Part 6 Eaters of Children : The Pedocracy Exposed ... Spotlighting

Eaters of Children :  

The Pedocracy Exposed

by Giovanni Augustino “Johnny” Cirucci

Chapter 8 

Spotlighting 

20 April 1967: Father John Joseph Geoghan is transferred from Blessed Sacrament Parish in Saugus, Massachusetts to St. Paul’s parish in Hingham, Massachusetts without explanation to parishioners from his superiors. Within a year, he is caught by a Hingham father molesting his young son. The man complained to Church authorities. Geoghan was sent to Seton Institute, Baltimore for “counseling” and then transferred to St. Mary’s parish in Melrose, Massachusetts where he molested all four boys belonging to single mother Joanne Mueller. 

After 40 years of raping and abusing children, the complaints over Geoghan finally produced action: Pope Saint John Paul II defrocked the priest in 1998. He had had his run, he was now cleared as a sacrificial scapegoat. 

Three years later, in 2001, the Spotlight “deep investigation” team of the Boston Globe conducted a series of reports that detailed Geoghan’s decades of outrages. 

The Globe was dominated by Jesuit-trained Catholics like Spotlight team lead Walter “Robbie” Robinson. Was it courage that instigated the reports? — A desire to purge the Archdiocese of its pedophile priests? 

In 2015, Spotlight would get the spotlight of Hollywood to further prove that media controlled by Knights of Malta was actually trustworthy — especially when given to Jews to steward. 

Martin “Marty” Baron was a Jewish circuit-riding editor, bouncing from paper to paper, working miracles for their flagging reputations. 

In July of 2001, Baron succeeded Notre Dame-educated Matthew Storin as Executive Editor of the Globe. In his very first staff meeting, Baron recommended the Spotlight team hone in on Father John J. Geoghan. 

Was this upstart outsider Jew playing Superman and forcing the Jesuit trained Catholics of the Globe to do their jobs? He certainly had the resume for it. 

Baron was born in Tampa, Florida, to Jewish emigrants from Israel. He attended Berkeley Preparatory School and worked on the school's student paper. He matriculated at Lehigh University where he was editor of The Brown and White student newspaper. He earned both a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and MBA with honors in four years, graduating in 1976. [1] He had received special permission to take graduate classes as an undergraduate. [2] Baron is a fluent Spanish speaker. [3] 

The year he graduated from college Baron began working for The Miami Herald; he moved to The Los Angeles Times in 1979, and to The New York Times in 1996. [4] He returned to the Herald as executive editor in 2000 and led coverage of numerous key stories, including Elián González’s return to Cuba and the 2000 election. ~ Wikipedia [310] 

Sadly, the true story is as corrupt and cynical as all the others you’ve read so far. Elián González was an immigrant Cuban child ripped from his family at gunpoint by the Jesuit-trained Bill Clinton Administration and deported. As his lead on the story showed, Marty Baron was the perfect Jewish front-man for Rome to use to help her puppets in propaganda promote the idea that they were true journalists. 

Boston and surrounding dioceses had suffered for being so openly controlled by Rome. Serial predators like Father Paul Shanley and Father James Porter had raped and abused hundreds of children and they were carefully enabled by constant transfers to new pastures once parishioner ire was raised in an old one. 

By 2003, the Jesuit-trained Roman Catholic Attorney General of Boston, Thomas Francis Reilly, [xxi] was forced to admit that thousands of children had been abused by Catholic clergy in his district over the previous 60 years. 

At least 789 children and probably more than 1,000 have been sexually abused by 250 priests and other church workers in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston since 1940, according to a 16-month investigation by the Massachusetts attorney general that was made public today. ~ The New York Times [311] 

One can assume the real numbers stagger the senses, especially when expanding the parameters of the locations and dates. 

Father James Porter started molesting children even before his ordination — about the same time Alfred Kinsey was in full swing with his agenda out of Indiana University. 

Like all before or since, Porter raped children with impunity and when he was done, he was released from his vows and allowed to settled down. Even “user-edited” Wikipedia’s summary is honest and horrific in its proof of the systemic corruption that is the Devil’s Simulation — 

Porter started both training for the priesthood and molesting children at a young age; he abused his earliest known victim in 1953, the summer before he entered seminary. [2] He was ordained in 1959 and became a priest of the diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts. 

Porter was assigned to St. Mary’s parochial grammar school in North Attleboro, Massachusetts in April 1960 and put in charge of the altar boys. Porter gained a reputation there as a child molester, but no action was taken against him by the Catholic Church until 1963, by which time at least four parents had complained to his superiors about his inappropriate behavior. Rather than contact the police, however, Church officials moved Porter to a parish in Fall River, where further complaints about his behavior surfaced. [1] In the early 1960s, more than 60 North Attleboro children were sexually victimized by James Porter, and nearly 100 in southeastern Massachusetts. [3] 

In 1964, Porter was arrested for molesting a 13-year-old boy and sent to a mental institution for 13 months [outrageously light sentence]. Once released, he was quickly reassigned to another parish, the first of many such reassignments over the years. He was shuffled into two more parishes before more accusations piled up and he was hospitalized again in 1967, this time to a hospital run by fellow priests who practiced holistic psychotherapy upon its patients, many of whom were clergy members suffering from psychological problems. Porter’s “problem” was not unique among the hospital’s patients; two of them were later imprisoned for abusing, between them, hundreds of children. 

— Punishment for raping kids: receive “therapy” from other priests on why taking the innocence of children is not acceptable. — 

Porter was released after a few months, once again declared cured, and given probationary assignments in parishes in Texas, New Mexico and Minnesota, all of which included access to children. Complaints surfaced by the dozen against Porter, but none of them resulted in disciplinary action beyond his being moved from post to post. [1] 

In 1973, Porter wrote a letter to Pope Paul VI requesting to be released from the priesthood, in which he admitted molesting children across five states. The Pope granted his request and, in 1974, Porter gave up his collar. [4] He married, and eventually settled in Minnesota. He and his wife had four children. 

