Child sexual abuse survivors release names, urge Ohio to investigate Catholic dioceses Aug 18, 2023

49 accused clergy members named; many have ties to Northeast Ohio

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Advocates against child sex abuse have filed a letter to the Ohio attorney general, asking the state to hold accused predators in the Catholic church accountable.

"We are asking Attorney General Yost to simply step up and get on the train of accountability and justice for victims," said Claudia Vercellotti with the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP).

Ohioans for Child Protection SNAP have made a formal request to Attorney General Dave Yost.

They are asking him to conduct a statewide investigation of the history and scope of child sexual abuse and its covering up by the state's Catholic dioceses.

Vercellotti brought forward reports from other states, where their attorneys general listed substantiated allegations against individuals in the Catholic church. Many had worked in Ohio.

"Information developed on 49 credibly-accused clerics from other attorneys general's reports with ties to Ohio," she said. "It makes you wonder what would Attorney General Yost uncover if he merely investigated?"

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/child-sexual-abuse-survivors-release-names-urge-ohio-to-investigate-catholic-dioceses

Advocates ask Yost to investigate Ohio’s Catholic dioceses By Mackenzi Klemann August 18, 2023

COLUMBUS — A group of concerned parents, Catholics and advocates for child sexual abuse survivors are asking Attorney General Dave Yost to initiate a statewide investigation into the history of scope of sexual abuse within Ohio’s six Catholic dioceses.

The groups, which include parents from Ohioans for Child Protection, Greater Cincinnati Voice of the Faithful, Concerned Catholics of Cincinnati and the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, take inspiration from recent investigations into sexual abuse within the Catholic church completed by attorneys general in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Maryland.

“Failing to investigate systemic failures within Ohio dioceses and parochial schools allows abuse enablers and sexual perpetrators to remain in positions of authority over thousands of vulnerable Ohio children,” they wrote in a letter delivered to Yost on Wednesday.

“Without a robust secular investigation, we fear that the continued cycle of abuse and cover-up will continue unabated.”

https://www.limaohio.com/top-stories/2023/08/18/advocates-ask-yost-to-investigate-ohios-catholic-dioceses/

Ohio abuse survivors call on attorney general to investigate state's Catholic dioceses August 17, 2023

Advocates for survivors of clergy sexual abuse said it's time for Ohio's top law enforcement official to investigate the state's six Catholic dioceses.

Members of Ohio chapters of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, Ohioans for Child Protection and the Greater Cincinnati Voice of the Faithful urged Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost in an Aug. 16 letter to follow the examples of abuse investigations that have occurred in other states in recent years.

Daniel Frondorf of SNAP's Cincinnati chapter told NCR that reports released after investigations in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Maryland included references to 49 priests who had lived, worked or had other ties to Ohio and had been accused of sexually abusing children.

"I think there's enough compelling evidence in the news media the last 15, 20 years that a larger investigation is warranted than just these spotty investigations of individual claims of abuse," Frondorf said.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/ohio-abuse-survivors-call-attorney-general-investigate-states-catholic-dioceses

As Maui Struggles to Recover, U.S. Parishes Plan Special Collections to Help Relief Efforts August 21, 2023

The Diocese of Honolulu has two outlets taking donations for relief efforts via: diocese’s Hawaii Catholic Community Foundation, and the Catholic Charities Hawaii site, catholiccharitieshawaii DOT org /maui-relief.

In an Aug. 11 letter addressed to “our Catholic Faithful in Hawaii and Beyond,” Honolulu Bishop Larry Silva wrote, “As a community of faith, we are called to come together and provide unwavering support to those who are suffering.

It is in times like these that our collective love, faith, and compassion can make a tremendous difference.”

He said supporting the church’s relief efforts for Maui “is an opportunity for us to show our solidarity as a Catholic faith community and lend a helping hand to those who have lost so much.”

Catholic Charities USA also has made an appeal for donations for Hawaii relief efforts on its website: https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org.

https://thetablet.org/as-maui-struggles-to-recover-u-s-parishes-plan-special-collections-to-help-relief-efforts/

San Antonio gets $24.5M in FEMA funding to continue aiding migrants through 2025 August 18, 2023

Council members on Thursday approved accepting the funds, but did not discuss the agenda item.

Of the funding, the City of San Antonio will accept $13,051,737; Catholic Charities will get $5,688,925; and the United Way of San Antonio, which administers the FEMA emergency and shelter funding to local nonprofits, gets $5,795,360.

