When a man is ordained a priest, he is changed ontologically
he is made a different brand of human being
a little less than the angels
>> When I first entered St. John’s I loved it
in the confessional booth, there was a dividing wall
but there was a little space so you could sign back and forth and he would bless you
and he told me to take of my pants
I kept it a secret
>> He's assaulted probably 200 children.
>> We thought the priest would be removed from the school.
>> I thought I was going in there to uncover the crime but the people sending me in obviously had ulterior motives.
>> What do you do about father Murphy
>> He would walk in like a cat
>> This was known, it had been dealt with in the past
>> I just kept thinking enough, enough!
>> I was mad and I wanted to protect these deaf kids
>> Go to prison now
>> We don't turn our priests in
>> That's the world wide policy to snuff out scandal
>> I had no idea how big a story it was
>> There was no conspiracy but there was something far worse than a conspiracy
>> These documents seem to turn the whole story on its head
>> Deny, minimise and blame
>> Now I don't know what they would have done if it was a slew of murders
>> From 2001 forward, every single priest sex abuse case went to Ratzinger
He has all the data