"The War of the Rose"

Fr. Rob Johansen has been busy busy busy writing these past couple of days. He jumps again into the controversy over Michael Rose's book Goodbye, Good Men, in which Fr. Rob has been a major player. He reveals (well, I didn't know this, anyway) the truth behind one of Rose's ex-seminarian sources who accuses another seminarian of having propositioned him. As it turns out, the accused has been identified as a man who had had girlfriends, and even been engaged, before he pursued a vocation to the priesthood:

.... Rose’s case against the Louvain hinges on the testimony of Joseph Kellenyi, and his allegations of being subjected to the unwanted advances of a homosexual seminarian, whom, Kellenyi laments, was later ordained. Kellenyi does not name this person, designating him as "seminarian X". But Brian Saint-Paul discovered the identity of this seminarian: now-Father Pat Van Durme. Fr. Van Durme has come forward and made his outrage at Rose’s allegations known. Fr. Van Durme apparently not only never made advances on Kellenyi, he isn’t even homosexual. Not homosexual? That’s right, as several of his friends, ex-girlfriends, and Van Durme’s ex-fiancee have readily testified. That Rose could rely upon accusations of homosexual misconduct against a man whose heterosexual identity is well known and easily verifiable would be laughable, if the seriousness of the accusations did not rise to the level of calumny. But the patent falsity of Kellenyi’s charges demolishes the credibility of Rose’s attack....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 08/30/02 10:34:38 AM
Categorized as Classic.