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I was abused by Father LeRoy Valentine at Immacolata. Abuse witnessed by My Friend the Cardinal. Then things got REALLY bad. ivandoesnot at

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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
THANK YOU to everyone who's listening to Sacrificed, including to the latest episode, "The Test." This is how we CHANGE things. PROTECT people.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
If the Mask Mandates did NOTHING, then what happened with the Flu? Which basically disappeared for a year or two. Same for RSV and...
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Lucy McBride, MD
1 year
”…when it comes to the population-level benefits of masking, the verdict is in: Mask mandates were a bust. Those skeptics who were furiously mocked as cranks and occasionally censored as ‘misinformers’ for opposing mandates were right.” 🙏 @nytopinion
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
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@SaraGonzalesTX @NancyAFrench @Kanakuk @DavidAFrench @CunningZachary I'm a Catholic survivor from Missouri. @NancyAFrench has done more for survivors than Senator Josh Hawley ever did. I know because I went to then MO AG Hawley for help. Hawley's 2018 investigation of @archstl was a SHAM. I'd be glad to discuss.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
5 years
I was abused in the sacristy. After mass. He set it up so we would be alone. Called it Special Training.
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Lucie Morris-Marr
5 years
Pell’s appeal barrister Bret Walker is explaining why the conviction is “unsafe”. He said the most obvious point is that only the victims and alleged perpetrator were in the sacristy at the time of first alleged offence. @TheNewDailyAu TheNewDailyAu
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
4 years
@RoArquette @Luke_172 I know how hard it is to do what @rosemcgowan did. I've spent years trying to alert people to what Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, did -- and did NOT do -- at Immacolata in St. Louis.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
On Station, calling out in Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
8 months
@ericgarland St. Louis, and Missouri, are darker than you can imagine. I'm a Catholic survivor and know that former MO AGs and now U.S. Senators Hawley & Schmitt helped protect the Archdiocese of St. Louis and Catholic Church. I know because I tried to blow the whistle on ArchStL to them.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
4 years
@Scout_Finch As a Catholic survivor, I can't help but be disturbed to see Missouri Senator Josh Hawley in the news. I know his character. I tried to help him with his 2018 "investigation" of the Archdiocese of St. Louis he conducted. His team wasn't interested.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
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Barbara Phillips Littlepage is an ENABLER. P.S. There HAS to be a JesusPLUS angle to this story.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
6 years
@CapitalCareInc @CardinalDolan @ProtecttheFaith This is a cynical -- at best -- attempt by ++Dolan to portray himself as one of the good guys. Those of us from Immacolata in St. Louis know differently.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
6 years
@SusanBReynolds1 Do people understand what it's like for survivors who try to get help? Speaking up about that might be a good place for lay Catholics to go about the HOW.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
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@GatewayPeople "Father, open our eyes to the things we are blind to." Indeed. How many other CHILDREN did Pastor Robert Morris abuse?
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
3 months
Glad to see the video of Cardinal Dolan manhandling the nun is not fading away. I've known Cardinal Dolan since I was a child and he was just Father Dolan at Immacolata in St. Louis in 1976. Dolan used to do the same to me. While he was witnessing and turning a blind eye to...
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
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@emptywheel @DavidDark @CJR @kylepope I run a small Baseball web site and I saw evidence of Russian activity on my web site in 2016. Huge numbers of hits from St. Petersburg and Samara. I was wondering why, suddenly, people in Russia were SO interested in baseball. Instead, I was getting probed.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
As a survivor of the Catholic sex abuse crisis, I am formally calling for an investigation of the Catholic Church comparable to the current federal investigation of the SBC. Among other things, it must look into investigations conducted by (former) state AGs like Josh Hawley.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
In case you think the Catholic sex abuse crisis is Old News. "Widow says she was groped by Catholic priest during grief counseling... the Diocese of Knoxville tried to protect the priest by tarring her reputation." The head of the USCCB is irrelevant.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
3 years
@usccbp At the Mass of Reparation for the sex abuse crisis in 2018, I stood vigil out front — survivors weren’t explicitly invited or even mentioned — and was ignored by EVERY SINGLE priest. As the photo shows. It was so insane it spurred me to action.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
6 years
I responded. Shame has no power over me. Not any more.
