Friday, September 07, 2012

ANOTHER ENABLER PRIEST: Guilty!




I have been following the various trials of Catholic clergy that have been accused of shielding abusive priests and in essence, allowing the abuse of children to continue.

This has been the first time in our history, to my knowledge, that “enabler” priests have been brought up on civil charges for failing to report to local authorities, priests under their supervision, that they knew were abusing children or had strong evidence that abuse may be taking place.

To me, knowing that a priest was abusing children and doing nothing about it is the same as abusing those children yourself.

In this case, the bishop knew of the child pornography found on a priest’s computer. The hundreds of child porn photos discovered by a computer technician were so graphic especially of little girl’s private parts that the technician could not open the lap top to show a church deacon the photos.

Even more disturbing is that Bishop Finn allowed this priest (Father Ratigan) to have contact with children, knowing what he knew.

 The case of Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn is interesting on a number of levels.

On one level, the Church is getting smart about protecting itself from unwanted publicity. Finn agreed to forgo a jury trial and instead have trial by judge or a bench trial that limits exposure.

I also found it interesting that Bishop Finn became very angry when he learned that a church leader reported Father Ratigan to the police. Finn said he wanted to “save Father Ratigan’s priesthood” and “it was only pornography”.

This naïveté by Catholic leaders is very dangerous because it is so common among Catholic leaders and because it points to the disturbing fact that these priests care more about their fellow priests and the welfare of their church than they do about innocent child victims of priestly abuse…to me this indicates a lack of basic humanity among church leaders which makes them hypocrites as they keep telling us that their job is to serve humanity.

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