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hbhughes · 29 days

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Catherine "Kay" L. Smith

Catherine”Kay” L. Smith, 92, of Swoyersville passed away peacefully on March 27, 2024. Born in Kingston, she was the daughter of the late James and Elizabeth (Perugino) Umbra. Kay and her loving husband of late, Charley, enjoyed 67 years of marriage.

Following her graduation from Edwardsville High school, she declined several opportunities to extend her education and accompanied her older sisters in accepting a position within the local garment industry. Throughout 45 years of employment, she served in numerous supervisory and leadership positions. In addition, Kay maintained a successful monogramming business. An accomplished seamstress, she enjoyed monitoring current fashions and designing clothing for her three daughters, specializing in dresses and formal gowns and attire. Upon her retirement, Kay became a co-founder with her husband of Kay’s T-tags, a state-certified agency for notary work and title transfers. A woman of many interests and talents, Kay also enjoyed baking an assortment of delicious cookies, cakes and pastries, often preparing decorative presentations as gifts to family and friends. Along with her husband Charley, she volunteered and entertained at various local nursing homes and served as a volunteer usher at the F. M. Kirby Center. A devout Catholic, Kay nurtured her family in the traditions of our faith. She was an active member of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (Holy Trinity) parish, the Christian Mothers and volunteered on various parish committees, dedicating numerous hours of service to her parish. Kay’s love of family was unconditional and passionate. She cherished spending time at family gatherings, and especially enjoyed visits from her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Kay would never miss the chance to dance with her favorite partner and loving husband of 67 years, Charley. Kay was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Charley, four brothers, Joseph, Patrick, WIlliam, and James Umbra and her sisters, Isabelle Spisak, Mary Schwartz, and Rose (Coury) Bellas. She is survived by her three children, Dr. Deborah Smith Mileski and husband, James of Hanover Township and Naples, FL, Dr. Sharon Smith Hudacek and husband Stephen, Harveys Lake and Naples, FL, and Kim Smith Proctor and husband, Mark of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL and Harvey’s Lake; grandchildren Brynn and husband Brian Lewis of Arlington, VA., Matthew and wife Dr. Kelsey Mileski of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, Stephen Hudacek and wife Maria of Philadelphia and Harveys Lake, Charles and wife Dr. Jaclyn Hudacek of Dallas, PA, Joshua Pucha and fiancee Stacey of Jacksonville, FL, Paige and Tate Prucha of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.; and great grandchildren, Miles, Charley Grace, Reese, Madelyn, Henry, Drew, and Annie.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 6, 2024 in St. Elizabeth Seton Church, 116 Hughes St. Swoyersville. Family and friends may visit from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. prior to the Mass. Interment will be at Holy Trinity Cemetery, Swoyersville. Funeral services are entrusted to Hugh B. Hughes and Son, Inc.

Kay’s family wishes to extend sincere appreciation to her assisted living care staff at Highland Park Senior Living, in particular, Carol, Jim, Paula and Chrissy for their countless hours of comforting assistance and personal support, as well as to the staff of Erwine Home Health and Hospice, in particular, Mary, Joyce, Sue and JuJu for their ongoing compassionate care.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Catherine and Charles Smith Memorial Scholarship fund for nursing students in need via Misericordia University, 301 Lake Street, Dallas, PA 18612.

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allthingsdarkanddirty · 2 years

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teambrowntrenchcoats · 6 years

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Thank you to everyone who helped Team Brown (Trench)Coats complete 204 tasks in a week!

One can only play GISH with the help of family, friends, and kind strangers! We are grateful to everyone who joined in on a challenge, helped us locate an obscure item, helped us brainstorm how to find something, joined us in large group endeavours like the “I Will Vote” challenge, and generally took time to help us meet our crazy goal of completing as many challenges as we possibly could (and doing them well)!

When you look through our gallery of photos and images, please remember that it took at least a village to get these done!

