They even put an ad in the church bulletin.
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One would think their money would be better spent buying the priests a new cadillac or $300 shoes or new vacation clothes, instead of paying the legal fees for a pedophile.
What a joke."If the cardinal is committed to healing and renewal -- as he constantly vows he is -- he must instruct his pastor to immediately stop this misuse of church resources," said Paul Kellen of Medford MA, New England director of the National Survivors Advocates Coalition.
In addition, the cardinal should release documents and information related to the allegations against Mendicoa, said Anne Barrett Doyle, co-director of BishopAccountability.org, the Waltham-based public archive that documents the abuse crisis. The archdiocese's 8/14/2011 news release said only that the priest had been placed on administrative leave as a result of receiving a report "of sexual abuse of a child ... alleged to have occurred in the 1980s." No information has been released since then.
"What kind of investigation has the archdiocese done? When will it be completed? Has the archdiocese known of any other alleged misconduct by this priest? The public deserves more information, especially if the pastor is running a public fundraising campaign on the priest's behalf," Doyle said.
Cardinal O'Malley's silence is part of a bigger pattern of "false transparency," the groups say. In August 2011, the cardinal released a list of accused priests, but did not release one "new" accused priest name; he conceded to omitting the names of more than 90 archdiocesan priests, simply because their names were not yet public; and he refused to include the names of more than 70 accused religious order priests who had worked in archdiocesan parishes and schools. [See: Many Alleged Abusers Left off Church List, by Michael Rezendes, Boston Globe, 11/20/2011]
In addition to Mendicoa, the accused priests who have staffed the Sacred Heart/St. Andrew communities (the parishes merged in 2000) include Revs. John Geoghan, Anthony Laurano, Gerard Creighton, Leon Beauvais, and Richard Johnson.














