Manufacturing the Clerical Predator 

I was Catholic my entire life. In August of 2019, I made a conscious decision to leave the church because of all its monumental hypocrisy. I feel closer to Jesus now than I ever did as a "staunch Catholic." This program is magnificent because it speaks the truth. Nothing here is exaggerated or falsified. (When I was in a Trappist monastery in 2009, a Bavarian priest sexually harrassed me to no end. When I took this to the Abbott, who was very well educated, he told me that "maybe the priest is just stupid and didn't know what he was doing." As a fully heterosexual man, I laughed at the Abbott's idiocy and left the monastery forever the next day.)

The “measures” taken by the church to deal with the abuse amount to putting lipstick on a pig. Still a pig.

I was impressed by the contribution from the ex-seminarian (James Egan). Anyone who is interested can hear him again in episode 184 of 'The Angry Catholic', in which he talks about the work he does for survivors of clerical abuse in the Archangel Foundation.

The church replaced moral reasoning and common decency with obedience. Blind obedience to its hierarchical delusion.

These three brave and intelligent men made me feel decidedly less ashamed to be a human being.

how long did it take for someone to admit that some of the predators were BISHOPS!!

Nate was my good friend. He wanted this to come out. He would be glad to know this is getting more exposure.. Enough is enough...

rx: don't give the catholic church another penny ever. there are plenty of other worthy causes.

Thanks for making this film. I just watched it twice.

I have been a devout Roman Catholic since 1961, but I renounced my Roman Catholic faith in 2022 for two chief reasons: one, the Roman Catholic faith is not aligned with the Bible; and two, I was spiritually liberated by the book I read entitled "Altar of Secrets: Sex, Politics, and Money in the Philippine Catholic Church" by Aries C. Rufo. I am now a born again Christian . . . much better!

I am a woman doctor who has cared for victims, families and even predators. The problem happens in Protestant churches and cults too. These speakers present very real insights and I thank them for it. The attack on the victim is not just physical, it is combined with ongoing psychological abuse of the victim and often their families too, and in this case of seminarians and priests, all of whom are recruited or cajoled into silencing the victim. This exercise of power is part of the excitement for the predator. Predators cooperate with others to find their victims, sometimes they get someone to act as procurer,lookout, and someone to lie and cover up for them. Churches and religious orders have international paedophile rings operating within them. None of this is being addressed.

Tom Doyle is a magnificent man.

I am a former Catholic Priest. I remember in my first assignment, I was on fire. The fact that many of the people were from Ascoli Piceno in the Marche region of Italy, fired me up even more. In the rectory, there lived a priest who just lived there. When I inquired about this I was told not to worry about it. I soon learned that this guy was stationed at a neighboring parish, at that parish apparently, he was moved quickly. Nothing was said regarding that sudden move, eventually I learned that the move was perpetuated because he sexually abused a boy. My pastor told me not to worry about this, but it affected me adversely where I couldn't even sit at the table and eat with him.

Celibacy is a sacrifice made by a man or woman that is called to religious life, the person gives up the opportunity of having a family for God. A homosexual makes no such sacrifice. Perhaps it's a way for the Catholic family homosexual to save face and say he has a calling to the priesthood which is wrong. Now it is as if you must be a homosexual to become a priest.

I know many priests from my boyhood and none of them were predators. It has to be said too.

This is a very powerful and beautiful documentary, though it's very hard to listen to sometimes. And I think it's 100% correct in its analysis: Nothing is going to change as long as the church is an autocracy controlled by male bachelors. And since I don't think the Magisterium is ever going to give up even an iota of their current power and privilege, I think the institutional church is going to die. If Catholicism survives, it's going to survive as independent laity-controlled congregations in which women share power equally with men and any instances of sexual abuse are immediately reported to the police.

What sane, caring parent would send off their young children with a lone priest for a week in the country? Or any lone adult, for that matter. This is inconceivable to me.

Those vultures of the Vatican are worse than evil

Just seen that Nate took his life. So awful. This is such an important film.

This is a really helpful and powerful documentary. Sad and tragic stories of the abuse of power-and yet, thankfully, these men also offer hope of a better way.

