‘If you can’t trust the chief shepherd, who can you trust?’
Posted: October 2, 2009.
Published: Oct 2, 2009.
Print: The Globe & Mail
Raymond Lahey was a gentleman theologian and scholar and a kindly shepherd to his flock in the deeply religious Gaelic, Acadian and First Nations parish churches of Nova Scotia’s Antigonish County and Cape Breton Island.
He was courageously outspoken in urging his fellow Roman Catholic bishops to make the church more relevant to everyday life. He proclaimed that bishops must come among their people as ambassadors of Jesus who keep “God’s saving mysteries” alive.
Through much of his career, he had to deal with pain and anger over priestly sex scandals. He once asked his priests to pray for a month for people who had been abused as children by church officials and last month played a major role in negotiating a $15-million settlement for victims of a sexually abusive cleric.
On Thursday it was Rev. Lahey himself who scandalized his church.
Following a careful examination of his laptop by border officials after he flew into Ottawa on a flight from Europe, he was charged by police with possession and importation of child pornography.
It is unclear from the article just what sort of porn the priest was carrying. No human being said that he did anything to them. It must have been some pretty raunchy porno to have to quit your job and all that. A couple of naked pics couldn’t cause all that fuss. The airport security examined the files on his laptop. Was he profiled as to being likely carrying porn because he was a priest?
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