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Sweetwater Reporter
Friday, March 26, 2010 ■ Page 3
Obituaries
MARIE ALEXANDER
GARRETT
MARIE ALEXANDER GARRETT
Funeral services for Marie Alexander Garrett, 88, of
Decatur and formerly of Roscoe, will be held at 2 p.m.
on Saturday, March 27, 2010, at Church of Christ in
Roscoe with John Morgan offici-
ating. Burial will follow at Roscoe
Cemetery under the direction of
McCoy Funeral Home.
A visitation will be held from
6-8 p.m. on Friday, March 26,
2010, at McCoy Funeral Home in
Sweetwater.
Garrett died Tuesday, March
23, 2010, in Decatur.
She was born June 15, 1921,
in Sweetwater. She married
John T. Garrett Oct. 5, 1940, in
Stephenville. Marie was a mem-
ber of the Church of Christ. She
and her husband owned and
operated Garrett Grocery Store
in Roscoe for 20 years. She had
lived in Roscoe since 1949, mov-
ing to Decatur in 2007.
Survivors include one daughter, Delores McKinnon
and husband Don of Rhome, Texas; two sons, Donald
Garrett and wife Donna of Harlingen and Jerry
Garrett and wife Diane of Midland; one sister, Cora
Lee Merworth of DeLeon; six grandchildren, Brian,
Sarah, Matthew, Cheryl and husband Tim, Sabrina
and husband Paul and Sharessa; four great-grand-
children, Brittany, Taylor, Macy and Skye; and one
great-great-gran cichilc, Kyra; and daughter-in-law,
Schylon Garrett Boyd and husband Arthur Ray of
Sweetwater.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Wiley
and Mary Alexander; her husband, John T. Garrett
on Oct. 21, 1992; and a son, Kenneth Garrett on May
19,1997.
Pallbearers will be Matthew Garrett, Brian Garrett,
Tim Troxell, Paul Bishop, Wiley Chandler, Ray
Sanders, Kim Alexander, Mike Alexander, Joe Brad
McVey, Todd Pebsworth and Durwood Burgess.
Honorary pallbearers will be Rex George, Lewis
Light, John Oscar Martin, Royce Clay, Johnny Allen
and Clyde Ater.
ROY LEE JENNINGS
Funeral services for Roy Lee Jennings, 88, of
Sweetwater, are pending with McCoy Funeral Home.
Jennings died Thursday, March 25, 2010, at
Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene.
Soldier who refused
to
deploy 1
lSE LEWIS-MCCHOl
is free
JOINT BASE LEWlS-MCt!HORD, Wash. (AP) - A
soldier from Fort Hood, Texas, who refused deploy-
ment to Afghanistan has been released from the stock-
ade at this base near Tacoma.
After a two-day court martial last August, Sgt. David
Travis Bishop was found guilty of four counts, includ-
ing going absent without leave and disobeying a lawful
order.
He was sentenced to a year's confinement and told
he would receive a bad-conduct discharge from the
Army.
Supporters and a Lewis-McChord spokesman con-
firm he was released Thursday. Supporter Seth Manzel
says in an e-mail that Bishop ended up serving a little
more than seven months, in part because a successful
clemency application reduced his sentence.
Bishop, from Louisville, Ky., has said that after serv-
ing 14 months in Iraq, he began studying his Bible and
started believing that war is wrong.
His attorney James Branum said Bishop didn't know
he could apply for conscientious objector status until
three days before his unit deployed, so he went AWOL
for a week while he prepared his application. But then
he turned himself in.
Masons
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Pop Sensations. Also, Sweetwater Intermediate School
student Devin Gutierrez will also sing the National
Anthem.
"We hope everyone can come and enjoy a great meal
and great entertainment to help a fantastic organiza-
tion," said McKenzie.
Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased from any
Mason or at the door. Children 12 and under eat free.
Gas
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• One factor possibly pushing oil prices downward this
week: last week, the Department of Energy's mid-March
report on gasoline showed demand clearly remains much
lower than expected. According to DOE statistics, gaso-
line demand fell to just 8.849-million barrels per day,
or about 150,000 barrels per day below expectations.
