Thursday, October 19, 2006
foley
I swore I wasn't going to say anything else on this, but along came the interview with the priest who molested Foley and my blood is boiling. Father Anthony Mercieca, known to boys in Fort Worth as "Father Tony", was a real pal. Only a pal would do some of the things they all did together which Mercieca agreed "Foley might perceive as sexually inappropriate". Astonishing words in the circumstances. MIGHT???! PERCEIVE??! How could there be any question? Mercieca describes skinny dipping with the boys and naked saunas together. He says he spent time naked with Foley, massaging the equally naked boy. All reported so matter-of-factly. How are such actions anything but inappropriate? Tell me even one time when it would be appropriate for a priest to be naked with a teenager. Let alone massaging and skinny dipping. It boggles my mind.

And while we're at it, tell me when the Catholic Church will act appropriate with bad priests? The vile Mercieca's current residence on the island of Gozo surely is his superiors' brilliant way of resolving the problem (read: remove him and hope no one finds out) making it yet one more time when, appallingly, the Church practiced hypocrisy (preaching kindness and goodness and personal responsibility while abdicating those dictates over and over). And, yes, Foley is responsible for his actions, but the Church is responsible (albeit evidently avoidably) for injuring the bodies and souls of hundreds and probably thousands of boys and girls because of disgusting human beings - priests - like this one.

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Blogger DADvocate — at 9:55 AM, October 19, 2006:
Did Michael Jackson ever attend this priest's church?
 

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