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RELIGIOUS CHILD ABUSE

 THE ORIGIN  

AND THE HOLY CONNECTION

 RAPE FROM THE RELIGIOUS

I want to study in a totally different way the current disaster

in the church, of priests sexually molesting young children.

The situation grew to alarming proportions  when it was revealed

that a Father Shanley was actually one of the founders of NAMBLA.

The North American Man Boy Love Association.

Please refer to Time Magazine

April 22, 2002 edition, page 44, the article "IN PLAIN SIGHT".

He is seen in pictures making speeches with the NAMBLA

banner behind him.

And though his superiors  knew he was involved deeply in this,

whenever he was transferred he was given glowing references as

an outstanding, and holy priest.

 I want to  take this story beyond where anyone else

  has considered it.

 I am looking to see if this great universe is directly involved in

  revealing  this sordid secret ,so that the way may be cleansed.

Consider this for yourself.

THE QUESTION

There is a question we all have to ask.

For thousands of years this practice of adults having sex

with children has been going on.

Then why all of a sudden does it explode, and what does it foretell

about the rest of our civilization in line with Supernova 1987a,

and Eta Carina ,and the rest of the celestial bodies aligning

themselves in this great age ?

 When things occur as I am about to show you, we can say ,

oh well it's just a coincidence.

We then have to consider the word coincidence and say , yes,

it is a coincidence, but is it a meaningful coincidence,

is it synchronicity ?

Is it a coincidence that has been brought upon us by a higher ,

supreme force,  for a purpose, and if so, what's next ?

We have this awesome picture of the most powerful church

in the world experiencing an exposure within itself of

a  depraved sort.

The sexual molestation of children by those who are revered as

holy and representatives of God.

One of their own was a founder of the  organization that promotes such relationships between men and boys.

 NAMBLA.

WHAT IS THE SYNCHRONICITY ? 

So what is the coincidence, or what is the synchronicity involved

in God related people, having sex with children.

And why is it so curiously connected to the time

we are living in now,

and why should this  encourage all of us  to look to the invisible

powers to answer the question.

WHY NOW ?

THE AGE OF AQUARIUS

The story  is of a small boy named Ganymede who is abducted

by the god Zeus to serve as cupbearer and lover to

Zeus and the Gods.

That boy is rewarded by the Gods and is placed in the universe

as the constellation Aquarius, the man with the pitcher of water.

We are entering the Age of Aquarius.

 A time of change, a time of revolution, and invention.

Controlled by Uranus it is a time when traditional values

are turned upside down.

We have seen so much of that through the years  as great nations

such as the Soviet Union are totally transformed, and other

amazing things have  occurred before our eyes, such as the

discovery of the human genome.

But our subject is that of children being sexually molested

by religious people.

And so we focus on the age, we focus on the constellation, and as

we anticipate changes to come from other celestial bodies, we

look to see if we can  connect this knowledge of children ,

religious people , and sex, to another celestial body?

And maybe, we will be able to understand  why this

was destined to be made public throughout the world now.

We are living in the age of Aquarius.

So let us look at Aquarius as defined by the dictionary.

AQUARIUS DEFINITION

A·quar·i·us (…-kwâr“¶-…s) n.

1. A constellation in the equatorial region of the

Southern Hemisphere near Pisces and Aquila.

Also called Water Bearer.

2.a. The 11th sign of the zodiac

Also called Water Bearer.

b. One who is born under this sign.

 [Middle English, from Latin, water carrier,

the constellation Aquarius, from aqua, water.

See   AQUA.]

MYTHOLOGY

What we want to do, is look at this from the standpoint of mythology

because none of this ever happened, but the mythology of it describes

a connection between astronomy and anatomy.

 Between the universe and the mind/body.

When I say none of it ever happened,

I mean that to understand mythology one must

understand the symbols

used for a story both anatomically, and astronomically.

 God did not abduct a child for sex.

But the story is telling us that this is one where

the religious exploit children accordingly.

