Priests and monks have been raping boys for over 1,000 years.
The Emotional Life of Nations
by Lloyd deMause
Chapter 8----The Evolution of Childrearing
http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/eln08_childrearing.html
But placing boys as oblates into monasteries only made them available
for rape by monks, who could not keep their hands off them. One abbott
wrote about an infant boy brought to the monastery by his father:
....the man turned the child over to me altogether, and I received the
baby with pleasure and joy and a clean heart. [But] when the boy got
older and had reached the age of about ten...I was tortured and
overwhelmed by an obscene desire, and the beast of impure lust and a
desire for pleasure burned in my soul...I wanted to have *** with the
boy...587
*** with boys was the central obsession of monks beginning with the
early anchorites who went to the desert; Macarius saw so many monks
having *** with boys in the desert that he strongly advised monks not
to take them in.588 But the need was too strong, and even rules such
as those requiring boys to have escorts when going to the lavatory did
not prevent monks from routinely using their oblates ***ually.589 So
many monks raped their novices that there was a common saying, "With
wine and boys around, the monks have no need of the Devil to tempt
them."590 Priests also commonly used confessions to solicit *** with
boys, but early Christian penitentials *****sed
penances only for the boys, since they were blamed for their own
rape. Peter Damian said in the eleventh century that *** with boys in
monasteries "rages like a bloodthirsty beast in the midst of the
sheepfold of Christ with bold freedom" and suggested both the man and
boy be punished as accomplices for a "sin against nature."591
587. John Boswell, Same-*** Unions in Premodern Europe. New York:
Villard Books, 1994, p. 247.
588. Aline Rousselle, ****eia, p. 148.
589. Patricia A. Quinn, Better Than The Sons of Kings: Boys and Monks
in the Early Middle Ages. New York: Peter Lang, 1988, p. 165.
590. Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Celibacy, p. 101.
591. Peter Damian, Book of Gomorrah. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier
University Press, 1982, pp. 27, 42.
"Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death
or life again as a child? Who would not choose to die?"
----St. Augustine
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Thursday, 29 July, 2004, 15:24 GMT 16:24 UK
Vatican gags *** scandal bishop
An investigator sent by the Vatican to look into a *** scandal at
seminary in Austria has banned the local bishop from talking to the
media.
Bishop Klaus Kueng, who was named as investigator by Pope John Paul
II, said the gagging order was necessary to halt the damage being
done
by the scandal.
Photographs have appeared in Austrian media of clerics at St Poelten
seminary kissing and fondling student priests.
Local bishop Kurt Krenn caused outrage by describing the incidents as
pranks.
The director of the Roman Catholic priests' training college and his
assistant have already resigned, but Bishop Krenn has so far resisted
calls by some of his congregation to quit his post.
The appointment of Bishop Kueng, of the Austrian city of Feldkirch,
by
the Pope followed a 27-year-old Polish student from the seminary
being
charged with the possession and distribution of child ****ography.
The affair has shocked Austria and embarrassed the Catholic Church.
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"Archbishop Paetz has been accused by fellow priests of paying night
visits to the lodgings of seminarians, cuddling up to young clerics
in
public and using an underground tunnel to pay unannounced visits to
his targets. "
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Thursday, 28 March, 2002, 11:39 GMT
Polish archbishop quits in *** row
A Polish archbishop under investigation by the Vatican has resigned
amid accusations that he molested young clerics.
Underground tunnel
Archbishop Paetz has been accused by fellow priests of paying night
visits to the lodgings of seminarians, cuddling up to young clerics
in
public and using an underground tunnel to pay unannounced visits to
his targets.
He is the highest-ranking prelate to be brought down by a scandal of
this kind since Austrian Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer was forced to
give up all his duties in 1998, amid allegations that he had molested
young boys.
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*** scandal in Austrian seminary
By Ian Traynor
Vienna
July 14, 2004
The Austrian Catholic Church has been plunged into its second big ***
scandal in a decade when a seminary run by arch-conservatives was
alleged to be the site of orgies among young priests and their
teachers.
The church announced yesterday that it would investigate charges of
homo***uality between priests and seminarians at a seminary outside
Vienna.
A church panel in the Sankt Poelten diocese west of the capital
agreed
to the inquiry after the news magazine Profil published photographs
showing leading clerics of the local seminary fondling and kissing
student priests.
Profil said investigators had also found at least 40,000 mostly
****ographic photographs at the seminary.
The director of the seminary and his assistant have both quit as
details of the scandal emerged in recent days. The seminary in St
Poelten, west of Vienna, comes under the authority of the
conservative
Bishop Kurt Krenn.
While the Austrian Bishops' Conference issued a statement declaring
that homo***uality and ****ography had no place at the seminary,
Bishop Krenn refused to resign and appeared to compound the crisis by
saying: "This has got nothing to do with homo***uality. It's just
boys' pranks."
March 28, 2002
Polish Archbishop Resigns in Wake of *** Abuse Scandal
By REUTERS
Filed at 7:45 a.m. ET
WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish archbishop accused of molesting young
priests quit on Thursday, bowing to pressure to end the worst ***
scandal to hit the powerful Roman Catholic church in Poland.
Archbishop Juliusz Paetz, 67, told a gathering of clerics in his
Poznan diocese in western Poland he was
leaving his post to protect the ``unity and stability'' of the
church,
The Vatican in Rome confirmed Polish-born Pope John Paul had accepted
the resignation of Paetz, who worked closely with him from 1978-1982,
organizing the Pontiff's extensive travels. The Pope has not
commented
on the scandal in his native land.
A newspaper re****t last month saying Paetz forced trainee priests and
young clerics into homo***ual acts created the biggest storm yet over
the behavior of churchmen in Poland, where the Catholic hierarchy
still has enormous influence. ``This should clear the air within the
Catholic Church in Poland. The Pope treated this situation very
seriously, as you can see from how quickly he acted to bring it to an
end,'' KAI chief Marcin Przeciszewski said.
Paetz was accused by fellow priests of paying night visits to the
lodgings of seminarians, cuddling up to young clerics in public and
using a 200 meter (yard) underground tunnel to pay unannounced visits
to his targets in their dormitory.
Paetz became the highest ranking churchman entangled in *** abuse
allegations since Austrian Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer stepped down
after molestation charges in 1995.
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