Norwegian Bishop Resigned Because of Abuse

Source: NY Times

By DANIEL J. WAKIN
Published: April 7, 2010


ROME — In May, the leader of Norway’s small Catholic community unexpectedly resigned with little explanation. The Vatican on Wednesday said why: he had sexually abused a boy in the early 1990s.

It was the latest case to emerge in a clerical sex abuse scandal that has been churning through Europe in recent months, putting the Vatican on the defensive and forcing bishops across the continent to confront the issue.

The bishop, Georg Mueller, 58, left his diocese in June, has since undergone therapy and “no longer carries out pastoral activity,” according to a statement by the Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman.

Reacting quickly to a Norwegian press report, Father Lombardi said that after the abuse came to the attention of church authorities in January 2009, it was handled “with rapidity” in a process overseen by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome. Pope Benedict XVI accepted his resignation “in a timely manner,” the spokesman said.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/world/europe/08church.html

"This Bishop was not into faux lesbian diaper bondage or anything totally skanky outrageous like our beloved brethren, the Family Values Republicon Homelanders (smirk). He was just molesting some insignificant little rug rats. So why don't all you Born Again Puritans out there just STFU, genuflect, kiss my ass -- I mean my ring -- and let Bishops Be Bishops. Smirk."

- Pope Ratzinger (R)

This is insane!

Apparently the Bishop is German and moved back to Germany when it was discovered. He is still payed a salary by the catholic church in Norway today. The police has identified the victim and will question the victim tomorrow.

Interpol next?

The Roman Catholic bishop of a southern Ontario diocese has unexpectedly resigned his post.

Bishop James Wingle says in a letter to the Diocese of St. Catharines that the Pope has accepted his resignation, effective today.

Bishop Wingle, 63, writes that he can no longer “maintain the necessary stamina to fulfill properly my duties.”

No further explanation is given for his resignation.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/southern-ontario-bishop-resigns/article1526553/

I'm sorry, but the use of the word "stamina" there is really ironic.

The Vatican & highers-up at the Catholic Church are really showing their true colors here - their answer to everything is 'shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...'

Well, at least according to Ratzinger's spokescardinal. Hmmm... this media coverage is the work of homosexuals, the pedophile problem was really a homosexual problem...

I was picking up on too. Hopefully people are smart enough to see through it ... but one can never be sure.

From "same-sex -- marriage in the United States
Focus on the Facts" -- Sean Cahill, PH.D
Lexington Books -- 2004
See: Footnote

A 1998 Study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 90% of pedophiles are men, and 95% of these individuals are hetereosexual.

Research has indicated that gay men and lesbians are less likely than heteeosexual to sexually abuse children.

Perhaps the most egregious and damaging claim promulgaed by anti-gay groups is the claim that homosexuality is intrinisically linked to pedophiia and child sexual abuse.
The social science research on sexual orientation and child sexual abuse clearly disproves the claim that homosexuals are more likely to molest children. A 1998 study in the Journal of the American Medical Assocation found that 90% of pedophiles are men, and 95% of these individuals are hetereosexual. One researcher explained this statistic by noting, "Gay men desire consensual sexual relations with other adult men. Pedophiles are usually adult men who are sexually attracted to pre-pubescent children. They are rarely sexually attracted to other adults. In fact, research has indicated that gay men and lesbians are LESS likely than heterosexuals to sexually abuse children. Two studies that examined the sexual orientation of convicted child molesters found that less than 1% in one study and 0% in the other were lesbian or gay. One psychologist reviewed the existing social science literature on the relationship between sexuality and child sexual abuse and found that "a gay man is no more likely than a straight man to perpetrate sexual activity with children." Further, "cases of perpetration of sexual behavior with a pre-pubescent child by an adult lesbian are virtually nonexistent."

Gay rights activists, like all advocates for children's welfare, oppose child sexual abuse and support equitable age of consent laws that help prevent and punish such abuse.

At least 110,000 children are waiting to be adopted in the US. Approximately 588,000 children are currently in foster care. Barring gay men and lebians from adopting or foster parenting decreases the number of potential suitable homes for children in need.
Children who remain in foster care for much of their childhood, as do tens of thousands of American children, are more likely to have emotional problems. Some children in foster care live in 20 or more homes by the time they reach the age of 18. Barring gay men and lesbians from adopting or foster parenting is not simply unjust and unethical; it also decreases the number of potential suitable homes for children in need.
Research shows that children raised by gay and lesbian parents are not disadvantaged vis-a-vis their peers raised by hetereosexual parents.

Footnote 65 -- p.123
A review of 352 medical records of children evaluated for sexual abuse during a 12-month period at a Denver chidlren's hospital found that less than 1% had been abused by a gay man or a lesbian. Of 269 adult perpetrators of child abuse identified among the 352 cases of abuse, only two were gay or lesbian. The vast majority of the children in the study (82%) "were suspected of being abused by a man or a woman who was, or had been, in a hetereosexual relationship with a relative of the child." And the review concluded that in this sample, " a child's risk of being molested by his or her relative's heterosexual partner is over 100X greater by someone who might be identifiable as being homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual."
Jenny, C., and Roesler, T.A. (1994)
Are children at risk for sexual abuse by homosexuals? Pediatrics. 94(1).p.44.
In an earlierstudy of convicted male child molesters in Massachusetts, none of the 175 men were found to have an exclusively homosexual adult sexual orientation orto be primarily attracted to other adult men.
Groth, A.N., and Birnbaum, H.J. (1978).
Adult sexual orientation and attraction to underage persons.
Archives of Sexual Behavior.7(3).pp.175-181.

Also : The right-wing "Family Research Council" notes/confirms findings that "almost all child sexual abuse is committed by men."

Priest named José Virgilio Chona Albarracín, 58, was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison today for carnal abuse of a 13-year-old church acolyte. Priest was also fined equivalent of $10,000 and banned from any public function for eight years.

The boy's parents said the priest had offered money to the youth.

(This priest may not find prison too godly, because in Colombia inmates detest child abusers.)

When the victim, who today is above the age of majority, mentioned the abuse to another Catholic priest, the priest immediately reported it to the proper clerical authorities, but the victim refused to press charges with the police. The church was told, when they tried to find out whether they could press charges themselves, that the statute of limitations was out, and that it was now too late to report it. Less than 6 months after the first indication, the bishop resigned, and is now stripped of any responsibilities in the Church. The victim was asked what he wanted in recompense - he asked for, and received, a sum equivalent to a year's salary, (at least $45 000) and their promise not to go public with it.

And our Whore Press keeps letting Bill Donohoe apologize for these sick freaks.