BoysCherries - Statement Released
Wed, Jul11, 2007 - Category: School of
Law
Patrick Flynn released a statement to AveWatch this
afternoon. Flynn is an Ann Arbor area parish employee
who found and reported gay pornography and suspected
child pornography on his parish priest's computer.
Yesterday, AveWatch reported on the
use of Ave Maria School of Law resources to
help the priest in question with his computer
during the civil and canonical
investigations into child pornography.
Excerpts from Flynn [clarification in square brackets; emphasis added]:
"Father Thomas [the priest in question] is sitting up in his cottage in Bear Lake collecting full pay and benefits from the Parish while still bearing the title, Pastor after what he has done. And I who, for the welfare of the children of the church, did only what was right, am harassed, insulted and ultimately terminated without a source of income to support my wife and seven children."
"According to the attorney for the Diocese, Michael Murray, Bishop Mengeling told Father [Fr. Thomas, the priest in question who was helped by Ave Maria School of Law] to return to the parish, get all that material off the computer and behave properly and do not retaliate against the whistle-blower."
"According to a parishioner, several days before his [Fr. Thomas'] departure, Father expressed an intent to bring his computer to Ave Maria (he did not specify which entity) and have the hard drive erased."
Again, AveWatch asks - Why didn't Tom Monaghan, Chairman of the Board at Ave Maria School of Law, report his institution's involvement to the police?
AveWatch also calls upon AMSL's Board of Governors to state if it is their position that Chairman Monaghan and Dean Dobranski acted appropriately by not insisting that all involved Ave Maria employees immediately report to state investigators; obtained police reports found no indication of any statement offered by any Ave Maria employee.
Ave Maria School of Law Board of Governors:
+ Professor Helen M. Alvaré
Professor of Law, Catholic University of America
+ Professor Gerard V. Bradley
Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
+ Mr. Peter A. Carfagna
Senior Counsel, Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP
+ His Eminence Edward Cardinal Egan
Archbishop of New York
+ Professor Robert P. George
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
+ Mr. William F. Harrington
Chairman, Bleakley Platt & Schmidt, LLP
+ His Eminence Adam Cardinal Maida
Archbishop of Detroit
+ Mrs. Kate W. O’Beirne
Washington Editor, The National Review
+ Dr. Michael M. Uhlmann
Visiting Prof. of American Government, Claremont Graduate University
Flynn Statement - PDF
Excerpts from Flynn [clarification in square brackets; emphasis added]:
"Father Thomas [the priest in question] is sitting up in his cottage in Bear Lake collecting full pay and benefits from the Parish while still bearing the title, Pastor after what he has done. And I who, for the welfare of the children of the church, did only what was right, am harassed, insulted and ultimately terminated without a source of income to support my wife and seven children."
"According to the attorney for the Diocese, Michael Murray, Bishop Mengeling told Father [Fr. Thomas, the priest in question who was helped by Ave Maria School of Law] to return to the parish, get all that material off the computer and behave properly and do not retaliate against the whistle-blower."
"According to a parishioner, several days before his [Fr. Thomas'] departure, Father expressed an intent to bring his computer to Ave Maria (he did not specify which entity) and have the hard drive erased."
Again, AveWatch asks - Why didn't Tom Monaghan, Chairman of the Board at Ave Maria School of Law, report his institution's involvement to the police?
AveWatch also calls upon AMSL's Board of Governors to state if it is their position that Chairman Monaghan and Dean Dobranski acted appropriately by not insisting that all involved Ave Maria employees immediately report to state investigators; obtained police reports found no indication of any statement offered by any Ave Maria employee.
Ave Maria School of Law Board of Governors:
+ Professor Helen M. Alvaré
Professor of Law, Catholic University of America
+ Professor Gerard V. Bradley
Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
+ Mr. Peter A. Carfagna
Senior Counsel, Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP
+ His Eminence Edward Cardinal Egan
Archbishop of New York
+ Professor Robert P. George
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
+ Mr. William F. Harrington
Chairman, Bleakley Platt & Schmidt, LLP
+ His Eminence Adam Cardinal Maida
Archbishop of Detroit
+ Mrs. Kate W. O’Beirne
Washington Editor, The National Review
+ Dr. Michael M. Uhlmann
Visiting Prof. of American Government, Claremont Graduate University
Flynn Statement - PDF