We want to thank:

Allana Gerke; Alyson Karper Orr; Amanda Clark; Amy Massiah-Karwandy*; Amy Smith; Andie Giddings; Angela Kongelbak; Ann Hutchinson; Arline Smith; Ashley Semenoff; Bill Allman; Billie Meech; Birgit Zorzi and Elliott; @brassbelles; Brenda Henderson; Cali and Mark Mullins and their pet geese, pigs and Liquid the cat; Brian Fischer; Calcasieu Parish Public Library staff; Carrie Oswalt Gruhn; Carroll Lefebvre; Catherine Smith; C.D. Saint; Claire Fenton; Clara Kongelbak; Cheryl Lewis; Cheryl Noon; Chris Malcolm; Colleen Spier; Contessa Sookeroff; Corinne Bucher; Dan Sutherland; Danica Stene; Daniel Williams*; Dave Andersen; David Luggi; Diane Sowden; Dylan Winchester; Eliot Pearce; Elizabeth Manning; Emily Garland*; Eric Kongelbak; Erika Boelling; Fiona Kelly; Frank Martin; Fraser Valley Bengals; Fraser Valley Regional Library (Tsawwassen); Gina Anton; Global News; Greg Gerke; Gretchen Copenhaver and Nimbus; Gwen Semenoff; Hannah Burnett; Harvey Delaney; Ian Burnett; In Out Parcel (Point Roberts, WA); Itamar Keren; Jackie and Ron Swallow; Jacqueline Fehr*; Janelle and Kenzie Clegg; Jean-Ann Stene; Jenifer Crawford and her dancing Swedish friends; Jennifer and Chris Casillas; Jenny Ting; Jereme Brooks; Jim and Sandy Shepard; Joan Cotie; Joelle Thiessen; Johann Carillo; Jonathan Der and 4 year old JJ; Julie Daum*; Justice Institute of BC Fire & Safety Department; Kai Winchester; Kalev Fitness Solution; Karen Moffat; Kari Boyle; Katherine Coddington and Flick; Kathleen O’Neill; Katie Bailey; Katie Stene; Katy Ellsworth; Kay Gejdos; Kelly Hayton; Kelsey Smith; Kent Highnam; Kiersten Sawchuk; Kris Woofter; Larry and Paula Nelson; Laura Eparvier; Laura, Darin, Christie and Charlie Johnson; Laura Smith*; Lauren Toews; Laurine Dane; Leslie Benham; Linda Dobson; Linda Mallard; Lindsay Wilkins; Lorraine Burnett; Lori Ecker; Lori Van Niekerk*; Marcella Snell; Marian Kito; Marilyn Hartley; Mark East; Mark Meredith*; Marsha Major; Matt Greer; Matt McDonald; Matt Williams*; @melirene13; Melody Hardesty; Michael Rott; Michelle Beda; Miggs Sawchuk; Miranda and Miriam Malcolm; Mitch Snyder; Mona Boucher; Myke Skidmore; Natalie Owens; New Westminster Farmers Market; New Westminster Fire and Rescue Services; Oni Buchanan; Ora Henderson; Osa Sjostrom; Paige Burnett; Paul Mounter; Pauline Rae; Raeleen and James Long; Red’s Grill; Rick Lewis; Robyn Hicks; Roger Holland; Roger Moss; Rosalind East; Rose Da Silva; Sana, Muhammed, and family; Sarah Fisher; Sarah Vander Veen; Scott Stene; Sethric; Shelby Delaney; Shelley Lewis; Shelley Martin; Sherry Elizabeth; Shoppers Drug Mart (Tsawwassen Post); Stephanie “Schroeds” Schroeder; Stephen Smith; Susan Boyd; Susan Copenhaver; Suzanne Pratt; Ted Field; Todd Gates; Tom Martin; Tony Faber; Townline Construction; Travis and Matt at Give and Take Tree Service; Tsawwassen Wellness Centre; Tsawwassen Town Centre Mall; Vanessa Kwai; Vivian Tang Ng; Washington Gish Facebook group; Wendy Lakusta*

*Former members of Team Brown(Trench)Coats that couldn’t play full-time this year due to schedules.

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margaretrosegladney · 4 years

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Activism and Involvement in Racial Justice and Issues of Civil Rights

Gladney was in 7th grade when President Eisenhower ordered federal troops to enforce the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Gladney recalls a conversation on the playground at lunch where she told her classmates that she didn’t think her parents would object to Black students coming to their schools. That discussion continued in the classroom, and the teacher said to Gladney, "If that's what you think, why don't you go on over to Mayfield," the school for Black students in Homer, LA. Gladney was very embarrassed and remembers thinking that she would have gotten up and walked out if she knew where Mayfield School actually was. Mayfield School was not far away, being only a few blocks from Gladney’s maternal grandparents, but she had never been to that part of town because growing up White and female in a racially segregated town in the 1950s entailed not being allowed to go to certain parts of town due to racial fear. When Homer public schools were desegregated, Gladney’s parents, aunts and uncle, helped build Claiborne Academy--an all-White academic institution to deter desegregation--and following this, her mother taught there and her younger siblings graduated from there (1972, '74, '76).1

