Unholy Silence Covering Up the Sins of the Fathers eBook Father Kevin Lee
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I am not the first person to identify serious flaws in the way the Catholic Church deals with allegations of sexual abuse. That priests are living double-lives and contradictions are apparent in the way they actually live with the way they profess to live is not in dispute.
In her scandalous but rarely read 2005 book, Priests in Love, Jane Anderson makes an admission to widespread sexual infidelity amongst Australian Catholic clergy.
The author surveyed thousands of priests promised anonymity and presented a compendium of confessions from men who have turned their back on mandatory celibacy to follow their own consciences.
She rightly observed that “prior to Vatican Council II (1962-65) the liturgical practice reflected the firm belief that the Mass was a sacrifice in which the priest and his actions were distinctly separate from the people. Everything was centred on the priest at the altar.” [1]
The priest was separated from the people and his role was so central to the lives of Catholics that they became revered as cultic leaders, almost the personification of Jesus on earth.
The publicly promoted premise behind the insistence on celibacy was that the priest needed to be as pure and spotless as the offerings that he handled. A vow of chastity was what qualified a man to hold such an esteemed preaching position within the church.
Of course, to maintain this façade, the priest must at least appear to be chaste even if he were not. Bishops, who rely on a number of such willing men to celebrate the daily Mass, will never pry into the priests’ personal lives to determine whether or not he was, for fear of finding out to the contrary.
Today, in Catholic parishes throughout the world and particularly in Australia, men are pretending to be celibate in order to hold the exalted office of priest. They are keeping up the image for a church that is losing its way in secular society. Catholicism is significantly losing its influence with the community and even with its own remnant adherents.
If it were not for its ubiquitous parochial school system and the government grants sustaining them, the Catholic Church would have died out long ago.
The ongoing financial success and academic leadership of Catholic schools are propping up the Church’s flagging identity and topping up the church coffers depleted after endless sexual abuse compensation claims.
But the church still needs to have enough men willing to celebrate the Sunday Mass o give the impression that it is business as usual. It doesn’t matter whether or not these men are in fact celibate, as long as they look like they are.
No one within the organisation speaks publicly about this although most are aware of the hypocrisy.
I should know…
I was one of them.
Unholy Silence Covering Up the Sins of the Fathers eBook Father Kevin Lee
I would recommend this book to anyone who is Roman Catholic and/or who is interested in the ongoing saga of sexual abuse of children and adults, by clergy, brothers and nuns of the RC church. Fr Kevin Lee performed a courageous and very difficult act in writing this book. Difficult because it is long, detailed, and heartbreaking and covers many years of his life and experiences, from high school through seminary through priesthood. Very interesting to me was that Fr Lee manages to elucidate the WHYs of clergy sexual abuse and how priests can even convince themselves and each other, through the use of the Confessional, to believe that they have done nothing wrong and that their victims have not even been hurt! Whilst a priest may forget the whole thing, victims commit suicide even years after the fact! This book primarily addresses child abuse but it also addresses the adult women and adult men who have been and continue to be the victims of supposedly celibate clergy. This is a world-wide tragedy still underway every day, in every part of the world. Fr Lee argues, and I agree, that the RC policy of mandatory celibacy is cruel, inhumane, absurd and needs to be abolished. It drives priests to nearly "insane" behaviors which, if they were allowed instead to have "normal" sexual lives, would often never occur. The RC church needs to abolish mandatory celibacy and needs to do it ASAP before more lives are ruined, including priests, brothers, nuns, children and adults. I could go on here but I will leave the reader instead to read this book for more comprehensive information and arguments. Was Fr Lee angry when he wrote parts of this? Yes indeed. Are a lot of victims? Even more so.Product details
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Unholy Silence Covering Up the Sins of the Fathers eBook Father Kevin Lee Reviews
This is an inside account of the modern day priesthood of the Catholic priests. A must read for those who hold these men of God on a pedestal and need reminding that no one is perfect or even close to it. Kevin Lee is bashing his head against a brick wall attempting to expose the frequency of child abuse and sexual deviation amongst the clergy before he leaves the priesthood to live with the wife he has already married. JayJay
While not a catholic and I, think it often best not to comment on exposes of institutions I am not part of, in this case I will. First because I live in the area covered by this book and Kevin Lee’s story. Also because I know people who were closely associated with Lee. I also believe the issues dealt with go way beyond the borders of the catholic church. Lee’s style is that of a man who sees life in terms of black or white, there is no neutral. The reader either comes to terms with his style or doesn’t. While at times I found his style a bit full on I determined to look beyond the style to the importance of the issues covered and Lee’s passion for his subject.
