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	The Truth about Pedophile Clergy in Anguished Thoughts of Fictional Priests By Kay Ebeling Examiner April 27, 2009 http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1960-LA-City-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m4d27-The-truth-about-pedophile-clergy-in-anguished-thoughts-of-fictional-priests Reading The McGurk I’m struck by a couple paragraphs so am typing them in here, with author Tom Barnes’ permission. He quotes a journal written by a fictional priest in 1874 Philadelphia, anguishing over the evil he is seeing in fellow priests and the bishops. Barnes wrote the story after years of research in Pennsylvania, much of the book is fiction based on fact, including quotes from the Philadelphia Grand Jury Report. Here from The McGurk, writings in the journal of an anguished 19th Century priest: “Some priests that I have known have taken liberties with children. Because of the nature of what we do, it is easy enough to carry through on this heinous evil. And due to the fear of scandal, it is always hidden away. The bishops will never openly reveal this evil, they do not discuss it even among themselves. I have never actually seen this but I have been involved in its aftermath and the terrible pain that it brings many times.” “The children are simply not believed and are often beaten by the parents for ‘lying’ about the priest. The truth is, they are not always lying. Sometimes the priest is a demon. Some of these demons have I lived with, in rectories. May God have mercy on their souls. And may God have mercy on mine for overlooking this evil. My only defense is that canon law forbids a priest to openly speak ill of another priest.” More Quotes from The McGurk: “I am even sorry to say that I knew priests who set themselves upon children. I would take them aside and speak sternly to them. I would threaten, I would cajole, I would shame them. It never made any difference, they were a protected class.. Even the police refused to believe such a thing could happen. It made my own priesthood sad to become increasingly aware of this evil among my brother priests and even among the nuns and teaching brothers. “Many young lives were simply destroyed in this ever presented and darkly creeping evil. I was largely powerless to do anything about it. Simply put, no one believed me. I was blocked, it was that simple. I hated the Church during these times. I was a prisoner of my own beliefs.” THERE IS MORE. “We all know it and we are all stained by it. The children are sacrificed for the good of the Church. All and everyone involved are silent. I am deeply ashamed of myself and my fellow priests and Catholics on this account. This is the work of the devil and God will not be blind forever. We cannot escape our day of reckoning.” ************* Kay here. I have not yet finished reading the book, and in no way is this a book review. This is a book you read slowly. As you read you truly get in the mind of the characters speaking. I have been carrying mine around and reading a paragraph or two at a time. It’s that kind of book. ********************************* This novel The McGurk is an introspective search, a read that takes you deep inside the minds of the characters. There is a description of a Satanic ritual performed on a young girl towards the end of the book, and I know personally, that part of the story is not all fiction as I know the woman on whose experience as a child that incident is based. The pedophile scandal is bad enough, but when the Church starts to reveal its Satanic connections, all Hell will break loose, so to speak, in terms of people finding out the truth about this church. Where is Ron Howard? Why isn’t he producing this story? A lot of law enforcement guys will tell you, where there is mass pedophilia, there is often Satanic ritual abuse. The two unfortunately often go together, and where else would you expect to find that connection than in the Roman Catholic Church. The fiction story in The McGurk, the novel, also weaves in real quotes from the Grand Jury report on the Philadelphia archdiocese. The McGurk has a love story, a budding romance between a priest and a nun. More about The McGurk from the McGurk Website “This is a work of fiction. Any similarities between the fictional characters in the book and real people is coincidental and unintended. There are no secret messages encoded within the novel. It is a fictional story concerning very real issues within the Catholic Church in Philadelphia yesterday and today. I hope you enjoy the story and that it serves as a vehicle for reflection on Faith for all that read it.” Tom had been a victim of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of nuns as a child and teenager. As a high school student he was on several occasions struck by priests and lay teachers for "talking in class" or "talking during grace," of the lunch hour. On one occasion, while alone with a nun in a classroom early in the morning as a freshman in high school, the nun approached the boy and rubbed her breasts against his back. She smiled and moved off. As a seminarian, Tom was openly propositioned on several occasions by a particular nun who was over twenty years his senior. Nothing physical occurred, but this was a huge factor in Tom eventually leaving seminary. Educated within the Catholic school system of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia during the 1950's and 1960's, Tom left Bishop McDevitt High School at the end of his junior year and entered high school seminary at the Marist Fathers Seminary in Penndel, Pennsylvania in August of 1969. He graduated from high school there and then entered Saint Charles Borromeo diocesan seminary in September 1970. He was 17 years old at that time. He stayed at Saint Charles in Overbrook until just after his 20th birthday when he left seminary. He eventually returned to college and earned several degrees To buy the book: Another website about The McGurk ***************** A lot of us who live now as adult victims of these pedophile Catholic clergy, having found each other through the internet and now knowing there are thousands of us? We are still waiting for mainstream media and national law enforcement to wake up. Get wind of the extent of these serial felonies committed over decades with thousands maybe hundreds of thousands of child victims. Only a fraction of us have made it far enough into adulthood to be able to speak about what happened, decades later, so now thanks to Statutes of limitations, almost none of these felons bishops and priests have been even charged with their crimes. The worst felons were the Catholic bishops who enabled these crimes, and it always leaves you wondering, they let all these kids get injured, rather than let the truth come out. Just what else are the Catholic bishops hiding?
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