Rod Dreher brings up some current sex scandals in the Church, some of which I've written about recently on this blog. One involves Fr. Riedlinger in New Jersey. Riedlinger was a favorite of Msgr. Rossi, who is the rector of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC - enough of a favorite that Riedlinger claimed he would "vacation" with Rossi (who is a much older man). Riedlinger would be introduced by Rossi to young seminarians, and Riedlinger would then proceed to hit on these guys and turn the talk around to gay sex. Some of the young seminarians would complain about this, and their complaints would go unheeded. Eventually, two of them instituted a "sting" operation against Riedlinger . Timothy Schmalz and his roommate Ryan posed as a 16-year-old boy on Facebook, and "friended" Fr. Riedlinger, who soon turned the conversation toward sex. The messages show Riedlinger needed little or no invitation to steer the conversa...
Godot has finally arrived - but he's a multi-level marketing salesman and you can't get him to shut up.