Posted on 09/23/2015 11:06:35 AM PDT by bgill
A Roman Catholic priest accused of traveling to Honduras to molest poor street children during missionary trips was convicted on Tuesday of several charges.
Federal jurors convicted the Rev. Joseph Maurizio Jr. of charges including three of four counts related to sex abuse of boys during trips to a Honduran orphanage.
Maurizio was accused of traveling abroad from 2004 to 2009 to have sex with three young boys, a charge known as sexual tourism. He also was convicted of possession of child pornography and illegally transferring money to a charity to help fund the trips. Jurors acquitted him of another count of traveling outside the United States for sex with a minor and two other counts involving the transfer of funds.
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This guy is probably traveling with the Pope who is too busy spouting GW BS to bother addressing perversion.
GMTA!
perhaps Obie can convince him to speak out for “social” “justice”?
Obama has invited him to the Whitehut.
sarcasm along with nausea
Public hanging...
That will get the worlds attention
Enough already!!
I’m a Catholic and it is NOT a normal state for a man not to have sex his entire life.
As things stand now, the priesthood is a magnet for child molesters.
The reason they disallowed marriage was to not lose property in divorces.
It’s TIME to change this requirement.
I have an uncle who’s 85 and devout and never got married and swears he never had sex. He said he was so tempted through the years that he thought of castration many times. Come on, man.
Rarely does a priest who has been molesting “children” turn out to be heterosexual. It’s always queers who chase after young boys...and the church has been protecting these queers decades.
This vile abuser is not traveling at all, as far as I can tell. He was just criminally convicted of a felony by a Federal court, which means he’s in custody.
My comment was sarcastic- not literal.
Gee, Catholic priests can’t get married.
Follow the money.
How will marriage end pedophilia?
Quite a commentary on the lives of St. Paul and Our Lord Jesus Christ. And many thousands of other good men who lived their lives in pure, consecrated celibacy.
And do you think marriage would have cured this fellow of his tendency to pederasty? It's never been known to do so before.
Sounds like he’s going to have a lot of time in the can. Even harden criminals hate kid touchers.
But it has nothing to do with homosexuality, of course.
Its about power and control, or something...
” pure, consecrated celibacy.”
I think there’s something wrong with an
ideology that glamorizes resisting the
continuation of the human race, but that’s just me.
Catholic? You're a perfect Freudian.
So in your opinion monasteries and convents are hotbeds of repressed sublimated urges? Go stay in one. I dare you.
Then come tell me how "abnormal" it is.
I think you are making an assumption about Paul that cannot be supported. While it is true that Paul was not married later in his life, in his earlier life Saul was a Pharisee, a position that required him to be married. It is true that Jesus remained chaste throughout His life on Earth, but that is certainly not the "normal state". I think we can agree that Jesus was somewhat of a special case...
That is not to say that a man or woman cannot remain chaste throughout their life; just that it is a very hard thing, as the numerous sex scandals in the Catholic Church as well as other churches has proven.
I’m a Catholic and it is NOT a normal state for a man not to have sex his entire life......Never met my old lady, eh?
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