Are Catholic priests exposed to strange evil artwork?

Question

I just read an interesting article discussing the problem with some priests and the things they did with children. People naturally search for answers and according the sources I will give it is due to the satanic and sexual imagery they are bombarded with from within the church itself. While I like a good conspiracy do you think this has any validity?

Here is the article:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49435

Here is the documentary:
http://www.rapeofthesoul.com/

Meg - that's very interesting.

Answer 1

Although the possibility of "strange evil artwork" is interesting, I think the very few pedophile priests are just sick and/or evil pedophiles who happen to be priests.

This "strange evil artwork" has not influenced the great majority of priests and lay believers to any real extent.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Catholic priests are exposed to the same promiscuity the rest of us are exposed to. Priests watch television, read newspapers and magazines, go to the movies, use the Internet, and are bombarded by the same poor-taste advertising techniques like the rest of us.

It would not surprise me to find that society's twisted view of matters concerning illicit subjects, such as sex, has much to do with corrupting some of the clergy.

Answer 3

Why on the planet could "precise believers" go away the church? If the church got here out the following day and modified their lengthy held perspectives at the gay act I would have an understanding of your proposal, however they have not. The gay act stays "objectively disordered" and each and every Catholic adding monks that experience a equal-intercourse orientation are referred to as to reside chaste lives. It is handiest inside the bonds of matrimony that a guy and a girl can also be sexually energetic if it is open to existence. If this instructing modified Catholics could go away in droves, the movements of those "a few" is an offense to the doctrine.

Answer 4

I'm a little skeptical of the claims about Erspamser's work -- it seems too much to me like looking at clouds and seeing shapes of animals, etc.

I absolutely agree with Reisman and what she says about the "New Church". It isn't a coincidence that abuse skyrocketed after Vatican II and the sexual revolution:
http://www.usccb.org/nrb/johnjaystudy/prev3.pdf
and that some of the biggest names in "liturgical renewal" have been accused of sexual abuse:

FR. DALE FUSHEK: Co-founder of "Life Teen", a youth ministry well-know for Masses rife with liturgical abuse. Accused of indecent exposure, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and sexually assaulting five minors and two young adult men.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1122fushek22.html
http://www.adoremus.org/0904NewsViews.html#anchor4049175

FR. MICHAEL SPILLANE: Executive director of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions 1986 to 2002. Winner of the 2002 Frederick McManus Award. Oversaw a project rewriting official prayers for a Children's Mass. [Well, he does love the children...] Praised by FDLC's board chairman, Fr. John Burton, for, among other things, his "negotiation skills" ["Take off your pants and I'll give you a piece of candy"???] Molester of six.
http://www.adoremus.org/0602Pederasty.html

FR. KENNETH MARTIN: Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions, 1999-2000. Associate Director of the USCCB Secretariat for the Liturgy, December 2000-June 2001. Former dean of students and director of liturgy at St. John's Seminary College, Camarillo. Former Director of the Office for Worship, Wilmington Diocese. Served on the Theological-Liturgical Commission for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Arrested in June 2001 for molesting a male high school student.
(Same link as above)

FR. JOHN GALLEN: First president and one of the founders of the North American Academy of Liturgy. Winner of the NAAL's Berakah award, 2000. Liturgy speaker at the 2002 Los Angeles Archdiocese Religious Education Congress. Former Director of the Corpus Christi Center for Liturgical Studies. Former Director of the Murphy Center of Liturgical Research at Notre Dame. Former Associate Director of Liturgy at the Office of Worship for the Diocese of Phoenix. Accused of molesting a 16-year old boy.
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004103100131

FR. JOHN HUELS: "Professor of canon law at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and visiting professor in the graduate liturgy program of the University of Notre Dame. Recognized as the leading authority in the United States on sacramental and liturgical law, he is the author of over 140 publications and has served on the advisory boards for the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy, 'New Theology Review,' 'Worship,' 'Emmanuel,' and the publications committee of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions." (http://www.franciscanpress.com/authors.php/50)
Author of 'Disputed Questions in the Liturgy Today' and 'More Disputed Questions in the Liturgy'. Former vice-dean of canon law at St. Paul's University in Ottawa. Spoke on the revised GIRM at the 2001 Atlantic Liturgy Conference and in the Diocese of Owensboro in 2001. Molested a teenaged boy.
http://www.adoremus.org/0902Huels.html

FR. BARRY GLENDINNING: Taught liturgy at St. Peter's Seminary in London (Ontario), Newman Theological College, and St. Joseph's Seminary in Edmonton. Served on the Archdiocese of Edmonton's Liturgical Commission. Chaired the Liturgical Commission of the Archdiocese of Toronto. Pled guilty to six counts of gross indecency involving six children, ages 11-16.

"Children invite us to play at liturgy rather than to suffer through it. If we allow their way of participation to touch us, we might just 'have fun' at liturgy sometimes." Barry Glendinning, 'Children and Liturgy'
http://www.catholicculture.org/library/view.cfm?recnum=2571

Answer 5

More likely it's strange homosexual buttwork.