must be the money or "Holy Blood Holy Grail"
Jaime Kenedeno
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The Kenedy Foundation is a non-profit, charitable organization in name only
11/5/2005 4:21:29 AM
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The Kenedy Foundation is a non-profit, charitable organization in name only!
Posted on November 5, 2005 at 06:31:28 AM by Tony Hearn
Let me tell you what I think is going on in Corpus Christi.
The Kenedy Foundation is a non-profit, charitable organization in name only. It is NOT a Christian organization. It’s a worldly business.
http://www.tonysjournal.com/diary1105.htm
Frankly, I think the foundation is controlled by a bunch of money-grubbing, avaricious, backsliding Roman Catholic prelates and pseudo-religious hangers-on. The lay members are even paid handsomely to sit on the board. They employ a retired U.S. Army general and other hirelings to administer the foundation as a capitalistic enterprise.
These malefactors have engineered the Kenedy Foundation, with the help of a bunch of shrewd, high-priced lawyers and conniving bankers, to give as little as possible to charity to keep the Texas attorney general and the federal Internal Revenue Service off their tails for violation of the laws controlling non-profit, charitable foundations.
Let me ask any fair-minded, God-loving Roman Catholic in Texas – those who are the true beneficiaries of Sarita Kenedy East who set up the Kenedy Foundation before her death: If you had money in the bank, what would you do to help dying children? Try to hide? Play dumb? Would you tell the world if you were pressed that you have other plans for the money, doling it out like Ebenezer Scrooge, only to registered institutions? Would you stiff-arm the Holy Father who has asked for help for dying children?
Sarita Kenedy East left her money to the Roman Catholic Church of Texas, not to a bunch of retrovert penny pinchers who treat the Kenedy Foundation as a slush fund for their private interests and as a hedge against civil suits which might ruin the coffers of bishops who failed to shepherd perverted clergy.
As a member of the Roman Catholic Church in Texas, I have a right to tell the bishops, hangers-on, and their hirelings down in Corpus Christi what I think should be done with Sarita’s money, particularly in response to Pope Benedict XVI’s urgent plea for help for dying children.
Every Roman Catholic in Texas should rise up and tell the members of the Kenedy Foundation board and General Cisneros to cut through the complicated, time-consuming red tape and other procedural barriers they have constructed to protect their precious hoard from anyone seeking their stingy grants. (General Cisneros’s email is mac@kenedy.org.)
Tell them to rescue the dying children with Sarita’s money – not with some pittance either, but with BIG money! Fifty million or better!
And tell that so-called bishop demeritus to get his greedy hands out of the cookie jar and to make certain the Roman Catholics of Texas have a clear view – a transparent view – of just what has been happening with Sarita’s money. Publish the books, uncooked!
Now if you at the Kenedy Foundation have already written out a huge check and sent it either to Benedict XVI or the U.N. Children's Fund, which I doubt, forget the above, and keep on doing more of the same. The Lord will bless you and all Roman Catholics in Texas. He'll bless us real good!
http://www.tonysjournal.com/diary1105.htm
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Jaime Kenedeno
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General Marc Anthony Cisneros who''s running the show @ Kenedy Foundation
11/5/2005 4:23:56 AM
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General Marc Anthony Cisneros who''s running the show at the Kenedy Foundation down in Corpus Christi
Posted on November 5, 2005 at 04:11:33 AM by Tony Hearn
Friday, November 4, 2005
I find it rather interesting that none of the dailies in Texas is interested in the story I sent out on Monday in which I asked the Kenedy Foundation to send money to help the dying children in Kashmir. I was only echoing Pope Benedict XVI''s appeal.
Either the editors are asleep or they are cowed by retired General Marc Anthony Cisneros who''s running the show at the Kenedy Foundation down in Corpus Christi. How is it that the media publish the story of the pope asking the international community to dig into their pockets to save the Asian refugees from starvation and exposure to harsh winter conditions, but they are not roused from indifference when someone suggests the richest Catholic institution in the world (or at least among the richest), the Kenedy Foundation, contribute to the relief effort?
I wonder if Benedict XVI realizes how much money the Kenedy Foundation has? Or maybe Benedict XVI is hitting up the world community but is giving a pass to the Catholic Church in Texas?
I''m going to find out, one way or another!
Thursday, November 3, 2005
As that creepy actor, Peter Lorey, used to say, ""It''s sooooo quiet and peaceful – in the morgue!""
I think I must have gotten to the fellas at the Kenedy Foundation. They''re realizing what creeps they are – ignoring the Holy Father''s call to help the dying children in Pakistani Kashmir. They are pondering their fate once the Good Lord gets a hold of them! The scoundrels, led astray by that arch scoundrel, Rene! What a fate is in store for him! Bishop emeritus, my eye!
On a much higher, loftier plane, yesterday at the Vatican in the presence of 30,000 people, Pope Benedict XVI led a commemoration of All Souls. Commenting on Psalm 111, ""the happiness of the righteous,"" Pope Benedict said the following, to which I point Bishop Rene Gracida and the pack at the Kenedy Foundation:
""The observation of moral law brings inner harmony and profound peace of conscience,"" the Holy Father explained, specifying that ""the core of such faithfulness to the Divine Word consists in a fundamental choice: charity towards the poor and the needy. ... The righteous, accepting the constant admonitions of the prophets, take the side of the marginalized and give them abundant support.""
http://www.tonysjournal.com/diary1105.htm
kirt
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Re: The Kenedy Foundation
11/5/2005 7:58:04 AM
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I''m not an expert on the Kenedy foundation, but I know one of the board members and he is a very honorable man. I also know they have made grants to help pay the tuition of poor students at Our Lady of Corpus Christi and have made other grants to this poor and struggling Catholic liberal arts institution. They have also paid the tuition (including my own) of catechetical students in a Church history class being given at Christ the King parish. What specifically have they done that is so wrong?
curmudgeon
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Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
11/5/2005 8:47:47 AM
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The Roman Catholic Church is a big business. All the folks who work for for it are handsomely rewarded. Sarita thought she could buy her way to heaven and Brother Leo was happy to oblige.
kirt
Posts: 1061
Re: Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
11/5/2005 10:46:47 AM
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There may be some people who make big money working for the Catholic Church, but the vast majority do so on either on a volunteer basis or for minimal pay. A good example would be Catholic school teachers, who on average are paid far less than their government school counterparts. The handsome reward, we all hope, will come in the next life.
