/https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/news/gta/2018/11/21/it-starts-at-the-top-former-st-michaels-college-school-student-demanding-changes-to-regain-trust/afwkylefraser01.jpg)
Kyle Fraser is a 21-year-old former student at St. Michael's College School. He is interviewed by the Toronto Star (no friend of Catholicism). Fraser left the school after Grade 10, he was continually verbally abused, though he does not state if this was from students, lay staff or priests. Fraser states that the problem, "starts at the top."
Fraser is correct. The reporters call the issue, "toxic masculinity."
While the behaviour and culture are "toxic" it is certainly not proper "masculinity." Men protect, men lead, men champion truth, men govern with "goodness, discipline and knowledge," something this school and the Basilian Congregation long ago forgot, They exchanged their motto for money, power and sexual perversion.
The President, Principal and Board are a disgrace and should resign. Some should face lawsuits and prosecution.
I can personally testify that my own experience with Basilan priests at the age of 13 was one of physical brutality, verbal abuse and public humiliation. Let me assure you that the scars of abuse victims are carried all their lives. Prayer, therapy and support can assist in coping and moving forward but the marks last forever. I will take mine to my grave. The effects of the abuse and assault on this boy at SMCS, around the same age as I was, will be with him all his life. He needs to accept that and not try to bury it, as I did. He must seek resolution in prayer, therapy, family and true masculinity. I still bear the scars and the effects. The boy and his family must hold SMCS and its leadership, including the Board, accountable. It took this writer forty years to seek justice from that filthy congregation of brutes, abusers and perverts. How little did I know then that a few years later, another Basilian would come at me again? Thomas J. Rosica has sent me over a dozen emails of insult, rudeness, degradation and judgement. He attempted to sue me into poverty because he feared the truth. Thomas J. Rosica learned well in Rochester from those Baslians who were familiar to him there. His pattern of behaviour to me is indicative of the long-standing problem of that Congregation. It has continued at SMCS today.
In both cases, from 1969 and 2015, I took on these wretched Basilian abusers and thugs and triumphed.
The problem at SMCS indeed, "starts at the top." It starts with a rotten Congregation of priests who long ago exchanged Jesus Christ for the world of money, greed, power, perversion and sodomy.
They gave that boy a broomstick up the rectum. I was lucky, I escaped their filthy clutches before that could happen to me.
Yes, the problem started at the top.
Basilians
https://www.theinquiry.ca/wordpress/rc-scandal/basilians/
Ontario jury sets record punitive award against Catholic Church over priest’s abuse
ttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-jury-sets-record-punitive-award-against-catholic-church-over/
Victim of abuse by Sudbury priest awarded $2.5M
https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/victim-of-abuse-by-sudbury-priest-awarded-25m-907564
Toronto man sexually abused 50 years ago by predatory priest awarded $2.6M
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2018/04/27/toronto-man-sexually-abused-50-years-ago-by-predatory-priest-awarded-26m.html
Basilian priest charged with abusing Ottawa student in 1972
Basilian priest charged with abusing Ottawa student in 1972
https://www.catholicregister.org/item/8573-basilian-priest-charged-with-abusing-ottawa-student-in-1972
Former student alleges repeated abuse by Calgary priest, high school teacher
Former student alleges repeated abuse by Calgary priest, high school teacher
Victims of disgraced Windsor priest launch new $3M lawsuits against Catholic Church
Elderly sex offender priest to be released from prison on Thanksgiving
St. Mike’s sex abuse victim sues priest