Defrocked the Defucker !
“Defrocked” and “laicized.” Sounds really kinky. I’m in.
Anyone want to take bets that our Catholic Supreme Court justices were abused by priests?
This is why I don’t go to church anymore. I love the tradition and the reverence of the Mass, but how can they tell me I’m a sinner for using birth control when they have allowed child molesters to go unchecked since before I was born? The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
They waited until he was 88 to punish him? They might as well had saved the bother and let St Peter deal him him.
"The Vatican summit, which starts Thursday and runs through Feb. 24, will draw church leaders from around the world to talk about preventing sex abuse. "
not proposed as a solution during that meeting: ordaining women priests
I have seriously wondered about that myself.
I wonder if Kavanaugh has been boofed.
… it’s “time for us to cleanse the church…"
What, if anything, would be left?
Or letting male priests marry.
I guess they really don’t want to stop all of this because that’s how - ordain women and let priests marry. Otherwise you are asking people to do something they can’t do - stay celibate.
I remember when the country seemed to love this guy. They put him on all the news shows for his opinions on things related to religion and more specifically the Catholic view on a particular subject. Seems a long time for his victims to have to wait for justice…but is it really justice when he’s managed to escape any criminal liability for his behavior? Defrocking seems like he’s getting off rather easy.
And, you think that tRump is the administration that keeps on giving scandals that make us all want to scream running from the room. Just put it in perspective with the Catholic church and all these men in power that have abused and ruined thousands of people’s lives. It’s never ending.
Yes and you know it stretches back into the church’s history when they totally ignored it and we’ll never know how many children were abused in the past.’
I think the defrocking should be just that. Cast his wrinkly naked ass out onto St. Peters Square…
I just don’t think letting priests marry is the answer - look at all the protestant and mormon priests and elders married and still abusing their authority and trust over people.
That is the teaching about sex, even for married people. The only legit contraceptive is abstinence. It is a fundamentally sick philosophy.
I agree that protestant preachers who can get married are also guilty of this. I don’t think there is a religion on earth in which this or some variation of it doesn’t happen because of the power differential - preachers priests etc have power over the people in their congregations. It happens with guys who set themselves up as gurus, or yogis, too.
But it’s not on this scale, rascal_crone. The Catholic Church is hardly a church anymore. It’s an international pedophile ring.
“Among Maciel’s staunchest admirers was Pope John Paul II, who later became a saint.”
Not a profound statement, but one that takes a moment or two to grasp.
i’ll go with that - but i’d include the mormons in there as well. i think they just have a tighter grip on their pr since the priesthood and the family man are the same thing