New Book: Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes

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Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes : The Catholic Church's 2,000-Year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse

One of the authors of this book is Patrick Wall, a former priest who's responsibility was to put out sexual abuse fires as they occured. He resigned and now works to hunt down these priests.

This is from John Divorak's blog:

In 1992 when, within weeks of taking his vows for the priesthood, Wall was invited to join the church’s “sexual abuse response team”. “My job was to firefight cases of sexual abuse - basically, take the place of the perp and calm the waters,” he says. “Our definition of success was that no one ever found out about it.”

Over the next five years, Wall found himself being shuttled from parish to parish to replace other, similarly failing priests - including one who had abused more than 30 altar boys. “Everywhere I turned, I was running into perpetrators,” he says. “In one month alone, we had seven cases against monks go public.” By 1998, Wall had had enough and resigned from the priesthood. Later, he went on to give expert testimony in other sexual-abuse cases.

His book claims to document a deliberate coverup of sexual abuses dating back to the founding of the Roman Catholic Church.

Looks like an interesting read.

[allan w.]

So what kind of outfit IS the Pope running ??

[oldiesman]

Golly, wonder what it is about the DOCTRINE that may cause all of this sinning?

[excathedra]

this is no surprise to me whatsoever

why does it have to be tied to doctrine ? how 'bout convenience ?

[excathedra]

from the blog

"Long, detailed article. For many — the stories aren’t new. Some of the documentation is apparently newly revealed — backing Wall’s assertion that a leading role in the coverups by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith — was led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI"

no duh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[excathedra]

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