This practice of sex with children was very much accepted in

ancient Greece and Rome.

BACK TO AQUARIUS

Aquarius is a constellation.

It is also a Zodiacal sign.

Aquarius is called the water bearer.

This is also the Man with the Pitcher of Water as

described by Jesus in the Bible.

KJV Luke 22:10-13

10. And he said unto them,  when you enter into the city,

there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water;

follow him into the house where he enters.

11. And you shall say to the owner of the house,

The Master wants us to ask you , Where is the guestchamber,

where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?

12. And he shall show you a large upper room furnished:

The instruction was, when you see the man with the

Pitcher of water

go to the upper room and prepare the Passover.

WHERE IS THE UPPER ROOM?

The upper room is the mind, the man with the pitcher of water is

the Age of Aquarius, and the Passover is the movement to a whole

new consciousness that will destroy old traditions.

So let us put this in the form of an inquiry into the Man with the

Pitcher of Water, and see if there is a relevance to

our subject at hand ,namely the molestation of children by the

 religious.

WHY THE CHILDREN SAY NOTHING 

The situation as it occurs when religious people molest children,

is that the children say nothing, because they are warned that what

they are doing is for God, and as long as they say nothing they

will be rewarded.

When the children become adult they are more prone not to believe

 that, yet it is still hard because the priest is so highly revered,

and the family is deeply entrenched in the tradition of the church.

But did something cosmically happen that caused this to break

wide open, and expose the institution and  its leaders,  

and bring such shame upon them?

CATAMITE

Let us look at the definition of the word catamite.

cat·a·mite (k²t“…-mºt”) n.

A boy who has a sexual relationship with a man.

[Latin catamºtus, from Catamºtus, Ganymede, from Etruscan Catmite,

from Greek Ganum¶d¶s.]

  A Catamite, is a boy who has a sexual relationship with a man.

 Now notice the next word Ganymede from Greek Ganumedes

Here we are introduced to another mythological character,

Ganymede who has a sexual relationship with a man.

A very special man.

Ganymede in addition to being a mythological character is also a

 celestial body.

Ganymede is a satellite of the planet Jupiter.

Now let us go back to the dictionary and define

the word Ganymede.

GANYMEDE

Gan·y·mede (g²n“…-m¶d”) n.

1. Greek Mythology. A Trojan boy of great beauty whom

Zeus carried  away

to be cupbearer to the gods.

2. One of the four brightest satellites of Jupiter and the eighth

in distance from the planet.

Originally sighted by Galileo, it is one of the largest satellites in the solar system.

[Latin Ganym¶d¶s, from Greek Ganum¶d¶s.]

The celestial definition identifies Ganymede as one of the four

brightest satellites of Jupiter.

The mythical definition is of a boy of great beauty who was carried

away by Zeus to be cupbearer to the gods.

Ganymede is literally molested.

Molested by Zeus (God).

He is the cupbearer or water bearer to the Gods.

Let me tell you the history of this.

Here is the first case of what could be considered a child being

molested by the religious.

Mythically of course, but the suggestion is there.

CATAMITUS

The term Catamite that we looked at a minute ago is a direct

 translation of the Latin name Catamitus. 

cat·a·mite (k²t“…-mºt”) n.

A boy who has a sexual relationship with a man.

[Latin catamºtus, from Catamºtus, Ganymede,

from Etruscan Catmite,

from Greek Ganum¶d¶s.]

You can see the word Catamitus. 

Catamitus is a translation of the Greek name Ganymede as

you can see above.

THE STORY OF GANYMEDE

The Greek myth of Ganymede is of a young Trojan prince

who legend says was the most beautiful boy in the world.

One day while he was out watching his fathers sheep,

the God Zeus spied him and fell in love with him instantly.

Zeus sent one of his sacred eagles down to carry the boy off.

He was brought up to Olympus where he became Zeus’ lover

and cupbearer, and server to the gods.

