After Eddie Long's wife, Vanessa filed for divorce on Thursday, December 1, 2011, he has decided to take time off, "focus on his family." The couple has been married for 21 years. Long, who has been in the news for allegedly sexually abusing four young men in his youth ministry, has no specific date of when he plans on returning to his megachurch ministry.
Mrs. Long filed a petition for divorce Thursday in DeKalb County Superior Court to end her 21-year marriage to the embattled minister. The church sent out a press release Friday morning saying Vanessa Long planned to withdraw her petition, but her attorney said later in the day that she had changed her mind.
In her petition, Vanessa Long indicated that the marriage is “irretrievably broken” and that there was “no hope of reconciliation of the parties.” She asked the court for temporary and permanent alimony, as well as attorneys’ fees and an equitable division of marital and non-marital property.
“Vanessa and I are working together in seeking God’s will in our current circumstances,” Eddie Long said in a written statement.
According to the divorce petition, the couple is “currently living in a bona fide state of separation.”
Bishop Long was embroiled in scandal earlier this year when allegations of sexual misconduct with four young men emerged.
"If anyone is interested, a new, enlarged and updated edition of my 1997 book, Banished Babies: the secret history of Ireland's baby export business - has just been published by New Island (Dublin). For those who are unfamiliar with the subject matter, it is a critical history of the policy - carried out in secret - of exporting 'illegitimate' children from Ireland to the USA in the1940s, 50s and 60s. It combines documentary evidence from church and state archives with personal stories from the 'children' themselves and their natural mothers." - Mike Milotte
The Maribor District Court has ruled that the Slovenian Catholic Church has to pay a EUR 50,000 in compensation to a woman who was sexually abused almost 20 years ago as a 7-year-old by late priest Karl Jošt.
The verdict against the Maribor Archdiocese, the Celje Diocese and the Artice parish was confirmed on Thursday by the victim's lawyer Rok Ceferin, who believes that the defence will lodge an appeal against the civil lawsuit verdict.
Jost was brought before court in 2006, but died in 2007, while charged on 16 counts of sexual assault against minors. The late priest abused a total of four prepubescent girls, including during confession, the web-page of the daily Delo repoted.
According to Ceferin, the verdict of the Maribor District Court is unprecedented in Slovenia.
The victim in question demanded with a civil lawsuit EUR 140,000 in compensation for psychological trauma and a serious health condition. Ceferin said that he may file an appeal against the amount of the compensation granted.
While saying that his client was satisfied with the verdict, he noted that the court had ruled that a certain part of the complaint had fallen under the statute of limitations.
The compensation lawsuit was launched in January 2010 and was conducted behind closed doors due to the sensitivity of the case, according to Delo. The trial against Jost began in 2006, he however died in 2007.
The Evergreen Park Village Board on Monday night rejected a proposed settlement with the Sisters of Mercy that would allow the religious order to build a retirement center near 99th Street and Central Park Avenue.
Trustees voted 4 to 2 to continue litigation against the Sisters of Mercy to prevent construction of a 146-unit center that would include a three-story independent-living building and a four-story, skilled-nursing/assisted-living facility.
Trustees Jerry Bosch and James McQuillan voted against continuing the lawsuit, which so far has cost the village $125,000 in legal fees.
Residents packed the board room as trustees heard numerous comments for and against the plan.
The village gave the land to the Sisters of Mercy nearly 60 years ago on the condition it would be used only for “religious educational purposes.” The village sued after the order proposed its retirement center plan.
“I’m terribly sad that we are not able to move forward,” said Sister Sheila Megley, project manager for retirement center. “We made every attempt to answer the issues raised by the residents.”
Resident Cathy Manahan, who’s against the order’s plan, said the Sisters of Mercy should honor their agreement with the village.
“We already have an agreement in place,” Manahan said. “What they want is a business venture.”
She said the Sisters of Mercy will eventually look to expand the retirement center, and “we’ll always have to be looking over our shoulder to see what’s being added.”
Manahan and Beth Amado have filed suit against the religious order to try to block the retirement center. That suit was filed in October when residents were dropped from the village’s lawsuit due to a difference of opinion.
The original plan included 212 units and a five-story independent-living building.
The proposed settlement of the lawsuit the village filed three years ago also includes fewer parking spaces and staggered employment hours designed to reduce traffic congestion on school days.
Corrupt priests and pastors in Africa have found a lucrative business in fooling communities into believing in "witchcraft" and "witches" whereby they falsely accuse thousands and thousands of children as being "witches" or outright so-called "devils" so that their families gather month's worth of their wages in order to afford a religious ritual to be conducted or "exorcism".
