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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.
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