Pope Benedict apologises for Irish priests' sex abuse

[Ognir]

Thanks but no thanks, no fuck off out of Ireland

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8577740.stm

Pope Benedict XVI has apologised to victims of child sex abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland.

In a pastoral letter to Irish Catholics, he acknowledged the sense of betrayal in the Church felt by victims and their families.

The Pope said there had been "serious mistakes" among bishops in responding to allegations of paedophilia.

The pastoral letter is the first statement of its kind by the Vatican on the sexual abuse of children.

It follows revelations of paedophilia within the Irish Catholic Church, which have rocked the institution.

Scandals involving Catholic priests have been reported in other countries, including the Pope's native Germany.

'Avoidance of scandal'

Addressing the victims of abuse, the Pope wrote: "You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry."

He continued: "Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated... I openly express the shame and remorse that we all feel."
   
ANALYSIS
BBC correspondent David Willey in Rome
David Willey, BBC News, Rome

The pope calls for healing, reparation and renewal in the Irish Church but essentially his remedy is more prayer.

He does however criticise inadequate procedures in selecting candidates for the priesthood, and the misplaced concern of some bishops to avoid scandal at all costs, even failing to report cases of paedophile priests to the police.

Victims of sexual abuse by priests in the Pope's own country, Germany, and other parts of the world are likely to be disappointed that he concentrates entirely upon the sexual scandals which occurred in Ireland without referring to the fact that this is openly acknowledged by church officials to be a worldwide problem.

He said those guilty of abuse must "answer before God and properly constituted tribunals for the sinful and criminal actions they have committed".

However, the Pope's statement may fall short of demands by victims' groups for an admission that abuse was systematically covered up, says the BBC Religious Affairs correspondent Robert Pigott.

The only direct reference to cover-ups is a reference to "a misplaced concern for the reputation of the Church and the avoidance of scandal".

The leader of one Irish victims' group said she was disappointed the Pope's letter did not recognise any responsibility of the Vatican in the crisis.

"We feel the letter falls far short of addressing the concerns of the victims," Maeve Lewis, executive director of One in Four, told Reuters news agency.

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The Pope also criticised inadequate procedures in selecting candidates for the priesthood and "insufficient human, moral, intellectual and spiritual formation in seminaries and novitiates" as factors contributing to the crisis.

He said: "Urgent action is needed to address these factors, which have had such tragic consequences in the lives of victims and their families, and have obscured the light of the Gospel to a degree that not even centuries of persecution succeeded in doing."
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Pope's letter of apology: Key excerpts

Although the Pope said Vatican officials would visit Ireland to inspect some dioceses, he did not call for any restructuring of the Church in Ireland.

He also did not call for the resignation of any bishops, although a few have already volunteered to leave their posts.

The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, has resisted calls to resign over his handling of abuse allegations in the 1970s that saw victims sign confidentiality agreements.

The Cardinal issued the letter in a morning mass at St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh.

Those hoping the Pope's letter would address the wider issue of paedophilia in the Church in other countries are likely to be disappointed by his narrow focus on the problem in Ireland.

[Shiksa Rage]

While I have no time for Benny the Rat, I couldn't resist emailing the BBC and sarcastically thanking them for their diligence in reporting the sex abuse case in the Catholic Church and that knowing their concern for the welfare of children, they will be sure to investigate the following stories:
http://iamthewitness.com/listeners/Jewi ... WS-WHY.htm

http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/revealed.htm

[ahaze]

I find it sad as well that Irish freedom of expression couldn't have stepped up a bit more there.  But I think it illustrates the depth of implications to the shaming crime in that it forces the victims into the open to substantiate allegations.  I find it hard to fathom the compounded ramifications of the Catholic authority's crimes.  

I've been finally facing the material out there on the rapist Catholic authorities.  I couldn't face the depth of the reality check back in the 90's when it broke in the US but I do remember wondering why it was only in the US and not also getting disclosed by other countries.  It seems possibly now the floodgates of truth are finally now being beginning to open?  

