Fascinating interview with former priest Brendan Foley
Today, as I was trying to drive in downtown Ottawa in the rain, I heard a riveting interview on CBC Radio from a documentary done about 20 years ago called The Confession of Brendan Foley.
It was sickening and fascinating at the same time. One of those radio documentaries the CBC used to be so good at, where you had to stay in the car until it was over.
You can listen to it here.
Foley saw no problem with his engaging in homosexual sex during his off-hours, i.e. when he was not wearing his Roman collar or seeing people in the office of his rectory. He decided that clerical celibacy was an impossibility, that no one was perfect, that priests were not angels who landed on earth from heaven, and that he wanted to reform the Church from within.
His rationalizations, his . . . you just have to listen.
It was sickening and fascinating at the same time. One of those radio documentaries the CBC used to be so good at, where you had to stay in the car until it was over.
You can listen to it here.
Foley saw no problem with his engaging in homosexual sex during his off-hours, i.e. when he was not wearing his Roman collar or seeing people in the office of his rectory. He decided that clerical celibacy was an impossibility, that no one was perfect, that priests were not angels who landed on earth from heaven, and that he wanted to reform the Church from within.
His rationalizations, his . . . you just have to listen.
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