Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God Page #2
relationships, involvement
and even criminal involvement
with children.
And the more I got into it,
the more and more discouraged I got.
They know that celibacy
is not practiced.
By "they", I mean
Vatican authorities,
I mean bishops,
I mean religious superiors.
And the higher you go,
the more they know.
You may not be keeping
your celibacy,
but as long as it's secret, it's OK.
Sipe found that clericalism,
setting a priest on a pedestal
above ordinary lay people,
helped to prop up the secret system.
Kids would come forward
"Well, Father did this to me."
"Oh, don't you say that!
You can't say that about a priest!"
Which then allowed priests
to express themselves sexually,
some from time to time
and some in horrendous ways.
Sipe recognised the syndrome that
police call Noble Cause Corruption -
a belief that good intentions
purify bad behaviour.
For a priest, belief in his own
goodness can transform,
like turning bread
into the body of Christ,
a perversion into a holy act.
A priest who had an affair
with this 12, 13-year-old girl
brought to one of their encounters
what he said was a consecrated host
and he touched it to
her vagina and he said,
"This is how God loves you."
And then,
he raped her.
It goes from just
that the priest is perfect,
the Pope is perfect,
to this kind of perversion of power
that can be twisted in this way.
The system
of the Catholic clergy,
for which I have great respect
and to which I have given
many years of my life,
selects, cultivates, protects,
defends and produces
sexual abusers.
I went to bed one night
and, before I fell asleep,
I could see Murphy
creeping into our room,
like a ravenous wolf.
I could see him sit on a bed
in the dim light
of the illuminated exit sign.
And I saw that he was
molesting a boy.
on the cross with a broken heart
wondering why Murphy
was doing this.
Why was Jesus just watching?
He would walk in like a cat.
Of course we couldn't hear him,
but someone would open their eyes
and see a dark shadow passing by
and they knew it was him.
and pick out certain boys.
He knew which boys wouldn't object
if he went to them.
The boys noticed that Father Murphy
would single out students
with hearing parents
who couldn't sign
so that the children
couldn't tell their parents
what was happening to them.
He wanted me.
He got what he wanted and he would
leave, that was his thing.
He was..
sick.
I was afraid to tell my mother
because I didn't think
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