Thought for the Week: From the PA Legal Intelligencer
"The Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia supplied a priest accused of
sexually abusing and assaulting young boys with an 'endless' supply of
victims through assignments that involved ministering to youth, a Philadelphia
prosecutor argued in court Monday (Jan. 16).

In an unprecedented step nationally, the Philadelphia District Attorney's
Office has charged the priest's supervisor, the Catholic Archdiocese of
Philadelphia's former personnel director for priests, Monsignor William
Lynn, with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and two counts
of conspiracy for allegedly failing to protect children by moving two accused
sexual offenders to new parish assigments"
The prosecutors allege that Msgr. Lynn reassigned more than 25 priests under his supervision who were accused of molesting young boys. They were sent to other places where they were able to continue sodomizing other children. Msgr. Lynn's lawyer has described the victims as "whiners, rats and wimps". Msgr Lynn is outraged that these victims have stepped forward to complain. Apparently, he thinks that to do so is "wimpy". Instead, they should have "man-upped" and suffered the pastoral predations in silence, like all the good little Catholic soldiers in previous generations. This is nothing new. The difference is that now victims are finally speaking out. Former Cardinal Anthony J, Bavilacqua (who died this past week) had been accused of participating in covering up known sexual abuse by priests in his archdiocese. The late Cardinal Bavilacqua was an ardent public opponent of the use of contraceptives by married couples, homosexual marriage and abortion. Apparently, these are sins that are not committed by priests, since sworn to celibacy, they nay not marry their child victims; and since the victims are boys, the use of condoms does not constitute birth control; and there will never be an unwanted pregnancy to terminate. So where is the sin? The Church is preoccupied with the "family values" issues of sexual conduct between consulting adults, but has turned a blind eye to the plight of unconsenting child victims in its own schools and churches.
These prelates seem more concerned with the well being of the general unborn embryo population than they are with the welfare of their own living and breathing Catholic children.

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