Catholic probe to look at gays in U.S. seminaries - NY Times


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Catholic Church investigators tasked by the
Vatican to review U.S. seminaries will be looking for "evidence of
homosexuality" and for professors who dissent from Church teaching,
the New York Times reported on Thursday.
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Priests and monks have been raping little boys for over 1000 years.


The Emotional Life of Nations
by Lloyd deMause

Chapter 8----The Evolution of Childrearing

http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/eln08_childrearing.html


But placing boys as oblates into monasteries only made them available
for rape by monks, who could not keep their hands off them. One
abbott wrote about an infant boy brought to the monastery by his
father:

...the man turned the child over to me altogether, and I received the
baby with pleasure and joy and a clean heart. [But] when the boy got
older and had reached the age of about ten...I was tortured and
overwhelmed by an obscene desire, and the beast of impure lust and a
desire for pleasure burned in my soul...I wanted to have sex with the
boy...587

Sex with boys was the central obsession of monks beginning with the
early anchorites who went to the desert; Macarius saw so many monks
having sex with boys in the desert that he strongly advised monks not
to take them in.588 But the need was too strong, and even rules such
as those requiring boys to have escorts when going to the lavatory
did not prevent monks from routinely using their oblates sexually.589
So many monks raped their novices that there was a common
saying, "With wine and boys around, the monks have no need of the
Devil to tempt them."590 Priests also commonly used confessions to
solicit sex with boys, but early Christian penitentials assessed
penances only for the boys, since they were blamed for their own
rape. Peter Damian said in the eleventh century that sex with boys in
monasteries "rages like a bloodthirsty beast in the midst of the
sheepfold of Christ with bold freedom" and suggested both the man and
boy be punished as accomplices for a "sin against nature."591


587. John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. New York:
Villard Books, 1994, p. 247.

588. Aline Rousselle, Porneia, p. 148.

589. Patricia A. Quinn, Better Than The Sons of Kings: Boys and Monks
in the Early Middle Ages. New York: Peter Lang, 1988, p. 165.

590. Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Celibacy, p. 101.

591. Peter Damian, Book of Gomorrah. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier
University Press, 1982, pp. 27, 42.

"Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death
or life again as a child? Who would not choose to die?"
----St. Augustine



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