Like a Mafia hit-man, Porter destroyed countless lives than simply “opted out”. He was allowed to do so by Rome and her dutiful public servants through a multiplicity of States where he had raped children. 

Paul Shanely was a Jesuit-styled “community organizer”; “hippie street preacher” by day, child rapist by night. 

At the culmination of his 40 years of terror (which included the rape and abuse of toddlers), the elderly Shanely was finally jailed in 2005. After serving the minimum sentence, he was released. Even at 86 years old, victims were infuriated that he should be returned to society. [xxii] 

Attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who represented some of those men in lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Boston, said his clients are upset that Shanley is getting out of prison. 

“Unfortunately, there is no mechanism in place which will prevent Paul Shanley from sexually abusing once again,” Garabedian [xxiii] said. “When it comes to a sexual abuser abusing an innocent child, the abuser can be 35 or 95 – there’s no age limit.” ~ The Press Herald [312]

Shanley was billed by both Catholic leadership and media like the Associated Press and Fox News as having a “special ministry for teens”: 

For over 20 years, the Rev. Paul Shanley established a reputation as a “street priest,” setting up a ministry for runaways, drug addicts, drifters and teen-agers struggling with sexuality. 

But Shanley apparently had another side. [313] 

One can’t be sure what the “other side” of targeting “teen-agers struggling with sexuality” is but it wasn’t something Shanley did of his own accord: he was ordered to it. 

Newly released documents show he had an extended history of sexual misconduct allegations. He publicly defended sex between men and boys and was even at the sexuality conference that saw the founding of the North American Man Boy Love Association. 

Among the documents turned over by the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston in relation to a lawsuit recently filed against it was the Feb. 12, 1979, issue of a publication called GaysWeek that includes an article titled “Men & Boys.” ... 

The GaysWeek article described a meeting of 150 people in Boston on the topic of man-boy love. It said many speakers representing various religions endorsed such relationships — including Shanley, who was there as a representative of then-Cardinal of Boston Humberto Medeiros’ program for outreach to sexual minorities. ... 

The North American Man Boy Love Association apparently was formed at the end of the conference by 32 men and two teen-agers. There was no indication in the article that Shanley was among them. [314] 

Yet, we are to believe that Father Paul Shanley went from being under orders to lead “Cardinal of Boston Humberto Medeiros’ program for outreach to sexual minorities” to helping found NAMBLA on his own accord. 

Shanley’s NAMBLA co-founder was Thomas Reeves, a college professor who lived and worked in Boston. Like Shanely, Jesuit Father Richard McSorely and many other Catholic clergy, Reeves was a far-Left “community organizer” specializing in issues like homosexuality, AIDS, race or the Vietnam draft. 

Reeves, however, was an ordained Methodist minister. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee and pastored a church in Blue Springs, Alabama. However, he felt pulled to the Catholic haven of Boston to settle. 

Reeves wasn’t a strict Methodist, in fact, he was a member of Taizé; a French ecumenist movement that encouraged Protestants to merge with their “mother” Catholic Church. [315] 

Any resemblance between the Croix de Taizé and the gnostic Maltese Cross used by Catholic Knights to denote their allegiance is purely coincidental. 

The same “coincidence” can be found in the Teutonic “Iron Cross”; a military decoration founded by Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia in March 1813 and proudly awarded to many a Nazi during WWII for their service to ... “Germany”. 

In 2012, Thomas Reeves died of heart failure in another Catholic haven city he liked to spend time in: Baltimore. Well-wishers were requested to donate to the St. Joseph’s orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. NAMBLA would proudly proclaim of him — 

From 1976 to 2001, Reeves taught at Boston’s historically black Roxbury Community College, where he became a full professor of social sciences and director of the school’s Caribbean Focus program. Tom had a particular interest in the plight of Haiti, writing and speaking frequently about the country and joining a number of delegations and humanitarian missions, for which he was honored by the Haitian government. At Tom’s invitation, the then recently-overthrown Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide spoke at the college and received an honorary degree in April 1992. [316] 

Apparently even Baron Samedi is also a Knight of Malta. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was, himself, a Jesuit priest [317] who usurped power in 1990. Eight months later he was overthrown by a military coup. 

Haitians had had a belly-full of Jesuit seditions (what the order does best). Despite having thorough control of “mainstream” media, a few examples surface through the years. 

For instance, in 1964 the Company was threatened with expulsion after two Jesuits were arrested with documents deemed vital to the national security of Haiti. [318] Although vicious Roman Catholic dictator François “Papa Doc” Duvalier did expel the Jesuits later that year, he would sign a Concordat two years afterward which granted him the privilege of Investiture — the ability to choose Bishops and Cardinals apparently loyal to him. [319] It was a power that caused wars several times through England’s history (for more read Secret History). In return, Rome maintained ultimate control over Haiti and continued to allow Duvalier to use his Tonton Macoute secret police to murder and terrorize Haitians. 

Duvalier applied theater to control through fear and often dressed as “Baron Samedi”, the Haitian spirit of lust and the dead. In an autocratic tyranny, tracking victims is impossible but the total number of dead at the hands of François Duvalier may go as high as 60,000. 

Tonton Macoute is a Voodoo / Creole tradition translated “Uncle Knapsack”: a tuxedo-dressed demon who kidnaps children. 

When François “Papa Doc” Duvalier died in 1971, he left his son Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier in his place. However, “Baby Doc” was not nearly as focused as his murderous father. He turned to what he knew to be the source of power — Rome — and gave up his father’s Investiture in favor of open Vatican approval of his regime. 

