[SkyPilot]

Oh, good heavens!

Spronck added that adult-child sexual relations do not necessarily have to be damaging, including with children as young as 12.

Spronck and his organization could not be reached Saturday for comment. According to its website, the Dutch arm of the Salesians has 14 employees and 400 volunteers and aims to help poor children.

I think that the reason for this "blind eye" approach is that so many priests are homosexual.

Actual surveys: In the Fall of 1999, the Kansas City Star sent a questionnaire to 3,000 priests in the U.S. 73% did not reply. The low response rate could be anticipated. One would expect homosexuals and bisexuals to be reluctant to respond to the questionnaire since it deals with such a sensitive issue, and originated from a newspaper. Homosexual and bisexual priests would probably be less likely to reply to the survey. Among the 801 priests who did reply: 75% said they had a heterosexual orientation; 15% homosexual; 5% bisexual. 9 During 1990, Rev. Thomas Crangle, a Franciscan priest in Passaic, N.J., mailed a survey to 500 randomly selected priests. Of the 398 responses, about 45% said that they were gay. 10 Conclusion: If we assume that all of the estimates are of equal validity, then perhaps 33% of priests have a homosexual orientation -- about one in three.

[Para-Ord.45]

Well, Harold Camping may have been correct about one thing, the death or organized churches.

[SkyPilot]

RTL quoted Spronck as saying he was aware of Van B.'s pedophilia and membership in Martijn, and even of two instances where the priest had been fined by police for exposing himself in public. But he said he didn't think that was sufficient reason to ban him from the order.

Of course.

[jmacusa]

This is not a Catholic priest. This is a devil from Hell masquerading as one. This man should be jailed. Were it up to me he’d be dead as Christ commanded those who would harm children.

[samtheman]

rope + tree = Justice

[Tribune7]

You really think this vile creature believes in God?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Next up they will be endorsing bestiality.

[Tex-Con-Man]

If Spronck and Van B. were within driving distance, I would post the pictures of their shotgun shell splattered bodies after I was finished with them for everyone’s amusement.

If these pukes are still alive in 24 hours, I will be very disappointed.

[GeronL]

The far left wing and Liberaltarians have found themselves a church to join.

[redgolum]

Heads up before you see this reposted.

[redgolum]

From what friends and co workers have said of the state of Christianity in Holland and the Netherlands, this doesn’t surprise me at all.

Of course, no action will be taken.

[VanDeKoik]

Shock after Dutch priest endorses pedophilia ?

Shock???

IT’S THE NETHERLANDS! DUH!

The ones that weren’t complete pervs left in the previous 2 centuries....Thank God.

[anniegetyourgun]

No surprise. Our heavenly Father told us there’d be days like this.

[ChildOfThe60s]

When I read things like this I get a gut level reaction. One that says no intellectualizing, it’s time for a swift and primitive solution.

[airedale]

That’s not pedophilia if the age is 12+. To be pedophilia the interest has to be in children below the age of puberty. There is a different term for people who like children past puberty but I can’t remember the term. However, what it really is gay men who like young boys, straight men who like young girls, lesbians who like young girls and straight women who like young boys. My guess is that the person involved liked young boys (80% of all the sexual abuse cases involved young boys and the majority of them were post pubescent.). The media loves to call all of this behavior pedophilia because the stats on real pedophilia show more straights are involved. That way they can bury that this is really something entirely different involving a media protected class of people.

[SuziQ]

One in three? I doubt that very seriously. My family lived close to the Parish when I was growing up, and we always had the Associate Pastors in and out of the house. As I grew up, I continued to have friends who were priests, and have lived in several different states, getting to know the priests in each place. My hubby's brother is a priest, and through him, I know quite a few priests. Out of all those priests, I've not known ONE priest who is homosexual, exhibited homosexual tendencies, or about whom anything was ever even suggested.

Yes, there are some, but I don't believe they are in as great numbers as have been suggested.

[metmom]

ping

[caww]

....”distance ourselves from this personal initiative” on the part of the priest”....

Well that does seem to be the general reaction. No skin off their noses....just step away. Hummm...brothers keeper comes to mind.

[jmaroneps37]

There is a special place in hell for scum like this.

[Neoliberalnot]

Once again, the homosexual invasion of churches is denied by the progs and the libs. I wonder why?

[stevio]

Yep, plain old homos are cliche. Got to go after all the taboos.