As he grew into manhood (so the tale goes) ,he was placed into the

universe as the constellation Aquarius ,

the man with the pitcher of water.

Ganymede was placed into a sexual relationship with the holy ones.

Yet he was only a child.

GREECE AND ROME

The myth of Ganymede was extremely popular in Greece and Rome

where it was used to justify the common practice by adult males

taking young boys as lovers.

The current nightmare is nothing new.

And keep in mind, Greece and Rome where this all started,

are the geographical locations of where the most involved

church was founded.

In the Middle Ages the term Ganymede became a term for a

young boy engaged by an older male for the purpose of pederasty 

which is man-boy sex.

The term for that young boy is still catamite in our language.

It was the way that the religious of the day justified sex between

adults  and children.

This myth has taken upon itself a form of catalyst to bring forth a

cleansing upon the earth.

Today we have the situation of men who were molested as boys

coming forward, and the question is, is this a much bigger event

coming from God.

Because this is the time of the child who was forced into sex

by the holy ones.

Now as a man, he is opening the door to an evil secret ,

allowing all of us to see for ourselves.

The Art and Myth of Ganymede

Ganymede was the most beautiful of mortal boys and the son

of the King of Troy during the Trojan war.

Meanwhile Zeus the king of the Gods of Olympus was

in need of a new cupbearer. 

His previous cupbearer Hebe the daughter of Hera had taken a

fall during her duties.

Zeus took the form of an eagle and abducted the boy

from the Trojan plain.

In Olympus Ganymede became  Zeus’ new cupbearer and as the

Greeks were wont to do, his lover.

He was eventually placed in the stars as

the constellation Aquarius.

THIS IS THE AGE OF AQUARIUS

THE MAN WHO WAS

GANYMEDE THE CHILD

The Age of Aquarius came upon us December 21 2012,  and in reality

the age of Ganymede, the child  who was forced

into sex with the Gods.

The child who was molested by those connected with God.

That child is now the Man with the Pitcher of Water, Aquarius,

and the man has come forth to tell how he was molested by the

religious, and the men of earth have come forward to tell how they

 were molested by the religious.

Thus the myth and the power of the universe has awakened on

earth the story of Ganymede .

The molestation of children by the God people, and it has burst

forth in all of its ugly reality as a fulfillment from the heavenly,

of cosmic power interceding directly into the lives and

traditions of the earth.

THE PAINTING OF GANYMEDE

AS A LOVER TO THE GOD ZEUS

. 

As those of today who have molested children have

taken the form of holy men.

It was instituted into religion thousands of years earlier

The Young Ganymede With The Zeus Eagle

That eagle as we know now was Zeus, representing

the religious.

Here we see Zeus as the eagle  carrying off the boy Ganymede.

It could easily be a cleric of this day carrying off a child for

the reason of sexual gratification.  

THE SYNCHRONOUS COINCIDENCE

 Is there intelligent interference in the affairs of the

 earth from above?

 Was Carl Jung correct in saying that in many instances

  coincidence is synchronous.

 In other words it is intended for a purpose?

 So what is the synchronous coincidence here?

 We are living in the age of the child who was molested by

 the God beings.

Ganymede the boy, Aquarius the man.

As the child was used to justify sexual molestation of children,

the man Aquarius is used to cry out  to the universe for justice

for those children, and it has happened.

So the question is.

Is Aquarius (our present age), the age of children

molested by the religious?

Is Aquarius as the man who was molested as a child,

the catalyst and force, for the revelation of this

deep age old secret.

THE SAN DIEGO EXPERIENCE

Attorney Irwin Zalkin spoke from his office in San Diego, Calif.

Zalkin sued the diocese on behalf of some of the victims of now

defrocked priest Stephen Kiesle.

A letter obtained by the Associated Press and bearing

the signature of the future pope shows then-

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger resisted defrocking Kiesle

who had a record of sexually molesting children

after his case had languished four years at the Vatican.

