When you contribute to a building fund, general parish support, or what have you, it is "with no strings attached." Most of us know that. That money goes to a supranational organization, head quartered in Switzerland.

  And, more importantly, that's the legal reality.

CORRECTION OF THE ABOVE POST: To rub salt in our wounds, Fr. Crane's sermon in Phoenix today was about how parents should be putting their children in Society schools. What gall! Fr. Crane is among the ones who "allegedly" turned a deaf ear when students and parents warned him about the "camp counselor" pederast Sloniker.

One alleged victim told a detective that Sloniker took him on a long trip in his truck through seven Western states when the boy was between 10 and 15 years old. Sloniker sɛҳuąƖly assaulted him repeatedly during the journey, the boy stated.

Another boy said he spent one summer at the Latah farm when he was about 12. Sloniker’s attention escalated to nightly sɛҳuąƖ abuse, and Sloniker also hit him with a whip, he told police.

Several of those interviewed said they reported their concerns to the priests at Immaculate Conception Church. The boy who said he was whipped by Sloniker said he shared that with Father Patrick Crane. He also told the priest that Sloniker made him strip naked.

Crane, who now is with another Society of Saint Pius X church – Our Lady of Sorrows in Phoenix – was interviewed by a detective Sept. 22. He said Sloniker worked with the church camp from 2003 to 2006 and that he did not have any issues with him.

When the detective shared that one of the alleged victims said he had told Crane about Sloniker whipping him, “Crane said he remembers part of it, but it was mostly because (the boy) did not want to attend the camp.”

Crane added that he remembers not asking Sloniker back after that, and also told the detective that if something had been brought forward, he would have said something “because this was during the time the church was being looked into for other abuse allegations across America,” the detective wrote.

A Coeur d’Alene long-haul truck driver pleaded guilty Wednesday to molesting seven boys between the ages of 8 and 14.

Kevin Gerard Sloniker faces a prison term of up to seven consecutive life sentences when he is sentenced July 13.

He accepted a plea deal in a hearing before 1st District Judge Cynthia Meyer. Sloniker, 30, answered “guilty” as Meyer read each of the seven counts. He then described his “hand to genital” contact with each of the victims.

Sloniker met and befriended boys in his role as a youth camp counselor at Immaculate Conception Church in Post Falls, according to investigators. The church is part of the Society of Saint Pius X, a traditionalist group with no canonical standing in the Roman Catholic Church.


One boy said he attended the church’s Immaculate Conception Academy, and that Sloniker was involved with a group of boys who attended the K-12 school in Post Falls. Sloniker also taught boys how to be altar boys through the Guild of St. Stephen, an international organization of altar servers, investigators learned.

Witnesses told investigators Sloniker liked to spend time with kids much younger than him and would buy them lavish gifts. One boy told a detective Sloniker took him on a long trip in his truck through seven states and sɛҳuąƖly assaulted him repeatedly during the journey.

Some parents told police they knew of or strongly suspected the abuse and advised others to keep their kids away from Sloniker. In some cases Sloniker lived for a time with the families of his alleged victims.

The charges stem from investigations by the Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls police departments. Sloniker was arrested on a warrant Sept. 14 in Menomonie, Wisconsin, and extradited to Kootenai County, where he was booked into jail Oct. 9.

In a police interview, Sloniker said he wanted help for an addiction to touching young boys, a police detective said in court filings.

In exchange for the guilty plea, the Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office agreed not to pursue other charges, including production of child pornography charges for photos Sloniker allegedly made of two of the boys.

A Phoenix priest is accused of ignoring reports that a now-admitted child molester made a boy strip naked and whipped him.

Fr. Patrick Crane is with Our Lady of Sorrows in Phoenix. Last month, he was interviewed by a detective because he worked for three years - from 2003 to 2006 – with Kevin Sloniker, who faces recent child sex charges in Washington and Idaho. Crane said he remembers part of the conversation with the boy.

For the safety of kids, we call on Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmstead to suspend Fr. Crane.

And we call on Idaho Bishop Peter F. Christensen and Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly to use church websites, parish bulletins, pulpit announcements and personal appeals to reach out to others who may have seen, suspected or suffered crimes by Sloniker.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/oct/26/coeur-dalene-man-jailed-on-1-million-bond-suspecte/

Sloniker was at Immaculate Conception Church in Post Falls. He’s part of an arch-conservative Catholic group called the Society of St. Pius X. He’s not the first man with that group to face abuse allegations:

http://www.snapnetwork.org/exclusive_after_us_sex_abuse_scandals_an_accused_priest_rises_again_in_paraguay

Sloniker was recently arrested on abuse charges and may face more charges since he took boys across state lines.

All too often, when church staff and volunteers are arrested on child sex charges, bishops do nothing. All too often, corrupt church officials refuse to act and thus essentially protect criminals and endanger children. And all too often, secular officials with the power and duty to safeguard society’s most vulnerable pursue only church staff who commit abuse and ignore church staff who conceal abuse.

Christensen, Daly and hundreds of other church members and employees in northern Idaho and eastern Washington have a moral and civic duty to help law enforcement investigate and prosecute Sloniker. They’ll be tempted, of course, to do nothing. But that’s wrong. And their inaction might help enable Sloniker to exploit legal technicalities and escape punishment and hurt more kids.

And Phoenix Catholic officials will be tempted to do nothing about Fr. Crane. That too is wrong. Their inaction might well encourage other clerics to ignore or conceal known or suspected child sex crimes by their colleagues.

So we hope that anyone who saw, suspected or suffered Sloniker’s crimes will speak up, call police, protect kids, expose wrongdoers, deter cover ups and start healing. We hope Phoenix Catholic officials will suspend Fr. Crane.

And we hope that Idaho and Washington Catholic officials will ignore their defense lawyers, show real courage, and aggressively reach out to anyone with information or suspicions about Sloniker that might help law enforcement keep him away from kids for a long time.

(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. SNAP was founded in 1988 and has more than 20,000 members. Despite the word “priest” in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)

Contact - David Clohessy (314-566-9790 cell, davidgclohessy@gmail.com, SNAPclohessy@aol.com), Barbara Dorris (314-503-0003 cell, bdorris@SNAPnetwork.org), Barbara Blaine(312-399-4747, bblaine@snapnetwork.org)

 

Quote from: mw2016

SNAP is calling for Fr. Crane's suspension by Bp. Olmsted.

I wonder how that would work, exactly....  

That's right, Olmstead has no authority over SSPX priests.

For everyone's sake, including his, I think Fr. Crane should be transferred to some administrative position.  

We are still going to withhold the majority of our donations and other forms of support
We will not contribute so long as we are lied to, blackmailed and treated like dirt and plead with other parishioners  to join in our silent protest