By 1961 Louisiana law required all high school students to take a six-week course on communism. Though Gladney had attended a school sponsored anti-communism crusade in Shreveport, she thought that The Communist Manifesto had some good ideas. Gladney would continue to have a complicated relationship with communism, exemplified through an interaction she had when she attended a Presbyterian Missionary conference in Montreat, NC. Gladney was standing in line for dinner next to African American girl from Arkansas who asked her, “Do you believe in integration?” Gladney wanted to say yes but had been taught that racial integration was part of the communist agenda, so she answered, “I don't know.”2

Recommended by Northside H.S. principal, Gladney attended seminar at Memphis State U. In “Teachers of English to Culturally Deprived Children,” she met some of the most experienced and highly qualified African American teachers in Memphis city schools. From them, she learned and also grew in dissatisfaction with the policies of the Memphis City school board. They had only one black member and had failed to promote Black individuals in upper levels of administration. Soon, she became friends with Eloise Forrester, a teacher in Albuquerque, attending the seminar because she could leave her daughter with her mother in Alabama. Eloise was a lifesaver to Gladney when she moved to Albuquerque for graduate work. Gladney then returned to Northside HS, ready to implement new ideas in her classroom. At her first faculty meeting, she sat with two colleagues, Bernice Burton and Frances Gandy, and heard about organizing a meeting of AFT. Attending this meeting, she saw several of the teachers she had met through that summer seminar. She was chosen to be one of the organizers, so that it would not be seen as an all black union. From then on, to the White faculty Gladney was “outside” a person of suspicion. Gladney felt naive, sure, but she didn’t really know what she was getting into. In these efforts, she marched and supported “Black Fridays” by wearing black when students boycotted schools to protest . Ultimately, she testified in court in support of reinstating students who had been expelled for protesting. The students were reinstated and she was informed she would not be rehired. Gladney then challenged this, knowing she could afford to do so because she had no family to support and didn’t have to stay in Memphis, as other activist teachers did. When the school board met, Southwestern college students protested in Gladney’s favor outside while that school board meeting was going on. The Board decided to reinstate her, dock her 2 weeks pay, and send her to one of the oldest black schools in Memphis (Manassas), where the principal was known to be very strict with teachers. That was Glandney’s first law suit. She won, but chose to go to grad school rather than to Manassas High.

Margret Rose Gladney was also extremely implicated in the issues of racial justice because of her connection to her hometown of Homer, Louisiana. Within her parish, following the legal imposition of integration, White fear and racial prejudice from community leaders and White parents led to the establishment of private academies. These private institutions provided modes for all-white education--avoiding the integration of the American public school system--that were supported by the wealth, time, and talent of several White communities. Meanwhile, as a teacher in Memphis attempting to create harmonious relationships between the Black and White students of the Memphis public school system, Margret Rose Gladney came to hate the presence of racism perpetuated by White folk in the South. In fact, Marget became especially upset because of the involvement her family held in the creation and continuance of the all-White Clairborne Academy: her father and uncles donated the land for Clairborne Academy, her mother taught at Clairborne Academy, and her brothers, sisters, and cousins all attended Clairborne academy. Consequently, her family grew increasingly divided as she vocally detested the existence of all-White private academies and the participation of her family in these institutions. Fueled partially by the hate of racism in the South, Gladney left the South to study at the University of New Mexico in the American Studies program. At UNM, Gladney obtained a PHD in American Studies and went there because she was interested in studying AF-AM lit. A professor had told her there is no such thing as African American lit, all protest lit., but if that’s what you want, look into American Studies. Using her academic platform, Gladney wrote a dissertation about the history of private, all-White academies--using the Clairborne school as a frame of reference for the totality of her dissertation. Through this dissertation, Gladney denounces the existence of these all-White institutions because of the way they recreate and perpetuate racism and elitism of the American public education system and American society more broadly.3

