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Unanswered Questions sent to Bishop Grahmann*
The five questions below were sent to the Dallas Diocese on 9/10/2003. They are
questions asked by many local Catholics with increasing frequency in recent years. As of
11/27/2005 there has been no response
either from Bishop Grahmann, or from any spokesperson representing him, that we
have been given permission to publish here.
(Receipt of the questions by the diocese has been acknowledged.)
It has been suggested to Bishop Grahmann that answers to these and other
questions may be placed on the Diocesan web site at
http://www.cathdal.org/thetruth.htm.1
(That website is no longer active)That web site was dedicated "to
provide the true facts for Catholics and others ... concerning the Diocese of
Dallas."
We certainly hope and pray that goal may be achieved. To that end these
questions are being asked
of Bishop Grahmann:
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Q. During the Rudy Kos Liability Trial you admitted that you said to Fr. Rudy Kos in
July 1992:"Don't have little boys overnight ... I'll move you if you do"
(from
page 7616, lines 16-19
of
Bishop Grahmann's testimony during the 1997 Rudy Kos
Liability
Trail.) Such a statement leads a concerned person who knows the history that
led up to the Rudy Kos Liability Trial to ask: "What proof is there,
Bishop Grahmann, that you would not have moved Fr. Rudy Kos into another parish if the
first "John Doe" had never stepped forward to file a lawsuit to stop Rudy Kos?
Absent any lawsuit would
molestations have continued?" More specifically we must ask: "Bishop
Grahmann, was any proof that you would have stopped the
molestations on your own, without lawsuits, presented in defense during
the Rudy Kos Liability Trial? If not, why not?" (Note:
slightly over 3,000 pages from the 9,000 pages of Kos Liability Trail testimony are now online
at
www.wearethechurch.org/kos
.)
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Q. Is it correct, Bishop Grahmann, that after the Rudy Kos abuse was revealed you were invited to meet with some of the parishes that
were victimized by Rudy Kos and you did not accept those invitations? Why
did you not accept such invitations? Please
correct this information if you did meet with these parishes, and/or with other
victims of the abuse by Kos, and personally work toward the healing needed due
to the abuse Kos inflicted during your time as Bishop.
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Q. Bishop Grahmann, why have you not obeyed the apparent wish of the Pope that you resign?
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Q. If you do not consider his wish to be clear, what is the most common
interpretation of the assignment of a coadjutor bishop when such an assignment
was not requested and the 75th birthday of the setting bishop is over 5 years
away? When has such a situation happened before in recent Roman Catholic
Church history?
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Q. Bishop Grahmann, would you be willing to answer other questions people in our Diocese may
have?
1
Since 2003 when these questions were written the Diocese of Dallas has chosen
to remove the documents they had placed at this Internet address.
*Additional
questions for Bishop Grahmann are welcome. Please email them to
questions@wearethechurch.org.
Grace in truth,
not in secrecy.
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