Victor Phelan - missionary and rapist of boys

I just found out that Father Victor Phelan was outed September 2013 as the vicious pedophile he is. Years and years of abuse - only now being exposed.

Phelan abused at will as a missionary priest who made visits to various parishes in the US to raise money for the African missions.  He took the opportunity while in these parishes to rape young boys in the parish  and the parish school.  He was the lowest of the low.  I only found out about 8 years ago that some of his victims were in a school where I taught in the late 1970s.  My students.

I am angry not only at the vicious abuser and the bishop and priests who enabled his crimes, but at myself.  I wish I could go back in time and stop this molester who stole so much joy from these wonderful boys. I wish I had had the vision to know. . . . but I didn't.

There is no prison sentence or punishment that is suitable for this low-life scum.  Nothing is bad enough for Victor Phelan.  I only hope that a dear friend of mine is right when she tells me, "God knows and he will take care of these perps."

I hope she is right.  There is no place deep enough in the pit of hell for Victor Phelan and his ilk.

Here are some of the assignments of Victor Phalen that we know.

Bishop Stika living like a king

Are bishops really trying to live a more simple life?  I don't really think so.  You certainly wouldn't think so if you saw  Bishop Stika's house.  Apparently the former Bishop's home wasn't good enough.  Only a mansion would do. 

Bishops apparently can't pay victims what is owed to them in compensation, but they certainly can pay for their expensive lifestyles.   And what was the justification for paying $850,000 for his Sequoyah Hills home?  The money was given as a donation!  Does Stika really think we are so stupid to believe such an idiotic reason.

Let's make a list of where that money should have gone other than to pay for his expensive house:
1.  Victims of clergy sexual abuse.
2.  Catholic schools.
3.  Tuition for children who can't afford to go to Catholic schools.
4.  Catholic Charities for all the poor, the sick, the hungry, and so much more.

I hope Pope Francis reads this. It would be an eye opener for him to see how lavishly this Bishop lives. And with his buddy, Justin Rigali.  Two peas in a pod!

Victim knocks on the door

A victim of Father Edward McKeown knocked on the door of the rectory at Blessed Sacrament Church in Harriman, Tennessee, and inquired of the pastor if he knew of Edward McKeown's molestation of dozens of boys in his parish.

The pastor knew nothing . . . or so he says.

Parishioners whom I have asked are astounded.  They had never been told.

How incredible that the people, probably parents, siblings, and other relatives of these molested boys do not know the truth even yet.

1989 when McKeown left the priesthood to 2014 . . . you do the math.

Don't let Edward McKeown out of jail

I get worried that Edward McKeown will walk the streets again.  He should never get out of jail.

Father Edward McKeown abused across Middle and East Tennessee.  The bishop and many, many priests knew.  McKeown left the priesthood on March 1, 1989 without anyone knowing how many little boys he had raped.  The church never told the Catholics what McKeown had done. They let statutes of limitation run and sent their "problem" back out into the community at large to abuse more boys.

McKeown is not the only criminal here.  The bishop and any priest who knew what McKeown had done should be sitting in the prison cell with him.  That won't happen but it should.

Don't let McKeown every get parole. Give the rape victims of McKeown at least that small amount of justice.

Walter Emala - passed off to Maryland, leaving carnage in Tennessee

Walter Emala was assigned Holy Ghost Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, and when his abuse in several parishes across Tennessee became too much for the bishop to cover up, he shared this abuser with Maryland.  And so it goes.  The cycle of passing abusers from place to place, state to state.

Emala's name showed up on a list of priest abusers that was turned over by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Did any bishop in Tennessee ever let the Catholics of Tennessee know anything about this.  No, and that is their pattern.  Just be silent.  Just don't say a word.  The sins of omission.  

Is there no other voices out there who will cry out until the truth is told?

A Cardinal gets parole

Although Cardinal Justin Rigali never was put in jail for his complicity in the coverup of clergy sexual abuse, nonetheless he got paroled.  He is now in retirement and living in one of the most beautiful parts of the country, East Tennessee.  His retirement to live with Bishop Richard Stika in Knoxville, Tennessee, is a major disgrace.  The people of East Tennessee have been led to believe they are the most fortunate people on the face of the earth to have the cardinal in their area.  He is touted as a saint.  He has a special page on the the diocese of Knoxville website.

Just as no one was ever told the truth about Knoxville's first bishop, Anthony O'Connell, so too the Catholics have not been told the truth about Justin Rigali. More to come on what Rigali has done and what a mess he left in the places where he was assigned.

So Knoxville's first bishop was a pedophile.  Knoxville's second bishop covered up the truth of the extent of the first bishop's crimes.  Now the third bishop, Richard Stika, has bought an $850,000 house for him and his housemate, Justin Rigali, to share. Knoxville Catholics, are you paying attention to the facts.

My advice?  Google "Cardinal Justin Rigali" and see what you find.

SOLs are our problem

Tennessee looks like a pristine pure state when it comes to clergy abuse. Far from it. The truth is that statutes of limitation have silenced hundreds of victims of bishops, priests, nuns, and brothers.  Too bad - because the losers are our children and teens today.

No abuse in the south???  Far from it. But the truth will never be told.