The 1985 letter was typed in Latin

IT'S NOT JUST AN AMERICAN PROBLEM

The Associated Press.

It is not necessary to add any words to this report.

Sex Abuse by Clergy a Global Problem

By RICHARD N. OSTLING
The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - Canada, Australia, Ireland, Britain, France,

Germany, Mexico, Poland.

It may be the American cardinals who are headed to the Vatican,

but the Roman Catholic Church has faced clergy sex

scandals around the globe - with the most widespread

problems in English-speaking countries.

No one knows whether those nations actually have

more molester priests.

Some observers suggest that victims in

English-speaking countries - along with journalists,

lawyers and prosecutors -

just have more support if they dare to speak up.

``This is not just a problem in the American church,

but American society is acting much more rapidly and

openly in dealing with this than other societies

around the world,'' said the

Rev. Thomas Reese of America, the U.S. Jesuit magazine. ``

That's what makes it so visible.''

CANADA

Canada has faced devastating sex abuse scandals.

Indians in that nation have filed 2,500 compensation claims

over physical and sexual abuse at boarding schools run by the

Oblates of Mary Immaculate, and the order filed for

bankruptcy protection last week.

NEWFOUNDLAND

Archbishop Alphonsus Penney of St. John's, Newfoundland,

became the first prelate to resign for poor administration when

he quit in 1991 after more than 20 of his clergy were

charged with molesting boys.

AUSTRALIA

Australian cases began surfacing in the late 1980s,

and during the past nine years at least 50 priests and brothers

have been sentenced for sexual offenses.

One of the worst involved sex rings at four Christian Brothers

orphanages.

Barry Coldrey, a Christian Brother who aided government inquiries,

said he received Vatican pressure to stop releasing

material about his findings.

IRELAND

In Ireland, the church faces

``the greatest institutional crisis in its modern history,''

the Irish Times editorialized last week.

An estimated 3,000 victims at church schools and

orphanages will share $110 million in compensation

under a January deal,

with the church paying perhaps a fourth

and taxpayers the rest.

This month, the government began preparing an unprecedented

 investigation into church conduct, though Catholic

leaders remain vague on whether

they will hand case files to police.

The church has launched its own in-house probe.

Twenty-one priests were convicted of molestation between

1995 and 1999 in England.

There, as in Ireland, bishops have set up a child-protection office.

Associated Press

A 2,600-page report, published Wednesday following a nine-year

probe into child abuse by Ireland's fading Catholic

religious orders, painted a damning portrait of a system that

protected child-molesting church officials while consigning

generations of Ireland's poorest children to misery.

The Catholic religious orders that ran more than

50 workhouse-style reform schools from the late

19th century until the mid-1990s offered

public words of apology, shame and regret Wednesday.

But when questioned, their leaders indicated they

would continue to protect the identities of

clergy accused of abuse — men and women

who were never reported to police, and were

instead permitted to change jobs and keep

harming children.

The Christian Brothers, which ran several boys'

institutions deemed to have harbored serial child molesters

and sadists on their staff, insisted it had

cooperated fully with the probe.

The order successfully sued the commission in 2004

to keep the identities of all of its members, dead or alive,

unnamed in the report.

The commission said overwhelming, consistent testimony from

still-traumatized men and women, now in their 50s to 80s,

had demonstrated beyond a doubt that the entire system

treated children more like prison inmates and slaves

than people with legal rights

and human potential.

The New York Times describes the horror of what happened

in the reformatories run in the

Irish republic by Catholic orders:

Tens of thousands of Irish children were sexually,

physically and emotionally abused by nuns, priests

and others [ie, brothers, the major offenders]

over 60 years in a network of church-run residential

schools meant to care

for the poor, the vulnerable and the unwanted .

Irish Bishop Resigns Over Sex-Abuse Scandal

Bishop Donal Murray's  speech to colleagues and

curates in the western Irish city of Limerick left no

doubt that he was resigning because of an

Irish government investigation's damning findings

about his time as an auxiliary bishop in Dublin

from 1982 to 1996.

