From here:
A FORMER Newcastle Anglican church employee said he repeatedly warned the diocese, from as early as 1984, that a ‘‘network’’ of paedophile priests preyed on children, but the diocese failed to act on the warnings.
‘‘I told them in 1984 that ‘You’ve got a network of these bastards preying on altar boys’, and I named names,’’ the former church employee said.
In the past four years the diocese has defrocked three priests and sanctioned others, and confirmed a number of clergy and church workers were child sex offenders.
A FORMER Newcastle Anglican church employee said he repeatedly warned the diocese, from as early as 1984, that a ‘‘network’’ of paedophile priests preyed on children, but the diocese failed to act on the warnings.
‘‘I told them in 1984 that ‘You’ve got a network of these bastards preying on altar boys’, and I named names,’’ the former church employee said.
In the past four years the diocese has defrocked three priests and sanctioned others, and confirmed a number of clergy and church workers were child sex offenders.
What seems so extraordinary about this kind of all too frequent report is not just that Christians, professional Christians at that, indulge in one of the more grossly repugnant sexual sins, nor that there has been a cover-up. The extraordinary thing is that even though the majority of such priests are gay, the Western Anglican church is strenuously recruiting more gay men into its ranks, men among whom are those who clearly find altar boys an irresistible delicacy.
To forestall the inevitable protest: I am not claiming that the majority of gays are paedophiles. It does appear to be the case that the majority of paedophile priests are gay, though.