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Letter #52, 2018: "In escrow"[2018-09-07][Engleză]Wednesday, September 5, 2018"Bishops and priests, abusing their authority, have committed horrendous crimes to the detriment of their faithful, minors, innocent victims, and young men eager to offer their lives to the Church, or by their silence have not prevented that such crimes continue to be perpetrated. To restore the beauty of holiness to the face of the Bride of Christ, which is terribly disfigured by so many abominable crimes, and if we truly want to free the Church from the fetid swamp into which she has fallen, we must have the courage to tear down the culture of secrecy and publicly confess the truths we have kept hidden." Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, "Testimony," dated August 22, 2018, made public on August 25, 2018 "In his 2008 homily on the Feast of the Epiphany, Pope Benedict reminded us that the Fathers plan of salvation had been fully revealed and realized in the mystery of Christs death and resurrection, but it needs to be welcomed in human history, which is always a history of fidelity on Gods part and unfortunately also of infidelity on the part of us men. The Church, the depository of the blessing of the New Covenant, signed in the blood of the Lamb, is holy but made up of sinners, as Saint Ambrose wrote: the Church is 'immaculata ex maculatis,' she is holy and spotless even though, in her earthly journey, she is made up of men stained with sin." Archbishop Vigano, in the same text This trumped-up net has been shown to overflow with hate and fake news. Journalists are doing their job, and ViganĂČs statement appears for what it is. The sketchy interests [behind it], in collusion with pseudo-Catholic American media, have in part been revealed. The tragedy has become a farce. Father Antonio Spadaro, S.J., editor of the influential Jesuit bimonthly Civilta Cattolica, and a close advisor of Pope Francis, on his Facebook page (link) ================ Day #13 Today is the 13th day since the publication of Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's "Testimony." (The full text is here; it was made public on the evening of August 25.) In the news (with fuller texts below): 1) Expanded investigation. Authorities in the state of New York have issued subpoenas to every Catholic diocese in New York state to obtain diocesan records related to allegations and actions in cases of sexual abuse by clerics. New Mexico has made a similar request. Nebraska and Missouri This suggests that the investigation in the US could grow much wider than Pennsylvania alone, and possibly, over coming months, reveal many more cases than are now known. 2) Passionate defense of Pope Francis. A top advisor to Pope Francis, Father Antonio Spadaro, has denounced the attacks on the Pope as the product of "desperate interests (pseudo-Catholic American media are involved...)" 3) "In escrow." (link) And now, the question of money. The Legatus group, made up of Catholics who are CEOs of companies, has announced it will hold back its annual donation to the Holy See (normally $1 million annually). The gift is being placed "in escrow," Legatus founder Thomas Monaghan (the former owner of Domino's Pizza and Detroit Tigers baseball team and the founder of Ave Maria University near Naples, Florida) wrote today. Here are reports on these matters. Working on another aspect of this story -- another letter to follow soon... ====================== (1) Investigation of sexual abuse to expand beyond Pennsylvania New York attorney generals office has issued subpoenas to every Catholic diocese in the state (link) By Julie Zauzmer and Michelle Boorstein September 6 at 7:10 PM The New York attorney generals office has issued subpoenas to every Catholic diocese in the state, becoming the latest U.S. state to embark on an expansive investigation of sex crimes committed and covered up by Catholic priests. The Catholic Church faces a major test over the next several months, as the attorneys general of at least five states conduct investigations and several more consider opening up the decades-old secret files of the dioceses in their states. Millions of Catholics nationwide now must grapple with attending a church that is under criminal investigation. After New Yorks subpoenas were issued, and first reported by the Associated Press on Thursday, New Jersey quickly followed, announcing a criminal task force focused on investigating sexual abuse by Catholic clergy. New Mexico launched an investigation this week, and Nebraska and Missouri have inquiries underway. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro set off this wave when he announced last month the results of a massive grand jury investigation, alleged that more than 1,000 children were sexually abused by more than 300 priests in six of the states Catholic dioceses, over a period spanning more than 70 years. The report began a storm across the country, with many Catholic faithful demanding that their own dioceses open their files to criminal investigators to examine whether a similarly extensive cover-up took place. Shapiro said on Thursday, Our work in Pennsylvania has spurred a movement. Marci Hamilton, a professor of religion and law at the University of Pennsylvania who is an expert on child protection laws, said these state investigations signal a totally new phase in the U.S. governments treatment of clergy abuse. While several other countries have had government-led national probes of child sexual abuse, in the United States, Pennsylvanias is the very first state-wide investigation. Previously, Hamilton believed, U.S. politicians like attorneys general didnt want to touch the church. Since 2002, Ive been waiting to hear three words: Clergy sex abuse, she said Thursday. Its see no evil, hear no evil. They are terrified in this hyper-religious liberty environment of offending an organized religion like the Catholic Church. She thinks state officials changed their minds when they saw Shapiro did it with no political peril. Due to the statute of limitations on sex crimes, almost all the abuses documented by the Pennsylvania grand jury cannot lead to criminal prosecutions, and Underwoods office warned that any victims who report abuse in New York might also find that the crimes are no longer prosecutable under state law. A person familiar with the New York investigation told The Washington Post that the attorney generals office sent civil subpoenas to the eight Catholic dioceses. The subpoenas are part of an ongoing civil investigation by the attorney generals Charities Bureau, which is looking into whether the nonprofit dioceses covered up sexual abuse of minors. Separately, the criminal division is working with district attorneys in the state who might convene grand juries to investigate crimes committed by priests. On Thursday, Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced a telephone hotline and an online forum for victims and witnesses of child abuse committed by clergy in the state of New York to contact investigators. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal also said that his office had set up a new telephone hotline for victims of sexual abuse by clergy and would investigate the allegations through its new criminal task force. Many within the church have called for criminal investigations in recent weeks, in place of the church-run remedies that U.S. bishops have pursued since the Boston Globe exposed the clergy sex abuse scandal in 2002. Michael Merz, a federal judge in Ohio who formerly chaired the National Review Board that the church set up to handle sexual abuse cases, said the government can investigate in a way that his board never could. He said the body didnt investigate so much as audit how dioceses were handling the abuse cases that parishioners brought to the church. That kind of auditing doesnt do anything about stuff thats never been reported, for example. This has the possibility of helping people who have never spoken out about their abuse do so, Merz said. He wondered about expending state resources on exhaustive investigations that lead to few if any criminal prosecutions, though. Theres a serious question in my mind about the validity of an investigation by a grand jury that doesnt result in indictments, he said. On the other hand, its clear from the press reports that the investigation in Pennsylvania was of great assistance to victims . In my judgment, its valuable to get those accusations out there where people can read them. After the release of the Pennsylvania grand jury report, The Washington Post reached out to the attorneys general of the 49 other states to see if they had plans to launch similar inquiries or had investigations already underway. Many said they could not comment on potential investigations, while others said they lacked the authority to immediately act on local cases. Under state law in many states, the investigation needs to begin at the local level. Missouri became the first state to launch an investigation in the wake of the Pennsylvania report, announcing last month that it would explore allegations of alleged abuses by clergy in the St. Louis area, which is home to more than half a million Catholics. In New Mexico, Attorney General Hector Balderas sent letters to the bishops of the states dioceses on Tuesday, saying that the Pennsylvania report was shaking the conscience of those throughout the world by detailing the vast extent of sexual abuse perpetrated by priests and clerics and the shocking cover-up by church leaders. Balderas acknowledged that the statute of limitations would likely prevent many prosecutions but said that he is investigating in the interest of long overdue transparency. Calling the letter a demand in contemplation of litigation, he asked the dioceses to turn over by October 5 all documents relating to child sexual abuse allegations and to numerous specific priests. In Nebraska, the states three dioceses said they had received an inquiry from the attorney generals office requesting their files on the subject dating back to 1978. The dioceses of Lincoln and Grand Island said they would cooperate with the investigation; the archdiocese of Omaha did not immediately respond to The Posts inquiry. The results of such state probes could cause many U.S. Catholics to leave the church, as happened after a national probe in Ireland, where the Catholic Church was literally part of the government. Hamilton noted that Scotlands government also ran a national probe, as did Germany, Sweden, Japan. A commission by the Australian government ran a years-long investigation that just ended this year. 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