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Hmmm, I wonder if there is a link between the obvious irreverance that was and is tolerated in the NO Church and the perversions that are acted out:

Article Last Updated: Friday, June 14, 2002 - 8:25:22 AM MST

Friends recall 'human side' of ex-priest
Pleasant memories jar with molestation accusations
By Jennifer Carnig - Staff Writer
A big kid. Charismatic. A joy to be around. The clown who always wore purple high-top sneakers -- even sometimes during Mass. Yet this same man, former priest Stephen Kiesle, has told Fremont police he fondled hundreds of children who sat in his lap as he read them stories.

Longtime friends of Kiesle, who was convicted of molesting two boys in Union City and now is accused of molesting five girls in Fremont, are trying to come to terms with the Kiesle they thought they knew and the Kiesle facing child molestation charges.

"We used to let our youngest boy sit in his lap and wrestle with him, just like fathers and sons do," said Paul Heimsness, the father of the two boys Kiesle was convicted of molesting in the late 1970s when he served at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Union City. "We never thought anything. He was our priest. We never knew the devils he was fighting underneath the surface."

The huggy-kissy style, the buddy-buddy style, is liberalism in action. Liberals like to be equals with their children. They despise hierarchies, even within the family. They equate discipline and order with being punitive and rigid. They dislike dignified reserve and titles of honor or distinction. It is the Diana-fication of the Church that permeates the spirit of the Novus Ordo--the sentimental tunes, the big deal over the "kiss of peace", the Doctor Laura homilies. I see the connection--the horizontalism--in this priest's over-familiarity with children and the children's parents' toleration of it. What is a priest doing horsing around with kids? He is their spiritual mentor, not a playground playmate. Yet the confusion is such in the New Church that even parents can't discern the difference.