Archdiocese of New Orleans, SNAP, often at odds, meet to discuss path forward amid church sex abuse By Nicole Mumphrey | January 6, 2021 at 10:44 AM CST - Updated January 6 at 10:44 AM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond and leaders for the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests met face-to-face recently to discuss a path forward amid allegations of church sex abuse.
For the past 18 months, the Archdiocese of New Orleans and SNAP leadership have appeared at odds over how the archdiocese has handled claims of abuse by clergy.
The Archdiocese of New Orleans released a statement Wednesday:
“In recent weeks, it has become obvious to us that though we may have different ideas and methods, we have common goals: healing for victims, their families and prevention of abuse. Let us be clear, clergy sexual abuse is a scandal, it is a sin, and it cannot be tolerated. The Archbishop stated two years ago that the sexual abuse of minors is a crime.
Archdiocese of New Orleans pushed confidential settlements with victims of monstrous deacon George Brignac
Lawyers representing the church or its insurers took a hard line, arguing that plaintiffs had waited too long, and that they would be lucky to get anything. Author: David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator, Ramon Antonio Vargas / The New Orleans Advocate Published: 11:58 AM EST December 18, 2020 Updated: 11:25 PM EST December 18, 2020
NEW ORLEANS The email to the Archdiocese of New Orleans came in on a Friday in November 2018.
A week earlier, New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond had published a list of clergymen credibly accused of child molestation a first-ever effort by the leadership in this traditionally Catholic city to fully come clean about the depth of a scandal that blew up in 2002 and had begun to simmer again in the summer of 2018.
Archbishop Gregory Michael Aymond issued a statement to The New Orleans Advocate in response to a new report detailing how defrocked deacon George Brignac recently served as a lector at St. Mary Magdalen Parish. Here, Aymond speaks at an Ash Wednesday mass at St. Louis Cathedral on the first day of Lent in New Orleans on March 1, 2017.Â
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Archdiocese of New Orleans pushed confidential settlements with victims of monstrous deacon George Brignac
Lawyers representing the church or its insurers took a hard line, arguing that plaintiffs had waited too long, and that they would be lucky to get anything. Author: David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator, Ramon Antonio Vargas / The New Orleans Advocate Published: 10:58 AM CST December 18, 2020 Updated: 10:25 PM CST December 18, 2020
NEW ORLEANS The email to the Archdiocese of New Orleans came in on a Friday in November 2018.
A week earlier, New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond had published a list of clergymen credibly accused of child molestation a first-ever effort by the leadership in this traditionally Catholic city to fully come clean about the depth of a scandal that blew up in 2002 and had begun to simmer again in the summer of 2018.
A Monster in our Midst: The Story of George Brignac
It was 1953, and George Brignac was fresh out of high school when he joined the regional chapter of the Christian Brothers.
He spent seven years with the Catholic order, which founded four well-known local schools: St. Paul’s in Covington, De La Salle and Christian Brothers in New Orleans, and Archbishop Rummel in Metairie. But, by 1960, the order had expelled him.
Brignac told some people it was for “reasons of health.” Another time, his superior in the order said Brignac found “obedience difficult.”
Years later, his twin, a priest named Horace L. “H.L.” Brignac, revealed the truth in a statement to police: George Brignac had been “too friendly with boys.”