“But they were passed from one place to another. They were not stopped. Why not?”
Because the Lavender Mafia practiced omerta. Who was supposed to stop them? How?
“Why are they above the law? It’s not the failure of men and their desires, it’s the failure of management to not stop it—and thus allow it to happen more and more.”
Who is “management?” Are you talking about the bishops? They’ve been Lavender Mafia since the 50s at the latest. I would like to know exactly who “management” was that should have stopped it.
“THAT is the failure of the RC Church that is the most horrific part of this.”
Again, who exactly failed? You say “the Church” failed, but who is that? And what should they have done, given that the Lavender Mafia had kept the lid on it?
Before the evilstream misleadia blew the gaff on it, almost no one outside the Lavender Mafia had any idea how bad things were.
People who are so eager to blame the victims need to reflect that Satan is much smarter than we are, that he is the father of lies, and that he was intent on preventing interference with his plan.
I was a twelve year old kid in Springfield MA in 1972. I knew what was going on. All of my friends knew what was going on.
Several of them got raped. They told their parent. They told the cops. They told the teachers.
No one did anything because the Bishop ran half the schools. The Bishop controlled the DA, and the cops. My friends were told by the church that they would go to Hell. And not today’s hell...old school Catholic scary hell.
So, if you ask me who failed, it was the entire culture in a predominately catholic community. It was the power that this religious cult had over its parishioners. It was the power to damn people to hell—and back in those days people took that stuff seriously.
I knew the feeling when I was twelve. I thought it had gone away until I “felt” it again with our new Parish Priest. The first time I shook his hand and looked into his eyes I saw the evil that had been familiar to me.
Six weeks later, the parish uncovered several complaints about his past. The parish—the richest one west of Boston, kicked him out. We had the money to tell the Bishop what to do.
The Priest “retired” to the Cape with his fag boyfriend.
Those are the people who are to blame. The Bishops and Cardinals passed these predators around. They did not want to turn on someone of their brotherhood. Their bonds with their evil brothers were greater than the lives of these kids.