La Rosa Lopez' FB page (now closed) listed Lucia Cordua as a FB friend. Lucia's linked in page mentions her affiliation with Casa de Esperanza de los Ninos in Houston. This is an organization that takes in neglected children, especially those with AIDs. Her husband (like his wife, transplanted Nicaraugan) has catered the organization's charity fundraiser for 20+ years https://www.chron.com/about/houston-gives/article/Restaurateur-Cord-a-dedicates-efforts-to-help-4290472.php

The Casa de Esperanza'https://www.guidestar.org/profile/76-0555303s board of directors include the general counsel of the Archdiocese of Galveston/Houston . Wonder if La Rosa Lopez was also involved in this charity?

This 260 lb "priest" just happened to have pictures of semi naked men from his seminary to show his victim. His aberrant behavior has been going on for a while. https://www.scribd.com/document/388467315/Manuel-LaRosa-Lopez-arrest-warrant @carmencita

https://davidgushee.religionnews.com/2018/11/28/police-search-offices-of-texas-archdiocese-in-priest-abuse-probe/

Authorities told Religion News Service that the La Rosa-Lopez investigation remains centered on the priest but they wouldn’t rule out a potential expansion if investigators come across new evidence.

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Finally Church Militant

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/police-raid-secret-files-of-galveston-houston-archdiocese

The district attorney's office from nearby Montgomery County, the Conroe Police Department (Conroe is where the alleged abuse happened) and the Texas Rangers all took part in the raid. Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon said at a press conference Wednesday that "federal agencies" were at the scene as well.

Speaking to reporters outside the archdiocese's offices, the Republican district attorney said the Rangers and the federal agencies were there in case they uncovered evidence for crimes outside of Montgomery County.

Sacred Heart Church in Conroe is where Fr. La Rosa-Lopez was assigned in the late 1990s and early 2000s when he allegedly abused two teens. It is also the parish where Ligon and his wife were married. whoa

Ligon remarked on the timing of this raid, given the upcoming "holiday season." He noted, "The patron saint of children is St. Nicholas. And I think that it's just kind of apropos that in this holiday season, St. Nicholas is also known as Santa Claus. Well Santa Claus is here to tell you that the state of Texas will go to any length necessary to protect children."

A reporter asked Ligon what he would want to say to victims of clerical sex abuse who are worried that there might be a cover-up. Ligon noted, "I have done four search warrants. Starting in Fort Bend County; the Shalom Center in Montgomery County; Sacred Heart; and now I'm here. If there's something to be covered up, I'm sure I'll find it."

"People cooperate," Ligon explained, because "there are so many lay Catholics out there that are ready for the Church to come clean. And I am a lay Catholic myself, but today I stand here as the district attorney of Montgomery County."

Tyler Dunman of the Montgomery County district attorney's office wrote of Wednesday's search, "We will take any document or piece of information related to Fr. Manuel La Rosa-Lopez or involving any other criminal activity."

The Galveston-Houston archdiocese put out a statement Wednesday about the execution of the search warrant. The archdiocese claims that it should not be called a "raid," arguing that "any use of the term 'raid' is an inaccurate and unprofessional reference to a request for records to a party that has been cooperating and will continue to cooperate fully."

Ligon agreed with this sentiment, telling reporters Wednesday, "I think that the term 'raid' is inaccurate. This is a lawfully executed search warrant."

The district attorney noted the archdiocese did not hand over boxes of documents to law enforcement on day one, and that prosecutors had to work with "a host of attorneys." He commented, "Having to go through the attorneys, I understand it, as an attorney myself. It's not the type of cooperation that I would hope for, but it's the type of cooperation that I would expect with a sophisticated company."

At another point during the press scrum, Ligon said some archdiocesan personnel are certainly being cooperative, but it is possible others are working behind the scenes to hide evidence. "For example," he explained, "if Cdl. DiNardo is cooperative, that doesn't mean the people that work with Cdl. DiNardo are cooperative. It doesn't mean that they're going to tell him the truth. And so it very well may be in a position where he wants to give us documents but he doesn't know that they exist."

Ligon went on to say, "And the good thing is I've taken the burden off of everybody in the Catholic Church 'cause they don't have to know anything. I'm going to find it all out."

One journalist asked the district attorney if there were plans to seize office computers. He responded, "We've been known to in the past. We've been known to take computers, cables, hopes, dreams, whatever it takes that has a bearing on a criminal case. Usually it's when people don't cooperate that we'll take everything, including the cable box, if that's what's necessary."

He noted it depends on the situation, especially the level of cooperation, adding, "I don't want to tie myself down as to what we're doing inside today."

@fogdryer @NOMOCHOMO

Giving this the "Important" flair, Gilderoy. Thanks for posting.

Looks like faithful Catholics in law enforcement are getting serious about cleaning up the Church, as I predicted. Very glad to see it.

Did you see this ?