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Dr. Jessica Taylor
6 years
Thank you to 600 people who have responded to my research about having sex after rape or abuse. Not many men responded to this, could we all please share to encourage men to anonymously share their views about having sex after male rape and abuse?
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
24 days
@wartwatch @GatewayPeople FYI, Cindy Clemishire's story of abuse may describe a FEDERAL CRIME. A violation of the Mann Act. Transporting minors across state lines for immoral or illegal purposes.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
@freedomsbride @publicroad AGREE. Do NOT repeat the mistakes of the Catholics. LEARN from the Catholics. - A Catholic Survivor P.S. My first call was to ArchStL. Cardinal Dolan called me back and Gaslighted me. Getting (free) therapy from a Catholic was also a mistake.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
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@PastorBenMarsh @JoelWBerry I'm a Catholic survivor -- raped by a Priest -- and @JoelWBerry may THINK he's helping, but he's not. (I suspect the confounding is the point; a key to Christian Nationalism). There ARE problems with Pedophiles and MAJOR issues with the Trans movement. Glad to discuss further.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
@BeschlossDC @tonyannett When I gave Missouri Senator Josh Hawley the chance to help me, a Catholic survivor, when he was Missouri Attorney General, Hawley did NOTHING. Be glad to discuss. - A Catholic Survivor from Missouri
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
4 years
@CaitlinPacific I miss the days when art was about beauty and truth and skill... Not vision. And putting one over on people.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
"unresolved sexual trauma as a child" This issue is being HORRIBLY politicized -- abused -- but, at the core, is a real issue. Childhood sexual trauma being misinterpreted -- Enabled -- as Trans issues. Happened to me. Deal with underlying abuse issues. Don't just Enable.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
@LizP41415171 @CzebotarJessie I'm glad to talk to whomever about Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who overlapped with my abuser for two years. And saw NOTHING. Knew NOTHING. Uh huh.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
My purpose here is to WARN people. Yes, my parents and I were not warned.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
It AMAZES me that Catholics can look at this picture of Catholic PRIESTS ignoring -- SHUNNING -- me, a survivor of the Catholic sex abuse crisis, AT THE MASS OF REPARATION for the sex abuse crisis, and be all, "Nope, I have NO idea why people don't want to be Catholic any more."
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
6 years
My name is Chris O'Leary and I was sexually exploited, abused, and raped by a priest. Then things got REALLY bad. I used the small settlement I received from @archstl to force them to open their files. But now I need your help.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
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@MARIAJC1977 @SaraGonzalesTX @NancyAFrench I'm confused how this is relevant. I'm a Catholic survivor discussing how U.S. Senator Josh Hawley refused to help me and us while MO AG. Oh, and while some will blame The Gays for my abuse, the fact is I was 10 -- maybe 9 -- when my abuse started. So stop the scapegoating.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
3 months
At the end, I’ll know I did everything I could possibly think of.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
3 months
What are you going to do about Cardinal Dolan, now that you know?
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
3 years
@CaitlinPacific I'm not sure the current model of open air mental hospitals is sustainable. Or wise.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
When I was a child, I was sexually exploited, abused, and assaulted - RAPED - by a Catholic Priest named Fr. LeRoy Valentine (back row, left). Abuse witnessed, at least in part, by then Father and now Cardinal Timothy Dolan (back row, third from right).