This is a warts and all book, there is no room for niceties and what he describes at times can be quite horrifying. He doesn’t even hold back on himself and while he explains the reasons for what he has done I did not detect any attempt to justify himself.
For me the book was saying that celibacy has been a failure for the church. Worse than that celibacy has been a blight on the church and resulted in horrific consequences. Lee is saying that the inability of many priests to remain celebrate has resulted in a face saving cover up by the church. Under the cloak of this cover up paedofiles have gained a foothold and are able to carry on their horrific practices with minimal censure. Lee’s frustration at this situation oozes out of every page. Lee himself married a Filipino woman some two years ago while still a priest and was forced out of the priesthood. Lee then established a new life for himself in the Philippines. They had a daughter in late 2013 and Lee was killed in the typhoon which struck the Philippines a couple of months later.
In his book Lee does not hold back, he names names. Many of those who read this book will know or have been affected by those mentioned.
It is a powerful, shocking book that makes real what we hear about in the news headlines.
Father Kevin Lee put his life on the line in writing this account of how the Catholic Church protected perpetrators, and silenced and persecuted victims of child sexual abuse in and beyond Sydney. His brave exposures of these clergy crimes led directly to PM Julia Gillard establishing the ongoing Australian Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse in Institutions. As well as undertaking this mission alone, he honestly and courageously married the woman he loved, and was unjustly excluded from the Catholic priesthood for this. Soon after Unholy Silence was published, Fr Kevin died during Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. All Christians should honour his faithful witness, his stand for justice, and his memory by reading this searingly honest book and continuing his fight for justice. R.I.P. Father Kevin.
Along with a number of other books on the topic of clergy/religious sex abuse, this book details, from an insider's perspective, the sad reality of serial sexual deviance and related criminal activity, including the spoliation of evidence and obstruction of justice after the alleged sex crimes, amongst the most esteemed and trusted men (and women), in the Catholic Church of Australia. Alas, a story all too familiar for Catholics throughout the English-speaking world, in these faith-challenging times, in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Ireland. A must read for all parents with kids in Catholic schools (especially for the abusers' most common grooming methods and to be on guard against them) and all men discerning a call to the priesthood and/or religious life (especially for an introduction to the homosexual subculture, identity politics, and sexually active clergy/religious networks that are not only present but also in many cases dominant in seminaries, in diocese, and in international clerical/religious orders, whose power and reach extend all the way to the Vatican). Ladies and gentlemen, forewarned is forearmed!
I would recommend this book to anyone who is Roman Catholic and/or who is interested in the ongoing saga of sexual abuse of children and adults, by clergy, brothers and nuns of the RC church. Fr Kevin Lee performed a courageous and very difficult act in writing this book. Difficult because it is long, detailed, and heartbreaking and covers many years of his life and experiences, from high school through seminary through priesthood. Very interesting to me was that Fr Lee manages to elucidate the WHYs of clergy sexual abuse and how priests can even convince themselves and each other, through the use of the Confessional, to believe that they have done nothing wrong and that their victims have not even been hurt! Whilst a priest may forget the whole thing, victims commit suicide even years after the fact! This book primarily addresses child abuse but it also addresses the adult women and adult men who have been and continue to be the victims of supposedly celibate clergy. This is a world-wide tragedy still underway every day, in every part of the world. Fr Lee argues, and I agree, that the RC policy of mandatory celibacy is cruel, inhumane, absurd and needs to be abolished. It drives priests to nearly "insane" behaviors which, if they were allowed instead to have "normal" sexual lives, would often never occur. The RC church needs to abolish mandatory celibacy and needs to do it ASAP before more lives are ruined, including priests, brothers, nuns, children and adults. I could go on here but I will leave the reader instead to read this book for more comprehensive information and arguments. Was Fr Lee angry when he wrote parts of this? Yes indeed. Are a lot of victims? Even more so.
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