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02-11-2013, 08:32 AM
Guess he got caught with three fingers in a 5-year old.
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02-11-2013, 08:45 AM
Quote: (02-11-2013 08:32 AM)Vicious Wrote:
Guess he got caught with three fingers in a 5-year old.
I wonder if it's particular to the most secular, such as Northern Europeans, to always feel a need to make these kinds of comments.
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02-11-2013, 10:48 AM
For all her hamsterism, Sinead O'Connor was right...way ahead of her time.
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02-11-2013, 10:51 AM
This is an interesting development. Incidentally, I don't think the rate of clerical sex abuse in the Catholic Church is any higher than it is in other religions, or public schools for that matter. However, it is always trumpeted with great fanfare in the news media, because the Church is famously against things which are now considered 'human rights,' like access to abortion. This media focus gives the observer the impression that every priest is a child molester and pervert.
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02-11-2013, 11:31 AM
Catholic church fail.. Priests can't get married or have kids. How do they expect them to relate to families? Who want's the job? No sex? No girls? Hmm... who wants that job?????
I played two softball games for a local catholic church. They asked me. I show up and the priest is the team leader/captain or whatever. He was alarmingly gay and I was like WTF?? So on the second game the other team was a guy short and had to forfeit so I went and played for them and he was like WTF? We spanked them and he was having a homo-meltdown in the dugout. I thought who is letting this dude run the church??? They can't tell he's a flamer?
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02-11-2013, 11:34 AM
Hoping the church is finally dismantled within my lifetime.
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02-11-2013, 11:36 AM
I thought the original reason for why Catholic priests could not get married was because the Church did not want any of their (church) property to fall into the hands of women if the priest died. I'm pretty sure if you're a married priest in another church and convert to Catholicism, then you can remain married.
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02-11-2013, 11:37 AM
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02-11-2013, 11:44 AM
I've met some good and some bad priests.
The one that conducted, or whatever you call it, my grandmothers funeral last January wore a hoodie and ratty sneakers at the cemetery.
I wanted to stomp a mudhole in his ass. Totally classless.
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02-11-2013, 12:28 PM
Perhaps the pope isn't lying when he says that he's simply too mentally and physically exhausted to continue heading the church. Perhaps there's conflict at the top, and the cardinals want him gone. Perhaps he's resigning so his dirty laundry doesn't get aired in public. Who knows.
That said, I wasn't raised Catholic, though I've been to mass once and a Catholic funeral once also. Two of the most boring experiencs of my life.
I do love Catholic churches, though. I've visited most of Cincinnati's historic churches and they're quite beautiful. Here's a view of two I visited last year:
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02-11-2013, 01:10 PM
I went to Catholic school for a little while and the priests I knew would have probably gotten along well with members of the forum, minus the P4P.
They loved to drink. This one priest one time during mass was so plastered that he fell off the altar. He was a friend of a family we knew, and I remember going to a party as a kid and he was passed out drunk on the lawn.
It was also well known that he would chase tail, bang hookers, and had a few mistresses.
I never met or knew of any of these pedo priests, the ones I met were mostly like the guy above, some crazier than others.
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02-11-2013, 01:24 PM
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02-11-2013, 02:26 PM
I visited Rome in 2010, and had the pleasure of witnessing the Pope's weekly Wednesday service in St. Peter's Square. What I was most impressed with was how many languages he was able to address worshipers in. AMAZING. He was pretty far away, but I had a decent zoom on my camera and got a few slightly blurry shots of him. I toured the Vatican Museum, and stood in the Sistine Chapel. I even snapped a forbidden pic of the famed ceiling. That trip to Rome was to this point my greatest travel experience.
I think we're used to Popes, no matter what, dying before they step down, which is why this is so shocking.
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02-11-2013, 06:03 PM
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To anyone not aware of the full extent of the catholic church' systematic child abuse I recommend the documentary Mea Maxima culpa: Silence in the house of God that was released last year. It's not for those weak of a stomach however.
HBO started running this doc late last week. It was interesting to see the church's actions in these cases laid out in detail, with all of the player's roles exposed. Every case of abuse from the early 2000's crossed Ratzinger's (Pope Benedict) desk in his work for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. In fact, he ASKED for all of the cases. Of course, I wasn't shocked, because we knew the Vatican protected priests - if things got too hot regarding a priest in a particular parish, they simply transferred him to another instead of removing him. Still, it was enlightening to see exactly how big a part Benedict played.
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