Cleaning Out The Stables - One Diocese At A Time

Defaced Image of Pharaoh Hatchetsut - Karnak

Seeing the recent press release at the beginning of August, press dump from the swamp, the Diocese of Harrisburg of all the constipated backed up hidden shit, clergy abuse of kids, for decades in the all male clergy's club I have to wonder at the recent decision of Bishop Gainer of Harrisburg to purge the names from all buildings and hospital wings and glory holes of the names of the hierarchy that did little or nothing to prevent the abuse of children. And I know that Bishop McFadden was not in Harrisburg long enough to do anything good, bad or indifferent to change anything in that diocese after fucking up so gloriously in the his efforts to cover up clergy abuse in Philly.

Whitewashing over the names of various Hatshepsut like RC bishops lends itself to the saying of Edmund Burke "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."


AMERICAN RC BISHOP'S CREDO:

The road to paradise is lined with the skulls, bones and broken wasted lives of the innocent. 


My friend Dave says that the Allentown Diocese Abuse News Dump happens next week or so. He is not Catholic but lives in that territory and is deeply saddened by the state of the RC church end of X-tianity.

As noted before Bishop John Barres has no doubt finished his work in Allentown and probably after Harrisburg as well and has moved onto to Bishop of Rockville Centre on Long Island to clean up the mess of Bishop William "Mansion" Murphy, fan and student of the late Cardinal Law.

Rockville Center by the way is the diocese of two the the four counties on Long Island, counties of Nassau and Suffolk, and excluding Queens and Kings (Brooklyn) counties.

Reading through the carefully manicured Wikipedia bio of Bishop McFadden I am struck of what I do not see and can from memory possibly read between the lines.


Bishop Joseph McFadden

McFadden then attended St. Joseph's University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in politics in 1969.^[3] He played on the freshmen basketball team at St. Joseph's, and also coached at St. Thomas More High School and West Catholic Boys High School.^[2]Following his graduation from St. Joseph's, he joined the faculty of West Catholic Boys High School, where he taught social studies.^[6] In addition to his teaching duties, he coached the junior varsity basketball team and served as the school's athletic director.^[6]

In 1976, McFadden decided to study for the priesthood, a vocation he had considered "through high school and when [he] went to college."^[3] 



One - It was St. Joseph's College (Jesuits) when he graduated from it.

Two - Crunching the numbers, his parish was in Overbrook with the Seminary, he could have avoided peers from high school who did the seminary thing in eight years, peers from senior and junior year in high school by going through at a later date. Just saying. 

Three - was he asked to leave as Athletic Director at West Catholic? Vetting on resumes such a loose thing back then and of course we are talking Christian Brothers at West Catholic. "Mums the word Joe. Now hit the road"?

I say the three item because I remember an incident from my senior year in high school. Of the brother High School being taught by the same teaching order at my High School.

I say the three item because I cannot after much research and or "search" under many different tags cannot find the story of the basketball coach at the other high school inviting the team over at the end of the season for a party and sleep over at the coach's house and distributing beer no doubt to the boys and "yawn" sleeping arrangements having the star player of basketball team sharing coach's double bed. 

And the star player running out of the house after being awoken by a groping naked coach and going home reporting it to his parents and one's parents reporting it to the police. Or so the salacious details reported in the local papers. Just because I cannot easily find this story on the Internet from 1970 or so, it does not mean that the Internet has been purged and or no longer exists. Merely that certain editions of the same newspapers were no doubt not imaged etc. There might also be a gag order still in place, privacy and all that etc.

The incident I remember because first period senior year was Physics and the Physics teacher was our high school's basketball coach, an unmarried young (draft deferred) male lay teacher. I remember his face being beet red in class and all day long when I saw him passing by his homeroom classroom and saw him coming out of the faculty dining room off the student's cafeteria. I am guessing his flushed face was the reaction to stares all day from students and faculty and he being somehow representative or connected to the scandalous story from our brother high school. To see the world differently or to be seen differently - oh what a treat. 

But who did the vetting when Joe McFadden entered St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, Philadelphia btw?

Wink. Nod. ?

Shrug.

Cathedral School - Allentown Pa.

Who Truly Won in the Papal Elections of 1978 - the CIA or the KGB?

