Sunday, September 18, 2005
EMAIL FROM DR. BOND
Dear Friends,
Deacon Joseph Levine, former Superior General of the suppressed homosexual
cult known as the Society of St. John, has recently been assigned to a
parish. Monsignor John T. Conway of the Mother of Divine Mercy Parish in
King-of-Prussia, Pennsylvania, made this announcement in his August 21,
2005 bulletin (http://www.mdpparish.com/parishlife/news.htm):
"I am pleased to tell you that Rev. Mr. Joseph Levine has been assigned to
Mother of Divine Providence Parish for his Sunday Diaconate Placement during
the 2005-06 Academic Year. Deacon Levine's home diocese is Scranton. He is
studying for the diocesan priesthood at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary.
Deacon Levine will preach at Sunday Masses and assist with the
administration of the Sacraments. His assignment will begin on the weekend
of September 3rd and 4th. We warmly welcome him to our staff."
The parishioners of this parish must be warned about Deacon Levine. As
those
familiar with the Society of St. John scandal already know, Deacon Levine
became the Superior General of the SSJ after Carlos
Urrutigoity, the former Superior General and founder of the SSJ, was exposed
as a homosexual predator priest. While I have no evidence that Deacon
Levine was personally involved in the homosexual molestation of boys or
young men, Deacon Levine actively sought to protect those in the SSJ who
engaged in these perverse deeds. In fact, upon his election to the office
of Superior General, Deacon Levine publicly praised Urrutigoity in the SSJ's
May 2002 Epistle. Deacon Levine gave this public endorsement of his
predecessor despite his having been informed, as
early as August 19, 2001, that Urrutigoity had a habit of sleeping with
students from St. Gregory's Academy in Elmhurst, Pennsylvania. On that day
Mr. Alan Hicks, the founder and headmaster of St. Gregory's Academy,
personally informed both Deacon Levine and me that Urrutigoity was the
object of a possible lawsuit for his "sleeping sickness." Moreover, Deacon
Levine was fully aware by May 2002 that there was abundant and weighty
evidence, including affidavits, establishing Urrutigoity's habit of sleeping
in the same bed with boys and young men. (See
www.SaintJustinMartyr.org/news/notices.html.)
It was Deacon Levine's position, however, which he personally expressed to
me, that Urrutigoity was like St. Ignatius of Loyola insofar as he operates
on a plane "above the realm of human reason and prudence." As a result of
this conviction, Deacon Levine turned a blind eye to the overwhelming
evidence of Urrutigoity's gross immorality. Indeed, by that time I had made
public the fact that Urrutigoity had been formally accused of homosexual
molestation by three different people from three different places: first,
by Rev. Andres Morello, the former rector of the SSPX seminary in La Reja,
Argentina, where Urrutigoity was a seminarian; second, by Bishop Fellay on
behalf of a young seminarian who had left with Urrutigoity when he was
expelled by Bishop Williamson from the SSPX seminary in Winona, Minnesota,
where Urrutigoity was a professor; and third, by a graduate of St. Gregory's
Academy where Urrutigoity was a chaplain. This last accusation was made by
John Doe and his parents in a federal lawsuit that was recently settled at
the cost of $450,550. In fact, the Scranton Times has reported that Bishop
Joseph Martino intends to apologize to John Doe for the harm he suffered at
the hands of Urrutigoity and Eric Ensey, another SSJ predator priest.
Moreover, in a written statement provided to the Scranton Times, Bishop
Martino all but admitted the guilt of Urrutigoity and Ensey: "In view of
the serious claims made by the young person and in light of the statements
by the witnesses who supported his claim, it was determined that the just
decision was to reach a settlement that will assist the victim and his
family as they attempt to heal."
Yet Deacon Levine not only publicly praised Urrutigoity for his leadership,
but he also credited Urrutigoity with transforming the members of the SSJ
into a "disciplined religious community." Deacon Levine thereby sought to
continue to portray the SSJ as Benedictine, a fraud initiated by Urrutigoity
and perpetuated by Deacon Levine. Although the SSJ was nothing more than a
group of diocesan priests with permission to live together, nevertheless the
SSJ literature published under Deacon Levine's reign continued this fraud to
the detriment of many unsuspecting Catholic donors.
In the same May 2002 Epistle, and throughout his term as Superior General,
Deacon Levine also continued to deceive Catholic donors concerning the
status of the Catholic city the SSJ had proposed to build. Although it was
abundantly clear by this time that there was no hope of building on the
Shohola property--in fact, the SSJ was secretly trying to sell the
property--nevertheless Deacon Levine exhorted his supporters to continue to
donate more money to a project he knew was dead. The Scranton Times has
recently reported that the Shohola property was sold to repay the 2.6
million dollar loan which the Diocese made to the SSJ to cover their
enormous debts.
Furthermore, Deacon Levine used his office as Superior General to defend the
sexual predator priests of the SSJ and to attack me personally for my
efforts to expose their crimes. In a six-page fundraising letter date June
19, 2002, which was sent to the tens of thousands of Catholics on the SSJ's
mailing list, Deacon Levine repeatedly lied in an effort to protect the SSJ
and defame me. Rather than list the libelous statements made by Deacon
Levine (for which he has been named in a defamation lawsuit), I would
encourage you to read my response to his defamatory remarks which can be
found on the College of St. Justin Martyr web site at
http://www.saintjustinmartyr.org/news/ResponseToDeaconLevine.html. You will
see there why it is absolutely imperative that this man never be permitted
to
work in a parish or ever be ordained a priest.
Finally, it should be noted that Deacon Levine was not willing to leave the
SSJ until it was made clear to him that he could not be ordained a priest
while remaining with them. There is no reason to believe, then, that Deacon
Levine would not seek to rejoin the SSJ, or some other cult-like group, once
he has been ordained. As many of you know, the SSJ is desperately seeking to
re-establish itself in Paraguay, and those like Deacon Levine, who have a
cultist devotion to the SSJ, are very likely to return to the SSJ if the SSJ
is permitted to resurface outside of the Diocese of Scranton.
Please forward this email to anyone you know who attends mass at the Mother
of Divine Mercy Parish in King-of-Prussia, Pennsylvania. Please also
contact Bishop Joseph Martino who is ultimately responsible for allowing
Deacon Levine to be placed in a parish. Bishop Martino's address is 300
Wyoming Avenue, Scranton, PA 18503. His telephone number at the Chancery is
(570) 207-2238, or you can fax him at (570) 207-2236. Even if you are
unable to speak directly with Bishop Martino, please register your concern
with whomever you do speak.
Thank you for your help in this extremely urgent matter.
Pax vobiscum,
Dr. Jeffrey M. Bond
(570) 685-5945