Furthermore, as part of her academic career, Margret Rose Gladney was able to delineate the southern history of race and queerness through the letters of Lilian Smith. In 1970 Women’s Studies was just beginning. The first WS course taught for credit at UNM was offered through the AMS Dept, spring 1972, Women in Literature. Gladney audited it. The Frist question presented to her was “Are you a feminist?”. Which she responded with “Sure, I believe in women, I’m a feminist.” Her class pushed her to read Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream(KOD), which is how she was introduced to Lillian Smith. Reading KOD, weeping, Gladney told her roommate, “This woman is writing my life.” Here was a white Southern woman who could have been a younger sister to her maternal grandmother, yet she was explaining and challenging everything she was trying to understand about racism, and sexism, and she had chosen to stay in the South and challenge all its taboos, and she had managed to live and write there. Lilian Smith, despite being a White women, presented herself as one of the most vehement critics of the South, America, and the rampant social and racial injustices she had viewed.4 She showed Gladney it is possible to live in the place you love, with people whom you both love and whose beliefs and values you see as only destructive and dehumanizing. But, Gladney could not write her dissertation on Lillian Smith because her life was too large. Also, she felt she had to confront her own immediate struggle with her family’s commitment to maintaining racism through building segregated private schools to avoid public school desegregation and thereby destroying public school systems. Instead, by exploring Lilian Smith’s queerness through the love letters between Smith and Paula Snelling, Gladney was able to add a deeper dimension to southern activism by exploring the intersection between race and sexuality.5

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1:Gladney, Margret R.(1974) . I’ll take my Stand: The Southern Segregation Academy Movement. University of New Mexico. 2:Ibid. 3: Ibid. 4: Jackson, Jacquelyn L. (1994). Clearinghouse Column: Letters of early advocate for racial justice. Center News, 6. 5: Sears, James T (1997). Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968. Milton: Routledge.

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bountyofbeads · 4 years

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Cardinal McCarrick secretly gave nearly $1 million to group led by cleric accused of sexual misconduct

By Shawn Boburg and Robert O'Harrow Jr. | Published February 17 at 8:00 AM EST | Washington Post | Posted February 18, 2020 |

In the years before his removal from ministry, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick secretly gave nearly $1 million to a controversial group of Catholic missionaries and supported leniency for its founder after the Vatican punished him for sexual wrongdoing, internal church documents show.

From 2004 to 2017, McCarrick sent the Institute of the Incarnate Word dozens of checks — some as large as $50,000 — from a charitable account he controlled at the Archdiocese of Washington, according to ledgers obtained by The Washington Post.

During those years, Carlos Buela, who founded the group decades ago in Argentina, repeatedly defied Vatican sanctions for alleged sexual misconduct with seminarians, according to a confidential Vatican order. The group “systematically obstructed” Vatican efforts to oversee its activities, the document shows.

A Post examination found that the financial and personal ties between McCarrick and Buela’s group were far more extensive than previously known. At a time when the Catholic Church is facing questions about the motives behind financial gifts from clerics accused of sexual misconduct, the examination reveals a highly unusual flow of money from one accused church leader to a group led by another. The church declined to explain the purpose of the gifts.

In the early 2000s, McCarrick aided Incarnate Word as it expanded into the United States, and in 2005 he gave the group control of church-owned property to open a small seminary just outside Washington. A letter expressing gratitude for the gift illustrates the high regard Incarnate Word members had for the Washington archbishop.

“You have been a true father to our religious family, looking out for us and guiding us,” an Incarnate Word leader wrote to McCarrick and copied to Buela. “Once more Your Eminence, I sincerely wish to thank you.”

McCarrick, who was once one of the most recognizable figures in the U.S. Catholic Church, last year became the first cardinal known to be defrocked for sexual abuse, over incidents that occurred decades earlier. The Vatican is finalizing a long-promised report examining how he rose to the highest levels of the U.S. Catholic Church and remained there despite complaints of misconduct that reached the Vatican as early as 2000.

In December, The Post reported that over nearly two decades McCarrick sent more than $600,000 from the “Archbishop’s Special Fund” to senior clerics in Rome and elsewhere, including Vatican bureaucrats, papal advisers and two popes. Some of the recipients were responsible for assessing sexual abuse claims against him.

[Ousted Cardinal McCarrick gave more than $600,000 to fellow clerics, including two popes, records show ]

The Archdiocese of Washington declined to provide details about the nearly $1 million in contributions to the institute, the largest single recipient of money from McCarrick’s fund. A spokeswoman, Paula Gwynn Grant, said McCarrick himself raised the money for the fund — more than $6 million in tax-deductible contributions, the ledgers show — and he spent it as he chose. “Therefore, any information needed about these donations, including the specific amount, must be asked of Mr. McCarrick,” Grant said.

Grant said the archdiocese knows of no complaints or allegations from Incarnate Word members about McCarrick.

McCarrick recently moved from a Kansas friary, where he had been living since 2018, to an undisclosed location. Through his attorney, he declined to comment.

In response to questions, the Vatican said in a statement that it has issued multiple orders to Buela because of his “laxity in carrying out the provisions” imposed on him in 2010 for inappropriate conduct with seminarians. Buela was ultimately ordered to a monastery in Spain in 2016, the statement said. Buela has denied wrongdoing.

