Ex-altar boy who killed himself mourned in church where he was molested
Brian Gergely, who died at 46, battled alcoholism from the age of 10, amid what a grand jury concluded was widespread rape and abuse in Pennsylvania
Luther recalled that Gergely, an altar boy, would get pulled out of class and told to go to the church “to help the monsignor”.
That was Father Francis McCaa, who was called a monster by a state grand jury in March. Its report concluded that he was among at least 50 priests in the local Altoona-Johnstown diocese who had systematically raped and molested hundreds of boys and girls for 40 years, while bishops covered it up and the criminal justice system looked the other way. McCaa died in 2007, at 82.
Gergely killed himself earlier this month at 46.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...an-gergely
In the meantime assholes in Maine....
A US Christian group in Maine called ‘Equal Rights, not Special Rights’ is campaigning to recriminalize homosexuality.
The group was created by Mike Heath and other heads of the Christian Civic League of Maine.
The group have said that they’re tired of “being forced” to accept homosexual lifestyles.
Heath said that “the war is on.”
http://attitude.co.uk/a-us-christian-gro...sexuality/
Brian Gergely, who died at 46, battled alcoholism from the age of 10, amid what a grand jury concluded was widespread rape and abuse in Pennsylvania
Luther recalled that Gergely, an altar boy, would get pulled out of class and told to go to the church “to help the monsignor”.
That was Father Francis McCaa, who was called a monster by a state grand jury in March. Its report concluded that he was among at least 50 priests in the local Altoona-Johnstown diocese who had systematically raped and molested hundreds of boys and girls for 40 years, while bishops covered it up and the criminal justice system looked the other way. McCaa died in 2007, at 82.
Gergely killed himself earlier this month at 46.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...an-gergely
In the meantime assholes in Maine....
A US Christian group in Maine called ‘Equal Rights, not Special Rights’ is campaigning to recriminalize homosexuality.
The group was created by Mike Heath and other heads of the Christian Civic League of Maine.
The group have said that they’re tired of “being forced” to accept homosexual lifestyles.
Heath said that “the war is on.”
http://attitude.co.uk/a-us-christian-gro...sexuality/
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"