Recognizing his weakness, a visit by Pope Saint John Paul II was arranged in 1983 but Duvalier was shocked when the Vicar of Christ made a speech in Creole pronouncing “Things must change here.” [320] 

One year later, the Jesuits returned from exile full force courtesy of a new treaty signed between “Baby Doc” Duvalier and Rome (known as a “Concordat”). 

Baby Doc had been out-manoeuvred. The Pope, intent upon positioning the Church for the future, was happy to betray his host. Giving Papa Doc control of the Haitian Church had served its purpose and now it was time to reign in his weak son and have him sign the new concordat in the window of opportunity before he was forced out. While deliberately hastening Baby Doc’s departure, the Vatican seized the chance to drive a hard bargain with his collapsing government. The concordat amendment of 1984 rescinds even the President’s nominal right of nominating bishops and archbishops [Investiture]. [25] [since when does a church tell a state what it can and not do? This is only possible when the church is actually running the state dc]

In addition to a favourable concordat, the Vatican’s belated opposition to the regime offered further opportunities. It allowed the Church to distance itself from the dictator it had once supported. (The Vatican had used the same strategy in the previous decade during the declining days of Franco’s Spain.) This move gave the Church credit for helping to usher out an unpopular dictator and at the same time distracted Haitians from the Vatican’s record of regularly supporting the nation’s strongmen and élites. 

In 1986 protests against Baby Doc led the U.S. to arrange for Duvalier and his family to be exiled to France and a new constitution was proclaimed the next year. ~ Concordat Watch [321] 

By betraying the dictators Rome had once supported she could now claim credit for the Duvalier ouster. In 1986, the New York Times proudly trumpeted — 

A group of Haitian priests and nuns are pressing for the resignation of the Archbishop of Port-au-Prince because of what they say was his collaboration with the Duvalier Government. ... 

Militant sectors of the Roman Catholic Church that played a key role in the ouster of President Jean-Claude Duvalier on Feb. 7 appear to be behind the campaign against the Archbishop, Francois-Wolff Ligonde. [322] 

The Archbishop of Port-au-Prince (Haiti’s capital) holds the same power that the Archbishop of Canterbury holds in England. To believe any Prelate in such a critical position would forego loyalty to Rome over loyalty to their host nation is either to be completely ignorant of Catholic hierarchy or purposefully deceptive. [xxiv] 

In 1994, Jesuit Father Aristide rode on the backs of American soldiers sent by Jesuit-trained President Bill Clinton in his triumphant return to power. 

The Jesuits certainly don’t lack in cheek. The legislation they installed after the false flag of 9/11 that pushed America into an Orwellian Police State was labeled by Catholic agents in Congress as “the Patriot Act”. Bill Clinton’s “errand of mercy” to reinstall Father Aristide at the point of American bayonets was called “Operation Uphold Democracy”. 

Standing with the American forces in Haiti to reinstall their Jesuit Priest President was a young Army Major named Michael Thomas Flynn, Sr. [323] A devout Roman Catholic, Flynn would go on to make General and head the Defense Intelligence Agency. He would later spend a brief time as Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor before being asked to step down by another devout Catholic (later re-branded an “Evangelical” [324] ), Trump’s Vice President, Michael Pence. [325] Flynn and his son, Flynn Jr. were at the heart of a media firestorm[326] over the so-called “PizzaGate” scandal. It implicated Democrat power-broker and former Jesuit seminarian John Podesta in child sex slave trafficking which centered around Comet Ping Pong Pizza in Washington D.C. More on “PizzaGate” in Chapter 31. 

Perhaps it’s no surprise that Catholic St. Joseph’s orphanage, so well thought-of by NAMBLA and “Methodist minister” co-founder Thomas Reeves, is also plagued by reports that the children interned there are constantly victimized and forced into the sex slave trade. More on that in Chapter 28. 

Boston Catholic Outreach to “Sexual Minorities” 

Aside from that single Associated Press mention, nothing more can be learned of Cardinal Medeiros’ “program”. The Boston Globe would go on to say of Shanley that he rescued “legions of homosexual runaways” and “their parents ... considered Shanley a hero and his work a ... blessing.” [327] The same piece bragged that Shanely was driving state-to-state “on a rambling speaking tour.” Was Paul Shanley the Roman Catholic Tony Robbins, or were his superiors insuring that he had access to children even outside Massachusetts? 

In fact, serial boy-rapist Paul Shanley was an extraordinarily powerful man, from mentoring homosexual legislators on their way to Congress to assisting Alfred Kinsey in pulling America towards sexual anarchy — 

Representative Barney Frank, then a state legislator active in gay-rights issues, attended legislative meetings with him. One of only a handful of priests in the country assigned to work full time with homosexuals, Shanley charmed not only the media and city leaders, but clerical and youth workers throughout New England. They studied Shanley’s taped essays on “Counseling Parents of Gays” and “Changing Norms of Sexuality” as if they were scripture. [328] 

The Church had big plans for Barnett “Barney” Frank. As a homosexual Jew he was another excellent front man. He would go on to disgrace Congress for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for over 30 years. During that time, he was instrumental in loosing restrictions on predatory banks via the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act [329] as well as the catastrophe that was the “Housing Bubble”. 

...his fingerprints are all over this fiasco. Time and time again, Frank insisted that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in good shape. Five years ago, for example, when the Bush administration proposed much tighter regulation of the two companies, Frank was adamant that “these two entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not facing any kind of financial crisis.” When the White House warned of “systemic risk for our financial system” unless the mortgage giants were curbed, Frank complained that the administration was more concerned about financial safety than about housing. 

