The Catholic Church, this planet’s leading organization dedicated to covering up sexual abuse, is gonna have a tough time explaining this one: Brazil’s Monsignor Luiz Marques Barbosa, who is 82, was caught on video having sex with a 19-year-old altar boy, who Barbosa has allegedly been abusing for four years.
Filmed in January 2009 by a 21-year-old man who says he’s also the victim of Barbosa’s abuse, since age 12, the report aired on the Brazilian network SBT and appeared on YouTube. Armed with the footage, a SBT reporter went to Barbosa’s house:
Before raising the allegations of sexual abuse, the reporter asks if the priest had ever sinned. “Who has never committed a sin?” Barbosa responds.
The priest is then asked if the region has problems with pedophilia. “I think it is more (a problem) of homosexuality than pedophilia,” Barbosa says.
Asked directly if he ever abused boys, Barbosa says he could only answer such a question “in confession.” He then ends the interview, which was aired Thursday and posted on SBT’s YouTube page.
Monsignor Raimundo Gomes, 52, and Father Edilson Duarte, 43, are also implicated in the allegations, which the Vatican says it’s aware of. Not that they’re making any of the men available for interviews; all three men have been unable to be located by reporters.
Meanwhile, we imagine Barbosa and the Vatican’s first line of defense, besides putting distance between themselves, will be pointing out that the altar boy in the video is now 19, and while Barbosa’s homosexuality is sickening, it’s not like what he was doing, in the video at least, was criminal.
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terrwill
Not sure thats what they meant by “the body of Christ”………..
Yet Another
Wow. Not sure what any one can say about this now. I do think it was a lil trashy to show blurred sex and the naked guy. But no one can deny it happened…
Cam
The Vatican will probably do the same thing they did with Cardinal Law, they’ll sneak these men off to the Vatican, say that as new citizens of the Vatican they are no longer available to be interviewed by the police.
sarah
Hate to be crass…but he’s an alter MAN now (19)
This seems consensual, no?
scott ny'er
@sarah: Consensual now, maybe. But what about the years previously, which is very probable. And there is the small problem of homosexual acts being against that religion, no?
Cam
No. 4 · sarah
Hate to be crass…but he’s an alter MAN now (19)
This seems consensual, no?
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Is it consensual if a boss who can fire you demands sex or you will lose your job? Many of these Altar boys are from very poor families, having a priest spread the word around that you were kicked out etc… most likely would not be good in that situation.
dm1973
How consensual is this? Not consensual at all. The church is an extremely powerful political organization in South America. They prey on the poor, the powerless in society. Another classic example of the predatorism of Organized religion. Just disgusting. When he realizes someone’s at the window, he’s asking almost arrogantly who’s there over and over again. Little did he realize he was taped, because he’s too used to the weight of his word meaning more than any of those he abuses, otherwise he would’ve covered his pedofilic self. And this is probably just a glimpse of what truly goes on with parishioner money as the report was narrating in the background. The house, everything newly built by poor parishioners donations. And that’s the thanks they get, a priest preying on their children.
romeo
It’s not likely that he will be given sanctuary in the Vatican. Those days are over. The Pope himself is under investigation in Germany because of that country’s growing abuse scandal. This guy is a fucking MONSIGNOR, for crying out loud. Caught on tape having sex with a boy he’s been abusing since he was 15! Looks like the de-gaying is not going very well for the church.
Good thing they don’t have the power to send incriminating witnesses to the stake, which is what the church used to do. This is going to be a very big deal. The pope is supposed to issue a pastoral letter on sex abuse tomorrow. Gonna sound kind of hollow.
ionos
The monsignor can get it up at 82? Wow.
romeo
Of course he can. He’s gay. An old goat, but gay nonetheless.
Enron
Looks like it was a 69 not penetrative sex. Doesn’t make it any better.
PopSnap
this won’t make a lick of difference to any Western catholic. it’s not like there’s anybody below the age of 60 who takes their “religion” seriously, anyway. I grew up in a majority (65%) Catholic region (Northeast Ohio) and came to realize that people are Catholic not because they truly honestly believe it, but because its more of a cultural “aw, Church is so nice when we go once a year on Christmas eve” type of thing.
I do still have hope that this type of thing will wake people up to see that by being a member of an organization that covers up this behavior, they are only silently condoning it. But then again, I’m underestimating the incredible apathy of the average middle-class American.
