The Anguish of the Church
It is as nothing compared to the anguish of the faithful, that huge community of believers who reel back time and again as their faith in those who stand between them and their God, as spiritual interlocutors, those who have represented the holy orders and who have led them through their lives as believers, fail the most basic tests of humanity. Yes, every profession is infiltrated by those who while appearing trustworthy, fail the final test, for humanity is rife with sociopathic tendencies of one kind or another.
But this is truly the unkindest cut of all. The admired, respected, trusted man of God who has turned his back on his parishioners' needs, to fulfill his own carnal urges. Not simply abusing himself, or striking an alliance with a consenting adult, even unto either gender, but preying on children. Doing it because they understand a child stands in awe of the attentions given it by such a leader in the community, and nothing he would do could be wrong.
Until finally the child understands why he feels so discomfited and spiritually bruised, and horrendously wronged, and attempts to speak of it. Only to be turned away with revulsion at a child's wicked imagination, tarnishing the reputation of one whose quality of character is beyond reproach. And then, when sufficient numbers of children speak up, and doubt does lead to the unveiling of the obscene, an institutional concealment takes place.
The brother priest now living in Florida who had cautioned the-then archbishop about the child-pornographic tendencies of former bishop of the diocese of Antigonish, Raymond Lahey, also telephoned Lahey to alert him of the situation. Feeling confident that once warned Lahey would dispense with his disgustingly immoral pasttimes. He characterized Lahey's unpalatable obsession as "not illegal", therefore he could do nothing more.
The legality under the law of possession of child pornography at that time several decades earlier had little to do with the morbidly conscienceless abuse of young boys that Raymond Lahey and others of his psychopathic inclination indulged themselves in. It was the depths of their depraved pathologies in lusting after sexual liaisons with children that marked them as the debased men they were.
That the church hierarchy now pleads it has been humiliated sufficiently, that the scandals have threatened its ability to represent the faithful to the God of their fathers is heart-rendingly absurd. Given the furtive attempts of that same hierarchy to conceal these aberrations, to protect the predators, and to abandon the violated children to their fate of psychological pain.
This is the damage control the elders, the superiors, the elite of the Church engaged in, not the protection and the concerned and comforting care of the abused.
But this is truly the unkindest cut of all. The admired, respected, trusted man of God who has turned his back on his parishioners' needs, to fulfill his own carnal urges. Not simply abusing himself, or striking an alliance with a consenting adult, even unto either gender, but preying on children. Doing it because they understand a child stands in awe of the attentions given it by such a leader in the community, and nothing he would do could be wrong.
Until finally the child understands why he feels so discomfited and spiritually bruised, and horrendously wronged, and attempts to speak of it. Only to be turned away with revulsion at a child's wicked imagination, tarnishing the reputation of one whose quality of character is beyond reproach. And then, when sufficient numbers of children speak up, and doubt does lead to the unveiling of the obscene, an institutional concealment takes place.
The brother priest now living in Florida who had cautioned the-then archbishop about the child-pornographic tendencies of former bishop of the diocese of Antigonish, Raymond Lahey, also telephoned Lahey to alert him of the situation. Feeling confident that once warned Lahey would dispense with his disgustingly immoral pasttimes. He characterized Lahey's unpalatable obsession as "not illegal", therefore he could do nothing more.
The legality under the law of possession of child pornography at that time several decades earlier had little to do with the morbidly conscienceless abuse of young boys that Raymond Lahey and others of his psychopathic inclination indulged themselves in. It was the depths of their depraved pathologies in lusting after sexual liaisons with children that marked them as the debased men they were.
That the church hierarchy now pleads it has been humiliated sufficiently, that the scandals have threatened its ability to represent the faithful to the God of their fathers is heart-rendingly absurd. Given the furtive attempts of that same hierarchy to conceal these aberrations, to protect the predators, and to abandon the violated children to their fate of psychological pain.
This is the damage control the elders, the superiors, the elite of the Church engaged in, not the protection and the concerned and comforting care of the abused.
Labels: Human Relations, Realities, religion
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