The Vatican also disclosed for the first time that it recently named a cardinal to examine “the Institute’s issues and reorganization.”

More than three dozen Incarnate Word officials did not respond to requests for comment in recent weeks. Efforts to reach Buela, who remains a priest, were not successful.

Buela formed the institute in Argentina in 1984 to spread conservative Catholic ideas in line with an earlier era. The group said it was committed to the “evangelization of culture,” and its teachings often decried the evils of modern society.

The institute grew quickly, in part as a result of campaigns to recruit young people and its willingness to assume responsibility for parishes in economically distressed areas. It formed a related group for women, called the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará, and an organization for lay people called Third Order.

On its website, Incarnate Word claims to have priests, monks and seminarians in 88 dioceses in 38 countries.

From the start, Incarnate Word was controversial in Argentina. The country’s Catholic leaders worried that Buela placed too much emphasis on “ultraconservative Catholic” tenets, according to Verónica Giménez Béliveau, an Argentine sociologist who has studied the group.

The organization also was sympathetic to Argentina’s military junta of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and it believed the church was “being invaded by Marxists,” said Giménez Béliveau, who interviewed Buela as part of her research.

As his group grew, Buela instilled the notion that it was oppressed by mainline factions in the church, routinely claiming that dark forces in the Vatican were aimed at thwarting its mission, according to interviews with current and former members.

Six current and former members of Incarnate Word said McCarrick was celebrated internally for using his influence to protect the group.

They said multiple members had warned church officials about alleged sexual encounters between Buela and seminarians. They also complained to church officials that institute leaders stifled internal criticism and punished dissenters.

“You cannot dissent or disagree. Everything is black and white. You’re with us or against us,” said Raul Monfort, who left Incarnate Word and the priesthood in 2001. “They act like a cult.”

Other senior clerics in Argentina in the late 1990s asked Pope John Paul II to shut down the group’s seminaries, according to Página 12, a newspaper in Buenos Aires. Among the most prominent critics was Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, who in 2013 became Pope Francis. He and other senior clerics refused to ordain Incarnate Word seminarians for at least three years starting in the late 1990s.

At the time, the group was expanding to parishes in the United States with large Spanish-speaking congregations, including in San Jose and New York City. Giménez Béliveau said Incarnate Word leaders told her McCarrick was instrumental in that expansion. “They couldn’t have been there without McCarrick’s help,” she said.

In Massachusetts, they were welcomed to Fall River by then-Bishop Sean O’Malley, now a cardinal and archbishop of Boston. Not long after the group sent priests to Fall River, O’Malley began hearing reports that Buela had sexually abused seminarians in Argentina, O’Malley spokesman Terrence Donilon said in a statement.

O’Malley notified the Vatican’s ambassador in Washington and church officials in Rome and Argentina at some point in the 1990s, Donilon said. At the time, O’Malley became convinced that Buela “should be expelled” from the priesthood, Donilon said.

It is not clear how McCarrick and Buela first met. In a letter to an Incarnate Word seminarian, McCarrick said he traveled to Argentina every few years in the 2000s. The Post obtained the letter.

In 2004, three years after he became cardinal in Washington, McCarrick invited Incarnate Word to place priests at a parish in suburban Mount Rainier, Md., according to church records. That same year, McCarrick gave Incarnate Word a donation of $10,000, the first of more than 80 checks.

In 2005, he gave Incarnate Word the property in nearby Chillum, Md., to launch a small seminary.

McCarrick retired the following year, but he continued to raise and spend money through the fund at the archdiocese.

He gave lavish contributions to Incarnate Word, donating more than $200,000 from 2006 through 2009, a time when Buela was facing growing pressure inside the Vatican for alleged sexual wrongdoing.

In 2009, McCarrick led a celebration of Incarnate Word’s 25th anniversary at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, according to an Incarnate Word newsletter. He spoke of “the abundant growth that our religious family has experienced,” according to the newsletter.

At the time, the Vatican was investigating sexual misconduct claims against Buela. Church officials in 2010 privately approved sanctions against him, citing the “quantity of witnesses and the logic and coherence of their statements,” according to a translation of a Vatican decree. The decree, handed down in January 2010 but never released publicly, contains no details of Buela’s alleged misconduct but describes it as “morally inappropriate behaviors with the Institute’s young people.”