Of the documentaries I've recently downloaded, the movie  Deliver Us From Evil has been the most telling.  It discloses the sickening story of Father Oliver O'grady (now quietly living somewhere in Ireland) who was moved from parish to parish in California carrying out his rapes of the faithful's children for two decades!  It touches on the surrounding Bishops and Cardinals but doesn't get to go far enough into the corruption though it shows the shell of the Military Order of Malta that guards it.  "Deliver Us From Evil" does thoroughly expose the atrocities committed through the stories told by courageous victims stepping forward.  The movie makes plain that the Catholic church - masquerading as spiritual authority -  becomes empowered by spiritual seekers whom it exploits for purely carnal reasons, and the devastation on the bodies and minds of individuals and society becomes exceedingly clear.

There are other documentaries out there maybe worth mentioning later, but I find it interesting that this kind of scandal is allowed to blossom on Zionist media channels.  Always sure to shame the masses without adequate self reflective capacity.  
Yeah right, they're real concerned about getting at a resolution to the problem all around there.  Don't just bankrupt the masses of their material security and shame 'em with how stupid they were, but ensure to bankrupt a majority of their primary belief systems while shaming them as well.

[Free Truth]

Of the documentaries I've recently downloaded, the movie  Deliver Us From Evil has been the most telling.  It discloses the sickening story of Father Oliver O'grady (now quietly living somewhere in Ireland) who was moved from parish to parish in California carrying out his rapes of the faithful's children for two decades!  It touches on the surrounding Bishops and Cardinals but doesn't get to go far enough into the corruption though it shows the shell of the Military Order of Malta that guards it.  "Deliver Us From Evil" does thoroughly expose the atrocities committed through the stories told by courageous victims stepping forward...

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/deliver-us-from-evil/

...but I find it interesting that this kind of scandal is allowed to blossom on Zionist media channels...

Exactly. While Rabbi child molesters are protected!

I believe there was a nice post here (I think in this forum section) about catholic pedophilia being brought to light while Synogoue sex not... I couldn't find it...

[MikeWB]

'Ashamed to be Irish' -- Abuse angers nation

[Christopher Marlowe]

The Pope said there had been "serious mistakes" among bishops in responding to allegations of paedophilia.

He does however criticise inadequate procedures in selecting candidates for the priesthood, and the misplaced concern of some bishops to avoid scandal at all costs, even failing to report cases of paedophile priests to the police.

ped·o·phile    (pěd'ə-fīl', pē'də-)   n.  An adult who is sexually attracted to a child or children.

ped·er·ast    (pěd'ə-rāst')   n.  A man who has sexual relations, especially anal intercourse, with a boy.

Among the general class of male sexual deviants (both homosexual and heterosexual), pederasts (boy molesters) are found to be much more prolific in their offenses than pedophiles (girl molesters). The most extensive study performed on the relative degree of predatory behavior of these two classes of male sexual deviants found that 153 pederasts sexually molested 22,981 boys over an average period of 22 years, while 224 pedophiles molested 4,435 girls over an average period of 18 years. This means that each pederast molested an average of 150 boys, and each pedophile molested an average of 20 girls—a ratio of 7.5 to one.
-Paul Cameron. "Homosexual Molestation of Children/Sexual Interaction of Teacher and Pupil." Psychological Reports, 1985, 57, pages 1,227 to 1,236.

Rod Dreher, editor of National Review Online writes: "Stephen Rubino, a New Jersey lawyer, says that of the over 300 alleged victims of priest sex abuse he has represented, roughly 85% are boys, and were teenagers when the abuse occurred. Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons, an eminent Catholic psychiatrist who has treated scores of victims and priest-perpetrators, says 90% of his patients were either teen male victims or priests, or priests who abused teen boys." Because the victims are teenagers, this shows that the issue is not one of pedophilia as much as it is one of homosexuality.