Downtown Philadelphia Street Corner Billboards 1971 *

Putting aside some truly false and or misleading family oral history about a very distant cousin and the Archbishopric chair in Philadelphia, I have to reconsider making some real and or (my?) imaginary cross referencing of facts "sacred" and or profane "secular".

Two glaring facts stick out in my mind in the last two years, with consideration of the long term plannings of the RC church and the Czar's Private Secret Police, the KGB. Isn't it a marvel how institutional or ganizations like the RC church and or the Czar's gatekeeping Bodyguards go on and on like a law of physics, once set in motion.

And since all politics and religion are LOCAL, let me mention two things.

The official PR line of a snake like Donald Trump that he took a million dollar loan from daddy and starting flipping trash properties in Philly while a student at Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania is total bullshit.

The extra truth that many liars throw into the story, any story, is that Donald's name is not on any Philly deeds or records is because he did not want to make the prices go up. A real flipper would want the name thing to go around, to start a trend, and then have other real estate investors get on a gentrification Ponzi scheme of sorts and the first in to cash out as the later investors come along pay much more.

Like I say, I lay claim to it, that Trump paid back daddy with profits from money laundering probably first with the Philly mob, the Angelo Bruno crowd, and very familiar with the then Police Chief and later Mayor Frank Rizzo back then in 1967. And then when Donald got in over his head, like he does on every thing he does, he found a friendly front for the KGB and or they found him is more accurate and the M.O. of Trump INC was established with the brilliant Wharton Student Trump and the gentlemenly "Cs" (never really earned in any way shape or form) of an I-V school @Penn, and an "ivy league school" being in folk or origin myth being one of seven or eight American college institutions in existence before the American Revolution and or break with British Rule.

So getting back to Vatican murder and backstabbing and the usual shit thereabouts in Rome, I always wondered why one of my distant cousins, as a popular Irish American auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia did not succeed Cardinal O'Hara upon his death. ???

And then all of a sudden, the Polish Catholic minority in Philly, and not the Irish majority of RCs takes front stage with an auxiliary bishop from Cleveland (Cleveland !?) taking over the archbishop's chair in Philly.

Joe McShea did not have to bear any or much  embarrassment as a very popular auxiliary bishop in Philly, who delivered the eulogy at (Saint) Mother Katherine Drexel's funeral, and serve the new Pollack archbishop by getting an almost instant consolation prize of five northern counties (mostly coal country) of the Philly archdiocese in "upstate" Pennsylvania, by being named First bishop of the newly created Diocese of Allentown Pennsylvania. Or the grand duchy of Allentown as a reward to Joe from his once time boss, Papal Nuncio to the United States for 25 years, 1933-1959.



Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (24 February 1883 – 17 December 1973)


And also a good friend of Amleto's older brother Gaetano to whom Joe McShea as a seminarian in Rome would nightly read in private to the poorly sighted Gaetano in his papal apartments, or so the might be faulty family oral history goes. (in that family history, the older brother was much older, not two years older, and almost legally blind and could no longer read lengthy dogmatic documents without assistance etc.)


Gaetano Cicognani (26 November 1881 – 5 February 1962)


No problem for Secretary of State Amleto Cicognani of the Vatican to carve out a new diocese in Pennsylvania and move a few chess pieces around the American political landscape like auxiliary bishop John Krol into Archbishop John Krol of Philadelphia.

All well and good, and I have written about John Krol being one of the foremost starters of the American Culture War about Birth Control and Abortion after Humanae Vitae, RC encyclical regarding Command State Economy control over the reproductive product of the female part of the male / female unit of the species aka Man.

I say all this to condense with what I have stated many times and in many ways over the years here on my blogs, about how Archbishop John Krol wanted to be the first American pope and how he relentlessly campaigned years after year and took trips to third world countries where First Pennsylvania Bank and the infamous John Bunting was loaning money to the third world for fees and bonuses and no longer making little mortgages and little to moderate to large size business loans in Philadelphia. The money was in the fees and bonuses and the State Department implied no doubt in private off the book meetings with Bunting that the U.S. Government would never let John or First Pennsylvania go under giving loans that would never, could never be repaid from countries the U.S. Government had once looked kindly upon in the hopes of thwarting the spread of godless and capitalist-less belief systems. 