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
A LOT of people have left the Catholic Church. But not everyone. Not even everyone who knows a survivor. (A lot of friends and family members remain enthusiastic Catholics, despite knowing me.) So HOW and WHY do people stay? Serious question.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
What’s my motivation? When I started out doing this, trying to understand what happened to me and to us, I assume that NOBODY knew. I came to understand that a lot of people knew. But didn’t warn my parents or me. I REFUSE to do that to the people who will come after me.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
@mjs_DC I'm a Catholic survivor. As MO AG, Senator Josh Hawley has a record of letting the Catholic Church off of the hook for their appalling crimes. This goes beyond “soft on crime.” I’m concerned his record endangers our children.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
4 months
@BillEigel @QuintonLucasKC Letting kids know that people are different and it's OK to be different is NOT grooming. Grooming is when you try to FORCE something upon them. - A Catholic Survivor
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
6 years
McCarrick did that all by himself.
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Crux
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Don’t turn McCarrick into a monster, @NotreDame President says -- by @inesanma
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
24 days
In his confession, Pastor Robert Morris of @GatewayPeople Confesses to a CRIMINAL ACT. It APPEARS there is no Statute Of Limitations for what he did. If this also happened in another state, that becomes a FEDERAL CRIME. When is his arraignment?
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
“We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.” - MLK
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
Benedict 16 = Complicit "on May 18, 2001 Ratzinger sent a letter to every bishop in the Catholic Church.[7][8] This letter reminded them of the strict penalties facing those who revealed confidential details concerning enquiries into allegations against priests of certain…
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
4 years
@Ceyx54 @RottenInDenmark I'm a survivor of the Catholic sex abuse crisis in St. Louis and would be glad to speak publicly about Hawley's role in helping the Archdiocese of St. Louis cover up the sexual abuse of me and others. P.S. I tend to vote R but, obvi, not this year.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
5 months
This article mentions my allegations about how Cardinal Dolan saw and turned a blind eye to my and our sexual abuse by Fr. LeRoy Valentine in St. Louis in the late 1970s, something the press hasn't (been able to?) discuss before.
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Christa Brown
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What prevents statute of limitations reform to allow #ChildSexAbuse survivors to pursue justice? "Money." Powerful institutions are afraid of having to pay out. That's why the SBC filed that #AmicusBrief in KY & why they don't retract it. #ThisistheSBC
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
3 months
I get the temptation to blow off the video of Cardinal Dolan manhandling -- being all handsy with -- that poor nun, but Dolan used to do this to me as a kid and IT SET ME UP TO BE ABUSED by one of Dolan's fellow Priests at Immacolata in St. Louis in the late 1970s...
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
3 months
Glad to see the video of Cardinal Dolan manhandling the nun is not fading away. I've known Cardinal Dolan since I was a child and he was just Father Dolan at Immacolata in St. Louis in 1976. Dolan used to do the same to me. While he was witnessing and turning a blind eye to...
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
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My name is Chris O'Leary and I'm a survivor of abuse by a priest. And worse. I used the small settlement I received from @archstl to force them to open their files to the Attorney General of MO. But now I need your help.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
7 months
Cardinal Burke allowed my abuser, Fr. LeRoy Valentine, to live unsecured and unsupervised, among an unsuspecting public, for some number of years. That's an enemy.
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Fr. Stephen Vrazel
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People are really showing their cards on the whole Cardinal Burke thing. Look, I've poked fun at his anachronistic outfits/vestments, but I don't think he's an enemy.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
5 years
I'm a survivor and had psychological problems that required treatment. I've seen something like 10 psychologists. It's what happens when you're sexually abused. In fact, I'd be skeptical about a victim who did NOT have problems. THAT would be the real red flag.
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Chris Merritt
5 years
Cardinal Pell’s accuser had psychological problems that required treatment and the jury was never told
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
11 months
Young Catholics are leaving not because THEY haven't read The Gospels but because they don't believe THE BISHOPS of the Catholic Church have read them.
