Catholic seminarians speaking out about sexual misconduct are being shunned
WASHINGTON (DC)
Washington Post
Oct. 4, 2019
By Michelle Boorstein
The text from Stephen Parisi's fellow seminarian was ominous: Watch your back.
Parisi, dean of his class of seminarians in the Buffalo Diocese, and another classmate had gone to seminary officials about a recent party in a parish rectory. At the party in April, the men said, priests were directing obscene comments to the seminarians, discussing graphic photos and joking about professors allegedly swapping A's for sex.
"I just wanted to be sure that you guys are protected and are watching your backs," the seminarian's text said. Authorities are "fishing to figure out who the nark [sic] is."
Parisi and Matthew Bojanowski, who was academic chairman of the class, have made explosive news nationally recently after alleging that they were bullied by superiors, grilled by their academic dean under police-like interrogation and then shunned by many of their fellow seminarians after going public with sexual harassment complaints about those up the chain of command. The Vatican on Thursday announced it is investigating broad allegations that church leaders have mishandled clergy abuse cases.
Washington Post
Oct. 4, 2019
By Michelle Boorstein
The text from Stephen Parisi's fellow seminarian was ominous: Watch your back.
Parisi, dean of his class of seminarians in the Buffalo Diocese, and another classmate had gone to seminary officials about a recent party in a parish rectory. At the party in April, the men said, priests were directing obscene comments to the seminarians, discussing graphic photos and joking about professors allegedly swapping A's for sex.
"I just wanted to be sure that you guys are protected and are watching your backs," the seminarian's text said. Authorities are "fishing to figure out who the nark [sic] is."
Parisi and Matthew Bojanowski, who was academic chairman of the class, have made explosive news nationally recently after alleging that they were bullied by superiors, grilled by their academic dean under police-like interrogation and then shunned by many of their fellow seminarians after going public with sexual harassment complaints about those up the chain of command. The Vatican on Thursday announced it is investigating broad allegations that church leaders have mishandled clergy abuse cases.
Sounds like the S.O.S. from the past. Does nothing change? How do these dispicables get in our seminaries? Who keeps protecting their poisonous practices? So discouraging!
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