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A Unifying Theory of Roman Catholic Clergy Abuse

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Vinnie Nauheimer
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How must these priests of the homosexual persuasion suffer listening to the constant tirades streaming down from a hierarchy whose own ranks are replete with homosexuals? How does the hierarchy tie the tongues of good men and why do good men allow their tongues to be tied? Fear and shame are the names of the game.

These Facts Underscore the Truth

Scientists, in order to test a theory, keep looking for the one thing which will disprove their theory. If none of the known facts refute the theory, it is considered a truth until such time as proof is offered to the contrary. So let it be with the following statements:

  1. The RCC has known about priestly sexual abuse within its ranks and has actively covered it up for over one thousand years.

  1. The RCC is the only organization in the Western World that has had men living with men on a continuous basis for fifteen hundred years.

  1. The RCC has had some of the world's most brilliant minds working on their behalf during the last fifteen hundred years as priestly philosophers, scientists and writers, yet none of them have figured out how to make celibacy work.

  1. The priesthood of the RCC has had active heterosexuals, homosexuals and child abusers in the clergy for over a thousand years. At varying times in their history, the size and scandal of one or more of the above groups has reached epidemic proportions.

  1. At various times in church history, there has been a public rebellion against the clerical decadence that became pervasive. We are currently in one of these periods.

The RCC knows more than any other organization in history about trying to keep men celibate during the last millennium. Yet they still fail. God's design is too strong for church doctrine. Judging by the fact that celibacy and chastity are still vows, it is obvious that there exists another reason to keep unholy vows. Knowing full well these vows can't be kept by normal people, why does the RCC keep them as well as the sordid sexual perversions they have produced. The new hypothesis is the RCC has kept chastity and celibacy as vows for no other reason than to exert control over the members of the priesthood as in the manner stated by Moynihan in Defining Decadence Down.17

This is the foundation of mutual protection as evidenced in Crimens Solicitationis,18 (the crime of soliciting) which turns all reported sexual abuse into a "Secret of the Holy Office," the pope and essential gags everyone who has knowledge of the crime under the penalty of excommunication. How far will members of the hierarchy go to protect sexually abusing priests? Up until now, Cardinal Law had been the poster boy, but he has been replaced by Cardinal Roger Mahony who has been fighting for a dozen years to keep the names of predator priests a secret. We've already discussed the moral turpitude of a man who knowingly protects child abusers. This is a sterling example of the lengths the cardinal has gone to prevent the names of abusive priests from being made public. It is an excerpt from a motion filed by the archdiocese of Los Angeles to squirm out of a commitment it made to survivors when they settled the sexual abuse claims against it

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Vinnie Nauheimer is a writer, photographer and artist whose work may be found on websites around the world. He has authored hundreds of essays, two books, two plays and a number of poems. Most of his writing over the past 10 years has dealt with the (more...)
 
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