When They Came for the Catholics, Part 2

What actually is going on here? How many priests, percentage-wise, would you say – if you can even estimate – are involved?

So to that extent, I don't think it's any worse in the Catholic Church than it is elsewhere. What is worse is that we Catholics expect more from our priests, and these guys have failed us tremendously.

We don't expect that once you find out one of these guys has committed evil – and that's what this is, this is evil; this is not a matter of a priest who needs to dry out for a month because he's had too much to drink and the poor devil may need to take a break for a month. This is putting their hands on a kid, and then to play musical chairs with these miscreants and move them around from parish to parish [is outrageous].

And now you have the spectacle of a guy who is not only practicing sex with kids but also publicly advocating it. And I have a book that came out in 1982 by a Cuban priest, Enrique Rueda, on the homosexual network. He named Chandler. And you know what the liberals said? "Oh, this is homophobia."

Oh, really! What are they saying now? He's got the goods on him. We knew about this bum back in 1978 when he started in with NAMBLA (North American Man-Boy Love Association) with some of the people in Boston, which is why so many Catholics are outraged.

Now, when a guy says that in New York, the other guy says it in Dallas, that's a network. They're all on the same page, they've got their cue cards together. And that's the scary thing about it; it became a mantra. So there is a network there. How big is it? I don't exactly know, but whatever it is, it's damaging.

Though the sexual revolution took place in terms of ideas in the 1960s, all hell didn't break loose until the '70s. The Catholic Church is not an insular institution. It hit the church like a hurricane, and these guys just took their libidos and threw it to the wind. They should have just left the priesthood and said "It's not working out for me."

Instead, they reinterpreted everything. Even bestiality now could be understood as not intrinsically evil. And there was a book, by Father Anthony Kosnick, that was used in seminaries in the late '70s that was used to promote this. So if anything, this is not a church run by conservatives, run by the ruler. This has been a free-for-all for decades.

I was in a Catholic college and you should see the anti-Catholicism that existed there at the highest ranks, including the nuns who ran the place and who didn't want anybody with a collar, namely a monsignor, any priest, to get the job.

You know what? The liberals are saying it all has to come out. Oh, boy, nobody wants it all to come out more than Bill Donahue, and once it does, people will find out what a bunch of phonies a lot of these liberals have been. They've been eating away at the Catholic Church like a bunch of termites for a long time. Some of these priests and nuns are like welfare kings and queens. They should have the decency to get off the dole.

And I have said on my show that the strength of the Catholic Church is being seen now, not its weakness. Because it is airing – however it came about, it is airing – this enormous black eye, this problem, however you want to put it, and it will expunge itself of these perverts, these deviants. The church and its fundamental message will come back stronger as a result.

But I ask myself why don't we see the media demanding that some other world religions, which will remain unnamed at this moment, throw out their preachers who preach homicide from their pulpits? Why do we not see anything about that, for example, about the murderous mullahs who preach hatred and teach children to kill? How come we don't hear about that?

Yet we have 46,000-47,000 priests in this country and a lot of people are making the most incredible snide comments and sweeping statements that every Catholic priest is like these bums. Most Catholic priests I know are wonderful men, and they're hurt by this. It runs between hurt and sorrow and anger and outrage.

There has always been a lot of anti-Catholic bigotry in this country and now, of course, you're seeing anti-Semitism stick its ugly head out again with the lopsided demands being made on the college campuses. So this is a tough time for people.

But it's a time for courage, and if people don't stand up and stick by their convictions and act reasonably and stop the hyperventilation, we're not going to get any place in this country. We're giving it back to the extremists and that's the danger.

People don't understand that this is an attack upon religion, Mr. Donahue, and I know that you're almost a one-man Samson right now fighting the voices that would like to drown you out and see the church disappear and have the cathedrals turned into abortion clinics.

There's fundamentally nothing worse than hurting a child who trusts you. We all agree on that. However, you don't blame the church for the actions of boll weevils who use the edifice in order to do their harm.