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US BISHOP PROTECTS AND SPENDS TENS OF THOUSANDS ON SEMINARIAN RAPIST.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (ChurchMilitant.com) – Bishop Richard Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee, green-lit tens of thousands of dollars in payment for the education and living expenses of a former seminarian accused of rape. 

After viewing a letter to St. Louis University in Missouri, Knox News reported that the bishop authorized his diocese to pay $48,258 for Wojciech Sobczuk’s 2021–2022 school year costs.

“Bishop Richard Stika’s actions when ex-seminarian Wojciech Sobczuk was expelled from St. Meinrad Seminary are shocking. Immediate placement at St. Louis University at the people’s expense. This is an outrage,” tweeted Susan Vance, head of Tennessee’s Survivor Network of those Abused by Priests.

According to Knox News, “The letter, dated April 12, 2021, is on Office of Bishop letterhead and signed by Stika.”

In 2021, Sobczuk was kicked out of St. Meinrad Seminary in Indiana over complaints of sexual harassment. The rector explained the dismissal in a March 1, 2021, letter to Stika:

One student said the Knoxville seminarian, who is Polish, invited him to his dorm room, told him his American accent was “sexy,” and tried to hold his hand, prompting the student to immediately leave. Another student said he was undressing to go to bed when he noticed the Knoxville seminarian gazing at him from his room across a courtyard in the dormitory.

A third student described the Knoxville seminarian’s aggressive attempts to touch him during a visit to the Knoxville diocese, and his suggestion that the two sleep in the same bed. The student also said the seminarian asked him about his penis in messages sent through Snapchat.

Stika told priests in 2021 that the former seminarian had been dismissed from St. Meinrad because of “boundary” issues. 

“He just wanted to be a priest, and he came to this country … to be a priest, and his name has been defamed by priests in this diocese, by seminarians, by Susan Vance, who wins the war again,” claimed Stika.

Report: Pope Francis plans to ask embattled Knoxville, Tenn., bishop to resign

PAT SAYS

The fact that this article / video comes from Church Militant is neither here nor there.

The question is: IS THE STORY TRUE?

This situation is replicated all over the RCC world including in Europe and the UK and Ireland.

Amy’s protection of Rory, Ryan Mc Aleer etc comes to mind.

Is Amy another Stika?

145 replies on “US BISHOP PROTECTS AND SPENDS TENS OF THOUSANDS ON SEMINARIAN RAPIST.”

Yes, this Subczuk affair looks like just one small channel of a multi national swamp of corruption. Why was a nice Polish boy like Woyciech Subczuk going to a seminary in Indiana, thousands of miles from home? Apparently he was recommended by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, Archbishop of Krakow.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-church-worker-tennessee-claims-lawsuit-was-raped-seminarian-rcna17469
Earlier in his stellar career Cardinal Dziwisz was secretary to Pope John Paul II. According to Dziwisz’s Wiki biography, he channeled piles of money from the molester, embezzler and drug abuser Father Marcial Maciel of Mexico (yes, the guy who founded the Legion of Christ, sired six children, molested his own children and raised hundreds of millions of dollars). And Dzuwisz covered up for Cardinal Hans Groer, Archbishop of Vienna.
Did Dziwisz have an urgent reason for moving Subczuk far from home?

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Bishop Pat, I spotted you on Bedford Street, Belfast, yesterday, (Wednesday).you seemed preoccupied and in a hurry. I too was equally preoccupied and in a hurry
because of work committments. I shouted hello but with the traffic noise etc you couldn’t possibly have hear me.

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The Rev. Brent Shelton a witness in the lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Knoxville suddenly left his Oak Ridge parish after he was told he was likely to be transferred to another parish.
The sudden departure of Rev. Shelton of St. Mary Oak Ridge was announced by Bishop Richard Stika in a letter to the parish. Shelton left “without my knowledge and permission,” Stika wrote.