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Bishop Robert Barron
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Friends, 79 percent of former Catholics leave the faith before turning 23. For every $20 donation, we will donate one copy of The Gospels to a college student. Will you partner with us to help ensure that the next generation remains active in their Catholic faith? Learn more:
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
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@PastorBenMarsh @JoelWBerry I was 10 -- maybe 9 -- when my abuse by a Catholic priest started. Others were 8 or 7. That's NOT The Gays.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
3 months
@kencottrell @JennMGreenberg "women having sex with teenage boys" involves MANIPULATION. Which, in many ways, is WORSE than violence.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
8 months
@abby_e_o Have you BOUGHT him a REAL car? MULTIPLE real cars? How COMPLICATED is that?!? Moms, man... ;-) (Maybe a little electric car he can drive around? I had one when I was a kid.)
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
6 years
@rachelheldevans @edstetzer At least Hollywood exhibits SOME shame. Not enough, but some. Whereas Big Religion is by and large shameless.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
6 years
@Heminator @cnalive Have you seen my piece which tells my story of being a survivor and implicates... - Cardinal Dolan - Cardinal Burke - Cardinal Rigali - Bishop Stika cc @JamesHasson20
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
6 years
@JJ_Denhollander Your wife is awesome. Please let her -- and the others -- know that, from one abuse survivor to another, I know how it can feel like nobody cares. But we survivors can and will care about each other.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
8 months
If the Catholic Church had ACTUALLY changed anything, they would help survivors. Actually. The Catholic Church does NOT help survivors. Still. Because NOTHING has changed.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
8 months
@Rats2323 @JimSanoBC79 The situation is CERTAINLY worse for Victims and Survivors, which points to the root cause of the problem. Nothing has changed FUNDAMENTALLY. If FUNDAMENTAL changes had been made, Survivors would be being helped. The only changes that have been made have been Eyewash.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
THANK YOU to everyone who's listening to Sacrificed. The way to protect children, women, and everyone in the Catholic Church is to GET INFORMED. Hopefully, that will then piss you off sufficiently that you will then SPEAK UP. And OUT. AMDG
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
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Everybody knows about Cardinal Dolan, what he did and did not do in the face of my sexual abuse, because I told them.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
See that Priest? There’s — he’s, thus — the problem.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
When you put someone -- ANYONE -- between Jesus and you, you instantly become vulnerable to abuse, deceit, and the whole thing. Cut. Out. The. Middle. Man. (Which is part of the root of the problems of the Catholic Church, problems that spread to the SBC and others.)
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Jennifer Greenberg 🕊️
1 year
I know that many who share this image mean well, but like all oversimplifications (looking at you Trinity Diagrams 👀) it’s dangerous. The husband NEVER COMES BETWEEN his wife and Jesus. She has a direct line to God. Jesus is her mediator and Savior. Her husband is not.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
Senator Josh Hawley has a record of letting the Catholic Church off of the hook for their appalling crimes, both as MO AG and now Senator. This goes beyond “soft on crime.” I’m concerned his a record endangers our children.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
4 years
Dear Catholics, You’re not helping or protecting the Church. You’re ENABLING. When you refuse to discuss the plight of survivors. When you listen uncritically to podcasts that either ignore our plight or, worse, in the case of “Crisis,” give a false sense of progress.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
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I'm a survivor. I was 9 to 11. There were no homosexual initiation rituals. There was... - Pizza & Board Games in the Rectory - Watching TV with Fr. V - Wrestling - Hair Cuts - Special Training (about what priests do on their side of the sacristy) - Real Coke not Vess or RC
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Chrissy Stroop
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I'm seeing both evangelicals and Catholics insist that the exposed Catholic abuse scandal was caused by homosexuality. This is opportunistic, abusive, disgusting and just wrong. Conservative churches are irredeemable and need to fade into irrelevance. #Exvangelical #EmptyThePews
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
"Pope Benedict XVI failed to stop sex abuse when he was an archbishop" Better canonize "Saint" Pope Benedict XVI ASAP. Before people remember his UTTER FAILURE as a priest, a man, and a human being regarding the sex abuse crisis.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
3 months
ALL of the Catholic child protection people are meeting in St. Louis, so I took the opportunity to warn them about Cardinal Dolan. Tell them my story. While a FEW people engaged with me, 90% wouldn't TALK to me and 80% wouldn't LOOK at me. Catholic children REMAIN in DANGER.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
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I’m trying…
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
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@CatholicArena Beware of Cardinal Dolan, who saw and turned a blind eye to my and our sexual abuse as children, by Fr. LeRoy Valentine, at Immacolata in St. Louis.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
4 months
@deanplocher @jmmurphy8 @BigDiehl31 @ChrisDinkinsMO @DonMayhewMO @Hausman4Mo @JustinMSparks @cody4mo @brad_hudson_ @BenBakerMO @LBillHardwick Why should I believe a group of people who could support a multi-accused abuser of women, like Donald Trump, will support Catholic, Kanakuk, and other survivors?
