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Dutch priest served on board of pedophile organization
May 23, 2011
From 2008 to 2010, a Dutch Salesian priest–identified in news reports as Father Van B.–served on the board of an organization that seeks to legalize pedophilia, according to a leading Dutch news agency. The priest has been convicted of two counts of exposure. “Membership in such organizations does not fit with the ethos of the Salesian order,” said Father Herman Spronck, the priest’s superior. Father Spronck said he had not sought the priest’s dismissal because “removing someone from the order is something you would only do in the case of grave moral transgression, such as rape.” Father Spronck is now under investigation from his own superior after he reportedly downplayed the sexual abuse of minors in comments to the media.
catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=10404
May 23, 2011
From 2008 to 2010, a Dutch Salesian priest–identified in news reports as Father Van B.–served on the board of an organization that seeks to legalize pedophilia, according to a leading Dutch news agency. The priest has been convicted of two counts of exposure. “Membership in such organizations does not fit with the ethos of the Salesian order,” said Father Herman Spronck, the priest’s superior. Father Spronck said he had not sought the priest’s dismissal because “removing someone from the order is something you would only do in the case of grave moral transgression, such as rape.” Father Spronck is now under investigation from his own superior after he reportedly downplayed the sexual abuse of minors in comments to the media.
catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=10404