Michael Rose offers his take on the Austria seminary scandal, including compromising pictures published in Austrian media. Those involved, including Bishop Kurt Krenn, claim that the photos are “open to interpretation.” I don’t think so. You’d have to be pretty credulous to buy their explanations. When added to the other evidenceP>64.12.116.10
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Years ago when I attended a lecture by Raymond Brown at St. Mary’s Seminary (AKA The Pink Palace) in Baltimore, the faculty behind me were openly discussing how one priest had been sleeping with seminarians and insisted on flaunting it. As a punishment he was sent to a parish in rural Pennsylvania to cool off.
I suspect the worst about the Austrian seminary; but is there any possibility the digital photos have been altered? Could anyone have been stupid enough to allow himself to be photographed doing such things? The photogtrapher was apparently the Polish seminarian who also downloaded the 40,000 pornographic pictures from Polish web sites.
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leepodles@cs.com
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64.12.116.10
2004-07-15 21:36:39
2004-07-16 01:36:39
PS The Austrian press takes pains to point out that the Rector and Vice Rector were not Austrian but GERMAN, who are always leading the poor Austrians astray - and that the chief suspect is POLISH.
PPS Podles is a Polish name
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michigancatholic@hotmail.com
http://www.michigancatholic.blogspot.com
66.255.204.12
2004-07-15 21:37:51
2004-07-16 01:37:51
Who knows? But then there are a lot of things that happen in Catholic-land that I would have thought not possible when I converted….
The whole thing is getting more and more pathetic every day.
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2004-07-15 22:18:16
2004-07-16 02:18:16
Bryan:
Mr. Podles is right. St. Mary’s in Baltimore in also known as The Pink Palace.
AKJ
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rdreher@dallasnews.com
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2004-07-16 08:40:21
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Blog owner’s note: I have edited this comment to remove certain explicit language.]
Lee writes: Could anyone have been stupid enough to allow himself to be photographed doing such things?
I thought the same thing about the Abu Ghraib photos. But there they are. People are strange; they rarely stop to think about the consequences of what they do. How does a president, in this day and age, think he’s going to get away with having sexual relations with an intern in the Oval Office, then lying about it on national TV? It happened. I mentioned the other day on a blog a guy I used to know 12 or so years ago, a well-known public figure who used to go into rest area bathrooms to have gay sex. When I asked him why he did this, he said the risk of being caught—the thrill of danger—was part of the pleasure of doing it. I mean, this guy would have been completely ruined had he been arrested. But he did it anyway, and for all I know still does it.
(By the way, this same guy used to have something called the “Damron Guide,” a sort of Baedeker for gay travelers. I kid you not, it advised readers of which parts of given locales were “cruisy,” meaning a place where you can pick up a stranger in public for sex in the bushes, or wherever. I seem to recall him showing me that St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore was listed as “cruisy”—that is, it was a great place to pick up men for [oral sex]. My friend taunted me with this, because I was being drawn to the Catholic Church, and he wanted me to knock it off. My becoming a Catholic ultimately helped end our friendship.)
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leepodles@cs.com
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64.12.116.10
2004-07-16 10:51:02
2004-07-16 14:51:02
Cardinal Keeler claims to have quietly cleaned up St. Mary’s; I hope this is true, but my wife is suspicious of the new ordinands. One used to be a landscape architect, which, she claims, is a heavily gay profession.
Women seem to notice these things more than men do. She and the other mothers spotted an assistant at the church immediately. He was a big guy, and I thought they were being harsh on him. But he was a finicky master of ceremonies, and eventually left the priesthood and paraded around town with his lover.
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2004-07-16 14:13:54
2004-07-16 18:13:54
I think it was Chesterton who said that the only way forward into the future was to take a step back…
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Cardinal Keeler claims to have quietly cleaned up St. Maryded>Some people say the current war against radical Islamic terrorists began on 9/11. Others look back to November 1979 and the Iranian hostage crisis. But the roots of the problem are almost as old as Islam itself. Marvin Olasky, editor of the Evangelical news magazine World[/url] is visiting Turkey and sees the historical roots of the fight. He examines the symbolism of the Hagia Sophia’s transformation of one of the greatest churches of Christendom into a drab, if immense, mosque, while a new ornate and immense mosque was built nearby to outdo what the Christians did. He also examines the underground cities in which Byzantine Christians hid from Muslim invaders, as well as the martial religious imagests who have a problem with pro-abortion Catholic politicians. Lest anyone accuse me of partisanship on this issue, I think the same sanctions should be applied to Republicans of the same ilk. At CWN’s Off the Record, Phil Lawler notes that three keynote speeches at the GOP convention will be given by pro-abortion Catholics: Schwarzenegger, Pataki, Giuliani. In fact, as Kate O’Beirne points out, the only conservative with a prime time speaking spot at the convention is Democrat Zell Miller.