Serial abuse of Victorian children and teenagers in the 1970s and '80s, kept quiet by the church. Police was never notified of the conduct of a catholic priest. Onee again, a pedophile has escaped justice!
Many victims of Brother Bernard Hartman have contacted The Age after Saturday's report about the fight of alleged victim, Mariead Ashcroft, to have Brother Hartman charged by police for his alleged sexual abuse of her in the '70s. The ability of Victoria Police to extradite Brother Hartman from the United States to face sexual abuse charges has increased greatly due to the emergence of several victims.
The church failed to tell Ms Ashcroft or the police that she was not the only complainant about Brother Hartman's alleged paedophilia. Ms Ashcroft reported Brother Hartman to the Catholic church in 1999 and also received a written apology from the brother, who in the '90s left Australia for the US where he remains working as a Marianist.
Another female victim, who asked for her identity to be protected, claims that around 1993, she told several Melbourne Catholic church officials that she had been sexually abused by Brother Hartman.
The woman claims she was told by church officials that Brother Hartman would be ''monitored'' by the church in the US. But she insisted that the church did nothing to ensure he would be held accountable in the Victorian criminal justice system and that church officials did not pass on her allegations to police. ''I'd like him returned to Australia and to be charged and jailed. That is what the victims deserve from our justice system,'' she said.
The Melbourne Catholic archdiocese claims that there is no record of any complaints made about Brother Hartman. The woman and a third victim who contacted The Age yesterday have agreed to speak to Victoria Police investigating Ms Ashcroft's allegations against Brother Hartman in the hope that it may strengthen any criminal case against him.
Youth worker Les Twentyman, who taught at Altona school St Pauls with Brother Hartman in the '70s, has also come forward to speak about his concerns over the brother's suspicious conduct with students. He said several students complained to him of Brother Hartman's inappropriate behaviour, including him showing students photographs of genitalia and masturbating in front of a young female in his care. ''The fact that he is still in the church in a position of power as a brother makes a mockery of the whole thing,'' he said.
A senior US Marianist, Brother Joe Kamis, told The Age last week that Brother Hartman was still working with the Catholic church in Dayton, Ohio, but was on a ''safety plan'' to prevent him being alone with children.
The fresh allegations against Brother Hartman come after a manager of the church's social welfare arm, CatholicCare, Alan Baker blew the whistle on Saturday about what he claimed was the church's inadequate handling of sexual abuse allegations. Today, the head of CatholicCare, Father Joe Caddy, attacked Mr Baker in an internal staff email. ''The employee quoted by The Age [Alan Baker] works for CatholicCare but he is not authorised to speak on its behalf and his personal views do not reflect those of the organisation,'' Father Caddy told staff. ''Unauthorised public comments place at risk the welfare of vulnerable clients and the continuing support of the community, in particular the funders and donors we rely upon for our important work,'' he said.
In a letter to The Age, Father Caddy said it was more appropriate for ''an independent counselling service funded by the Church'', rather than CatholicCare, to help victims of clergy abuse.
In Canada, Kevin Annett, is an ex-priest defrocked for exposing the full extent of Canadian church and government involvement in the genocide of Indian children.
He is the only priest ever expelled in the history of the United Church of Canada.
Kevin Annett shares information about the psychological war campaign implemented against him by the United Church in an attempt to stop him from exposing these crimes against humanity since the criminals still walk free.
Bone Fragment unearthed at former Anglican Indian school in Brantford, Ontario
The tiny bone weighs hardly anything, and yet it is the weightiest evidence in Canadian history.
The forensic specialists are nearly definite that it's the upper thigh bone of a small child, maybe four or five years old. This month, their tests will confirm what I felt was true when I recently lifted it from the soil near the former Anglican Indian school in Brantford: that the first of Canada's Disappeared - the missing and murdered residential school children - have begun to come home.
Canada and its churches tried for decades to bury and forget the bone, and the other remains of the 50,000 and more children who died in their residential "schools". And when these innocents' deaths could no longer be denied, the same guilty parties distracted us from their foul deed with "reconciliation" babble and a whitewashing "truth and reconciliation commission" that has not once turned over the soil at a residential school grave.
That's all about to change, in a way that most of us have yet to realize.
For one thing, once this bone, or others, are positively identified as human, the entire Indian residential schools issue becomes no longer a matter of public platitudes about "healing", but of a massive crime scene. Every possible church record and grave site connected to a residential school will have to be opened and examined by competent specialists - and that does not and cannot mean the RCMP, police or any agent of the Crown or church, who are, after all, complicit in the crime.
