Second, according to The Boston Globe and The Advocate (a homosexual periodical), one of Cardinal Law's Boston commission advisors on child sex abuse issues is Fred Berlin, M.D. (Attachment 5) In 1994 Dr. Berlin was Course Director for a training program offered to judges, "health professionals," lawyers, legislators, police officers and child advocacy workers teaching, among other things, that "pedophilia . . . can be effectively controlled with appropriate psychiatric intervention." (Attachment 6) Dr. Berlin and John Money, Ph.D., co-founded a celebrated sexual training and treatment center, The Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic. Dr. Berlin described Dr. Money as "one of his most important mentors." (Attachment 7) Dr. Money, as it turns out, was a dedicated Kinsey disciple, the mentor for June Reinisch (the third Kinsey Institute director) and on the advisory board of the Kinsey Institute. Additionally, in an interview with the pedophile periodical, The Journal of Paedophilia, John Money offered his professional counsel that adult sex with children is normal and often beneficial. (Attachment 8)Dr. Money went on to say in the pedophile interview that the Berlin/Money Sexual Disorders Clinic was designed to offer "leeway to judges" to free convicted child abusers. For Money, "decided regarding paedophilia [sic] that I would never report anybody." While many other eye opening details regarding Dr. Money's career could be listed, the above should suffice to illustrate the problem facing the Church. In addition to Cardinal Law's reported reliance on Dr. Berlin, the problem is compounded in that the founder of St. Luke's Institute, Rev. Michael R. Peterson, M.D. (who later died of AIDS), urges the church to rely on Berlin, and Money in a 1985 paper, after warning the clergy that:
[M]alpractice cases involve situations where clerics give advice which is considered by the civil courts to be beyond their sphere of expertise or competence. This advice allegedly causes catastrophic consequences (divorce, suicide) resulting in civil suits."
[Money and Berlin,] the two mental health professionals are considered by me and most people in the field as the two U.S. experts and ones who have had good success in treatment of the paraphilic disorders in the past fifteen years " (circa 1970) at their Clinic.
I remember being angry with Cardinal Law, because the philosophy of psychology is within a priest's sphere of competence, and as a bishop, Cardinal Law should not have been delegating decision-making regarding homosexual-oriented priests to representatives from pseudo-sciences like modern psychology.
Sadly, the results were predictable.