Capt Carrales
Posts: 1983
Have you all seen Benny Hinn''s...
11/5/2005 2:00:34 PM
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...latest suits. It seems to be Catholics aren''t the only game in town.
Please spread the vitriol evenly please.
curmudgeon
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Benny Hinn is one of my favorites . . .
11/5/2005 4:38:34 PM
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. . . along with Tammy Faye and the woman with the big pink hair.
Capt Carrales
Posts: 1983
Yes, I see you are familiar with Blasphemous Bob...
11/6/2005 12:13:45 AM
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...and his associates.
Get down with OPP, Old Preverted Preacher!!!
Well, Curmudgeon, now is your chance to get in on the religious raquet.
Jaime Kenedeno
Posts: 800
Fair? OK,.... I will give you something OMNIFICENT!
11/6/2005 4:16:07 AM
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Not to be confused with the one and only OMNIPOTENT!
Parkdale Baptist Church
An article titled, ""Serpent in the Garden"" by James Pinkerton in the Houston Chronicle (not locally covered) January 14, 1996.
Deacon James Plaisted did some very bad things and was protected by some very powerful people. He even was rewarded with Law School in Boston then busted again bringing another little girl from the Body of Christ to his Boston Motel. He worked with CCISD and Horvat.
curmudgeon
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My old momma . . .
11/6/2005 10:59:23 AM
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. . . drew the line at bein'' a preacher and sellin'' Bibles.
Jaime Kenedeno
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You need to look at their books.....
11/5/2005 10:27:56 PM
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and the transactions for personal gain. That is the fallacy these men are respected & honorable men above reproach yet they are thieves!
Go to guidestar.org and look them up.
kirt
Posts: 1061
Re: You need to look at their books.....
11/6/2005 7:15:14 PM
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Jaime, I registered with Guidestar and looked up the Kenedy Foundation. Now perhaps you could tell me what I am supposed to be looking for and how to get there. I am not a tax accountant or forensic accountant. I''ve had a couple of accounting courses many years ago - that''s it.
The only two things I was able to find out are 1) The guy I know who I thought was a director is not one, although his son is, and 2) the mission of the foundation is to support Catholic activities in the state of Texas. This would explain why they have not given money to Asian refugees. This is not their mission unless the refugees manage to make it all the way to Texas.
Jaime Kenedeno
Posts: 800
I agree with you it is earmarked for South Texas but they spend .......
11/7/2005 12:58:50 AM
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everywhere and hide everywhere they can ala ENRON.
The 909!
Look at the stock sales and the broker fees.
Go to follow the money .com or .org.
It is illegal for them to contribute money to any political campaign in any shape or form.
It is so much to explain;... it is difficult to explain cogently. Go back and study the litigation or even better the histrorical events leading up to now. Gracida (1984) owns so much and is so wealthy. Check out when the AG charged him and the whole KFATSO board with Felonius Crimes. I will get into it if you truly will stick it out with me?
YOU need to do a lot of Homework!
Ask if something confuses you?
curmudgeon
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Next . . .
11/7/2005 6:31:13 AM
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. . . you will be tellin'' us the Pope is a crook!
Jaime Kenedeno
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I dont know about this one but ......
11/7/2005 6:57:11 AM
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you know ""the Pope can afford to be generous"".
According to Cardinal Krol and Vagnozzi!
Francis Cardinal Spellman as well as J Peter Grace and the CIA.
Jaime Kenedeno
Posts: 800
The Last Pope: An Exemplary Mandate in his Ascension!
11/8/2005 12:34:30 AM
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Pope John Paull II: An Exemplary Mandate in his Ascension!
4/4/2005 12:11 AM
This Pope moved mountains! The very mountains where the littlest soveriegn country resides. 109 acres, ~ 900 citizens, a soup kitchen for the poor, a police force and 100 or so Swiss Guard. Vatican City cringed at the steadfast integrity and purification Pope John Paul II represented and commanded. His final years are not representative of his early and middle years. This man told ""emperors they were indeed naked"".
Then he would offer options where he could help them design a whole new (""more pure"") wardrobe. I am very proud for this man and the Catholic Church for which he dedicated his whole life. He made huge strides toward the purification only to be stifled in his final years. His little changes in attitude and direction were not little like they seemed but, very instrumental to a healing of the Church that must be sterilized first. We are getting closer everyday to a more empirical Church Hierarchy. I hope John Paul II''s qualitys were highly contagious to the electors of our next Pope. I do not feel sadness. I feel the greatness of this man being dispatched to a world that he has (from) in spirit ascended. He is far greater now than he was ever as a man. His greatness will now be felt and recognized more so (now & in the future) than ever during his life in the flesh.
kirt
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Re: The Last Pope: An Exemplary Mandate in his Ascension!