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Stika mentioned Lawyer Susan Vance, the leader of the Tennessee chapter of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, because the president-rector at Saint Meinard referred in his March 2021 letter to Stika an online dossier Vance posted online detailing the sexual assault accusations against the former seminarian.

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Those who shame victims for going no contact are the ones who should feel ashamed.
The last thing people need when they’re struggling to survive is to feel unwarranted guilt.
Most wait decades to escape the abusive environment, spend decades enduring gaslighting and boundary violations.

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Controlling bullies don’t like to be “ignored”. Certain professions and business models such as the church attract dictator types.

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3:46 they addicted to exploitation of the vulnerable, zero respect for boundaries. Always sneaking about hunting like a starving tomcat for their next victim. Despicable wolves in sheep’s clothing & their cohorts.

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Bishop Stika spending thousands of dollars on his alleged pet rapist seminarian reminds one of the Fr Rory Coyle scenario where hundreds of thousands of pounds of church funds has been spent on him with the blessing of Archbishop Eamon Martin. These young guys appear to have the old Bishops under their thumb.

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I wonder is Eamon Martin infatuated with Rory Coyle. Think of that photograph of the pair in St Peter’s Bascilica, specifically, of how closely they were standing together. There wasn’t a wafer’s distance between the two.
Just sayin’, like.

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Killaloe Bishop visits County Clare asylum hotel at centre of local resident safety & other related concerns.says:

The Bishop of Killaloe was on tv earlier making what was described as a “pastoral visit” to the hotel in County Clare. He didn’t offer to bring any of the asylum seekers back to his big house as no doubt he has a big house same as the rest of the Irish bishops.
Pope Francis’ and catholic bishops lip service about welcoming and caring for immigrants is all hot air! They don’t practice what they preach in any context.

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More in Fintan’s line now to deal with the issues in Killaloe rather than photo ops trying to look like a mediator etc.
Has Carole been fully repaid all the money tapped off her by a Killaloe priest?
Where is Jerry Carey?
What happened in Scariff?
Why is he going against the town of Ennis with his grubby plans to make more money for the despicable RCC?

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Well, this case of supporting / protecting a rapist may be pretty atrocious, but remember that there are bishops in our own back yard who day after day continue to support priests who clearly have serious problems that run counter to being a priest – JPL of Portsmouth, who is a sex pest who comes on to straight me; Rory of Armagh who sends dick pics on Grindr; Bareback Purcell who shags people on the monastery kitchen table and heads off for extra-curricular bareback sex in the gay sauna; and many more. All of these are being protected and facilitated by bishops with money, support, and an inability to do the right thing and cut them loose.

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Don’t forget Tom Deenihan, his protégé Paul Connell, and their massive vote of confidence in the ego-driven project founded by sex pest Kitty Kirby in the Diocese of Meath, as documented on this blog yesterday.

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So Deenihan has his eye on Cashel and Emily. And what is the seminary scandal still under wraps in Cashel and Emily? Michael Deegan RIP, who committed suicide in 1994 in St Patrick’s College, Thurles. Deenihan is a safe pair of hands is he? How did Deenihan get Meath diocese?

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The relationship between Bishop Stick-it—up-them, the rapist seminarian and Cardinal Rigali all looks very creepy. That seminarian is seriously deranged, calling himself the bishop’s ‘pet’ (NB Phylis Egan, not the ‘bishop’s man’) and ‘Prince of Poland’.

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Is Dick Stika another sicka bishop? How many seminary’s has this pole spent time in over the last 5 years?

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Dick Sticka needs to go subito. So Santo Subito’s gift to Knoxville was a gay rapist seminarian? How long will it be before the annulment of John Paul’s sainthood?

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@7:48am
You’re right the Polish ham should never have been raised to the altars, all he ever did was swan around world hamming it up. When he should have remained in Rome dealing with the likes of Maciel.

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3:38
Will you listen to Fr. Hypo Innocent.
All Fr. Innocent does is swan around hamming it up making
recordings for himself to use against others. Fat chance you’ll ever
be raised.

