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5-26-05 Update: After a long illness, on 5-13-05 one of the leaders
in the efforts to protect children in the Catholic Church, Claudette Allen,
died. She has gone to her reward for her valiant work. You will find the work of
her and her husband Cliff in many locations on these pages. Just send a prayer
up her direction. She is now in the best place possible to hear you.
7-27-04 update: Due to a multitude of factors including the ongoing
refusal of Bishop Grahmann to respond to questions, the increasing evidence that
the problems with the cover-up of the sexual abuse of children is much larger
than the Dallas Diocese and can be traced to the Vatican, and the illness of
members of our group, our group is no longer active. This web site may be
updated with news periodically. It will remain online as an archived source of
information for some of the events that happened in the Dallas Catholic Diocese
during the last decade of the 20th Century and the first decade of the 21st
Century. The purpose is to help all people see the need to be vigilant for the
protection of all children. Secrecy to protect child abusers should never be
allowed again.
Please pray for our church leadership.
If any errors are noted on these web pages please notify me.
Sincerely,
Bill Betzen
bbetzen@wearethechurch.org
This web site grew out of the involvement of about 20 Dallas area Catholics
in working toward a statement of concern during the Bishops meeting in Dallas
the summer of 2002. We remain very concerned about the actions of Catholic
leadership in responding, or failing to respond, to the sexual abuse
crisis, and the resulting credibility crisis within our Catholic Church.
Management decisions within our own Dallas Diocese have continued to deteriorate
in the 10 years since the Rudy Kos case first became public. We now gather under
the title Coalition Supporting Bishop Grahmann's Resignation. We
invite other groups and individuals to join us in this sad task. Our Catholic
Faith deserves no less.
On 6-26-03 another group of Catholics calling themselves The Committee of
Concerned Catholics opened a new web site at
www.concernedcatholics.com. It is
a prayerful and powerful web site centered on a well written petition asking
Bishop Grahmann to resign immediately. It is in both Spanish and English. They
are now doing outreach to reach
every Catholic in our diocese. It is recommended that all go to
www.concernedcatholics.com to
sign this petition.
If you want to help spread the word about this petition you may download
these hyperlinked Spanish
and English
versions of the petition and print them out. Make copies and circulate them in your parish and among your Catholic friends.
We will continue our work on making public the history of
decisions by Bishop Grahmann that sadly necessitate his resignation.
Your thoughts, opinions, and prayers are welcome.
June 29, 2003
Bill Betzen (webmaster)
Dick Hoang
bbetzen@wearethechurch.org
dickhoang@wearethechurch.org
214-957-9739
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Grace in truth,
not in secrecy.
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