11/8/2005 3:35:49 PM
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Hi Jaime, sorry I missed this post previously. I agree with your very positive assessment of Pope John Paul II. I also have very high hopes for the present Holy Father Benedict XVI, who is off to a good start building on what John Paul did before. I only hope that Benedict will live long enough to have a great pontificate for the glory of God, the salvation of souls, and the building up of the Church.
kirt
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Re: I agree with you it is earmarked for South Texas but they spend .......
11/7/2005 7:41:53 AM
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Jaime, I can''t go running from website to website on this. Previously you made a rhetorical point that they were not giving money to Asian refugees. When I pointed out that this doesn''t fall within the scope of their mission (per the website you referred me to), you now claim that they spend everywhere and hide everywhere. No specific examples are given, which makes me suspect that you fear a lawsuit.
You don''t even name the specific ""Felonius Crimes"" with which the AG charged Bishop Gracida and the board. What were the specific charges? Were the accused ever convicted? Acquitted? The charges dropped? Can you answer these questions without referring me to another website? If not, can you refer me to a simple news website that has the answers?
Capt Carrales
Posts: 1983
Oh Man!!! Kirt is...
11/7/2005 4:20:15 PM
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...taking names and kicking ass!!!
Jaime, let''s see if Kirt is up to the challenge.
Let the games begin!!!!
Jaime Kenedeno
Posts: 800
hERE IS A LITTLE BACKGROUND TO GET YOUR FEET WET KIRT!
11/7/2005 10:37:11 PM
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howdown in Texas
How bishop was turned against bishop in the struggle for control of Corpus Christi’s Kenedy Foundation
By Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth
Spring 1996 was a bitter time for Rene Henry Gracida. One moment, the 73-year-old Catholic bishop of Corpus Christi was savoring his imminent retirement. The next, Gracida was fending off three legal assaults on the $250 million foundation that he chaired.
Two groups of litigants claimed that the foundation’s principal assets, underground oceans of oil in south Texas, actually belonged to them, at least in part.
But it was the third challenge that personally affronted Gracida. His fellow Texas bishops, frustrated by the Corpus Christi prelate’s unwillingness to share more of the foundation’s largesse with other Texas dioceses, had taken their case to Texas state attorney general Dan Morales.
At the same time, Morales also heard from Richard Hatch, the foundation’s erstwhile general counsel, who was raising his own questions over Gracida’s stewardship.
Prodded into action by the bishops and Mr. Hatch, Morales filed suit on May 2, 1996, alleging Gracida had misallocated foundation funds, violating “the spirit, intent and language” of two legal agreements that governed foundation policies. Morales also sought to remove the entire seven-member board, including Gracida, who was president. The suit further sought repayment of unspecified sums from the diocese to the foundation.
Not only did the action reignite one of the most colorful and convoluted foundation battles in Texas history, it also impugned Gracida’s honor. “I was very hurt, very angry,” he says. “It was a tremendous strain.” In response, Gracida counter-sued, alleging that Morales was the one trying to twist the foundation’s mission. Gracida also recruited his own heavy hitter into the fray, New York powerhouse John Cardinal O’Connor.
“I said, ‘John, I need your help,’” Gracida recalls. “Well, you know the story about the camel getting his nose under the tent. Once O’Connor saw the opportunity, he said, ‘I’m going to get control of that foundation.’”
Meeting Brother Leo
The late cardinal was only the latest in a long and colorful parade of characters who have coveted control of the fortune since 1960, when Sarita Kenedy East established the foundation in her parents’ honor. Past litigants included eight Texas attorneys general, two prior bishops of Corpus Christi, innumerable members of the Kenedy family, and a handsome and charismatic Trappist monk known as Brother Leo, who says he first suggested the idea of a foundation to Mrs. East.
The Kenedy fortune dates to the early 19th century and the arrival on the Rio Grande River of Captain Mifflin Kenedy, a steamboater from Pennsylvania. Kenedy had a keen eye for the main chance. He and his younger friend, Richard King, prospered as freight haulers on the river, then invested their profits in vast acreages up the Texas coast toward Corpus Christi in a parched expanse known as the Wild Horse Desert. King founded the enormous King Ranch; Kenedy built his own 400,000-acre spread, La Parra, next door.
The rich captain married a Mexican widow named Petra Vela, who bore Kenedy six children. Only one of them, John Gregory, produced grandchildren. His first-born, John Gregory Jr., known as Johnny, was left sterile by mumps. Johnny’s younger sister, Sara, known as Sarita, similarly was left barren by undulant fever. After her husband Arthur’s death in 1944, Sarita, a devout Catholic, retreated into her faith and a more-than-occasional tumbler of scotch to soothe her loneliness and sorrows.
Then came the day in 1948 when Sarita, out tending her brother Johnny’s new grave in the family cemetery at La Parra, looked up to greet a visitor, the monk known as Brother Leo. He was young enough to be the son Sarita never bore, and there was immediate chemistry between them.
Leo animated a dormant spirit in Mrs. East. He visited La Parra regularly, and they traveled together extensively. Sarita donated generously to the Trappists, and Leo opened her eyes to the enormous needs of the poor throughout the world, particularly in Latin America.
The monk and his friend and mentor, the industrialist J. Peter Grace, worked together to persuade Mrs. East to establish the John G. and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation. A year later, in 1961, Sarita died from cancer in a New York City hospital.
Decades of wildly complex legal warfare ensued (see sidebar) for control of the foundation, culminating in 1984 when Rene Gracida, the newly-installed bishop of Corpus Christi, boldly grabbed the foundation’s reins from a South Texas bank. It appeared that the tough-minded bishop, a former World War II bomber pilot, had finally trumped the field.
