Accused pedophile Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio (a/k/a Godfather Bishop Nicky Mars) and his former Brooklyn consigliere Bishop Edward Scharfenberger got some more bad news last week --- although some might think it's a good thing for the overall cover-up of some of what made things blow up in the Buffalo Diocese in the first place
The separately incorporated (please take note; the Catholic Church will be saying that a lot, and with increasing prayerful reverence, as this pedophile crisis continues to unfold) Christ the King Seminary in the Dioceses of Buffalo is closing its doors >>> for financial reasons, under all of the circumstances now existing in the Diocese of Buffalo, according to Bishop Scharfenberger
It is an ill wind that blows no good --- One of the things that blew up on the recently-fired Buffalo Bishop Malone's watch was a sex scandal at Buffalo's Christ the King Seminary involving a "love triangle" between two seminarians and a priest instructor --- so, closing the seminary down fast cleans up that mess quickly, without any more bad stuff coming out of it
Christ the King Seminary is a "separately incorporated" apostolate of the Buffalo diocese, which has blown up big time during the past year. Bishop Richard Malone resigned his leadership of the diocese in December 2019, after a Vatican-ordered apostolic visitation, or investigation into Malone’s leadership by Brooklyn's Bishop DiMarzio. Most of that inquiry was into the mishandling of pedophile cases and the clergy accused of sexual misconduct. A big part of DiMarzio's investigations involved Bishop Malone's handling of multiple sex scandals emanating from the Diocese of Buffalo's Christ the King Seminary.
The move to close the seminary was announced two months after Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of Albany was appointed to be the temporary apostolic administrator of the diocese. Before being made the Bishop of Albany, NY, Edward Scharfenberger was DiMarzio's main man in keeping a lid on the pedophilia problem in the Diocese of Brooklyn.
In a February 4th press release, the Buffalo diocese announced that Bishop Scharfenberger was forming a committee >>> “to ‘re-imagine’ and provide specific recommendations as to how priestly formation will continue for seminarians of the Diocese of Buffalo, while also providing ongoing education in pastoral ministry and theological training for lay women and men, as well as for those seeking ordination to the permanent diaconate.”
Also in the February 4th release by the Buffalo Diocese was this: “Over the past 10 years, Christ the King Seminary has experienced an operating deficit, amounting to $500,000 on average annually. In some years, the Seminary has been the recipient of extraordinary financial gifts which have served to offset the operating deficit, but which cannot be relied upon year-over-year.... The Members of the Corporation of the Seminary have determined that it is not responsible from a fiscal standpoint to continue to operate with such a structural deficit that requires extraordinary support to sustain operations....”
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Scharfenberger is a lawyer which he downplays quite well.
[An original of this duplicate comment was posted a short time ago on another comments thread below on this blog]
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BACKFILL: THE "DI MARZIO NOISE MACHINE TRIES TO MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE A PATIENT VICTIM" EDITION
MEANWHILE THE MAN CHARGED WITH LOOKING INTO DI MARZIO'S PERSONAL PEDOPHILIA PROBLEM, CARDINAL DOLAN, HAD NOTHING BUT PRAISE FOR DI MARZIO, AND THE CARDINAL PERSONALLY PARROTED MUCH OF WHAT APPEARED IN THE MOST RECENT BROOKLYN TABLET ARTICLE THAT PAINTED A FALSE PICTURE OF DI MARZIO'S REAL HISTORY WHEN IT COMES TO THE HANDLING OF VICTIMS OF PRIESTLY SEXUAL ABUSE
BOTH THE BROOKLYN TABLET AND THE NEW YORK POST HAVE INDICATED THAT FORMER FBI DIRECTOR LOUIS FREEH WILL BE HEADING THE "INDEPENDENT" INVESTIGATIVE TEAM IN THE VOS ESTIS EXAMINATION UNDER CARDINAL DOLAN
There have been two significant articles in the last week concerning the Vos Estis investigation of the charges of pedophile sexual abuse brought against Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio. The first was in the Brooklyn Tablet (See "Empty Suit? Still No Lawsuit Nearly Three Months After Attorney Mitchell Garabedian Made Sex Abuse Allegation Against Bishop DiMarzio" by Christopher White, 2/5/2020, The Tablet/ New York News [https://thetablet.org/empty-suit-still-no-lawsuit-nearly-three-months-after-attorney-mitchell-garabedian-made-sex-abuse-allegation-against-bishop-dimarzio/]); and the other in the New York Post (See "Ex-FBI director to probe sex abuse claims against Brooklyn Bishop DiMarzio: report" by Sara Dorn, 2/8/2020, NY Post/ Metro [https://nypost.com/2020/02/08/ex-fbi-director-to-probe-sex-abuse-claims-against-brooklyn-bishop-dimarzio-report/]).
Once again, any fair reading of these two articles would clearly uncover a manifest personal bias by Cardinal Dolan to the favor of his colleague in the neighboring Diocese, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio.
As for Louis Freeh, I am going to do some additional research, which I do believe will indicate that he might not be as unbiased in these matters as one would hope --- but let's wait on that a bit.
MORE BACKFILL: THE "GATHERING OF 'FIXERS' FROM ALL AROUND" EDITION
DI MARZIO'S ATTORNEY IS A "FIXER" AND DI MARZIO'S RECENTLY DESIGNATED INVESTIGATOR IS A "FIXER" TOO
GEORGE CLOONEY WAS AN ATTORNEY-TYPE "FIXER" IN THE MOVIE "MICHAEL CLAYTON," BUT IN NEW JERSEY IF YOU NEED AN REAL LIFE ATTORNEY-TYPE "FIXER" THEN JOSEPH HAYDEN IS YOUR MAN --- IN PARTICULAR IN ONE MATTER WHEREIN HAYDEN WAS SUPPOSED TO BE INVESTIGATING AN INSTANCE OF THE NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR'S APPOINTMENT OF AN ACCUSED SEX ABUSER, THE INVESTIGATION WAS CRITICIZED FOR NOT GOING FAR ENOUGH INTO ALL OF THE ISSUES BESIEGING THE GOVERNOR AND HIS TRANSITION TEAM
SIMILARLY, AFTER THE SANDUSKY SCANDAL BROKE AT PENN STATE UNIVERSITY, LOUIS FREEH WAS BROUGHT IN TO 'FIX' THE PROBLEM FOR THE UNIVERSITY --- EXCEPT THEY CALLED IT 'INVESTIGATING' --- HE WAS CRITICIZED FOR LIMITING HIS SCRUTINY TO CERTAIN COACHES AND THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT AND NOT THE UNIVERSITY'S HIGHER UPS --- NOW FREEH IS BEING ASKED TO INVESTIGATE HIS BELOVED CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ONE OF ITS BIGGEST PROBLEMS IN THE 21ST CENTURY --- AND THE PLACE OF THE PARTICULAR PROBLEM INVOLVING BISHOP DI MARZIO IS IN THE VERY SAME RELIGIOUS, ETHNIC AND GEOGRAPHICAL COMMUNITY INTO WHICH LOUIS FREEH WAS BORN
I'm just setting up the scene, and making sure you get to know the players and what they are really all about..... And their prior interconnections --- eh, you wouldn't believe it. Like Freeh and DiMarzio both having a long and documented history of associations with Opus Dei.
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