July 19, 2021

A Widow's Hunt for the Priest Who Preyed on Her Husband

Peter Fatovich seemed a happily married father of four when he took his own life in 1994. His wife would search for decades to uncover the tragic truth behind his death.

…On the morning of Tuesday, June 14, 1994, my husband, the father of our four children under the age of 5, kissed me goodbye. I sensed heightened anxiety as we stood at the top of the stairs in our Vermont home. He leaned toward me, our lips meeting one last time above the 2-month-old nestled in the folds of my white cotton nightgown, buttons between milky breasts left undone.

“I have an early morning meeting,” Peter said.

I watched from our picture window, swaying to calm both myself and the baby in my arms, as his black Subaru disappeared down the steep Bolton Valley Access Road.

It had been a rainy spring in our Green Mountains. Through June, the rivers still rushed madly with melt run-off. Peter knew this when he pulled alongside the guardrail of Richmond’s infamous Huntington Gorge.

“There was this Father Malone. It’s kinda creepy now that I think about it, how he’d wear a cape and carry a crop around."

……. The article confirms Bert’s recall: “The Count” walking the Stepinac hallways “in a black cape, holding a whip.” The school condoned this kind of behavior?

“The reason for Malone’s removal from Stepinac was a well-kept secret from the day it happened,” the Journal News reported, and after Malone’s arrest, “the teenager’s family did not want to press charges.”

It’s “Spotlight” all over again, I thought. The good Catholics won’t confront the priests who are like God to them. They don’t tell. And the abuse perpetuates itself.

After he left Stepinac,” the article continued, “Malone was assigned to three parishes between 1989 and 1992.” Wait, what? Did these parishes know of Malone’s sordid history? Were the families warned? How many other boys did he groom, lure, molest—rape?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-widows-hunt-for-the-priest-who-preyed-on-her-husband?ref=home

July 8, 2021

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April 17, 2021

If you see just one Short Film on how Love Trumps Hate...

Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times screened at the following festivals throughout 2017 and 2018 - winning the following awards.

IMDB info here:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7524428/...​

Los Angeles Film Awards
Paris Play Film Festival – WINNER BEST SHORT
LA Shorts Awards
Mindfield Film Festival, Albuquerque – WINNER BEST SHORT
San Luis Obispo International Film Festival – WINNER BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
New Jersey International Film Festival
Chandler International Film Festival
European Independent Film Award
Jaipur International Film Festival
Beaufort International Film Festival
Irvine International Film Festival
San Francisco Independent Film Festival
Sedona International Film Festival
Boulder International Film Festival
Newcastle Film Festival
Taos Shortz Film Fest – WINNER PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Omaha Film Festival – WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM
Norwegian International Seagull Shortfilm Festival
SHORT TO THE POINT International Short Film Festival Awards – WINNER BEST SCREENPLAY ANNUAL AWARDS
Beeston Film Festival – WINNER BEST DRAMATIC SHORT
Glass City Film Festival
Maryland International Film Festival –WINNER BEST SHORT FILM
Sunscreen Film Festival – WINNER JURY AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM
Julien Dubuque International Film Festival
Arizona International Film Festival
Solar Cinema Malta
Heartland Indy Shorts Film Festival
Self Propelled Short Film Festival
Newport Beach Film Festival
Ocean Coast Film Festival
WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival
Sioux Empire Film Festival
Hoboken International Film Festival
The Long Island International Film Expo – WINNER BEST FOREIGN SHORT
London Greek Film Festival
New Media Film Festival – WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD
Prescott Film Festival – WINNER JURY AWARD, BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
Kiev International Film Festival
Woods Hole Film Festival – WINNER BEST SHORT, DRAMA
SouthSide Film Festival
St Albans Film Festival
WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival
Mexico City Independent Film Fest
Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival – WINNER BEST NARRATIVE SHORT, DRAMA
Indie Street Film Festival
Dinard Film Festival – WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD
Manhattan Short Film Festival – WINNER (Gold Medal)
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
San Jose International Short Film Festival - WINNER
Vasteras Film Festival
Byron Bay Film Festival
Royal Starr Film Festival - WINNER, BEST FOREIGN SHORT
Birmingham International Film Festival

April 10, 2020

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Blow the Republican Party so far back in the weeds that conservatism finally dies a quick, well deserved death.