The October of Discontent
The Kenedy Foundation had previously distributed about $30 million to Catholic causes around Texas. These grants were divided between Corpus Christi and the state’s 13 dioceses. But the funding balance began to shift once the new bishop took over. “The board felt charity begins at home,” Gracida explains. “So you know, they were going to treat South Texas with a higher priority.”
According to calculations by the attorney general, between 1984 and 1996, the foundation gave the Corpus Christi diocese about $100 million in grants, funding everything from new schools to a television station. In the same period, approximately $23 million was allotted to the rest of the state.
Gracida’s brother bishops were not pleased. “I could detect signs of discontent,” he recalls. “I kept reminding the bishops at our semi-annual meetings, ‘You know, the Kenedy Foundation isn’t the only foundation in this state. Why do you expect the Kenedy Foundation to supply all your needs?’”
The flashpoint came in the wake of a double hit to the foundation exchequer: oil prices plummeted to less than $10 a barrel and, in October of 1987, the stock market collapsed. “The foundation lost $5 million in one day,” Gracida remembers.
Although there is some dispute over how badly the foundation really was hurt—Bishop John McCarthy of Austin would later claim that its revenues actually increased during this period—there’s no debate over Gracida’s next move. The Kenedy Foundation board voted in 1990 to temporarily restrict all new grants to the diocese of Corpus Christi. Everyone else would have to wait for the economy to improve.
Just then, Bishop Leroy T. Matthiesen of Amarillo made what he believed was a routine request: $6,000 for a Spanish-language evangelization project. It had been four years since Matthiesen’s last application—$60,000 for a diocesan renewal center—was granted, so he assumed approval of the much more modest amount would be relatively pro forma.
Gracida, however, turned him down, and a clearly miffed Bishop Matthiesen went public with his disappointment. Speaking for himself and the other Texas bishops to a reporter for an East Texas diocesan newspaper, Matthiesen said, “We all consider Bishop Gracida a friend, and we want to maintain friendly relations, but this looks [like] pretty high-handed stuff to us.”
The story was picked up by the Catholic News Service, which gave the quote from Bishop Matthiesen national distribution. “That nearly sent me into orbit,” says Gracida. “I said, ‘How could you do that? How could you say something like that to a reporter, knowing that in all probability she was going to print it? And she did!’ He apologized, but of course the damage was done.”
In late February of 1993, a group of Texas bishops sat down with the Kenedy Foundation board to make their case face-to-face. Four months later, when there was no apparent change in foundation policy, Bishop McCarthy of Austin fired off a stinging note to Kenedy board members.
“Let me be rather direct,” McCarthy wrote. “We believe that the resources of the foundation are being seriously mishandled. We believe that there is serious abuse of the fiduciary responsibility of those who are responsible.”
McCarthy closed with a warning: “Unless there is a dramatic change,” he wrote, “the Bishops of Texas have no alternative but to go elsewhere for a solution.”
The FedEx Bill That Roared
The following year, Archbishop Patrick Flores of San Antonio, the senior Catholic prelate in Texas, dispatched an equally explicit threat to the board. Flores wanted a Texas bishop placed on the board, a move that he said “would go a long way toward eliminating the danger of any scandal or involvement with the Attorney General.”
Approximately a month later, Enrique San Pedro, the bishop of Brownsville on the Texas-Mexico border, was elected to the board. He died of cancer four months later. In August 1994, Placido Rodriguez, the new bishop of Lubbock in the Texas panhandle, was appointed to the board.
But Gracida’s critics were not satisfied. Although the moratorium on new grants had been lifted in June and a bit more money began to flow out of Corpus Christi into the poorer dioceses, there was no fundamental shift in foundation philosophy.
Dissent also began to stir from within. Over time, foundation attorney Richard Hatch Sr. had come to believe that Gracida was overstepping his authority. Although Hatch had previously assured the bishop in writing that his policies were “not only legal, but appropriate considering the historical background surrounding the creation of the foundation and subsequent litigation for control,” he was clearly disaffected by 1995.
“The Bishop of the Diocese of Corpus Christi has now accomplished what his predecessor in office could not accomplish by years of litigation,” Hatch wrote the board shortly after he left their employ. “The Foundation is now but a subsidiary of the Diocese of Corpus Christi.”
Gracida says his first clue to Hatch’s intent came after the attorney left the foundation, when foundation officials discovered a FedEx charge for materials he had sent to the state attorney general’s office in Austin. “We confronted him on it,” the bishop recollects, “and all he would say was, ‘A man’s got to do what he’s got to do.’”
Not long thereafter, says Gracida, Morales’ office notified the foundation that it was under investigation.
In November of 1995, Bishop McCarthy sent a two-page typewritten letter to Jan Soifer, the assistant attorney general in charge of the case. “We are very regretful,” wrote McCarthy on diocesan stationery, “that we have not been able to work this matter out internally and we now feel it is necessary for your office to become involved.”
In January of 1996, Bishop Joseph Delaney of Fort Worth sent his own letter to the AG’s office. “It is truly discouraging,” wrote Delaney, “that after years of quite notorious litigation we have had to resort to requesting that the Attorney General’s office look into the matter again.”
For Catholic bishops to air internecine issues before a civil authority is unusual; Gracida claims, perhaps with some exaggeration, that nothing like it has occurred in the Church since medieval days. He describes the actions of his fellow bishops as “scandalous,” but was particularly inflamed by their public comments, which generally characterized the lawsuit as the regrettable consequence of failed private diplomacy.
