Tuesday, December 07, 2004
E-MAIL FROM DR. BOND
Dear Friends,
A week or so ago the Times Leader published an article (reproduced below) giving further details on the personal bankruptcy of Fr. Eric Ensey, one of the founders of the Society of St. John. Ensey's parents have apparently been financing his booze and boys bill for the last few years. This is not the first time Ensey has manipulated his own parents, for we know Ensey used their home as a safe house to sodomize a boy.
Here as well is another article on the suppression of the Society of St. John:
http://www.riverreporter.com/issues/04-12-02/head3-stjohn.html
Pax vobiscum,
Dr. Jeffrey M. Bond
Wilkes Barre Times Leader
Times Leader, The (Wilkes Barre, PA)
November 27, 2004
JUDGE HALTS SEX MISCONDUCT CASE UNTIL PRIEST'S BANKRUPTCY RESOLVED
Author: MARK GUYDISH mguydish@leader.net
SCRANTON - Personal bankruptcy documents show that a priest accused of sexual misconduct with a teen owns $1,000 in exercise and music equipment, owes his attorney $100,000, and had his parents pay credit card bills topping $24,000.
The bankruptcy filing by the Rev. Eric Ensey proved significant in a civil lawsuit alleging that he and the Rev. Carlos Urrutigoity sexually abused a man identified as John Doe when Doe was a teenager.
Citing federal rules, the judge in the civil case has stopped proceedings indefinitely because of the bankruptcy.
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There is more to the article, but copyright laws require that I stop there. Apparently it is not online, since Dr. Bond didn't include a link. The article gives Ensey's total assets at $17,229 and liabilities of $112,973. Approx. $44 thousand of his debts on credit cards was paid off by his parents. He owes $100,000 to his attorney.
That email arrived in my mailbox yesterday. Today I received snail mail from the Society of St. John soliciting Christmas donations. The enclosed letter says in part:
Because of the prayer and kindness of people like you, the Society of Saint John is alive and well. The work of the Society of Saint John has continued--undaunted in God's love--for the past 6-1/2 years.
I want to share one of our latest projects with you, but first I want to ask you something. Will you please remember the priests and brothers of the Society of Saint John during your gift-giving this Christmas? The Church is struggling to restore all things in Christ. And the Society of Saint John is committed to doing its part to advance this mission.
I can't stress enough that the priests and brothers of the Society of Saint John are depending on you. We have given up all things to follow Christ. But it is only with your invaluable financial gifts that we can accomplish our work.
The letter is signed "Fr. Daniel Fullerton."
How many unsuspecting faithful Catholics will send checks into what Bishop Martino called according to "The River Reporter" article a "debt-servicing operation"?
The SSJ seem to be writing a new definition of audacity.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
Carrie
