tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328487590361973275.post2096331760602190830..comments2023-09-30T21:01:57.404-07:00Comments on Alex Constantine's Blacklist: The Abusive Grip of Grenville Christian Cult/Probe Widens to Include Ex-TeachersAlex Constantinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10270988000562980128noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328487590361973275.post-49130268361871254782008-07-13T11:27:00.000-07:002008-07-13T11:27:00.000-07:00Primate Hiltz said recently: "The Anglican Church ...Primate Hiltz said recently: "The Anglican Church would gain more ``credibility'' debating homosexuality if it broadened the sexuality discussion and devoted more energy to combatting sexual abuse, sexual exploitation by people in positions of power, and global sex slavery."<BR/><BR/>As usual fine words in another purely political speech; however, the reality is continuation of the usual Anglican hipocrisy. Hiltz's bishop in Ontario, Rt. Rev. George Bruce has failed to deal with the issues at Grenville Christian School, which according to the law suite filed include allegations of physical, sexual and psychological abuse. Bruce has; however, moved the schools headmaster, Rev. Gordon Mintz twice since the school closed, first time to St. Thomas Belleville Ontario as interim priest for a year where he remained for five months, and now to the Canadian Armed Forces as a chaplain.<BR/><BR/>Until there is an proper and thorough enquiry [Bruce cancelled the first one] and Mintz's part in the tragic activities at Grenville where he was the faculty leader as headmaster are fully determined it would seem imprudent to place him in another position of power and control over minor children. [The age of military service is 16 to 34, and the age of majority is 18 or 19 depending on the province]<BR/><BR/>If Primate Hiltz and the Anglican Church really gave a hoot, surely they would deal with the Grenville Christian School issue properly and not just continue to move priests around and hope that the laity do not notice .Rev. Malachy Eganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07690320011401729999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328487590361973275.post-66519335076683696762008-05-12T14:24:00.000-07:002008-05-12T14:24:00.000-07:00ANGLICAN BISHOP GEORGE BRUCE, THE REVEREND GORDON ...ANGLICAN BISHOP GEORGE BRUCE, THE REVEREND GORDON MINTZ, GRENVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL AND THE COMMUNITY OF JESUS <BR/>The good people of Boston, Massachusetts, put the run to Cardinal Bernard Law not so long ago: Law had covered up child abuse and moved abusive priests to new parishes to abuse some more. Law did not suffer too much, and he remains exactly where his admirer and friend John Paul II placed him: in a $12,000 per month sinecure in Rome as Archpriest of St Mary Major Basilica. This is good news for Anglican Bishop George Bruce because when the good people of Ontario wake up and chase him from office, Primate Hiltz can create an elaborate post for him as Archdogcatcher with the Anglican General Synod. <BR/><BR/>Since the scandal broke last summer, Bishop Bruce and the well paid Anglican flunkeys like Paul Feheley, principal secretary to Primate Hiltz and Ven. Wayne Varley, the Ontario diocesan executive officer [whose impartiality is under question because of an undisclosed relationship with a Grenville Christian School former student] have tried all the tricks in the Anglican Book of Obfuscation and Denial [a book which is significantly longer than the Old Testament] in order to avoid taking responsibility. <BR/><BR/>"Grenville Christian School is not an Anglican school," they pouted to a man, "No mea culpa." Well, Grenville Christian School flew the flag of the Anglican Church of Canada; used the Anglican Book of Common Prayer; Anglican bishops and priests conducted services there; it had a succession of Anglican headmasters... In fact long before Rev. Mintz's incumbency, Bishop Henry Hill of Ontario ordained Al Haig, Charles Farnsworth and Don Spencer-Lee, often referred to with their wives as 'the six pastors' [doubtless their wives would have been ordained too except that the Anglican Church was not ordaining women in 1977] and amazingly Bishop Hill agreed that the pre-ordination retreat should take place at the Community of Jesus! Hill sent Canon John Garrett to act as Chaplain to the Ordinands. The Anglican Church of Canada and the Community of Jesus have been hand-in-hand for over thirty years. The Ordination to the Priesthood took place on the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, at St George's Cathedral in Kingston; amazingly, Bishop Hill invited the Chaplain of the Community of Jesus, Fr Arthur Lane, to preach. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and swims like a duck, then it's certainly not going to cause the Vatican any embarrassment! <BR/><BR/>Bishop Bruce convened an internal Anglican inquiry and let Varley bully as much information as he could from the abused students because the bishop knew as sure as God made little apples that a lawsuit would be inevitable and the matter would be then be sub judice. The prevailing philosophy learned through the Indian Residential Schools crisis being that the ACC might as well give the Anglican Church lawyers as much help as possible. <BR/><BR/>Predictably, Bruce then cancelled the enquiry, once the class action lawsuits started to firm up. It is worth noting that those class action lawsuits seek compensation for psychological, physical and sexual abuse and name as defendants: 226937 Ontario Limited [Grenville Christian College]; the Incorporated Synod of the Diocese of Ontario; Charles and Betty Farnsworth; Alastair and Mary Haig. <BR/><BR/>Since legal proceedings started Bruce through Varley [the Ontario diocesan executive officer whose impartiality is under question] issued copious denials and placed an Anglican gag order on diocesan staff and clergy. <BR/><BR/>And then in January, hoping that nobody was looking, [tra-la-la] la piece de resistance from Bishop Bruce; freshly graduated with honours from the Bernard Law School of Cover Up: without investigation; without resolution; without an apology, Bruce delivered to these abused Grenville School Students the ultimate slap in the face and appointed the Rev. Gordon Mintz as incumbent at St Thomas', Belleville, Ontario as Priest-in-Charge starting January 1, 2008. Rumour has it that that despite everything Mintz is still an oblate member of the Community of Jesus. <BR/><BR/>Back in 2004, the disingenuous Bishop Bruce expressed his concern to Bishop Peter Coffin of Ottawa that a well-known convicted pedophile was performing choir and other duties at a downtown Ottawa church, [he's still there in fact]. Now, with the sky dark with the wings of chickens coming home to roost, hypocritically Bruce embraces Coffin's example when abuse issues surface in his own diocese. <BR/><BR/> The Rev. Gordon Mintz was faced with a dilemma: either to be honest and become part of the solution, or to join the Anglican cover-up: remain part of the problem and be bought off with a new job. Mintz goes way back with Grenville and the Community of Jesus: Gordon Mintz's introduction to Grenville Christian College was, strangely, through his sister who was a student there. Perhaps he was fascinated by the stories of 'light sessions' and cultic activity; however we might speculate that lacking the academic prowess required to join the student body he chose to gain access to this viper's nest by way of the kitchen door and a job as a dishwasher... Mintz's first job at Grenville was washing dishes, but gradually over a period of years and with a sincere endorsement of the cultic program, he sleazed his way up the ladder to the position of Dean of Men. He was also a teacher at Grenville. [His qualifications are somewhat obscure: the St. Thomas website bio simply says: "More information to come." Ho-hum.]. So he was a staff member at Grenville Christian School: he worked there and was brain washed there. <BR/><BR/>I understand that there was a staff hierarchy at Grenville [students were lowly creatures who submitted to the authority of all staff regardless of position]; so Mintz the menial dishwasher was already in a position of power and control. The original hierarchy was led by Mintz's predecessor, Anglican priest Rev. Farnsworth and his wife, a delightful lady of various biological dimensions. <BR/><BR/>The students coined the next layer "The A-team". The A-team was comprised of the principal, all the deans, assistant deans, and some well chosen staff. This A-team was the domain of the enforcers. They ensured that staff and students alike were, "into the spirit of the school". There were punishments; discipline; group light sessions; private light sessions and it all ran with military precision. [Colonel George Bruce; yes this fine Anglican bishop and recent Primatial candidate was a military man before he was ordained, must have admired that regimented approach!] <BR/><BR/>Under the A-team was the "middle class staff". They were comprised mostly of the favoured teaching staff, and business staff and finally the lowest class were the remaining staff, who comprised the people that did the menial work around the school, although I am told that some of the teachers fell into that class as well. I am also advised that it wasn't just students that were abused at Grenville Christian College. The staff were abused as well. Staff members had their own light sessions, and could be disciplined; nobody was immune from the cultic predations. <BR/><BR/>Farnsworth retired, Bishop Bruce cancelled the investigation into him too, and as we know Farnsworth was succeeded by Rev. Mintz who is obviously the bishop's favoured boy. Bishop Bruce was aware of everything that transpired at Grenville and more. Mintz did not get to the top of the food chain with out getting his hands dirty. Mintz bore witness to light sessions, and participated in them; he did nothing to stop the abuse; in fact he participated in it. Mintz lied to the Globe and Mail: he stated that the allegations of abuse at Grenville, "Are without foundation". <BR/><BR/>The Anglican Church of Canada has a terrible history of abusing children; that legacy continues until this day and Bishop George Bruce's actions in the case of Grenville Christian School follow in the tradition of Cardinal Bernard Law who did nothing except move the abusers to fresh territory. <BR/><BR/>I challenge Primate Hiltz to follow Benedict XVI's example and condemn child abuse of any stripe within the Anglican Church of Canada; I further challenge Hiltz to actually do something about this wanton destruction of people's lives [unlike John Paul II] and defrock Bishop George Bruce and Rev. Gordon Mintz. <BR/><BR/>Jesus of Nazareth had something to say on the topic of child abuse: "But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. "Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!" <BR/><BR/>Heed the Word of our Lord, Archbishop Hiltz, and act before it is too late! <BR/><BR/>In Christ, <BR/><BR/>MalachyRev. Malachy Eganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07690320011401729999noreply@blogger.com