Sam
Wasn’t consensual when it started.
terrwill
@PopSnap: Co-sign. Our generation really doesn’t see the benefits of belonging to a religon that basically is only concerned with covering its own holy ass. The catholic church does actually perform good deeds thru catholic charities and other outreach orgs. But it is all overshadowed by the whole kiddie diddling drama, and their pathetic attempts to overshadow it by the misguided crusades against the Gays getting married.
The catholic church is yet to realize they are their own worst enemy…….
jeffree
This priest got caught but how many didnt? how many victims was there before? We keep hearing new stories of abuse and the church apologises again & there are more rapes but nothing changes!
catholic church is on decline in USA and Mexico, much of europe & not growing in south America. not having much success in asia or africa
abuse happens when desire finds opportunity _i read that somewhere_
these kids if they tell of the abuse they shame the family and the church so they keep silent.
in these poor countries sometimes the only way to get education is in catholic school, and becoming priest or nun is a ticket out of the poverty
these sad stories need to stop
Hilarious
Not that I’m defending this ‘priest’, but I can’t find a way to care about this story for a number of reasons:
We don’t hear anything about straight priests who sleep with women.
This man is 19. Very legal in all 50 states(even if it happened outside of the US, it’s legal here)
These stories are put out regardless of Age, here in Atlanta a priest was in a “sex scandal” for having sex with age appropriate men.
Unless there’s proof in the video of the 19 year old being imprisoned or held down and forced to sleep with the man there’s nothing to make judgments about.
These stories only pop up because the people in question are gay. If they were straight no one would bat an eyelash.
And this is coming from someone who was molested once by a woman at a very young age so I do feel strongly about this topic, and I don’t believe a teenager at the age of 19 would allow himself to be molested without a huge fight. I could kick an 82 year old’s ass without trying at that age.
brandon
Hilarious
brandon
Hilarious- Just one quick comment, though I do agree with you a 19 year old should have the power to say no. However these men have much power over the town and individuals in their congregation. You apparently aren’t religious so I will fill you in, if a spiritual leader in whom you believe says jump, you usually ask “how high?” That is why religion is dangerous. This man is despicable, but then again I feel that way about most “pious people.”
Hilarious
I just don’t know what to think about it.
I’m really not religious like you said, I keep it simple, I believe in God and that’s it.
The guy is 19 though and I just don’t see why he’d do it. I doubt the priest could make the town turn on him by telling them he refused to bend over.
This video on the other hand could make “the church” want to make these two guys and any physical evidence disappear. If what they say about the Catholic churches is true anyway.
terrwill
What is most reprehensible about the catholic church is I would pretty much bet the house that this priest would have been very quick to give a sermon about the evils of the Gays getting married. It is fairly obvious that the church is basically a Gay mens club by now. Unfortunately they have alot in common with the Gay repugnatican politicians …………they are in denial self hating Gays………….
And I can not belive people are having difficulty determining just why the 19 year old slept with Father Time…CASH
Hilarious
The only reason I’m having trouble determining why is because I’m not psychic.
I fooled around with a much older guy before, no cash involved. Just young and horny.
I don’t like to accuse without full proof or evidence available.
Tallskin
Nah, unless you can see the whole picture, and not blurred out pics, then I think this is unacceptable of evidence of anything
come on folks, wake up – this is NOT evidence of anything if we can’t see the whole thing
(and you know me as a hater and baiter of the religious)
sal(the original)
EW EW EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!thank goodness he wasnt my priest!!ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
sal(the original)
…reminds me of that amnesty guy’s story about his abuse in ireland,made me cry and cringe
Ogre Magi
Satan wouldn’t want these guys. He’s a man of wealth and taste.
Ogre Magi
@ionos: I bet he says to his dick “The Power Of Christ Compels You,The Power Of Christ Compels You”!
EWE
Finally. Hard Core Evidence but i agree with Brandon No.18. A nineteen year old person is not a minor anymore. This i sure to be made into an issue involving the breaking of ones celibacy vows. Creepy.
•? Dwy. Ann ?
the “Doubt” movie is so right!! thats why they nominated on OSCAR, save the innocent boysssss!
Bianca
These Catholic priests should be burned alive for all their crimes against humanity. Raping numerous kids (girls and boys and probably women too), abusing their power and authority in every imaginable way, making sure the poor of the world remain that way by them having huge families, making millions upon millions of people miserable because they can’t divorce, being responsible to god knows how many millions of babies being murdered after birth because they weren’t wanted by the mothers/parents, holy wars and in the past 25 yrs AIDS and many of the third worlders being encouraged not to wear condoms (because you know they are not going to fuck just because the Catholic church says so).
ossurworld
He will soon be a Cardinal.