Murray had been widely expected to resign following

last month's report from a government-appointed commission.

It ruled that Murray had handled reports of child-abusing priests

"particularly badly" — and condemned his failure to crack

down on one particular abuser,

the Rev. Thomas Naughton, as "inexcusable."

Convicted twice of raping boys Murray transferred

Naughton to new parishes despite receiving reports

that he was molesting children.

Naughton since has been convicted twice of raping altar boys.

The investigation found that four other serving bishops

and five retired bishops, including

Cardinal Desmond Connell, played a role in a

decade of cover-up.

The 720-page report found that dozens of church

leaders in Ireland's most populous diocese kept secret

the record of child abuse by more than

170 clerics since 1940.

Second Irish Bishop Resigns Over Sex Abuse Scandal

Bishop Jim Moriarty was not directly criticized

in the Murphy Report, but was a member of the

Dublin archdiocese leadership for more than a

decade before it put proper protections for

children in place, he said.

Moriarty said he "should have challenged the prevailing culture"

of protecting the church rather than children when he was an

auxiliary bishop in Dublin from 1991 to 2002.

Two more Irish bishops quit over sex abuse.

Dublin Bishops Eamonn Walsh and Ray Field

offered an apology

to child-abuse victims as they announced their

resignations during Christmas Mass.

In some instances it was found that offending priests

were reassigned for duties in parishes in the United States.

Austria

Continental Europe has suffered fewer public cases,

but they have still been embarrassing.

For instance, in 1995 several former high school boys charged

Austria's primate, Cardinal Hans Groer, with molestation.

He went into exile amid thanks from the Vatican for his service;

no full explanation or apology has ever been given.

Poland

Poland's Archbishop Juliusz Paetz, formerly part of the pope's

personal staff, denied priests' allegations of past

sexual harassment but resigned in March anyway.

``The time when we could pretend that there is no such

problem has just ended before our eyes,''

said the Rev. Tomasz Weclawski, head of the theology

department at Poznan University, where the case surfaced.

Germany

This week, the Pope accepted the resignation of

Auxiliary Bishop Franziskus Eisenbach of Mainz, Germany,

who was accused of sexually

abusing and injuring a woman during an exorcism.

Prosecutors lacked enough evidence to pursue the case

but the Vatican asked Eisenbach to step down, adding

that did not mean he was guilty.

France

In France, the secretary general of the bishops' conference says

nearly 30 priests have been convicted of molestation over the past

decade.

That prompted the bishops to set new guidelines in 2000,

pledging abusive priests will not be shielded from the law.

But last year a bishop was convicted for doing just that,

the first time in more than 150 years that a prelate was

found guilty of a crime.

In nations such as Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain and

Switzerland, few or no cases have been reported.

Italy

In Italy, however, if instances do occur ``it's almost impossible

that a priest would be accused,'' given the nature of the country's

heavily Catholic culture, said author Giordano Bruno Guerri.

Archbishop Giovanni Tonucci, the Vatican representative

to Kenya,

said he knows of three or four abuse cases the

past six years in east Africa.

The Rev. Livingstone Kanyike, chaplain of Uganda's

Makerere University

said priestly misconduct in Africa

``has more to do with women than boys.''

Dominic Emmanuel, spokesman for India's bishops, expressed a

 typical view in Asia:

``The sex scandal is limited to the western countries.''

But Chongsuh Kim, religion chairman at Seoul National University,

cautions that the fact South Korea has no known cases

``doesn't mean that such abuses don't exist.''

Why are there scandals in America? ``

The United States is more open about sex,'' he said.

Mexico

When Mexico's hierarchy met this month, church

authorities first said that nation had no abuse cases -

then admitted it did.

But Archbishop Sergio Obeso told a news conference evidence

of crimes won't be given to authorities.

``Dirty laundry is washed at home,'' he said.


