Wolves in shepherds' clothing: the revelation that former priest Paul Shanley raped several young boys has been made even more scandalous by evidence that Cardinal Law sheltered him from detection. (Culture War).(Brief Article)

At the time of his death in October 1997, ten-year-old Jeffrey Curley of East Cambridge, Massachusetts, had known his two adult "friends," Charles Jaynes and Salvatore Sicari, for several months. The two adults enticed Jeffrey into a car, promising him $50 and a new bicycle if he joined them for a ride. Shortly thereafter, the two homosexual "lovers" attempted to rape the child, who resisted with everything his tiny frame could muster.

As a subsequent criminal trial showed, Jaynes -- a 300-pound auto mechanic -- subdued Jeffrey by sitting on him; he then suffocated the tiny child with a gasoline-soaked rag. Once the child was dead, Jaynes and his cohort raped the now-unresisting body. Their depraved appetites satiated, Jaynes and Sicari placed Jeffrey's body in a concrete-filled barrel and discarded it in a river. The car in which these unspeakable crimes were committed contained pornographic literature produced by NAMBLA -- the North American Man-Boy Love Association, a criminal syndicate composed of homosexuals who prey on young boys.

According to attorney Lawrence Fisoli, who represents Jeffrey's parents in a lawsuit against NAMBLA, the pederast organization trains homosexuals to stalk, seduce, and rape unsuspecting boys. As Father Enrique Rueda documented nearly two decades ago in his prescient study The Homosexual Network, NAMBLA "was founded in 1978 at a Boston conference on Man/Boy Love and the Age of Consent." In addition to publishing three journals, the organization created a "Prisoner Support Committee" and "Emergency Defense Fund" to aid homosexual child rapists in trouble with the law.

But Fr. Rueda's most shocking detail about NAMBLA's founding conference was the involvement of "Father Paul Shanley, representative of Boston's Cardinal [Humberto] Medeiros for sexual minorities...." According to an account of the event published in a magazine called Gays Week, Shanley spoke of a case in which a young boy enticed into a homosexual relationship "was rejected by family and society but helped by a boy-lover." Imprisoning the predatory adult homosexual, according to Shanley, "began the psychic demise of that child."

For years prior to attending NAMBLA's founding conference, Shanley was known to be (in words written by Cardinal Medeiros in a letter to the Vatican) "a troubled priest." The April 8th Boston Herald notes: "Shanley defended 'man-boy sex' publicly in his role as a 'street priest' as early as 1970...." Subsequent to the 1978 NAMBLA meeting, Cardinal Medeiros assigned Shanley to St. Jean's parish in Newton, Massachusetts, where he proceeded to act on his depraved impulses by raping several young boys entrusted to his pastoral care.

Documents recently released by the Boston Archdiocese disclose that Shanley "admit[ted] to the substance of complaints -- sexual activity with 4 adolescent males...." In fact, the archdiocese had known of Shanley's predatory perversion for decades -- but continued to assign him to posts in which he had access to potential victims. "All of the suffering that has taken place at the hands of Paul Shanley, a serial child molester for four decades ... none of it had to happen," insists ...