Translated to gallons it shows the nation is using roughly
371.6 millions of gasoline each day, down from a peak
of 403 million gallons during the summers of 2006 and
2007. That's about a 10% drop in usage.
• With a few weeks most of the nation's major refineries
will have completed the transition to the EPA's mandated
"summer blend" gasoline and most of the costs associated
w ith that appear to been factored into the market.
"Prices moderated this week, increasing by just a
penny in Texas and in four markets, Amarillo, Austin,
Corpus Christi and San Antonio and prices in the other
cities jumped by a penny or two," said AAA Corporate
Communications Manager Dan Ronan in Irving. "This
all took place as oil prices continue to hold in the $80 a
barrel range. Compared to one year ago the increase is
significant. Last year a typical 14-gallon fill-up nationally
cost $27.58 and today it's $39.48, a difference of $11.90.
In Texas, consumers one year ago paid $26.32 and today
it's $37.66."
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atican axed trial for priest
accused by dea boys
NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press Writer
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday strong-
ly defended its decision not to defrock an American priest
accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys in Wisconsin
and denounced what it called a campaign to smear Pope
Benedict XVI and his aides.
Church and Vatican documents showed that in the mid-
1990s, two Wisconsin bishops urged the Vatican office led
by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — now the pope — to
let them hold a church trial against the Rev. Lawrence
Murphy. The bishops admitted the trial was coming years
after the alleged abuse, but argued that the deaf community
in Milwaukee was demanding justice from the church.
An American protester in Rome on Thursday called the
Murphy case an "incontrovertible case of pedophilia."
Despite the extensive and grave allegations against
Murphy, Ratzinger's deputy at the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith ruled that the alleged molestation
had occurred too long ago and that Murphy — then ailing
and elderly — should instead repent and be restricted from
celebrating Mass outside of his diocese.
The official, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone — now the
Vatican's secretary of state — ordered the church trial
halted after Murphy wrote Ratzinger a letter saying he was
ill, infirm, and "simply want to live out the time that I have
left in the dignity of my priesthood."
The New York Times broke the story Thursday, adding
fuel to a swirling scandal about the way the Vatican in
general, and Benedict in particular, have handled reports
of priests raping children over the years.
On Thursday, a group of Americans who say they were
sexually abused by clerics staged a press conference out-
side St. Peter's Square in Rome to denounce Benedict's
handling of the case and gave reporters church and Vatican
documents on the case.
Afterward, Italian police detained four Americans for 2
1/2 hours because they didn't have a permit for the news
conference and suggested they get a lawyer in case a judge
decided to press charges, the Americans said.
"We've spent more time in the police station than Father
Murphy did in his life," Peter Isely, the Milwaukee-based
director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused
by Priests, said after his release.
Speaking at the earlier press conference, Isely called the
Murphy case the most "incontrovertible case of pedophilia
you could get."
"The goal of Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict, was
to keep this secret," he said, flanked by photos of others
who say they were abused and a poster of Ratzinger. "We
need to know why he (the pope) did not let us know about
him (Murphy) and why he didn't let the police know about
him and why he did not condemn him and why he did not
take his collar away from him."
The Vatican issued a strong defense in its handling of
the Murphy case. The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore
Romano said there was no cover-up and denounced what
it said was a "clear and despicable intention" to strike at
Benedict "at any cost."
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi,
issued a statement noting that the Murphy case had only
reached the Vatican in 1996 — some 20 years after the dio-
cese first learned of the allegations. He also said Murphy
died two years later — in 1998 — and that there was noth-
ing in the church's handling of the matter that precluded
any civil action from being taken against him.
In fact, police did investigate the allegations at the time
and never proceeded with a case, Lombardi noted. He said
in the statement that a lack of more recent allegations was
a factor in the decision not to defrock Murphy and noted
that "the Code of Canon Law does not envision automatic
penalties."
Murphy worked at the former St. John's School for the
Deaf in St. Francis from 1950 to 1975. His alleged victims
were not limited to the deaf boys' school. Donald Marshall,
45, of West Allis, Wisconsin, said he was abused by Murphy
when he was a teenager at the Lincoln Hills School, a juve-
nile detention center in Irma in northern Wisconsin.
