This is a MUST READ..."the protocol of the elders of Boston"

On Leila's advice, I skipped the opening chapter and watched the rest of the documentary Hand of God, produced by a native of Salem, Massachusetts, concerning the sexual abuse of his brother, Paul Cultrera, by the late Fr. Joseph Birmingham of the Archdiocese of Boston. You can watch it chapter by chapter here.
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The documentary centers not on the sexual villainy of Birmingham but, fittingly, on the duplicity and moral cowardice of Father, now Bishop, John McCormack. McCormack not only lied about his awareness of the sexual predations of his seminary classmate and rectory housemate Birmingham, but gave false assurances to worried parents who had guessed the truth about him -- this when McCormack was Archdiocesan Secretary for Ministerial Personnel. Cultrera's dealings with McCormack began in 1994, after he first reported his abuse of thirty years earlier and McCormack, to keep him mum, fed him smoke.

You can read Diogenes' report here...I can't help but feel numbed and angered by the lies and evil of some clerics, and unbearable sadness, tears and compassion for those who have been victimized.

May our Lord grant His healing power and His infinite grace to those who have been harmed and may each of those who have inflicted such hideous crimes be brought to conversion and repentance before his day of judgment before the Lord!