Now that the bubble has burst and the “systemic risk” is apparent to all, Frank blithely declares: “The private sector got us into this mess.” Well, give the congressman points for gall. Wall Street and private lenders have plenty to answer for, but it was Washington and the political class that derailed this train. ~ Boston Globe [330] 

Are we to believe that Humberto Medeiros assigned Paul Shanley these critical positions unbeknownst of his sexual depredations? Shanley even had the approval of Medeiros’ successor, Cardinal Richard Cushing. The Boston Globe admitted Shanley’s crimes were well-known in his powerful circles. 

For some devout Catholics, the notion of such a ministry seemed at odds with church teachings. ... 

That Shanley, now 71 [in 2002], was accused of molesting some of the boys who turned to him for help is now well known. Harder to divine is what church leaders knew or suspected of his behavior. And even more disconcerting, particularly for some of his alleged victims, is the fact that so many prominent Bostonians admired and supported Shanley’s work and yet were seemingly unaware of his flagrant sexual activities. Shanley’s penchant for young boys was no secret, at least not in some quarters of the city, and the word among street veterans was to steer clear of him. ... 

So daunting was Shanley’s celebrity that some of those who followed his career and had suspicions about him didn’t know where to go with their concerns. Boston, after all, was among the most Catholic of cities. Nor was the gay community, struggling to emerge from a shroud of secrecy and condemnation, particularly eager to have one of its most vocal champions linked to sexual abuse. 

— But it is thoroughly consistent with where promoting homosexuality eventually leads! — 

One exception was Elaine Noble, the first openly gay state representative in the country, who knew Shanley well in the 1970s. She said she was suspicious of his activities and complained to a host of city leaders, including the police and mayor’s office. That nothing came of her reports she attributes in part to Shanley’s popularity and potent connections. ... 

Noble says she took her concerns about Shanley to the Boston police; to Katharine Kane, then a deputy mayor; and to several priests who are now dead. Kane, now retired, said she “never heard of Shanley until now.” And when leaders in the gay community heard what Noble had done, she said, “I got holy hell. People in my own community just didn’t want to believe it. The truth is that people were afraid of Shanley. ... No one could shut down Paul Shanley.” [331] 

Shanley had limitless access to children into adulthood either in or out of “the Church” to include his duty as the Chaplain of “public” Boston State University. Thanks to deviants like Alfred Kinsey and other Luciferians, it became culturally-accepted to believe the ludicrous idea that children can perceive themselves to be homosexual. These hapless victims were then funneled to predator “advocates” like Father Paul Shanley. 

By the early 1970s, Shanley had become so linked to the issue of gay youth that “he was the go-to guy if your child was homosexual,” said Roderick MacLeish Jr., who represents almost half of the 26 alleged Shanley victims who have taken legal action. “Paul Shanley would be the referral from the hot lines, from the newspaper, from the street.” ... 

Carmen Durso, the attorney who represents several of Shanley’s alleged victims, says Shanley’s choices were no accident. Shanley, he said, “went out and created a pool of kids he could go after. He advertised for them. He went after the kids at the bus stops, the runaways, the kids who nobody cared about and who had no one to talk to. Shanley was very instinctive about his victims, like finding the weakest member of the herd.” [332] 

Shanley’s crimes may even have been worse than the hundreds of other priests who abused the trust of families in them because he specifically appealed to young boys who questioned their very identities. 

Shanley’s alleged victims had a lot in common, according to several of their lawyers. They were lonely. Depressed. Terrified of their sexuality. Some came from single-parent homes and had few friends. A few had never had sex before. [333] 

While he raped them, he lived like a prince on a “priest’s salary”. 

Lightly supervised by the church [in Boston that Catholic Church is universal enough to be written lower-case], freed of tedious parish duties, Shanley was a one-man ministry. He walked the city’s streets at all hours ... trailed at times by those who knew he held the key to a meal and bed. His routine varied often, particularly as his public speaking and traveling schedule picked up... He toured the youth hangouts, Boston Common, and bus stations. He held Masses for Dignity, an association of gay Catholics. And ... he rented an elegant Beacon Street apartment in the Back Bay that, one of his accusers said, was a regular gathering spot for teenage boys, “and right in the middle of them Shanley would sit enthroned, sort of holding court.” [334]

The Globe admitted that, during this time, neither it nor any other media outlet appeared to be doing their job very well. 

No one was more taken with the fiery, witty priest than the media. [335] Where was Marty Baron when you needed him? 

While he lived like a king, Shanley not only took advantage of confused boys by raping them, he proffered them to his powerful friends. 

But if the public and press were largely blind to Shanley’s ways, the boys he allegedly made his victims were definitely not. They are men, now, their childhoods long behind them. But their encounters with Shanley have stained their lives like scarlet ink. Many have suffered from prolonged addictions and recurring depression. Some have been unable to form lasting relationships and have tried to take their own lives. 

One of them, now a 47-year-old builder and father of three who asked that his name not be used, says he met Shanley when he was 13 and had run from his South Shore home to the Boston “scene.” He recalls Shanley telling him that he was a psychologist who specialized in teen issues. And when the priest offered the boy a place to stay, he says he agreed, and Shanley took him to his third-floor bedroom at Warwick House. He says Shanley had the maid take his dirty clothes and offered him a robe. When it came time for bed, he recalled, “[Shanley] said, ‘You can sleep with me.’ I was thinking this is not a good idea. And then all of a sudden he is naked and touching me, and I am petrified ... I was completely freaked out.” 