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
"The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good." - St. John Bosco If only the Catholic Church would heed its own saints.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
5 months
On my way to Jeff City MO to testify about Statute Of Limitations reform in Missouri. This bill likely won’t help me, but may help some.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
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I know u IDOLIZE the Dalai Lama. He's said and done some AMAZING things. And just revealed that he's a Predator. - A Catholic Survivor ...my abuse started with a VERY similar form of "testing," in which my abuser would "accidentally" grab my balls.)
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
Dave Wells from the @ChristineNiles1 @Church_Militant video exposing Bishop Stika is here!
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
5 months
My testimony of February 7, 2024, before the Missouri house Judiciary committee, regarding how the Catholic Church -- like too many other abusers and organizations -- uses DIRTY TRICKS to manipulate and gaslight survivors.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
6 years
@frjohnhollowell I’m a survivor and I stood outside the @archstl mass of “reparations.” None of the priests even LOOKED at me.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
Devastating. Completely accurate. "The Good Clerics were buddies with the Bad Clerics. They did everything in their power to protect the Bad Clerics—even violating moral, civil, and canon law on their behalf." Most corrupting thing in life? Friendship.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
8 months
At USCCB 2021, Bishop Strickland had a chance to engage with -- hell, just ACKNOWLEDGE -- a group of survivors standing 30 feet from him, prior to a press conference. Bishop Strickland chose not to talk to us.
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John W. Farrell
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Quibble: I don’t know why this fanatic is called a ‘fireband’. He’s a coward. He never spoke outside the safe spaces where his lunatic followers kept him protected.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
Why am I in Knoxville? I’m trying to WARN people. As my parents were NOT warned. As I was not warned.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
5 years
@pamelacolloff Yep. FYI, the Archdiocese of St. Louis has yet to be exposed. Timothy Cardinal Dolan, too.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
Know what has REALLY not helped Catholicism? Raping children and then tormenting them as adults. And then ignoring them. It’s the Hypocrisy, Stupid. The Sacred Indifference.
@BrianFragaNCR
Brian Fraga 🇺🇸 🇵🇹 🇻🇦
2 years
In an interview with @FoxNews , @BishopBarron suggests that too much emphasis was put on the temporal works of charity and justice after Vatican II, at the expense of theology and doctrine... #FoxNews
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
3 months
Regarding the video of Cardinal Dolan manhandling the nun, then Father Timothy Dolan used to do the same to me while we were at Immacolata in St. Louis in the late 1970s. (Summer 1976-79). I'm convinced Dolan is a groomer; was grooming me. Putting me in my place. As the nun.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
5 months
Please pray for my mom. We lost my dad two weeks ago and she's seen a SIGNIFICANT decline in her level of function due to Alzheimer's Disease. It's pretty terrible.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
@PatrickKMiller_ Catholic survivor, here. It's NOT CT that is "killing trust in the church." Rather, it's the people -- mostly men -- whose misdeeds are "killing trust in the church." CT is simply REVEALING those misdeeds. But revealed, they MUST be. Or else.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
On my way to Milwaukee to stand vigil outside the funeral of Archbishop Weakland. SOMEONE needs to be there to stand up for survivors.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
9 months
“the average predator priest abuses 285 times.” My abuser was more 500 to 1,000. Thus the shunning of me do to the connection to Cardinal Dolan.
