Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor

If you care about survivors of the Catholic sex abuse crisis, and were wondering how the meeting between survivor advocate Cardinal Sean O'Malley and Pope Leo XIV went, the read-out is written all over Cardinal Sean's face.

The Catholic Church is entering its post-survivor era, as I told the BBC.

Tariffs are paid by the American consumer.

BBC OS - The new Pope gets to work - BBC Sounds Mark Lowen reports live from the Vatican on reaction to Pope Leo XIV's first mass

If you think things are better in the Catholic Church, I'd suggest you listen to my/our conversation with the BBC World Service about Popes Francis and Leo, the Catholic sex abuse crisis, and survivors.

The conversation starts at 28:30.

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Why didn't I object when my abuser would put his hands on me?

And worse?

Because then Father and now Cardinal Timothy Dolan used to do that to me.

As he's doing in this video.

It normalized the idea that a priest touching you was normal.

Good.

An HONOR.

Dolan GROOMED me.

ST LOUIS..During ED MARTIN'S tenure the Archdiocese approved a settlement between Fr. Leroy Valentine & the Scorfina family.. They said Fr. Valentine would be excommunicated
FATHER VALENTINE was NOT excommunicated; he was PASSED TO 2 MORE PARISHES www.bishop-accountability.org/news2010/09_...

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Trump's favorite Catholic bishop and, perhaps, the next Pope.

...his to this day — which is how it came to dawn on me — handsy, grabby, your face in his crotch manner NORMALIZED abusive conduct.

When my abuser, Father LeRoy Valentine, started to do the same thing — and more — I don't think anything of it.

Because of what now Cardinal Dolan had done to me.

... didn’t just LIE to me and GASLIGHT me, he referred me to a therapist — who was actually the Assistance Coordinator for the Archdiocese of St. Louis — who told me I was just “misinterpreting” Father Valentine’s actions and intentions.

I have no memory of Dolan sexually abusing me himself, but...

Then Father and now Cardinal Timothy Dolan GROOMED me.

Dolan SET ME UP to be abused.

ENABLED my abuse.

Dolan then WITNESSED and BLIND-EYED my child sexual abuse by Fr. LeRoy Valentine at Immacolata in St. Louis in the late 1970s.

And worse.

Among other things, then Bishop Dolan...

Pope Francis is to the Left what Donald Trump is to the Right.

A savior.

A savior who MUST be protected.

Whose HORRORS must be covered up.

Never discussed.

(Child) Sexual Abuse? E. Jean Carroll?

Same difference.

Then Father Dolan WITNESSED and BLIND-EYED my/our abuse by Fr. LeRoy Valentine at Immacolata in St. Louis in the late 1970s.

That's how Dolan got made.

Not just the Catholics.

Agree.

when in court and under oath: it was a mistake to deport garcia who committed no crimes

when on fox news:

Trump says ‘home-grown’ Americans are next to go to El Salvador, tells Bukele ‘gotta build about five more places’ “You gotta build about five more places,” Trump told Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office, prompting laughter from administration officials.

"Trump says ‘home-grown’ Americans are next to go to El Salvador, tells Bukele ‘gotta build about five more places’"

Trump's Gulag? Auschwitz?

We'll see.

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Goldberg on Waltz: "This isn't The Matrix. Phone numbers don't just get sucked into other phones. I don't know what he's talking about ... my phone number was in his phone because my phone number was in his phone. He's telling everyone that he's never met me or spoken to me. That's simply not true."

Literally “up is down”

Fairport Baptist Church is shown as being affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.

Now tell me again how there's no widespread clergy sex abuse problem in the SBC. 🙄
#ThisistheSBC

This is WRONG.

Catch & Kill is what it's called.

Trump's hopeless tariffs confusion, explained by a historian "The president seems to believe he can impose prohibitively high tariffs *and* collect revenue, which you can’t do."

"A tariff is a regressive tax. It hurts people more the less money they have. The most progressive thing progressives wanted to do back in the McKinley era was replace tariffs with an income tax." — @rauchway.bsky.social

State Sen. Justin Eichorn arrested in Bloomington on suspicion of soliciting minor A Republican state senator was arrested in Bloomington on Monday on suspicion of soliciting an underage girl for sex, police say.

The Republican sponsor of Minnesota's trans sports ban was arrested for allegedly soliciting a minor.

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Minnesota republican state senator, Justin Eichorn, has been arrested for arranging to meet up with a child for sexual purposes.
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Oof there it is
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GOP state Sen. Justin Eichorn arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with a 16-year old girl • Minnesota Reformer Eichorn’s arrest complicates efforts by Senate Republicans to expel DFL Sen. Nicole Mitchell from the upper chamber.

NEW: Minnesota Republican state Senator Justin Eichorn, co-author of the "Trump Derangement Syndrome" bill that just made headlines, was arrested yesterday in Bloomington for allegedly soliciting sex with a 16-year-old girl. minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/18/g...

I'm going to put a measuring tape to Mike Johnson's lips so we can judge how much they've grown.