Vote with your $$$

Thank you Tom Doyle. Again. Lyn Hayward Taylor SNAP Louisiana

Very powerful and poignant.

thank you so much from Czech Republic!

And Jesus wept

Oh my heart breaks. As a survivor myself. I thank you for you bravery. What the concept of a priest being ontologically changed in Christ does to many of us who were victims is horrific!

This is what's difficult & complicated about the catholic church, it's either the sexual scandal, corruption or the bullying, & this happens not just among Priests, Religious & seminarians but it also happens among the laity who serves within the church.

The abused are like Jesus who are left behind with thorns in their heads. I send my love and blessings to all who stand up and work towards a better spirit for us all. Because I am furious.

Paedophilia is the largest problem witthin families in the world:

At my brother's public school the comment was Father has a thing for boys' bottoms - it was an attempt to minimise

smoke a cigarette before you meet McCarrick!! Tragic but hilarious.

Amazing vid thanks. All my family my in laws my wife were influenced greatly by the Roman church. I thankfully went a different route. I lived In London next to the most important abbey in London Ealing abbey. The past Abbott has recently been sent to prison for 17 years he jumped bail and was on the run for years he was helped on the run by Rome and was tracked down to Albania and had to be extradited back to the UK. A whole succession of priests from the abbey have been sent to prison. This stuff is still going on. I was raped by a teacher repeatedly as a boy . My life fell apart . I had him arrested 40 years later he had just retired as the headmaster of a Roman Catholic primary school and was just about to become a deacon of his local church. The police did not prosecute him

James Egan's photo at the beginning of his interview resembles the late Jeffrey Dahmer. I also noticed that Thomas Doyle has somewhat of an uncanny resemblance to the late overnight radio talkshow host Art Bell. ☝️🙄

I thank God for Church Militant TV.

James I'm proud of your truth

Who is this "boss" that this former Dominican priest talking about?

Thank you for your courage

This was very well done. It was clear, thoughtful and honest. The condemnation was placed exactly where it needs to be - on the heads of those that perpetrated these crimes and those that protect them. I am a practicing Catholic who loves Christ and His Church, but I do not want to turn a blind eye to evil within our own institution because of the fear of how this may be perceived. Thank you for the kind and respectful way you presented this very difficult material. And thank you to the brave men that came forward to share their story. I do not want to cede our beautiful church to these criminals but also know that the church is set up to heal poor sinners such as these. They just shouldn’t be running it!

What a ridiculous concept... Allow priests to marry... All men want sex... Better to marry, St. Paul said. Maybe it's more about the Church attracting narcissists and psychopaths... Good people do good things! As the historical churches of all faiths have always done... Hospitals, Social Services... 🤗 Kindness, Love 💕 etc. etc...

There is no way you can truly believe in God and do these things. Especially calling yourself a man of God. It seems to be getting darker . May God bless us all.

Celibacy and chastity are not the problem. Homosexuality is.

Bergoglio is the worst cover-up artist of them all.

All that for something imaginary called god.

Still a facade: "...powerful people were allowed to continue to engage in predatory behavior even on an really exceptional scale..." (31:36)

"...a way for offender priests to have vulnerable seminarians open up about their sexuality and it gets them to talk about about their sexual preferences and......" on it goes. So he then tells us how these offender priests, a great way for them to 'scope out territory...' and they know this person (seminarian) is struggling, they might be conflicted about homosexuality and so on. If you're the offender priest you now know you can 'target' them, they're vulnerable, open to exploitation. They've opened up; you know their secret.

