Look at the picture...
Isn't this such a "SACRED" sight to behold? ...
But then again, ISN'T HE A CONVICTED CHILD MOLESTER?
Below is an article written by THE MANILA BULLETIN regarding this oh, sooo SACRED BLACK ASS!
Bishop says he wouldn’t have ordained Skelton
By LESLIE ANN G. AQUINO
April 18, 2010, 5:20pm
The bishop who ordained Fr. Joseph Skelton to the priesthood admitted not knowing the latter’s conviction of sexual misconduct before his ordination.
“Had I known of his conviction I would not have ordained him,” Military Ordinary Bishop Leopoldo Tumulak, said in an article posted on the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) website.
Fr. Joseph Skelton Jr., an American priest who is now serving as associate pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Calape town of the Diocese of Tagbilaran had been convicted with sexual misconduct in 1988 while still a seminarian in Detroit, Michigan.
Tumulak who served Bishop of Tagbilaran from 1992 until 2005 said he first met Skelton, then a seminarian, under the spiritual care and guidance of Bishop Felix Sanchez Zafra, Tagbilaran’s third bishop.
“The late Bishop Zafra introduced him to me simply as a seminarian wanting to become a priest and was a former member of a religious congregation,” he said.
Tumulak, however, added that the Diocese of Tagbilaran had observed the prescribed canonical requirements prior to Skelton’s ordination.
He even described Skelton as a “happy, contented and very particular in celebrating the liturgy meaningfully and well.”
When asked if priests who have committed crimes still deserve a chance to serve the Church, Tumulak said “The answer to the question is better left to the wisdom of the bishop who knows and loves his priest.”
Tagbilaran Bishop Leonardo Medroso, a Canon Law expert, saw nothing wrong with Skelton’s ordination to the priesthood.
“He was convicted before he became a priest and he has served his penalty of being under probation for three years,” he said.
Medroso said that all cases have prescriptive periods and Skelton’s case was a “misdemeanor.”
Like Tumulak, Medroso also just recently learned of Fr. Skelton’s past only when a Manila-based newspaper published a story last November 2009.
Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz, for his part, said that in cases where the seminarian conceals the crime and was revealed after his ordination to the priesthood, the bishop has two options.
“The bishop can either impose on the priest the penalty of dismissal from the clerical state or ask the priest concerned to seek dispensation from the clerical state,” he said.
Cases like these, Cruz said, are then sent to Rome for the final decision.
Skelton’s past resurfaced after the issue of sexual abuse scandals by some clergy in Europe and America have spread in the country.
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What exactly was this case of MISDEMEANOR that was committed by this "HAPPY AND CONTENTED" SHAME OF THE GREAT AFRO-AMERICAN SOCIETY?
Here is the answer...
FROM THE PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER:
FROM THE PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER:
| Probe shows 30 ‘abusive’ priests shuffled around globe, also to RP RIO DE JANEIRO. There he was, five decades later, the priest who had raped Joe Callander in Massachusetts. The photo in the Roman Catholic newsletter showed him with a smile across his wrinkled face, near-naked Amazon Indian children in his arms and at his feet. The Rev. Mario Pezzotti was working with children and supervising other priests in Brazil. It?s not an isolated example. A priest who admitted to abuse in Los Angeles went to the Philippines, where US Church officials mailed him checks and advised him not to reveal their source. In an investigation spanning 21 countries across six continents, The Associated Press found 30 cases of priests accused of abuse who were transferred or moved abroad. Some escaped police investigations. A priest in Canada was convicted of sexual abuse and then moved to France, where he was convicted of abuse again in 2005. Another priest was moved back and forth between Ireland and England, despite being diagnosed as a pederast, a man who commits sodomy with boys. The pattern The pattern is if a priest gets into trouble and it's close to becoming a scandal or if the law might get involved, they send them to the missions abroad, said Richard Sipe, a former Benedictine monk and critic of what he says is a practice of international transfers of accused and admitted priest child abusers. Anything to avoid a scandal. Church officials say that in some cases, the priests themselves moved to another country and the new parish might not have been aware of past allegations. In other cases, officials said they did not believe the allegations, or that the priest had served his time and reformed. Missionary in Bohol Joseph Skelton was a 26-year-old student at St. John Provincial Seminary in Detroit, Michigan, in 1988 when he was convicted of sexual misconduct with a 15-year-old boy. He was given three years? probation and dismissed from his seminary. Two decades later, he lives in the Philippines, where he was ordained a priest and now serves as parochial vicar of the St. Vincent Ferrer parish in the remote town of Calape, in Bohol, according to the diocese directory. He is also a popular gospel singer in the heavily Catholic country. Reached on his cell phone, Skelton declined comment. He finished his seminary studies in Manila and was ordained in 2001 in the diocese of Tagbilaran. The bishop who ordained Skelton said he wouldn?t have made him a priest if he had known about the criminal conviction. "I ordained him because, while there was some talk about his effeminate ways, there was no case against him," Bishop Leopoldo S. Tumulak said. Tumulak, who has since stepped down, said it would be up to his successor to reopen the case. If he has changed... The priest is trying to live well, Tumulak said. "If he has really changed, the heart of the Church is compassionate. although in America, Europe, they have different ways of looking at it. Not the Church, but the government, the people. In the Philippines, it's a little bit different." The archdiocese of Detroit, after learning Skelton had been ordained, sent a letter about his conviction to the Tagbilaran diocese in 2003. Tumulak said he doesn't remember if he received the letter, and in any case it would have been too late. Current Bishop Leonardo Medroso said he would investigate. But he added: "The case has been judged already. He was convicted and that means to say he has served already the conviction. So what obstacle can there be if he has already served his punishment or penalty" source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20100416-264512/Probe-shows-30-abusive-priests-shuffled-around-globe-also-to-RP Tsk tsk tsk! Compassionate heart huh? So you'll let THAT CONVICTED MOLESTER shove his COCK again down those poor children's throats, ey? NOW THAT'S THE CATHOLIC CHURCH! IT HAS A "COMPASSIONATE HEART" FOR CONVICTED MOLESTERS WHO ARE "VERY PARTICULAR IN CELEBRATING THEIR SADISTIC LITURGY (HENCE THE POOR FILIPINO'S MIND SLIPPING INTO LETHARGY!) IN A VERY PARTICULAR AND MEANINGFUL MANNER" YET WHEN IT COMES TO DYING MOTHERS, SUFFERING HOMOSEXUALS WHO ARE JUDGED WITH HELL FIRE BY NO LESS THAN THEIR VERY OWN FAMILY DUE TO THEIR "INFALLIBLE" DOGMAS, AND MISERABLE LOVERS WHO NEED TO WAIT TILL THE DIVORCE BILL HERE IN OUR COUNTRY BE MADE INTO A LAW, ALL YOU GET IS SOME SACRED PRIEST'S COCK OR ASS! HA! SO WHY DO WE HAVE TO LISTEN TO SUCH SICK-MINDED JACKASSES? NOW... YOU DECIDE... IT'S EITHER WE WILL PASS THE RH BILL, THE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL AND THE DIVORCE LAW PLUS THE STRENGTHENING OF A SECULAR SOCIETY... OR WE COULD JUST SUFFER THE ROMAN YOKE OF BARBARIC ABUSE AND PRIMITIVE HYPOCRISY! We could start DEFYING OUR OPPRESSORS by SUPPRESSING THIS BLOG OF THEIR PR MANAGERS!: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/a-petition-for-wordpress-to-shut-down-the-abusive-sple.html CARPE DIEM! |
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