Edelson and Lahey
Bishop Lahey was NOT a pedophile, his lawyer Edelson and his psychiatrist Bradford have emphasized.
Lahey, who has been involved in a 10-year romantic relationship after a number of one-night stands, imagines himself in a “submissive role” in his sado-masochistic sex fantasies, Bradford said. (Ottawa Citizen)
However, Bradford acknowledged he gave little consideration to the fact Lahey was carrying a bag of sex toys when he was stopped by border agents or had travelled to countries known for the child sex-trade, such as Thailand.
A Newfoundland man has filed a civil suit against Lahey for allegedly fondling him repeatedly at the Mount Cashel orphanage, but the unproven allegations contained in the lawsuit were not considered in criminal court Monday.
Bradford said Lahey explained he was indiscriminately downloading what he believed to be gay adult pornography from the Internet and must have downloaded the child pornography there. Edelson argued many of the websites have provisos saying the models depicted are over the age of 18. (Ottawa Citizen)
Lahey is merely interested in this type of improving literature and imagery:
They included 588 pornographic pictures of adolescents and boys as young as eight. Some were engaged in explicit sex acts, including intercourse. Lahey also possessed several pornographic stories, including one featuring a character named Father Raymond. (Ottawa Citizen)
Lahey likes to mix sex and religion. The images
included young boys and teens engaged in sex acts including bondage and torture. A Crown prosecutor said Tuesday some of the 588 images that were later discovered on Lahey’s laptop computer included graphic images of nude boys wearing rosary beads and crucifixes.
Police also located 63 child pornography videos and several stories with themes of slavery. (Ottawa Citizen)
The Crown prosecutor Elhadad noticed the peculiarities of Lahey’s tastes:
Elhadad however pointed to images of torture in the collections seized from Lahey in 2009 at the Ottawa International Airport and noted a number of the images included victims wearing rosaries and in one case a man dressed as a monk paddling a young male. Elhadad said the religious and torture imagery relates directly to stories that were also discovered on Lahey’s laptop computer. (Metro News)
This is all too reminiscent of Huysman and the Catholic Decadents of the nineteenth century. It also makes the highly unreliable Malachi Martin’s stories of black masses in the Vatican altogether too believable. The mixture of perverted sexual torture and religion gives the ultimate frisson.
I’ve listened to Malachi Martin at length as I have tapes of interviews he did with Canadian traditionalist Bernard Jensen. Martin says some very good and believable things, but then throws in strange offerings that have no foundation (I know of) in our tradition. For example: that we have a “birthday angel” as well as a guardian angel; that Lucifer and Satan are two seperate entities; or that the Mystical Body of Christ is altogether distinct from the visible “facade” of Catholicism. Still, like you say, there’s some truth in his “rants” and one does wonder whether Satanism at the Vatican is so far fetched after all.
With respect to Lahey and others like him, I keep wondering “Where was your prayer life? What did you say to your spiritual director and in confession? And if you didn’t have a prayer life, nor director, nor go to confession, what business did you have have serving as a bishop (let alone a priest)?
Leon, can we now conclude that Catholicism is now thorougly apostate, at least, in a moral sense…and has been since St. Peter Damian and “Liber Gomorrahianus”? I wouldn’t be surprised if 85 percent of the hierarchy is gay.
Reading this makes me want to vomit.
Joseph, I think you’re too easily scandalized. We are made of clay. Remember I Cor. 1:27–28.
Truth Lover, it’s not me being “scandalized” that’s the problem. It’s an arrogant church thinking that its leaders are mightier than God that’s the problem. How else do people like Lahey get away with what they did for so long? How else do people like Lahey do what they do for so long?
There’s a difference between being “made of clay” and engaging in gross, grotesque immorality that victimizes the innnocent. I’m sick and tired of “Catholics” making excuses for bastards like Lahey. If that’s too “angry” for you, TL, then I wonder why you’re not angry?
BTW, regarding the “Mystical Body of Christ” being different than the “facade of Catholicism,” Malachi Martin is absolutely right!
Joseph, 85% seems a bit steep. When most priests misbehave, it’s with adult women (homosexual and pederastic transgressions make juicier news). We just had a guy take off with a lady recently. I suspect it’s the same with bishops. They were certainly a pretty heterosexual crowd at the time of the Reformation! As well, St. Peter Damian’s book led to reform and the removal of offending clerics to monastaries of old monks.
The one third of the stars the devil drags down with his tail in the Book of Revelations, has, for centuries, been seen as representing not only a third of the angels, but also a third of the clergy. Whether at some specific time or through the course of history. “Strike the shepherd, scatter the sheep.” St. John Chrysostom said the floor of Hell was paved with the skulls of bishops!
Father Michael, 85 percent is just a wild guess on my part, based more on anger and cynicism than on any serious data. Nevertheless, given how frequent this behavior seems to be….who knows?
Good for Joseph H. Too many of us can’t be easily scandalized already and when we get to the point of none of us being scandalized at all, then being made of clay becomes an excuse and even a justification.
He is so absent from himself, this pathetic bishop, so absent from all standards of decency, that it is difficult to discern the how and the why.
Did he share his obscenities with others of his ilk? Did not one of his pals or fans not even notice anything peculiar about the guy?
If he were able to tell the truth we could learn a whole lot about how it came to be so well hidden, and what happens to men who honestly believe it is all right to put children in sexual danger if the bishop tells them to.
Please excuse my frankness. But if the hierarchy continues to only ordain those whose only qualification appears to be a penis, they might ask themselves what happenened to their balls.
AW
I ask:
Does he has any conscience?
When the nuncio ask him to be a bishop, he should tell him NO, because he was a active homosexual with preference for boys.
The questions is if there were other bishops and priest who knew about his PROCLIVITIES?
Well said, Augusta!
I imagine that farther back in the past priests usually misbehaved with women. I remember having read that Fr. Fitzgerald, founder of the Paracletes, was astounded at the number of homosexuals in the priesthood in the early 1960s. If I had to guess, pervert prelates such as Cardinals O’Connell and Spellman were behind the rising numbers of homosexuals in the Church throughout the 20th century.
The DM-II used to affirm that pedophiles are sociopathic. After that edition they no longer include them among the sociopaths, because not every single one of them is sociopathic. But, maybe the great majority are. So, any sociopath, because the principle characteristic is the lack of conscience, can unscrupulously rise to the top of any organization, even the Church. This is what I meant by not being scandalized. It takes a sociopath to win. And they always win….