggle for the legalization of the murder of unborn children and for the sexual revolution. He had converted his parish house in Lavello into the local seat of the referendum committees for abortion and divorce. In order to support his ideological comrades elsewhere and to be able to fight the "imperialist" and "repressive" forces such as the state and the Church, he was increasingly absent from his parish, instead of fulfilling his priestly duty there. The bishop, in his deposition decree, wrote that Don Bisceglia had taken a "revolutionary" path that led to an "open break with the bishop."

The Communist Party did not abandon its ally. It mobilized, without appearing directly itself, through its open and underground channels, the media public. Lavello was soon besieged by reporters and correspondents from Italy's most important daily and weekly newspapers, and some from further afield. In the town itself, the non-communist believers had long been marginalized in the institutional parish. The companions flocked to "their" pastor and rose against the bishop's deposition decree onto the barricades. Don Marco and his red sheep occupied the church. On the facade of the church a banner in the best communist style of militancy was installed: "The Church belongs to the people". The pastor of Lavello became an Italy-wide case. The left immediately expressed solidarity with the "people's priest" and his "people" against the bishop and the "official Church".

"First Homosexual Marriage" in the history of Italy

But that wasn’t enough. A few days before the publication of the suspension decree, Don Marco took a step that became even more of a stumbling block and would be discussed for years to come. He celebrated what was to be the "first homosexual marriage" in Italian history. One day, of course not coincidentally in Lavello, two homosexuals presented themselves and wanted to be married ecclesiastically. Don Bisceglia was immediately on hand to manipulate Catholic doctrine and ecclesiastical order and to give the two men a straightforward lie: "Your marriage is already a sacrament before God," was how the priest explained his view of things.

Don Marco Bisceglia 1981: Activist for ArciGay and other "progressive" forces

But the two men were not really a homosexual, but the two journalists Bartolomeo Baldi and Franco Iappelli of the Conservative Monday magazine Il Borghese, publish Don Bisceglia’s idiosyncratic attitude towards the Catholic doctrine in great detail. On May 9, 1975, the bishop takes further action. Don Marco is suspended a divinis, banning him from practicing his priesthood.

This is clear after a long period of confusion clarity. Above all, it leads to a clear dividing line for the Catholic faithful. For Bisceglia, of course, a decision of the Church hierarchy he opposed is not a drama, so everything goes on as before. He celebrates Mass and other liturgies, offers the sacraments and proclaims the word of God. Of course it was a brand self-made a lá Marco Bisceglia. However, the connection with the faithful becomes weaker. The Communists needed him for their fight, many believers avoided him in  the neighboring villages. Now others stayed away, more and more.

The first time after the "church occupation" the church of Lavello was full. The zeitgeist seemed to inflate the sails of the deposed pastor. It would be a short straw fire. The full church became an empty church. The contrast is documented by photos. The photo of the last Mass celebrated by Don Marco in Lavello on April 25, 1978 shows him in front of a handful of old women, surrounded by a cordon of Carabinieri and police officers. Of course Bisceglia would not be Bisceglia if he had not chosen a political act for this last act as a "pastor". April 25 is the leftists’ holiday par excellence in Italy. On this day, against the background of a transfigured-distorted view of history, the "liberation of Italy from Nazi fascism" is celebrated. It is an event successfully usurped by Red Partisans.

A priest as a candidate of the most anti-Church party

Don Marco was now alone, without work, without a recognizable future and above all with a completely broken relationship to the Catholic Church. An "unemployed" man looking for a new home. He could not make the leap over his own shadow. He continued to talk about himself. That seemsed important to him. He wanted to change the world. According to his mind. On the 3rd of June 1979 parliamentary elections took place. The killing of unborn children had just been made a law in the previous year. Just a few months before election day, Marco Pannella, the old comrade in charge of free sex and feminist emancipation, announced  his opposition to the unresolved dichotomy that has been feigned for decades at the expense of women's reconciliation. Pannella offers the clearly underemployed ex-pastor a new field of activity. Bisceglia is to run for the Radical Party. Don Marco agrees. For Pannella a euphorically celebrated triumph: a Catholic priest as a candidate on the list of the most anti-Church party. "If you want to be free, you have to be heretical. Personally, I can not help but be one of their own ", with these words Bisceglia justified his candidacy for the radicals. His name on the list provides a forum for discussion and gives the list media attention. For Don Marco, however, the preferential votes are not enough to make the leap into parliament. As before, for the Communists, Bisceglia, as a priest, was a welcome sign to the radicals for their political struggle, but nothing more than that.

In those months when the suspended priest was active for the radicals, he met in Enrico Menduni in Rome who from 1978 to 1983 was ARCI chairman, the "classic" among the left-wing cultural associations of Italy. Menduni offers Bisceglia to take care of the organizational part of the civil rights department. This can be described as the "birth" of the LGBT organization ArciGay. And the idea for the organization including "copyright" lay with Marco Bisceglia. The official foundation was not until 1985, but on the page of ArciGay one can read:

"The first group of Arci-Gay emerged on an informal basis on 9 December 1980 in Palermo due to an idea by Don Marco Bisceglia, Catholic priest of contradiction."

For years, Bisceglia had been hanging around homosexual circles. In 1982 he was written about for his homosexuality with an article in the weekly magazine Europeo, it sounded like everyone knew about it anyway. The connection between his sexual, political and anti-Catholic confusion thus became obvious to many observers.

 Living with Nichi Vendola

"There are gay priests, but only one has declared himself publicly," wrote the Europeo. And this one was Marco Bisceglia. The friendship and the cohabitation  with Nichi Vendola goes back to that time in the 80s, whom Don Marco repeatedly referred to as a "teacher". For a few months they lived in Monte Porzio Catone in Bisceglia’s home. In 2005, Vendola, a member of an old communist party, was elected head of a left-wing alliance to head Puglia.

