The Homosexual Decline of the Jesuits Order: A Portrait in Quotations
- Former Jesuit John Bollard told interviewers on "60 Minutes" in the 1990s that during his seven years as a Jesuit, at least 12 priests made unwelcome sexual advances and invited him to cruise gay bars.
- Father Robert Drinan SJ, wrote to the president of the abortion company Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts in August 1974: “We now have an impetus going in the Congress which will never allow [a pro-life amendment] to become the law of the land. I have regularly received excellent information from your organization and will continue to rely upon you and your associates.“
- Obituary of Peter Davis SJ in April 1990: “From auctioning a suckling pig dinner while dressed as Miss Piggy to lighting Easter fire from a trail of gunpowder, Father Peter Davis lived and ministered with passion, humor and drama. On December 28, he died at a Portland, Oregon, hospice of AIDS. He was 43. He loved being a Jesuit and a priest.”
- US newspaper Newswire on June 25, 1999: “Three Jesuit priests were today due to appear in court charged with indecent assaults on former pupils […] in the 1970s and 1980s.”
- Obituary of Fr. George Casey SJ, autumn 1994: “In September 1990 he was diagnosed as HIV positive. He lived with the news of that ticking bomb and even accepted being superior.”
- News report in May 1998: “Five women held a news conference April 20 to say their uncle, Father William Walsh SJ sexually abused them hundreds of times when they were children. [...] The sisters said each had grown up thinking she alone was abused.”
- Decision of Navy/Marine Court of Criminal Appeals in December 1995: “The appellant Father Neal Destefano SJ was tried by general court-martial composed of a military judge. Pursuant to his pleas, he was convicted of offenses that may be summarized as follows: fraternizing with enlisted men; making a false official statement; two assaults by serving alcoholic beverages mixed with grain alcohol without the knowledge of the victims; three offenses of conduct unbecoming an officer (by luring enlisted men to his hotel room for indecent acts, taking a picture of an enlisted man in his underwear, and masturbating in the presence of enlisted men); two assimilative crime violations of Alaska law by serving alcohol to underage enlisted men; and, one indecent assault (by hugging, kissing, and fondling the genital area of an enlisted man).”
- Fr Frank Case, SJ, General Assistant of the Society of Jesus, in The European, October 1994: “I think at some point it will certainly be possible for women's ordination to take place in the Catholic Church.”
- News Report in 2002: “Father Angel Mariano SJ was arrested about midnight September 21, 1998, in Campbell, California, near San Jose when a police officer caught him in a sex act with a 17-year-old student in a parked car. According to police reports, Mariano arranged to meet two teenagers by posing as a 25-year-old woman on an Internet chat room. He wore lipstick and rouge when he met the boys. [...] Mariano was removed without any explanation. Asked why parishioners at Holy Trinity were not made aware of the reasons for Mariano's departure, Provincial Father Tom Smolich said: ‘Why should they? This is an Internet cruising thing. This is anonymous sex. This doesn't involve people at the parish. It wasn't a priest thing. He wasn't dressed in a collar."
- News report in October 1990: “Fr. Smith (not his real name) is a Jesuit priest working in a Philadelphia parish in one of the older parts of the city. He is a closeted gay priest and does not want his name used. ... ‘In my worst moments,’ he said, ‘I fear I will have been a collaborator in supporting an institution that oppresses gay people’ [...] He said he became a Jesuit after falling in love with an older, 40-year old Jesuit priest.”
- News report in March 2002: “Two mentally disabled men who live and work at a Jesuit retreat were sexually abused by members of the clergy for at least five years, according to court records and interviews. [...] Connor and Burke, both 80, are among four Jesuits named as defendants in a lawsuit charging that the mentally impaired men were subjected to repeated acts of sodomy, molestation and false imprisonment at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center.”
- News report from June 1998: “The appeal by maths teacher Chaning-Pearce, 57, was funded by The Society of Jesus, which runs the £12,000-a-year school. Last September at Preston Crown Court, the priest admitted indecently assaulting three boys, aged 15, 13 and 12.”
- News report from August 1999: “Sunday morning Mass at the Jesuit Urban Center spawns more blessed pairings. The Urban Center's liturgy is both classic and contemporary; its mixed congregation is mostly gay; its AIDS and HIV support programs are some of the best in town; and its coffee hour is a great place to get phone numbers.”
- Father Raymond Schroth, SJ in 'Passionate Uncertainty: Inside the American Jesuits': "Yet the overall portrait is one of men content in their vocations, who have drawn closer to the person of Jesus while leaving an earlier Almighty God figure behind."
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