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Attack of the Bishops: What happens when you advocate for sex crime victims in the Catholic Church in Geneva, Illinois

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Kay Ebeling
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She knew the CTL harrassers from her Respect Life group at St. Peter’s.

CTL harassed victims’ advocates during Campobello court proceedings.

They represent themselves as documentary filmmakers, even have “CTL Investigative reporter” badges. CTL radio personality “Rocky,” probably James Grice, tells listeners at the CTL site, how to download a badge and then paste it to a button, and presto, instant press credentials.

Mary Lou said:
“We were having coffee on June 6th 2006 (6.6.06, hmm) and someone came in and said you have to get to the courthouse right now, they're doing a documentary on Campobello.

“I said that can’t be right, we would have known. But this person wouldn't leave us alone and said you have to go now. So we drove to the courthouse and here were these camera men and no one would answer any of our questions, but they kept pointing the camera at us to make us answer theirs.

“Then they took it out of context and put it at CTL.

“They identified themselves as CTL from New York doing a documentary. A guy who said his name was Roberto Serinni told me he was an investigative reporter.

“We were excited because one of our friends was trying to get someone to do a documentary, we never thought in million years this was a scam.

Those videos now run at CTL though no one ever got a release form signed by Mary Lou.

“THERE’S ANOTHER ABUSE going on in the church,” Mary Lou said.

“The abuse of anybody who stands up and says, you know what, you're not following the Dallas charter.

“We did everything, we went to Washington. Wrote to the national review board, contacted my brother in law who’s a deacon in California.

“We did everything only to find out that nobody was going to protect us.”

Mary Lou still goes to Mass and Communion daily at St. Peter’s.

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After Kate Bochte and her husband had been slandered over and over from the pulpit at St. Peter’s and at the CTL Website site, Kate contacted Cardinal Francis George in Chicago. “I assumed he had some authority over his archdiocese,” she said.

“So I wrote to Cardinal George and he called me one afternoon,” Kate Bochte said.

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