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5. For the last thousand years, the tradition has been to gloss over and cover up the existence of violations of both celibacy and the sexual abuse of children.
6. The hierarchy of the Catholic Church has passed the tradition of protecting priests at all costs down through the ages to where it has become a cultural policy.
The Depths of Depravity: Dehumanizing Actions
The culture of the RCC has been to totally ignore their victim's pain and suffering. There is not a shred of historical information that proves otherwise. The RCC has steadfastly refused to promote the healing and well being of children who have fallen victim to predator priests. Even to this day, the church fights tooth and nail in their attempts to ignore their victims. Are these the acts of an organization with humanitarian goals or one that has been dehumanized? Certainly they do not follow the precepts of Jesus.
The too obvious questions are: "What kind of men would allow heinous crimes against the bodies and souls of children to go unpunished?" What kind of men would then leave these children to suffer in silence? Never once has a bishop said that he considered the children when transferring sexually abusing priests to a new parish. Heartless is a kind moniker. Inhumane is a better one. The less obvious and more important question is why would men allow these same crimes against humanity to persist over centuries? To really understand that question, you have to first understand the depths of depravity reached by priests committing these crimes before you can truly appreciate the inhuman actions of person that lets them continue unabated.
The detachment molesting priests are capable of borders on sociopathic; meaning there is no remorse for even the most monstrous of crimes. The following stories are true and the reader must remember these are not the worst. Propriety and respect for the reader prohibit going into graphic detail regarding the sordid crimes priests have committed upon the bodies of children. However, for those seeking verification, a quick search of the Internet reveals over three quarters of a million entries on the subject of clergy abuse. The query "survivor stories of clergy abuse" produces almost ninety thousand entries.
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis was accused of helping an Ecuadorian priest flee the United States in November of 2008 after he allegedly molested a 4-year-old girl in Minneapolis.6
A woman goes to her parish priest for counseling. She tells the priest that she wants to be a good Catholic, but is having a hard time because she was sexually assaulted by a priest as a young girl. This priest gains her confidence and uses her needs to get to her twin boys and sexually abuses both of them. One of the boys, as a result of the abuse, attempts suicide. As he lay in his hospital bed hovering between life and death with his mom at his side, who comes to her offering prayers and consolation? None other than her counselor, her parish priest, and her son's abuser, the same man who's sexual abuse drove the boy to attempt suicide in the first place!
Behavior like that defies any connection with either a conscience or humanity, yet it happened. Worse still is the abusing priest who has the unbridled audacity to say the funeral mass for one of his victims that succeeded in committing suicide. This behavior strongly mirrors that of the arsonist who delights in watching his flames devour a building.
Just as twisted as the above but on a different level is the priest who while buttoning the cassock of the young altar boy fondles the boy's genitals. Ten minutes later, he is using those same fingers to lift and consecrate a host. In yet another few minutes, he is using those same fingers to place the host on the tongues of adoring parishioners seeking communion with Jesus. He moves blithely from one despicable act to the next with no remorse, no conscience or one so suppressed as not to exist. He has no fear, not even the wrath of God. His abominable sacrilege and desecration of children and the host continues Sunday after Sunday.
How can anyone claiming ties to humanity perpetuate these acts by moving offending priests from parish to parish? Yet, bishops, cardinals and popes have done it as routinely as saying mass. First they ignored the complaints. Then, when the complaints grew too loud, they simply moved the priest to another unsuspecting parish, with unsuspecting parents and vulnerable children. With a fifteen hundred year history of sexually abusing children, the RCC can hardly expect us to believe they "Didn't know!" Bishops knew children were being raped, sodomized and molested, but simply did not care. Behavior such as this is both heartless and inhuman. For centuries, bishops have knowingly tossed children to predator priests as easily as throwing peanuts to an elephant. Consider the following: In Canada, there are over 50,000 aboriginal children missing. They either died or were murdered in residential schools across the country.
"An international tribunal found the government and several churches guilty of the crime of genocide. Ever since June, 1998, when an international tribunal in Vancouver found your government, the RCMP, and the Catholic, United, Anglican, and Presbyterian churches guilty of acts of Genocide against native people, the world has waited to see if your government and the churches in question would respond to the charges brought against you by survivors of the residential schools. Your government and these churches have shown by your silence that you do not dispute the charges of mass murder and Genocide being made against you.7"
The story from Ireland is just as bad.
In Ireland, several commissions on Clergy Sexual Abuse have filed their reports over the past few years and each report from the Ferns Report to the most recent Dublin Report unequivocally condemns the Roman Catholic Church for their dismal failure in dealing with priests who abuse. The reports deal with the thousands of Irish children abused while the bishops of the church in Ireland did nothing to put a halt to it.
Why is it that bishops have no fear? There are a couple of possibilities: either they know there is no God, think they are gods or they believe they will suffer no consequences because they were appointed by god. The first one is difficult to prove, but there is a plethora of evidence for the latter two. Defying criminal law, while hiding behind a false interpretation of "separation of church and state," bishops believe they are the only ones who can censure the criminal acts of a priest. Believing they are appointed by God, they act horrified when anyone has the effrontery to cast aspersions on their character and they have history on their side because of the thousands of cases where bishops knowingly shuffled pedophiles, to date not one has been jailed. Not one bishop has paid the consequences for the most egregious crimes against humanity dating back a thousand years.
Somewhere during first thousand years, after the Council of Elvira, the hierarchy realized there could be no such thing as a celibate priest and the stringent rules were relaxed. Concurrent with this knowledge, men in the hierarchy have lost touch with both their humanity and the teachings of Jesus.
