This is why Director of Communications Dierdre Thomas and Priests for Life Fr Tom Lynch of the Peterborough Diocese should face consequences for sharing disinformation (information they knew to be false) about me. The charge was withdrawn; the staff and priests were exactly the abusers of power and trust that I said they were. There was a peace bond that I was threatened and coerced into, which is not an admission of any wrong-doing. There was Sacramental abuse, pastoral misconduct, sexual harassment and discrimination/a privacy violation (Did Thomas access my elementary school records illegally?) in the form of illegal surveillance and profiling. The worst thing by far was abuse of conscience in that the priests took it upon themselves to judge whether or not I was “really Catholic”, baptism notwithstanding.
Thomas is aware that I am progressive, and that I was traumatized from the N100 pitch content, which was connected to my father’s passing in a MVA and the insurance money that followed. Somehow, this was transformed into “Jen is a Jan 6th Truck Convoy wacko” and “Jen was traumatized from childhood abuse” because the Diocese had embarrassed themselves, and I had moved out of Peterborough because of what they did — so they choose deceit. Thomas lied to the Crown in her letter. There was intent. She wrote consequential things she knew to be false. She made a decision to cause me harm to salvage the reputation of a priest she knew to be guilty of pastoral misconduct, ultimately cause 100x more damage than if she and the Pastoral team had simply fixed things back in January 20188 when the Vicar General Fr Joe Moran investigated and made his decision. I learned in November, 2024 from attending webinars from the Shall We Talk About Trust conferences that deliberately being deceitful has been a strategy of Diocese Communications Departments, but this is no longer acceptable. Thomas is a professional woman. She wasn’t unaware that rules were being broken; she just decided she and Devereaux and Meihn were above the law.
I think Catholic women are taught that men can’t control themselves so it’s up to women to “live lives of self control.” They acted that burden. Do they think they are helping men bear a cross?
Because before I became Catholic, I never worked with or was involved with any male who was as rude as the priests. Is it the celibacy, plus the almost unlimited power, plus the testosterone?