I happen to be overly open to the idea that anyone can be a pervert. I've read too many cases, talked to too many people to ever believe that any group of people can be exempt from having a bad apple within their clan, friends, or fellow professionals. And, I've read a few hundred too many reports on the merits of so called religious men to believe that being a priest or religious leader means that one can't also be a pedophile.
Oddly enough, there are still people that will hear allegations against a church leader and refuse to believe that their humble priest could ever do wrong. If I had a penny for every time I heard or read "he is such a good (fill in priest, rabbi, bishop, elder etc), he just couldn't have done this" I'd be "lost in somewhere warm sunny, and peaceful" rather than Lima, Ohio.
Father Joe is one such priest, accused of hurting those that he should have been preaching to. There is really not any part of the story that I could link, that would show the complete picture, and I don't want to paste in the entire piece, so I'm just going to put up the link, and ask for your thoughts.
Van Wert County parish defends accused priest
St. Mary vents grief to bishop
Oddly enough, there are still people that will hear allegations against a church leader and refuse to believe that their humble priest could ever do wrong. If I had a penny for every time I heard or read "he is such a good (fill in priest, rabbi, bishop, elder etc), he just couldn't have done this" I'd be "lost in somewhere warm sunny, and peaceful" rather than Lima, Ohio.
Father Joe is one such priest, accused of hurting those that he should have been preaching to. There is really not any part of the story that I could link, that would show the complete picture, and I don't want to paste in the entire piece, so I'm just going to put up the link, and ask for your thoughts.
Van Wert County parish defends accused priest
St. Mary vents grief to bishop