Problem with Bunting was that he was not I-V league. A graduate of local Temple. He actually had commuted to college. No network of I-V buddies at State or Treasury to help a guy out when the real bills came due at his Philly bank, one of the oldest in the country btw. 

And I have written how Archbishop Krol was bankrolled on his trips to Asia, and Africa, and making substantial in those days contributions of like 50k to start RC hospitals and RC colleges and RC seminaries in these very poor, poor nations. And in the hopes of swaying some local Asian and or African Cardinal to vote for him as pope once Paul VI died. etc. 

That Krol was bankrolled by a Polish American Multimillionaire and businessman John Piszek, originally from Chicago and later Philadelphia who was a founder of Mrs. Paul's Frozen Seafood, a business started btw while on strike to make some off the books cash selling crab cakes at local bars in Philly on weekends. And the business took off but they named the business after his partner Mr. Paul because it was an Anglo sounding name and not Polish which was thought not to be a good PR name to sell frozen seafood with. Piszek with the millions rolling in starting in the 1950s after he bought out Mr. Paul, his partner, was forever bitter that his name, an immigrant name, was not good enough to make it big in American business. He compensated and began to give money away to all causes Polish, locally and abroad. Archbishop Krol and getting him as the first Polish American Pope to be elected and which is why I speculate that the Papal Nuncio saw some merit in giving Krol the first Archbishop's seat that became available and that usually got a red hat with it eventually, was a logical thing, and after much cash no doubt got funneled into Polish RC church projects and charities in Poland behind the Iron Curtain. etc.

And then with all the cash rolling into the Vatican for projects in Poland, they gave Amleto Cicognani a dispensation to become Cardinal, it not being allowed under the rules that sent the RC into a tailspin in the Reformation, because his brother was already a Cardinal. Brother, Nephew, what was the difference in giving power to your crony relatives. And Amleto becomes Secretary of State of the Vatican in 1961.

I have often wondered considering the almost miraculous, with no mortal help, in the rise of auxiliary Bishop John Krol to become a contender in the 1978 papal elections, if he had the dream on his own or if somebody had whispered in his ear the dream that he could one day become the first Polish American Pope with a little help from his friends like John Piszek and Amleto Cicognani. Wink. Nod.

Which makesme wonder, with cash coming into Poland from the west via the Vatican etc. how Karol Wojtyla also may have gotten the idea that he too could become the first Polish Polish Pope with a little help from his friends. While the Vatican made its members pray every Sunday after mass for the conversion of Russia to Christianity, the real big chuck of RC R/E the Vatican would like to start with in that conversion to the Russians from Communism back into Orthodox back into Roman Christians, that the Catholic prize of Poland was possible but maybe the money of Mrs. Paul's fish sticks was not enough and maybe other sources of funds would have to be found to create networks to revive and or sustain unions that would likely first be the force to make any real changes in a Worker's State like Poland. 

And I have to wonder if the former Papal Nuncio to the United States 1933-1959 had made any worthwhile secular contacts in Washington DC over the years like at the State Department and or the dare I say it - the CIA.

That between the puppet master Amleto Cicognani in the west and the east whispering temptation into the ears of gullible Polish clerics, that maybe the long term planning of the CIA was becoming a match for the old long term planning of the Czar's secret police aka the KGB.

Wojtyla was already a player with the KGB, he could play ball and not threaten the state and the state let him play dressed up cleric for some of the masses and proclaim a free state for all the workers and their perhaps private beliefs. Whatever. 

I have often wondered about Wojtyla's resume about being associated with the resistance during WWII and in occupied slave state Poland and his survival as a worker in a stone quarry etc. Anybody can put anything on a resume. Like flipping houses in Philly on the QT and anonymously is just as good as "Freedom Fighter" on the PR releases after the Polish American Cardinal relinquished his block of Pope Votes to the Polish Polish Cardinal in 1978 after the mysterious death of the last Italian Italian pope. And anybody can flip themselves while being played as a pawn in Global Political Chess - flip as in double agents and or triple agents of the KGB etc. - comrades and brothers in Christ?

And the collateral damage, messes to be cleaned up by the masses caused from players, past their prime and also dead, still hanging around from those 1960s - 1970s games of chess here forty and fifty years later. 

Whatever.

Shrug.  



* Culture War Billboard Philadelphia