Vatican OKs sanctions against former Maine priest
5/9/09 | 10 comments

Vatican OKs sanctions against former Maine priest


By The Associated Press

PORTLAND, Maine — The Vatican has accepted the decision of a tribunal that found a former Maine priest guilty of abusing a minor.

The Diocese of Portland says 74-year-old Frederick A. Carrigan was removed from the ministry in 2002 after being accused of abuse dating to 1972.

Carrigan, who now lives out of state, has been assigned to a life of prayer and penance. During his ministry, he served at parishes in Bath, Gardiner, Bangor, Dover-Foxcroft, East Millinocket and Hampden.

The diocese also announced Friday that a church volunteer in Augusta was removed because of a previous conviction of sexual abuse of a minor. Paul Douin, 69, escaped a background check despite being sentenced in 1977 to four years in prison.

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On 5/9/09 at 7:20 PM, 4Him2day wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

ASSIGNED TO A LIFE OF PRAYER AND PENANCE??? Is this for real? Banished to some fancy catholic resort perhaps along with all the others?

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On 5/9/09 at 8:02 PM, Rachael1962 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Better be praying or his as^! Cuz whoever he diddled will find him in his "repentence" ONLY in Maine what a disgrace!

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On 5/10/09 at 7:25 AM, Ravenbait wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Penance.....my ass! What about the boys he mollested...Prison.in population,that would be a great penance.Down on his knees in prison. yup

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On 5/10/09 at 9:54 AM, outlaw wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

the bible says if you harm a child it is better for you to have a mill stone tied around your neck and you are cast into a lake of fire for what is waiting for you is far worse than that .so get ready dirt bag your time is comming peace

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On 5/10/09 at 10:16 AM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Retired with pay!

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On 5/10/09 at 10:17 AM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

4Him2day

You should be so lucky!

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On 5/10/09 at 1:33 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Father Carl Ritter started Covenent House on West 42nd Street here in NYC.

It was found out that he was having sex with the young homeless boys, and one in particular was his favorite and he bought him presnts and took him on out of town over night trips at the Catholic Church's expense.

The church announced that he would be tranferred to a parish in South Africa where he would never come in contact with children again.

Yeah, sure.

He died a few years later and The New York Times reported he had been living at his farm in up state New York.

Why bother circulating a petition against same sex marriage?

The Catholic Church is the law!

Perley J. Thibodeau

Mainelyme

New York, New York

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On 5/11/09 at 2:42 AM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Furthermore;

A Rabbi in Brooklyn New York has just been sentenced to 35 years in New York State Prison for sexually molestng his own daughter.

The laws are different between states granted but, here was a man who sexually abused his own daughter while these men have been found to have sexually abused other people's innocent children.

These men are free to walk away temporarilly sated with the sick personal happy memories of the sweet little children that they have carnal knowledge of, while the poor victims will spend the rest of their lives with tortured recall of the physical pain and mentally anguished mistrust of the supposedly responsible adults who held their safety so carelessly in their hands.

The seriousness of these crimes isn't lessened any by whom the children were under the legal guardianship of at the time, and certainly not by whatever religious association the molesters represented and belonged to.

The Jewish Faith is every bit as strongly controlled as is the Roman Catholic Church but, as much clout as the Jews have in New York, and consequently New York Polictics, they have to be admired for not using their influence to get this Rabbi freed of his guilty charges as the Catholic Church in Maine certainly has proven many times over to have done.

It would behoove the Arch Diocese of Maine to extricate itself from Civil Rights and other current political issues and start to restrengthen itself away from these known evil pratctices.

The same goes for these other churches that are now being exposed as the pedophile protection agencies that they also have publicly become.

After all, strength like rot comes from within.

Perley J. Thibodeau

Mainelyme

New York, New York

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On 5/11/09 at 10:03 AM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden
On 5/11/09 at 12:14 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Just keeping it up front!

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