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	A Clergy Abuse Survivor’s Commentary on Tom Doyle’s Reflections on John Jay Study By Joey Piscitelli Voice from the Desert January 9, 2010 http://reform-network.net/?p=2514 A Clergy Abuse Survivor’s Commentary on Tom Doyle’s Reflections on John Jay Study By Joey Piscitelli January 9, 2009 Regarding the arguments about the John Jay Study that I call “nonsense,” Tom Doyle reflects on the core of the issue of the Catholic Church as a monarchical government structure, and points out wisely its many major flaws. This is true. And Tom Doyle asks “Why did this all happen?” Among the answers I perceived from his essay are fear, unaccountability, a monarchy unchecked, reputation, protection, and denial. I think we can all see this. Tom Doyle even mentions the historic Inquisition. (The Catholic Church’s persecution of innocent Witches). He mentions the Churches unaccountability then. This is ironic for me. I am a Pagan, a Modern Witch (see description below), and I have been for 30 years. As a matter of fact, I am the only Witch in the History of the USA, and possibly the world, to have beaten the Catholic Church in a jury trial. (2008). Mr. Doyle appeared at my trial as an expert witness. All Witches in history before me lost their trials against the Catholic Church. Nearly all of them were killed. My point in bringing this up is that the Catholic Church hierarchy was responsible for the persecution, rape, torture, and burning of hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children as “Witches,” for several centuries, and after the Witch persecutions finally ended, the Clergy of the Church molested hundreds of thousands of innocent children for the next several centuries. This means that the Catholic Church hierarchy and clergy have violated millions of innocents for at least six centuries without accountability. We shouldn’t be asking “Why did this happen?” Why does an unchecked powerful monarchy do this? The answer is in the question. We don’t need John Jay criminal studies to tell us this. History has already taught us this. The answer is because they are an unchecked powerful monarchy–still in existence with little respect for women and children. Six centuries of a repetitious, habitual, violent existence, that is finally being challenged to become accountable. At my trial, the Church lawyers brought it up to the jury that I was Pagan. They thought this would win their case. What this means is that the Church hierarchy has learned nothing from their mistakes in history, and they still believed that it wasn’t a crime to sexually abuse a Witch, and the jury didn’t buy it. They have little or no remorse, or accountability, not in the past, and still not in the present. They still have a righteous Witch-Hunt mentality, and they still believe that their crimes in history have no significance. They believe it has no significance because they place little value on the damaged victims, because they can always be replaced by more faithful followers. The Catholic Church has 68 million members in the USA; a few hundred thousand molestation victims have no significance in the big picture. The way the Catholic Church is going to correct its six-century track record of unchecked abuse and violation of innocents is to stop being a monarchial government, and become infused with women, for balance, and conscience. And that is going to take a long, long time, and they are going to continue to resist the correction. It’s hard to break a 1700-year-old habit. And it does not take a prolonged John Jay Study to realize this.
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