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	They Delete but They Cannot Hide, Plus Unsolved Murder, Useless Bishop Excuses, and Jeff Anderson Speaks from Cyberspace: News Roundup at Cofa Blog By Kay Ebeling City of Angel November 17, 2010 http://cityofangels8.blogspot.com/2010/11/they-delete-but-they-cannot-hide-plus_17.html We neglected to mention last post that Fr. John Feit, who wrote the minutes of the Servants of the Paraclete meeting we ran November 15, 2010, came to Via Coeli himself under a cloud of suspicion that includes an unsolved murder, read more below. Also in today's "Roundup of Stories We Could Not Cover While We Were In Transit" we argue that it does not matter who is the new President of the USCCB, as no Catholic bishop has a clean record when it comes to clergy sex crime cover-ups. We also link in this post to video of plaintiff attorney Jeff Anderson speaking to Australian victims from what I call "space" and give CofA's take on Oprah's nod to pedo-priest victims, on William Levada leading a Vatican session on sex crimes, and on Bill Lynch beating up his perpetrator priest in San Jose, and More: First this email: "Hi Kay, I see that TheServants.org have pretty much closed down their web presence. You might make use of the web archive http://web.archive.org/ also known as the Way Back Machine. It is amazing and has been attempting to archive the entire World Wide Web since the mid 1990s. Useful in this instance since here's the 2001 version of the Servants of the Paraclete website home page (which they apparently deleted a year or so ago). Here is a link to a very rosy description of their whole history "the story" and a philosophy of ministry and here is the index for articles in their magazine Priestly People for 2001. OK I'll get back to work and let you pick up the research!!!- Jennifer." Click those links to see what Servants of the Paraclete tried to delete from the internet, but the WayBack Machine has brought back to life, articles from 2002-2003, before the light started to shine down on them, so they had to hide in shame. Oh Oprah! City of Angels was dark for about a week and this Roundup post is only part one, as I catch up on news alerts. I didn't want to get caught up in the flibbermejibbit that resulted when Oprah spent a cosmic blip of time on the issue of pedophile priests in the Catholic Church Nov. 5, 2010. It was interesting to observe news media reaction to the show: endless repetition of the same sound bytes, one end of the globe to the other, in our copy-and-paste world of news coverage. By the time Oprah ran Part two the following Friday, the world seemed to have forgotten. When Oprah said, "Pain is the same," early in the first show, I about shut off the TV, but forced myself to watch the rest. The pedophile epidemic in the Catholic Church produced about a hundred thousand crime victims alive today in the USA alone. Yes, when a father or schoolteacher rapes a child it is horrendous and shocking, but what happened in the Catholic Church is an entirely different story. Six thousand Catholic priests raped children in the last sixty years, systematically, almost as if children were an entitlement that came with the job of being a priest. Bishops covered up the crimes. There is no comparison to Catholic priest sex crimes. Bishops continue to cover up the crimes today claiming First Amendment rights in the USA. That total aberration of justice and misuse of religion has no comparison to any crime spree that's ever happened before in recent history. So no, all pain is not the same. I honestly don't even care anymore about the individual rapes, the salacious details on which Oprah loves to dwell, as the individuals who committed those crimes were sick and should have been in treatment and separated from society. Felonious cardinals and monsignors continue to lunch at country clubs, continue to be pictured in thousand dollar get-ups posing as leaders in the community, and continue to influence American politics, and that's the thing that has stoked my rage for decades. Felonious bishops still in power is what Oprah totally missed. So when someone like Oprah says it's best to forgive your perpetrator and move on, it shows they are speaking very authoritatively as an outsider. Oprah's staff did not do the research. We weren't just raped by priests, we continue to be screwed by a religion. Not just any religion, either, but the religion that claims to be the root of all Christianity, the Pope, The Vatican. No, Oprah, all pain is not the same. Not for us who see our perpetrators leading public prayers, commanding respect, and brandishing authority with lawmakers in our country.
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