Author Topic: Retired San Diego bishop Robert Brom died yesterday. (Read 258 times)

epiphany · « **on:** May 12, 2022, 12:44:10 PM »

Retired San Diego bishop Robert Brom died yesterday. He was accused of ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ predation as well as covering up clerical sex abuse.
Church Militant's Aidan O'Connor reveals Brom's scandalous past.
San Diego's current bishop, Robert McElroy, praised Brom in a press release, calling him "a pastor, teacher and servant leader."
But Brom is also remembered as a bishop who covered up for clerical sex abuse. Even worse, he is accused of being a "sɛҳuąƖ predator," even a "rapist."
He was first appointed bishop of Duluth, Minnesota, in 1983, and from 1990–2013, he was bishop of San Diego.
But an accusation dating back to the mid-1980s came from a former seminarian of Immaculate Heart Seminary in Winona, Minnesota. He accused then-bishop Brom, priests in charge of the seminary and then-Chicago cardinal Joseph Bernardin of coercing him and other seminarians into sex.
Later, in the mid-1990s, after Brom had been appointed to San Diego, the victim retracted his accusation while being paid nearly $100,000 by the Duluth and Winona dioceses.
Then-Winona bishop John Vlazny admitted the payout hinged upon the victim renouncing his allegation.
Vlazny commented later that the payout was not an admission of Brom's guilt: "I viewed this [settlement] not as a matter of justice but as a matter of charity."
In 2006, the accusations tied to the Winona seminary followed Brom to San Diego. He and the diocese were being investigated for covering up sex abuse.
The investigation, however, inexplicably came to a halt when Brom declared bankruptcy for the diocese.
After reaching a nearly $200 million settlement involving clerical sex abuse, Brom tried to shake down San Diego's parishioners, asking: "I need your help to cover the expense we incurred recently through compassionate outreach to our brothers and sisters who suffered sɛҳuąƖ abuse within the family of the Church."
Victims of clerical homopredators have gotten little, if any, justice here on earth. But as Catholics know, there is God's justice after death, and nobody is exempt from that.
Clerical sex abuse investigator Richard Sipe listed Brom as a prominent part of the U.S. hierarchy's ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ network of complicit clergy.

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/rapist-bishop-dies

The first comment is spot on (I added one word.):
Basically what these bishops are saying is, "We don't want to condemn ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity abortion, human trafficking, murder, and rape out of charity." So pass me another latte.

Author Topic: Retired San Diego bishop Robert Brom died yesterday. (Read 258 times)

epiphany

Retired San Diego bishop Robert Brom died yesterday.