20:04 I used to be one of those devout Catholics until a few years ago and although I knew of the abuses I rationalized or downplayed them away during those years as I really believed the apologetics on this one, I was raised by parents who also really liked JPII growing up but I became a Traditionalist type of Catholic during high school and college (as the Latin Mass seemed to be making a come back in many dioceses until the pope put a stop to it nearly two years ago) and my fellow Trad friends usually either blamed Vatican II itself or the chaos that came after it for the abuses when they weren't blaming the LGBT+ community instead (mainly the gay priests) so I guess that's the way I dealt with the situation until the very last day I called myself a Catholic. Because of that the crisis pretty much played no role in my deconversion and it's been several years now since I left the but now I'm starting to see I may have been lied to in more ways than I thought and for a good chunk of my life I thought God wanted me to be a priest (and I idealized the priesthood as a result), however I never made it to seminary and I'm grateful for that. Still trying to recover from the +10 years of repression and guilt I got as a hormonal teenager through Purity Culture/Theology of the Body type of theology I got but I was told the moment I looked at a woman a certain way and gave in to "impure thoughts" that would be a mortal sin and would go to hell unless I went to confessional (and confess I did very often, like every two weeks at one point), now I see why so many have left over the scandal and it's mostly because of the hypocrisy and the audacity of these priests and bishops to dictate what our sex lives should be like while all of this was going on. Yet another reason why at this point I want nothing to do with the institution I used to be so loyal to and made the center of my life for too long, I'm not exactly optimistic that true reform will come anytime soon and this will keep happening.

At 33 minutes, I dont 'get' this. Suddenly we've ex-offender priests talking to seminarians. All because of the Polish pope's emphasis on celibacy and a state of being chaste...... this leads to... read on.....

Utter madness.

cupich is mean-spirited

All of it is 1000% correct

This was an excellent video. As a former cleric This video has helped me understand many of the things that I have not understood since I left the ministry. Thank you for your good work.

This is one of the best documentaries, if not the best, on the sickness of the Catholic Church..Bravo!

Why didn't God protect the children? Why didn't God stop these predators? Any ideas?

Hope for more brave, humble and truthful documentary like this. That shows that even priests need regeneration by the Holy Spirit. And turn into a real ontological change through faith in Christ alone. Religious discipline is not enough Philippians 2:13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. May everyone in RC turn to Jesus Christ for 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. I look at these verses as it is. I may seem superstitious on this but I believe on God who creates something out of nothing with God all things are possible. Amen

There is NO excuse for the cover-up and continued contagion in the Church. BUT, I am not Catholic because of the “Instituted”. I am Catholic because that is the church that Jesus instituted. The INSTITUTION MUST be dismantled. Jesus has been patient….

Pope Francis said, “Clericalism is when the priests and other clergy in the church start to think they are more important and powerful than everyone else. Displeased, he said it was like a disease, like a leprosy that is really hurting the church. He told church leaders, especially those working in the Vatican to get rid of the bad habits and temptations like feeling indispensable, wanting to be rich, living a double life, and even forgetting about God.” The pyramid of hierarchical authority, and the ordination of gay men is but the mighty beast of power that has taken over in the church that Jesus Christ established. God will cleanse His temple as He did when He went up to Jerusalem and told them to stop abusing and misusing ”My Father’s house.” There are so many non free thinking clericalised lay people in the catholic church now, that it has become harder to demand changes to bring back e.g. the altar rails that were ripped out of our churches removing this reverence and more efficient way of receiving God on our tongues, and to put Christ back where He belongs in our churches so that we may once again have access to visit Him in unlocked churches. God protect us and Your church...

Thank you for your excellent exposé.

Smoke of S…… is in the church. Praying for the victims. Have mercy on us dear Lord.🙏🏻🕊️✝️

A very thoughtful response, really we are all without words about the betrayal of the completely misrepresented little Jewish bloke from Palestine.

weakland was one of the problems. plus, he destroyed a beautiful Cathedral

Unfortunately, it is not their MOST obscene secret....

