VATICAN: PRIESTS "NOT RESPONSIBLE" IF THEY RAPE CHILDREN

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Vatican: Priests ‘Not Responsible’ If They Rape Children

May 2, 2017 Sean Adl-Tabatabai

A senior Vatican Bishop has claimed that priests who rape children
should not be held responsible for their actions

According to New York Catholic Bishop, Robert Cunningham, NY priests who
have been caught raping children aged 7 and over are being wrongly
accused because “children know what they’re doing, so it isn’t rape.”

The sickening statements were made in his testimony from a deposition
for a federal lawsuit, in which Catholic priests are being criminally
prosecuted for decades of child abuse.

Countercurrentnews.com reports: According to Cunningham, the “age of
reason” in the Catholic church is seven, so those boys are culpable for
their actions.

The shocking statement came during testimony that was recently released
from a deposition for a federal lawsuit. Charles Bailey, a survivor of a
priest’s abuse, asked then-Bishop James Moynihan whether the church held
children victims partly responsible for sexual abuse from priests .
“(Bishop) Moynihan said that right to my face – ‘The age of reason is 7,
so if you’re at least 7 you’re culpable for your actions.’ That kind of
floored me,” said Bailey.

Obviously, the sentiment isn’t something one Bishop believes, but a
broader excuse used to cover for the guilt of sexual predators.

The “age of reason” may be seven years old, but that in no way makes it
the “age it’s the kid’s fault he was raped.” According to church
doctrine, seven is the age a child should understand the difference
between right and wrong. It’s also the age a child is eligible for
communion.

A spokesman for the diocese has been trying to defend the bishop, saying
that his statements in a deposition don’t mean he believes children are
responsible for being raped and that it was “unfair to use the
deposition to characterize his position otherwise.”

“Unfair may not quite cut it where this man is concerned. When pressed
on the issue, he said it wasn’t his place to know how much guilt was on
the victim’s hands. The simple answer, “none,” became another distorted
version of reality that somehow makes it at least partially a child’s
fault when a priest abuses him.

“Well, I mean, without knowing the circumstances completely, did the boy
encourage, go along with (it) in any way?” Cunningham asked. The lawyer
asked Cunningham if he could imagine any circumstance in which a 14- or
15-year-old boy could be held responsible in the eyes of the church when
a priest asks him to engage in sex.

“Obviously, what the priest did was wrong,” Cunningham said. “You’re
asking me if the young man had any culpability, and I can’t judge that.”

Actually, you can judge that. Anyone can judge that. What happened is
priests used their influence and position as “messengers of God” to
force children to comply with their perverted sexual desires. In the
very least they were forced to make adult decisions they didn’t have the
capacity to make. This bishop and all the priests he defended with this
mindless argument betrayed the trust of the parishioners and especially
the children of the Diocese of Syracuse.

Charles Bailey has circulated a petition he intends to present to Pope
Francis in Philadelphia during his visit to remove Bishop Cunningham as
the head of the church there.