Bad business all right, Millicent. We have had enough of it here too, with
Melbourne’s own Archbishop Pell convicted, serving 400 days in jail for
child-sex abuse only for an appeal court to turn over the judgment and
release him on the grounds that there was a ‘significant possibility’ that
he was innocent. One of the accusers had died and nothing undid the
testimony of the other but once the chattering classes started on about one
word against another ....
Bill
On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 5:35 pm, Patrick McManus <
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> sad story thanks Millicent
>
> On 19/05/2020 07:21, Millicent Borges Accardi wrote:
> > Come Angels! Come Beasts!
> >
> >
> > From “Angels in the Sun” by Ruben Quesada
> >
> >
> >
> > And it talked abouthow the younger ones
> >
> > were standing
> >
> > out and they were naïve but the older ones knew and this boy
> >
> > standing out in the parking lot of this father Cimarron;
> >
> > Starlight, Skydancer, maybe Cinnamon.
> >
> > For years he would abuse and beat, making the boys suck him
> >
> >
> >
> > And he was able to avoid
> >
> > until no one said anything Even after he retired
> >
> > And went to an old priests’ home
> >
> > Where he relaxed and sipped brandy
> >
> > And talked about things,
> >
> > He escaped it all.
> >
> >
> >
> > I was trying to figure out when my older brother went there
> >
> > 1958. 1959. He camehome ten years later,
> >
> > Broken, on the couch. Crying
> >
> > Before he got work at a fish cannery.
> >
> >
> >
> > The time frame of an article about the priest
> >
> > Was vague maybe the 1970’s, and it was talking about
> >
> > St Anthony’s and Santa Barbara
> >
> > Franciscan seminaries.
> >
> >
> >
> > The name there, I mean,
> >
> > If my brother was not actually touched,
> >
> > he would have been aware.
> >
> >
> >
> > Or, he noticed how certain students
> >
> > Were singled out as weak or pretty.
> >
> >
> >
> > The guy that wrote the article said
> >
> > Those who stayed thru, til graduation
> >
> > accepted that they had stayed through.
> >
> >
> >
> > This was the way things were.
> > The priest held their responses
> >
> > over their young heads, as if he owned them
> >
> >
> >
> > Midnight hernia exams, pressing through
> >
> > The rolled sheets, thyroid massages
> >
> > on their soft neck, their heads
> >
> > bent over his lap for spankings
> >
> > while he sweated.
> >
> >
> >
> > The boys later described their faces as
> >
> > Hot and red, being shoved face-down
> >
> > into his lap
> >
> >
> >
> > As he prayed for them.
> >
> > It was hard to know which was worse,
> >
> > For my brother, if anything,
> >
> > Going though it or refusing to help
> >
> > Those he could have helped
> >
> > But did not.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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