Sacrilege: Sexual Abuse in the
Catholic Church by Leon J. Podles
Practicing Catholic Review
Sacrilege explores the deep roots of the Catholic ChurchÕs sexual-abuse
scandal, revealing its full depth and breadth. In horrifying yet necessary
detail, former federal investigator Leon Podles surveys the full extent of the
damage, showing how victims were failed by bishops, laity, therapists,
police, courts, press, and even popes. Examining the history behind
todayÕs headlines, Dr. Podles reveals how centuries-old theological errors
encouraged blind submission to hierarchy, by making obedience to
authority the highest virtue. He also shines a light on the new theological
errors, popularized since Vatican II, that glorify every type of sexual
expression--including pedophilia. Sacrilege will prove an essential
resource for all those concerned with the history and future of Catholicism.
Personal Review: Sacrilege: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic
Church by Leon J. Podles

I want to congratulate Dr. Podles for a skillfully written, thoroughly
annotated and meticulously edited volume which will serve as a model for
investigative texts on any subject.
I am angry that there are dissidents promoting this as the work of a
dissident. I believe Dr. Podles' motivation is the bitterness many of us have
over the destruction of the church's credibility as a moral arbiter rather than
a desire to turn the Catholic Church into a rococo version of the phony
'Metropolitan Community Church' which is the hope of many of the
newspaper reporters who write on this topic. While he expresses
disagreement with those who maintain that the use of traditional rubrics
alone will be sufficient to prevent these scandals, the passages I read most
gleefully were those in which he lambastes the likes of the National
Catholic Reporter and the pathetic 'New Ways Ministry' for their continued
applause for scumbags like Paul Shanley and Rembert Weakland.
My only disagreement is the inclusion of corrective proposals which are
careful and measured (which is almost inevitable in a book so carefully
crafted) - I say that the time for measured responses to this situation has
passed. Their continued intransigence and smugness on these issues can
lead me to no conclusion other than that Roger Mahony, George
Niederauer, Robert Brom, John McCormack, William Levada, Theodore
McCarrick, Harry Flynn, Bernard Law and Thomas O'Brien are
SODOMITES who are PLEASED by the molestation of boys by priests as
it fulfills their wish for general homosexual recruitment (a substantial
percentage of boastful male "gays" and a colossal percentage of
homosexual prostitutes had no inclinations toward homosexuality until their
adolescent molestation began). The laity needs to rise up and tell any of
these punks who still can get their fingers on their money that they will not
get one plugged nickel for chanceries, cathedrals, schools or limos until
they RESIGN.
(This must be going on in Mahony's lair to some degree as he is now
aspiring to have a diocese made up entirely of illegal aliens who he thinks
will not complain about him operating a homosexual bordello in a building
with the word 'seminary' on its nameplate)
Thank you again Dr. Podles for your service to contemporary literature and
your service to the faith.
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