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+ Amy is a Dick Sticka, apropos Mc Alleer and Coyle, + Phylis Egan has PB Lytlle, and + Holy Toaly, Morris. I forgot who the Cherry Popper’s bishop is.

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I always felt guilty when I had sex in a parochial house or monastery, but I would never have had sex on the altar, that’s a boundary crossed with sheer contempt for the Lord.

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Forbidden fruit has been the undoing of the Roman Catholic Church. Spoilt freeloader priests facilitated by Sugar Daddy Bishops and their wealthy laity in management roles.

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The unaccounted for priests, often referred to on here as MIA (missing in action) – sometimes listed on Parish lists as “on sabbatical” or sometimes defiantly not mentioned nor accounted for at all by RCC although missing clerics salaries and supports for addictions etc., continue to be funded by the public. Unbelievable arrogance from this religious Mafia who are facilitated by authorities to continue to abuse every human right that exists to date & more.

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During the IICSA enquiry into CSA in Englad, wasn’t it revealed that the bishop of Portsmouth locked horns with the diocesan safeguarding officer? Am I right in thinking that she actually resigned because of his lack of cooperation?
Are the IICSA videos still available anywhere? I can’t find them?

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What about the muscular, well groomed, tall and dark bishop’s secretary in Portsmouth. What is his name? One of the ‘bishop’s men’ no doubt?

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The Pope needs to sack both aforementioned Bishops. Why do the people of Armagh keep funding the RCC and their corrupt clerics.

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Because they are all uneducated idiots. Who in the right frame of mind would want their children near any of these dangerous men?

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Bishop Stinker won’t a jump till he’s a pushed Pork Chop. He’ll be wanting plenta a gravy and mash before he takes off. Fraudulent Frankie’s Expensive RCC lawyers will be well incentivised to ensure Stinka don’t do da porridge.

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The sinky winky’s are on sticky wickets. The baa baas are waking up to the winky stinkys shenanigans. Rotten apples smelly eggs stinky socks.

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A stitch in time saves nine. Years from now will the Pope ask Connell to resign? A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

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You Will Know Them by Their Fruits
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them. Matthew 7:15-20

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Always remember never forget a stitch in time saves nine. Ordaining unsuitable characters is a mortgage on the Church and dioceses for
years to come. The Church seems to never learn creating more hostages to fortune. Is their learning deficiency by accident or design- a reward for doing the work of the Devil…In time to come will the Pope ask Deenihan
to resign or Paul Connell if he is raised to Episcopate..

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The Cistercians and the Vatican are in cahoots to protect Purcell. Deenihan and Connell are duly obliging. Dom Peeters visitation of Melleray takes the biscuit. How did the investigation conclude that the allegations of Purcell’s visitation of the boiler house were unfounded?

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7:28
Is there more going on-a greater hold than recordings- involving Purcell Deenihan and Connell?

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What is wrong with people Bishop Buckley? I went into work last year and a colleague thought he could put his hand up my skirt, he got sacked but people are mad, I trust nobody.

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I was gang raped by a group of Dominicans in 1991 and I have never felt comfortable to come forward and tell people

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You can trust Bishop Buckley, I promise you. A few months ago, I confided in him my abuse as seminarian at Maynooth by one of the deans. Bishop Buckley put no pressure of any kind on me, allowed me to tell my story, in my own words and time.

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9:56 every dog has its day. Now is your moment and hope you finally find peace and justice for the horrors you experienced.

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This would be quite high on the list of troll comments posted here with the intention of undermining this blog’s veracity. If this were true you would hardly be posting it here and saying you’re not comfortable to come forward.
They can’t even lie convincingly, folks.

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1O:18
I am fed up with priests trying to defend the indefensible. It is obvious
the clerical caste cannot lie convincingly. Watch to videos.