I hope you all know that you are bringing healing to many just by speaking on this. Does anyone have recommendations for victim outreach? I need spiritual healing and guidance that I can trust. I'm so ready to serve God, I'm so ready to heal and move on. I want my light back, I can't keep living like this. I can't keep living in fear. People really need to understand that there never was an actual separation between church and state. All intertwined. I wish that governmental agencies would get the same amount of scrutiny the Catholic church gets. It is NOT just the Catholic church, it is in EVERY sect of religion. I dont hate the church, I WANT to serve God. I love Jesus. I need my light back but I've been fucked with my entire life and I'm scared to trust anyone. I'm actually convinced that I've been cursed since literal birth. My mother told me she was told to never return to the Catholic church because she was 16 and unwed and pregnant. I'm convinced we were put on some sort of list.... I know it sounds crazy, it FEELS crazy! I just dont see how this many bad things can happen to one person. It literally feels like there is this push to get me to k*ll myself. 😢 I've even had people with credentials tell me that im NOT crazy that what I'm saying actually does happen and it really isn't that far fetched. I try to find peace in that. God is the only reason I'm alive, I truly believe that! I should be dead, several times over. I have a life story, most probably wouldn't believe. 😢 God has to be THE only explanation of me being alive.

So sad, and painful to watch these fellow catholics suffer so much at the hand of priests.

The problem is the lavender mafia in the church and in the seminaries.

Creating a religious system within which clergy aren't allowed to marry, creates an unnatural environment. The "sacred feminine" /holy grail of manhood regards orgasm as the ultimate physical experience. That constitutes "god" for many through the ages. If you find yourself in a religious system in which you gain knowledge of deity, it remains soul-dimension-bound. Until you meet the Creator of the universe in person, you just remain religious- gaining knowledge, emotional experiences- in your own unique manner as a person:that constitutes your soul. Only the bride of Christ has a spirit dimension which has truly come alive. Only they can hear God's voice and see Him manifest to them in many ways. That is the ultimate human "experience". Knowledge of the bible, doing good deeds an trying to be a good person doesn't make you part of the bride. Untill then, you'll be mislead by the religious spirit-which is a demonic entity.

Power corrupts everyone, including saints.

Where John Paul II differed was that the ontological change he experienced in his own pious life, was one he specifically sought in his sufferings and priesthood. The wild, Hugh Hefnerian-inspired "liberated" untamed sexual perversity in American and Western societies was something John Paul II, coming from Poland, never imagined. Pre-WW II Polish society was a different world from 1960s-2000 America.

You protestants are perfect? PROVE IT!!!

Who didn't vilify Kinsey for decades? Decades later Who vilified Kinsey? 😮

i like James Egan. Dont know him, but it would be nice if i did. But when he says "the Church", it is not "the Church" it is some people "IN" the Church, including clergy and some Bishops. I had a Bishop who was an alcoholic, a pathological liar, and a sexual predator. I did not lose my Faith because of him. The Church is the Body of Christ, which is not defined by its tumors, warts, and pimples. If a bishop wants to be a hemmoroid on the anus of the Body of Christ, let him have at it. Who cares. Let him not be remembered.

You guys have me in tears. Thank you so much. For men to speak out on all of this... I just thank you. God is working. ❤

Not surprising to hear of the “wicked to the core” status of the RCC. As the Lord Jesus had said when he walked this earth “you (referring to the hypocritical religious power at the time) travel over land and sea to make a single convert, and when you do, you make him twice a son of hell as you are.” The good news, however, is that victims can find true deliverance and healing through faith and repentance. Come to me, you who are heavy laden, take my yoke on you and learn from me. For my yoke is easy and my burden, light-the words of our ONE and ONLY mediator-Jesus the Christ.

I wish we knew how to check if a catholic priest is a predator that was sent overseas to escape justice, one from Nigeria

It's just funny dat Christians r here trying 2 act like ds is a form of new scandal rocking d Catholic Church wen ds has been its history. I'm glad we r in a time now wen such tins r exposed intelligently without any harm coming 2 d victims anymore

As a clergy person, I appreciate the insightful and realistic perspectives of the insiders interviewed for this excellent documentary.

These stories make me so indignant...I will never leave Christ or His Church but these men are of the Devil and should burn. Bishops arent strong enough to defend the faith what makes us think they will defend children. If you compromise the faith youll compromise anything, even sexual abuse.

Yes, it's a monarchy.

This is all rather bizarre. Would a diocese allow a predator in to talk to and instruct seminarians? So where does this occur? Surely seminarians are not that naive that they'd suddenly talk to someone ("I'm an ex-offender") and reveal all to them? Do they? If they confessed to them, isnt the Seal being broken?

