In response to Drew, my name is Michael Bradley and many know me quite well. I was not trying, nor do I want to be, anonymous. But at the same time, I would rather people consider what is being said rather than who is saying it. Your whole report is just a recapitulation of what is already on the public forum. Yeah, I know what Fr Tetherow confessed to and, yada, yada, yada. You say you know him better than I do. Well, give the evidence. At the end of the day, all you have is the police report. The $64,000 question is: Are those proceedings credible. I know well how Justice INC works in this country. Do you? I am going by frontline, first hand evidence. Are you? Yes, Fr has told lies to cover up things, and he also has a habit of telling the truth to parties where silence might be more in order. But I could run down a long list of SSPX, FSSP, Independent, and sundry priests who have lied to yours truly on matters great and small. If Fr Tetherow is a pervert, please provide the smoking gun, or, with all due respect, shut up. We are talking about a priest here. We are talking about God's holy priesthood.
And yes, I know Fr Angelus as well. Did work for him both in Scranton and Lauraeysville, or however you spell it. Lived the monastic life there for six months. Had more dogs than you could shake a Kong at. I would agree he had mental problems, and maybe really is a molester, though for the life of me I just can't see a 70 year old man... But when I was there he did have health problems. He was on a whole regimen of medications. Maybe something snapped? I don't know. I do know this "pedophilia" thing goes at least as far back as the 1940's, and that the further up the hierarchy you were the more prevalent. All the gory details are docuмented in the "Rite of Sodomy".
Fr Tetherow does have the background. He was raised in a silver spoon environment. He worked as a "model" and one can only imagine the kind of people he was in daily contact with. When he was a seminarian at Mt Angel he told me of the rampant pornography there. He also had his brains fried in college. But if he really was a liability, he would have never been ordained, never involved with the FSSP, which sees pedophilia a close second to criticizing Vatican II.
I'm only giving the facts as I see them. I'm neither trying to do Fr Tetherow any "good", nor calumniate others.
I myself have many questions about the matter, and as you can see I have a stake here. I would like solid facts on which to make informed decisions, not rants from people who may have some agenda.
When you stumble across the perfect priest, let me know, I'd love to meet him. In the meantime, a lot of us have to put aside the conceptions we formed in third grade about authority figures and move on. SOmeday, the world will recover its innocence, but that will not be until the internet is brought to naught (which it soon, very soon, shall be. Just wait and see.)
In the Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary
Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us, you are our only hope.