 

THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM

1.     It's just a few people making it bad for the majority of good religious people

2.     These things occurred 10 to 20 years ago. Not now

3.     This is something very secret and strange that is an actual

part of the religious heritage of the western world.

Number 3 would be outrageous if true because it is

something that has not even been discussed by anyone

in the media before.

Is this activity of religious people having sex with children,

known and approved by a secretive religious tradition,

and if so why?

When we get to the root of this, will we find that

the implications are, that it was an approved activity within the

 secretive religious cults that practice it?

AQUARIUS-PRESENT CULTURE

 cat·a·mite (k²t“…-mºt”) n.

A boy who has a sexual relationship with a man.

[Latin catamºtus, from Catamºtus, Ganymede,

from Etruscan Catmite, from Greek Ganum¶d¶s.]

You see the word catamite which is a boy who has

sexual relationship with a man connected to the word

Ganymede who was a boy abducted

by the God Zeus as cupbearer and lover to

himself and the Gods.

That’s the key here.

The child served the gods.

And it was considered a good thing.

beautiful Boy.

Zeus fell in love with him and kidnapped him to

Olympus perhaps as a lover but certainly to serve as

cup bearer for the gods.

MITE

PEDERAST

Pederast  :Boy to love.

came the justification for adults seeking young boys as lovers.

They justified it .

It was good because it was of God.

It was good because the children were serving the gods.

The children were serving Gods representatives.

A priest is considered a representative of God on earth.

 RELIGION

 Notice the word religion in that last line above.

This is  not pedophilia.

This is a religious practice that allows one to avoid contact with women who are thought to be below the status of the male.

Here is where it gets very interesting.

In the case of Ganymede this form of amorous passion

accentuated the victory of patriarchy (man/father)

over matriarchy (female/mother)

because of the independence that the man acquired in

obtaining pleasure without the help of a woman.

Now we are starting to see something very curious  here.

Something in the religious belief that adds to our

understanding of why the holy ones who violate children 

are not turned over to the police,

and yet are  transferred from place to place to continue

 their child molesting .

This is in religious history, an accepted way of the male obtaining

pleasure without the help of a woman.

THE BIBLE

Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me:

It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

A RELIGIOUS PROBLEM

TOTALLY ABNORMAL

THE PRIESTS

THE BOYS CHOIR

Let me show you how deep into tradition this activity came.

Have you heard of the Vienna Boys Choir.?

You see them most often around Christmas time.

They sing with very high voices.

WHY CHILDREN ? 

WHY NOT REPORTED ?

Ganymede  the cup bearer of the Gods has ever been a symbol

of Aquarius in Greek mythology.

 We find in the name Ganymede the explanation of his office.

Gany is derived from the same root as the Sanskrit Ganga

or Ganges.

The Ganges is the principal sacred river in India.

BODILY FLUIDS

A SACRED RELATIONSHIP

As we look at Supernova 1987a what do we see.?

nasa image

We see a supernova seed a galaxy with all the

compounds of new life,

but can we envision a sacred relationship to our universe that

tells us how to live ?

Instead of creating a sacred relationship with our universe,

we have created sacred relationships with groups ,

and people, who fight , and bomb one another,

and carry out these horrible acts with children.

To overcome all of this horror we must turn to consciousness,

because the changes coming upon the earth are in the form of

messages to consciousness.

Messages that come from above via Photon,

which is the messenger particle.

Messages from Supernova 1987a, messages from Eta Carina,

messages from Uranus, messages from Vela, and messages from

the man with the pitcher of water who was molested

by the holy ones.

Yes, messages from Aquarius.

Messages that open the door on the evil which we are seeing now ,

and messages which open the door to Gods healing,

which we are seeing politicians with distorted

understanding trying to block.

THE MESSENGERS

In this age of invention, in this age of Aquarius, the messengers

have sent down the information that has led to the understanding

of the human genome,  and set the stage for the healing of the most

horrible diseases, but the ignorant still stand against God,

thinking they are doing right.

