Posted on 04/04/2019 6:32:26 PM PDT by marshmallow
In a new lawsuit, the former personal secretary for Roxborough native and ex-West Virginia Bishop Michael J. Bransfield described his former boss as a “sexual predator” prone to binge-drinking orange liqueur and venting his lust on priests and seminarians.
The plaintiff, a onetime seminarian in his early 20s identified in court filings by the initials J.E., says that Bransfield exposed his penis and groped him while they were traveling together on church business in 2014.
His suit marks the first time any of the bishop’s accusers have publicly offered an account of the type of alleged misconduct that led the Vatican to oust Bransfield, 75, from his position last year.
But in an interview Wednesday, the retired prelate dismissed the man’s claims — and those of his other accusers — as nothing more than a money grab.
“They’re all out to destroy me,” said Bransfield, who has been living in Roxborough since he left Wheeling. “I wasn’t even that friendly with this person.”
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Maybe voluntary medicinal medical castration for those becoming priests would be the answer, since they are going to be sworn to total, unequivocal celibacy anyways for the rest of their lives. That way, those (phaggots, et always) with a hidden agenda to prey on young boys and men as a tactical part of their going to seminary and joining the priesthood, would be strongly discouraged and weeded completely out. How can you otherwise screen for that deviancy?
True followers of Christ only would or could take that courageous, self sacrificing step. I dunno. I don’t have all the answers Maybe that is one way to dial this scourge way back
The answer is always holiness.
“They” should destroy him. Or at least his career as a priest.
If only some of the allegationsxare true, I wish the prosecutors all the luck in the world.
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Yes, and vigilance, i.e. some concrete and highly effective way to positively screen these Servants of Satan out of the spiritual corps.
Nothing would be sufficient without the will to solve the problem. The absence of the latter is the real issue here.
If the Vatican hired me as its agent, with a mandate to purge homosexuality from the Church, I would have this problem solved yesterday.
As would many people. That is why you (and ME for that matter) have not, and will not be hired by the Vatican to put an end to this rot.
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