Psychiatrist: I Warned Church About Abusive Priest
And these are the people who want to make decisions about everyone else's personal life:
ESSEN, Germany — The German archdiocese led by the future Pope Benedict XVI ignored repeated warnings in the early 1980s by a psychiatrist treating a priest accused of sexually abusing boys that he should not be allowed to work with children, the psychiatrist said.
“I said, ‘For God’s sake, he desperately has to be kept away from working with children,’” the psychiatrist Werner Huth said in an interview Thursday. “I was very unhappy about the entire story.” Dr. Huth said he was concerned enough that he set three conditions for treating the priest, Peter Hullermann: that he stay away from young people and alcohol and be supervised by another priest at all times.
Dr. Huth said he issued the warnings — explicit, both written and oral — before the future pope, then Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, left Germany for the Vatican in 1982. In 1980, following abuse complaints from parents in Essen that the priest did not deny, Archbishop Ratzinger approved a decision to move the priest to Munich for therapy.
Despite the psychiatrist’s warnings, Father Hullermann was allowed to return to parish work almost immediately after his therapy began, interacting with children as well as adults. He was promptly accused of molesting other boys and was convicted in 1986 of sexual abuse in Bavaria.
Benedict’s then-deputy, Gerhard Gruber, said that he was to blame for that personnel decision, which he called a “serious mistake.”
I am grateful this is finally hitting the international airwaves.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
protector of the people..He knew and covered it up..How many millions of children have been abused and never had anyone to protect them--in fact were abused for their exposing the truth!
Celibacy runs counter to nature's prime imperative... Until the church confronts the fact that the institution of celibacy attracts sexually disordered individuals, nothing will change. Since the entire leadership class is composed of such sexually disordered individuals who for whatever reason chose to amputate a basic part of the male human psyche, and join an institution that assured them that they COULD do this, and that it would make them BETTER people, closer to God, it can never really solve the problem.
Celibate adult males can have all the good intentions in the world, but they are living in denial, and have chosen to live in denial, of an essential aspect of themselves. That decision bespeaks a sickness, and we simply cannot be surprised if that sickness sometimes manifests itself in pedophillia.
No, every priest is not a pedophile... far from it... but almost any male human being who chooses abstinence, particularly at a young age, is giving evidence of deep psychological problems. Imagine a whole religious institution built upon such foundations! It's a problem that will never be solved... although Europe's lay abandonment of Christianity is perhaps the popular response to this deep sickness in the psycho-spiritual foundations of the Church.
Dumb shit. Just go to confession and start all over again.
I'm disgusted with the Catholic Church. I realize it is only as good or as evil as the people running it. Enough said?
...for those in high positions of power to find people willing to fall onto their swords (figuratively or literally--doesn't matter) for them.
Anybody who believes Benedict had no idea what was going on is living in a dreamworld, and if experience is any indicator, they'll never awaken to Reality...
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/6938/sean-hann...
...the LORD will provide! Santy Claus, too!
These are the same leaders who are fighting health care for those who desperately need it.
When I was a kid there was a priest at my church who was a pedophile. He got tossed by the head priest at my church. Years and years later when I was an adult the same priest baptized my niece at another church. When a pedophile in a community has the opportunity and ability to do that kind of damage to the vulnerable youth in the community everybody is tortured by the thought. Why was he allowed to remain on the street. Keep him out of my neighborhood. And yet these pedophiles are protected. What the hell is the problem? Why has this not been address? I suspect it is such a centuries old problem with the Catholic church that it is nearly impossible to solve.
Jeanne
No Exceptions.
Republicans are liars and simply cannot be trusted.
This Gruber guy got his orders, fall on his sword for "His Holiness," Pope Rat the 1rst.
Joey Ratz, as Jon Stewart said.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
This is beginng to sound like a Dan Brown book but without the fictional part. I find it all disgusting and in any other field it would be a crime of major proportions.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
It is a crime of major proportions, but ..."the devout" (braindead zombies) seem willing to give it a pass when it's one of their own.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Waddya I say?
You know I don't bother to keep track...
(Email the site monitors.SM )
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The guy who gave a raging pedophile access to hundreds of children for thirty years was named Ratzinger. The pope's name is Benedict. See?
The Catholic church is so infested with pedophiles and sickos that it should disband altogether , the fact that they try to cover for each other tells the extent of " the problem ". They've been getting away with this stuff for a long long time .
The Government is so infested with pedophiles and sickos that it should bisband altogether, the fact that they try to cover for each other tells the extent of "the problem". They've been getting away with this stuff for a long long time.
Alan Rickman played Hans Gruber in "Die Hard." Jeremy Irons played Simon Gruber in "Die Hard: With A Vengeance."
Who will play the worst Gruber of all, Gerhard Gruber, in "Die Hard: Not Safe For Kids"?
this priest continue to abuse children.
Aside from my belief that therapy doesn't work for pedophiles and they should be behind bars for good, it still disgusts me that the church ignored this psychiatrist's conditions for the priest's treatment. I don't know much good it would have done if the church had honored them, but at least it was something...
I've never seen change without a fire
and the shrink never bothered to do a followup to see if the church was following his orders?
and the current pope's prior job was protecting child rapists
he has no moral authority and should be the first pope in history to resign
he has done. He has no shame about it at all.
But I wish he'd resign too.
I've never seen change without a fire
After all, his prior experience prepared him for chust followeeing ohdas.
A clergyman, particularly a roman catholic clergyman listen to a psychiatrist's advice?
You jest, right???????????
They only listen to God!! And the higher up in the church pecking order priests go the more they listen only to God..
until the are God...
We all know this because the priests have told us so...
Since we were little boys and girls..
And listen, it is written in the Baltimore Catechism.....
Frankly, all anyone had, or has, to do is look at this guy's eyes. His whole sorry life is written all over his face. And if the Vatican and Catholic church had a face, it would look the same. The "Church" is the absolute worst hindrance mankind has ever encountered.
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