Another
priest is in the spotlight, and it’s not for his love of God. W. Jeffrey
Paulish, Catholic Priest, has been charged with molesting a teen boy. Police
found the fifty six year old Paulish in a car with the fifteen year old on the
Worthington Scranton campus of Penn State University. The teen had no pants on
according to the report filed on Thursday. Official charges include one felony
account of involuntary
deviate sexual intercourse and one felony count of unlawful contact with a
minor as well as three misdemeanor accounts of indecent contact with a person
under 16, indecent exposure and corruption of a minor.
Authorities were only alerted of the indecent
activity when someone reported a suspicious vehicle parked on the campus. According
to him, Paulish was at the college working on his homily when he met the boy,
who was emotional and in need of counseling. Through further interrogation,
police found out that this Man of God had placed an ad in the “casual
encounters” section of craigslist, in which the teen responded. He has since
been removed from his parish and suspended from his priestly duties in the
diocese of Scranton.
After the sex abuse scandal that came to light a
few years ago, more and more priests are being charged with sexually abusing
minors, usually young boys. It is disturbing to think that these men, who are
supposed to be spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ, are going against the
very morals on which the Catholic Church is founded. The Church will never be
as it once was. Not as many men are becoming priests, and there’s a chance that
those who are ordained, are like the pedophile priests that come before them.
It baffles me that if the men were gay, they believed that joining the
priesthood would straighten them out. The accused preached about how wrong
homosexuality is, yet behind closed doors they were raping and molesting young
boys. The bad priests have casted a shadow upon the whole Catholic Church and I
don’t think the Church will ever fully recover.
I agree with you. I think it is ridiculous that the actions of some priest reflect the whole Catholic Church. However, it is sickening to know that individuals who took a vow to honor their life to God would commit such a crime. The Church has a lot of making up to do.
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ReplyDeleteIntense prediction you make. There are still so many who support the church that I'm not sure that these abuses are really impacting believers. There definitely needs to be more said about the issue, and a lot more done about it.
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