Posted on 04/19/2006 10:46:23 AM PDT by JZelle
The Maryland Jesuit Province has found that a 2003 accusation of sexual abuse against a priest who taught at Georgetown Preparatory School is "substantially true," according to letters sent to parents of students and alumni of the private school in North Bethesda. The Rev. Garrett "Gary" Orr, who was investigated but not charged by Montgomery County police, is on a leave of absence and has been barred from assignments at schools and parishes, the Very Rev. Timothy Brown, the Jesuit provincial head, said in a letter to the Rev. William L. George, president of Georgetown Prep. "It is with a heavy heart and a sense of great sorrow," began Father George's two-page letter, dated April 10, to parents of 450 boys at the country's only Jesuit boarding school. "I recognize this news will be difficult for many members of our community," he wrote in a letter that was accompanied by Father Brown's. "There are inevitable feelings of sadness, disbelief and anger, which are the same emotions I have been struggling with."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Was there any comments from Cardinal McCarrick or Mahony about Rev. Garrett "Gary" Orr?
Has Cardinal McCarrick removed the priestly faculties,i.e., the right to function hear confessions, hold Masses, administer any of the sacraments of the Church?
How much money is the Catholic Church going to have to pay for Rev. Garrett "Gary" Orr's action?
Why did it take over 3 years to finally admit to this activity? Was there a plea bargain?
Why didn't Cardinal Mahony & McCarrick come forward publicly to chastise the activities of Rev. Garrett "Gary" Orr with the same intensity and vigor as they promulgated illegal alien amnesty proposition?
"Everyone there knew he was gay," Mr. Judge said of the priest. "Which, combined with the leftist politics of the school and the rejection of official church teaching on sex and if you're near 400 teenage boys, is a recipe for disaster."
It does not make sense -how could this happen? Why would a homosexual initiate sexual activity with a member of the same sex? How could a child be vulnerable to an adult? Why would a disordered heterosexual choose to engage in disordered sexual activity?
/end sarcasm
The reality is obvious -the reality was until recently set aside by the leftist philosophers and psychologists always recognized -the reality is posted in this article -the reality confirmed by studies...
The study results show overwhelming findings that objectively one must draw but only one legitimate conclusion -homosexual predation was the primary activity that the sexual abuse was evidenced...
Some argue that the homosexual acts were not homosexual because only children were physically or psychologically raped of their innocence -they have as yet no 'orientation' and or mature sexuality or that the subjective rainbow gender spectrum rather than the binary 'sex' is an appropriate sexual identifier (very similar to the abortion argument claiming a baby is but a lump of flesh)? Some argue that the homosexual acts were not done by homosexuals (as if homosexual activity that defines homosexuals somehow does not now define homosexuals)?
It is weird logic to ignore that which specifically differentiates those who suffer from the homosexual disorder that predisposes them to homosexual activity and or those that actually participate in the activity and argue that this has nothing to do with homosexuals and or homosexual activity?
Regardless the politically correct illogical argumentative gymnastics and contrived hoops that some may posit I jump through -I myself will remain standing on Terra firma --simply put, the discussion involves activity -the abuse a majority of which was homosexual -the study was objectively scientific -not subjectively politically correct -as such a homosexual act was categorized a homosexual act and same sex sexual activity was identified as such...
The homosexual disorder is objectively defined by a predisposition to the activity... Homosexual activity is objectively defined by the activity -not the cause -not the intent -not anything morally irrelevant... Homosexual activists may gnash their teeth all they want -the facts speak for themselves...
Some still choose to ignore the obvious -regardless, the ignorance and or denial in this area will be overcome in the Church -the only question is will secular society get a clue or will it continue with its head in the politically correct sands of moral relativism?
In summary, objectively as to the sexual abuse of children all that is known is the activity -objectively, the majority of activity was homosexual predation -period...
Small excerpt:
The study produced some important findings about the nature of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
- Unlike in the general population, more males than females were allegedly. In fact, there was a significant difference between genders, with four out of five alleged victims being male.
- The majority of alleged victims were post-pubescent, with only a small percentage of priests receiving allegations of abusing young children.
- The allegations of sexual abuse involved a variety of sexual acts, and most of the priests involved were alleged to have committed multiple acts per victim. Indeed, much of the sexual abuse reported involved serious sexual offenses.
- According to the allegations of sexual abuse, the most frequent context of the sexual incidents occurred during a social event. Additionally, many of the priests with allegations of abuse socialized with the family of the alleged victim.
- The most common place of occurrence was the residence of the priest though incidents of abuse allegedly occurred in a wide variety of locations.
I note again clearly that this study confirms what other also not overly publicized or widely known or acknowledged studies have found -homosexual predation...
Accepting reality and putting measures in place to protect children is not a matter of reinventing the wheel -rediscovering some truth or thing once known and accepted that was lost and correcting accordlingly.
This is a matter of opposing a leftist societal experiment -a contrived square wheel invention intended to replace the round wheel -a flawed fabrication -a moral relative platitude that when applied sacrifices children for the sake of propogating the flawed ideology premising it.
Hello Leftists -get a clue - square wheel not workie!!!
This school is run by separate order-the Jesuits-who operate independently of the local archdiocese-which has no jurisdiction. The Maryland Jesuit Province has ecclesiastical jurisdiction and has issued their report. They will recommend and enforce any disciplinary action-not that I expect much as the American Jesuit orders are fairly infested.
Why do we never hear the MSM actually say a priest (MALE) homosexually molested a boy (MALE) thus making this a HOMOSEXUAL CRIME?
I'm sick of everyone attacking the churches and never equating this with the HOMOSEXUAL community.
Holy sh!t.
Very very sad, having been in Father's office many many times. Prayers for all involved; and may this country come to some blessed sense with this heinous sin.
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