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10 The Acton Free Press Wednesday June 1978 Real nun to testify at trial Seven charged Seven people have been enter at the Dominion Hotel charged by Ha J ton Regional Beer had been taken and was police following a break and being consumed in a house A real nun who has lived at the Benedictines of Mary Immaculate convent on the Fifth Line of Hal ton Hills for some time will testify at Denis Edward fraud trial later this week This announcement came as part of defence lawyer Jack opening remarks to the jury of six men and six women Monday morning as the fraud trial of the yearold man and former Georgetown resident entered its second week in Halton County Court The Crown which wrapped up its case last Friday morn ing alleges defrauded five people three from Oakville and two from of over while posing as a Roman Catholic priest Scallen has pleaded not guilty to all three counts of fraud In court he is dressed priestly garb After two hours of delays Monday morning while counsel met with Judge Alan Sprague in chambers and reviewed evidence the defence began its with reviewing high lights of the accuseds life noting himself would testify RETREAT of Rev Denis Scallen who goes by the name of Father Benedict their lengthy investigation of and activities at his church allowed the defen- having been ordained in December by a Bishop of the rite a Catholic splinter group dating back to St Peter but is still not a Scallen testified throughout Roman Catholic priest Monday afternoon and will return to the stand today Wednesday The court did not sit yesterday Tuesday also told the court he will call a witness who is per cent a nun and lived there over the past few years when supposedly people were swindled out of money and other socalled nuns were forced to strip In front of the priest She was a nun before Joining Scallen He added this real nun will s test about life in the convent he set up in a s steel sided industrial building at ft I I In addition the nun still lives at the con vent If she can t be believed who can Bel leg hem wondered revelations The trial has drawn national media attention and for good reason There have been many startling revelations during the six days of testimony In the complicated case The jury has heard from young witnesses who lived as nuns at Scallen Line retreat about how had to disrobe in front of the defendant as penance There has been consider able testimony about miraculous photographs taken with a simple Polaroid The court has been told by one devout woman about the sun sp and clouds turn ing to red and green at a Wis consin religious shrine Activities of a seer at New York part of the Borough of Queens and her visions have been examined The jury has heard about the remarkable life led during his yeears and a bit about plans to turn his Fifth Line retreat into a park with a religious theme Evidence was also intro duced regarding his activities over the past years at Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church Maple Avenue Georgetown and problems he had with Father Ogter Catholic Church a position Two expert witnesses representing the Roman Catholic Church made it clear in testimony last week that Scallen is not a Roman Catholic priest in the church opinion In testimony last Monday and Tuesday Father Harvey Roach who was assigned by Bishop Paul Reding to assist Regional Police in Friday Most Rev Paul Reding bishop of Hamilton Diocese which includes Hills testified Scallen was never ordained a Roman Catholic priest Bishop Reding the last of prosecution witnesses called by Assistant Crown Attorney Larry Owen said he neither performed or ordered Scallen 1074 ordination He said the diocesan office has no record of the accused ordination and such a cere mony would require the bishop approval He also told the court he didn t know of any tine religious order in Hills Bishop Reding backed up Father Roach testimony that a person can t be or daincd a deacon and priest in the same day According to a document filled out by a Bishop Joseph of the SyroAntiochan Rite who performed Scallen ordination he was ordained a deacon sub dca con and priest all on Decern ber li Bishop Roman Catholic priest but broke with the church after numerous changes were made in the way the mass is celebrated and the way other ceremonies are carried out following the Second Vatican Council report in the early 1960s Bishop was supposedly like Scallen and she would go many other Catholics deeply upset with he abandonment testified they had been told of the old Latin mass and the same fate awaited them revamping of other church They testified they feared traditions and customs Scallen and even though they Father Roach told the court wanted to leave the SyroAntiochan Rite is because he told them if they one of the Orthodox churches t become nuns it would which t accept the break their parents authority of the Pope and hearts while its bishops validly The year old Oakville ordained priests they woman said that while recognized as Roman Catho- totally respon lie priests and cant ordain Roman Catholic priests Bishop also told the jury he had never been ap proached by to per form his ordination and all ordinations take place at his church the Cathedral of Christ the King Hamilton Nun story One of three young women who were separated from their parents for many months while training to be nuns at Scallen monastery told the court Wednesday she thought she was brain washed Patsy Kennedy of an innocent looking young