I’m not even Catholic and I hang my head over this.
I am Catholic and these priests should be convicted, in whatever form required, then taken out and shot. All 2,000 or more of them.
Whenever I read articles like this, I can’t help but remember a priest I knew in high school. He went on to be in charge of all the Catholic schools for the local diocese. i only heard this story many years later after he died and knowing him and some of the details, I believe it to be true.
He was a former Marine, and when he got a few reports that a younger priest (who we all suspected was queer) had some questionable approaches or comments to some young men, after investigating, he approached the priest privately and told him: “If I hear one more report like this, I will come after you and personally beat the sh** out of you.”
The priest in question later left the priesthood and indeed came out as as a homosexual. Also, there have been no public complaints or lawsuits against any of the schools in the diocese - for many years, especially in the worst years of these revelations against the Church.
Handled properly? Handled too roughly?
anyway, the Church has lost such spine now.
Whenever I read articles like this, I can’t help but remember a priest I knew in high school. He went on to be in charge of all the Catholic schools for the local diocese. i only heard this story many years later after he died and knowing him and some of the details, I believe it to be true.
He was a former Marine, and when he got a few reports that a younger priest (who we all suspected was queer) had some questionable approaches or comments to some young men, after investigating, he approached the priest privately and told him: “If I hear one more report like this, I will come after you and personally beat the sh** out of you.”
The priest in question later left the priesthood and indeed came out as as a homosexual. Also, there have been no public complaints or lawsuits against any of the schools in the diocese - for many years, especially in the worst years of these revelations against the Church.
Handled properly? Handled too roughly?
anyway, the Church has lost such spine now.