(Am looking for the VF article - it's at least a year old so hope I still have the mag)
http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/2002Oct/oct11coc.htmThe American bishops, on the other hand, do not even want to examine the problem of sodomy in the Church. Some of them, such as Bernard Cardinal Law, the Archbishop of Boston (and two of his auxiliaries at the time, Thomas Daily and William Murphy, who now serve, respectively as ordinaries next door to each other in Brooklyn and Rockville Centre) did not recognize that a priest,
Father Paul Shanley, who had been instrumental in the founding of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA)
was not fit ever to return to priestly work.
http://www.american-partisan.com/cols/2002/rollins/qtr2/0506.htm"The connection between and the rape of young boys by rogue priests in America’s Catholic churches has regrettably become as common as Mom and apple pie; said connection can no longer be denied – even by those ardent defenders of America’s homosexual community.
Information learned from the arrest of Father Shanley led to the disclosure that he was present in Boston at the 1979 meeting and was one of the founding members of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), an organization which I not only called for the destruction of in a previous column, but an organization I feel should have its members exterminated by whatever means possible"
http://www.fuckfrance.com/read.html?postid=19371"The documents also show that the priest,
Rev. Paul R. Shanley, spoke in favor of sex between men and boys at a 1978 meeting in Boston where the ``Man Boy Lovers of North America,'' which later became the North American Man-Boy Love Association, or Nambla, was founded. Shanley is now 71 and was last known to be living in San Diego. "
http://www.americamagazine.org/catholicnews.cfm?articleTypeID=29&textID=1719&issueID=369"At a meeting in Milwaukee in 1978, he said the church’s call for homosexuals to live celibate lives is unrealistic. In 1979 Cardinal Humberto Medeiros, then archbishop of Boston, transferred
Father Shanley to parish ministry after receiving complaints about the priest’s appearance as a speaker at a Boston conference on man-boy love that has been described as the founding conference of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (Nambla). In that talk Father Shanley reportedly spoke approvingly of a sexual relationship between a man and a boy and criticized society for treating such relationships as crimes. “We have our convictions upside down if we are truly concerned with boys,” a local gay newspaper quoted him as saying."http://www.cornerstonemag.com/cart/repressed2002.htmBoston, Massachusetts: Paul Busa says that he was reading his newspaper when an article about a priest molesting a child suddenly opened the floodgate. Busa for the first time remembered abuse by a priest that he says went on for years, darkening his life from six to thirteen years old. The priest he accuses is none other than
the Rev. Paul Shanley, who is also alleged to have attended the founding of NAMBLA (the North American Man-Boy Love Assocation). Such cases as Busa's raise the issue of whether he really 'forgot' the abuse or in fact did remember it while choosing not to think about it. The whole issue of memory repression gets more complex the more it is explained, as the term "repressed" can be defined in various ways.
http://www.inoohr.org/judithlevinebook.htm One connection between advocacy and action was revealed on April 8 when
court documents showed that a Catholic priest accused of repeatedly raping a boy was present at the founding of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). I have more, this should suffice at least for starters.
I live in Rochester, NY and was at that talk back in 1977. I also have (Catholic) family all through Massachusetts, especially Brockton. They know the families (thank God my cousins in Brockton are female)! The few dozen who are suing, they say on very good intelligence, are but the tip of the iceberg... there are many families and now grown men who will not sue just to not have to dig up all those horrendous memories and let the country, if not the world, know what they think is *THEIR* shame!
And that is as great a sin as Shanleys' -- thinking they were responsible.
Or perhaps you'd like to argue
that, too?I can't help but wonder why you're even bothering to defend this pedophile priest...
***EDIT: Fixed typo
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