Welcome to H&C,,, where I aggregate news of interest. Primary topics include abuse with "the church", LGBTQI+ issues, cults - including anti-vaxxers, and the Dominionist and Theocratic movements. Also of concern is the anti-science movement with interest in those that promote garbage like homeopathy, chiropractic and the like. I am an atheist and anti-theist who believes religious mythos must be die and a strong supporter of SOCAS.
A Detroit-area Catholic priest was sentenced to 45 days in jail
Wednesday for assaulting a suicidal younger man who wanted counseling,
while a priest in western Michigan pleaded guilty to binding a teenager
with bubble wrap and tape.
The Rev. Patrick Casey was accused of engaging in sex
acts with the man, who was struggling with homosexuality and his faith.
The victim said he “needed a shepherd” but that the priest didn’t help
him in 2013.
“I’m not blaming all my problems on (Casey). I was
messed up before I ever met him,” the man, now in his early 30s, said in
a written statement. “But he could have helped. And he chose not to. He
contributed to it instead. For the next several years I drank heavily
and constantly to cope with the pain and rage I felt.”
Michigan law enforcement officials made
their first arrests in a statewide investigation into Roman Catholic
clergy sexual abuse, the state’s attorney general announced on Friday.
Five
former Catholic priests have been charged with criminal sexual conduct,
Attorney General Dana Nessel said at a news conference. But hundreds,
or even thousands, of alleged victims could still remain across the
state, she said.
“This is just the tip of the iceberg,” she said. “We anticipate many more charges and arrests.”
Father Jacob Vellian, former priest from the Lansing diocese, is being charged with rape of a victim under the age of 16, and continuing his assaults when the victim became an adult. Vellian, 84 years old, is also facing complaints involving sex abuse of nuns in India.
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Father Neil Kalina, formerly of St. Kieran Church in Shelby Township,
was arrested on four counts of criminal sexual conduct involving the
same victim, who was assaulted at the age of 13, and again between the
ages of 13–15. Kalina had gotten in trouble with the law in 1985, at the
age of 30, arrested for supplying minors with cocaine, marijuana and alcohol in his rectory.
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Another Detroit priest, Fr. Patrick Casey, 53, was arrested in Oak Park,
Michigan, for a charge of performing oral sex on the victim during
confession, while acting as the victim's spiritual counselor. He had
formerly been administrator of Divine Savior Parish and pastor of St.
Theodore of Canterbury Parish and St. Damian Parish in Westland.
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Father Timothy Michael Crowley was charged with eight counts of
criminal sexual conduct, including raping a child under the age of 16 as
well as raping another victim older than 16. He was formerly assigned
to St. Thomas in Ann Arbor. The 69-year-old former cleric was arrested
in Tempe, Arizona.
Father Vincent DeLorenzo was arrested and charged with six counts of
criminal sexual conduct. The Lansing diocese said eight people have come
forward accusing him of abuse and that he's in the process of being
laicized. Formerly assigned to Holy Redeemer in Burton,
DeLorenzo resigned in 2002 after an allegation of sex abuse of a
minor. Now 80 years old, he was arrested in Marion County, Florida
Thursday.
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