In May, San Antonio received a total of $38 million from FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program to assist San Antonio’s humanitarian response to Title 42 ending.

At the time, Catholic Charities got $31,955,232, the City of San Antonio got $4,692,492, and the United Way of San Antonio got $1,584,931.

https://sanantonioreport.org/migrant-resource-center-san-antonio-fema-funding/

'''Abandoned hospital retrofitted to house migrants in Matamoros, Mexico Aug 15 2023

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (Border Report) — Organizers are preparing to move a camp with over 1,000 asylum-seeking migrants from the banks of the Rio Grande to an area of Matamoros,

Mexico that is farther from the border and downtown to provide them meals and for their safety, Border Report has learned.

The move could come as early as Tuesday, according to Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities Rio Grande Valley.

She has been working with other non-governmental organizations and nonprofits and the city of Matamoros and Mexican state of Tamaulipas to relocate the migrants to an abandoned hospital that is being renovated, she said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/abandoned-hospital-retrofitted-to-house-migrants-in-matamoros-mexico/ar-AA1fhqAB

Catholic Charities Hawaiʻi working to meet critical needs in wake of Maui wildfire disaster Aug 14, 2023

The Maui wildfire disaster has created huge loss of life and property, with the sudden devastation affecting scores in its path.

“We can only imagine the distress and heartache that many are currently experiencing, and our thoughts and prayers are with everyone impacted by this tragedy,” said CEO and president Rob Van Tassell.

Serving Hawai‘i for over 75 years, Catholic Charities Hawai‘i has provided aid to local residents of all faiths and cultures in previous disasters such as Hurricane Iniki, the recent Kīlauea eruptions, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We will be there again during this time of great need,” said Van Tassell.

https://mauinow.com/2023/08/14/catholic-charities-hawai%ca%bbi-working-to-meet-critical-needs-in-wake-of-maui-wildfire-disaster/

Key to Catholic Diocese's program to attract Ukrainian immigrants to Westmoreland County: a job and welcoming community Aug 5, 2023

The diocese’s program is designed to help legal immigrants in conjunction with the requirements of Uniting with Ukraine, the U.S. initiative that permits them to live and work in the country for two years, Kulick said.

Employment-based immigration is an ideal path to obtaining a Green Card, which the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said is a way to live and work permanently in the country.

There are more than 245,000 applicants seeking acceptance into the Uniting for Ukraine program and many are connected with the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia

https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/key-to-catholic-dioceses-program-to-attract-ukrainian-immigrants-to-westmoreland-county-a-job-and-welcoming-community/

GOP lawmakers once praised Catholic Charities. Now they want to defund the group. July 28, 2023

Some Republicans don’t like the work of Catholic Charities and other faith-based groups helping migrants at the U.S. border

Gooden, who worships at a Church of Christ congregation, expressed particular frustration with FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program — which is transitioning to an effort titled the Shelter and Services Program — that reimburses NGOs and local governments for offering certain aid to migrants.

He mentioned a number of faith-based groups in his solo letter, such as Jewish Family Services and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, but criticized Catholic Charities at length.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/07/28/gop-lawmakers-once-praised-catholic-charities-now-they-want-defund-group/

In targeting Catholic Charities, Republicans amplify right-wing Catholic fringe July 24, 2023

GOP representatives, who seem to be taking their cues from deeply conservative Catholic groups that vow to "#defund the bishops," plan to cut funding to a DHS program that supports Catholic relief centers at the United States' Southern border.

In December, Republican Rep. Lance Gooden of Texas, who serves on the House Judiciary Committee, penned a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. In the letter, co-signed by Reps. Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin and Jake Ellzey of Texas,

the lawmakers complained that the Biden administration was “allowing non-governmental organizations … the freedom to aid and abet illegal aliens.”

