Vatican's "Sexorcist" Gags Scandal Bishop

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The man chosen by the Vatican to investigate the St. Poelten sex scandal in Austria has ordered the local bishop not to speak to the media in a bid to halt the damage to the Catholic Church.

The Vatican's investigator dispatched to Austria to probe the seminary at the center of a sex scandal has ordered the local bishop not to speak to the media in a bid to halt the damage being done by the child porn inquiry.

Bishop Klaus Kueng, Pope John Paul II's own choice, is working at uncovering the truth and depth of the scandal that consumed the St Poelten earlier this month and which has been a staple of the Austrian media ever since photographs of clerics at seminary kissing and fondling student priests were published.

Bishop's comments inflaming situation

Local bishop Kurt Krenn has been adding fuel to the media fire through a number of rash statements, specifically one which caused outrage when the described the incidents in the photographs as pranks and a number of comments slamming Islam.
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1. Bishop Kueng said his purpose was to "create new trust"

Bishop Kueng said his purpose was to "create new trust" in the Church, which has been rocked by a series of scandals. "This business has done immense damage, not only to the diocese but much further afield," Bishop Kueng told Austrian media.

The only thing this sonofabitch cares about is protecting the Church from the glare of publicity. He doesn't give a shit about the victims!

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2. Pope 'to run' church sex probe

Sex scandal draws intense interest in Austria

It started early in the week when the Austrian weekly news magazine Profil published photographs of the rector and deputy rector of the seminary, the main training school for priests in this area of Austria, just west of Vienna, in which they appeared to be kissing and fondling seminary students. The publication of the photographs came some months after thousands of images, apparently downloaded from child pornography Web sites, appeared on seminary computers, prompting a police investigation.

The disclosures took on added importance because the person in charge of the St. Pölten Seminary is Bishop Kurt Krenn, for decades a prominent and outspoken conservative. Venerated by members of Austria's small ultraconservative Catholic groups he is reviled by many liberals, who have long seen him as a major obstacle to reform.

A Vienna prosecutor was expected to announce early next week the results of a police investigation into the child pornography allegations, and whether formal charges will be filed. Meanwhile, on Friday, Austrian radio reported that the prosecutor, Walter Nemec, had found child pornography on computers at several different locations in the seminary, a suggestion that viewing such images, which is illegal in Austria, was widespread.

Krenn was unavailable for comment but his spokesman, Micheal Dinhobl, defended the comments the bishop had made in the case. While the photographs published in Profil suggest serious impropriety, he said, they were not conclusive evidence and should not be used to destroy the reputations of the people pictured in them. Krenn, he added, has been trying to protect the two seminary leaders from, as he put it, "being destroyed in the press without a real investigation."
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Pope to probe porn scandal
Vienna - Pope John Paul II will personally examine a sex and pornography scandal engulfing the Austrian Catholic church, said the mass-circulation Kronen Zeitung on Sunday.

The newspaper said Vatican officials would submit documents concerning the scandal to the pontiff following his return from holidays in the Aosta Valley and resumption of duties on Monday.

The scandal revolves around some 40 000 pornographic photos and a number of films discovered on computers at a seminary in St. Poelten, west of Vienna.

Seminary bishop Kurt Krenn has incensed critics with his dismissal of some of the material as "childish pranks at a Christmas celebration" and his steadfast refusal to resign.

The head and deputy head of the seminary have already quit, but 68-year-old Krenn says he will only go if told to by the Pope.
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Pope 'to run' church sex probe
From Daniel Aronssohn in Vienna
July 19, 2004

But now the affair has taken a more serious turn with allegations that activities at the seminary went further than canoodling among adolescent seminarians and the staff.

"Photographs of child pornography have been found in several computers belonging to several people" at the seminary, said the prosecutor of St Poelten, Walter Nemec, adding that he had received "new complaints about sexual aggression against minors".

He said he would give more details about the investigation within the next 24 hours.

Prosecutors have been investigating alleged child abuse at the seminary for several months, but the issue came to a head when Profil published the photographs, and alleged that police had found up to 40,000 pornographic photographs,


including scenes of sex with children and animals.

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3. Yet the Church puts down feminists

as being bad....seems to me there's a saying of Jesus about taking care of the beam in your own eye before worrying about the mote you perceive to be in someone else's....

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4. A Proven Solution

The US Govt pulled the tax-exempt status of many groups in the country because their complicity in illegal activities. (i.e. Neo Nazi and Aryan groups) This would work with the Catholic church. They either comply with US law or lose their status. This would solve the budget woes of a lot of states. I am not anti-Catholic, but I am against child sodomy and their attemps to cover up crimes. They are required by law to report every complaint.

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5. And now a word from

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a396facc72f4d.htm

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6. I can't believe these schmucks have followers.