As the Bible says, they call good evil and evil good.

You and I must be open to the messenger.

We must receive the message which  will actually prepare the

way for the coming of the supreme light, the Lord God.

The cleansing has begun.

Aquarius has brought forth the truth of Ganymede and the

cleansing is coming upon the earth.

The cleansing is being brought by the messenger.

The photon. 

The light beings, and you and I must be open to their message

by our meditation.

THE MESSENGER AND THE TEMPLE

Malachi 3:1

Behold I will send my messenger and he shall prepare

the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek shall suddenly

come to his temple even the messenger of the covenant whom

you delight in, behold he shall come says the Lord of Hosts.

As the message from Aquarius has come to earth to cleanse it of

the rape of the child by the Godly ones, the message also has

come to the scientists to bring forth healing , and most important to

you.

The message has come to you to bring forth the beginning of

the new consciousness.

Are you connecting to the cosmic network to receive

 your message?

Are you visiting the cosmic temple (which is your mind),

to receive the messenger?

We have gone through all of the aspects of the

messenger being light,

of the temple being your mind,

and of the Lord of Hosts being

what we refer to as the holy Ghost.

I hope it is clear to you .

CHURCH CHILD ABUSE

WAS ONCE CONSIDERED OK

As you can see here, this has been a dirty secret for a long

long time and it goes way back before the 1950's.

Feb 23, 2004

 Monsignor: Richard S. Sniezyk

 Some Catholic Priests Once Believed Having Sex

 With Young Men Was Acceptable

The Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -

The interim head of the Diocese of Springfield said

the sex abuse scandal that has rocked the

Roman Catholic church in recent years

stems from a belief once held by some priests

hat having sex with young men was acceptable.

Monsignor Richard S. Sniezyk said that as a

seminarian and a young priest

in the 1950s and early 1960s, he heard of priests who

had sex with young men, but "no one thought much about it."

"They did good ministry, they were good to their people,

they were kind, compassionate, but they had no idea

what they were doing to these young men that they

were abusing," Sniezyk told The Boston Globe on Sunday.

"It was that era of the '60s - most of it took place

from the mid-'60s to the early-'80s - and the whole

atmosphere out there was, it was OK.

It was OK to do.

"Certainly that atmosphere is not present in the church today,"

    he said.

Sniezyk will head the diocese until the Vatican names

a replacement

for Bishop Thomas Dupre, who resigned Feb. 11.

He said he was stepping down for health reasons but  

the move came amid allegations he abused two boys

while a parish priest in the 1970s.

When he was appointed interim leader on Feb. 13,

Sniezyk said the church should acknowledge that in

those decades an "old boy network"

protected priests suspected of sexual abuse.

"We have to come clean," Sniezyk said then, recalling

how as a young priest he heard rumors of "cliques of priests"

who molested young churchgoers,

yet were protected by church and legal officials.

Sniezyk, who was ordained in 1962, said he never

witnessed any abuse.

The Rev. James Scahill, a priest at St. Michael's Parish

in East Longmeadow, disputed Sniezyk's comments.

"He's saying priests were that lame in the brain not to

know this was wrong?"

Scahill told the newspaper.

"Any sensible person would know this is evil."

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The Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) -

The Vatican has reinstated a U.S. Navy chaplain as an

active priest after he was placed on administrative leave amid

sex abuse allegations, Detroit Roman Catholic leaders said.

 The Rev. Brian Bjorklund, 64, was suspended last summer over

 allegations he molested a 17-year-old boy in his early years

 in the ministry.

 He was ordained in 1966.

Vatican leaders say the alleged contact was not a violation of

church law at the time, though it is now.

News of Bjorklund's reinstatement comes four days before the

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops releases a

national report on sexual abuse against minors over the past 50 years.

Bjorklund began his career as associate pastor at

St. Alfred Parish in Taylor.

He became a Navy chaplain in 1988.

The archdiocese launched its own investigation in July.