1985: Presentation of the new homo organization ArciGay. Bisceglia (2nd from the left), Vendola (2nd from the left)

The ARCI has been experiencing difficulties for some time, and the ex-pastor and ex-priest, as he was then called, quietly separated from the left showpiece club, or the former pastor separated. It did not come to an open break. The exact reasons of distancing can not be exactly reconstructed. So while his invention ArciGay flourished, he was quiet about the idea. So quiet that the traces of Bisceglia are lost. The years when the journalists ran after him were over. Now no one was interested in what had become of him.

If you know by now, it was because Rocco Pezzano was looking for clues. In 1987, Bisceglia was already far away from ArciGay. From his letters it can be seen that he was still in Monte Porzio Catone, where he had lodged a young homosexual named Dadi, who had come from the new mass immigration to Western Europe from Algeria to Italy. Pino Suriano interprets Bisceglia's correspondence with friends as a new phase in his life. A new "liberation" that he no longer sought in struggle and in an organization, but in the interpersonal relationship and in friendships.

AIDS and a new life

In the first half of the 90s, one day the phone rang in the parish of San Cleto in Rome. At one end of the line is Father Paolo Bosetti, the pastor of the Roman suburban parish. At the other end Msgr. Luigi Di Liegro, the founder of the diocesan Caritas of Rome. The Monsignor asks the pastor to accept a priest who has the “heavy burden": AIDS. "What should we do?" Asked the pastor. "Just do him good," replied the Monsignor. That's the way it should be. Receding from his political struggles and withdrawn from his sexual antics, Don Marco had taken himself to the terminus faster than he thought. Now begins a new life for Don Bisceglia, which he leads with the priests of the Congregatio Iesu Sacerdotis, who look after this newly established parish in Rome. There were few words, a lot of free time, and no obligations in the parish.

The days pass slowly, but it is a new beginning. After decades, the day moves back in order, with Lauds, Holy Mass and fixed mealtimes. Bisceglia begins to address fundamental questions, starting with what the priesthood is and what he is. He reads for the first time the counciliar decree, Presbyterorum Ordinis. Then also Optatam Totius for priestly training. He reads daily in the Holy Scriptures. And he reads it now with different eyes. He questions himself, as a human being and as a priest. His past is known to all. He does not talk about it. Only once did he say nothing to Father Paolo, but to distance himself from his past.

Application to Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

His life at the side of other priests makes him want to celebrate the Holy Mass again. It has been 19 years since his ecclesiastical punishment and another eleven years have passed since he last unlawfully celebrated it. At some point he had stopped. The inner contradiction had become too big.

The priests advise on it. They want to rule out that it is only a momentary mood. The question is therefore deepened. The suspension a divinis is already in the way. After a long time, the Cardinal Vicar of Rome informs Ugo Poletti, who then represented Pope John Paul II as Bishop of Rome. The answer is: There must be an appropriate request. Don Marco picks up paper and pen and formulates a petition to be addressed to the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. At that time, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, for many years the enemy of the paramilitary per se for the pink-deep red militant activist Bisceglia.

Finally comes the answer: The suspension a divinis is canceled. A few days later, Don Marco writes to his sister Anita:

"I am aware of my unworthiness as I sincerely and confidently hope for the forgiveness of God and his purifying and renewing action. I hope with his help to be able to make up for my mistakes and aberrations.”

He sent this letter from Loreto. Father Bosetti remembers:

"If one begins again with the celebration of the Eucharist, which is the body of Christ, one can not do so without reconciliation.”

On the day of the "first" Mass that Don Marco is allowed to celebrate again, a delegation from the priest's home diocese would arrive, led by Bishop Vincenzo Cozzi. A delegation of the local church that Don Marco rebelled against and resisted. Before Don Marco celebrated Holy Mass again, "the most beautiful day" of his life, as he would say, the bishop embraced him. It was a day that became visible proof that no past can prevail over the present, that conflicts, aberrations, and reservations are real facts, but not predominant. For where remorse and forgiveness are, there is also reconciliation.

"I was dead and raised to new life"

The last years of his earthly life were hard but intense. The life of an AIDS patient is full of challenges, numerous visits, many hospitalizations. However, Don Marco experiences this time in "inner peace", as companions of this last phase of life report. It is a calm  that will strengthen other patients. Vittorio Fratini would ask Don Marco where he takes this pleasure from. The answer would impress him deeply:

"Remember, I was dead and I came to life again".

Don Marco Bisceglia dies on 22 July 2001. It is a day that should go down in Italy's history as a "day of conflict."

The political left mobilized to protest against the G8 summit in Genoa, which degenerated into violent action by left-wing extremist groups. On this day, when his former comrades continued their struggle, Don Bisceglia, far from this struggle that was no longer his own, is reconciled to God and to the Church. He was buried in the cemetery of Lavello, in the priest's cemetary.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi

Pictures: Tempi / Wikicommons / Wikipink (Screenshots)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Guatemalan President Rejects Aberromarriage and Abortion

Guatemala's head of state and government says yes to marriage, family, life and parental rights.

(Guatemala) Guatemala President Jimmy Morales affirmed his clear rejection of abortion and "gay marriage".

The head of state and government in office since 2016 also announced his full support for a bill to punish abortion more severely.

The president declared:

"Guatemala and our government believe in life and believe in the family based on the marriage between a man and a woman."

The bill criminalizes any killing of an unborn baby, except for therapeutic abortion when the mother's life is in danger. Whoever promotes, enables or participates in abortion directly or indirectly should be punished. The sentence provides for up to ten years imprisonment.

At the same time, the bill prohibits the introduction of "gay marriage".

