Don't Forget O.C.'s Abusive Irish Catholic Priests!

By Gustavo Arellano Wed., May 20 2009 at 11:12 AM

Categories: Ex Cathedra

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Lenihan, second from right, in a picture Brown Stalinized

The Catholic world is abuzz with the release of a 2,500-page report by an judge documenting decades of physical and sexual abuse suffered by children in Ireland's Papist-run institutions. The report's release is a sad confirmation of the thesis put out by author Joe Rigert in his excellent 2008 book An Irish Tragedy: How Sex Abuse by Irish Priests Helped Cripple the Catholic Church. He posited that Ireland's repressed sexuality created a culture where child molestation was pandemic, and that the exportation of the country's priests to the United States unleashed an invasion of monsters on our shores. Couple that with Roman Catholicism's hierarchy of silence, and an American scandal was born.

Of course, the Diocese of Orange is never far from pedo-priests, and Rigert mentions the most notorious example: John Lenihan, my childhood priest who proved so scandalous that Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown infamously Stalinized him out of a picture in the diocese' official history book. But O.C. also suffered other mick molestors: John Kenney, Richard Coughlin, Robert Foley, and Daniel Murray are just the most notorious. Am I missing any, gentle readers?

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Murray is as evil as the day is long... I am one of his victims you tool. You did not experience this asshat when he was vocation director. The emotional abuse he put on me and others put me into therapy for years. I hate my years in the seminary because of him. Having him molest me as well only made it worse...
Murray, innocent? HA!
Just one problem with your article: Msgr. Daniel Murray is innocent. Who is his accuser? What are the charges? Why is he not back in ministry? Innocent until proven guilty? Gustavo, if you found these answers out, THAT would be the kind of journalism we expect from you. Don't throw Murray in with Lenihan and those other guys.
This is a world wide epidemic that CEO's are still trying to hide in large organizations. The dam thing might work with all the simply minded people that can't think for them selves. As some one else said "The cool aid drinkers." Lets keep an eye on this one!
I am so outraged at this Irish Reoort! I am not a violent person, but I would love to SMACK the next Roman Catholic Bishop who tells us he didn't know that Priests were raping and/or sodomizing (or worse) children. YES!!! I SAID WORSE!!! That's where the difference comes in. The difference between (we'll call him) "Zeek"; the unemployed painter down the street who lives out of the back of his station wagon; compared to the Well Respected, Highly Educated Catholic Priest who turns raping and/or sodomizing a child into a Ritualistic Sacrifice. That's The difference, Ladies and Gentlemen. Pervert Catholic Priests are so use to ritual and ceremony, they even make it part of their perverted sex lives. They use sacred oils and religious aarticles as sex toys: Even the Blessed Sacrament. So don't give us anymore nonsense about public school teachers and ministers of other faiths. When It Comes To Sacriligious Perversion, Roman Catholic Clergy Take The Prize. AND MAY THEY BURN IN HELL FOR IT!!!
www.bishop-accountability.org/abusetracker for daily verified & vetted reporting on the USCCB (Unremoved Sexual Criminal Cabal Bishops) & the Roman "La Cosa Nostra" Curia Pedo Cult, costing laity tens of documented global billions of diveted/stolen offetory plate dollars, massively hiked insurance liability premiums per parish, squandered laity paid for assets, & no punishment or removal of many hundreds of overtly (heavily documented) guilty Cardinal & Bishop perpetrators, enablers, aid & abettors, liars, defrauders, racketeers, justice obstructors, tax evaders, serial child endangers, thieves, etc. THE SOLUTION? "STOP DONATING LAITY" as St. Peter Damien correctly asserted. The Pedo Curia's Motto Remains = ISAIAH 28:15! Edmund Burke reminds each of us: "The only condition for the triumph of evil is for good men (or women) to do nothing." Rog "Mahal" Mahony remains #3 on the all time house of cards EVIL cardinal list behind Torgemada & Richelieu, followed by Bernard Law (less) at #4, luxuriating in Rome having stolen tens of millions of priests' retirement fund dollars to line his own pockets. just to add insult to massive injuries in Boston. Though not red hattted, GAY Tod Brown & Robert Brom are in about a 400 miter dead head/photo finish of who is most deserving to enter HELL first also. There is no middle ground here laity, you are either financially supporting this pedo cult, or you are not. HOW WILL YOU ANSWER YOUR MAKER?! Fiat Lux & Veritas! Albino Luciani, MURDERED POPE
Anonymous: I think that you are missing the point. Yes, there is child molestation everywhere ... schools, protestant churches ... boy scouts ... homes ... families. The issue is the COVER-UP. You read about molestation in other organizations because the perpetrators are reported and arrested - and then the media is notified and the perp is made public. The perps aren't moved from parish to parish ... sent to "treatment" ... their victims aren't lied to, humiliated, shamed and threatened with harm or eternal damnation. Is the world perfect? No. But look at it this way: A lot of people commit crimes. But the Mafia has an international conspiracy to commit crimes, cover them up, and silence victims/law enforcement. And the bishops, well, they are like the mafia. And the sooner we stop the cover-up and show victims that it's OK to report abuse, the sooner we show ALL molesters that they will be reported and jailed.
Stephanie: John Lenihan abused many girls, not just Mary Grant.
Oh that poor woman Mary Grant. I read about her in William Lobdell's book. That Fr.Lenihan had sex with her for years as a child. Thank God she was his only victim. It could have been worse. One child is bad enough but it could have been much worse. They sure did come down hard on him for his one transgression.
HEY, WHO COULD FORGET OUR IRISH PRIESTS HERE IN CALIFORNIA, Not To Mention The German and Austrian Ones Either. AND LET'S HERE IT FOR THOSE SISTER OF MERCY!!!! YA' WANNA GET SOME ANSWERS FROM IRAQ WAR CRIMINALS? JUST LEAVE 'EM ALONE WITH THOSE BABES FOR 30 MINIUTES (MAYBE EVEN 15) AND THEY'LL TELL YA' EVERYTHING YOU WANNA' KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love that -- greater incidence of protestant molestations than Catholic. Where's the data to support that fiction? And why is that phoney stat even relevant?
Anon: Whose picking on Catholics? I'm picking on pedophiles, their law-breaking superiors and their apologists like yourself�or do you think it's fine that bishops knowingly allowed predators to rape Orange County boys and girls?
Why does everyone pick on catholics so much? Molestation amongst catholic priests is actually less than that of similar protestant pastors...