REVEALED: CENSORED COMMON DENOMINATOR IN MOST
CLERGY SEX ABUSE, Media reporting on Pennsylvania predator
priests gloss over key factor, by Art Moor, 8/16/18, WND.
Despite widespread
insistence that “sexual orientation” has played no role in past or current
Roman Catholic priest sex-abuse scandals, studies have found that more than 80
percent were under-aged victims of male-on-male abuse.
Further, in a survey of Catholic priests, more than half said
a “homosexual subculture” existed in the seminary they attended.
Those facts mostly have been
ignored in the coverage of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report on Clerical Sex
Abuse, points out a retired
Catholic priest in a report for the Ruth Institute, a non-profit
focused on the impact of family breakdown on children and “helping young
people avoid the poisonous personal consequences of the Sexual Revolution.”
The author of the Ruth
Institute report is Fr. Paul Sullins, Ph.D., a retired professor of sociology
at Catholic University of America and currently senior research associate at
the Ruth Institute. Jennifer Roback Morse, the president of the Ruth Institute,
noted the grand jury in the Pennsylvania scandal cited many cases of
“male-on-male predation.”
“The Ruth Institute has
utmost sympathy for the victims of clerical predation, and revulsion at those
who covered up the crimes. We encourage anyone who has been abused to come
forward,” she said. But she and Sullins pointed to facts sometimes overlooked
or ignored by the media.
Two studies, in 2004 and
2011, by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice – commissioned by the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops – found that more than 80 percent of the cases
of clergy abuse were male-on-male predation by priests against pre-teen and
teenaged boys.
The active homosexual
subculture in Catholic seminaries and dioceses was confirmed in a 2002 survey of nearly
2,000 Catholic priests by the Los Angles Times.
In the survey, 44 percent of
respondents said there was a homosexual subculture in their diocese or
religious institute.
Asked if there was there a
homosexual subculture in their seminary at the time they attended, 53 percent
of recently ordained priests replied yes.
“These findings actually affirm official
Catholic teaching on sexual morality,” the Ruth Institute said. “Contrary to
the claims of the Sexual Revolution, sexual self-mastery is possible, and
necessary for a good life.”
Sullins cited former
seminary rector Donald Cozzens writing that sexually active homosexual groups
were at times so dominant in seminary that heterosexual men felt that they did
not fit in and left.
The new grand jury report
revealed this week, based on internal documents from six Catholic dioceses in
Pennsylvania, found more than 300 “predator priests” have been credibly accused
of sexually abusing more than 1,000 child victims.
“We believe that the real
number of children whose records were lost or who were afraid ever to come
forward is in the thousands,” the report says.
“Priests were raping little
boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did
nothing; they hid it all. For decades. Monsignors, auxiliary bishops, bishops,
archbishops, cardinals have mostly been protected; many, including some named
in this report, have been promoted.”
Comments
The child sexual abuse
problem will not be solved until these laws are enforced by the police and
prosecutors based on complaints filed by victims. Children need to report these
crimes immediately to have evidence gathered. Parents need to immediately take
steps to ban the perpetrator from all access to their children. Churches should
not try to handle this issue in secret by themselves.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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