Priestly Porn

I ask those of you who are parents to carefully consider this question: Would you entrust your children to a daycare center that is known not only to employ child abusers, but to actually nurture and protect such people? I ask all who read this to carefully consider this question: Would you entrust your hopes for eternity to a shepherd who habitually violates his promises to his church and to his god? Those in the Roman hierarchy who fashion rules and exceptions to govern that cult surely are not ignorant of, nor blind to, the reality of the corruption and perversion that infects the priestly class. Certainly, awareness of sexual misconduct within the ranks of priests and religious must have motivated Catholic law givers to discover ways to excuse such behavior. Being guilty of sexual sin, straight or otherwise, has virtually no effect on a priest's suitability to perform priestly or religious duties. So sayeth Mama Church. I have posted several articles having to do with predatory priests who prey upon those they claim to shepherd. In these articles, I usually examined how the Roman Catholic princely hierarchy watches over its wayward priests and protects them from the long arm of the secular law. For a time following publication of such articles, I receive email from Catholic apologists and others who deny the truth of what they have read. The writers sometimes go to great lengths to play down the crimes of the Catholic priesthood; usually pointing out that it is the individual priest or nun who violates the laws of God and man, not the Church. According to their reasoning, that entity known as the Roman Catholic Church continues pure as the driven snow, her soul, if you will, unsullied by the deeds of her priestly class. A convenient, if invalid, response that recalls the words and actions of Pontius Pilate as he attempted to evade responsibility for the execution of Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 27:24). Just as Pilate could not evade his responsibility by claiming that he was not to blame, so cannot the Roman Catholic cult hide from the accusing finger of reality. Not that the Roman cult does not act against priests when external pressure compels that it do so. Canon 290 of the Code of Canon Law declares that, while a priest is ordained for life, he can be deprived of his clerical state. The next canon adds that the priest thus chastised is not released from his obligation to remain celibate. I doubt that this bothers a defrocked priest. After all, he would not have gotten in trouble in the first place had he conformed to his promise to remain celibate. In worst case situations, the offending priest may be recalled to his mother house, where he will spend the remainder of his days tending the rose garden or working in the library. I suspect that many who teach in Catholic seminaries and schools might be priests who have been deprived of their clerical state. I suppose that, to some pervert priests, such punishments might be tantamount to B'rer Rabbit's being thrown into the briar patch. So, what does the RCC leadership do to protect her billion or so brainwashed faithful from the sexual appetites of predatory priests? In most cases, it appears that she does nothing. Oh, when there are complaints, a diocese might move a priestly pervert to another parish or, in some cases, trade him off to another diocese in a different state. Not all Catholics are blind to priestly perversions. My next door neighbor, for example, has told me that his parish priest prohibits all fund-raising activities in his church. His reason? Every time the archdiocese is sued as a consequence of the sexual activities of a predatory priest, it draws down the savings of parish churches to settle the lawsuit. This priest told his parishioners that he could not in conscience call upon them to bear the financial burden created by the sexual sins of Catholic priests. Some would argue that sexually predatory priests like Rudy Kos are rare. These folks cannot, of course, support their claim from any verifiable source. The priestly pervert often acts in secret and the very nature of his actions militates hiding them from public scrutiny. One must look elsewhere for information. You could go to the Web for information. Make it easy. Do a Google search for "Rudy Kos," for example. You will get pages and pages of URLs for sites detailing not only his sex crimes but those of a lot of other Catholic priests. Better still, check out your own parish priest, or your diocese. You might begin your search using keywords such as the name of your diocese, your priest, and the word "abuse." As you grow increasingly expert at online researcher, you will find other keywords that bear fruit. For those in a hurry, a Protestant ministry provides more information of priestly crimes. On this site, you can read also some of the attempts by Catholic officials and laymen to discount the truth and the seriousness of charges of priestly perversion. Perhaps the most damning evidence of the corruption that infects some in the ranks of Roman Catholic religious was provided by a Web site and mail list operated by and for homosexual Roman Catholic priests, nuns and laymen. Once the existence of the site was exposed, it was ordered closed by the bishop of the diocese where its founding priest works. Though the site and mail list may now be closed, much of the material, correspondence and photographs it once included were preserved by a responsible Catholic ministry operated by Catholic laymen and guided by responsible Catholic priests. To get an idea of how bad things are in the priestly ranks of the Roman Catholic Church, drop by this web page. WARNING!! This is NOT a nice place to visit! Spend time reading and considering the cautionary information before going more deeply into the site. the next step is to click on the link to "St. Sebastian's Angels." WARNING! This section is not for the sensitive nor those easily shocked. This is the page with the pictures, emails, articles and dating information provided by actively homosexual Catholic priests and at least one bishop. Some of the articles and photographs are definitely X-RATED. To their credit, the RCF provides plenty of warnings of what is to come. You will never stumble blindly into pornography. After visiting this site, keep in mind what you saw there as you read again these words from the Catechism of the Catholic Church: 2354. "Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense. Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials. " -- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd Ed., (c) 1994/1997 United States Catholic Conference, Inc. The Leadership of the Roman cult acknowledge that pornography is a "grave offense." In paragraph 2357, the Catechism defines homosexualilty and, in addressing homosexual acts, declares that "Under no circumstances can they be approved." So here we have it. The RCC does not approve of pornograpy, homosexuality, violation of promises of celibacy, etc., yet on the other hand, known sexual deviates within the priesthood are sheltered and permitted to continue to shepherd innocents entrusted to their care. How can this be? Why, the Roman hierarchy calls upon its sacrament of Holy Orders to defend the perverts among her religious. 1550. "This presence of Christ in the minister is not to be understood as if the latter were preserved from all human weaknesses, the spirit of domination, error, even sin. The power of the Holy Spirit does not guarantee all acts of ministers in the same way. While this guarantee extends to the sacraments, so that even the minister's sin cannot impede the fruit of grace, in many other acts the minister leaves human traces that are not always signs of fidelity to the Gospel and consequently can harm the apostolic fruitfulness of the Church. " --Catechism of the Catholic Church, Op. cit. I call upon the Catholic readers of this article to think upon what you have read when you next attend Mass. As the priest places what you believe to be the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ into your hands or on your tongue, will you wonder where those hands have been?