Jeff Anderson, Attorney at Law, Indexes Archdiocese’s abuse cases

Below is taken from:  http://www.andersonadvocates.com/Archdiocese-of-Chicago-Documents.aspx   If any of the links do not work go to that source.

Archdiocese of Chicago Documents

* Files released by the Archdiocese of Chicago on November 6, 2014
Searchable files obtained from Bishop Accountability

Priest Files

• Baranowski, Alexander Sylvester *
Timeline

• Bartz, Richard Barry *
Timeline

• Becker, Robert C.
Timeline

• Bennett, Joseph R.
Timeline

• Bogdan, Leonard Adolph *
Timeline

• Bowman, Robert Peter *
Timeline

• Braun, David Francis *
Timeline

• Brigham, Kenneth.
Timeline

• Buck, Daniel Peter *
Timeline

• Burns, Eugene Patrick *
Timeline

• Calicott, John Walter *
Timeline

• Cloutier, William J.
Timeline

• Craig, Robert D.
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• Curran, John
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• Czajka, Norman J. *
Timeline

• DeRoeck, Walter George *
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• Dilla, Francis Emil *
Timeline

• Fassbinder, Richard Wayne *
Timeline

• Fitzharris, Joseph L.
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• Flosi, James Vincent *
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• Friese, Robert *
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• Garza, Jesus P. *
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• Hagan, James C.
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• Hefferan, John Edward *
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• Hoder, James *
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• Hogan, Michael J. *
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• Holihan, Daniel M.
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• Huppenbauer, Walter Edward *
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• Job, Thomas J.
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• Kealy, Robert Louis *
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• Keehan, John James *
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• Kelly, Thomas F.
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• Keough, John Joseph *
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• Kissane, Joseph P.
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• Kmak, Leonard Paul *
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• Lupo, William L. *
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• Maday, Norbet J.
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• Mayer, Robert E.
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• McCaffrey, Vincent E.
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• McDonald, Robert Joseph *
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• McNamara, Peter John *
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• Miller, Gary M. *
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• Mulsoff, Donald John *
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• O'Brien, William J.
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• Owens, Joseph
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• Pallakunnen, Emmanuel
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• Ray, James M. *
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• Robinson, John Allen *
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• Rohrich, John F. *
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• Romano, Russell L.
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• Ruge, Kenneth C.
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• Savage, Joseph E. *
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• Skriba, Raymond
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• Snieg, Marion J.
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• Steel, James R.
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• Stewart, Victor
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• Strand, Ralph S.
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• Swade, Thomas J.
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• Swider, Henry P.
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• Tanghal, Albert *
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• Theisen, Richard Gregory *
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• Thomas, Joseph S. *
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• Turlo, Walter J.
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• Ulatowski, Donald Francis
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• Vader, Anthony Joseph *
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• Weston, Michael
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Key Documents

Depositions

Priest Files

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Key Documents

Cardinal George's Knowledge of Abusive Priests:

Brigham, Kenneth
Maday, Norbet J.
Curran, John
Holihan, Daniel M.
McCormack, Daniel J.
Strand, Ralph S.
Bennett, Joseph R.

Priests Placed Back in Ministry Despite Danger to Minors:

Brigham, Kenneth.
O'Brien, William J.
Skriba, Raymond
Mayer, Robert E.
Curran, John
Cloutier, William J.
Hagan, James C.

Fitzharris, Joseph L.
Becker, Robert C.
Snieg, Marion J.
Holihan, Daniel M.
Job, Thomas J.
McCormack, Daniel J.
Swider, Henry P.

McCaffrey, Vincent E.
Romano, Russell L.
Ruge, Kenneth C.
Stewart, Victor
Strand, Ralph S.
Swade, Thomas J.
Weston, Michael

Priests Criminally Convicted for Abuse of Minors:

Maday, Norbet J.
Fitzharris, Joseph L.
McCaffrey, Vincent E.
Mayer, Robert E.
Strand, Ralph S.

Reasons for Removal of or Restrictions on Predator Priests Other than Abuse of Minors:

Skriba, Raymond

Swade, Thomas J.

Laicized Priests:

Job, Thomas J.
Holihan, Daniel M.
Weston, Michael
Fitzharris, Joseph L.

Hagan, James C.

Steel, James R.

Abusive Priests whom Cardinal George or Cardinal Bernardin Chose Not to Laicize:

Curran, John

Maday, Norbet J.

O'Brien, William J.

Ruge, Kenneth C.

Skriba, Raymond F.

Bennett, Joseph R.

Archdiocese of Chicago Documents

Child abuse: UN questions Australian government over Vatican stance | Australia news | The Guardian

 

The federal government(of Australia) has told a UN committee it is up to Australia’s child sex abuse royal commission to get the Vatican to hand over documents about paedophile priests.

