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  Via Coeli Letter Shows Paraclete Priests Served in Alburqueque and Santa Fe While in Aftercare for Pedophilia

By Kay Ebeling
City of Angels
April 1, 2008

http://cityofangels4.blogspot.com/2008/04/via-coeli-letter-shows-paraclete.html

SHORT NOTE:
Doing research I copy and pasted this letter from Via Coeli Servants of the Paraclete in 1968, and the PDF download corrupted a Word file so bad I had to delete the doc. Then I copy and pasted the letter two more times and it would just disappear. So I'm publishing it here today before it goes away and never comes back.

Beginning July 1968 the Superior and Staff of Via Coeli Monastery inaugurate a system of MONTHLY REPORTS on guest priests resident with us at Via Coeli or [ILLEGIBLE] ed out to our halfway houses in Albuquerque and Santa Fe within recent weeks.

In the past PROGRESS REPORTS have been mailed out intermittently, but this system has proven unsatisfactory in many instances. We hope that this new effort on our part will bring to the Ordinaries and Major Superiors a better understanding of their personnel resident with us, and a keener insight into what we have to offer at Via Coeli by way of priestly rehabilitation.

"With sentiments of gratitude for what the Hierarchy and Major Religious Superiors have helped us to achieve in serving Gods priests, I am" --

Letter is signed but the persons title got clipped when the letter corrupted the document.

Priests in after care -- not yet even cured of their pedophilia by priests who were therapists at Via Coeli -- were moved to halfway houses in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Then they served as "guest priests" in towns for miles around.

Travel plans next 2 years: After I go to Chicago I'm going to to New Mexico to write about Via Coeli and the Paracletes.

(Even stranger, I just now went back to get the TO: part of the letter and now it's totally disappeared from my notes. It was there before, honest it was there. Written to "Major Superiors" in the region. What exactly is a PDF anyway. . . ?)

Onward. . .

 
 

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