It's bad enough when a bishop ignores complicit clergy. It's worse when they conceal complicit clergy. This bishop is essentially rewarding a complicit cleric
Quote:Catholic priest moves to new job after destroying material in 'child pornography case'
A Catholic priest who ordered the destruction of evidence police later said could have aided a child pornography investigation started a new job with the church Monday.
The Rev. Barry Stechschulte, who resigned in July as pastor of St. Susanna parish in Mason, now is the parochial vicar for a group of seven parishes north of Dayton, Ohio. He will join at least three other priests in leading the parishes in Coldwater, Philothea, Fort Recovery and Sharpsburg.
Stechschulte admitted in a letter to St. Susanna parishioners in July that he'd ordered the destruction of a computer hard drive containing pornographic images while serving as pastor in 2012 at Holy Rosary Church in St. Marys, Ohio. He said he discovered the material on a computer that had been used by his predecessor, the Rev. Tony Cutcher, who was removed from ministry by the archdiocese in 2018 for sending inappropriate text messages to a boy.
A church deacon, Marty Brown, later told police he used a blow torch on the hard drive after Stechschulte instructed him to destroy it. Brown has since been placed on leave from active ministry, but Schafer declined to say why.
The destruction of the hard drive and the failure to immediately disclose it to authorities raised numerous questions about how both Stechschulte and church officials handled the matter. Ohio law requires priests and others in positions of authority to report any complaints or evidence of possible child abuse.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
