The Vatican's own "Abu Ghraib!"

Things have gone from bad to worse within the clerical conclaves in Europe...  After an unnamed 33-year-old Polish-born "whistle blower" priest took wild photos with his compact digital camera, a scandal erupted that is now being called "The Vatican's own Abu Ghraib!" 

In an effort to effect and/or portend some much needed damage control, TODAY -- eight days later, the Pope has appointed Bishop Klaus Küng of Feldkirch as his "special inspector" (traditionally known as an apostolic visitor) for the Austrian Diocese of Sankt Poelten and its seminary.  This follows the emergency meeting of RC hierarchy in Austria held on July 12. 
 
Austria's Roman Catholic Church is launching an investigation into charges of kiddie porn and wild sexual orgies among priests and seminarians at a modernist RC New Rite seminary located in Saint Poelten just 80 km. (50 miles) west of Vienna, Austria. 

Much to his credibility and credit, Bishop Egon Kapellari, the episcopal head of Austria's Catholic Bishops' Conference, said "We do not want to hide from this problem... When an affair of this nature is revealed to the public, a bishop cannot minimize it. On the contrary, he should take immediate measures."

Authorities there had recently uncovered a huge cache of pornography at the Novus Ordo facility. Among those implicated are the rector, vice rector and several seminarians.  Church officials later discovered more lewd material on a computer at the seminary. About 40,000 photographs and an undisclosed number of films, including child pornography and beastiality, were downloaded on computers there.  The child porn came mostly from web sites based in Poland, the magazine said.
 
Several images purportedly showing young priests sucking face and slipping their tongues, etc.  to their "boy toys" --  and their instructors kissing and fondling each other while also engaging in orgies and sex games with seminarists -- were published last week in Austria's news magazine PROFIL.    Bishop Kurt Krenn, 68, said a picture showing Mr. Rothe French-kissing a young seminarian had "absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality", and was merely the kind of "idiocy" boys will often get up to.  

Or as some here might say here in America: "Boys will be boys" -- just "sowing their wild oats..."  But come on, guys, not on consecrated grounds.    ....So yet another bishop rationalizes and makes excuses.  And with such reckless stupidity, just like his clerics.  Too bad they forgot that, "Discretion is the better part of valor -- in the which better part I have saved my life." -- (Falstaff  in "King Henry the Fourth", Pt. One, by William Shakespeare.)  ALL of you have FLUNKED!  Now out the back door with the lot of you REJECTS.
 
Gay subculture in modernist seminary life is not very new and it is well known to be dominant in most.  Profil quoted one unnamed seminarian who claims that two fellow students considered themselves a "same-sex couple" and received the "Sacrament" of "Holy Matrimony" in a not-so-secret "wedding" there.  No wonder we have "catholic" priests who are so screwed up!  Not even I would go that far -- and I've been partnered with the same man for almost 25 years, and for a decade before that with my soul mate who died.  Sacrilege is not a blessing.  Rather, it provokes a curse - much like spitting into the wind.
 
    They also posted nude and suggestive pictures of themselves* to each other all the while talking about the duplicity of Rome in these matters on an Internet chat site called "Sebastian's Angels." (Warning: This cached mirror site features an ignorant homophobe who is critical of these RC clergy who speak openly of living a gay lifestyle and their bitter animosity towards their Vatican Conciliar Church.)  

* This is a common occurrence among some of our own ultrajectine tradition bishops & clergy who under the cover of dark, or behind a mask, exploit their own gender for selfish purposes, but would never raise a finger to defend anyone of their own orientation.  

(The Church in traditionally Catholic Austria was rocked by another sex scandal in 1995 when it was alleged that Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer, the then head of the Catholic Church in that country, had sexually abused seminarians. The Vatican replaced him months later and he retired to a monastery. On a visit to Austria in 1998, Pope John Paul II snubbed his old-time buddy, Cardinal Groer, who died at the monastery near Sankt Poelten last year at the age of 83.)
 
 The seminary’s director, the Rev Ulrich Kuechl, and his deputy, Wolfgang Rothe, have already resigned without admitting guilt or showing any remorse. Father Werner Schmid, the seminary's new director, told the Catholic agency KATHPRESS that officials must start from zero, redefining "the behavior that cannot take place in a seminary."  Now the Ordinary of the Diocese of St. Poelten, Bishop Kurt Krenn, a fanatical ultra-conservative, is under fire by Austrian Faithful who are demanding his deposition from their Dominican Cardinal Christoph Schonborn.  Senior hierarchs are at the point of petitioning the Vatican to remove + Krenn.  I say, go for it!  Demand his head on a plate!  
 
    However stupid and steamy, I have no problem with the few photos I've seen of these clothed men kissing and fondling each other after a supposed "Christmas party" -- as long as instructors didn't abuse their positions of authority to get sexual favors from their younger charges. Even the parties involved described them as "open to interpretation." and compared the actions in the photos to the way soccer players handle one another after a particularly good play. Perhaps. 

But if they actually did view child porn and/or commit pedophilia and bestiality (as alleged) then horse whip the lot of them before locking them up for several decades -- at least.  They would become accessories to the exploitation and rape of those kids.  Better yet, burn the damned place down with all those possessed swine in it!
 
The Austrian Socialist party spokesman, Hannes Jarolim, has urged Austria’s Interior Ministry to launch a criminal investigation into the charges.   (Wonders never cease. I never thought I'd be cheering a commie.)  Already, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel, a devout Catholic, has demanded a swift. explanation. "The question is, does The Church have a duty to live in an exemplary fashion according to certain principles? And the answer is a clear and simple 'yes'," he said. "Those involved know exactly what they have to do."
 
Sorry, guys, but this sex scandal does not compare to what we went through as kids in my OLHC parochial school (see my excerpt three posts below).  The sheer numbers do not equate and at least this time you were all consenting adults who kept it "in the club" among yourselves.  Hopefully kids were not hurt at your expense.  But did you at least take your Roman collars off?  And did any of you bother to remember that consenting adults also need God's consent?      

In objective fairness, I am wont to mention that we traditionalists have also had our own share of recent seminary sex scandals:  1.) Fr. Carlos Urritigoity, the founder and Superior General of the Scranton, Pa. based Society of St. John was suspended for sexual molestation of male students.  And 2.) the No. American superior of The Institute of Christ the King, Fr. Timothy Svea, was sentenced to 18-months in jail for tying a 16-year-old boy to his bedpost, etc.  Also, 3.) Fr. Marcial Maciel, the founder of the Rome-based Legionaries of Christ, has been accused by at least eight former seminarians of gross sexual abuse.  
 
And I could write a book of my own, but I won't.  At least not just yet.