Dreher goes on to say that the reluctance of bishops to call it a homosexual problem "arises, no doubt, partly out of a fear of antagonizing homosexual anti-defamation groups, who resent the stereotype of male homosexuals as pederasts. It's much safer to focus inquiry on the question of mandatory celibacy, or the issue of ordaining women...For journalists, to confront the issue is to risk touching the electrified third rail of American popular culture: the dark side of homosexulality....homosexual priests occupy positions of influence in the vast Catholic bureaucracy; and there seems little doubt that this is the case in the American Church."

Richard Sipe, a laicized priest and psychotherapist, after studying the issue for forty years and reviewing thousands of case histories, estimates that 30% of Catholic priests are homosexuals. He writes: "This is a system. This is a whole community. You have many good people covering it up. There is a network of power. A lot of seminary rectors and teachers are part of it, and they move to chancery-office positions, and on to bishoprics. It's part of the ladder of success."

Fr. Donald Cozzens, former rector of St. Mary's Seminary in Cleveland and author of The Changing Face of the Priesthood, puts the figure much higher (Donald B. Cozzens, The Changing Face of the Priesthood, p. 101f). Confirming these results are the inordinate numbers of Catholic priests dying of AIDS - a rate much higher than that of normal male population. An extensive survey by the Kansas City Star revealed that, "there are at least 400 known deaths of priests from AIDS, and probably twice that number -- ranging from four times to eight times the rate in the general population." Two thirds of the priests interviewed said they knew at least one priest who had died of AIDS, and one third knew at least one priest living with it (January 2000: poll of 800 priests, Wills, p. 193).

Cozzens also reports of the "gay subculture" in many seminaries, and that the priesthood has become a "gay profession." Gay faculty and students put so much pressure on normal students that the latter are frequently forced to terminate their education and vocation. Supporting this, Thomas Fox, editor of The National Catholic Reporter, concluded from his interviews that, "In some cases there have been reports of predominately gay seminaries and homosexual climates within them that became so pronounced that heterosexual seminarians felt uneasy and ultimately left" (Sexuality and Catholicism, 1995, p. 177). Garry Wills states: "Gays themselves register the change. In a survey of 101 gay priests, those ordained before 1960 remember their seminary as having been 51 percent gay. Those ordained after 1981 say their seminaries were 70 percent gay" (Wills, p. 194).

During the current crisis, homosexual activists within and outside the Catholic Church have done everything they could to divert attention away from even the possibility that there may be a higher percentage of homosexuals among the priesthood than in the general public, and that this may be the root of the problem of child sexual molestation within the Church. It is particularly the link between homosexuality and child molestation that they seek to deny.

For example, Dignity USA kicked off its "Stop Blaming Gay Priests" campaign during the meeting of the United States Catholic Bishops Conference in Washington, D.C., November 10-13, 2002. The group said, "DigntyUSA [sic] is calling on the U.S. Catholic bishops to stop blaming gay priests for the clergy sexual abuse scandal. All credible evidence discounts any link between the molestation of children and homosexuality."

The situation has become so charged that anyone who even suggests that there may be a connection between homosexuality and pedophilia is instantly and reflexively labeled a "homophobe" and a "gay basher." The powerful homosexual lobby reacts instinctively to negative publicity and information by, as researcher Laird Wilcox calls it, "ritually defaming" those who dare raise their voices. Organized homosexual groups first attempt to completely ignore the evidence, or, if it simply cannot be ignored, they smear and discredit those who produced it.

Such casual dismissal of documented facts, and the accompanying refusal to even discuss the possibility of a link between an active homosexual lifestyle and child sexual abuse, is a grave disservice not only to the victims, but also to society at large. Obviously, a proven link between homosexual orientation and child sexual molestation would badly damage the carefully crafted public relations image of the homosexual rights movement. Therefore, instead of calmly and rationally discussing the issues, homosexual rights leaders subscribe to the axiom "the best defense is a good [and loud] offense," and remain in a permanent attack mode.

