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The Story We Are Told:

The Catholic Church and its teaching on sexuality are corrupt. The rules of celibacy and an all male priesthood are unnatural and lead to an immaturity among priests. This repressed sexuality spurts out in the molestation of children and other forms of abuse. The church should learn modern psychology and stop worshipping its obsolete patriarchal God, stop demanding purity from teenagers, stop excluding women from the priesthood, and stop railing against homosexual marriage.

This storyline insults the memory of Dan O’Connell. His heroism and martyrdom were in defense of the church’s purity codes. The man who murdered him betrayed those codes. The seminaries that trained Ryan Erickson have been grossly negligent for three decades in failing to foster the religious culture of fatherhood that Dan O’Connell embodied and Ryan Erickson mocked.

The secular media is unable to tell this story. We Catholics seem unwilling. This is our O J Simpson case. We cannot allow a false pride in our corporate identity to shield us from the truth. Our corporate identity rests on the truth, and the truth will set us free. Getting our villains and heroes straight and facing the “rest of the story” in the murder of Dan O’Connell is a sacred duty of Catholics. Martyrdom leads to renewal. We dedicate ourselves to ensuring that this brave man shall not have died in vain. He acted as a father to the orphan, a protector of the oppressed. He was persecuted for the sake of justice. Because of his courage and the diligence of Wisconsin detectives, Shawn Pettee and Jeff Knopps, a predator will never again destroy young males. Let us learn from those good protectors and be as persistent as they were in asking who killed Dan O’Connell. Why is he dead? And how did his murderer come to be called “father”.

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