I used to live near Buffalo, NY and, while looking through The Buffalo News today, found out that one of my family's parish priests was raping young boys for many years. He worked at St. Mary of the Angels Church in 1982-1983 and another nearby parish for a few years after that.
They show his photo in the article and I remember this prick.

I went to catholic schools ages 4-17, including St. Mary's parish school while this rapist was there.
Sometimes the priests would come over from their rectory to visit classrooms. Much deference was paid to a parish priest who was walking through the halls. Everyone would get quiet and treat him like a VIP.
We were giving deference to a fucking child rapist!

I don't know the ultimate disposition of this rapist's case because I can't bear to read the news stories. It makes me sick.

My 4 younger brothers also went to this school and church. One of my brothers was an altar boy. Now I need to start some awkward conversations.

Fuck you, catholic church! I hope you're all sued into oblivion!

http://buffalonews.com/2018/02/28/where-...se-served/

-Teresa

Quote:We were giving deference to a fucking child rapist!

That's been going on for 1,500 years.  No wonder the bastards have come to think of it as a right.

I'm not even convinced the powers that be in the catholic church are sorry or remorseful for enabling child rapists for so long. They probably wish the victims would just shut up and go away.

-Teresa

I keep telling you, it's a sacrament.

They will NEVER change it.

(March 1, 2018 at 9:29 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I keep telling you, it's a sacrament.

They will NEVER change it.

So true.

-Teresa

He had 13 different postings over his first 23 years. The classic shuffling around of a known pedophile by the church. He finally became stable when he was assigned to the hospital - no rape opportunities there, apparently.

My old church (we were Lutheran) once had a prominent member who was arrested for molesting a girl in Wisconsin; apparently they "dated" for a while, and broke up when she started high school. About 15 years later, the police got him. It took over four years for the case to actually go to trial, but that was more than enough time for the church he belonged to actually have him join the board of elders (which was actually pretty powerful since around that time, our old priest died and it took a while to find a new one). In addition, while he was fired from his high school job, the church gave him a job as a janitor in the grade school, and until he pled guilty, he continued to live next door to said grade school (about a clothesline's length away from the seventh and eighth grade classrooms.)

And when my mother told the newspaper about it, they called her Satan. Yes, she was the anonymous "member" cited in the article; I should know, I overheard her talking with the news on the phone. And, apparently, my mother said they were WELL AWARE OF HIS PAST WHEN THEY HIRED HIM AS A GYM TEACHER. That was the last straw for her.

On a lighter note, She decided to go to another church, but she could never become a full-fledged member because the old church considered the new one a "non-believing church," even if it was another branch of Lutheranism. She only went a couple times a year until she eventually died, and they decided to make her an official member posthumously. It's been five years and I haven't even bothered to come back.

Quote:She decided to go to another church,

Sadly, all churches are the same.

(March 1, 2018 at 9:28 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: I'm not even convinced the powers that be in the catholic church are sorry or remorseful for enabling child rapists for so long. They probably wish the victims would just shut up and go away.

-Teresa

Oh, they're remorseful all right. Remorseful that they keep getting caught! It's expensive to have to shuffle those kid fuckers around.

(March 1, 2018 at 10:26 pm)Minimalist Wrote:

Quote:She decided to go to another church,

Sadly, all churches are the same.

It was a lot less openly toxic than the old one, but still not interesting enough for me to want to be there unless she was making me. At least the ECLA is a bit more liberal than the LCMS. Except for that one time they had a chamber opera company do a performance of Abduction from the Seraglio. And her funeral two months later.