Buela forcefully asserted his innocence, arguing the allegations were fabricated as part of a plan coordinated by bishops in Argentina to destabilize the institute, according to the decree.

His claim was found to lack merit, the Vatican decree states. The decree also alleges that the work of three Vatican commissioners sent to examine Incarnate Word was “systematically obstructed.”

He was ordered to step aside and live under close supervision in a monastery in France “until further notice,” the decree states.

Incarnate Word publicly described Buela’s departure that month as a retirement, without mentioning the allegations against him.

Later in 2010, McCarrick traveled to Rome and met with a top Vatican official about Incarnate Word and Buela. McCarrick cited the meeting in a follow-up letter to the official days later.

“On behalf of so many of our American Bishops — those who are so grateful to God for the presence of the Institute of the Incarnate Word in their dioceses — I thank you for your care of this important and most apostolic community,” McCarrick wrote on April 20, 2010, to Cardinal Franc Rode, the official in charge of religious orders and institutes.

McCarrick wrote that he was pleased to hear that Incarnate Word’s governance structure would not be altered as a result of the turmoil and that punishment for Buela, who he referred to as “Father General,” might be eased.

“I was also very happy to learn that the decisions concerning Father General may allow both the shortening of the period of time for his residing in a monastic setting” as well as a change in location, McCarrick wrote on Archdiocese of Washington letterhead.

Behind the scenes, McCarrick himself was facing allegations of sexual misconduct with seminarians. By 2007, church officials in New Jersey had privately paid legal settlements totaling $180,000 to two former seminarians in the Diocese of Metuchen. The seminarians claimed that McCarrick touched them inappropriately in the 1980s, when he was bishop there.

In 2010, McCarrick moved to the Incarnate Word seminary in suburban Washington. He lived in one of five houses Incarnate Word purchased in Chillum. He generally lived with two seminarians and a priest secretary, who were assigned to him by the group, according to interviews with current and former Incarnate Word members.

In its statement, the archdiocese acknowledged that McCarrick lived in the Incarnate Word house and that the archdiocese paid the group to provide McCarrick with a priest as a personal assistant. The archdiocese declined to specify the dates he lived at the house or the address of the home, citing security reasons.

Buela, meanwhile, remained active as a leader and inspiration despite the sanctions, according to correspondence among church officials.

Buela was to have “no interference in the government and management of the Institute,” a Vatican cardinal wrote in a May 15, 2013, letter to a bishop in Argentina who had raised concerns about Buela’s ongoing involvement.

The Vatican intervened again in 2016, after Francis received reports that Buela was still directly involved with Incarnate Word. Among other things, Buela had created his own website on which he was promoting himself as the founder of the group and posting videos about his teachings.

The Vatican ordered him to another monastery, this time in Spain, and prohibited him from making public statements or appearing in public.

“Fr. Carlos Buela is absolutely forbidden from having relations with IVE members,” states an April 2016 decree by Francis, using the acronym for the Spanish-language name of the group.

With that decree, the Vatican’s previous findings about Buela’s conduct were announced publicly for the first time, and officials said it involved only adults. The Vatican had substantiated allegations against Buela that involved “actions in sexual matters which harmed religious and seminarians of the Institute,” church officials announced.

McCarrick continued to give money to the group — more than $73,000 from January 2016 to October 2017, the internal ledgers show. McCarrick was removed from public ministry in 2018 amid allegations of misconduct decades earlier with a 16-year-old altar boy, and he was defrocked last February.

Incarnate Word continues to extol Buela on multiple websites as its founder, with no mention of the sanctions for alleged sexual misconduct.

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Stefano Pitrelli in Rome and Dalton Bennett in Washington contributed to this report.

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apsbicepstraining · 6 years

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Las Vegas shooting: Celebrities react to butchery at Jason Aldean concert

Jason Aldean stage hand describes concert filming

At least two dead, twenty-four wounded in shooing on the Las Vegas strip

A gunman opened fire as singer Jason Aldean acted on stage at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas belatedly Sunday night.

The suspect, identified as 64 -year-old Stephen Paddock, was assassinated by police. He had apparently opened fire at concertgoers from the 32 nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino.

PHOTOS CAPTURE CARNAGE AFTER GUNMAN FIRES ON COUNTRY CONCERT

The shooting, which left at least 50 dead and more than 400 hospitalized is described as the deadliest in modern biography in the United States.

Las Vegas McCarran International Airport likewise temporarilty halted flights in the wake of the gunfire.

Here’s how Jason Aldean and others in amusement reacted to the mass killing TAGEND

Aldean called the night “beyond horrific.” He said, “It pains my soul that this would happen to anyone who was just coming out to enjoy what should have been a enjoyable night.”