President Morales also emphasized the desire to strengthen parental rights. The parents should have the freedom to decide in the field of sexual morality, the education of their children. He thus rejected scholastic "sex education programs" and gender ideology.

Jimmy Morales is an evangelical Christian. In 2015, he entered the presidential election as an outsider and managed completely surprisingly the entry into the runoff election, which he could decide with 68 percent for themselves.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi

Image: Corrispondenza Romana

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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David Yallop Dies — Author is Sensational Book on Death of John Paul I

David Yallop, author of "In the Name of God?" Died in London: his style of sensationalism was primarily sales-driven but less was it truth-oriented.

(Wellington) On August 31, British writer David Yallop died in London.

This was announced by his family in a press release. Yallop was 81 years old. In the last years of his life he suffered from Alzheimer’s disease according to the family.

Yallop became known through investigative books on unresolved or not-so-clear criminal cases. As a screenwriter, he worked for the British comedy group Monty Python, among others.

Yallop book: In the name of God?

In 1984 he published the book “In God's Name,” which in the same year under the title “In the Name of God?”also appeared in German edition. Translations into other languages ​​followed. The theme of the book is the surprising death of Pope John Paul I, who was elected Pope in 1978, but only ruled for 33 days.

Yallop disseminated various hypotheses in his book that differed from the official statement of the Vatican, including that the Pope had been assassinated.

Through the sensational but fictitious claim that John Paul I was poisoned, the book became a "bestseller" and consolidated in the collective consciousness of a generation long before Dan Brown, the cliché of the Vatican, secrets, intrigues, and murder.

The irregular Masonic Lodge P2 (Propaganda 2) played a central role, which led to varied speculation about fantastic conspiracy theories in Italy for 30 years. Fantasies that were fostered mainly by the then oppositional left against their political opponents. Even though prosecutors, courts, and parliamentary committees of inquiry also dealt with the lodges banned in 1982 by the state, this all produced little more than paper mountains and hot air. The excessive exaggeration rather missed the opportunity - or prevented - seriously illuminating the role of Freemasonry.

Licio Gelli (1919-2015)

After all, it became known that Propaganda 2 was a conspiracy of businessmen who wanted to make money above all else, and who tried to make things more interesting and important through the outward form of a lodge.

At the level of justice, there was only one relevant consequence in the end: the founder and President of Lodge P2, Licio Gelli, was sentenced in 1994 to 12 years in prison for the fraudulent bankruptcy of Banco Ambrosiano. In 2015 Gelli died at the age of 96 in his villa in Arezzo.

Yallop, who described himself as a "Catholic agnostic", took up the theme of the Catholic Church again in 2007. At that time he published a book on the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, but could not approximate the success of "In the name of God?".

Text: Giuseppe Nardi

Image: Youtube / Wikicommons / MiL

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Vatican Hopes to Wait Out the Viganò Dossier

Parolin: There is "unrest" in the Vatican

August 31, 2018 0

The Vatican is full of sadness and unrest. The Viganò dossier shakes the current pontificate and the next storms are already gathering together.

(Rome) In the Vatican, the dossier of the former Apostolic Nuncio Carlo Maria Viganò is obviously irritating. It is recognizable by contradictory reactions. Obviously, there is no real strategy on how to deal with it. The minimalist counter-strategy is: ignore and sit out. A strategy that is not lacking in explosiveness, because in the past, sexual abuse allegations have often been addressed in the same way.

Pope not distressed, Avvenire

 

First, the Italian news agency ANSA reported on Monday night that Pope Francis was "saddened" by the dossier, but not thinking of resigning. A resignation request had been linked by Archbishop Viganò with the publication of the dossier. ANSA did not name a specific source but merely "collaborator" of the Pope. There is, however, no reasonable doubt that the information was not from the immediate circle of the Pope and that their publication was intentional at that time.
On Tuesday, however, two journalists very close to the Pope reported the opposite in Avvenire, the daily newspaper of the Italian Episcopal Conference:

"Pope Francis is not sad about the Viganò letter".

And further:

"The personages over of Francis's reaction to the dossier of the former nuncio demanding his resignation were denied."

As in earlier moments of this pontificate, one source of the Vatican denied another, and the same immediately.
 
According to Avvenire , "the Pope works as usual". An assertion to the contrary of "a press agency" was described by the bishops' newspaper as "machination" and "vulgarity." Even Avvenire noted only "credible Vatican sources", but no specific names.
 
Regardless, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke responded to journalist questions with a sneaky counter-question:

"Did the Pope seem sad on Sunday evening on the plane? I ask you …"

So much for the aspect of papal affliction. On the more explosive aspect, Avenire did not deny the ANSA report on Curial Archbishop Viganò's demand for resignation. That the pope does not think of resignation corresponds to the facts.
 
Aldo Maria Valli, long-time Vaticanist of the RAI, who supports his colleague Marco Tosatti on the Viganò dossier, published an interview on Tuesday with Nuncio Viganò. He defended himself against harsh criticism from the papal circle, which cast doubt on his motivations and credibility.

"I'm not acting for revenge. I just want the truth to come to light."

In the interview, Viganò said even more:

"I was talking because corruption has now reached the top of the Church hierarchy. Turning to the journalists, why do not they ask what has become of the document box that - we all saw it - was handed over to Pope Francis by Pope Benedict on Castel Gandolfo? Was everything in vain?"

In fact, filming in March 2013 showed how the recently retired Benedict XVI. at the first meeting with Pope Francis he handed over a whole box of documents to him. At that time, the Vatican media attached great importance to showing a harmonious relationship between the two church leaders, which is why masses of pictures were distributed by both popes. It was not announced what the two discussed.
 
Yesterday, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin spoke on the Viganò dossier.