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Yet more evidence of the moral rottenness of Romanist priesthood: it can never produce anything other than rotten fruit, and it never fails to do so.
Jesus was clear: discileship is about servanthood and service, not about ego-building power-weilding. But tell this to cardinals Rigali and Dwiski, and to Bishop Stika, who does so love his ‘seat of POWER’.
Does anyone, apart from priests themselves, truly believe that men would be attracted to priesthood were it really about servanthood, and humble service?
Priesthood is not of Christ.

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9.57
If you keep saying it often enough you may begin to believe yourself, even if no one else does. People are persuaded by argument and not by obsessive projection. You didn’t believe it when you attemped seminary.

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11.26
The Gospel has been preached often enough, ‘Father’, and, more often then not, by people like you. But do you all really listen to it? No. So, is the Gospel not persuasive argument? And, yet, you, and your kind, refuse to heed it.
Sometimes it’s not about persuasive argument, but about wilful refusal to listen to it. All the more reason, then, to expound it continually, and all its inherent truths about priesthood, in the ever-lit hope that a spark will ignite belief in the stubborn and the obtuse, however slowly, and however unwelcomely.

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12.11
You are comparing your peddling of your obsessive and bizarre ideas about priesthood’s source in Christ and the preaching of the Gospel. So you are delusional on top of your other psychoses.

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If it looks like a Queen, walks like a Queen, sounds like a Queen.....then it is a Queen !says:

Justin Rigali is / was a Queen of the first order. Such a prissy one too. How he managed to get up the ladder, I do not know, but probably by being as orthodox, conservative and hard line as he could – as a way of deflecting from his own sexuality issues and how he presented himself. If it looks like a Queen, walks like a Queen, sounds like a Queen…..then it is a Queen !

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Oh the irony of Roman Catholics pretending to be horrified at a bishop supporting and financing a seminarian accused of rape.

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There is no need to keep reminding a rapist of one indiscretion. This is not of CHRIST. I’m sure they’ve confessed, and if God can forgive then so can everyone else.
Nobody ever remembers the many, many good priests who get smashed into the ground by this blog.

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Yet another day on the blog that is proof we women and lesbians in particular, should be allowed to be ordained. Without this the church will crumble, and God will be forgotten and Muslims will take over the world.

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11.26: The people of God were spared a ruthless bully when “he” got flung out of seminary. All is sour grapes since then for the parasite he’s now become…living on my taxes and yours..

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12:49
If you keep saying it often enough you may begin to believe yourself. This is integral to the spoiled priest ex-seminarian crap peddled by you know who…

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Bishop Stika shares his presbetery with the retired Cardinal Justin Rigali, who was Archbishop of the diocese where Stika served as Vicar General. Huge payouts were made to victims of abuse in his diocese after an investigation into how Rigali handled claims made. Apparently, they are very good friends, sharing ownership of a house in the countryside where they can enjoy time off. Stika should not have been appointed a Bishop. It is very clear that he cannot control himself. He will surely be gone soon?

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The core issue mentioned by SNAP leader at the start of the video is Safeguarding of Children. How can parents trust Bishops to do the right thing to Safeguard children?

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What’s the point of Safeguarding agencies in RCC, with their reviews, theology of safeguarding, training, briefing papers-cut/paste jobs of reports,conferences..etc, when bishops can protect whoever they
like such Stika and his Polish seminarian. What kind of salaries are safeguarding personnel full time and part-time receiving?

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I checked out ‘Toward Healing’ the so called ‘independent organization providing professional support for people who have experienced institutional, clerical or religious abuse in Ireland’ funded by RCC. The organization is governed by a bishop, religious sister, priest and the ‘usual suspects’ former solicitor, social worker, accountant, and former HSE worker. At least Fr. Richard Purcell is no longer chairperson. In their strategic plan June 2021 they state; significant changes and trends in recent years include: a reduction in the number of new clients presenting to the organization. Yet the bishops conference in December 2022 acknowledged a reckoning on CSA in Ireland has yet to occur! In my considerable experience these people are not to be trusted.

