George Zirwas was known to be part of a small ring of gay predatory priests in the Pittsburgh diocese who got teenaged boys drunk and sexually assaulted them.
Even after the ring was exposed and Zirwas’s compatriots were put on trial in 1988, prosecutors couldn’t charge Zirwas with a crime, although multiple criminal activities of his had been reported to the Pittsburgh diocese.
The new Pittsburgh bishop, Donald Wuerl, referred Zirwas to psychiatric treatment. Upon approval by psychiatrists, Bishop Wuerl allowed Zirwas to continue serving as a priest in the diocese. As additional reports of sexual abuse by Zirwas came in, Wuerl kept allowing Zirwas to serve, in four different parishes over seven and a half years before removing him from the priesthood.
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3 comments:
Pedophile Island could use a few priests, no?
The entire Catholic religion is a joke! They worship Mary and other Saints not the true Jesus who died for our sins!
@7:56
I got one better for you... how about all religion is a joke.
What is funnier is different folks from different religions pointing fingers and saying how someone else's unfounded claims are crazier then their unfounded claims.
Ya'll so silly.
You know what's not funny or silly? Child rape. And it's not just Catholics, so get off your high horse.
I encourage you to do the research for yourself... the major insurers of Protestant Churches report that child abuse happens as regularly in non Catholic Christian Churches... and that info is also backed up by Billy Grahams Grandson, who fights this on a regular basis.
So don't pretend this is a Catholic problem. This is a religion problem. You might want to look to get your own house in order before slinging mud at someone elses.
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