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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 11:47 AM
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Tapes show Italian priest lured teenage boys for sex, paid them with cocaine
Investigators examining tapped cellphone conversations between a Moroccan drug dealer and 51-year-old Father Riccardo Seppia (shown at left, in the red robe) found evidence of arranged sexual encounters with young boys, some of whom were paid for sex with cocaine.

"I do not want 16-year-old boys but younger," Seppia is accused of having said on the tapes. "Fourteen-year-olds are O.K. Look for needy boys who have family issues."

Seppia is a priest in a the archdiocese of one of the top advisers working with Pope Benedict XVI "on reforms to respond to prior scandals of pedophile priests." He is said to have boasted in the recorded cellphone conversations that local shopping malls were the best place to pick up boys for sex.

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/26/italian-cardinal-who.html

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What. The . Fuck.

Didn't the church just release a report that said it was not the fault of the priests? How anyone can continue to support this demented philosophy is beyond me.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 11:54 AM
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1. "Didn't the church just release a report that said it was not the fault of the priests?"
Edited on Fri May-27-11 11:54 AM by KansDem
Woodstock. It was Woodstock. That's what the study commissioned by Catholic bishops found. Woodstock caused Catholic priests all around the world to want to fuck 12-year-old boys.

It was Woodstock.
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sudopod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 11:58 AM
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2. They warned them about the brown acid, but did they listen, oh nooooo. nt
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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 12:21 PM
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3. still the fault of the 60s. those damned hippies!!
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onager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 12:35 PM
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4. Yes, if the Church uses this definition for a typical Sixties hippie...
Edited on Fri May-27-11 12:36 PM by onager


Too bad ol' Charlie tried to start his own bizarre death cult full of weird sexual kinkiness. If he'd only hooked up with an old, established bizarre death cult full of weird sexual kinkiness, he'd probably be happily retired in Sausalito right now.

The mass murders might have posed a slight problem, but a good church P.R. person could probably get that written off as "youthful indiscretions."
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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 12:47 PM
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5. they could have just sent him somewhere where he could do it and no one would notice and of course
it would only be those unworthy people... the EVIL ones.
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PDJane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 06:54 PM
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6. The catholic church has been abusing congregants
For a very, very, very long time.

The castrato were abused, the Borgias were involved with the church, the Sisters of Mercy weren't merciful.....Preistly abuse of children, the poor and the helpless has been going on for a very, very, long time. The nuns are just as abusive in a lot of cases, particularly in schools and orphanages.

They can blame the changing times all they like; times have been changing for all of human history, but the Catholic Church remains the same.
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dimbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 08:52 PM
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7. See? Karl Marx was dead wrong. Not the opiate of the masses at all.
Of course Marx wrote before cocaine was popular.
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