AUGUST 8, 2017
RAPIST-PRIEST FR. JOBY KACHAPPILLY VC IN HIDING IN ROME CONTINUES TO CONDUCT RETREATS OVERSEAS WITH SUPPORT FROM HIS CONGREGATION
This file is the 11th in the series on the Vincentian rapist-priest who is still at loose despite his entire Congregation being aware of his serial molestation of young girls spanning several years.
RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE BY INDIAN PRIESTS-CHURCH FAILS TO PUNISH GUILTY 01
MARCH 2015/24, 26 OCTOBER 2016/24 JANUARY/28 FEBRUARY/4 MARCH 2017 (General)
RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE BY INDIAN PRIESTS-CHURCH FAILS TO PUNISH GUILTY 02
17/22 JUNE 2017 (General continued)
RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE BY INDIAN PRIESTS-CHURCH FAILS TO PUNISH GUILTY 03
18 JUNE 2017
(FR. ROBIN VADAKKUNCHERIL)
RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE BY INDIAN PRIESTS-CHURCH FAILS TO PUNISH GUILTY 04
22/28 JUNE/2 JULY 2017 (CORRESPONDENCE RELATED TO RAPE COMMITTED BY FR. JOBY KACHAPPILLY VC)
RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE BY INDIAN PRIESTS-CHURCH FAILS TO PUNISH GUILTY 05 (PROFILE OF FR. JOBY KACHAPPILLY, THE ABSCONDING RAPIST PRIEST HIDING IN ROME)
RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE BY INDIAN PRIESTS-CHURCH FAILS TO PUNISH GUILTY 06
(FINAL NOTIFICATION TO THE INDIAN CHURCH) JULY 10, 2017
RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE BY INDIAN PRIESTS-CHURCH FAILS TO PUNISH GUILTY 07 (INTIMIDATION AND BLACKMAIL OF RAPE SURVIVOR BY FR JOHN PUTHANPURACKAL VC) JULY 10, 2017
RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE BY INDIAN PRIESTS-CHURCH FAILS TO PUNISH GUILTY 08
(RELUCTANCE TO COOPERATE IN EXPOSING RAPE BY PRIESTS AND ACTIVE HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE SEMINARIES) JULY 10, 2017
RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE BY INDIAN PRIESTS-CHURCH FAILS TO PUNISH GUILTY 09 (PROPOSED RETREAT BY RAPIST-PRIEST FR. JOBY KACHAPPILLY VC AT ST. MICHAEL’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, SHARJAH, SEPTEMBER 2-4, 2017) AUGUST 2, 2017
RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE BY INDIAN PRIESTS-CHURCH FAILS TO PUNISH GUILTY 10 (RETREAT BY FR. JOBY KACHAPPILLY VC AT ST. MICHAEL’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, SHARJAH, CANCELLED) AUGUST 3, 2017
This ministry had succeeded in getting the organizers to cancel two retreats which were to have been preached by the rapist-priest, the first in New York and the second in Sharjah:
1. From file no. 08: A Catholic charismatic ministry in New York
From: A & D O
spiritusrc@gmail.com
Subject: Re: RETREAT JULY 28-30 Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 22:20:16 -0400 {July 3}
Dear Michael Prabhu, Praise the Lord!
Please be informed that Fr. Joby is no longer doing the 3rd Marian Eucharistic Healing Conference in Syracuse, NY. Unfortunately, he cancelled out on us after we had confirmed this several times over the past few months. This happened approximately a week ago.
I have been in touch at least three times last with Fr. Joby to be sure that he is doing alright and thanks be to God he is. He will be ministering mostly in Europe during the time of our retreat as he has been in Rome for many months now. We are praying for His continued success in all he does and that the Lord will use Fr. Joby mightily.
We triage-d this by casting our bread and Fr. Shawn Monahan OMV, who is a very-well known and well-loved speaker in the United States responded, prayed, and discerned about it and confirmed that he is going to be our retreat director.
If you wish to attend and have any other questions, please feel free to ask. Our registration numbers are going up and we can only take about 50 total residential retreatants and a total of 100 (assuming the others are commuters).
Praise the Lord! Annet and Don O’Mara
To: A & D O
spiritusrc@gmail.com
Subject: Re: RETREAT JULY 28-30 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 08:26:48 +0530
Dear Annet and Don,
Praise the Lord. We are grateful to you for your quick response and the information that you provided. No, I am not a potential attendee of your retreat which I ask Our Lord to bless through Fr. Shawn.
We regret to inform you that Fr. Joby is a serial rapist who, almost as soon as he was exposed, has gone into hiding in Rome with the support of almost his entire Vincentian Congregation. THAT is the reason why he “cancelled” out on you. We are trying to bring him to justice WITHIN THE CHURCH but his confreres and Superiors are engaged in denial, cover-up, intimidation and blackmail. The hierarchy of the Indian Church has not responded either although we have been pursuing the case with them for months. Please check out the two files whose titles and links I have provided below.
I have served in very senior positions in the Indian Catholic Charismatic Renewal since 1982. And I have been witness to many tragedies such as these where preachers who have been idolized by the faithful turned out to have feet of clay and scandalized people who trusted more in them than in the Lord.
We pray that you have a full house at your proposed retreat and we greatly appreciate your commitment to the re-evangelization of the Church.
Michael Prabhu (Catholic apologist) and Team
P.S. We would be very grateful if you could share with us exactly when Fr. Joby intimated you about his cancellation and/or since exactly when he is in Rome. That’s a detail that we are unable to get until now.
2. From files nos. 09 and 10:
However we came to know too late for us to intervene about his two recently-conducted retreats in the U.K.
In their correspondence with us, not a single Cardinal, Archbishop or Vincentian priest including two successive Provincial Superiors and Superiors General have expressed one word of regret or manifested any kind of concern or pity for the victims of the priest who are seeking justice.
Our correspondence with them shows how they have absolutely avoided making any sort of commitment on bringing Fr. Joby Kachappilly to justice canonically. One by one, they have given our emails the silent treatment.
For more than five months, we have been calling for him to be arraigned before us in Bangalore, India, and defrocked and laicized. Our requests have been completely ignored.
Meanwhile the perpetrator of these most horrendous crimes, from his hideout in Rome, shamelessly roams the world “ministering” to Catholics. It is impossible that he could continue to do so without the connivance of his Vincentian superiors in India.
The attitude of the Church authorities reveals their utter contempt for the concerns of the laity or their spiritual welfare in their letting loose a rogue priest among the unsuspecting sheep.
Our team is now in contact with the National Commission for Women, New Delhi, and we will be filing a First Information Report (F.I.R.) with the police later this month in an attempt to bring the rapist-priest to justice under Indian law after five months of fruitless correspondence with the Congregation and the senior-most authorities of the Catholic Church in India.
