{"id":5959,"date":"2012-10-15T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2012-10-15T12:52:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T19:52:35","slug":"church-lawyers-keep-mum-on-speakers-five-abuse-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/church-lawyers-keep-mum-on-speakers-five-abuse-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Church \u201clawyers\u201d keep mum on speaker\u2019s five abuse allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The organization representing lawyers practicing Catholic Church \u201claw\u201d recently allowed a man with numerous allegations of sexual abuse to speak to its membership at its Chicago conference.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->View Entire Article and Comments&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/theworthyadversary.com\/1513-church-lawyers-keep-mum-on-speakers-five-abuse-allegations\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canon Law Society of America (CLSA), the organization charged with \u201cpromotion of the study and application of canon law in the Roman Catholic Church,\u201d hosted speaker Fr. Daniel Ward, OSB, a Benedictine monk and priest with at least five allegations of sexual abuse. The group did this despite being warned in a letter that the Benedictines had launched an investigation and that Marker had collected statements from the victims.<\/p>\n<p>Ward\u2019s presentation: A Diocese, a Parish, a Religious Institute, a Member: An Exploration of Canon and Civil Law is telling\u2014his \u201cexploration of Canon and civil law\u201d seems to be a study on how to hide assets when a diocese is rocked by a sex abuse and cover-up scandal.<\/p>\n<p>How does he know so much? Well, not only has he represented predator monks himself, but he also counsels church groups on sexual misconduct and asset reallocation. And who would know better?<br \/>\nThe CLSA owes a huge explanation to its membership, who they thought would never catch wind of the allegations. The Benedictines need to be held accountable as well\u2014one of their priests is under investigation for numerous allegations of abuse, yet they have warned NO ONE and allow Ward to live freely in Silver Spring, MD (home of the infamous St. Luke\u2019s Institute, a treatment center for child-molesting clerics).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theworthyadversary.com\/\">The Worthy Adversary<\/a><br \/>\nJoelle Casteix<br \/>\nOctober 15, 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organization representing lawyers practicing Catholic Church \u201claw\u201d recently allowed a man with numerous allegations of sexual abuse to speak to its membership at its Chicago conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clsa","category-dan-ward","wp-image-borders"],"views":677,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7042,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions\/7042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}