Originally Posted by Rochard

As expected, the priest denies having any sex with Foley who was a young boy at the time - all of 13. But yet he says this:

"We were friends and trusted each other as brothers and loved each other as brothers," Mercieca told The Associated Press in Rome. Asked if their association was sexual, the priest replied: "It wasn't."

Among the activities described by Mercieca in the newspaper were massaging the boy in the nude, skinny-dipping together at a secluded lake in Lake Worth, Fla., and being nude in the same room on overnight trips while he was a priest and Foley was a parishioner.


I would be outraged as a parent if I found out my 13 year was in the presence of a naked priest or anyone naked.

Does anyone find it ironic that it seems the church is filled with this kind of stuff?