"The pope is calm," the headline of Vatican Insider in direct speech, but "in the Vatican sorrow and unrest prevails."
 
The Cardinal Secretary of State thus ironed out the conflicting reports of the previous day. It grieves, but it is not the Pope who is sad, but employees in the Vatican. The dossier of the former nuncio in the USA had caused "great pain", but not Francis, according to Parolin, but "with the collaborators of Francis".
 
The Cardinal endeavored to give the impression that everything was going its usual course. The conversation with Vatican Insider took place on the outset of a reception in one of the courtyards of the Vatican Museums with "typical Mexican food and Mexican music".
 
If one reads the statements Parolin more accurately, they do not quite say what the title claims. Literally, the Secretary of State said:

"I have seen a statement from the Vatican press office saying that the pope is calm. What I have seen (these days I was traveling with him to Ireland and beyond), he seems calm."

So Parolin did not want to confirm this serenity. Next he said:

"The Pope is a great mercy, even in the face of such things that, of course, cause so much sadness and unrest. But he has an ability to be very serene."

The Cardinal Secretary of State did not want to comment on the case of Archbishop Viganò:

"Compared to such things it is only possible to express the pain, great pain. I hope that we all work in search of truth and justice, that these are the points of reference of our actions and not others. Of course, the matter is by no means alarming."

In response to explicit demand from Vatican Insider, the Secretary of State refused to comment on the contents of the Viganò dossier:

"It's better not to go into details about these things. I repeat what the Pope said: Read it yourself and form your judgment. The text speaks for itself. "

Voices surrounding the allegations, they are very "alarming." The refusal to even attempt to refute them raises new questions. With this sentence cited by Parolin, formulated on the return flight on Sunday evening from Ireland, Francis once more followed his strategy of avoiding unpleasant questions by a non-response. The fact that the Cardinal Secretary of State has also repeated this sentence confirms how much the bomb of the Viganò dossier shakes the current pontificate. The counter-strategy is to ignore and it sit out. Ironically, this is the strategy that has been too often used by the Church to respond to sexual abuse allegations.  

Meanwhile, the next storm is already brewing. Archbishop Viganò accuses Francis of having been informed of Cardinal McCarrick's depravity and yet remaining silent. Meanwhile, Francis is accused of having said nothing on Nicaragua. It is about a similar case: a gay double life and sexual relations of a bishop with his own seminarians and subordinates.
 
The signs are pointing to storm, and it seems to be the "homo-heresy" that shakes up this pontificate.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Vatican Insider / Avvenire / ANSA (Screenshots)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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The case of Julio Cesar Grassi -- Cardinal Bergoglio Refused to See the Victims to Protect them From Murder Threats

August 31, 2018 0

Jullio Cesar Grassi: sexual abuse case in Argentina

by Antonio Tortillatapa
 
The case of Julio César Grassi has been holding Argentina under his spell for 25 years now.
Julio César Grassi (born 1956) was ordained a priest in 1981. As part of Liberation Theology and post-conciliar, humanitarian social engagement, he was particularly involved in social work and "pastoral accompaniment" for poor children and disabled people from deprived backgrounds in Argentina.
 
The decade-long economic decline of Argentina, the political turmoil, the impoverishment of large parts of the population and the chronic recurrent disappointed hopes with deep frustration of the poor population strata, formed an excellent [hunting] ground for the activities of Grassi.
 
Under Grassi's leadership, a large complex of social welfare institutions and homes for the care and support of children and adolescents from precarious conditions emerged.
 
Grassi promoted everything with a great media hype through television and radio, with publications and with very complex and opaque financial transactions.
 
Grassi excelled in tying politicians and wealthy, well-known personalities to his activities and facilities. Especially in the Peronist milieu (or in the political leadership caste of Peronism at the end of the 20th century), he found many sympathizers.
 
At the same time, his ability to raise funds for his facilities was very great, and he became widely known through television appearances.
 
One focus was the establishment of Felices Los Ninos ("Happy Children") for children and adolescents with problems.
 
The center of activities was the Argentine diocese of Morón, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires.
 
In 1992, a lawsuit was filed against Grassi on behalf of children and adolescents at the Felices los Ninos in a local court.

The case was not pursued and the proceedings suppressed.

In 1995, the world public was shaken by many cases of severe and widespread and institutionalized sexual abuse of children and wards in the Catholic Church in North America.
 
Pope John Paul II wrote extensively to the bishops of North America.

At the same time, the sexual abuse of children and the disabled in Church institutions in Belgium came to light, in addition to abstruse advertising for pedophilia in local diocesan newspapers and religious books (affair Barzin , affair Roeach3 , case Anneke ).
 
At the turn of the millennium, the tremendous extent of child abuse was perceived in the ecclesial context of Western Europe and North America; it was discussed in great detail in the media.
The Church establishment responded in 2005 mainly with cover-up, beautification, attempts at deescalation and slick financial compensation.
 
The number of trials became Legion, the convictions increased rapidly and the compensation payments reached astronomical heights in the US.
 
In 2002, the Argentine TV station Telenoche reported in a sensational report that a lawsuit had been filed against Grassi for pedophile abuse.
 
The news struck like a bomb: huge popular upheaval, broad media interest, loud defiance of Grassi, and spirited complaints from angry family members.
 
Anticlerical resentments, clerical protective reflexes, competition between media holdings, financial irregularities and political fronts additionally colored the Grassi case: a victim was very fiercely defended by a protagonist of the Montoneros (left-wing Peronists); at the same time, much of the Peronist nomenklatura was associated with the omnipresent Grassi on television.

Extensive police and financial investigations took place.
 
The complaints were examined very carefully; especially the cases "Gabriel", "Ezequiel" and "Luis" were very stressful.

