Want a Boat?

Bishop Malooly
Wilmington Diocese
1626 N Union St, Wilmington, DE 19806
                                                                                  May 23rd, 2017
Bishop Malooly:

     My wife and I viewed the documentary, "The Keepers" this weekend.  We were probably more familiar with its production than most people in Maryland because I am one of Jane Doe, Jean Hargadon Wehner's brothers.  Over the years I have attempted to make direct and indirect contact with the Archdiocese of Baltimore, concerning my sister and my parents treatment by the Church.  My first attempt was during the early nineties in which I begged Cardinal Keeler to call my mother, who rightfully felt abandoned.  Her life was anchored in the Church.  It ended when her pastor, Father Paschal Morlino OSB was told by the chancellery, "to stay out of it", when he attempted to get answers for her.  She was devastated and never attended Mass there again.  I never got a response to my letter, and the Cardinal did not call her.

     The second attempt was through Father Edward J. Bayer while Pastor of Holy Family Church.  In his letter of July 1998 to Keeler, he summarizes the destruction of the faith in my family, as a result of the treatment, and lack of personal attempts by the church to find closure.  In his letter, Father Bayer stated, "Maskell may be out of sight and sound in Ireland, but this family is not."  He tried to warn the Cardinal.  The Church should have learned.  

      Now we find in the 7th episode of "The Keepers", that Maskell had been moved to Keough because of charges of sexual molestation at St. Clements.  As if this is not bad enough, the director of the film produces Archdiocesan answers to his questions, which directly contradict Dr. Charles Franz's childhood abuse report.  Someone is lying.  Additionally, Franz places you and two canon lawyers in his dentist office.  He states that you offered him a boat.  Wow!  I and Father Bayer should have wrote you.  Maybe we both could have had boats?  The Church's lack of compassion, and non-existent love for the Truth, who is Jesus Christ, is making it harder and harder to be Catholic.  

      I am glad that my wife and I changed rites, years back.  When we do attend the Latin rite, we travel to another diocese to avoid contributing to your former boat fund.  I pray that Archbishop Lori’s diocese comes clean, before it loses all its members, along with its credibility.  You though, if what Dr. Franz states is true, should seriously consider packing your bags, because you are unfit to shepherd the Church of Christ.

Sincerely, 

Michael T. Hargadon DDS