Tonight has been beyond horrific. I still dont know what to say but wanted to let everyone know that Me and my Crew are safe. My Belief and devotions go out to everyone involved tonight. It pains my soul that this would happen to anyone who was just coming out to enjoy what should have been a recreation night. #heartbroken #stopthehate

A berth shared by Jason Aldean (@ jasonaldean) on Oct 2, 2017 at 1:17 am PDT

“Flip or Flop” star Tarek El Moussa left the country concert shortly before the shooting inaugurated. He shared his thoughts in an Instagram story early Monday morning.

“So I simply left the Route 91 country concert in Las Vegas. I’m safe but there was an active shooting. Many beings[ were] shot and killed and[ I’m] just really, really sad, ” El Moussa shared. “So kind of bummed right now. Sucks that circumstances like this happen. Have a good night.”

A post said that he shared Tarek El Moussa (@ therealtarekelmoussa ) on Oct 1, 2017 at 6:02 pm PDT

Mariah Carey said she was “horrified” at the bulletin of the shooting.

Horrified be informed about the shooting in #LasVegas. My thinks are with the victims and their families. Praying for everyone’s safety

— Mariah Carey (@ MariahCarey) October 2, 2017

Singer Trey Songz said, “To be in Vegas while this is happening, fetches a tendernes to my heart.”

Don’t even know what to say. To be in Vegas while this is happening, brings a pain to my nerve. My team and I are safe Thank God! Devotions up

— Trey Songz (@ TreySongz) October 2, 2017

Singer Ne-Yo said, “Hearing crazy word coming out of my hometown … Las Vegas, satisfy, stay safe.”

Hearing crazy word coming out of my hometown … Las Vegas, please, stay safe.

— NE-YO (@ NeYoCompound) October 2, 2017

Teller, of the magician duo Penn& Teller, tweeted, “A ghastly filming incident has just taken place tonight in Vegas. All of us with the P& T establish are healthy and unharmed.”

A grim hitting incident took place tonight in Vegas. All of us with the P& T establish are healthy and unharmed.

— Teller (@ MrTeller) October 2, 2017

Kendra Wilkinson, TV personalist and former “The Girls Next Door” star, tweeted, “No paroles, only utterly sick to my stomach.”

No messages, simply perfectly sick to my stomach …. Vegas be safe. Prayers to preys.

— Kendra Wilkinson (@ KendraWilkinson) October 2, 2017

Music group Imagine Dragons said they were “devastated for Las Vegas.”

devastated for Las Vegas. active shooter near Mandalay Bay. satisfy please please seek include and get away from the area

— Imagine Dragons (@ Imaginedragons) October 2, 2017

Socialite Paris Hilton tweeted, “I can’t believes that just happened in Las Vegas! What is our world to access to ?! “

I can’t believe what just happened in Las Vegas! What is our world to access to ?! My prayers go out to the victims& their own families.

— Paris Hilton (@ ParisHilton) October 2, 2017

“Orange is the New Black” actress Ruby Rose said, “It is frightening precisely to accompany the videos.”

Vegas keep safe. I’m so sorry for what is happening right now. It is frightful merely to witness the videos .. I can’t imagine what you are feeling.

— Ruby Rose (@ RubyRose) October 2, 2017

Actress and singer Christina Milian tweeted, “Can’t speculate my seeings. My prayers are with everybody in Vegas.”

Can’t conceive my gazes. My devotions are with everyone in #Vegas. Please take shelter. This is illusory. praying for your safety.

— Christina Milian (@ ChristinaMilian) October 2, 2017

Comedian Dane Cook posted “this situation in Vegas is horrific.”

This situation in Vegas is horrible !!!

— Dane Cook (@ DaneCook) October 2, 2017

Rock band Nickelback said, “Our hearts are broken.”

Praying for everyone in Las Vegas tonite. Please get at security, help one another out. This is absolutely shocking. Our middles are broken.

— Nickelback (@ Nickelback) October 2, 2017

DJ Dillon Francis said the events in Las Vegas left him “speechless.”

I’m speechless … devotions out to everyone in Vegas

— Dillon Francis (@ DILLONFRANCIS) October 2, 2017

Dutch DJ and account producer Armin van Buuren said he was “totally in shock” about the shooting.