The opening of these graves, in other words, will require and compel us to reinvent Canada, transforming it from an agent of the Crown and its church partners to a sovereign Republic with the power to prosecute historic agents of genocide, such as, in the Brantford case, the Church of England and its head, Elizabeth Windsor.
Most mainstream Canadians want such a change to a Republic, anyway: 58% of them, in the latest national poll. And what better issue to ignite such sovereignty than the need to bring comfort and justice to innocent children who died at our hands?
Some of the good people in southern Ontario have already taken such a step by forming something called Not in Our Name!(Non!): a community network that wants to rally support for the excavations at the local residential school authorized by Mohawk elders recently, that I have helped to organize. But Non! is more than that. To quote one of its statements,
We are sickened and outraged by the acts of the Anglican, Catholic and United churches ... For generations, our ancestors have been lied to and fooled by these churches and the crown to fund the slaughter of native people, our friends and neighbors. They have killed children in our name and continue to profit from their crime by not paying taxes and having we, the taxpayers, foot their legal bills! ... The churches must instead account for their crimes not with words, or money, but by giving up their right to operate as protected corporations above the law ... We must take back our churches and our culture by returning the land and wealth they stole from the original people, and disestablishing their right to operate as anything larger than individual congregations. Perhaps that will allow moral as well as material reparations to murdered children ...
Non! could spell the death knell of the church corporations that have evaded justice for so long, simply because it's a movement emerging from within the churches themselves. One of the Non! organizers is a retired clergyman who actually left the church over its cover up of the residential schools massacre: a man who, like me, was pilloried and persecuted for his stand, but, unlike me, has chosen to stay silent about what happened to him. Until now.
Our excavations at the Anglican Indian school in Brantford are waiting for the new year, and more research, to resume, but already, three other indigenous nations have asked me to come and help them begin similar digs at their local Indian residential school mass graves.
Meanwhile, Non! is spreading as well, and setting up similar groups across the country. "White" Canadians, it seems, are switching their allegiance, and laying the basis for a sovereign nation capable of facing its past crimes and present possibilities. It all seems to echo the words of a Mohawk elder whom I've come to befriend and respect, Bill Squire, who said to me last week,
"Once we bring home our murdered children we've acted as a real nation, saying, this is our crime site. And then we're going to put Canada on trial."
Bill Squire will get his chance this spring, when a European Union parliamentary committee will hear and see the forensic proof of the dead children at the Brantford school - and much more. Canada could then face sanctions, and an international war crimes tribunal. And it will all be thanks to a small bone fragment, and many more like it, that you and I and many others will bring to light, by saying our Non!, loudly and clearly, and through action.
In Iron Wing v. Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls, (SD Sup. Ct., Nov. 30, 2011), the South Dakota Supreme Court held that a lawsuit filed in 2008 by a victim of clergy sexual abuse committed over 40 years earlier is barred by the statute of limitations.
D.Z. Iron Wing, 64, filed a lawsuit in 2008 against the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls, Blue Cloud Abbey, the Oblate Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and a nun and a priest he alleged abused him when he attended the school in 1953-1964. The religious organizations ran the school for decades, but the school has since been transferred to control of the Yankton Sioux Tribe. Lawyers in the case said the nun and priest accused of the abuse have died.
But he waited too long to file his lawsuit, the court ruled,
citing a state law that places a three-year statute of limitations in abuse
cases. SDCL 26-10-25 requires the suit to be brought "within three years of the act alleged to
have caused the injury or condition, or three years of the time the victim discovered or reasonably should have discovered that the injury or condition was caused by the act, whichever period expires later." The court said:
“Inquiry notice is determined by an objective standard.” ... Although Iron Wing perhaps subjectively could not “connect the full extent of his injuries to the sexual abuse, he was aware of enough facts to put him on inquiry notice.”... He knew he had been abused by two members of a religious order beginning when he was age ten and resuming at age thirteen, because of this abuse he was angry and harbored hatred against the church and its priests and nuns from the time he was in the eleventh grade, he left the school because of the abuse, and he never forgot the abuse. These circumstances were sufficient to “prompt a reasonably prudent person to seek out information regarding his injury or condition and its cause."
The Vatican Crimes Exposed Organization listens to the testimony of Gary Wassaykeesic, who went through residential schools, countless foster homes and even had to endure the fact that his own mother - like many Native women - was murdered.
Maltese children at Bindoon Boys’ Town 1952.