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12:52 Bishop Sticker and Cardinal Rigatoni appear to have a very cosy “arrangement”

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Bishop Pat,
Have you ever considered starting a podcast?
Reply to this comment if you are, because I’d be happy to provide equipment and training for free so you could continue to hold the church to account.
A one hour show every week would be very successful
Have you ever considered publishing a book?

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1:32 are ya an agent for any other Bishops? We need to check ya out for any potential conflicts of interest first, Squire.

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1:40 true for you and we thought all the clerics were homosexuals. Quite confusing. One never knows where one is with the holy ones it seems.

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It is ‘here or there’ Pat. Here is ‘militant’ and a good job we are around in this cesspit of a ‘Church’. The UK is fascist. No ‘Labour’ Party left – literally and metaphorically. Many of us supported Corbyn. I have found only 4 other true socialists in my present parish. Great to have met them. If it weren’t for ‘militant’ people like yourself these issues would still be swept under the carpet. It’s also very scary and puzzling what to do re staying. It is in us to worship Christ. Mockery made by clerics ( most of them I discovered too late.) No human being is capable or holy enough – nowhere near – to transubstantiate. They have defiled the purest of symbols for me. The Eucharistic table. I will not go to that table again, after 63 years of being taught to do so. Regardless of whether they’re having sex on the altar – that’s one aspect of sacrilege isn’t it. Of course your post today is about grooming & rape but I am talking about the whole gamut of evil. I don’t even need to go to a building to worship OBL. Have a good retired life with wonderful daughter & our dog. Off walking – I live near coast & country side – originally from a council house estate – thought your commenter about putting abusive clerics into council estates rather than idyllic settings was so ignorant. Shows no one or few clerics are listening. It’s children from EVERY background raped and abused. Financially poor people more vulnerable – his / her stance stereotypical of middle / upper class backgrounds – no idea or at worst they had same housing & ‘quality’ of life but becoming a priest etc erased the truth of their backgrounds from their minds. Poor, sad bas***** & bit****! Allows themselves to rationalise their political abuse as well as the rest. Angry still over everything RCC. Hoping it will abate soon! Thanks for reading this & will keep reading your posts etc. Regards from Maggie.
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So are the cistercians, 2 of them raped a woman in Dublin in the 70’s, got her pregnant and she ended up committing suicide over it.

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What is Bishop Dick Sticka thinking of by encouraging the rapist seminarian to have a sexual relationship with the young gay organist – even suggesting they use snap chat and paying for their holidays? Doesn’t it sound like a voyeuristic disorder?

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Can all of the above named Episcopal Leaders be considered legitimate authority figures in the RC?

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Bishops are all cover up merchants for the clergy. Noel Treanor protected all his gay cronies and then he had enough and set sail to Brussels. They are a bunch of chinless wonders the lot of them.

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You’ve only to look at the arrogant head on it to know he’s trouble.
Hopefully Rome will act quickly .

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Was elevating this character to Bishopric a dodgy decision?
Ordaining unsuitable characters, as Bishop Buckley said, is a mortgage on the Church and dioceses for years to come. The Church seems to never learn creating more hostages to fortune.

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Hah!! If they give “Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville power to investigate the situation” it will end quickly… in Stika’s favor. According to Stika’s own words, they are good friends. Kurtz was Stika’s predecessor. No wonder he’s not worried. What tangled webs are being woven….

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Cf Just-in mentioned above.
Are you trying to persuade other people that any part of the criminal organization is less iniquitous than any other or are you fool enough to believe that yourself?

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4.02
Highly unlikely that any protegé of Rigali would be liberal. You must be to the right of Attila the Hun and Bela the Hen.

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I’ve come to the conclusion that Priesthood is the best avenue available for a set life that is complete! I’m a faithful married man and I dare say there isn’t a cleric that gets more bucking than me, they are riding and breading like rabbits

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They are great at having ‘listening’ processes in Killaloe. Finishing another round of them again.. problem us +Fintan and Chancellor Albert mc donald can’t listen!!

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8:09
There are endless listening processes due to a desperate need to pull the wool over the unsuspecting gullible easily lead baa baas.

