Does This Look Like the Face of Priest Who Molested a Woman as He Gave Her Last Rites?
Source – A Roman Catholic priest in Austin has been arrested on a misdemeanor assault charge after he was accused of groping a woman in home hospice care while giving her last rites.
Austin Police arrested Rev. Gerold Langsch and charged him with assault by contact stemming from the October 5, 2018 encounter.
The 75-year-old priest … went to her home to administer the sacrament of anointing the sick, a sacrament of absolution.
The woman, who is still alive, reported that Langsch first anointed her chest with holy water, then began to apply lotion, massaging a breast, pinching a nipple and asking “Does that feel good?” He then tried to slip his hand inside her diaper but was unable to.
The woman later told police the priest’s actions left her in shock, uncomfortable, confused and feeling like, she told police, a “nasty, dirty piece of meat.”
One of the most basic and important aspects of the social fabric that binds us all together is the concept of consent. Particularly when it comes to touching another human being. Your right to swing your arm ends with another person’s nose, as the saying goes. Unwelcome physical contact is an invasion of the personal space we’re all entitled to, be they opposite sex or same, be they college coed or dying old lady, be they wearing a thong or a soiled diaper. I’ve always advocated for this and want to remain very consistent on that point.
With that disclaimer out of the way, and while I feel bad for the old woman who got felt up (welcome back from the dead, by the way), in the grand scheme of things priests of my faith have done, this barely even registers. I’m sorry for her, sincerely. But when they’re finding mass baby graves behind a monastery in my ancestral homeland of Galway, when the Church burned Jan Hus alive in Prague for being a critic, when they signed a contract with Hitler to run all the churches in Nazi Germany and have run their parishes in the US like they were Neverland Ranch franchises, then a priest groping a woman in her next-to-last sacrament, while horrible, doesn’t crack the Evil Fuckery Top 1000 list. Hell, it’s probably not the worst thing Gerold Langsch did the first week of October.
Of course the obvious question is how times has he pulled this move? And I’m going to answer that question with a question: How many times did he perform Last Rites without a witness present? Because there’s your answer. 100 percent of the time. It’s the perfect crime because the victim certainly won’t be talking. Sure, you’ve ruined the last moments of a human being’s life and left her dying questioning everything she ever believed in, but who’s gonna complain, right? And this time he would’ve gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for that meddling lady.
This is going to be the kind of thing I’ll try not to think about at Mass this weekend. Other than to pray there really is a Hell and this creepshow is headed there. And gets molested with his dying breath.