The sealed-off structures of the facilities were screened, tons of little Christian material came to light, many co-workers testified, and not least the horrendous financial mismanagement and embezzlement came to light.
 
Grassi defended himself in a very strange way:

He did not respond to the allegations and substantiated very hard-backed complaints with exhaustive, substantive evidence and evidence, but threatened with very expensive lawyers, attacked the victims loudly, tingled through radio and television stations and railed against a media extermination campaign by the Argentine press group Clarin against him (Grassi) and his private broadcaster.
Grassi refused to comply with a subpoena in court, became fleeting and also gave an interview with the radio before the camera.
 
The matter escalated: In 2003 there were threats and attacks with firearms on witnesses and claimants.

The Grassi case has now become nationally known.

The Argentine episcopate was already aware of the explosive nature of the Grassi affair in 2003: the responsible Bishop of Morón, Justo Oscar Laguna, had immediately forwarded the case to the next higher instance, the Archbishopric of Buenos Aires, given the complexity of the case and the manifold additional interests.
 
The victims and the witnesses, intimidated and threatened with firearms, asked Cardinal Bergoglio, then archbishop of Buenos Aires, for a meeting to stop the attacks on the victims and the witnesses.
 The request for a conversation was denied.
 
By contrast, the plaintiffs and the witnesses were able to raise their concerns with Monsignor Justo Oscar Laguna (1929-2011), Bishop of Morón (1980-2004) and former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner.
 
From various sides much pressure was exerted on the judicial organs.

On 10 June 2009, the Tribunal N ° 1 of Morón sentenced Don Julio Cesar Grassi to 15 years' imprisonment for sexual abuse of minors and corruption.
 
In September 2010, the Second Chamber of the Court of Cassation of the Province of Buenos Aires rejected all appeals against this verdict.
 
On 27 November 2012, the Supreme Court rejected all recourses and confirmed in January 2013, the first instance imprisonment of 15 years.
 
However, Grassi then remained on the loose for a long time for unclear reasons.
 
He was arrested only on 23 September 2013 (according to the 2 + 1 rule in force in Argentina - the period of pre-trial detention is double and is counted towards the sentence - he would have been released in 2018).
 
In 2016, Grassi was sentenced to another 15 years in prison for financial fraud and tax evasion.
Theoretically, Grassi will remain in custody until 2033.

By the way: the word misericordia (mercy) did not even fit in this context.
 
Sources:

• Wikipedia (Spanish edition): Julio César Grassi
• Federico Fahsbender: Cuatro libros encargados por el papa aseguran que el padre grassi es inocente.
• «Caso Grassi: la causa que desvela al papa Francisco» . Infobae

Text: Antonio Tortillatapa
Image: Wikicommons / InfoCatolica
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Russian clergy pay highest blood toll in world history Stalin: 800,000 executions in just under 16 months

August 30, 2018 

Stalin

Destruction of Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow under Stalin 1931

"The massacres of Stalin's 'Great Terror' in 1937/1938 may not have constituted a genocide in the technical sense, at least according to the restrictive definition given to it by the UN under pressure from the Soviet Union. But one can probably say that there was a genocidal action, at least against the clergy. "This statement is made by Nicolas Werth in his 2009 book L'Ivrogne et la Marchande de Fleurs: Autopsie d'un Meutre de Masse, 2011 in Italian, but has not yet appeared in a German edition.

The French historian Nicolas Werth is internationally regarded as one of the best explicators of the history of the Soviet Union and the political violence practiced there. Werth, whose German-born grandparents fled to England before the October Revolution, used a large amount of previously unpublished documents from Soviet archives for his book..

Nicolas Werth: Stalin arrested and executed 90 percent of the priests

"In less than 16 months, one and a half million people were arrested and around 800,000 executions were carried out. It was a true process of 'prophylactic cleansing' of society as a whole, not just certain elites. This was the radical climax of a whole series of measures that had been taken since the time of Lenin. The Soviet world should be purged of any real or potential opponent of the only accepted opinion and the new integrated society.”

Werth shows that Stalin is directly responsible for this genocide, and who was above all in the crosshairs of the communist dictator. "First, the clergy. 90 percent of the priests were arrested and executed. Then the former members of the revolutionary socialists, the Trotskyists, were to be named as the main competitors of the Bolsheviks. "Systematically, victims also became common criminals, homeless and socially excluded, the elites of the Tsarist empire, the free peasants and the Poles. "Stalin managed to portray all these groups as potential members of a 'fifth column' of enemies, spies and rebellious."

In an interview with the Catholic daily Avvenire, Werth stated: "Various documents prove the determined will to put an end to the clergy once and for all. For this reason, too, it is almost paradoxical that in the immediately following years of World War II, the 'patriotic war' of propaganda, Stalin will try to exploit the remaining 10 percent of the clergy and bring them into his sphere of influence. The dictator was greatly impressed by the results of the 1937 census, in which 57 percent of the population still believed. It is unlikely that the Church was a direct threat to the regime. But Stalin, more than ever, perceived them as the last organized, non-regime-controlled institution.”

Text: Giuseppe Nardi

Image: Wikicommons

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Stevie Ray Abandons Pizza U

Edit: Stevie Ray just can't unequivocally support this pope like the Neocon establicons of Ave Maria.

The President of Ave Maria just can’t handle Vignanò’s criticism of the Bishop of Rome!


Der Wanderer has been critical of Pizza U since it tried to become lamestream in its move to Florida. Why did it take Steve Ray so long? Does his Apologetics hat no longer confer magic powers?
A reliable reader, TR, sends me this.

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"Viganò, Viganò" Shouted From the Crowd at the General Audience Today

(Rome) There was an incident at today's general audience in St. Peter's Square. A group of the faithful called out, "Viganò, Viganò".
 
