A Roman Catholic priest to a young boy he'd just raped, according to the now adult victim, Pat McEwan (pictured).
From an article on systematic child abuse and its cover-up - Catholic Priests Unmasked - in The Observer.
The priest was visiting the boy's family, and was trying to get him to stop crying before his mum came back from a nearby holy shrine he'd told her to visit.
McEwan says he was the victim of a paedophile ring, and was first abused by his parish priest who told him;
"I've just been talking to Jesus and he says would you like to go to heaven? Do you love your mummy?" Yes Father. "Do you love your daddy?" Yes Father. "Do you love me? Because this is our little secret and you mustn't tell your mummy or daddy or you will go to the burny fire."
A vile product indeed.
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To be pedantic - the priest in question is not identified as Irish in the piece (a nun in another case is). But yes, a pretty haunting article.
ReplyDeleteApologies, you're quite right - I read that into the piece somehow.
DeleteThanks for pointing it out - have now amended.
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That's quite alright; sad to say (as an Irish person) that it wasn't a giant leap to have made.
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Thank you.
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