JANET'S WORLD: HER THOUGHTS FOR TODAY,08/12/18 - THE BLINDFOLD OF SELF DECEPTION

Janet Varney

 JANETS WORLD:

THE BLINDFOLD OF SELF DECEPTION

The conspiracy of silence in the Catholic Church over scandals involving sex, homosexuality, cover-ups, payouts, betrayal, and corruption have left many Catholics disillusioned and even angry.

Corruption wears many disguises, including liturgical garments.

There is a cancer in the Catholic Church that needs to be eradicated. The cancer is not Catholicism; rather it is about the dangerous, corrupt behavior in too many of the Bishops. The traditional role of a bishop is as head of a diocese—the buck stops with the Bishop.

The recent exposure of the sexual abuse and predatory lifestyle of Cardinal Ted McCarrick of Washington D.C. was overdue. The Harvey Weinstein-like situation where “everyone knew” of “Uncle Ted’s” decades of predatory behavior that involve unwanted touching of minors and seminarians, strange costumes, familial nicknames, and the Cardinal demanding that young men share his bed. Stories that involve “gay sex parties at the bishop’s residence” and other things we’d rather not contemplate,

According to many Catholics, McCarrick was just the tip-of-the-iceberg. Even as the moral corruption of McCarrick becomes undeniable, the question of the networks that supported and covered his actions have taken on a pressing urgency. Those responsible for keeping silence are men who continue to serve in the Church.

McCarrick’s case has only piled on to the decline and denial of the Catholic Church, and the gross selfishness by bishops and cardinals bent on protecting themselves at the expense of the sexual abuse victims, as well as parishioners throughout the world.
Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto is one such cover-up agent, according to many area Catholics—not just many Catholics, but every Catholic in the Sacramento area I’ve spoken to says this. The Sacramento Diocese stretches from the Oregon border to Vacaville. In 2009, there was a massive retirement of area priests only one year after Jaime Soto was named bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento.

Declining attendance in many of Sacramento’s Catholic Churches is but one symptom. The moral of Sacramento’s priests is as low as it gets, I am told. Many are retiring early—nine last year—and there were zero young priests ordained to fill their shoes.

If you don’t have any other options, then the people in authority over you have quite a bit of coercive power, The bishop has financial power over you, spiritual power, the power of assignment, a power to suspend, a power to send for psychological assessment, etc.

Now ideally, if a bishop is righteous, this would all work out for the good of the priest. But what if he isn’t? Or what if the priests in his curia who are advising him are corrupt? If you are a priest in such a diocese what are you to do?

Indeed. What if the bishop is corrupt? What if he is abusing his all-powerful authority over everything and everyone in his diocese? What if he is covering up crimes by corrupt priests?

Strife and Betrayal in Sacramento Diocese

Recently I met with Dave Leatherby owns and operates Leatherby’s Family Creamery. Dave is a devout Catholic, Leatherby describes a serious morale problem within the diocese.

“People are stopping going to church,” Leatherby said. But it’s not because they are losing interest in Catholicism, he explained. “It’s leadership; there are lots of unhappy Catholics.”

Leatherby’s grandson, Fr. Jeremy Leatherby, is a priest and was the parish priest of Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary Parish. But he is on the “outs” with Bishop Soto.

Leatherby explained: A few years ago a long-time housekeeper at St. Philomene’s walked in on the parish priest having sex with another priest. She was threatened and told to be silent. But instead, she told Dave Leatherby, Jr—Dave’s oldest son—a Deacon in the Church. Leatherby, Jr. took this information to a trusted Vicar in the diocese. But the reaction wasn’t what it should have been. “He exploded,” Leatherby said. The next thing they knew, Leatherby Jr.‘s son, Fr. Jeremy was given two hours to vacate the rectory where he lived and was placed on “suspension” on a charge of having sex with a female parishioner. Leatherby Sr. said the woman has recanted her story, but Fr. Jeremy is still on suspension, having been in limbo for two-and-one-half-years without a hearing.

Bishop Soto will not respond to Fr. Jeremy’s canonical lawyer, and won’t allow a hearing. Yet the bad priests are still in their parishes.

Bishop Soto wants him laicized (defrocked), Leatherby Sr. said. “And this speaks to the treatment priests have gotten in this diocese when they speak up about this issue. Bishop Soto is covering up and protecting bad priests, abusing the good priests, and this causes unhappy parishioners.”

If you’re not on the ‘in’ of the sex ring, they will allow you to be destroyed. If you don’t agree with the political agenda, they push you out.

At the Bishop level, it’s a swamp, The sex problem has made it newsworthy, but it’s the power-mad Bishops who are terrifying priests. They’ve forgotten that they are still priests.

This needs to be investigated and exposed, They (Diocese) beat the crap out of Father Dan Madigan, founder of the Sacramento Food Bank. He named several other local priests who were targeted by Bishop Soto:

Father Kiernan was accused of mishandling money. Father John Hansen, a 47-year priest was ousted on a 50-year old accusation in Ireland (the accuser is dead). Soto pulled him from the priesthood. Father Bill Frazier was accused falsely of sex allegations. It was proven not true, but Soto never did anything to clear his name before he died.

By Janet Varney

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato (429-347 BC)

TRY THE PATRIOT AD FREE

THE PATRIOT

 "FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM AND LIBERTY"

and is protected speech pursuant to the "unalienable rights" of all men, and the First (and Second) Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, In God we trust

Stand Up To Government Corruption and Hypocrisy

                                                                                                    

NEVER FORGET THE SACRIFICES

BY OUR VETERANS 

Note: We at The Patriot cannot make any warranties about the completeness, reliability, and accuracy of this information.

Don't forget to follow the Friends Of Liberty on Facebook and our Page also Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr and Google Plus PLEASE help spread the word by sharing our articles on your favorite social networks.

LibertygroupFreedom    

The Patriot is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with the mission to Educate, protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights.

Support the Trump Presidency and help us fight Liberal Media Bias. Please LIKE and SHARE this story on Facebook or Twitter.

WE THE PEOPLE

TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! 

Join The Resistance and Share This Article Now!

TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Help us spread the word about THE PATRIOT Blog we're reaching millions help us reach millions more.

‼️️ ♻️ PLEASE SHARE ♻️ ‼️️

Please SHARE this now! The Crooked Liberal Media will hide and distort the TRUTH. It’s up to us, Trump social media warriors, to get the truth out. If we don’t, no one will!

Share this story on Facebook and let us know because we want to hear YOUR voice!