Vice chair of the UN Committee Against Torture, Felice Gaer, had queried on Monday whether the Australian government’s refusal to investigate perpetrators of child abuse was “compliant or wilfully inactive”.

The committee sitting to review Australia’s record as a signatory to the Convention Against Torture has received submissions from non-government organisations including two from networks representing Australian survivors of institutional and clerical child sex abuse.

Gaer asked specifically what action the government had taken when Cardinal George Pell told a royal commission it was unreasonable to ask the Vatican to hand over all documents relevant to sex abuse by priests in Australia.

In August the cardinal told a public hearing of the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse in Melbourne that Vatican documents on specific cases would be and had been supplied but it was not appropriate to hand them all over as they were the private internal documents of a sovereign state – the Holy See.

Read more by clicking on the following:  Child abuse: UN questions Australian government over Vatican stance | Australia news | The Guardian

Weekly Contributions for the weekend of November 9, 2014

 

Total Paid does not match last week’s total paid ($2,531,895.70) plus Collected 11-8/9, 2014 ($6,938).  Total Paid should be $2,538,833.70 difference of $5905. ($2,538,833.70 minus 2,532,928.70)

New Mass Times for St. James beginning December 20, 2014

As we draw closer to the Mass of Dedication with Bishop Malloy on Thursday, December 18th,
many have asked about the new Mass times for our new church. Since the Dedication Mass will be the
first in our new church, the new Mass times will come into effect beginning December 20-21st and
thereafter. Mass times for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day will be published through a mailing as
well as the bulletin.
Since Mass times affect the whole parish, I have prayerfully considered the various pastoral
needs of our community. I intentionally considered things such as times for Confessions on Saturdays,
weddings (with time for pictures), the time of day with winter months in mind, Religious Education
classes on Sundays, Baptisms, and the amount of people who attend each Mass so as to reflect peoples'
preferences. Not everyone will be happy with the new times but it will be a blessing to worship
God together with parishioners whom we may have never met because of the varied Mass times previously
offered.
Saturday evening Mass will be at 4:00 p.m. This time is more popular than the 5:30 p.m. time
and allows some daylight in the winter months for parishioners for whom that is important. Weddings
will remain at 1:00 p.m. with pictures from 2:00-2:30 p.m. Confessions will be heard from 2:30-3:30
p.m. so that the priest has time to vest for Mass at 4:00 p.m.
Sunday morning Masses will be at 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. We tried to accommodate those
who wish to worship early in the morning by combining the previous 7:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. times, but
without being too early for the many extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion to visit the homebound
after that Mass. The new 10:30 a.m. time combines the 10:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. times into one.
This will be an adjustment for some who prefer a later Sunday Mass. We may move English Baptisms
to 9:15 a.m. on the 3rd Sunday as to allow family members to go to Mass either before or after the Baptism.
The previous 3:00 p.m. Baptism time was inconvenient for those who should worship God on
Sunday as He commands.
The Spanish Mass will be at 12:00 noon, combining the two afternoon Spanish Masses into one
at an earlier time. We will continue to offer Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament all day on Thursdays
in the new church with Confessions from 5:30 p.m. - 6:20 p.m. followed by Benediction and Spanish
Mass at 6:30 p.m. Spanish Baptisms will remain on the second Saturday of each month at 10:00
a.m.. Daily Mass (every morning, including Saturday) in English will remain at 7:30 a.m..
To summarize (beginning December 20-21st and thereafter):
Saturday: Confessions 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Mass 4:00 p.m.
Sunday Masses: 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m., Spanish at 12:00 noon
Thank you very much for your cooperation in adjusting your schedules around the new Mass times. It
will be a blessing to see the many wonderful parishioners come together to worship the living God in our
new church.
God bless you,
Fr. Geary

Tale of two synods’

‘Tale of two synods’ emerged from Vatican, says USCCB president November 11th, 2014

By Mark Pattison -

 

….Those differences were highlighted by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York in remarks delivered during the assembly’s morning session.

“There must have been two synods,” he said, and the participating U.S. bishops “happened to be at the wrong one.”

From what he said he had heard and read about the synod, one synod was “confrontational and divisive,” “hijacked by left-wing dissenters intent on eluding doctrine,” with proceedings “smothered by new Ottavianis, dug in to resist the fresh breeze” of change, Cardinal Dolan said, referring to Italian Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani known for his opposition to the changes being brought about in the church during the Second Vatican Council.

“Too bad we missed that one,” Cardinal Dolan added. “The one we were at was hardly as spicy (and) juicy.”

The synod Cardinal Dolan said he attended “was a synod of consensus. This synod was led by a pope with a radical charism for attentive listening,” he said of Pope Francis, adding the only time the pope spoke was in “reciting the Angelus – twice.”

