Fr Novak and Fr Cooper seem unjustly involved and for that Voris should take responsibility, reaching too far in his zeal to accuse.
He only has hearsay on them. As for the rest,
there is clearly a problem. This interview with the victim is earth shattering.
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/exclusive-interview-jassy-jacas
I wouldn’t go so far as to say “earth shattering.”
It sounds like Jassy’s therapist connected her with another girl who may-or-may-not be credible (we aren’t a court of law and at this point much of this is hearsay) who, if HER allegations are correct, was definitely subject to some impure advances (of a sort) on the part of Fr. Duverger. Not criminal in a secular sense mind you, but, speaking as a Catholic, totally inappropriate for a priest, and certainly mortally sinful.
So, assuming the worst of the priest, that both victims are 100% correct, we have a case of a cleric having immoral and impure conversations with those he is providing spiritual direction to. She reaches out to several priests at one time or another, and nothing they say is terribly bad, wrong, or shocking. They all appear, according to her, to take the situation seriously and want to make things right. But some flip-flopping happens as to what’s been done and by whom. She threatens to “go public” and at that point, she is called by the prior in Florida, who endeavors (it sounds like, badly) to convince her that this isn’t the best solution. Which is probably true -in the sense that, making of this a big scandal is going to hurt the SSPX, drive away souls, and, as the priests certainly perceive, a horny priest who asks too many sɛҳuąƖ questions to adult women is a far lesser matter than a ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ pederast. (Jassy seems to miss this point and speaks of the two as equal).
The biggest revelation of the interview is that, surprise surprise, the SSPX is run more as a medieval religious order and not as a modern corporation, with policy manuals and an HR department. You tell a priest, he passes information on as he sees fit, and things may get overlooked or misconstrued. $10 says that an “investigation” really happened -calling a priest or two and saying “hey, has Fr. Duverger been sneaking out of the priory or using the Internet much in his own room with the door locked.” But if there’s no paper trail.... We also have to remember that these events are years old. The year is 2020, Jassy says her incidents took place in 2013. A man can make great strides in the spiritual life in a few years. So while it doesn’t make things “right” (and when a priest is sodomizing altar boys it’s far better to take a zero tolerance approach) this situation isn’t as clear-cut as some would paint it.
I don’t exonerate the SSPX of guilt entirely here, but I do think it’s a case of much ado about ...fairly little in the grand scheme of things.
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