In addition, lawmakers also sent letters to Catholic Charities, Jewish Family Service and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service demanding they preserve documents “related to any expenditures submitted for reimbursement from the federal government related to migrants encountered at the southern border.”

https://religionnews.com/2023/07/24/republicans-are-mainstreaming-a-right-wing-attack-on-catholic-charities/

Who is Helping Biden Facilitate America’s Border Crisis? Dec 19 2022

What we’re seeing at the border is close collaboration and collusion between open-borders advocates within and outside of government.

https://www.heritage.org/homeland-security/heritage-explains/who-helping-biden-facilitate-americas-border-crisis

Who’s Really Facilitating America’s Border Crisis? Biden Isn’t Acting Alone Dec 9, 2022

https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/whos-really-facilitating-americas-border-crisis-biden-isnt-acting-alone

Republicans accuse Catholic Charities of breaking the law in its border response December 15, 2022

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2022/12/15/border-crisis-republicans-catholic-charities-244359

Migrants depend on Catholic Charities to avoid deportation December 19, 2022

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/dec/19/migrants-using-catholic-charities-to-shield-themse/

Catholic Charities Under Siege House Republicans and TX bearing down hard

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/catholic-charities-under-siege

Catholic Charities helping guide through Biden immigration program Jan. 26, 2023

https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2023/01/26/catholic-charities-helping-through-immigration-process

Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas is looking at expanding immigration services May 12th 2023,

https://kfdm.com/news/local/catholic-charities-of-southeast-texas-is-looking-at-expanding-immigration-services-title-42-end-immigrants-texas-border

Cardinal Dolan: Catholics have a duty to care for immigrants. And the government can’t punish us for that. Timothy Michael Dolan June 28, 2023

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/06/28/dolan-religious-liberty-immigrants-245596

Afghanistan to Fort Wayne: How Catholic Charities’ Immigration Services make a global impact MARCH 15, 2023

https://www.inputfortwayne.com/features/SJCHF-CatholicCharitiesImmigrationServices.aspx

Harassing Good Samaritans Is On Brand for GOP Republican members of Congress are expanding their war on migrants to the groups that receive federal money to help provide them with food and shelter.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-07-11/house-republicans-target-aid-groups-that-provide-food-shelter-for-migrants#xj4y7vzkg

In targeting Catholic Charities, Republicans amplify right-wing Catholic fringe JULY 26, 2023

https://baptistnews.com/article/in-targeting-catholic-charities-republicans-amplify-right-wing-catholic-fringe/

In targeting Catholic Charities, Republicans amplify right-wing Catholic fringe July 24, 2023

https://religionnews.com/2023/07/24/republicans-are-mainstreaming-a-right-wing-attack-on-catholic-charities/

Clearing up misconceptions about Church and immigrants Why does Church minister to migrants and refugees? Here are some answers July 17, 2023

https://www.miamiarch.org/CatholicDiocese.php?op=Article_clearing-up-misconceptions-about-church-and-immigrants

12/25/22 (Sun) Christmas Day

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump

On this very cold but beautiful Christmas Day, look at our Nation NOW on the Southern Border compared to only a short time ago during the Trump Administration.

We had the most SECURE Border in our history, versus the “horror show” that that is happening now, with record setting numbers of people, many of them hardened Criminals (including Killers, Human Traffickers and Drug Dealers), POURING INTO OUR COUNTRY at a rate the likes of which we have never seen before. The USA is dyingfrom within!!!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109574657347743432

‘We’re going to do our best’: Uncertainty looms for San Antonio migrant center ahead ofTitle 42end Molly Smith Staff writer May 9, 2023

Antonio Fernandez, Catholic Charities president and CEO, talks about how the center has adapted to shifting numbers of asylum seekers, and what he expects in May, whenTitle 42ends while giving a tour at the center.

Dozens of people milled in front of the Centro de Bienvenida early Monday afternoon, standing under the building’s awnings or sitting under small canopy tents to escape the sun. Temperatures were already in the mid-80s and were expected to climb a few degrees higher. With 700 people already inside, the most fire code allows,Catholic Charities of San Antoniocouldn’t let anyone else in until others left to catch a bus or a flight to their next — and often final — destination in their arduous journey to the United States.The day was a preview for what’s to come when Title 42 is expected to end Thursday, increasing the number of migrants crossing the Texas-Mexico border and passing through San Antonio once released from U.S. Border Patrol custody.

“We don’t know what to expect, but we’re going to do our best,” said J. Antonio Fernandez,Catholic Charities of San Antonio president and CEO.