At this synod, “we listened to married couples who found God’s love in one another and their kids,” Cardinal Dolan said. “At this synod, we listened to bishops from Africa who said the (church’s) teaching on marriage, so widely dismissed in the First World, was enhancing their culture. ... We saw brother bishops asking how we can expedite and simplify marriage (annulment) cases.”

It was at this synod, Cardinal Dolan said, that “life-giving marriage” was the focus of “meeting the most urgent vocation crisis of the times.”

Archbishop Kurtz, in addressing his fellow bishops, noted that each one of the 62 paragraphs that constituted the final “relatio,” or report, of the synod met with majority approval – and all but three of the paragraphs with approval by at least two-thirds of those voting.

Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, at a news conference following the morning session, said Pope Francis had asked that the “votation” be published along with the text to indicate the degree of accord shared at the synod.

Archbishop Kurtz said there were 12 documents in all to be considered at the synod before the final “relatio” was discussed: the first two “relatios” – one offered at the synod’s beginning and a second draft issued mid-synod – plus separate documents produced by each of 10 small working groups.

“The work of the second ‘relatio’ was the work of the small groups,” Archbishop Kurtz told reporters….

See more at: http://www.catholic-sf.org/ns.php?newsid=1&id=62937#sthash.WdBrTEvu.dpuf

Madison’s Conservative Bishop back in the news

Biship Morlino of Madison has been criticized for attempts to return to Pre-Vatican II services and governance.  In 2008 two progressive groups signed a letter complaining of his actions in a one page paid advertisement in the Madison, WI newspaper.  (SEE:  http://boonecountycatholics.blogspot.com/2011/09/2008-outcry-concerning-madisons-biship.html)  Now the group sent a letter to Pope Francis in April 2014 and the letter has been leaked.  The following excerpts of Wisconsin State Journal articles regarding the issue.

In the Spirit: In letter to pope, progressive Catholics list grievances with Madison diocese : Wsj

In a letter to Pope Francis, the local group says it is very difficult in the Madison Catholic Diocese to be the kind of church the pontiff wants — one that works with the poor for justice, is sensitive to the needs of others, and welcomes everyone, especially those marginalized by society.

“The church you envision is not the church we are experiencing,” the letter states. “We experience not pastoral sensitivity, but judgment; we are marginalized, even excluded.”

Brent King, a spokesman for the Madison Catholic Diocese, said the letter contains “many false assertions.” By going public with their grievances, the letter writers will serve only to sow “deeper division and discord,” he said.

The letter was coordinated by members of two groups: the Madison-area chapter of Call to Action and Integrity/Dignity Madison.

Call to Action is a national organization of about 25,000 Catholics whose stated aim is to “transform” the church. Most members seek the ordination of female priests, the elimination of mandatory celibacy for priests, and a more welcoming environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.

Integrity/Dignity Madison is an ecumenical group founded 37 years ago to minister to LGBT people.

The letter was sent to the Vatican by certified mail in late April. It was never released to the press, though a copy of it recently was leaked to the State Journal by one of the 96 people who signed it. The person said he was frustrated that nothing has come of the letter and wants other Catholics to know of its existence.

Jim Green, a leader of the local Call to Action group, agreed to answer a few questions about the letter but wanted it made clear he was not the source of the leak and that the group’s leadership did not sanction the letter’s release.

Green said all of the signers identify as Catholic. This will be a point of contention with some, as critics of Call to Action say its members oppose so many of the church’s teachings that they should not call themselves Catholics.

During an average week, about 56,000 people attend Mass somewhere in the 11-county Madison Catholic Diocese. So those who signed the letter are a tiny slice.

Green acknowledged this and said it has always been a challenge to reach people in the pews who may be sympathetic to the group’s views because Morlino does not allow Call to Action to meet at any parishes in the diocese.

King said that’s because the group’s views on so many issues are antithetical to church doctrine and practice. Allowing Call to Action to meet on church property “can only cause confusion, or, far worse, serious scandal among the faithful,” he said.

Green said a copy of the letter was given to Morlino early on as a courtesy….

Read the entire article by going to:  In the Spirit: In letter to pope, progressive Catholics list grievances with Madison diocese : Wsj

 

For the response of the Madison diocese to some of the issues go to:  http://host.madison.com/diocese-s-response-to-complaints-listed-in-letter-to-pope/article_b54bab8e-99c0-5623-9906-690b18ae4b52.html

US bishops struggling under Francis' pontificate - Yahoo News

 

Francis is pressing U.S. bishops to make what for many prelates is a wrenching turnaround: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and individual church leaders have dedicated increasing resources over the years to the hot-button social issues the pontiff says should no longer be the focus. The bishops say they've been forced to emphasize these issues because of the growing acceptance of gay relationships and what they see as animosity toward Christians in America.

US bishops struggling under Francis' pontificate - Yahoo News