Another boy, now age 43, was introduced to Shanley in 1974 at age 15 and told that the priest could help him with his many family problems. At Shanley’s suggestion, he says, the two played strip poker and then stood naked before a mirror in his Beacon Street apartment. For about a month, he says, he continued to visit Shanley, who told him he was “an expert in sexuality,” for weekly “sessions” during which they had sex. One day Shanley asked the boy if he would like to have sex with other men. “I said, ‘I don’t know,”’ said the man, who lives in Boston and filed a civil lawsuit against Shanley in April. “He said, ‘Well, I think you should, because part of being a man is having a lot of sexual experiences.”’ 

Throughout the 1970s, Shanley allegedly took young men to a number of his residences, including the elegant Back Bay townhouse with its black French doors, a Vermont retreat called “Rivendell” ... [336] 

Why would a powerful pedophile priest name his expensive townhouse after the fantasy elf enclave from the Lord of the Rings trilogy? It was more than just a penchant for orcs and wizards. 

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ... was an English writer born in South Africa in 1892. ... 

Although his family was composed mostly of Protestants, Tolkien’s mother Mabel converted to Catholicism following a trip to Birmingham, England, after the death of Tolkien’s father. 

This decision caused Mabel’s Protestant and Baptist family to withdraw her financial support. 

Such struggles contributed to her death four years later, but not before she had enrolled John and his brother Hilary Arthur Reuel Tolkien into St. Philip’s Grammar School, associated with the Birmingham Oratory. There, they were acquitted to Father Francis Xavier Morgan, a Roman Catholic priest, who eventually took custody of Ronald and Hilary. Morgan was named after Francis Xavier, one of the founders of the Jesuits along with Ignatius Loyola and Peter Faber. The brothers considered the Oratory as their home, serving as Morgan’s altar boys every morning. 

These events set Tolkien to be a devout Roman Catholic. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien & C.S. Lewis: Jesuit Imagineering, JohnnyCirucci.com[337] 

But Shanley didn’t just rape boys in his expensive apartments and townhouses, he showed his powerful public connections by also taking them to a secluded cabin which was part of the Ponkapoag Outdoor Center, run by the YMCA. 

Through it all, Father Paul Shanley was carefully protected and enabled by his superiors spanning three successive Cardinals. 

Shanley was allowed to continue in the priesthood for years. When he moved to California to join the San Bernardino Diocese in 1990, he served for three years without restriction on his contact with children. 

... alleged abuse victim Gregory ... Ford ... said he repeatedly was raped by Shanley in the 1980s, also alleges that Boston Cardinal Bernard Law, who succeeded Medeiros, allowed the priest to remain as pastor at St. John the Evangelist Parish until 1989, despite knowledge of his behavior. 

... The earliest document related to Shanley’s alleged sex abuse dates to 1967: A priest at LaSalette Shrine in Attleboro, Mass., wrote a letter of concern to the archdiocese, relating allegations that Shanley had taken boys to a cabin and molested them.

When Shanley moved to California in 1990 after a medical leave from Boston, the Rev. Robert J. Banks wrote to San Bernardino officials to say, “I can assure you that Father Shanley has no problem that would be concern to your diocese.” 

In 1995, Shanley moved to New York to become assistant director of Leo House, which housed transients, clergy, people visiting the sick, students and travelers. He later was poised to become director of the organization, but was not given the job. ~ Fox News / AP [338] 

As Father Paul Shanley tagged out of serial child raping in Boston (and elsewhere), Father John Joseph Geoghan tagged in. 

Once Geoghan was cleared by Rome as a sacrificial goat, the Boston Globe Spotlight Team could write about him. 

They even received the help of a female Superior Court Judge — Constance Sweeney (also Roman Catholic) — who ordered records sealed years earlier to be released to the Globe. 

Now the Boston paper could do the job it was supposed to and report (at least on Geoghan) that he was a monster who focused on the very young, especially if they were poor. 

During his reign of terror, Geoghan had the full support of his superiors like Bernard Cardinal Law. [xxv] 

Almost always, his victims were grammar school boys. One was just 4 years old. 

Then came last July’s disclosure that Cardinal Bernard F. Law knew about Geoghan’s problems in 1984, Law’s first year in Boston, yet approved his transfer to St. Julia’s parish in Weston. Wilson D. Rogers Jr., the cardinal’s [xxvi] attorney, defended the move last summer, saying the archdiocese had medical assurances that each Geoghan reassignment was “appropriate and safe.” [ such a crock of s*$t, medical assurance from who? the site run by fellow priests? dc ]

But one of Law’s bishops thought that the 1984 assignment of Geoghan to St. Julia’s was so risky, he wrote the cardinal a letter in protest. And for good reason, the Spotlight Team found: The archdiocese already had substantial evidence of Geoghan’s predatory sexual habits. That included his assertion in 1980 that his repeated abuse of seven boys in one extended family was not a “serious” problem, according to an archdiocesan record. 

The St. Julia’s assignment proved disastrous. [xxvii] Geoghan was put in charge of three youth groups, including altar boys. In 1989, he was forced to go on sick leave after more complaints of sexual abuse, and spent months in two institutions that treat sexually abusive priests. Even so, the archdiocese returned him to St. Julia’s, where Geoghan continued to abuse children for another three years. [339] 

It was a pattern that lasted decades — 

Before Geoghan ever got to Weston in 1984, he had already been treated several times and hospitalized at least once for molesting boys. And he had been removed from at least two parishes for sexual abuse. In 1980, for instance, he was ordered out of St. Andrew’s in Jamaica Plain after casually admitting he had molested the seven boys. 

In 1981, after a year’s sick leave, Geoghan was dispatched to St. Brendan’s in Dorchester, with little chance he would be placed under scrutiny... 

In September 1984, complaints that Geoghan had abused children at the Dorchester parish prompted Law to remove him. Two months later, the cardinal gave Geoghan a fresh start at St. Julia’s. 

