[dead]

We had a pedophile priest in my parish/school when I was growing up. Nobody knew it at the time.

He groomed vulnerable boys for years, befriended their families (especially their mothers, who thought being good personal friends with the parish priest was a status symbol for the family) and then would begin sexually abusing the boys when they reached 15 or so.

I saw no signs that he was a pedophile, I just thought he was a surly asshole. He hated me too, and I was OK with that. I remember having Catholic guilt over thinking he was a jerk, but I was just a good judge of people.

[pepsionice]

In a normal society, you’d go find the guy with the ‘problem’ and castrate him....letting his bosses know that if they send more like him....the same punishment will follow.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Would any of you go back and shoot him? Robbing any child of their innocence is not something that should necessarily be turned over to the state. Their public embarrassment in no way compares to the damage done. Sorry but I’d think about it. I’m sure others would come forward afterwards.

[joesbucks]

I understand men have freewill. And I realize that men are not perfect and often fall short. Yet I can't fathom how God would allow these men, and since abuse isn't always sexual, women commit these wrongs against His most precious people........children.

We are constantly reminded that many of our societal ills are routed in removing God from our culture. Yet God was front and center in the church. He hadn't been abolished from being inside the walls. He was prayed to not only daily, but on an ongoing basis. And of course not just the Catholic church. But these types of sins and crimes happen to often under the steeples and in other houses of worship.

[GCC Catholic]

I preface my statement by saying that every bishop and priest accused of these horrible crimes or of covering them up must be subjected to criminal trials by both civil and canonical authorities and, if found guilty, punished in the civil and canonical spheres in manners commensurate to their crimes.

That said, Ms. Zito and every Catholic who has drawn this wretched and false distinction, that they can be good Catholics and abandon the Catholic Church, are allowing themselves to fall straight into the pits of Hell.

To have the Catholic Faith is to be part of the visible and institutional Church. To be in Communion with the Catholic Church is to hold the Catholic Faith. The two are inseparable. To suggest otherwise is heresy, to abandon the Church is apostasy, and to organize others to do the same is schism. I do not accuse Ms. Zito of any of the three... but her dangerous distinction, if not abandoned, leads her down that path.

[high info voter]

Reminds me of a joke..... “Mom asks Billy; hey son are you going to mass today?.....no mom, my butt is still sore from last week!”

[Bonemaker]

“It was 9:00 a.m., just a handful of days after a report was released by the Pennsylvania state grand jury on alleged sexual abuse in 54 of the state’s 67 counties,”

So 13 counties must have posted no sexual abuse allowed signs.

[silverleaf]

Priests that ministered to my Catholic childhood friends were also named on that list, some at a tiny Italian Catholic church that stood next to my elementary school

Its appalling

[Don Corleone]

I have always believed, and still do believe, that the far left Communist Party placed a few of their people in the seminaries long ago with the intention of corrupting the Church’s image. JMHO but its MHO!

[AAABEST]

At the root of it all:

FAGGOTRY

And modernism. Faggotry and modernism.

[wardaddy]

I was just trying to listen to always on vacation Laura ingraham

And her an that theatre fop Arroyo were basically making excuses and saying everybody does it

Horseshit

No they do not and the coverups and passing these freak priests around to hide them or sequester them sure doesn’t happen like in the Catholic Church

The remaining laity simply refuses to hold their clergy truly to account

Diehard Catholics make excuses for them

It’s this veneration idea I guess

I can tell you that even if a Baptist preacher as popular as Billy Graham was found diddling boys and then he and his administration caught moving folks around as they continued and paying folks off and hiding people from prosecution then by God that would be the end of that church

I’m appalled and that’s not easy to do....at hearing Laura and Arroyo make excuses and claim it’s all about 18-19 year young men in seminary

I turned it off and I’m a 24/7 paying member

Sickening

I know where the problem lies and believe me it’s a recent discovery and one I wish I had not made

Don’t blame Rome when it’s gone

Ain’t no such thing as a chaste homosexual

[Tell It Right]

As long as Catholics believe priests to be the unavoidable link between them and God, there will always be those tempted to exploit that relationship.

