Shock after Dutch priest endorses pedophilia

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By TOBY STERLING, Associated Press

Saturday, May 21, 2011


(05-21) 04:20 PDT AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) --

The Dutch Catholic Church and the Salesian order are investigating revelations that a Salesian priest served on the board of a group that promotes pedophilia with the full knowledge of his boss.

The order's top official in the Netherlands, Delegate Herman Spronck, confirmed in a statement that the priest — identified by RTL Nieuws as 73-year-old "Father Van B." — served on the board of "Martijn," a group that campaigns to end the Dutch ban on adult-child sex.

The group is widely reviled but not outlawed.

"Of course we reject this and distance ourselves from this personal initiative" on the part of the priest, Spronck said in a statement. "Membership in such organizations does not fit with the ethos of the Salesian order."



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[LAGC]

1. If the Catholic Church focused all its efforts on legalizing adult-child sex...

Maybe they'd have no time to campaign against abortion and birth control...

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[Mojeoux]

7. Gross Pigs!

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[LadyHawkAZ]

2. "Shock after Dutch priest says what we all knew anyway"

Why is this a shock?

[pnwmom]

3. "We all" didn't know anything about this priest or his "superior."

It is shocking, and disgusting.

[LadyHawkAZ]

4. I'm with you on the disgusting

not so much the shock.

[pnwmom]

5. Isn't it shocking that the superior would say this stuff PUBLICLY?

I'm not shocked that evil exists, or that this particular evil exists -- but the utter lack of public shame is shocking to me.

[AndiMer]

6. Sadly, I agree

This doesn't shock me anymore. At all.