Law allowed Geoghan to stay in Weston for more than eight years before removing him from parish duty in 1993. But even that decision to recast Geoghan as a functionary at a home for retired priests did not prevent him from seeking out and molesting children, according to the multiple civil suits and criminal charges filed against the 66-year-old Geoghan. [340] 

Like a jackal stalking a herd, waiting for the sick or the young to stray into vulnerability, Geoghan fixated on easy prey. 

From the Jamaica Plain case alone, the archdiocese’s top officials were aware of Geoghan’s attraction to young boys, and how he picked his victims: The affable Geoghan usually befriended Catholic mothers struggling to raise large families, often alone. His offers to help, often by taking the children for ice cream or praying with them at bedtime, were accepted without suspicion. 

That is how 12-year-old Patrick McSorley, who lived in a Hyde Park housing project, allegedly became a Geoghan victim in 1986 — two years after Geoghan’s assignment to Weston. 

According to McSorley, Geoghan, who knew the family from St. Andrew’s, learned of his father’s suicide and dropped by to offer condolences to his mother, who is schizophrenic. The priest offered to buy Patrick ice cream. 

“I felt a little funny about it,” McSorley recalled in an interview. “I was 12 years old and he was an old man.” 

Riding home after getting ice cream, McSorley says, Geoghan consoled him. But then he patted his upper leg and slid his hand up toward his crotch. ... 

For years, McSorley has battled alcoholism and depression. And now, as the plaintiff in one of the lawsuits against Geoghan, McSorley is bitter. “To find out later that the Catholic Church knew he was a child molester — every day it bothers me more and more,” McSorley says. [341] 

It was the price Bostonians paid for having their city so overtly and completely owned by Rome and one they paid with their children. 

No American diocese has faced a scandal of similar dimensions since 1992. That year, in the Fall River Diocese, more than 100 of former priest James Porter’s victims surfaced publicly with evidence that Porter’s superiors — including, in the 1960s, then Monsignor Medeiros — shifted him from one parish to another as parents learned of his compulsive abuse. 

Since 1997, the archdiocese has settled about 50 lawsuits against Geoghan, for more than $10 million — but with no confidential documents ever made public. [342] 

Sadly, nothing has changed since this story was published in 2002. Secular institutions remain firmly in Rome’s grip. ... 

Massachusetts law assured secrecy — and still does. For all the years that Geoghan was molesting children, clergymen were exempt from laws requiring most other caregivers to report incidents of sex abuse to police for possible prosecution. It was only after last summer’s revelations that the archdiocese dropped its long-standing opposition to legislation adding clergy to the list of “mandated reporters.” But the legislation died in committee. [343] 

Like so many other predator pedophile priests, Geoghan came to the Catholic Church ready to rape little boys ... almost as if he was recruited for it. 

There is no dispute that Geoghan abused children while he was at Blessed Sacrament in Saugus after his 1962 ordination. The archdiocese has recently settled claims on accusations that he did, and the church records obtained by the Globe note that Geoghan in 1995 admitted molesting four boys from the same family then. [344] 

In an April 1995 session with [Massachusetts General Hospital psychiatrist Dr. Edward] Messner, Geoghan said that even as a newly ordained priest he would “experience arousal when there was physical closeness” with children. [345] 

Another priest attempted to tell both superiors and secular authorities about Geoghan but was cowed into silence despite contradicting his own sworn affidavit. 

He, too, remained free from prosecution. 

A former priest, Anthony Benzevich, has said he alerted church higher-ups that Geoghan frequently took young boys to his rectory bedroom. In news reports after accusations against Geoghan surfaced publicly, Benzevich was also quoted as saying church officials threatened to reassign him as a missionary in South America for telling them about Geoghan. Benzevich told his story to Mitchell Garabedian, who represents nearly all of the plaintiffs in the civil suits against Geoghan and church officials, according to an affidavit Garabedian filed. 

But court records reviewed by the Globe show that when Benzevich appeared in Garabedian’s office for a pre-trial deposition in October 2000, he was represented by Wilson Rogers 3d — the son of Law’s principal attorney. Then, under oath, Benzevich changed his story. He said he was not certain that Geoghan had had boys in his room. And he said he could not recall notifying superiors about Geoghan’s behavior with children. [ Benzevich is a POS coward. dc]

In a recent interview with the Globe, Benzevich said he does indeed remember Geoghan taking boys to his room. He said Geoghan often sought to wrestle with young boys — and liked to dress them in priest’s attire. But he repeated his sworn assertion that he does not recall notifying his superiors. 

Before his deposition, Benzevich said, Wilson Rogers 3d approached him, told him the church was trying to protect him from being named as a defendant, and offered to represent him. His earlier statements to reporters, Benzevich said, had been misconstrued. [346] 

Most shocking were the Catholic parents who discovered the monster abusing their children and meekly complained to “Church” superiors. 

It was a story that repeated again and again. 

The pending lawsuits include accusations that Geoghan again abused young boys from several families in his next parish, St. Paul’s in Hingham, between 1967 and 1974. One of his alleged victims, Anthony Muzzi Jr., said in an interview last week that in addition to his own abuse, his uncle caught Geoghan abusing his son. The uncle ordered Geoghan to leave his house, and complained to the priest’s superiors at St. Paul’s. ... [good thing it was not my son, I would have immediately  sent the queer priest to the afterlife without thought of what the world  would do to me dc]

During his assignment in Hingham, Geoghan found victims far afield, befriending Joanne Mueller, a single mother of four boys who lived in Melrose. There too, according to depositions, the priest became a regular visitor, a spiritual counselor to Mueller and a helpmate to her boys, who were between 5 and 12. 