Just sounded the horrible word about the shooting in Las Vegas. Absolutely in startle. #PrayingForVegas

— Armin van Buuren (@ arminvanbuuren) October 2, 2017

British TV presenter and fitness coach-and-four Joe Wicks said, “I am in Las Vegas tonight and am safe in my inn area now. Reckons to the victims.”

Thank you for all your contents. I am in Las Vegas tonight and am safe in my hotel chamber now. Supposes to the victims Love Joe

— The Body Coach (@ thebodycoach) October 2, 2017

Television personality Khloe Kardashian said she “can’t believe” the news of the shooting.

I can’t believe this !! The deadliest mass shooting in US history! My sincerest condolences to everybody there! My devotions are with you!

— Khloe (@ khloekardashian) October 2, 2017

British actor and comedian Russell Brand said he cancelled a “Today” show appearance because of the “awful contests in Las Vegas.”

I won’t be going on @TODAYshow because of the awful affairs in Las Vegas. Inconceivable that such things are so common.

— Russell Brand (@ rustyrockets) October 2, 2017

Businessman Mark Cuban offered his devotions to those affected by the filming.

Prayers to those affected by the tragedy in Las Vegas. We share the pain of those who lost loved ones and give hope to those recovering

— Mark Cuban (@ mcuban) October 2, 2017

Fashion model Gigi Hadid said she perceives as though “every day is more shocking and sad” and said her “heart is broken.”

I feel like every day is more shocking and sad…My center is separate for all the victims of last night’s shooting in Vegas,& their families

— Gigi Hadid (@ GiGiHadid) October 2, 2017

Businesswoman and television personality Adrienne Maloof expected her Twitter partisans to pray for the victims of the attack.

Please pray for the innocent scapegoats in Las Vegas https :// t.co/ Or8e8snTMm

— Adrienne Maloof (@ AdrienneMaloof) October 2, 2017

Actor Neil Patrick Harris said he cannot “wrap my head around the atrocity” of the misfortune in Las Vegas.

I can’t wrap my head around the atrocity in Vegas. Transporting my heart and deepest regrets to the families and friends changed. #prayforvegas

— Neil Patrick Harris (@ ActuallyNPH) October 2, 2017

Model Karlie Kloss said she was heartbroken over the misfortune.

Our nerves are broken. To the families and friends of the victims in Las Vegas, we are with you. Communicating ardour& continuing you in our prayers.

— Karlie Kloss (@ karliekloss) October 2, 2017

Singer Nick Jonas said he was “devastated” to wake up to the information about the butchery.

Devastated waking up to the word of the shooting in Las Vegas. Praying for the victims and their families and friends. #PRAYERSFORVEGAS

— Nick Jonas (@ nickjonas) October 2, 2017

“Scandal” star Kerry Washington tweeted that her “heart aches” for Las Vegas.

Heart aches for #LasVegas

— kerry washington (@ kerrywashington) October 2, 2017

Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall exhorted those on the Las Vegas strip to “please stay safe” early Monday morning.

Everybody on the row in Vegas, please stay safe praying for y’all

— Brandon Marshall (@ BMarshh5 4) October 2, 2017

Apple CEO Tim Cook conveyed his thoughts for the victims and their families in a tweet.

Our middles are with the main victims in Las Vegas, their own families and loved ones who are suffering this morning.

— Tim Cook (@ tim_cook) October 2, 2017

Celebrity chef Paula Deen said she woke up Monday morning heartbroken to the information of the Las Vegas attack.

I woke with a broken heart to hear of the misfortune in Las Vegas. I communicate my passion& devotions to Las Vegas& my gratitude to the first responders pic.twitter.com/ WZg0N 0BSm6

— Paula Deen (@ Paula_Deen) October 2, 2017

Illusionist David Copperfield said on Twitter Monday that he could hear gunshots from his theatre in Las Vegas Sunday night and “kept[ his] audience on lockdown for hours.” He encouraged the community to “support each other and bring back love.”

My thoughts and prayers for all the innocent victims and their loved ones

— David Copperfield (@ D_Copperfield) October 2, 2017

We could sounds the gun hits from my theatre and kept my audience on lock down for hours…

— David Copperfield (@ D_Copperfield) October 2, 2017

So grieved about the tragedy, detecting the hurting of my parish. Let’s support each other and bring back love

— David Copperfield (@ D_Copperfield) October 2, 2017

Singer Taylor Swift posted, “There are no paroles to express the helplessness and sorrow my broken heart feels for the victims in Vegas and their families.”

There are no terms to express the helplessness and sorrow my broken heart appears for the victims in Vegas and their families.

— Taylor Swift (@ taylorswift1 3) October 2, 2017

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