Guilty parties. (reader forum).People can't honestly believe that if it weren't for Father Paul Shanley's raping of young men and children, he would have been a pioneer for gay rights ["The Shame of Father Shanley," July 23]! His advocacy was a cover-up for crime. Had he not been a rapist rap·ist n. One who commits rape. Noun 1. rapist - someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse raper aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker - someone who attacks , he wouldn't have needed the cover-up. Despite knowing about his crimes, the Catholic Church enabled him to ruin people. Now the church is trying to place blame elsewhere: on gay priests. Church leaders are to blame for providing the only institution that makes it legal for pedophiles to act on their lack of human respect. Anywhere else, a pedophile pedophile Forensic psychiatry A person with pedophilia; there are an estimated 500,000 pedophiles in the world. See Child prostitution, Megan's law, Pedophilia. would be charged with rape, but in the cover of the priesthood priesthood Office of a spiritual leader expert in the ceremonies of worship and the performance of religious rituals. Though chieftains, kings, and heads of households have sometimes performed priestly functions, in most civilizations the priesthood is a specialized office. , they get reassigned or, at most, lose their collar. At least Shanley is in prison. I find solace in knowing that they will all serve their time in hell. J. Malachi, Rochester, N. Y. The judgment of The Advocate and writer John Gallagher John Gallagher may be:
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