Reproduced courtesy State Library of Western Australia,
The Battye Library 005086D
In 1928, Maltese children were included in the Christian Brothers migration scheme. This at the request of Perth-based Maltese priest Father Raphael Pace. The first Maltese child migrants arrived in Australia after World War II. Between the 50's and 1965, 259 boys and 51 girls were sent to Catholic institutions in Western Australia and South Australia.
Parents were made to believe their children would receive a better education in Australia. The Christian Brothers put many of these children to work on their building projects. The kids endured the same punishments and abuses as their British counterparts. Even forced to stop using their Maltese language and never learned to read or write English.
It is obvious that Hugo Rodrigues of the Brantford Expositor, although he is also President of the Canadian Association of Journalist, has failed to remember his code of journalistic ethics; to remain unbiased, present evidence and conduct investigation on the matter at hand. Had he done so, not only would he have exposed the forensic evidence discovery of children's bones at Canada's oldest Residential school this weeks, which speaks for itself, but rather, added to this long cover up of crimes by publishing an article in an attempt to discredit Kevin Annett who for 20 years has been seeking justice.
Church and State have been covering up the Canadian Genocide, and the media has helped to do so, but the world is quickly discovering of these truths and this was not just in Canada, but rather an organized crime scheme implemented by churches and state worldwide (www.jh.to/organizedcrime)
(BELOW AN OPEN LETTER TO HUGO RODRIGUES AND THE BRANTFORD EXPOSITOR)
December 16, 2011 Volume 2, Issue#20
Just What Is Being Exposited Here?
Dear Mr. Rodrigues:
I acknowledge that the Brantford Expositor isn't the Washington Post or
the Manchester Guardian, or even Der Spiegel, but just what planet are you and
your editorial staff professing to exposit?
You recently fired off an exposition entitled “Sensationalism at its
greatest,” rejecting the recent efforts of the Mohawk Elders and clan mothers,
together with Kevin Annett and the International Tribunal Into The Crimes of
Church and State (ITCCS), to conduct a forensic examination into a suspected
mass grave site (one of at least 28 documented to exist across Canada).
In doing so, you extolled the virtues of Chief Bill Monture and the “Mohawk
Tribal Council,” as the ultimate fount of all knowledge, Mohawk-wise, final
authority and critic of what is going on.
First of all, let's clarify the chain of command – and credibility – here.
You refer to “elected” band council, which has a ring of authority, all right.
You must know, living in
Brantford, that “elected” is
a white man's word, and whenever it's pinned to chief or a council, it's the
tip off that these boys are marching not to Mohawk drums but to the Ottawa
variety: they're payroll Indians, and they're answerable not to their people
but to John Duncan, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Stephen Harper and
the federal government. So much for your expert witnesses.
Your next observation is that “Members of the Mohawk Nation” invited
Kevin Annett to the site “and are behind claims that the remains found belong to former residents at the school.”
Before dissing all of that, you refer to Kevin Annett as a former
Anglican Priest. Wow. Even at his worst, when he strove unsuccessfully to
square his Christian upbringing and his Master of Divinity degree with the
criminal shenanigans of the United Church of Canada (Indian land sales to
MacMillan Bloedel, the incarceration, torture, sodomy, rape and murder of 50%
of their students, rather than graduating them cum laude), he
would have been insulted by being described as a minion of that neutered,
pseudo-Catholic religion that owes its existence to a fat, horny 17th Century
English monarch who wanted multiple annulments that pious Rome would not grant.
Anyway, you're right in your use of the word “former.” The UCC threw him
out in 1995 because he insisted on the truth, and he has the lumps (17 years
worth) to prove it. Loss of his livelihood, harassment, including physical
assault, and treated like a pariah in his own country by the establishment, the
government, the RCMP and the media – much bigger, better and more powerful than
the Brantford Expositor, so you're in good company.
By your definition, Kevin is “an activist.” You should have called him an
“occupier.” That, with Wall Street implications, would have completed his
castigation.
Now let's deal with the matter of “reputable archaeological processes,”
as defined by those two experts, Bill Monture and Hugo Rodrigues. By now
you may have discerned that Kevin is my son, so you can immediately discount
everything I say as nepotism of the worst kind. However, in my lurid past I
once served as President of the Manitoba Archaeological Society. On many
occasions, while still a teen-age boy, Kevin participated in professional digs
carried out by that Society. There is no one in this whole altercation better able
than Kevin to understand the importance of the professional integrity of a
forensic archaeological examination, and the simple fact that once excavated, a
site is virtually destroyed. (This, in fact, has prompted the government and
the churches and the RCMP on more than one occasion to do just that. If I'm
wrong, I invite you - and them - to sue me.)
