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.
The term “pedophile priest” was contrived so as to obscure the true nature of the problem: networks of homosexual Catholic priests and prelates who preyed on those in their care and promoted and protected each other. Most often, their targets were not young children but male teens in parish high schools or young adults in seminary. Normal, straight seminarians and priests who resisted often suffered retaliation and career consequences, especially if they were of traditional views and solid as to doctrine.
If he was abusing them at 15 he was not a pedophile he was a homosexual.
He wanted them young, but post pubescent that is not pedophilia.
The lie, to this very day, that church continues to deny is the fact there is a homosexual cabal within the Catholic Church... they trade sex and protect one another and are a big reason so much was covered up.
For to truly look into the sexual improprieties within the church would expose them.
The laity are largely unaware.. some diocese are almost completely run by homosexuals and anyone who stands up to them is driven out.
It is my firm belief that Pope Benedict was pushed from the papalcy because he directly challenged this Cabal, grossly underestimating just how large and entrenched and how far they would go to protect it.
It is clear to me that the current Pope is part of this Cabal or completely compromised by it.. his reinstatement of a known and confessed predator removed from office by Benedict as one of his earliest acts, and refusal to discuss it is evidence of this.
Until the Church is willing to admit that this whole afffair is not simply a solo affair of sexual child predators, but a larger cabal of homosexuals that have entrenched and are killing the church from within, nothing will truly change.
A full 2/3 of all victims were post pubescent boys... the church doesn’t have a pedophile problem, I rates of true pedophilia among its ranks are actually lower than the general population... it doesn’t. Have a celibacy problem, priest have access to sex, (and not strictly sodomy with each other)and if you think otherwise, you are naive... it has a homosexual problem. The decisions in the 60s to allow admitted but “non practicing” homosexuals to enter the priesthood, is the root of this... and refusing to admit it means nothing will change.
It's not the Church's place to 'forgive' crimes... or cover for criminals. That's the job of the State - our court systems and laws.
Matthew 22:21 Jesus said "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's." Romans 13:1 "Let every person be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God and those which exist are established by God."
The Church can offer spiritual assistance... and like I said, that can be offered just as easily to a person in prison as any other place.
What's odd is Catholics wonder why their numbers get smaller every year as Church congregations age and young families don't replace the grandmothers and grandfathers who are dying out...
It's one of the reason's you're here... standing up against evil in the face of overwhelming opposition and cultural liberal group think...
best and smartest teacher in my HS Brendon Komiski an Irish priest. built in BS detector and maybe a genius. Became an irish Bishop. Priests molested and he moved them around, which was church practice, but no excuse. Times of London ran his tory and he went t the vatican the next day and resign as bishop. They put him in a small parish as priest in rural Ireland. Tragedy for the kids, waste of talent of him. Could have become a cardinal
I wonder if you were at the parish I was at. I was an altar boy at the time.
He wasn't. He was a pederast and a sodomite. Once again, the problem is homosexuals ... We cannot end the problem if we refuse to properly identify it.