Found during Discovery in the California Clergy Cases, a brochure telling U.S. Catholic bishops about Via Coeli in Jemez Springs, NM, is scanned here at City of Angels this weekend, while the Pope appears in the UK saying once again he's shocked about sex crimes against children in the Catholic Church. (UPDATE: He gave another verbal "apology" Saturday morning as well....)
Priests with "psycho-sexual problems," which often meant pedophilia and pederasty, went for decades to the Servants of the Paraclete treatment center in New Mexico promoted in this brochure. Other documents show that from 1949 to the mid-1980s "guest" priests, after completing therapy at Via Coeli, often remained as "members" of the religious order. Their sexual problems "cured," as the Servants came to believe was possible, the priests then went into nearby communities to conduct Masses, retreats, altar boy training...
In a cabinet at City of Angels was this stack of documents, given us by plaintiff attorneys in the Coordinated Clergy Cases (JCCP), filed in 2003 and settled in 2006-7 in California. CofA posted several of the documents in 2008, then put the stack away, until this week. Stay tuned for a LOT more about Servants of the Paraclete, upcoming at City of Angels, as we go through more of these documents in weeks ahead, here is the brochure from c. 1957, found in the San Diego Bishop's files (click to enlarge):
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Posted by Kay Ebeling, City of Angels Blog Producer.
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