The leftist Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano reported the episode and documented the incident with a video. The report was written by journalist Francesco Antonio Grana, a Bergoglian:

"At the end of the general audience today, Wednesday, a group of faithful joined the chorus, Viganò, Viganò '. A clear tribute to the former Apostolic Nuncio in Washington, Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò, who recently called for Bergoglio's resignation."

Certain media, notably the New York Times, attempted to downplay the implications of the Viganò memorandum and cast doubt on the credibility of the former top diplomat of the Holy See, speaking of an intrigue of "ultra-conservative" circles against the "good" pope. In the same style an attempt was made to reinterpret the protest of the faithful in St. Peter's Square. The believers called not "Viganò" but "Italo," referring to Bishop Italo Castellani of Lucca in Tuscany, who had attended the general audience with the names of his diocese.
 
The reality in Rome is so different now that the dossier of the former nuncio in the US has rocked Santa Marta like no other document in the past five years.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Vatican.va
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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The Price of Modernism is Paid for by Innocent Men

[Catholic Herald] Every Priest’s nightmare just happened, and it’s a story of what’s happening with this media-orchestrated pogrom being built up against Catholics by the fourth estate and it’s masters.  For those of you clamouring for more secular control, don’t imagine there will be less corruption and sexual abuse.  In this case, a Byzantine Catholic priest was attacked on Monday in the sacristy of his church in Merrilville, Indiana by an anonymous thug...

The priest, Father Basil Hutsko, suffered a concussion in the attack at St Michael Church, and the extent of his injuries is currently unknown.

The illusive attacker approached Fr Hutsko from behind, and choked him unconscious, according to Fr Thomas Loya, director of the Respect Life Office for the Byzantine Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Parma, Ohio, and a member of the eparchy’s presbyteral council.

In a Facebook posting after the attack, Fr Loya said, “The attacker choked him and slammed his head to the ground. Father Basil lost consciousness. Before going unconscious, Fr Basil heard the attacker say, ‘This is for all the kids!'” – a reference to clergy sex abuse scandals that have resurfaced in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

Hutsko, who is in his 60s, is not suspected of any abuse, Fr Loya told Catholic News Service in an August 21st telephone interview.

Fr Loya said Fr Hutsko was alone in the church after having finished the morning liturgy at the time of the attack. The assailant “must have been pretty strong, because Fr Hutsko is a pretty healthy, strong guy,” he added. The attacker wore gloves, Fr Loya noted. “He was smart enough to not leave any fingerprints.”

Father Loya said, “All clergy now have to be vigilant. Not paranoid, but vigilant,” he added. “It’s time to witness.”

Perhaps we also need to be more vigilant before we uncritically air narratives concocted by self-serving journos like the opprotunistic Rod Dreher, the editors of media giants like the New York Times and the Boston Glob?

Kreuznet was fond of saying that those who write these legends reap shattered stain glass, burning churches and murdered priests. 

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Archbishop Vignanò Implicates Aberrosexual Enablers +++Cocco and ++Paglia

Edit: this just came in my email box. I will help disseminate it.

Update: Marco Tossati apparently helped Vignanò write his statement. Thanks Canon212.

For Immediate Release

In Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s statement, he also implicated Cardinal Coccopalmero, former President of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Text.

As far as the Roman Curia is concerned, for the moment I will stop here, even if the names of other  prelates in the Vatican are well known, even some very close to Pope Francis, such as Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio and Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, who belong to the homosexual current in favor of subverting Catholic doctrine on homosexuality. . . (page 5 Vigano’s 11-page letter)

However, Mary’s Advocates’ knows that Cdl. Coccopalmerio is doing more than subverting Catholic doctrine on homosexuality. He’s subverting the Catholic Doctrine on separation of spouses and divorce.  With the non-profit organization Mary’s Advocates, I work to reduce unilateral no-fault divorce.  I’ve found proof going back to the council of Trent in 1563, that the Catholic Church was never supposed to relegate to the government forum the authority to judge the obligations of spouses toward each other and their children in cases of separation of spouses, civil divorce, or annulment. 

I found that In the entire world, those with Catholic marriage are required to get the bishop’s permission before filing in the civil forum for legal separation, civil divorce, or any court orders resulting in separation. The requirement is only waived if one’s territory’s bishop waived it with approved particular Church legislation.  In the United States, particular law was enacted in the late 1800’s (that is still in effect) that further states that if a spouse files in the civil forum without the bishop’s permission, that person incurs grave guilt and is to be punished by the judgement of the bishop. See Art. 126 of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. These particular penal laws put into effect by the US bishops’ conference were not abrogated by the 1917 Code of Canon Law or the 1983. Those codes abrogated old penal laws applicable to the whole world, but not those applicable to a particular territory.

Cardinal Coccopalmerio turned that doctrine upside down in a personal opinion he mailed to a bishop sent on the letter-head of the Pontifical Council. He posted his opinion on the Pontifical Council’s website too.  He says in the entire world everyone is free to file in the civil forum for divorce or legal separation without the bishop’s permission unless one’s territory’s bishop enacted particular Church legislation creating requirement, or the bishops have treaty with the civil government in which the government agrees to require the bishop’s permission first (i.e. concordat).

I wrote the Cardinal myself shortly after learning of his unauthorized overhaul of canon law (see article here). 

Presently Mary’s Advocate has a case pending at the Signatura about the confusion caused by Cdl Coccopalmerio on this issue (see article here).  A 9-page summary of my research findings is available here that has 100 pages of exhibits of original sources.  

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Archbishop Vignanò Defends Himself

Edit: is it any wonder that creatures like Mark Shea have attacked Vignanò, who was himself no traditionalist. His loyalties to Benedict were certainly in question, since he fueled the fires of speculation on the Vatileaks which led to the Pope’s administrative neutering and eventual resignation.