The Mohawk Elders, supported by the clan mothers, with the cooperation of
the ITCCS, conducted GPR (ground penetrating radar) operations with the use of
machines that approximate the technology used in the extractive industries,
known as aerial magnetometer surveys. On the basis of those findings, they
excavated. (It's significant to point out that for some time, at taxpayer
expense, Bill Monture and his “elected” payroll Indians have been in possession
of such expensive equipment and have done squat. Nada. Zip. I wonder why?)
The
findings of the Elders, i.e. specimens of bones, clothing, buttons, shoes and
residues of coal (as in “furnace,” the normal repository of dead children,
according to generations of witnesses documented over 20 years, the subject not
only of three books, an award-winning film and Government reports dated since 1907). The bone fragments have recently been authenticated and
confirmed by a professional archaeologist.
Hugo, what really cracked me up was your closing attribution to Bill
Monture of the final summation: “You can't just dig a hole and say you've found
some stuff," Montour said in a phone interview. No kidding. Then:
"There are rules in Ontario for archeological digs... that's how it should
have been done. If they found bones or fragments, then maybe the coroner should
have been contacted."
The coroner. Of course. Government employee. Just like Bill Monture, the
tribal council, the RCMP and all the ships at sea. The government will get it
right, like they have for 150 years. The Mohawk elders know better. This is
sovereign land, and they've served notice that the payroll Indians, the
government, the Crown and the Vatican are to stay out of this. This is one case
where the foxes will not be trusted to guard the henhouse.
But that isn't the item, Hugo. Note what Bill Monture said: "Just
digging a hole is a grave disrespect for those human remains..."
Three hundred other nations in Turtle Island who have attended 500 former
rez schools, take note. In 141 of those cases, according to the Canadian
government's own records, 50% of all the 150,000 kids who were incarcerated
never graduated cum laude, or returned home, or were ever seen
again. Gee, I wonder where they went?
Well, given all that lovely Catholic, Anglican and United Christian
teaching, perhaps they just rose bodily into Canadian Heaven. Surely the Pope
could have arranged that, if not the Anglican Primate or Mardi Tindall, the UCC
Moderator.
Otherwise, why don't we stop nit-picking about who's authentic, the Mohawk
people or John Duncan, who has admitted he can't stomach salmon hash or fry
bread?
Monture is admitting what the Mohawk elders have proven. There are human
remains, requiring only to measure up to Bill Monture's exacting standards.
Vatican Crimes Exposed Organization was honored to be present at Occupy Toronto to document the special announcement made by Kevin Annett, Secretary of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS), where he demonstrated for the first time, children's bones discovered at Canada's oldest Church-run Indian residential school - Mohawk Institute in Brantford.
The state worked hand in hand with the churches - anglican, catholic, presbyterian, mennonite, and more - to cover up these crimes against humanity where 150,000 children were stolen from their families and placed in religious institutes where they were tortured, abused and even murdered. The Canadian government and the churches have tried to cover up these murders by setting up a so-called Truth and Reconciliation Commission to make people believe the natives are now healing. How can they be healing if the criminals have not been named and much less incarcerated - they are still in power!
This week, human remains were found, proving that children were in fact murdered at these institutions and with this forensic evidence, these can no longer be denied.
TeleGracia TV continues to broadcast special programs to expose the crimes committed by the corrupt organization known as the Vatican - or Catholic Church - and this week, its EVIDENCIAS show launched a one-hour special dedicated to showing evidence of the child trafficking scheme that the nuns and priests orchestrated in Australia.
During the summer of 2011, the catholic nuns had to issue out a national apology for stealing over 150,000 babies by manipulating women into giving them up for adoption, calling the mothers "sinners" for being pregnant out of wedlock. Many women were even drugged during childbirth if they resisted.
Through this special program, Latin America learned today of this organized crime scheme implemented not only in Australia, but also in Canada, Ireland, USA, Spain and others...
The Vatican Crimes Exposed Organization had the honor of interviewing Kevin Annett, Secretary of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State. He is the author of "Unrepentant: Canada's Genocide".
Press Director Axel Cooley had the opportunity to discuss with Mr. Annett the global organized crime implemented by the Catholic Church, an evil organization. Priests and nuns use the Lord's name to gain trust and commit crimes worldwide.
For decades, priests sexually abused minors parish after parish, while superiors covered it all up. Orders for this cover up were written in Romeat the highest levels of theVatican. A church document remained a secret 40 years until now. Watch news reports below:
As shocking as these statements may seem, there is a clear chain of evidence that backs them up. Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, bears a unique personal responsibility for the entire mess.
Outrageous? Impossible? Crazy? Consider the following historical items and connect the dots yourself.
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