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In a riveting scene in “Spotlight,” the Oscar-winning film about clerical sex abuse, Boston Globe reporters huddle around a speaker phone listening intently to the words of Richard Sipe, portrayed by actor Richard Jenkins.
Sipe, a former Benedictine monk renowned for his defense of clerical sex abuse victims, died at his home in San Diego at age 85 on Aug. 8, 2018.
Sipe stunned the Globe reporters when he said 50 percent of American Catholic priests do not practice celibacy. He assumed that at least 6 percent of Boston priests were sexual predators.
He was wrong. The Globe uncovered nearly 100 priest predators in the Boston archdiocese, about 10 percent of its clergy.
let me challenge you on one thing. why would anybody, i mean, i am maybe an old boy s club guy, myself, in some ways. some ways. that s pretty much the past. my question to you is, why would anybody want to hang out what guy do you know would want to hang out with another guy, old-school reference there, who has sex with older boys? why would you want to have the same be sitting at the same meal table with him, be in the same rectory with him? you wouldn t want anything to do with that person. why to you say they protect each other knowing this horror is going on, this disgusting behavior? what s this old boy s club reference got to do with it? i think that as you said, nearly everyone in the priesthood has some sort of skeleton in their closet. richard sipes spent his entire history, his entire life studying celibacy among priests in the catholic church. he s a former priest, himself. he estimated through intensive sociological studies that at any given time in the catholic ch
0 billion in medicare cuts he ran against and i think a lot of people don t recognize he also keeps the new taxes in the president s health care plan. the part he gets rid of is the care in obama care. he gets rid of the spending in it. if he didn t do those two thing, get rid of the spending but keep cost controls, he couldn t get anywhere near balancing the budget and he also couldn t pass those two policies. new taxes and medicare cuts within the next ten years. over his own conference. so he s actually piggybacking on a lot of president obama s work in this balanced budget. yeah, a lot of times this guy gets a free raid in washington, journalism. he s supposed to be the brainiac. yet, portrayed as some sort of a deficit hawk. yet when i m reading your article, your analysis and others, what i m getting to, he s not a deficit hawk at all. basically he s a guy who wants to shift economic wealth or opportunity from the bottom of the top. . he wants to create an ayn rand existence wh