Vox makes some remarks, and one of Vignanò’s colleagues defends him as a man of inestimable character and talent, who tried to root out these evils as the supervisor of all Nuncios in the Office of the Governorate  prior to being demoted to the USA.

Bishop Olmsted also defends him, saying those who cover for predators like Archbishop McCarrick, should be dealt with.

ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - A former papal nuncio is defending himself in the face of accusations impugning his integrity.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former apostolic nuncio to the United States, who published explosive testimony Sunday alleging Pope Francis covered for homosexual predator Abp. Theodore McCarrick, issued a two-page statement Monday responding to charges that he thwarted a sex abuse investigation in 2015.

"These accusations — alleging that I ordered the two Auxiliary Bishops of Minneapolis to close the investigation into the life of Archbishop John C. Nienstedt — are false," he wrote.

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Pope Recommends Psychotherapy for Homosexual Children

Pope Francis: Especially in childhood psychiatry can achieve a lot in this area

 UPDATE: The Vatican did not include these papal statements in the official transcript of the interview (Suggesting treatment of children sexually abused by Daneels’ friends?

He even had psychotherapy himself.

Anyway, how does anyone, much less a child, *know* he’s a “homosexual”. Is it because he’s merely eccentric, or is perceived that way because some of his behaviors fit cultural stereotypes? It sounds like marketing for depravity to me.

 Vatican (kath.net) When parents realize that one of their children is showing homosexual inclinations, they should send that child to the psychiatrist for therapy. Especially in childhood, psychiatry can achieve a lot here. Pope Francis said this at the press conference on the return flight from the World Family Meeting in Ireland."N-TV"reported this. Specifically, he would advise parents to "pray, not condemn, conduct conversations, understand, and give a place to the son or daughter," the Pope explained. However, he does not regard "silence" as an antidote. The Pope described it as a "lack of fatherliness or motherliness if one ignores one's child" when it shows homosexual tendencies. 

 Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com 

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Former Nuncio to USA Asks Pope Francis to Resign for Enabling and Covering for High Ranking Progressive Sex Predators

ROME, August 25, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — What you are about to read is an explosive testimony of the former apostolic nuncio to the United States, implicating Pope Francis and several senior prelates in covering up Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s alleged sexual abuse of seminarians and priests.

In an extraordinary 11-page written statement (see official English text below), Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 77, claims that Pope Francis knew about strict canonical sanctions imposed on McCarrick by Pope Benedict XVI but chose to repeal them.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò at the Rome Life Forum on May 18, 2018. Steve Jalsevac / LifeSiteNews

In his testimony, dated August 22, Archbishop Viganò, who served as apostolic nuncio in Washington D.C. from 2011-2016, states that in the late 2000s, Benedict had “imposed on Cardinal McCarrick sanctions similar to those now imposed on him by Pope Francis,” and that Viganò personally spoke with Francis about the gravity of McCarrick’s abuse soon after his election in 2013.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-us-nuncio-pope-francis-knew-of-mccarricks-misdeeds-repealed-sanction

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Vengeful Father Attacks Predator Protestant Youth Minister in Court

Edit: I just want to take this opportunity it to challenge the Church’s teaching on clerical celibacy. It’s such a stumbling block! 

[IFR] While attending the sentence hearing for Donald Biggs, a former youth pastor who admitted to sexual misconduct with female minors, the father of one victim jumped over the railing and attacked Biggs. 

Mail Tribune reports that because of the attack, not only was the sentence hearing postponed, but Biggs was sent to the hospital after being punched and falling into the fetal position.

Biggs had pleaded guilty to “transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity” along with secretly recording young girls changing clothes, showering, and using the bathroom in his home.

Source...

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Angry Mob Gathers Because Firemen Can’t Revive Arab Community Member

BECAUSE THE FIREFIGHTER COULD NOT SAVE MAN, A MOB IMMEDIATELY GATHERS BEFORE THE DOOR

Berlin - Early Friday evening, dramatic scenes took place in Berlin-Neukölln. The fire department tirelessly fought for the life of a man, but after 60 minutes, the rescuers were defeated. But what happens next in the apartment, according to TAG24, is unbelievable.

Rescue forces gather in front of the house at Siegfriedstraße 58.

The emergency services, including an ambulance, quickly rush to Siegfriedstrasse 58. There, shortly after 7 pm, the rescuers find a lifeless man and immediately initiate resuscitation measures. For an hour they fight for the man and the situation in the Neukölln apartment becomes increasingly threatening.

Other people become aggressive and assaulting the forces. An unreasonable situation, so that reinforcements and police are alerted.

Some members of the family would not accept that the life of the man could not be saved. So a mob of acquaintances and family members formed in front of the house. Forcibly, they try to gain access to the hallway, which the then present police prevented.

But while the violent mob in the Siegfriedstraße inexorably grew to a size of over 70 people, more support had to be requested.

But why such an escalation? The deceased is supposed to be a person from a well-known extended Arab family or may have traveled in their circles.

Local police warned attending media representatives against taking pictures. "We were told not to work with the cameras in the open because they could not protect us," reports our TAG24 reporter.

The situation calmed down after the doctor discovered a natural cause of death. The ranks of those affected then gradually dissolved, like the B.Z. reported.

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Pope: No New Norms Against Sexual Abuse

Pope Francis is not preparing any new provisions for the fight against clerical pedophilia

(Rome) Pope Francis related circles denied the day before his arrival in Ireland that there will be another document with new standards to combat sexual abuse by clerics. "The rumors of another text from Francis to the bishops fighting pedophilia are not true," Andrea Tornielli wrote today on Vatican Insider.