Hope Lies Ahead

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/new-zealand-prays-to-halt-culture-of-deaths-advance

New Zealand Prays to Halt Culture of Death’s Advance

NEW ZEALAND (ChurchMilitant.com) - In response to the advancing Culture of Death, New Zealand Catholics are holding a Rosary Crusade for life and faith.

Inspired by Polish Catholics and concerned by their country's socialist leaders' desire to remove all limits on abortion and legalize euthanasia, faithful Catholics Beverley Bennett and Clare Dargaville thought their country needed a Rosary Crusade as well.

On Dec. 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, New Zealanders will gather at 65 locations across the country to pray for "Life and Faith." This is also the day of their March for Life in Wellington, New Zealand. Abortion has been legal for 41 years and over 500,000 lives have been lost — over 10 percent of the population of the small country of 4.5 million.

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/consecrating-california-to-our-lady

Movement to Consecrate California to Our Lady

DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - Devout Catholics in California are planning to consecrate their state to the Blessed Mother on Dec. 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.

On that day Catholics will gather at locations along the Californian coast to attend Mass, pray the Rosary and ask the Blessed Virgin Mary to watch over their state in a special way.

Church Militant contacted the organizers of an initiative called "Consecrate California to Mary." Director, writer and storyboard artist Angelo Libutti, who spearheaded the consecration last year, told Church Militant, "I contacted Patrick Coffin and Jesse Romero proposing to act as Poland did — in the only way that makes sense for a Catholic who is full of confidence in Our Lady and Christ. These are problems too big for us to handle, and we need divine help."

The website for the event lists the kinds of problems for which Catholics in California are especially in need of God's help: "To defeat the culture of death. Abortion, euthanasia, natural disasters. For the sick, elderly, unwanted. And for an end to the violence, sex abuse, drugs, alcoholism, sex trafficking."

I am going to watch for protests against this. There will be backlash for sure in Cali.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/11/28/texas-prosecutors-raid-catholic-archdiocese-for-secret-archives/

Prosecutors from Montgomery County, Texas, entered the offices of the Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston on Wednesday morning in search of “secret archives” and other records related to clergy sex abuse.

Prosecutors with the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office teamed up with investigators from the Conroe Police Department and Texas Rangers to raid the offices of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, according to information first reported by KHOU. The team entered the offices on Wednesday morning in search of documents related to the ongoing sex abuse crisis and alleged coverups within the Catholic Church.

In September, Father Manuel LaRosa-Lopez turned himself in to Conroe law enforcement following the issuance of an arrest warrant that alleged he sexually assaulted at least two children nearly 20 years ago, Breitbart News reported.

A woman accused the priest in 2001 of kissing and touching her inappropriately at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Conroe when she was 16-years-old, the Catholic news outlet reported. He is also accused by a now 36-year-old man of sexually abusing him for several years beginning in 1998.

In what KHOU called an “unprecedented action,” prosecutors entered the offices of the archdiocese to search for documents related to the LaRosa-Lopez case. The search warrant states that the DA seeks to examine confidential documents held in “the Archdiocese’s Chancery and secret archives.”

Officials with the office of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston issued a statement that said, in part:

This morning, the District Attorney of Montgomery County executed a search warrant for records and information related to an ongoing investigation. The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston continues to cooperate, as we have since the outset, with this process. In fact, consistent with Cardinal DiNardo’s pledge of full cooperation, the information being sought was already being compiled.

Officials explained that the term “secret archives” is “merely a Church term pertaining to confidential documents kept in a secure manner” for privacy protection. The statement compared the protection to that provided for medical records.

Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon told the Houston Chronicle, “The good thing is, I’ve taken the burden off everybody in the Catholic Church. They don’t have to know anything. I’m going to find it all.”

The local CBS affiliate reported this is the fourth search warrant executed in connection to this case. what?

Breitbart News reported on the execution of one of those warrants issued for a rehabilitation center in the Conroe area. The Shalom Center was listed in 1995 by the U.S. Conference of Bishops as a treatment center for priests involved in sex-related crimes, the Houston Chronicle stated.

Since then, other warrants were executed to search St. John Fisher Catholic Church in Richmond, Texas and the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Conroe.

DA Ligon said he expected the search to continue for up to two days if necessary.

LaRosa-Lopez remains free on a $375,000 bond. His next court date is set for January 10, 2019.

Wonder who paid his bond.

Houston is a significant port city. Also recall that Roland Carnaby was gunned down by Houston state troopers under very odd circumstances in 2008. Some speculate that he had surveillance evidence of port activity in his possession when he was killed.

@carmencita , "multiple police agencies"....are raiding DIOCESES...could it include the feds??!!!

The current Archbishop of Houston is Cardinal Daniel DiNardo who also serves as the head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops . He has said the Archdiocese is cooperating with the investigation:

The RICO case this month was filed against THE USCCB and THE POPE

This is a huge deal.

https://archive.fo/BkWTd :

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