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I live in Scotland. A close friend who died recently told me a story which he said was true about a priest in the West who was in bed making love to another priest when he had a heart attack!
Pat you couldn’t make it up! Has any of Scottish correspondents heard about this?

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Anyone who wants to be a priest or deacon must have a psychological deficiency of one kind or another – it’s a given celibate clergy are hypocrites and invariably actively practising ((less their faith) more their orientation.
Dysfunctionality reigns supreme among the clergy.

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4.28: The dysfunctional, twisted psychologist speaks again…you poor thing. You won’t find any clinical, empirical evidence to validate your crapology. NONE.

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5:26 thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife, thou shalt not covet thy neighbours goods.

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One of the more interesting things on this blog is the hysterical (lol) reaction from the clergy when confronted with what they perceive to be ‘psychology’.

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Pat, may I ask you a personal question please. Do not feel the need to answer it off course, if I am being intrusive. How important do you think intimacy and sex is in a relationship?

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Pat, what is your view of a relatively young priest who had a labourer’s job before seminary returning home dressed in a clerical shirt with collar and black trousers and a carrying a black umbrella going for long walks around his large home town and walking within the confines of the town not ‘out in the countryside’. It isn’t his parish, it is his home town

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At least he is getting exercise, as most are flabby, and an umbrella seems a sensible precaution given the current weather.

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4:29 someone old and wise should do him a kindness & remind him that he’ll never be a prophet in his own parish. Your reference to his former occupation speaks volumes of your own parochial ingrained and discriminatory prejudices!
Goodness me, it’s just so irritating when people don’t turn out as you hoped they would!

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4.29
More imortantly, what do you think of it? Is he breaking any law, or merely your idea of social mores? You people!

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What’s your problem, this young priest is visiting his family & is out and about in his local community getting some exercise in a social manner. At least he’s not indoors surfing the net for rent boys or grooming kids on games chat rooms pretending he’s 14 or something like doing scams for Dodgy business types in the church. Get a life ya cretin. Jealous aul yoke ya are. Begrudger.

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Wojciech Sobczuk
In 2019, he was ousted from Sts. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake Michigan.
In 2021, Sobczuk was dismissed from St. Meinrad Seminary in Indiana.
Both moves were prompted by allegations of sexual misconduct &/or “boundary violations.”
Sobczuk is Polish and, so was Strika’s Mother, is their a connection there, are they related? What’s the connection between that old reprobate Pole Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, JP2’S minder and Strika and, Sobczuk.

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“Too much time and effort was spent protecting the institution rather than protecting vulnerable children and adults. There is ample evidence that ‘problem’ priests were moved about.” (From Blog 14May 2023.)
The depth of suffering behind the phrase ‘protecting the institution’ is mind-blowing,from an institution claiming such moral authority. Problem
priests were moved about, alleged rapist seminarians are protected.
The moral authority of the institutional catholic church is shattered,
their credibility in tatters.

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7:18 never waste your time reporting anything to a member of the RC, you will be defamed and discredited and endangered in a bid to shut you up. Check the brakes on your transportation before you leave home.

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Loling at the comments saying various orders have a rape culture and others saying children in every walk of life get abused.
Y’all don’t like people focussing on your, er, ‘church’ and its abuse problem so perhaps you could have a go at sorting yourselves out.

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Does anyone know the identity of the ex-seminarian with the bizarre views on the origins of Christian ministerial priesthood who ised to comment here under a nom de plume before things got too hot and too heavy for him?
As if using an anomyous handle could cloak his writing style and his silly attempts to conceal his persona were effective.

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What I know for a fact is you all used to say you knew who he was but were strangely unable to name him when he challenged you to. 😂

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11:00
Your seven year obsession of wanting to know the identity of the ex-seminarian is utterly bizarre. In charity I suggest having a chat with
a confidante. Has it crossed your mind the number ordained to RCC priesthood in the last seven years MIA or now living their ‘best lives’
with partners.

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