Abusing Priests Must Be Charged with Crims: Priest

Press TV
May 7, 2014

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/05/07/361637/abusing-priests-must-be-charged/

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Press TV has conducted an interview with Mark Dankof, a Lutheran pastor, in San Antonio, about a UN committee saying that systematic sex abuse by the Catholic clergy could amount to torture.

The following is an approximate transcript of the interview.

Press TV: Looking at that UN report we saw a comment being made about the nature of these - what we could say - actions taken by these priests involved in the scandal. He was saying that these go against Christian beliefs – they are anti-Christian actions and by covering up these actions, the Catholic Church is, in his words, promoting them.

And that brings us to the question of what is the root cause of the problem in the first place?

Dankof: Well I think this whole issue of predominantly homosexual pedophilia has been particularly predominant among Roman Catholic clergymen. I think you have a situation here where this UN Committee on Torture should not be involved in this because if the state and local authorities and the Federal authorities in the United States were doing their job according to our own laws here – and I presume that that applies to many other legal jurisdictions in sovereign nation states around the world even as I speak...

These Catholic clergymen who have been accused of these things - and in many cases are guilty - and these arch bishops who’ve covered up for them and have attempted to [reveal] nothing about this egregious breach of Christian morality and indecency ought to be charged with crimes by state attorney generals in the United States and if necessary by the appropriate Federal officials.

This is where this should be stopped along with Catholic people around the world withholding contributions from the Catholic Church until they are satisfied that something substantive is being done.

I’m very concerned as well about this UN Committee on Torture, which is headed up by a Zionist Jew by the name of Claudio Grossman, who clearly has used this Committee on Torture to engage in a carte blanche assault on traditional Christian morality by insisting that the official position of the Roman Catholic Church on abortion, on euthanasia and on contraception is “the psychological torture of women,” when in fact Mr. Grossman needs to find out something about the number of women in the United States and elsewhere who suffer from post-abortion stress syndrome.

Mr. Grossman is not concerned about the 55 million children who have been executed in the United States since the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973.

And the other thing we need to understand is that a lot of these non-governmental organizations that are working with this so-called UN Committee on Torture are Jewish-financed organizations and when we start studying the pattern of this, it is clear that in the Western world, it has largely been a Jewish element that has financed this Sigmund Freud Frankfurt school of morality that has crept into jurisprudence and into news media and into government in this country.

And typically when you look at these organizations, they have been trying with a great deal of success to undermine cultural Christianity in the West – and this has happened both in Europe and in the United States.

This same dagger is being aimed at Vladimir Putin in Russia, who has been reasserting the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in his country I think quite properly; and this is also a dagger aimed at the Islamic peoples around the world, who on the subjects of abortion and homosexuality and contraception, share the same concerns as that of orthodox Christians.

Press TV: Do you think that we should see this as a systematic approach as we’re hearing in some reports already about the UN Committee saying that this could be seen as a systematic case of cover-up and a systematic case of sex abuse and as such, it should be regarded torture?

Dankof: I would agree with the UN Committee on Torture in the way it has characterized this pedophilia scandal in the Roman Catholic Church and the reaction of these Roman Catholic ecclesiastical authorities to this whole situation. Again, the problem is multi-fold.

We have in the United States alone all of the state and local laws and federal laws that we need to treat these clergy sexual abusers and enablers as criminals and to charge them as such.

And all these legal jurisdictions around the world controlled by sovereign nation states, that’s the approach that I argue, should be taken.

When it comes to the whole issue of the rest of this ideological agenda of this so-called United Nations Committee on Torture - look at what they’re saying about abortion; look at what they’re saying about population control; look at the positions the UN is increasingly taking on homosexual relationships and on euthanasia and so forth and so on...

And this is part again of a neo-Marxist globalist leftist Frankfurt school approach to morality that had a major hold on the republic in Germany in the 1930s, that’s the part of this agenda that really concerns me in regard to the much bigger issues of what this Committee on Torture in the UN is trying to do.

Press TV: One of our viewer comments, saying it is time to end the celibacy rule and our guest in Ontario saying that that should be viewed in a bigger picture as part of the problem.

What do you think about these kinds of rules and how they’ve affected the behavior that we’re seeing – not just the behavior, but the view that people have towards Christianity?

Dankof: I think Martin Luther was saying all the right things in the 16th century in Germany during the time of the Protestant reformation when he noted this difficulty in the Roman Catholic Church with all of these sexual perverts who were part of their clergy at that time. And of course Luther, among the many reasons that he got booted by the Roman papacy was because he chose to get married.

The fact of the matter is that I think in the Roman Catholic institution that this whole issue of homosexuality in particular, homosexual pedophilia, in particular is a systemic problem in that particular denomination.

The Randy Angles book “The Rite of Sodomy – Homosexuality and the Catholic Church” will give all of your viewers – if they get a copy of the book or read the reviews of that book – the inside scoop on what has really been going on here for a very, very, very long period of time in terms of centuries.

And now we are in the 21st century with all of this communications technology, we are finding out things that are going that were more effectively concealed in previous eras.

And we get back to the fact that between the changes that, as an evangelical Lutheran, I would recommend to the Roman faith in regard to allowing clergymen to marry.

The other side of this coin is that in terms of these Roman Catholic ecclesiastical authorities cooperating with secular legal authorities and secular law enforcement around the world, that’s how they’re going to get to the bottom of this whole mess and clean this whole tragic situation up.