The only way to solve the problem of priestly child molestation is to proceed  methodically: establish the facts, objectively study all facts relating to the situation, and finally, but most importantly, have the courage and faith to respond by taking appropriate steps. If all of this is not done, any such effort, no matter how well intentioned or vigorously pursued, will be utterly squandered. Certainly we owe it to the victims—and to the Catholic Faith itself—to determine the truth behind this volatile topic.  
-- Child Molestation by homosexuals and heterosexuals By Brian W. Clowes and David L. Sonnier MAY 2005 45

How prevalent is child molestation among homosexuals?

    * The Gay Report, published by homosexual researchers Jay and Young in 1979, revealed that 73 percent of homosexuals surveyed had at some time had sex with boys 16 to 19 years of age or younger.5 (5. K. Jay and A. Young, The Gay Report (New York: Summit Books, 1979), p. 275. )
       
    * Although homosexuals account for less than two percent of the population. they constitute about a third of child molesters.6 (6. K. Freund and R.I. Watson, "The Proportions of Heterosexual and Homosexual Pedophiles Among Sex Offenders Against Children: An Exploratory Study," Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 18 (Spring 1992): 3443, cited in "The Problem of Pedophilia," op. cit. Also, K. Freund and R.I. Watson, "Pedophilia and Heterosexuality vs. Homosexuality," Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 10 (Fall 1984): 197, cited in NARTH Fact Sheet. ) Further, as noted by the Encino, Calif.-based National Association for research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), "since homosexual pedophiles victimize far more children than do heterosexual pedophiles, it is estimated that approximately 80 percent or pedophile victims are boys who have been molested by adultmales.7 (7. Thomas Schmidt, Straight and Narrow? Compassion and Clarity in the Homosexuality Debate (Downers Grove, IU.: Intervarsity Press), p. 114, cited in "The Problem of Pedophilia, op. cit., p. 2. )
       
    * A nationwide investigation of child molestation in the Boy Scouts from 1971 to 1991 revealed that more than 2,000 boys reported molestations by adult Scout leaders. (Note: The Scouts, who have 150,000 Scoutmasters and assistant Scoutmasters, ban hundreds of men each year from scouting out of concern that they might abuse boys.)8 (8. Patrick Boyle, Scout's Honor (Rocklin, Calif.: Prima Publishing, 1994), p. 3l6. )
       
    * A study of Canadian pedophiles has shown that 30 percent of those studied admitted to having engaged In homosexual acts as adults, and 91 percent of the molesters of non-familial boys admitted to no lifetime sexual contact other than homosexual.9 (9. W. L. Marshall, et al., "Early onset and deviant sexuality in child molesters," Journal of interpersonal Violence 6 (1991): 323-336, cited in "Pedophilia: The Part of Homosexuality They Don't Want You to see," Colorado for Family Values Report, Vol. 14, March 1994. )
       
    * Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D., and Charles B. Johnson, Ph.D., conducted a content study of the personal ads in the Advocate, the national gay and lesbian newsmagazine and discovered that "chickens," a common term for underage boys sought for sex, were widely solicited. Many of the advertisements in the magazine solicited boys and teens from within a larger pool of prostitution ads.10 (10. Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D., "A Content Analysis of 'The Advocate,"' unpublished manuscript p. 18, quoted in "Pedophilia: The Part of Homosexuality They Don't WantYou to See," ibid. ) The authors also note a statement from a book review by homosexual activist Larry Kramer that the work, "like much canonized male homosexual literature, involves sexually predatory white men on the prowl for dark-skinned boys to gratify them.11 (11. From "Lany Kramer's Reading List," The Advocate, January 24, 1995, p. 99, cited in "Status Report," The Reisman & Johnson Report of Partner Solicitation Characteristics as a Reflection of More Sexual Orientation and the Threat to Children, First Principles Press, January l995.