Since the organization took over operations of the Migrant Resource Center from the city in September — which it renamed the MRC Centro de Bienvenida — it’s helped upwards of 116,000 migrants, all of whom have legal permission to be in the country. That often means purchasing airfare or bus tickets, and providing clean clothes, shoes, a hot shower, warm meals and unlimited coffee, and a place to spend a night or two. Counselors and legal services are also available. About 3,900 people came through the center’s doors in the first week of May. April alone saw more than 12,000 migrants. Since March 2020, the U.S. government has used a public health rule called Title 42 to immediately expel hundreds of thousands of migrants from select countries back to Mexico or their home countries without letting them apply for asylum.The rule will no longer be in force at 10:59 p.m. CST Thursday when the national COVID public health emergency ends.

Federal officials estimate tens of thousands of people could cross the border in the weeks ahead. “The border will be busy for a while in the short-term,” U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, said Friday at a news conference held at the center on the city’s near North Side. He declined to share figures given to him by Border Patrol officials. With only so much space inside the 71,000-square foot facility, which once was a CPS Energy customer service center, Fernandez is in talks with four area hotels to lease rooms. Although he prefers to purchase airline tickets for people traveling to far-away cities like Chicago, New York or Miami, he’s considering leasing charter buses to more quickly transport large groups out of San Antonio at once, so long as he can ensure that migrants would have access to food and water and be allowed to get off and stretch their legs at regularly scheduled spots.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/catholic-charities-san-antonio-title-42-18082221.php

‘We’re going to do our best’: Uncertainty looms for San Antonio migrant center ahead ofTitle 42end Molly Smith Staff writer May 9, 2023 PART II

Catholic Charitiesrecently capped the daily amount spent on airline tickets to $100,000, a decision driven by uncertainty surrounding the speed of federal reimbursement. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been slow to allocate funding to the organization, Fernandez said. “We don’t have a lot of money left as we speak,” he said Monday.FEMAon Friday promised nearly $32 million in “expedited” funding toCatholic Charities of San Antonio, but Fernandez doesn’t know when, or in what increments, these dollars will be dispersed. Some of that money will also be used for its office in Del Rio. A representative from San Antonio Congressman Joaquin Castro’s office said the disbursement will be made in “one lump sum.” “We expect to get further information on timing in the coming days and weeks,” said Communications Director Geneva Kropper. San Antonio was also awarded close to $4.7 million in FEMA funds. The city pays for leasing the building the migrant center occupies, in addition to maintenance and security costs.

It’s also usedfederal dollarsto bus migrants from the center to Austin’s airport, which has more direct flight options. The two cities launched the busing program in January and had only sent one busload of migrants to Austin until Thursday when the second bus departed. City officials previously said they could bus up to 120 migrants a day to Austin if needed. No one from the city was made available for an interview. In a statement, spokesperson Laura Mayes said the current situation “is not sustainable and continued funding from the federal government is uncertain.”

“The City, in collaboration with Catholic Charities, will continue to operate the center at capacity for as long as it is able,” the statement continued, “yet withoutfederal funding, its long-term operations is unknown.”

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/catholic-charities-san-antonio-title-42-18082221.php

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Australian ex-priest has prison sentence extended to 40 years for molesting 72nd child victim August 15, 2023 - 4:46 AM

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian ex-priest convicted of sexually abusing children had another 12 months added to his 39-year prison sentence on Tuesday for molesting a 72nd victim.

Gerald Ridsdale, 89, has been in prison since 1994 for a series of convictions for abusing children between 1961 and 1988 while he worked as a Roman Catholic priest in churches and schools across his home state of Victoria.

He was sentenced in the Ballarat Magistrates Court to an additional year after he pleaded guilty in June to indecently assaulting a 13-year-old boy while he worked at a Catholic school in Horsham in 1987.

It was his193rdconviction for child abuse.

Ridsdale appeared in court via a video link from a hospital prison bed. He kept his eyes closed throughout the hearing.

https://infotel.ca/newsitem/as-australia-clergy-abuse/cp723415240

Of note is the Fact that Cardinal Pell , #3 Vatican Animal per the drops, shared an apartment with Ridsdale, offered up character witness testimony in favor or Ridsdale and otherwise defended Ridsdale for years until Ridsdale was no longer defendable.

It is mockery of Justice to keep piling on years to this Predator's sentence and yet remaining silent to the fact that this Systemic Abuse by Predator Sex Offenders was knowingly kept secret and allowed to the abuse to be further perpetuated by Those we were taught to trust the most.

It seems Criminal and accessory to be part of the vast Cover up, as much as to the Crime.

It seems only Logical that Patriots do not defend Institutions that Systemically hide the molestation, rape, torture and sometimes murder of innocent Men, Women and Children.

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