Fathers who rape

First of all, let me admit that I did not plan to write this post. It is one of those 'spur of the moment' posts. The trigger to this post was an article which you will find here. Those who would not bother to read the entire article, I am writing the sentence which prompted me to log this post.

Priests in many congregations lead dedicated lives, but there is a certain section, very large in number, which is spoiling the name of the priesthood.

This former church father is lamenting about very large number of them spoiling the name of priesthood. How? This is what he says:

If a woman has financial problems and is desperate, she will approach the priest,” says Shibu. “He will help her, but ask for sex in exchange. She gives in because she has no option.” Similarly, priests take advantage of widows, troubled women, and nuns.

The author named Shibu, is a former father in a church with an experience of (according to the article) 24 years in the congregation. So, it is an insiders information, therefore can be trusted. Of course, the parties who will feel threatened by these revelations will give their excuses and implant ulterior motives for this 'malign campaign, from one of 'theirs'.

What it tells us is that the christian fathers, with all their smiling faces and white attire, are like sex starved perverts, who will not spare a woman, who is at their mercy. Still, they talk of mercy, all the time. Not all of them, but a very large number.

The questions that might pop up in our minds are - Is it a one off chance, happening in this age of materialism? Is it just a 'hate site' having a hidden agenda? Is it a propaganda by Islamists or Jews or Buddhists or Hindus or Taoists or ....?

This is the year 2010, according to the christian calendar. I felt the goosebumps while reading the article, that uneasy feeling of deja vu.The reason for this feeling was the account I had read last year, while studying christianity.

I am talking of a book titled 'Master key to Popery'. This book contains incidents taken from the records of church, by a former catholic father. Sample this.

I do not write this out of any private end, to blame all sorts of confessors; for there are some who, according to the principles of their religion, do discharge their duty with exactness and purity.

Further, about these persons who discharge their duty with purity, he writes:

I knew some of these exemplary men, but a very few. 

Firstly, about the dissimilarity.

This book contains incidents, as far back as 1710. Full three centuries ago. Apart from this, the names of fathers and victims may be different but the general tenor remains the same.

Did you notice the similarities in the two accounts separated by a gap of three hundred years? The common feature is that the number of christian fathers, who have not acted as blackmailers for sex have been very few.

Does it appear far fetched?

This skepticism is expected from general public which has been deliberately kept ignorant about some ugly aspects. In the west, every now and then, sex scandals keep appearing in the media but not here. Read on and you will realize what I am driving at.

The name of the author of the book is Fr. Anthony Gavins. He has mentioned numerous confessions, which I will present before the readers. One of these confessions is by a father on death bed. To hide the identity of the man, his name has been given as Don Paulo in the year 1710.

I have frequented the parish club twelve years -- We were only six parish priests in it; and there we did consult and contrive all the ways to satisfy our passions. Everybody had a list of the handsomest woman, remarkable for her beauty, in another's parish; the priest of her parish sent for her to his own house; and having prepared the way for wickedness, the other had nothing to do but to meet her there, and fulfill his desires; and so we have served one another these twelve years past. Our method has been to persuade the husbands and fathers not to hinder them any spiritual comfort; and to the ladies, to persuade them to be subject to our advice and will; and that in so doing, they should have liberty at any time to go out on pretense of communicating some spiritual business to the priest. And if they refused to do it, then we should speak to their husbands and fathers not to let them go out at all; or, which would be worse for them, we should inform against them to the holy tribunal of inquisition. And by these diabolical persuasions they were at our command, without fear of revealing the secret.

So, what are we talking about here? We are talking about something not by a disgruntled lunatic but from the records of church, presented by a father. And we are talking about all the fathers of a church, serving each other. I always thought that such acts are performed by pimps and brothel madams. It is not one or two individuals but all the fathers of the church. I would call it organized crime syndicate. As they say:

इस हमाम में सभी नंगे हैं.

Try to imagine a handsome woman, called by a father, to his residence. Now, try to picture him convincing or ordering this woman to present herself to another father. Imagine the second father, on whose demand, the hapless woman has been called, removing his hat, cross, cassock and the rest. And also imagine the smile on his face.

If you are a little perplexed that I am calling the woman hapless as she could always have told someone, may be her husband or father or brother, then relax. Just learn a little about Inquisition, with a capital I. I intend to write about it in subsequent posts. 

Now, how many women did these fathers rape and present on a platter to other fathers. The answer is coming your way. The dying father tells us:

I have spared no woman of my parish, whom I had a fancy for, and many other of my brethren's parishes; but I cannot tell the number. 

He must have had a blast of a time. Raping thousands of women. The poor Jihadi terrorists, they blow themselves up for 72 virgins in Jannat. Our loving fathers, neither have to blow themselves up nor get them branded as terrorists, and still get carnal pleasures to the fullest. What a nice racket? 

 That is not all. He tells us about the number of his children.

I have sixty nepotes alive, of several women. 

So, he has fathered sixty children. And we always thought that they are celibate. Is this why they are called fathers.

Let us get on with the confession.

But my principal care ought to be of those that I have by the two young women I keep at home, since their parents died. Both are sisters, and I had by the eldest two boys, and by the youngest, one; 

Well, Well. Two sisters, orphaned by the death of their parents are sent in the safe custody of a celibate father. He is the supposed shelter provider. The price that he extracted from these girls is children. His own little Harem or seraglio. Who else is in this harem? Read on.

and the one I had by own sister is dead.

So, this father did father a child from his own sister. What have we got here; Blackmail, women trafficking, rape and now incest. All in the family.

Where this father says that he left no woman of his parish, I forgot to mention that he has disclosed in his confession that there were 1600 families in his parish. That means thousands of women to pick and choose from.

Apart from raping the women of all these families, he tells that he has defrauded most of them and amassed huge wealth. Now, add embezzlement also to the list of crimes.

To round off the list, add 60 abortions for which this father was instrumental.

This behaviour is in direct resonance with the behaviour unmasked by the former priest in the above mentioned link.

The more the things appear to change, the more they remain same.

Have I got this one right?

Just Wondering!