The Tragic Life of Homosexual Ex-Priest Paul Shanley. 86-year-old former Boston priest Paul Shanley was released from prison on July 28 after having served twelve years. He was thrown out of the …More
The Tragic Life of Homosexual Ex-Priest Paul Shanley.
86-year-old former Boston priest Paul Shanley was released from prison on July 28 after having served twelve years. He was thrown out of the priesthood in 2004, and convicted of homosexual assault in 2005. Most of his life he was protected by the liberal establishment in and outside the Church.
Leftwing media hailed Shanley in the 1970s as the “hippie priest” who argued that - quote - “homosexuality is a gift from God and should be celebrated.” In October 1977, Shanley contended publically that “not even incest or bestiality” could cause psychic damage. His writings included "Changing Norms of Sexuality".
In 1970 the Boston archdiocese named Father Shanley its “representative for sexual minorities.” This was three years after accusations against Shanley were reported to the archdiocese. Shanley believed there were 34 sexual minorities. The media were excited.
Shanley was at the formative meeting of the North American Man/Boy Love Association in 1978, an organization dedicated to child rape. He eventually became its pastor. He also served as chaplain to Dignity, an organization of dissenting homosexuals. Shanley's life was exposed by the Wanderer, but the big media and the bishops were not interested.
According to Bill Donohue, Shanley said in 1977 that when an adult has sex with a child, “the adult is not the seducer—the kid is the seducer”.
Sister Jeannine Gramick, a pro-gay activist and darling of the media, is one of Shanley's friends. She said about him in 2005, "My heart grieved for this man I had not seen in almost 20 years, but whose principles and whose advocacy for the downtrodden I had applauded for three decades.” When Shanley refused to sign papers to laicize him, she exclaimed, “Good!”
Bill Donohue admits that Shanley was treated unjustly by the courts, because his conviction was based on an accusation citing “repressed memory”. According to Donohue this is fiction. Quote: "As many prominent psychologists and psychiatrists have shown, the more serious the offense, the less likely it is to be repressed."
Donohue hopes that the Catholic Left will stop saying that the Church’s “sexual repression” caused men like Shanley to do what he did. Quote, "No, it is precisely the abandonment of restraint—advocated by the Catholic Left—that brought about the homosexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church."
86-year-old former Boston priest Paul Shanley was released from prison on July 28 after having served twelve years. He was thrown out of the priesthood in 2004, and convicted of homosexual assault in 2005. Most of his life he was protected by the liberal establishment in and outside the Church.
Leftwing media hailed Shanley in the 1970s as the “hippie priest” who argued that - quote - “homosexuality is a gift from God and should be celebrated.” In October 1977, Shanley contended publically that “not even incest or bestiality” could cause psychic damage. His writings included "Changing Norms of Sexuality".
In 1970 the Boston archdiocese named Father Shanley its “representative for sexual minorities.” This was three years after accusations against Shanley were reported to the archdiocese. Shanley believed there were 34 sexual minorities. The media were excited.
Shanley was at the formative meeting of the North American Man/Boy Love Association in 1978, an organization dedicated to child rape. He eventually became its pastor. He also served as chaplain to Dignity, an organization of dissenting homosexuals. Shanley's life was exposed by the Wanderer, but the big media and the bishops were not interested.
According to Bill Donohue, Shanley said in 1977 that when an adult has sex with a child, “the adult is not the seducer—the kid is the seducer”.
Sister Jeannine Gramick, a pro-gay activist and darling of the media, is one of Shanley's friends. She said about him in 2005, "My heart grieved for this man I had not seen in almost 20 years, but whose principles and whose advocacy for the downtrodden I had applauded for three decades.” When Shanley refused to sign papers to laicize him, she exclaimed, “Good!”
Bill Donohue admits that Shanley was treated unjustly by the courts, because his conviction was based on an accusation citing “repressed memory”. According to Donohue this is fiction. Quote: "As many prominent psychologists and psychiatrists have shown, the more serious the offense, the less likely it is to be repressed."
Donohue hopes that the Catholic Left will stop saying that the Church’s “sexual repression” caused men like Shanley to do what he did. Quote, "No, it is precisely the abandonment of restraint—advocated by the Catholic Left—that brought about the homosexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church."