Ex-Priest Says It Was '2-Way Thing'

The Detroit News ^ | 8/30/02 | Hawke Fracassa

[marshmallow]

No big deal.

[uncbob]

A former Metro Detroit priest said Tuesday that he had sexual encounters with "maybe a dozen or two" young boys during his career, but they were always consensual.

Legally there isn't any consenual sex between adults and adolesents

[moyden]

Every liberal is a pedophile.

[antienvironmentalist]

Why is it that I have the ovewhelming urge to rip this freaks head off and pour acid down the hole?

[AppyPappy]

Cause he needs it.

[ClearCase_guy]

My question: Does this priest consider himself a homosexual? Because he very clearly is.

If there were no homosexual priests, sexual abuse problems would drop to just about nothing.

[wimpycat]

Robert Burkholder<==========Classic pedophile.

"The boys work in the rectory with the priest and you just get friendly. You sit down in the rectory and have a Coke. It's a mutual deal ... an affectionate thing and a friendly thing."

Oh, sure. Boys always look forward to getting friendly with the parish priest. A little Coke, maybe some video games, a little fellatio...

God, what a sick ($#)#(%*$!!! This man really believes what he's saying.

[Jim Noble]

It's all about sex.

Everybody lies about sex.

Can't we just move on?

[Jonathan]

And I suppose that you think that every pedophile is a liberal too?!!!

Yeah, I guess your'e right.

Sigh.

[Jonathan]

Can we just shut down the Diocese of Detroit as a criminal enterprise?

[MadIvan]

"The boy likes the priest because he's friendly and kind," said Robert Burkholder, 82, who lives in Honolulu.

No matter how old Nazi war criminals were, the procedure was to send them to Israel to be tried and executed.

No matter how old these paedophiles are, the procedure should be to send them to Texas, to be tried and executed.

Regards, Ivan

[southern rock]

The retired priest said in a telephone interview he had relationships over several years with boys who were "11, 12 and 13" and that he kept it a secret.
"You don't communicate with anybody else about it," he said. "(But) it takes two to tango. It was always a two-way thing.

I cannot even imagine being 11, 12 or 13 and letting a priest put his hands on me. I just don't get it. As a matter of fact, when I was 10, and my Catholic school started requiring me to serve as an alter boy on occasion, my mom specificaly warned me about this sort of thing. She told me NOT to allow the priest to get near me while I was in the back with him, and both my parent's always sat in the front row of the church any time I served. They instructed me not to hesitate to kick, punch or scream if the priest started acting funny. They were VERY clear about this stuff with me even though I was only 10 or 11, and this was back in 1980!

What is with the parents of these kids who were being molested. Are they so Catholic and so enamored with the priesthood that they would just hand their kids over without question? Do they teach their kids to be so enamored and so in awe of a guy with a collar that the boys just submit? Thank God my parents, although Catholic, had a mind of their own and some sense and used it.

[sockmonkey]

No matter how old these paedophiles are, the procedure should be to send them to Texas, to be tried and executed.

Texas has so many child molestors and perverts on probation, it's ridiculous. I wish the upcoming Legislature would enact harsher laws for sexual offenders in TX.

[MadIvan]

Texas has so many child molestors and perverts on probation, it's ridiculous. I wish the upcoming Legislature would enact harsher laws for sexual offenders in TX.

Quite frankly, they should be executed. The damage that they do to children is enough to say that they have destroyed a life, and to be brutally honest a paedophile can never be trusted. Make sure they never harm another child again - fire up Old Sparky.

Best Regards, Ivan

[sockmonkey]

fire up Old Sparky.

Old Sparky has retired. We have death by lethal injection.
Anyone remember which state had Old Yeller? Was it Florida?

[Drango]

With these views, this priest is clearly a candidate for Bishop status...

[Orual]

The Beast That Eats Unchaste Priests and Nuns, Simon Marmion

[jjm2111]

If priests were allowed to marry, there'd be less homo priests.

[VRWC_minion]

This is parody right ?

[Orual]

If priests were allowed to marry, there'd be less married homo priests.