Calling in the Big Guns
Gracida read the bishops’ words and actions as nothing less than an attempt, via the attorney general’s lawsuit, to engineer a foundation coup, oust him, and install their own trustees. To counter them, he turned to a trusted friend, the most powerful Catholic in the United States. “I said, ‘John, here are some clippings of what the bishops are saying about me. I need you to silence them. I’m not asking you to interfere in the litigation. Just tell them to shut up. You can do that.’”
O’Connor did that and more. Gracida recalls that the public turmoil did quiet down, but he soon became convinced that O’Connor had more in mind than simply mediating the dispute. “Our attorney flew to New York and met with O’Connor in his living room,” he says. “He came back from that meeting and told me, ‘You’ve got to know who you’re fighting here. He’s going to try to take over the foundation.’” O’Connor died last year, apparently without making any public comments on his role in the Kenedy controversy.
Cardinal O’Connor was named head of a Papal commission charged with mediating the foundation fight before it actually got to court. His two co-mediators were Bernard Cardinal Law of Boston and Bishop Raymond Burke from Wisconsin. Gracida says Burke later told him that O’Connor and Law froze him out of their deliberations, which to the Corpus Christi bishop seemed directed more toward wresting the foundation away from him than exploring a middle ground in the dispute.
O’Connor could not have seized power directly—the law was too plain on that issue—but Gracida surmises that the Cardinal certainly would have enjoyed a great deal of indirect influence on foundation matters had he delivered it into the Texas bishops’ control.
The Cardinal pressured him to capitulate, Gracida says, invoking his extraordinary influence both in the United States and, more importantly, in Rome, but the Corpus Christi bishop would not budge. Gracida also distrusted his co-adjutor and anointed successor as bishop, Roberto Gonzalez (now Archbishop of Puerto Rico), who had risen through the Catholic hierarchy as a protege of both O’Connor and Law. He did not want Gonzalez—or any bishop—succeeding him as president of the foundation, and therefore presented as his non-negotiable demand that there could be no settlement unless the majority of any new Kenedy board were not clerics.
In the end, that’s what he got. On March 10, 1997, the attorney general’s office and the foundation issued dueling press releases, announcing that all pending litigation had been settled. Morales noted in the first sentence of his release that the settlement “increases the number of independent voices” on the board, and he was right.
The number of directors was expanded from seven to 13; by stipulation, nine of the new directors would be lay members and the other four bishops. Under no circumstances could clerics ever make up a controlling bloc on the board, nor could a member of a religious order, like Brother Leo, ever again become foundation president. Ex-officio cleric-directors would be the bishop of Corpus Christi and the archbishop of San Antonio. The other two prelates would serve one-year terms.
At the time, Gracida called the agreement “a total personal vindication for me and for the foundation board,” and he was right. The board—his board—remained intact, and the diocese was not obliged to repay any monies it had received from the Kenedy Foundation.
Coming out of the Woodwork
On April 1, 1997, Bishop Gracida finally did retire, proud of his successful defense of the foundation. But his victory did not mean that the battle for the Kenedy fortune was over. One of the other legal challenges filed during Bishop Gracida’s tenure on the board was brought by descendants of Carmen Morell, whom Captain Mifflin Kenedy had adopted following his wife’s death in 1885.
Morell’s heirs claimed that Sarita’s father, John Gregory, euchred his adoptive sister out of her share of the inheritance, and they say they have documents to back up their claim. The Kenedy Foundation board settled the case for an undisclosed amount.
Then came the Balli family. This large clan dates back at least to the early 1800s in the Wild Horse Desert, where they held Spanish land grants. The Ballis claim that Mifflin Kenedy leased his land from them, but never actually bought it. They, too, have documents they say will prove their point. One in particular is a 50-year lease, allegedly approved by Sarita East in 1948. The Balli claim is now working its way through the South Texas courts.
Bishop Gracida claims today to have put these sorts of concerns behind him. He divides his time between a gulfside bungalow near Corpus Christi and a country “ranchito” called Rancho Milagro, where he runs a few head of cows and generally enjoys the outdoors and his solitude.
Content to pass defense of the foundation to new and younger hands, Gracida also has come to accept what seems inevitable about the Kenedy fortune. “There’ll always be people coming out of the woodwork,” he says, “trying to get those millions.”
Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth are the authors of If You Love Me, You Will Do My Will, about the Kenedy Foundation.
http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/magazines/2001/march/01-03-mag-michaud.html
Jaime Kenedeno
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Re: hERE IS A LITTLE BACKGROUND TO GET YOUR FEET WET KIRT!
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MEDIA ADVISORY
DIOCESE OF CORPUS CHRISTI
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: March 10, 1997
RE: Settlement Agreement Reached Between Attorney General and Kennedy Memorial Foundation
CONTACT: Marty Wind Diocesan Secretary for Communications (361) 289-6437 x322
THE MOST REVEREND RENE HENRY GRACIDA, D.D., BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND MEMBER, DIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT OF THE JOHN G. AND MARIE STELLA KENEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT HE, ALONG WITH ALL OF THE OTHER MEMBERS, DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF THE FOUNDATION HAD REACHED A SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL DAN MORALES REGARDING ALL OF THE ISSUES RAISED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN THE LAWSUIT FILED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN TRAVIS COUNTY ON MAY 2, 1996. SETTLEMENT WAS SIMULTANEOUSLY REACHED WITH REGARD TO ALL OF THE ISSUES RAISED IN THE LAWSUIT FILED BY BISHOP GRACIDA AND THE FOUNDATION IN JIM WELLS COUNTY ON MAY 9, 1996.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL HAD ORIGINALLY SOUGHT THE REMOVAL OF ALL OF THE MEMBERS, DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF THE FOUNDATION ALONG WITH THE REPAYMENT OF UNSPECIFIED SUMS OF MONEY WHICH HAD BEEN AWARDED AS GRANTS BY THE FOUNDATION TO THE DIOCESE OF CORPUS CHRISTI SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FOUNDATION BY SARITA K. EAST IN 1960. BISHOP GRACIDA ANNOUNCED THAT THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT, WHICH WAS ENTERED INTO BY ALL OF THE PARTIES WITHOUT ANY ADMISSION OF LIABILITY, PROVIDES FOR FULL AND COMPLETE RELEASES BY THE PARTIES AND FOR THE ENTRY OF AGREED ORDERS OF DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE IN BOTH THE TRAVIS COUNTY AND THE JIM WELLS COUNTY LAWSUITS.
