Salesians remove Dutch delegate following pedophilia comments

[_Abyssinia]

Father Herman Spronck, the leading Salesian priest in the Netherlands, was removed from his position following the publication of comments in which he stated that “pedophile sex could be accepted,” in the words of the Reuters news agency.

“Herman Spronck is no longer the delegate from the Salesian delegation in the Netherlands,” said Father Jos Claes, leader of the Salesians in Belgium and the Netherlands. “We fully distance ourselves from the words we find in your interview with Herman Spronck.”

Father Spronck made his comments after a Dutch news agency discovered that a Salesian priest had served on the board of an organization that seeks to legalize pedophilia. The priest, identified in news reports as Father Van B., “can longer perform any pastoral duties as of today,” Father Claes said.

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[Barbkw]

…that a Salesian priest had served on the board of an organization that seeks to legalize pedophilia.

Again, where is that vomiting Smiley.



I’m assuming that that should read “legalize pederasty” or lower the age of consent.

Which board did he serve on…the Dutch equivalent of NAMBLA?

“How much filth there is in the church, and even among those who, in the priesthood, ought to belong entirely to Him,” he wrote. He said the church often seems like “a boat about to sink, a boat taking in water on every side.”

“The soiled garments and face of Your church throw us into confusion. Yet it is we ourselves who have soiled them! It is we who betray You time and time again,” he wrote.

“Have mercy on Your church,” he prayed. “When we fall, we drag You down to earth, and Satan laughs, for he hopes that You will not be able to rise from that fall; he hopes that being dragged down in the fall of Your church, You will remain prostrate and overpowered.”

Pope Benedict - April 2005 at his first Papal Address