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This asshole making that analogy is not good. But they only showed a clip of his answer.

But attacking the whole church. Since 1985 and the Polack Pope not identifying all these assholes and cleaning house is the issue.

this is a national story. He clarified his interview. what a fucking mess:

https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20200211/west-warwick-priest-clarifies-comment-on-pedophilia-maintains-abortion-is-worse

A West Warwick parish priest said he could have expressed himself more clearly when he said in a television interview that unlike abortion, “pedophilia doesn’t kill anyone.”

The Rev. Richard Bucci of Sacred Heart Church said Tuesday that he’s well aware that victims of sexual abuse suffer immensely. He knows about the toll of child sexual abuse, he said, because he has supported victims and because he was the first one to blow the whistle on an abusive priest.

“I should have made it clearer that I wasn’t saying there was no suffering to the person who is abused physically,” Father Bucci said Tuesday. “Especially a child who puts their trust in faith, whether it be a priest, a rabbi, an uncle, a parent. That’s absolute.”

The outspoken Bucci has made multiple rounds of headlines since he barred Rhode Island lawmakers who voted to codify abortion rights in the state from receiving Communion. Bucci said in a letter that they were also barred from acting as “witnesses to marriage, godparents, or lectors at weddings, funerals or any other church function.”

In an interview on Sunday with Channel 10, Bucci said: “We’re not talking about any other moral issue, where some may make a comparison between pedophilia and abortion. Well, pedophilia doesn’t kill anyone, and this does.”

Those comments in particular have now rocketed around the national media, with CBS News, Newsweek and the New York Daily News picking up the story about the Diocese of Providence priest. The stories have focused on one part of his comment — that pedophilia doesn’t kill anyone.

But Bucci said he did not mean to suggest that pedophilia was not a grave offense against children. He also acknowledged Tuesday that sexual abuse of children can be fatal: He knows of one victim personally who died by suicide after suffering abuse, he said.

“It kills the spirit, it kills childhood,” Bucci said. “I was focusing on the fact that there is no future at all for an unborn child who is aborted, whereas a child who is molested, with a great deal of effort and prayer and therapy and medicine, can at least lead a life that can accomplish things.”

Bucci said he was the first person to report the Rev. William O’Connell to the state police when they served together as priests in Bristol in the early 1980s. He did so anonymously, he said, but nothing was done about it. O’Connell, now dead, was eventually arrested and charged, but only after other victims came forward, Bucci said.

After he spoke out about O’Connell, Bucci said, the diocese at the time ostracized him for doing so. The retaliation lasted for years, he said.

Now, though, he said he is thankful for the leadership of Bishop Thomas Tobin.

Bucci said he stands by his decision to deny Communion to lawmakers who voted to codify abortion rights in the state, and stood by the general proposition that abortion is worse than pedophilia.

“I do believe killing an innocent child is the worst possible sin,” Bucci said.

But anyone who does either thing, in Bucci’s view, will pay for it.

Said Bucci, referring to the Bible’s teachings: “Anyone who gives scandal to one of my children, it’s better that they put the instrument for milling grain around their neck and throw themselves into the ocean.”

Among those who bristled at Bucci’s comments in the TV interview was state Rep. Carol Hagan McEntee, who was on the list of people no longer allowed to receive Communion at Sacred Heart. McEntee’s sister, Ann Hagan Webb, said she was molested by a former priest at the same parish. That priest is now dead. Inspired by her sister, McEntee pushed for legislation that expanded the statute of limitations to sue over child sexual abuse.

McEntee said in a Twitter posting Monday: “Father Bucci should have come to the State House to listen to the heart-wrenching stories from victims of pedophilia. The injured voices I have heard have nearly had their lives destroyed. The ones we hear from are the lucky ones who are still alive.”

Relayed those comments, Bucci said Tuesday: “I may not have been at the State House, but I heard about it from many people in Bristol. I don’t have to be convinced of the horrendous situation that all of these children endured.”