NO MEMBERS, DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF THE FOUNDATION WILL BE REQUIRED TO RESIGN AS A RESULT OF THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND NO GRANTS OF MONEY PREVIOUSLY MADE BY THE FOUNDATION WILL HAVE TO REPAID TO THE FOUNDATION.
COMMENTING ON THE LONG PROCESS OF SETTLEMENT NEGOTIATIONS WHICH HAVE TAKEN PLACE OVER THE PAST TEN MONTHS, BISHOP GRACIDA SAID: ""IT HAS TAKEN US ALL OF THESE TEN MONTHS TO RESOLVE THE LITIGATION BECAUSE THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE FOUNDATION WAS NOT WILLING TO ALLOW THE FOUNDATION TO BE TRANSFORMED FROM A FOUNDATION CONTROLLED BY SOUTH TEXAS LAITY INTO A FOUNDATION CONTROLLED BY INDIVIDUALS AND FORCES OUTSIDE OF SOUTH TEXAS."" GRACIDA FURTHER STATED: ""SUCH A TRANSFORMATION OF THE FOUNDATION WOULD BE TOTALLY INCONSISTENT WITH WHAT SARITA K. EAST HAD IN MIND WHEN SHE CREATED HER FOUNDATION ON JANUARY 22, 1960 AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS WAS AND REMAINS TOTALLY COMMITTED TO CARRYING OUT THE TESTAMENTARY INTENT OF SARITA K. EAST."" FOR THAT REASON, GRACIDA STATED, THE MEMBERS, DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF THE FOUNDATION WERE RESOLUTELY DETERMINED TO OPPOSE ANY RESTRUCTURING OF THE FOUNDATION WHICH WOULD HAVE CONTRADICTED THE INTENTIONS OF SARITA K. EAST WHEN SHE CREATED HER FOUNDATION.
THE COMPROMISE WHICH THE FOUNDATION''S BOARD OF DIRECTORS REACHED WITH THE ATTORNEY GENERAL PROVIDES FOR THE EXPANSION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, BUT NOT THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE FOUNDATION, FROM THE PRESENT NUMBER OF SEVEN DIRECTORS TO THIRTEEN DIRECTORS. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS WILL ALSO BE EXPANDED TO PERMANENTLY INCLUDE TWO ADDITIONAL ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS, ONE OF WHOM WILL ALWAYS BE THE BISHOP HOLDING THE OFFICE OF ARCHBISHOP OF SAN ANTONIO. PRESENTLY THERE ARE TWO BISHOPS SERVING ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: BISHOP GRACIDA AND BISHOP PLACIDO RODRIGUEZ, C.M.F., BISHOP OF LUBBOCK.
BISHOP GRACIDA EXPLAINED THAT WITH THE EXPANSION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO THRITEEN CONSISTING OF NINE LAITY AND FOUR BISHOPS, THE CURRENT NATURE OF THE FOUNDATION AS A SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION CONTROLLED BY LAITY WILL ALWAYS BE PRESERVED, BECAUSE A MAJORITY OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN THE FUTURE WILL ALWAYS BE LAITY FROM SOUTH TEXAS. PRESENT LAY MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ARE: CORPUS CHRISTI ATTORNEY RONALD W. BRADLEY, KENEDY COUNTY JUDGE J. A. GARCIA, CORPUS CHRISTI PHYSICIAN DR. BEN GRONER, SANDIA ENGINEER, RANCHER AND OILMAN DAN MEANEY AND OILMAN JOSEPH P. MUELLER.
IN CONCLUSION, BISHOP GRACIDA STATED THAT HE AND THE OTHER MEMBERS, DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF THE FOUNDATION WERE THANKFUL THAT THE LITIGATION HAD BEEN SO SATISFACTORILY SETTLED, BECAUSE NOW THE FOUNDATION COULD CONTINUE TO CARRY OUT THE MISSION AND PURPOSES OF THE FOUNDATION SO CLEARLY INTENDED BY SARITA K. EAST WHEN SHE CREATED HER FOUNDATION ON JANUARY 22, 1960.
NEITHER BISHOP GRACIDA, NOR ANY OTHER MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE FOUNDATION WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR FURTHER COMMENT ON THE SETTLEMENT AT THIS TIME. ANY AND ALL QUESTIONS, REQUESTS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, AND REQUESTS FOR COPIES OF THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND AGREED ORDERS OF DISMISSAL SHOULD BE REFERRED TO:
ATTORNEY JORGE RANGEL
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HardcoreHarry
Posts: 1767
QUICK!
11/7/2005 10:45:08 PM
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Someone yank that soapbox away from Jaime!
I think Kirt is gettin Pwned Captain! I imagine Jaime has a whole filing cabinet of them posts ready to go for such an occaision!
=laugh=
Hardcore Harry
Jaime Kenedeno
Posts: 800
Kirt already knows this info if he ....
11/8/2005 12:48:07 AM
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knows a son of a KFASTO Board Member.
