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Weird religious school initiation ceremony 'not sexual' [licking shaving cream off a priest's knees]
Polskie Radio ^ | 27.3.2013

Posted on 03/27/2013 9:21:03 AM PDT by Alex Murphy

Professor Zbigniew Lew-Starowicz, former chairman of the Polish Sexology Society, was requested to give his opinion to an ongoing investigation into an incident at a school in Lubin, southern Poland, in September 2012 where headmaster, Father Marcin Kozyra was photographed taking part in the strange ceremony.

The school, run by the Salesian Society, which maintains about a sixth of Poland's religious schools, quickly took the photograph off their web site after concern that the school children may have been lured into performing a sexual act on the headmaster.

“The expert assessed that there is no basis to conclude that the actions of pupils under the age of 15 during initiation ceremony games had a sexual character,” Liliana Lukasiewicz, spokesperson for the District Prosecutor's Office in Legnica, told the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

“Nor is there reason to believe that the conduct of the head teacher was sexually motivated,” she added.

When photographs were published in the media last September, Father Marcin Kozyra said that the games were innocent and added that the ritual of “girls and boys touching shaving foam with their lips has been practised for many years.”

However, the Salesian Society in nearby Wroclaw ruled that no similar initiation ceremonies could take place at the Lubin school again.

Prosecutors have now questioned around 100 people in the investigation, including pupils, teachers and parents.

No charges have yet been brought against anyone in the school.


TOPICS: Catholic; Ministry/Outreach; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: catholic; poland
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To: metmom
Really? Just look around here.
21 posted on 03/27/2013 7:04:56 PM PDT by Gamecock (He is Risen!)
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To: Alex Murphy
"The expert assessed that there is no basis to conclude that the actions of pupils under the age of 15 during initiation ceremony games had a sexual character," Liliana Lukasiewicz, spokesperson for the District Prosecutor's Office in Legnica, told the Polish Press Agency (PAP). "Nor is there reason to believe that the conduct of the head teacher was sexually motivated," she added.

Lying skanks...

22 posted on 03/28/2013 6:14:54 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: metmom; wideawake

That’s a pretty wide generalization no?


23 posted on 03/28/2013 6:48:55 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges; metmom
Well, Borges, it's not like metmom was exactly a booster of the Church before.

Don't look for analysis in the midst of fear.

24 posted on 03/28/2013 7:09:48 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Gamecock

LOL!

No kidding....


25 posted on 03/28/2013 2:58:30 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Borges

Find me Catholics on this forum who speak out against what goes on in the Catholic church and doesn’t excuse the priests or hierarchy.

I know there are a random FReeper or two who do, but a wide generalizations fits because FRoman Catholics widely generally refuse to condemn the Catholic church for anything it does or doesn’t do.


26 posted on 03/28/2013 3:01:14 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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