One night, she testified, her second youngest son came to her, insisting that she keep Geoghan away from him. “I don’t want him doing that to my wee-wee, touching my wee-wee ...” Mueller recalled the boy saying. 

Mueller, according to her deposition, summoned her three other sons and learned that Geoghan, while purporting to be taking them out for ice cream, helping them with their baths, and reading them bedtime stories, had been raping them orally and anally. Also, Mueller said, Geoghan was insisting they tell no one. “We couldn’t tell you because Father said it was a confessional,” she said one of her sons told her. 

Mueller testified that she immediately took the boys to see Rev. Paul E. Miceli, a parish priest at St. Mary’s in Melrose who knew both Geoghan and her family. [347] 

The behavior by parents to trust officials in the Catholic Church rather than law enforcement was and is criminal collusion; aiding and abetting the sexual abuse of their own children. 

The Globe attempted to soften this behavior by calling it “unwitting facilitation” but it was, at best, mental instability equivalent to a cult mentality and at worst, criminal. 

If Mueller had unwittingly facilitated Geoghan’s access to the children in her home in Melrose, the same role was played by Maryetta Dussourd at the priest’s next stop: St. Andrew’s, in the Forest Hills section of Jamaica Plain, where he served from 1974 to 1980. 

Dussourd was rearing her own four children — three boys and a girl — as well as her niece’s four boys. In her hardscrabble neighborhood, she said in an interview, she hoped there was a priest the children could look up to. Then she met Geoghan, who oversaw altar boys and Boy Scouts at the parish. 

— Seven boys under the care of one woman; Geoghan must’ve thought he hit the Devil’s jackpot. Also, we again see secular agencies giving predatory priests access to children outside their domains and, again, the Boys Scouts are involved. — 

Geoghan, she recalled bitterly, was eager to help. Before long, he was visiting her apartment almost every evening — for nearly two years. He routinely took the seven boys out for ice cream and put them to sleep at night. 

But all that time, Geoghan regularly molested the seven boys in their bedrooms, Dussourd said. In some cases, he performed oral sex on them, according to court documents. Other times, he fondled their genitals or forced them to fondle his — occasionally as he prayed. 

— There can be no other conclusion but that the Roman Catholic priest (thoroughly enabled by his superiors, fully aware of his lust to violate children) was praying to Satan as he did so. — 

A 1994 Archdiocesan memorandum, labeled “personal and confidential,” said Geoghan would stay in the Dussourd home “even when he was on retreat because he missed the children so much. He ‘would touch them while they were sleeping and waken them by playing with their penises.’” 

Dussourd discovered what was happening after the children finally told her sister, Margaret Gallant. Horrified, Dussourd complained to the Rev. John E. Thomas, the pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas, a nearby parish, according to court documents and accounts by Dussourd and a church official who asked that he not be identified. [348] 

Guardians who aid the violation of children in their care should be at least institutionalized, if not receive a criminal penalty. It would be no different from a day care worker who allowed a serial child rapist to enter their facility like a wolf breaking into a sheep pen. 

We’ll expose that in Chapter 19. 

The shuffling of Geoghan from parish to parish was validated by corrupt medical personnel who certified him “safe”. 

... court documents that include Geoghan’s psychiatric records contain starkly contradictory assessments of his danger to children from different therapists. He received at least four clean bills of health between 1980 and 1990, a period when the Archdiocese of Boston assigned him three times to parishes despite his record of abuse; but prompted declarations that he was an incurable pedophile after he became a public embarrassment to the archdiocese in the mid-1990s. ~ Boston Globe [349] 

To further insure monsters like Geoghan were able to successfully violate children in families completely unaware of his nature, Cardinal Law and his underlings used mechanisms like “sick leave” to allow furor from his previous crimes to die down before sending him to the next virgin pastures. 

Geoghan spent the following year on sick leave, under treatment for his compulsion, but living with family in West Roxbury. In February 1981, he was sent to his fifth parish, St. Brendan’s. 

Almost immediately, Geoghan was working with First Communicants, befriending young children and their parents, even taking some boys to his family’s summer home in Scituate, where — parents say they later discovered — he sexually abused the youths. ... 

Despite his record, Geoghan was assigned to St. Julia’s. And in his first two years, he was in charge of altar boys, religious education for public school youngsters and a youth group, according to the church’s annual directories. ~ Boston Globe [350] 

For Bostonians, the net result of decades of abuse by predator pedophile priest after predator pedophile priest — all carefully enabled by superiors and kept untouched by corrupt cops, prosecutors and judges — was generational family victims from overlapping reigns of serial rapists. 

The civil and criminal allegations Geoghan faces in Middlesex and Suffolk counties suggest that he allegedly abused at least 30 more boys after Law sent him to Weston in 1984 — both before and after the half year’s sick leave in 1989. 

After Geoghan’s 1989 return to St. Julia’s, it was another 38 months before Law took him out of the parish. Three years later, Geoghan was still seeking out victims, allegedly including an altar boy donning vestments for a christening ceremony, according to the criminal charges. 

The shuttling of Geoghan from one parish to another created a devastating coincidence for one family. One boy he allegedly molested is the son of a man who had been among the many sexually abused by Porter during the 1960s in the Fall River Diocese, according to Roderick MacLeish Jr., the attorney who represented the man and 100 other Porter victims. [351] 

After forty years of raping children, Geoghan was targeted for sacrifice to serve “the greater good” of the Church and her minions. 

The fact that he was defrocked in 1998 before either his first criminal court appearance or focus on his misdeeds by the Boston Globe (all in 2002) is definitive. Geoghan had been selected for the psychological operation that Boston’s secular institutions were really doing their jobs. 

Interestingly, the sacrifice of Geoghan didn’t end there. As if “tying up loose ends”, Geoghan was placed in a cell with Joseph L. Druce (born Darrin Ernest Smiledge). 