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Marcus Mescher
9 months
I’ve been researching clergy sexual abuse for more than 3 years and I can say we’re still just scratching the surface. Scholars report that in general, child abusers commit about 60 offenses for every case that comes to light while the average predator priest abuses 285 times.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
6 years
@ktumulty @djkocisi2 Yes, but Trump doesn't actually SAY anything. It's a bunch of incomplete thoughts. I think because it's contradictory and he knows it as he says it.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
Just as Sr. Helen knew -- she told me Mrs. Glarner told her -- and chose not to act. Sr. Helen was ordered by Monsignor Flavin to keep her mouth shut, and (just) followed that order, "Because the church does so much GOOD." The banality of evil, indeed.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
What's the cost of the failure of the Catholic Church to help survivors? And the failure of lay Catholics to force the church to help survivors? Nate's and others' blood is on Catholics' hands.
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Nate’s Mission
1 year
Today marks the 3rd anniversary of Nate Lindstrom’s death. Nate was a beloved friend and fellow clergy abuse survivor. Like an alarming number of childhood victims of clergy abuse, Nate took his life. This abuse leaves victims to experience unbearable pain in isolation.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
9 months
Working on one of my more difficult paintings and scenes. Right after, in the basement of the Immacolata rectory. Right before I ran up the stairs, bailed out of the rectory, and ran home.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
3 years
I'm a survivor of the Catholic sex abuse crisis and went to St. Louis Counseling for help. They refused.
@stl_counseling
Saint Louis Counseling
3 years
Did you know that 1 in 20 US adults experiences severe mental illness each year, but less than 2/3 get treatment? Together, let's make it easier for people w/ #mentalillness to get the help they need--lives depend on it! #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #BreakDownStigma #Together4MH
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
THIS is how seriously Pope Francis takes safeguarding. And survivors. The Pope appointed a HUGELY problematic Priest to serve as the CEO of the PCPM. Deliberately?
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
I was sexually abused with the knowledge of then Father and now Cardinal Timothy Dolan. ++Dolan lived and worked with my abuser, Fr. LeRoy Valentine, at the Church of Immacolata in St. Louis for 2 years, from the Summer of 1977 until the Summer of 1979.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
2 years
You can criticize @Church_Militant for certain things, but they ARE covering the sex abuse crisis. Well. Thoroughly. Without reservation. Or enabling.
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Christine Niles
2 years
Me waiting for trad media to cover the news that Fr. Matthew Stafki, SSPX is facing four felony counts for abusing his 9-yr-old niece. Heck, waiting for ANY trad media coverage of ANY SSPX abuse and cover-up ...
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
1 year
@wartwatch As a Catholic survivor, I get some sense of an attempt to distract from the church’s OWN issues. It’s great that Catholics care SO MUCH about sex trafficking survivors. But what about survivors of their own Priests? Matthew 7:5
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
8 months
Back at it atop Art Hill. I’ll not be silenced. By anyone.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
5 months
My abuser may have gotten 500-1,000 people in St. Louis. 50-100 at just Immacolata. (On Cardinal Dolan's watch.) I know of 17 who WERE abused. 3 of us are public.
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Sarah Stankorb
5 months
If you consider that the average CSA survivor steps forward at 52, it makes sense to consider of the hundreds whose names are known, many are silently suffering.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
5 months
@ChristaBrown777 Do you know who they are? Who their lawyer is? I've considered doing the same with respect to the Catholic Church.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
4 years
@FlowStateATL @ebruenig People keep telling me Prostasia is trying to be part of the solution but, as a survivor, I'll tell you what my gut tells me. NOPE.
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
9 months
"Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard has been suspended from all public ministry for a period of five years. However, he remains a priest and a cardinal." LOL, what a FRAUD -- den of vipers -- the Catholic Church is. Beyond redemption? P.S. Not LIFE?
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Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor
9 months
On station in St. Louis.
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