By Bob Johnson
Examiner
December 7, 2009
http://www.examiner.com/x-23325-Tampa-Deism-Examiner~y2009m12d7-Catholic-priest-and-friend-of-Rudy-Guiliani-found-innocent-of-pedophilia-by-Catholic-Church
NEW YORK -- Alan Placa was a Catholic priest who has been accused by several men of having sexually molested them in the 1970s, when Placa was assigned to an all boys Catholic high school. On December 4, 2009 the Diocese of Rockville Centre announced that the Catholic Church had found Placa innocent of the charges against him. In 2002 a grand jury of Suffolk County, New York was investigating the charges against him but could not prosecute criminally due to statute of limitations having expired.
The grand jury knew Placa only as "Priest F". The grand jury report shows that Priest F worked as a lawyer for the church and used "deception and intimidation" to keep the church scandal of pedophile priests quiet. According to the report, Priest F claimed to have saved the church hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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| Politician Rudy Guiliani and Alan Placa were fellow
frat boys. Placa (not pictured here) was accused by
multiple former students and alter boys of sexually
molesting them. The Catholic Church recently found him
innocent. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File) |
Placa and politician Rudy Guiliani went to Catholic high school together and were fellow frat boys in college. Guiliani is standing by his man and refuses to consider, or take seriously, the charges against his frat brother.
The Catholic Church is currently protecting Bernard Law, who as Cardinal of the Boston area would hide his pedophile priests from law enforcement and shuffle them from diocese to diocese as they continued to abuse and sexually molest innocent children. The Vatican has Law within their borders and he is therefore protected from justice. The Catholic Church even has Law as a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family! Now there's a man who knows about family values!
Child molesting Catholic clergy are not limited to the United States. In Ireland, Sisters of Mercy, one of 18 orders of Catholic priests, brothers and nuns who committed sex crimes against children, has agreed to pay $193.5 million to sex abuse victims! It appear from their actions that Christianity and the Catholic Church have nothing to offer the world.
A reasonable person cannot reasonably accept the claims made in the Torah, Bible or Koran. None of these "holy" books can stand the test of our God-given reason. This means that many people do not truly believe what their "revealed" religions are teaching them, but they pretend otherwise. This can lead to very serious problems. Thomas Paine, in his important book on God and religion, The Age of Reason, wrote, "It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."
Sadly, at the expense of innocent children, clergy around the world seem to have proven Paine's point.
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