Me thinkest the lady doth protest too much

The Evil on Easter Sunday 2024? I have nothing to confess. Were I to confess to the nearest Priest? I would have to address Him, as Satan. Fact.

Yesterday the pope was accused on Twitter by Vigano that he "used to operate like McCarrick" used to with seminarians. This is supposed to have been told to Vigano by a former seminarian about what pope francis was like when the seminarian was a novice. No other details were mentioned. It sounds like it would have had to have been at a Jesuit Seminary. I'm just guessing.

1870 the year the church was closed the rest is outrage 😮

A legislated mafiosa

Ecclesiasrical Freemasonry, Heretical Darkness.

If you want justice, blame the individual. If you want money, sue the institution. But if you want real healing, then ask for Divine Mercy.

I am still amazed at how naive people are. No one has cornered the market on temptation and Evil. Any group, especially a corporate one, will leverage its power to protect itself, manufacturing an ideology to support its ideas and actions. Call it social pathology or original sin. Perhaps if we were willing to recognize this reality, we could waylay some of the damage. Wouldn't that be better than living within an orbit of opposition, in constant rotation around people from whom we have pledged to escape?

They abused me too

27:14, This, to my mind, is the most damning part of this whole sordid scandal: obfuscate, conceal, whitewash the abuse crisis, the legacy of JPII.

This is a horrific story. Partly because it affected so many children and destroy so many lives and partly because it’s an international story not just Boston or the US but everywhere the Roman Catholic Church exists.

JohnPaul II is being misrepresented concerning his teaching on sexuality and clerical celibacy. Nowhere does he suggest that clerical celibacy leads to a higher form of sexual satisfaction. Chastity is a sublimation of sexuality for a greater good and it is required of everyone not just priests. It is the only healthy and normal use of human sexuality diametrically opposed to selfish use of our sexuality. Married couples understand this too because chastity is also part of married life where sex is sublimated for raising a family. Chastity is the only form of sexuality that is worthy of human dignity. Any other use of sexuality leads to abuse and degradation of human beings including rape and abortions.

Sick sick sick sick sick!! And then they wonder why people are walking away and no longer believe in Christ.

This is good as far as it goes. What is missing is what my experience has informed me as the fundamental problem: the refusal to accept the truth about homosexuality which corrupts the seminary formation process. That process is thoroughly dysfunctional. It is deformation by defamation.

Sad we have to pray to God to give these men of God to persevere in holiness and not power

Karban Malta Leaks redacted Knights of Malta Czechoslovakian or Polish or Arabic for burnt sacrificial offering or gambler or chance or overseer.

Lotd, forgive those hypocrites of hatred Jesus demanded we love each other. Hatred of others is directly from the evil one. Pray for the unity of Christendom.

I was a NJ seminarian who met McCarrick in 1978 when he was an Auxiliary Bishop in NY. I was with a friend in a religious order. My friend said I'd be okay. He said McCarrick 'loved seminarians' but we were safe because we were not studying for New York Archdiocese. This was in 1978. This all was a looming disaster and I chose to be Protestant.

As a Catholic Christian, I understand that there’s some people that used to be Catholic but decided to leave the faith because of the sexual abuses committed by catholic priests and I understand that they’re extremely angry and livid about the local archbishops and Bishops who aren’t taking control of the situation and they’re probably not happy with the current Holy Father, Pope Francis. So yes, I understand how they feel. But there’s no way that I’m going to leave my Catholic faith.

When I was in the seminary, I constantly heard the bull shit regarding ontological change. They always stressed this ontological change with ordination.

Jesus did not end what God created jesus ended sin not evil. God created good and evil Isaiah 45,v7 and they still exist , sin does not . All man made abrahamic religions post 70 ad teach all men are still born sinful and that is a lie. If you teach an evil lie then only evil will come from it. As said here there are good and evil people in what passes for the church as there are in the world. God is not interested in the flesh anymore it's truth and lies he is concerned about.

JESUS CHRIST IS PRESENT IN THE HOLY EUCHARIST. NEVER LET ANYONE TAKE THAT AWAY FROM YOU.