[SueRae]

I never pass on a Salena Zito article. This one must have been heartwrenching to write. But she has put into words what I can only imagine the Catholic faithful and we who love them are gii g through. Such utter betrayal. The victims deserve justice.

[Doche2X2]

The pedophiles, gays, and progressives have invaded every institution of society: academia, churches, Hollywood, public schools, sports, and you name it. They must be stopped before they destroy Western Civilization, and to them, the Catholic Church is the big enchilada. The Roman Catholic Church is so big, they think they can hide inside it. Not anymore.

[Doche2X2]

The pedophiles, gays, and progressives have invaded every institution of society: academia, churches, Hollywood, public schools, sports, and you name it. They must be stopped before they destroy Western Civilization, and to them, the Catholic Church is the big enchilada. The Roman Catholic Church is so big, they think they can hide inside it. Not anymore.

[1Old Pro]

This was a cover up of thousands of crimes and abuses. It went as high as the pope. They cannot ask for forgiveness until ALL of those directly involved or involved in the cover up are held to account. As far as I can see that accountability has yet to begin.

[1Old Pro]

Claim: Priest’s molestation’bent’ me into homosexual
Posted By -NO AUTHOR- On 10/13/2005 @ 1:00 am InFront Page | Comments Disabled

J. David Enright IV (photo: New York Post)

A wealthy Manhattan socialite is planning a $5 million lawsuit against the Catholic Church, claiming his being molested by a priest at age 7 turned him into a homosexual.

J. David Enright IV, now 51, alleges he was molested as a boy at Camp Tekawitha on Lake Luzerne in upstate New York by by Father Joseph Romano, a seminarian counselor at the camp run by the Diocese of Albany.

“I believe that my life would be very different now,” Enright told the New York Post. “I’d probably be married, living in Greenwich, with four children in boarding school. Romano bent my life.”

Enright says Romano, who was 21 in 1961, took him behind a cabin after dinner and evening prayers to molest him. He says the sexual contact occurred up to seven more times, lasting into the following summer.

He’d “explain to me that this was a rite of passage,” Enright told the paper, noting he recalls the “devastating” abuse every day of his life.

Enright, a descendant of Albany’s aristocratic Van Rensselaer and de la Grange families, made millions in 1982 as an advertising executive for the Broadway production of “42nd Street.”

“I had a completely straight life in business, socially on Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue,” he said, adding he did date women in the 1980s. “Then there was the other world, which was slinking around in Greenwich Village gay bars, finding mates.”

In addition to Romano, Bishop Howard Hubbard and the Albany Diocese have been named as as defendants in the planned suit.

For years, Enright was under the impression he might have been the sole molestation victim of Romano, but he was angered last month when he learned two other children are possible abuse victims of the 65-year-old retired priest who now lives in Florida, denying the allegations.

Some 20 priests have been removed from ministering in the Albany diocese since 1950 for allegedly abusing minors, and Romano is among four clerics now challenging his ouster through a secretive tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church.

The trials have no face-to-face confrontations between priests and their accusers, and are often conducted with paper submissions.

Rev. Tom Reese, former editor of the Jesuit magazine America, says the sex-abuse scandal involving hundreds of priests across the U.S. is forcing forced church officials to rethink how accused priests are dealt with.

“Cases are solved quickly on ‘Law and Order,’ where you have police, lawyers and judges,” Reese told the Albany Times Union. “We don’t have those things in the Catholic Church. And then the American justice system washed its hands and said, ‘We aren’t doing anything.’ So, with no experience, the church had to step in and build a system from scratch.”

“You can either line (priests) up and shoot them, or try to establish a system that’s just,” Reese said. “It doesn’t happen overnight.”

[Biggirl]

Of all the articles I have about the horrible sexual abuse scandals in my church this is the most heartbreaking.

May God have mercy on these monsters because I have a hard time being merciful myself.

[miele man]

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[DungeonMaster]

1 Tim 3:1 This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a [a]bishop, he desires a good work. 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; 3 not [b]given to wine, not violent, [c]not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not [d]covetous; 4 one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence 5 (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);