Posted on 07/12/2004 10:26:32 AM PDT by Land of the Irish
Roman Catholic leaders in Austria called an emergency meeting today after officials discovered a vast cache of photos and videos allegedly depicting young priests having sex at a seminary.
About 40,000 photographs and an undisclosed number of films, including child pornography, were downloaded on computers at the seminary in St Poelten, about 50 miles west of Vienna, the respected news magazine Profil reported.
Officials with the local diocese declined to comment but were meeting privately on the scandal, Austrian state television reported.
It said the seminary’s director, the Rev Ulrich Kuechl, and his deputy, Wolfgang Rothe, had resigned.
The Austrian Bishops Conference issued a statement today pledging a full and swift investigation.
“Anything that has to do with homosexuality or pornography has no place at a seminary for priests,” it said.
Church officials discovered the material on a computer at the seminary, Profil said. It published several images purportedly showing young priests and their instructors kissing and fondling each other and engaging in orgies and sex games.
The child porn came mostly from web sites based in Poland, the magazine said.
Bishop Kurt Krenn, a conservative churchman who oversees the St Poelten Diocese, told Austrian television he had seen photos of seminary leaders in sexual situations with students. Krenn, however, dismissed the photos as “silly pranks” that “had nothing to do with homosexuality”.
A group of St. Poelten Diocese officials planned to ask the Vatican to remove Krenn as bishop, Austrian radio reported.
Vatican spokesman Ciro Benedettini told the Austria Press Agency that the Holy See had no comment.
Krenn, 68, issued a statement calling the accusations groundless while conceding that he “may have made some wrong personnel decisions” at the seminary.
That woman better have been your daughter.
Who wants names and addresses? I know you're in California. Do you feel threatened?
Then I would put the host in your hand.
Do you have options, or not?
Are you trying to threaten me?
I was stalked for seven years by a psycho police officer. You and your friends may be disappointed but I don't frighten easily. All threats will be dealt with appropriately.
Asked and answered Deacon, in my opinion, no I have no other option. Now explain WHY that matters to this or ANY thread?
Burn it to the ground before it's closed.
LOL!!!!
Try to tamp down the paranoia, Deb. It's a RELIGION FORUM THREAD, for heaven's sake!
I anguish over using bug spray.
Okie-dokie.
"It's a RELIGION FORUM THREAD, for heaven's sake! "
Which makes your personal attacks and threats even more repugnant. Stop them, please.
Not paranoid when posters repeatedly ask where other posters live and attend Mass, the same posters whom they repeatedly cyber attack.
You are right to be suspicious. Better to be wary. I am getting worried about his fixation on me and where I attend Mass.
No attacks, narses. Just asking some questions.
Seems to me that's exactly what the Orthodox Church did in one of those Baltic or Slavic locales and, if I remember the story correctly, it was because a same-sex "wedding" had be performed there.
Afterward, I think they said something about the chuch having been slated for demolishing & rebuilding - apparently they just moved up the timetable a few years and decided not to hire a contractor for a job that merely required a can of gas and a match.(sarcasm on high)
I have a consuming fire for your soul, narses!
I have left the 99 behind, yet you ridicule me!
I am simply cut to the quick!
Tell me how your personal questions are relevant or meaningful Deacon? Especially after you've been advised on thread after thread that they are TAKEN as personal attacks? Go ahead, publicly explain what your intent was in asking about my Mass attendance. Please. Explain your actions.
All these points could be debated, but none of them have anything to do with the question we were actually discussing: whether Vatican II was the cause of the collapse of the Church that we are presently witnessing.
FWIW, my opinion is that V2 is not the cause, but is an affect of the invasion of Gramscian and Masonic satainsts on the Mystical Body. V2 itself wouldn't have had the same affect if the Church Militant had not already been seriously infected.
>>no other Pope brought down the worldwide grip of godless communism.<<
And, neither did this one. Communism fell in on itself, helped along by two very courageous men...Reagan & Gorbachev. Where, in the world would you get such an idiot notion that "Pope Piel" did anything of the sort?
IMHO you shortchange rather gratuitously His Holiness. His role in the destruction of the Warsaw Bloc is very well documented. Poland, Polish clergy in general and His Holiness stood tall.
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