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To: Aliska
He took a lot of flak. If true, that priest practiced heroic virtue in my book.

We had a series of homosexual molestations of teenage boys by a priest in a neighboring town (including, horrificly, anal rape). Ten years ago, when a new priest (the present pastor) was sent to the parish, he discovered what was going on. He went to the authorities, both within and without the Church. (Of course, within the Church, he was ignored and told to keep things quiet.) But then he went public, and in the face of strict hierarchical orders not to do so, he asked the congregation for any information on other kids who might have been raped or abused. Information on other kids was brought forward, and this new priest spent years trying to help them. He has never been promoted, and is held in disdain to this day by the bishop of our diocese. Yet he was one of the (few) heros in all of this. I wish he could be our bishop.

34 posted on 06/28/2002 5:27:54 AM PDT by yendu bwam
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To: yendu bwam
Your post is one of the few instances where I would applaud a priest for disobeying a superior. Normally I am rather rigid about that, but not to obey with an informed intellect, not blindly. Except in very serious matters, such as harm to others, obedience is to be preferred.
62 posted on 06/28/2002 1:35:18 PM PDT by Aliska
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