There Must Be A Purge In The Catholic Church. And It Must Be Brutal

A grand jury report about the sex abuse of children by priests in Pennsylvania was released today. Over 300 predator priests are named in the document. The specifics are graphic and horrifying. They involve violent sexual assault and rape, and sometimes the coordinated abuse of children by multiple priests in the same church. And, of course, the opportunity for this abuse was furnished by bishops who looked the other way, or covered up the crimes.

 

In one case, a boy was forced to stand naked, posing like Christ on the cross while priests took pictures and added them to a collection of child pornography that they produced and distributed on the campus of the church. These priests would mark boys who were being groomed for abuse by giving them gold crosses to wear.

 

In another case, a priest raped a young girl and arranged for her to get an abortion. His bishop heard about the situation and wrote a letter of condolence — to the priest.

 

In another case, a priest molested a boy over the course of two years, admitted to church officials that he’d been engaged in naked “horseplay” with the child, and yet was allowed to continue in ministry for seven more years.

 

In another case, a priest raped a little girl while he was visiting her in the hospital.

 

In another case, a priest forced a boy to give him oral sex and then washed the boy’s mouth with holy water.

 

In another case, a priest molested a 12-year-old boy, admitted his crime to a church official, but the diocese ruled that the abuse wouldn’t “necessarily be a horrendous trauma” to the victim.

 

And on and on.

Source: WALSH: There Must Be A Purge In The Catholic Church. And It Must Be Brutal. | Daily Wire

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