girl who has decided now against becoming a nun and works as a cashier stated she believes she was brain washed or pressured into to doctors and dentists south becoming a nun Scallen In of the border the same way other religious She said it was easy to be sects brainwash people brainwashed in those clr rejected a suggestion adding Scallen by Belleghem that In the same way she was brain supreme being She said washed by Scallen she has life with him was limited by now been brainwashed by her the four walls of that build mother into saying anything and were trained to to make sure the defendant be obedient monastery Is closed down 10 who claimed she entered the convent at age 13 fantasized everything said she was told by Scallen if A lifelong Roman Catholic she didn t become a nun the sheexplainedshemetScallen devil would get her Both in December of and went she and her sister Theresa to his Fifth Line retreat the testified they were warned by next month to become a nun the defendant if they didn I guess it was my idea to become nuns they would be become a nun she said raped She told of being adding she was there for 18 forced to wear hair shirts months made out of burlap Miss Kennedy joined The girls received religious Theresa and Mac training all the time told Donald of in telling court but no normal the jury that not long before schooling and no medical or they left the building In Lime- dental care When visitors house told them he came such as the police they expected to be charged with were banished to prayer In fraud but there was nothing to the chapel and or many worry about since he would months were even prevented deny being a Roman Catholic from speaking to their priest He instructed them to parents who were regular call him anything they worshippers at Scallen wished church The entire time they were One surprising fact they at the retreat they called the reiealedwas that told accused Father Benedict them the contents of other Both girls were people s confessions at the retreat long before None of them could testify Miss Kennedy he told them he was a Roman Miss Kennedy said she and Catholic priest but simply the other nuns were told assumed he was as did their don think and for some- parents Mrs who time after leaving she met in 1972 said she t even make simple knewhewasnn old Catholic decisions when shopping church or SyroAntiochan We were told we must priest always believe what he said Thursday Theresa Smith Miss Kennedy told the court nee who rose she took her vows to stay to become Mother Superior there the rest of her life under said she had dreams and the threat from Scallen that Interpreted them as The meaning she must become a teenagers nun and that St Theresa visiting her in sleep She testified she asked Scallen if he really was a vast majority was fault She said she didn t think he had hypnotized her but another witness Anna of a 50- yearold divorcee who was at one time Mother Superior at Scallen s monastery and his first nun stated she had seen him hypnotize people and had old her he taught hypnotism TIDY CAR Low Cost Interior Extorter Car Cleaning Treatment call 8776138 HONDA CIVIC MAKE US AN OFFER AUTOMATIC NO DOWN PAYMENT BANK PLAN IMMEDIATE DELIVERY BAZ MOTORS WE CARE MOTORS LTD mar HONDA 77ai or Toronto 71tt13 Buy better Burfngton Haiday No HIGHWAY- BURLINGTON Between Guelph Line No 25 Hwy Court Hours 99 dally Sat 94 Sun Phono 3366600 SPECIAL BUILD NOW BONUS HOMES DISPLAY COURT Roman Catholic pries one time and he replied you ore entertaining the devil Nona strip AH three girls told of their ordeal of penance In a voice Just above a whisper and close to tears Miss Kennedy told how In February she had to disrobe in front of Macdonald said the women were often ordered to do pen frequently in prayer but for being too proud and aa a form of obed ience and for showing humll they were ordered to strip She said Scallen- said their stripping was penance They had to disrobe to become better nuns she added Mrs Smith also said she was required to disrobe on Scallen orders tried to say it was sister Anna Mrs who ordered the girls to strip but one of the women testified sister Anna wasn even present once when they had to disrobe Mrs Drozdz said she order the girls to strip Nun spurned by priest Georgetown defence lawyer claimed Scallen demoted Sister Anno who was with him for four years from Mother Superior to secretary because of the dls robing Incidents and later expelled her after she ex pressed a nonspiritual worldly interest in him Belleghem said Mrs told she stay with him after he spurned her because she was inter ested in him beyond being a priest He said this was the reason Mrs told Mrs Ken nedy tales and helped the Kennedy girl s mother end a letter to supporters or Father Benedict destroying his reputation She denied all his charges Mrs Drozdz added Scallen had nothing to do with her divorce Inn lag sun Mrs Drozdz said she went a religious shrine In Mon roe Centre Wisconsin to report irregularities about the convent and Father Bene dict to Father Joe While in Monroe Centre she testified she saw the sun spin on Its axis and Ihe clouds turn red and green She said the sun spun like a lop Mrs who con verted to Catholicism after her marriage said some people see things in Monroe Centre and others don She t say if what she and another woman saw was miraculous but thought it was significant enough to write Scallen about Just six days after her expulsion Continued on page SAMPLE SESSION of 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