I dont need to go to my filing cabinet. I am saving it for the courtroom. But you are correct, I have the proof. But it is only the Tip of the Iceberg!
I will step down (from my soap box); at your request, for now Harry.
HardcoreHarry
Posts: 1767
Re: Kirt already knows this info if he ....
11/8/2005 12:35:45 AM
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Hehe, no continue on, I am waiting for the first intelligent reply from Kirt on these boards on this matter....or more of his hysteric ""Bush is to Blame for Everything.""
Frankly, Kirt does not stand a snowball''s chance in hell in this showdown if ye ask me!
Hardcore Harry
Capt Carrales
Posts: 1983
Into the web...
11/8/2005 1:30:35 PM
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...said the spider to the fly.
Kirt, be prepared to negate volumes of Jaime''s works.
The games have begun!!!
Jaime Kenedeno
Posts: 800
Capitan,.......... I dont feel like........
11/9/2005 12:30:24 AM
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doing this! I dont think it needs to be right now? It already is! Kurt go do a lot of Homework. Do you see anybody else who is as uninformed as you? Do I really need to go there Capitan? Something (I feel) is not good about this. I believe it is in GOD''s hands right now. Actually I am proud for the Church Universal as they have accepted the critique and are cleansing themselves. I can feel it Capitan! The acceptance of women speaks volumes. More, much more must be done. It will not help anything for me to prove this crap all over again.
Jaime Kenedeno
Posts: 800
Re: Re: hERE IS A LITTLE BACKGROUND TO GET YOUR FEET WET KIRT!
11/8/2005 12:55:50 AM
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Here in the Body of Christ. He has been accused of innappropriate conduct and sued by parents of children for ""injury other than a motor vehicle"". All of his cases have been expedited to the third court of appeals in Austin. The Statesman has a few articles on him. Look who his allies are? Bernard Law & Cardinal O Connor who died about a year ago. O connor owned the house across the street (Ocean Drive) from the Diocese. This guy Tony Hearne is on the inside or shall I say was on the inside. I have tracked the paper to Argentina (Verstraten) Chile (Ranches & Temple (Trappist??), ""If you love me do my will"" is a good read from Gracida''s biased point of view. What I respect about the man is his intellect and ability to devise. Read the meeting on Elena''s porch at La Parra. Elena died as the AG was on his way to speak personally with her. Bishop Garriga''s famous quote, ""she was over reached she was over reached"" speaks of Sarita being played by the Church Universal; Brother Leo, J Peter Grace & the CIA. It is very corrupted but has cleansed and is cleansing themeselves of the pedophilia after the ""piercing"" of the underbelly. Gerry Appleby Priest. do a search on him and keep in mind he raped fondled & molested 3 men I know personally as I knew Father Gerry through them. They were all altar boys at St Joseph''s here in the Body Of Christ! He is in a Florida Prison now. Father Patrck Flores has covered up these transgressions as well! I have the book they bought from a family involved (who wrote it). I beleive Andy Turcotte wrote it. Anyway the book was never published but it was ""piece mealed"" with the input of the Vatican & Gracida to become ""If you love me do my will""
SUE ME!
It is that I have already been through this whole proving it thing. It is a lot of overlapping work. They were on the attack against the Fernandez Family. Nothing shuts one up like a ""cold shower of reality"".
kirt
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Re: Re: Re: hERE IS A LITTLE BACKGROUND TO GET YOUR FEET WET KIRT!
11/8/2005 12:25:42 AM
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Jaime, my involvement with the Kenedy foundation has really been very minor. I know the father of a board member and have briefly met his son, but have never specifically discussed the foundation with either of them.
I appreciate the background information contained in your first two posts. First of all, I will stipulate that it is unedifying for bishops to squabble over money and especially for them to drag in the civil authorities. According to your articles, it was not Gracida but his opponents who did the latter. Second, one could make the argument that Gracida and the board should have been more generous with other Texas dioceses.
That said, it appears that Gracida and the board were completely vindicated in the litigation, which as far as I can see was strictly civil and did not involve criminal charges.
As far as your third post is concerned, this is rather confusing and much of it involves matters I have never heard of. What do the rape and molestation cases you refer to have to do with Bishop Gracida or the board of the Kenedy foundation?
Jaime Kenedeno
Posts: 800
Money & Tobacco might have convinced AG....
11/8/2005 12:22:11 AM
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Dan Morales otherwise.
Money is what vindicated Gracida. Now go figure; how does a Priest own a Bungalo and a ""Ranchito"" including numerous rent houses?
Also, I am informed by Ray Fernandez who has a family member who works with General Cisneros (up until now the General did not know where the leak was coming from) and is privy to all info. Ray Fernandez said, "" Bishop Gracida has a Ranch called Ranch Milagro and he has two house boys that walk around in thongs"". He asked me not to write about it but later relented. I trust you will verify the litigation? Michael Sullivan Federal Prosecutor in Boston was his attorney while at the same time employed as the head federal prosecutor of Mass. Gracida has been accused of the innappropriate conduct with children. It was paid off through the ""JEWISH"" network via Leshin. A house supposedly the victim is buying from a buffer then is paid off 5 years later. Ask Mr Leshin and watch him react?
Tell him Jaime tipped you off.
Jaime Kenedeno
Posts: 800
Money & Tobacco might have convinced AG....
11/8/2005 12:23:10 AM
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Dan Morales otherwise.
Money is what vindicated Gracida. Now go figure; how does a Priest own a Bungalo and a ""Ranchito"" including numerous rent houses?