Tornielli is Pope Francis’ house Vaticanist. He has direct access to the Pope. What Tornielli reports is information that comes either directly from Francis and his immediate circle, and the publication is desired by the Pope.

Last Monday, August 20, Pope Francis had published a letter to the People of God. With this, Francis reacted to the recent abuse scandal, which has shaken especially the Church in the United States with the so-called Pennsylvania Report.

The writing could not convince everyone. Critics accuse Francis of preaching in words with "zero tolerance" but not taking any action to enforce them. Even in papal circles, this criticism does not seem to be completely unjustified. Only in this way can it be explained that in response to this criticism in the past few days voices have been raised, especially in Francis-related media in the USA, that the letter is only the prelude to a normative document that Francis will enact as a law for the universal Church ( see the press review by Il Sismografo of the Vatican Secretariat of State). To silence the voices that described the papal letter as too vague and unclear, a clear-cut document was in the pipeline that would provide for sanctions against clerics who were guilty.

However, such a document will not exist, as Andrea Tornielli clarified today.

"The Pope expects the Episcopal Conferences to take the letter seriously  'to the people of God' and its concrete instructions."

Tornielli wrote:

"There are no new papal directives on abuse, and Francis is not preparing a bishops' document for the fight against clerical pedophilia. Significant Vatican sources deny Vatican Insiders that following the unprecedented "Letter to the People of God" written just days after the publication of the Pennsylvania Report, another text is now being prepared that will be announced soon after his return from Ireland as it has been rumored by various media in recent days. The Pope views his letter as comprehensive and believes that the Church has endowed itself with the normative means and the necessary provisions - to fight against whoever commits the crime of molesting minors, and also to hold to account the superiors, who are responsible for the crime of negligence or for other reasons do not act in an appropriate way - by thinking of the welfare of the victims."

Text: Giuseppe Nardi

Image: Vatican.va (screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Guardian Reports of Monastic Satanic Ritual Abuse of Children by Witch Coven

Edit: well, it’s from the Groniad, one of the most evil purveyors of fake news there is. Gee, there’s a lot to unpack [sarcasm, I hate this expreasion] here, and maybe I’ll look at it later, but I noticed that the piece didn’t fail to mention the Irish orphanage with “400 graves” of children run by Ursuline Sisters.

What’s shocking about this is the implication of Satanic rituals. It’s unusual because for years the mainstream press has been denying the existence of ritual abuse. Of course, we never stopped talking about this.

Maybe if we had an Inquisition, we would be less squeamish about rooting out witches.

We thank Randy Engel for this, who says:

Hi Everyone – A few years back I did a series for John Vennari at CFN on the state of female religious orders in the United States with special reference to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR).  I made mention of the active lesbian networks that have taken over a number of these Modernist orders.  I had known about the network  from researching the Rite of Sodomy.  

You might recall that Rome selected a  traditional, competent nun superior  to carry out the 2009-2010 Visitation. In connection with my CFN series, I contacted the superior whose headquarters was in Connecticut . I sent her an e-mail explaining that the lesbian network had to dealt with. But it all came to naught.

The  long-suffering laity quietly paid all the bills for the Visitation which in the long run ended up exonerating LCWR and its leadership.  And the long-suffering Catholic laity was none the wiser for the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on still another papal misadventure. 

Like male homosexuality and pederasty, lesbianism in female religious orders is nothing new. Many saints, male and female, have railed against “particular friendships” down through the ages. 

My experience with activist lesbians, especially lesbian religious like Sister Jeannine Gramick, co-founder of New Ways Ministry who  dominate the Homosexual Collective, is that they are much more aggressive and vicious than their male counterparts. 

Since the McCarrick Affair came to light, I had a passing thought that maybe the Vatican will now be forced to clean out lesbian infested convents and houses of female religious formation along with clerical male homosexual- infested seminaries and male religious orders and dioceses. But, I don’t think that will happen. First Rome would have to face the issue of lesbians and lesbian sexual abuse in female religious orders, and I suspect that it will not want do battle with the more deadly sex of the homosexual species.   Randy Engel

The Guardian:

by Severin Carrell

Scotland editor

Police in Scotland have arrested and charged nuns and a number of other former staff in an investigation into alleged child abuse at a Catholic children’s home.
 The nuns are among 12 people who have been charged by detectives investigating detailed allegations of systematic physical and sexual abuse of children over many decades at Smyllum Park in Lanark.  

 Police Scotland said another four former staff at the Catholic institution would be reported to the Crown Office, Scotland’s prosecution service, later on Thursday.

The force would not release any further details about the identities of those charged or the offences they face, pending final decisions by prosecutors.

“Twelve people, 11 women and one man, ages ranging from 62 to 85 years, have been arrested and charged in connection with the non-recent abuse of children,” it said.

“All are subject of reports to [the] Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal. A further four individuals will be reported today. Inquiries are continuing, it would be inappropriate to comment further.”

 The allegations of abuse at Smyllum Park, including unsubstantiated claims of “satanic” rituals at the home, have been at the centre of a long-running official public inquiry into child sexual abuse at children’s homes in Scotland.

The Scottish child abuse inquiry (SCAI) has been told by former residents that lay staff and nuns at the home, run by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul until it closed in 1981, repeatedly beat and punched them, verbally abused and humiliated them for wetting beds and left them without food and that some male and female staff sexually abused the children in their care.

It is alleged that at least one child, a boy aged six, died as a result of a severe beating that prevented him from recovering from an infection some days later.

Gregor Rolfe, a lawyer for the Daughters of Charity, told the SCAI last year that one male former member of staff may have sexually abused children whom he took on holidays. Those allegations were reported to nuns but not passed to the police.

 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/23/nuns-charged-in-investigation-into-child-abuse-at-smyllum-park

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