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	NCR: Evidence Shows That the Catholic Hierarchy Was Aware of Pedophile Priest Problem in the 1950s By Jeffrey Weiss The Dallas Morning News March 30, 2009 http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/03/ncr-evidence-shows-that-the-ca.html The National Catholic Reporter reports: As early as the mid-1950s, decades before the clergy sexual-abuse crisis broke publicly across the U.S. Catholic landscape, the founder of a religious order that dealt regularly with priest sex abusers was so convinced of their inability to change that he searched for an island to purchase with the intent of using it as a place to isolate such offenders, according to documents recently obtained by NCR. Fr. Gerald Fitzgerald, founder of the Servants of the Paracletes, an order established in 1947 to deal with problem priests, wrote regularly to bishops in the United States and to Vatican officials, including the pope, of his opinion that many sexual abusers in the priesthood should be laicized immediately.
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