Druce had been sent to prison for murdering a man who attempted to sexually violate him after the man picked Druce up hitchhiking. [xxviii] Within a year of Geoghan’s conviction, Druce had strangled and stomped him to death. 

The press raised questions about prison officials’ judgment in placing these two men in the same unit for protective custody. In addition, they had been warned by an inmate that Druce had something planned against Geoghan. [11] ~ Wikipedia [352] 

Did Geoghan somehow betray his masters? Was he a liability that needed to be dealt with? — Or was he just another ritual sacrifice? 

Prison surveillance video of the murder was “mysteriously” released and uploaded to YouTube. [xxix] 

A video, which shows correction officers trying to open Geoghan's prison door, which Druce had wedged shut when he attacked the former priest, was released on YouTube in June 2007. [12][13] Officials claim not to know how the video, recorded by the prison surveillance systems, was made public. [353] 

To add insult to the injuries of the victims (and as proof that nothing has changed) Geoghan’s single conviction of “fondling a boy’s buttocks in a pool” was erased by the Massachusetts State Appeals Court. Corrupt secular officials still bow to Rome. 

The Appeals Court issued its ruling after Geoghan’s lawyer filed a death certificate this month and asked the court to dismiss his conviction. Prosecutors in Middlesex County, where Geoghan was convicted, did not oppose the motion. 

The three justices who ruled on the case — James McHugh, David A. Mills, and Mark V. Green — said little about Geoghan in their short opinion that was entered Sept. 17. They noted that they were following the direction of the Supreme Judicial Court and that vacating the conviction is “customary practice of the courts in this Commonwealth under such circumstances.” 

— Did you know “vacating” criminal convictions just because the criminal died was “customary practice”? — 

Geoghan was convicted in January 2002 of indecent assault and battery for fondling the buttocks of a 10-year-boy in a public swimming pool. He was sentenced to serve six years of a nine- to 10-year prison sentence. 

Although Geoghan had been accused of molesting nearly 150 children, the Middlesex case was the lone case that went to trial. ... 

For alleged victims of Geoghan, his 2002 conviction was a symbol that the legal system was finally holding him accountable for his actions. ~ Boston Globe [354] 

If Geoghan’s single conviction for “fondling a boy’s buttocks in a pool” (verses decades of raping over one hundred and fifty children) was a “symbol” that cops, prosecutors and judges actually did their jobs then the overturning of that single conviction was the crushing reality that they do not: Rome controls them all, and not just in Boston. 

But Geoghan was simply the weapon. The malignant authority who repeatedly aimed him at the unsuspecting families of Massachusetts was Bernard Cardinal Law. 

A year after Geoghan’s death in 2003, Law skipped town. He was granted a posh “retirement” in Rome after a job well done. Upon his arrival in Rome, he was given the honor of presiding as “Archpriest of the Basilica of St. Mary Major” and invited to serve upon a number of important boards including the Pontifical Council for the Family. 

He certainly seemed qualified. 

... Law [has been] a frequent presence at all major Vatican ceremonial and diplomatic events, a lifestyle that galled many abuse victims who have long insisted that the Vatican crack down on bishops who transfer abusive priests rather than report them to police. ~ Associated Press [355] 

Law has been thought so highly of in Rome that he was appointed to help select other Catholic leaders who would follow in his footsteps.

Law remains a member of a half a dozen important Vatican congregations, including the office that helps the pope select bishops. [356] 

A little over a decade past Geoghan’s sacrifice, the propaganda that secular institutions are really doing their job got a further boost from Hollywood. In 2015, a major motion picture spotlighted the heroic work of Marty Baron and his intrepid “deep research” Spotlight team titled Spotlight. 

The movie boasted major talents in casting; Mark Ruffalo as Michael Rezendes, Michael Keaton as Walter “Robby” Robinson, Rachel McAdams as Sacha Pfeiffer, Liev Schreiber as Marty Baron, John Slattery as Ben Bradlee, Jr., Brian d´Arcy James as Matt Carroll and Stanley Tucci as attorney Mitchell Garabedian. 

Like the Spotlight team, the film was made by Jesuit-trained Roman Catholics such as writer / director Tom McCarthy (Catholic) and producer Blye Pagon Faust (Jesuit-educated at Santa Clara). 

One year later Spotlight won the 2016 Academy Award for “Best Picture”. 

In the film, the audience is warned by Stanley Tucci, as attorney Mitchell Garabedian, that the Catholic Church “thinks in terms of centuries.” An organization with that mentality isn’t above carefully planning the sacrifice of a pawn to validate bishops and knights. 

After his work saving the reputation of the Boston Globe as a “watchdog of the people”, Marty Baron was given Executive Editor at the Washington Post; a paper which later granted accused pedophile John Podesta his own column. [357] 

As both Hollywood and media congratulated the Globe for spotlighting a pedophile priest (dead for 12 years by then), Marty Baron crowed from the Post in February of 2016, I’m In “Spotlight”, But It’s Not Really About Me. It’s About The Power Of Journalism.  

In the column Baron gave himself, he effused that the movie’s portrayal of the way “journalism” does its job was “stunningly accurate!” 

It was not until the premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 14, 2015, at the immense Princess of Wales Theatre that I saw “Spotlight” on a big screen, along with 2,000 others. 

The movie had a powerful effect. The Los Angeles Times noted that five days into the Toronto festival, “Spotlight” stood “as the only movie to generate applause during the film and afterward, when the credits roll.” The audience applauded, too, as Tom called the actors to the stage. And then he called the journalists to the stage, one by one. And something happened that’s rare for journalists: We received a protracted standing ovation. [358] 

Mission accomplished. Now everyone go back to sleep.

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