"I haven't stepped in a church for some 20 years. I lost
all faith in the church," he told The Associated Press in an
interview Thursday. "These predators are preying on God's
children. How can they even stand up at the pulpit and
preach the word of God?"
Church and Vatican documents obtained by two law-
yers who have filed lawsuits alleging the Archdiocese of
Milwaukee didn't take sufficient action against Murphy
show that as many as 200 deaf students had accused him
of molesting them, including in the confessional, while he
ran the school.
While the documents — letters between diocese and
Rome, notes taken during meetings, and summaries of
meetings — are remarkable in the church officials' repeated
desire to keep the case secret, they do suggest an increas-
ingly determined effort by bishops, albeit 20 years later,
to heed the despair of the deaf community in bringing a
canonical trial against Murphy.
Ratzinger's deputy, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, though,
shut the process down after Murphy wrote Ratzinger a let-
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case's statute of limitations had run out.
"I have just recently suffered another stroke which has
left me in a weakened state," he wrote Ratzinger. "I have
repented of any of my past transgressions, and have been
living peaceably in northern Wisconsin for 24 years. I sim-
ply want to live out the time that I have left in the dignity
of my priesthood."
"I ask your kind assistance in this matter," he wrote the
man who would be pope within a decade.
According to the documentation, in July 1996, then-
Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland sent a let-
ter seeking advice on how to proceed with Murphy to
Ratzinger, who led the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith from 1981 until 2005, when he was elected pope.
Weakland explained that he was writing because he had
only recently learned that the reason Murphy stopped
working in 1975 was because he had been accused of solicit-
ing sex in the confessional, one of the gravest sins in canon
law.
Weakland received no response from Ratzinger, and in
October 1996 convened a church tribunal to hear the case.
In March 1997, Weakland wrote to the Vatican's
Apostolic Signatura, essentially the Vatican high court, ask-
ing its advice because he feared the statute of limitations on
Murphy's alleged crimes might have expired.
Just a few weeks later, Bertone told the Wisconsin
bishops to begin secret disciplinary proceedings against
Murphy according to 1962 norms concerning soliciting sex
in the confessional, according to the documents.
But a year later, Bertone reversed himself, advising
the diocese to stop the process after Murphy wrote to
Ratzinger. Bertone suggested that Murphy should instead
be subject to "pastoral measures destined to obtain the
reparation of scandal and the restoration of justice."
The archbishop then handling the case, Bishop Raphael
Fliss, objected, saying in a letter to Bertone that "I have
come to the conclusion that scandal cannot be sufficiently
repaired, nor justice sufficiently restored, without a judicial
trial against Fr. Murphy."
Fliss and Weakland then met with Bertone in Rome in
May 1998. Weakland informed Bertone that Murphy had
no sense of remorse and didn't seem to realize the gravity
of what he had done, according to a Vatican summary of
the meeting.
But Bertone insisted that there weren't "sufficient ele-
ments to institute a canonical process" against Murphy
because so much time had already passed, according to the
summary.
Weakland, likening Murphy to a "difficult" child, then
reminded Bertone that three psychologists had determined
he was a "typical" pedophile, in that he felt himself a vic-
tim.
But Bertone suggested Murphy take a spiritual retreat
to determine if he is truly sorry, or otherwise face possible
defrocking.
"Before the meeting ended, Monsignor Weakland reaf-
firmed the difficulty he will have to make the deaf com-
munity understand the lightness of these provisions," the
summary noted.
The documents contain no response from Ratzinger.
The documents emerged even as the Vatican deals with
an ever-widening church abuse scandal sweeping several
European countries. Benedict last week issued an unprec-
edented letter to Ireland addressing the 16 years of church
cover-up scandals there. But he has yet to say anything
about his handling of a case in Germany known to have
developed when, as cardinal, he oversaw the Munich
Archdiocese from 1977 to 1982.
After Murphy was removed from the school in 1974, he
went to northern Wisconsin, where he spent the rest of
his life working in parishes, schools and, according to one
lawsuit, a juvenile detention center.
Previously released court documents show Weakland
oversaw a 1993 evaluation of Murphy that concluded the
priest likely assaulted up to 200 students at the school.
Weakland resigned as archbishop in 2002 after admit-
ting the archdiocese secretly paid $450,000 to a man who
accused him of sexual abuse.
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