Also, I am informed by Ray Fernandez who has a family member who works with General Cisneros (up until now the General did not know where the leak was coming from) and is privy to all info. Ray Fernandez said, "" Bishop Gracida has a Ranch called Ranch Milagro and he has two house boys that walk around in thongs"". He asked me not to write about it but later relented. I trust you will verify the litigation? Michael Sullivan Federal Prosecutor in Boston was his attorney while at the same time employed as the head federal prosecutor of Mass. Gracida has been accused of the innappropriate conduct with children. It was paid off through the ""JEWISH"" network via Leshin. A house supposedly the victim is buying from a buffer then is paid off 5 years later. Ask Mr Leshin and watch him react?
Tell him Jaime tipped you off.
curmudgeon
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A gay priest . . .
11/8/2005 6:38:04 AM
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. . . imagine that! I only picked out one factual inconsistancy in the little borrowed history. Bishop Gracida was not a bomber pilot. He was in fact a flight engineer, a staff sergeant on a B17 and flew combat missions.
Jaime Kenedeno
Posts: 800
Is there a link where it
11/8/2005 10:39:56 PM
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can be verified or some way of corroborating. Not that I dont take your word for it; but you know how these guys are?
Jaime Kenedeno
Posts: 800
Re: Re: Re: hERE IS A LITTLE BACKGROUND TO GET YOUR FEET WET KIRT!
11/8/2005 12:45:20 AM
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History reveals to us that Francis Cardinal Spellman ordered the hit on JFK! Who is Spellman? In New York, the Vatican Intelligence ''special division'' is directed by Cardinal Spellman. Cardinal Spellman is directly connected to J Peter Grace and Cardinal Bernard Law (Boston Diocese Pedophile). Why would Spellman want Kennedy dead? The King Ranch owned the Ranch in Mexico where the Campfire Boys trained as sharpshooters. Oswald as well as the whole team of assassins that killed JFK trained there. Now the King Ranch owned land in Cuba that was taken away when Castro ascended to power. Not only this; they are the force behind LBJ’s ascension to the Oval office.
read it all at the link below?
http://laparra.blogspot.com/2005/04/cisneros-i-am-watching.html
kirt
Posts: 1061
Re: Re: Re: Re: hERE IS A LITTLE BACKGROUND TO GET YOUR FEET WET KIRT!
11/8/2005 7:37:24 AM
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This tema is sure starting to cover a lot of ground - from houseboys in thongs to Cardinal Spellman ordering the hit on JFK. Jaime, anybody can say anything on a blog. As far as Gracida''s property holdings are concerned (and these appear verified by the public sources you have cited), they strike me as fairly modest - a bungalo, a small ranch and a few rentals. I don''t think Donald Trump need look to his laurels. And bishops, unless they belong to religious orders, do not take a vow of poverty. Again, where is the evidence of wrong-doing?
Jaime Kenedeno
Posts: 800
Hey dude the info is not on a blog! Check out who J Peter Grace is...
11/9/2005 12:38:22 AM
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and this is not a blog. This is a very influential brand of MEDIA in South Texas.
""Again, where is the evidence of wrong-doing?""
Call Richard Hatch?
An audit oughta do the trick?
I will give it to KFATSO; they really know how to umbrella the umbrellas of the umbrellas!
Like demonstrated by the vast reach of the last post this wrongdoing is far too elaborate to explain cogently. I also refuse to give them a roadmap and allow them to prepare.
Have you heard of Gracida Metallurgical? I think that is the name.
""WRONGDOING""??? Is it not oxymoronish to be a man of the cloth and be GAY? According to the Church Universal? Not criminal you say? OK how about covering up the rape of children? How about conducting innappropriate conduct with children and causing injury to them?
OK then money, you say and I will concur with you with respect to, ""And bishops, unless they belong to religious orders, do not take a vow of poverty"". But when was this implemented? You can ask around about the corruptedness of Gracida. How did he get his property? Do you know Rancho Milagro is advertised on the WWW as a bed & breakfast for gay couples? Name Changer now. Well,.... anyway I have already legitimized more than enough. I am not trying to bash, but I am forcing accountability. I have conducted extensive research in this area. This Foundation is fruit of a ""poison tree"".
Also, I find it peculiar you would stand up for such an avid Bush supporter as Gracida. You do know he required & actively campaigned for all Catholics to vote Republican. You know what else I find peculiar? I find it peculiar that Jews advocate for the Church Universal. Most peculiar I find how & why a Jew can, would and does reside in the Body of Christ. My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter. So the Jew I speak of; is not the DNA but, is the spirit that crucified our LORD!
What were you taught about Mary Magdalene?
Ask the old Catholics what they were taught?
Now, when did they retract the slanderous doctrine?
Do you know what the Corpus Christianorum is?
kirt
Posts: 1061
Re: Hey dude the info is not on a blog! Check out who J Peter Grace is...
11/9/2005 12:12:38 AM
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Jaime, Jaime, Jaime - yes I am aware that Bishop Gracida is a strong supporter of Bush and the Republicans and for this I fault him. But these are his views as a private citizen and have nothing to do with his ecclesial status or service on the board of the Kenedy foundation. But you say that he is gay and covers up the rape of children? Didn''t you ever learn in catechism class that slander is a sin?
I don''t know about wrongdoing, but something here is ""far too elaborate to explain cogently"", since you haven''t given a cogent explanation yet. And all this stuff about Jews and Mary Magdalene - I just don''t know what you''re talking about. Does anybody?
Jaime Kenedeno
Posts: 800
Huh?????? I cant........
11/9/2005 12:15:17 AM
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understand you?????
Kirt you gotta lot of homework to do. Better get busy?
Come to think of it;.... why dont you try reading it on your porch?
http://ericvonwade.com/community/display.asp?post_id=27448&board=1&board_name=General
